Posts by Tubz

Google stops selling its biz-grade augmented reality specs

Why reinvent the wheel, when we have had HUD technology for decades, how hard can it be to project data on to a visor style helmet HUD that doesn't make you sick, give data overload or makes you carry a 200KG supercomputer on your back. You don't need all the fancy gimmicks you see in sci-fi fantasy land like eye focus select, map showing friendly units and hostiles, ammo count in magazine, health stats etc, with simple voice activation or even just a plain old number touch pad on side of helmet and finger memory ? Think Aliens 2 with the C&C in the APC doing all the heavy data crunching and results sent over an encrypted distributed local network.

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

If I don't want to be tracked, it should be as simple as a default off switch in the browser and then exclusions I make, not by a company. If they track unlawfully, then massive fines based on global revenue, if I don't allow them to track, then they have the right to reduce the content that I can see but I also have the right to go elsewhere. Eventually, a balance will naturally occur.

Cancer patient sues hospital after ransomware gang leaks her nude medical photos

Going to be an expensive pay out, better just settle out of court !

Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI

Looking forward to the first decent open RiscV routers, NAS and combos, hopefully keep costs down while leaving them open to community development, change radios, storage, whatever. ARMs still seem to be too locked down by the big boys. propriety hardware/code.

LockBit brags: We'll leak thousands of SpaceX blueprints stolen from supplier

Only buyers I can see are China, NK, Iran or Russia, if it is actually worth anything to them and even then they better hope nobody finds out as the fallout and retaliation would be so costly, to almost say "no thanks we'll pass"

US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network

Why didn't they ask his Muskyness to deploy some Starlinks cheap ?

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

Windows having old and unsecure coding removed, blasphemy, the world is coming to end and the great Satan will be twittering his displeasure, while we swoon at his Muskyness.

Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML

Re: Warren Buffett tips

They are every good at weaponizing biological organisms, just not very good at containment !

Sony won't budge on Microsoft-Activision merger objection

Sony probably narked it didn't get a chance to buy the company itself and then put the squeeze on the other gaming platforms. If the deal is water tight with massive fines that even Microsoft can't find a loop hole out of, then let the merger go ahead. Sony will have to make the decision, agree to the licensing or risk the games being pulled from Sony platform or at the least, increase in prices compared to other platforms.

Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects

A whole £1.6m, that's the coffee and biscuit budget for other nations, UKGOV needs to get real if we are to play in the big boy league !

South Korea moves to resolve WWII dispute with Japan that troubles tech supply chains

Japan never compensated allied POW's for war crimes, basically swept under the carpet to stop the Soviet expansion in the pacific. Maybe time to resurrect claims with all slavery activism currently making news.

Backup tech felt the need – the need for speed. And pastries and Tomb Raider

Re: Eustace

Tom Hanks came to mind ... radio chatter ... Eustace, we have a problem ... beep

How many premium portable sales = HP CEO's 2022 compensation?

Nope, pay those at the bottom who work just as hard as the bosses, yes the bosses are the ones taking business risk decisions and expect to be well paid, but not at the crazy pay ratio's involved. Will anything change, no, as it's the ones at the top making the pay decisions and the slave labour must be kept in their place.

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

Re: Just set the entire moon to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC +0) ...

Speaking of taxes, as no one nation owns the moon, how do you tax people, as technically working abroad in international free space?

Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices

Lets correct the article, Microsoft engineers realised that a newly released update that they said was not compatible with old computers worked perfectly fine once you removed the artificial incompatibilities imposed by Microsoft and you don't need to spend upwards for £1000 on new computer, to keep Microsoft and PC manufacturers accountants and shareholders happy. Microsoft, Windows 11 and the manufacturers should be investigated for being anti-consumer and profiteering !

Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes

So this basically kills any data sharing agreement with EU, Uncle Sam can and will read everything sent and good luck having any legal redress.

Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts

Re: "the country's Ministry of Emergency Situations"

Yeh but only Putin turns up.

Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot

Give Microsoft another 28 years and Windows might be updated without a reboot being needed, you can see them looking at Linux with envy.

Learn the art of malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were asked, even when it's wrong

CHANGE follow the steps to the the letter, even if you can blatantly see it's wrong, no backups mentioned, but you do it anyway and keep quiet, it has been peer reviewed, approved by change board and then implemented. Wait for the fallout, cover ass by pointing out instructions, be the hero by having the back out in place and ready to run. Remind bosses during pay review of how much you saved them !

China's Yangtze Memory reportedly lays off staff, evicts them from company housing

Tough on employees, but dropping NAND demand against what they are supplying is good for consumer pricing.

You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you?

With Windows 10/11 Microsoft should have done what Apple did when they switched from PowerPC to Intel To ARM, scrap legacy support and reduce bloat. You either keep up with the architecture, pay us lots of $$ to support your old systems or accept risks involved. Yes, consumers would be left to fend for themselves, but they have same options, pay for support if feasible, upgrade software/hardware, switch to Linux.

WINE Windows translation layer has matured like a fine... you get the picture

Just imagine, Linux/Wine, maybe corporate can be weaned off the Windows teat. As for consumers, Linux/Wine has to be more muppet proof than Windows and of course the no.1 priority can the games work out of the box and at the same performance?

Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

Pointless, until it can transform from an aircraft to a car in a few seconds of touch down, for actually manoeuvring in a city to park and the reverse.

What is Google doing with its open source teams?

Rich are not happy unless they are getting richer. Like kids in a playground, if one is making more than another, time to throw a tantrum, toys out of pram and demand more for less.

Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation

If 2026 or whatever is the to be The Year of Linux, it has one big hurdle to overcome, too many flavours. Even in the corporate world, they are spoilt for choice, consumers are just swamped. Until a convergence to create the One Consumer Linux happens, it will never ever be The Year of Linux. As for these millions of non-W11 compatibles, would corporate IT be bothered if they used the proven and as far as I am aware, safe tricks to bypass W11 requirements if they saved ££££ on upgrading perfectly good computers?

Software devs targeted as British tax authority makes fraud allegations

Heavy handed, probably but we consistently go on about HMRC doing enough to get the revenue due or stop fraud. I'd rather they cause a little bit of inconvenience to ensure the right people get the relief and catch those that aren't and stop wasting my tax payments !

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

My boss is great, not a technical genius but knows enough to be of assistance and not a danger. If she "yes a she" asks for an extra hour here and there I give it free, in return, never moans about a doctors appointment, short notice school run. if we do overtime, she pays and supplies the munchies, goes out of her way to shield us from the top brass, even if we've made a booboo or blows our trumpet as loud as she can when we do something the world needs to hear about and the most important thing, pays what we are worth, even when top brass try not too.

Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions

Funny how I got banned for questioning the link between UK politicians/civil servants and business in the never ending merry go round of jobs for ex-watchdogs and oversears for the very companies they monitored, as I implied illegal activities, but it's OK for a bunch of religious, sexist, hate filled nutters, living in the dark ages to have an account spreading their poison words. Ah, I joined free, Taliban speaks Musk's language, the holy $$$ !

Maybe we need a new $$$ for IT Icon ?

Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

and when the time management software reports that you are going over your contracted hours and the bosses owe you thousands, good luck getting it paid, I hear the words "voluntary unpaid overtime" to ensure you meet performance targets!

Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty

Imagine the unholy alliance of ReactOS + BeOS in one OS, wouldn't you like to be at that M$ meeting !

China's Hisense bakes Teams into Android-powered commercial displays

China + Microsoft + Google, talk about all your privacy spying eggs in one basket.

US sanctions help vaporize chunk of Chinese chip barons’ wealth

Everything you read in the newspaper between the front page title/logo and comic/sports news on the back page is untrue and bias.

$69b Activision deal totally helps gamers and saves them money, says Microsoft

Please Microsoft, buy Wargambling, sorry I meant Wargaming Inc and sack the whole bloody lot. Once great products going to seed and company only caring about revenue, loot boxes, premium time, battle passes, more special offers than Asda, almost impossible grinds for poor rewards that would make a male laptop club blush and don't forget to include the monthly PR disaster !

Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale

Would his Muskness be on the hook for the fine or previous ownership be likely to payback some dough ?

US Department of Energy 'flooring the accelerator' with $2.5bn battery loan on battery plants

Funny how USA throws money at creating important tech manufacturing, EU does it, Asia does it and even Africa getting in on the game, here in the UK the only thing we through money at is politicians expenses, jobs for political friends, white elephants projects and a NHS not fit for purpose. No wonder UK is deep up to its ears in shit !

Researchers smell a cryptomining Chaos RAT targeting Linux systems

Forgive my ignorance, no expert o the internet backbone but if the hosting service is known to be a bad actor, can it's traffic not be blocked from leaving Putin's Federation Of Nastyness ?

This is the best pay offer you'll get without more strikes, union tells BT workers

Not backdated, getting greedy now !

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

You can if you toggle off Microsucks own limitations but you shouldn't have too.

Boeing swipes at Starlink as it finishes two internet slinging satellites

Re: "Having a swipe at SpaceX"

Hopefully all those new bandwidth hungry datacentres and killer droids C&C killer Centers in Skegness, will soon have all they can eat and stop interfering with home broadband.

Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

I blame the installer, should be hard wired to the mains and the big red on/off switch in the locked cabinet behind a plastic shield to protect from accidents.

US commerce bosses view EU rules as threat to its clouds

In other words, USA cloud suppliers see a threat to profit margins and attempts to use vague words and threats.

San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns

ED209 on every street corner, crime rates = 0%, arrested perps = 0%, morgue capacity = 100%, cops on payroll = 2% to shuffle paperwork

Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles

For every failed appeal should result in triple fines and all costs, will stop these companies playing the system by dragging things out in different levels of the courts.

Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland

Yandex board better beware of open Windows, seems a lot of people falling out of them in Russia, if a certain despot doesn't like what is happening and no, we can't blame Nadella or Microsoft bugs.

FAA wants pilots to be less dependent on computer autopilots

I'll stick to two meatbags, would AI have thought to ditch in the Hudson saving all crew and passengers Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles, probably not as it wouldn't have instinct, just the programmed logic to make a decision based of the maths of what the manufacturers calculated the plane could do based on height/speed/weight/direction.

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

I can see Project Insight on the horizon, AI taking out those that may be a potential threat or guilty of a future crime, even if currently innocent.

Worried about your datacenter carbon footprint? Why not put it in orbit?

You may as well stick it on the moon and then worry about cooling and data speeds, come to think of it, I'm sure Wargaming have done that based on their server's performance.

Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop

I'm sure they'll find a way to blame postmasters and make them pay or do time !

Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help

Once Starlink GPS used for military, they become a legitimate target, thats maybe what Musk is thinking.

Ritz cracker giant settles bust-up with insurer over $100m+ NotPetya cleanup

Re: Privatize profits - outsource risk to public

I'm just surprised the Insurance Biz didn't ask for governemnt bailouts like the energy companies that sold low cost contracts and then got cold footed by price rises, went under and now we all suffer, well except for the surviving companies making billions in profits, funny in a very similar way to insurance companies.