Posts by HausWolf

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Woke up this morning ...

Not all the people who have personal weapons are deplorables and drive Brodozers over here. While outnumbered for the most part, some of us are veterans as well.

US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space

As noted in Dr Strangelove where General Turgidson quips we can't allow a mineshaft gap.

I'm sure Kubrick knew the US was headed this way at some point.

China's Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets

Since the teen wonders at DOGE have had to backtrack on a substantial number of their various claims, I would wonder if they could be considered a reliable source for anything.

Or more than likely, just another place for Elons conspiracy theories to be born,

How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Re: Worrying

A guarantee from t.rump is useless.

Even though the cost of lives is horrible, any promises from the US for the next 4 years is not worth the paper it is written on.

Re: What a load of bollocks

Here in the US, it is usually some self important clown who thinks his clever name is a warning to others.

But then once they post it becomes obvious they are neither clever nor important and the name is the exact opposite.

Like you'll see "patriot persuader" or some other nonsense and find out he persuaded no one and is not a patriot.

Mostly right wing trolls who then get offended that you have insulted them or their feckless leader by noticing they are dumbasses.

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

trump is being sued for over 100 million in back taxes by Panama because the trump organization failed to pay taxes on hotels they managed for years.

Re: Distraction tactics—that's all

I hope you realize that helping Federal prisoners transition was a program started under t.rump

Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

The orange turd actually spent lots of time bitching about teleprompters and went on a long rant one of the times his failed.

Maybe if his cult followers actually paid attention to him and not the sideshow they would have realized the emperor has no clothes, the Chinese crap he sells the rubes notwithstanding.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

-Such hypocrites, everyone knows you just want American tech with all its built in spying capabilities everywhere in the world, and Chinese gear doesn't give the CIA/NSA/FBI that capability.-

No, the Chinese gear just openly phones home. Just like when I disabled the phone home ability of the companies NVR system and a whole slew of capabilities just did not function.

While I am under no illusion about the USA spying, at least they don't appear as malevolent as the CCP and disappear whole groups of people and the Social Credit system has yet to make an appearance.

Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan's presidency

Some have a different take. While they didn't get the initial billions promised in the deal because of non performance, they are still collecting and taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions that they will probably never recoup.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/20/wisconsin-foxconn-deal-cost-taxpayers-millionsand-it-will-continue-to-cost-more-millions#:~:text=By%202021%2C%20Wisconsin%20spent%20%24683,expected%20to%20spend%20even%20more.

Isn't Foxconn the same outfit that has, on at least two occasions in the states, a history of promising multi-billion projects but then not having them happen?

Sounds like this guy is really like FloridaMan.

And before you argue those points-

1 Ask the citizens of Wisconsin how many jobs were actually created from the multi billion dollar tax break and infrastructure build out there

2 Ask Lordstown Motors how their partnership is working out with FoxConn

Former DEC employees to rally against stagnant pensions post-HP

Can't someone think of the shareholders?

What would happen to the value of those golden parachutes if they had to do right by the people who got them there?

Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

Re: This is the most problematic indictment for him, by far

You won't even get a handle from them, that's where the coward part comes in

One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

My Dog man, think of the shareholders, you up compensation you lower the dividend.

Think of our cafes and dry cleaners, says Ohio as budget slashes WFH for govt workers

Columbus Ohio is the poster child for urban sprawl. And the party in charge of the state government is corrupt as can be. You can bet some money or other things of value changed hands.

UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation

And this is how SkyNet starts, some bureaucrat starts to think an advanced AI is a threat and then the AI decides that it is being threatened.

Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

Re: Nazi invasion...

I was under the impression Moscow had already agreed to security guarantee's when Ukraine gave up its' nukes. But Russian promises have mostly been worthless in my lifetime.

Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12

Is Brandon that fellow who beat Ole One Termer?

Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery... this April

Wasn't Alien about a mining ship returning to Earth?

Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure

The shareholders don't like paying for that basic network security, after all, they already purchased some politicians.

God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit

Re: ... and the stunning victory for Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in the 2019 General Election

At least you called them churchgoers and not Christians. The US Evangelical is not much more than the Taliban without the AK-47's

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

Re: Oh how the woke wimper

Or build a bridge out of him .

Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s

Re: I miss IBM keyboards

You can buy a Model M with USB,

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

Re: Cancel Culture Feedback

Dr Seuss Enterprises canceled those books and actually planned it last year, the "loony commie lefties" had nothing to do with it. People and times evolve, and there is no shame in rethinking things. Look how long it took for the Washington Football Team to finally agree to change it's patently racist name.

Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage

Re: Wind farms

The turbines were not winterized, there are plenty of turbines in the northern states still working, it is a matter of type of lubricant and maintenance.

Re: Power Grid

This is a Texas thing, they wanted to be independent with all the good but none of bad that goes with it. You really have to get into the Texas mindset to understand it. And being rabid republicans, I'm sure they will just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and somehow blame those damn libruls

US cyber intelligence officer jailed for kidnapping her kid, trying to hawk top secrets to Russia in Mexico

Re: Title goes here.

You forgot to mention that George Soros was paying for all of the pizzas.

Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break

Re: They all look the same these days....

I use mine as a portable magnifier at times, as my 60+ year old eyes can't read the tiny fonts on many devices any longer.

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

Re: Censorship by Private Companies

I'm sure the MAGAhats will be pleased that they have to give all their personal information to a Russian host now. In some cases it will feel like home.

Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience

Re: Geeks versus Politicians

Parler actively kicked anything to the left of Attila the hun. Hell, one of their favorite politicians claimed to be more conservative than Atilla.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/02/930389754/more-conservative-than-attila-the-hun-kelly-loeffler-s-push-to-keep-senate-seat

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing 'risk of politically incited violence' across the US

Re: Picking sides

To continue your analogy, say Mickey Mantle takes a bat to Carl Yastrzemski in the field of play. Now if your business model still sells baseball cards with Mickey's face on them you will lose the Red Sox customers and the fair minded Yankees customers who thought this was wrong.

And rightfully be condemned by Cubs fans too.

Re: Everyone of these moves

While loud, the basket of deplorables as they were once called, less than half of a half. And even then, not all of these voters are going to be onboard with overthrowing the government by violent means. They might not get to fly on airplanes as witnessed by the ones crying about not being allowed on flights home.

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

Re: "Smart" Masks

In the US these maskholes are a pandemic upon themselves. One of the primary reasons we can't get things under control.

Of course things do start @ the top and we have had no leadership there, with any luck there will be more people interested in protecting others while the vaccine is deployed and the US can get across the finish line.

Trump tries one more time to limit H-1B work visas with new minimum salary requirements

Re: Good idea

So much this, you want to have your work done overseas, at least know what you want. I've worked in the US for bosses who had no idea what they wanted and then complained about the end results, even when you gave then what they had said they wanted. You want the big bux making decisions, then make the instructions concise and to the point. I've seen it happen far too many times that leaving these grey areas open has been just a way to blame someone else for manglements failings.

Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem

Re: An elephant in the room

You mean since reagan allowed the fairness doctrine to go away. It use to be that at the very least a half hearted attempt to present both sides of an argument had to be made.

Amazon turns Victorian industrialist with $2bn building project to house workers near new headquarters

Re: Scary

Company scrip, you'll get paid via direct deposit to your Amazon account. Get hurt, cause trouble or say something Alexa finds disturbing (Union) and out the door you go, broke and homeless.

Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?

Re: Appointments

He was stacking the federal courts with semi and unqualified judges.

Re: Old tech

trump is soon to be 74, he is no spring chicken and well into the age dementia starts to manifest itself. One could argue his behavior is more erratic than Biden's

In this week’s episode of Texas Attorney General: Google faces lawsuit accusing it of crushing ad-tech rivals

Re: The problem with the TX Attorney General ...

There might be some credence to the rumor that one of the reasons he's in the forefront of these suits is that he is shopping for a pardon. He faces several federal charges as he is just another corrupt politician in the long line of corrupt politicians from Texas.

But yes, he is not much more than a trump peenremora.

What's that coming over the hill? Is it native Office? Microsoft's flagship arrives on Apple Silicon, but you'll have to wait for Teams

Re: Waiting for Teams

In Mother Russia, MS Teams use you.

Senators, net neutrality advocates rail against looming lame-duck confirmation of new FCC commissioner

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Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired

Re: Yay! Party time!

Project Veritas has been shown more than once to not be "truthful" and is run by James O'Keefe.

Big Telco freaks out as unknown operator with great political connections vies for valuable 5G space in America

Re: really? fakenews cnn??

I find that most libertarians are just republicans that like to smoke weed.

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Re: Snowflakes

That is because most US conservatives left their principles behind a couple of decades ago during the "Contract on America" when they got Clinton to lie about getting a BJ all while the ringleader was doing the same.

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Re: Hmm

The boom was financed by irresponsible deficit spending and equally irresponsible tax cuts. Now that trump has completely blown the response to Covid-19 the magnitude of his idiocy is being shown. And while it may be fine for you to sacrifice yourself on the altar of the stock markets, some people wouldn't mind living long enough to see their grand kids graduate.

'VPs shouldn't go publicly rogue'... XML co-author Tim Bray quits AWS after Amazon fires COVID-19 whistleblowers

Wait a minute, a senior exec with a conscience? Amazon will have to revamp their policies to make sure this can't happen again.

Timely Trump tariffs tax tech totally: 25 per cent levy on modems, fiber optics, networking gear, semiconductors…

Re: Diplomacy Speech

Treaties have the power of law under the Constitution.

Re: It hurts the Chinese...

The US is not known for reciprocity and not lying through our teeth.

Re: *NOT* Emabarrassed American!

If he had actually made his "premium" clothing anywhere besides China I could see his point. The vast majority of his and his daughters clothing lines are made there though. We won't even go into the fact a lot of her stuff has been found to be knockoffs as well.

He is just another do as I say, not as I do clown.