* Posts by sgp

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This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

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Re: While I'm asking questions ...

The article states it's created via executive order, or let's call it a dictat shall we? So does it need to pass congress?

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

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"There has been cases of doctors struck off for curing cancer using novel methods"

And those methods are? Right, you got nothing, anonymous liar.

China is beating the world at scientific research, think tank finds

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Re: They're using a flawed metric

History? Really? You don't want any historians?

Halliburton probes 'an issue' disrupting business ops

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Re: Good old Haribo Engineering

Huh?

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

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Re: Perhaps the buying and selling of businesses should be outlawed

Regulation exists. Sadly we just went through a period of laissez faire where for example none of the regulators blocked the takeover of Waze by Google even though they already had Maps as a competing product.

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

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I recently deleted my creative cloud account. I was only using a free version to work on some Adobe XD files. At deletion they asked me for a reason. So I told them I thought their business practices were disgusting. Not that I think it will actually change anything but if only we could collectively do that thing...

ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu

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I don't really get what you are trying to say. But having the web browser with the worst security reputation ever still in the codebase is just mindboggling. But sure, Microsoft doesn't care about Windows unless it's about whatever stupid fad is in swing (AR, AI,...). Removing all that exploitable code would be difficult because a lot of parts of Windows are probably still intertwined with it and it doesn't add anything to the bottom line. In a serious organization it would be done anyway but this is Microsoft so par for the course.

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

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Re: Structural problem

Yes they are dumping, just like they did with steel and solar. For these cases it's worth defending the own industry with tariffs. But tariffs on everything is not a great idea. You just can't or should make everything domestically.

Airbn-bye: Barcelona bans short-term apartment rentals for tourists

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Good. Hopefully a few other tourism destroyed cities follow suit.

Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support

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I think you can pay these guys to come sweep your la(w)n and they keep statistics.

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

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Re: If you want to die, it's a good career

It's like being a firefighter who get's blamed for the house burning down.

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Re: Murphy's law applies

I see this with all kinds of organizations that should know better. How hard is it to send an e-mail that says: "Your new bank statement is available, log on to our website to see it."?

Also, e-mail should be text only (again).

Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it's still alive

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Re: Tesla was unprofitable for a decade

And Tesla grew in a time of cheap money. It's another reality today.

Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch

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Reminds me of a conversion with my once neighbor: your tractor seems to be getting a little old. - Old? But I bought it new in 1973!

Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe

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Re: Ah Apple

The problem is the implementation, not the ruling.

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists

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Re: a crowd of electric-powered unicyclists

Okay, dad. Now go watch your football if you please.

Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders

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Re: So let me get this straight.

So saying you've used a straw man argument now is an ad-hominem? And in the same post you dare to use the word "snowflake"? Are you that thick?

Anyway, Microsoft makes ample money from Windows and all other lines of business where it uses its dominant market force and monopoly to fleece its users. So no need to start crying for the poor Microsoft engineer not getting its paycheck.

Some people's reality really is distorted. Sheez.

Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

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Re: So, the fruit cart is facing legal trouble

5% is a lot. Your average supermarket only gets 1-2% and they have a lot more costs.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

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Re: Have they been hacked?

My thoughts exactly. And there's plenty of new stock still around.

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Re: "best in the US"

Rail is really good for carrying freight though. Just a shame there's almost no decent passenger service.

Hotel check-in terminal bug spews out access codes for guest rooms

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Re: "Accor Security, the security arm of Accor, which owns the Ibis Budget chain"

Always travel with your own kettle!

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

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Re: I wonder...

Any new language or framework tends to be like this. And then come the templates, modules, new features, newer features that do the same better but not in case of xyz, etc. And by then it's time for a new language that's elegant and clear. And the whole cycle starts again. That's not to say I don't think Rust in particular has a lot of things going for it.

SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success

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Re: are there legal invasions ?

Google the Hague conventions.

3 million doors open to uninvited guests in keycard exploit

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In some really old fashioned hotels you still get a key with a giant wooden block attached. Mind you, asking for the key to room 106 just after shift change will work equally fine probably.

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

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Re: Hurrah!

Explain to me how your so called technological improvements would increase the productivity of a caretaker washing the elderly. That's where the issue lies, isn't it?

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

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Upvoted for the use of the word "waffle".

Indian telecoms leaps from 2G, to 4G, to 6G – on a single day

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Re: 6G may be

With 6G we will finally get those remote surgeries which were mentioned (with a straight face) as a reason why we needed 5G.

No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT

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The potential benefit is time saving: it writes eloquent text and it can write working code. But that of course only works if the user actually understands the outputs. So a "prompt engineer" role will never exist. Apart from that, the big question remains if the time saved outweigh the massive cost.

Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not

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To summarize

• It will unnecessarily make users panic.

• It will falsely reassure users that have a valid reason to worry.

• Google will add health related data to the profile they have on you.

What an amazingly evil product.

GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations

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Because hype

Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money

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A good outcome

Would be an obligation for bots to start every paragraph with the words "this may or may not be true, i have no way of knowing". That way it's easily spotted in the "journalism" of the lazy reporter class. It would also clearly lay the blame with the reporter who decides to remove that phrase. And it would also make it clear to the believers that the technology is a bullshit generator with a good accuracy rate.

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

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Re: Assigning Traffic To A Real Person Can Be Made Difficult.....

In a whole lot of countries you cannot buy a sim card without registering your identity.

Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in

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Re: why does ANYONE listen to these morons?!

That's the magic part of the magic quadrant. All rankings based on payments.

'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

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Great, so that's the drugs problem fixed then.

Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire

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Re: “Everyone gets a bot”

Exactly, much better to rent it from one of the poor souls who didn't get that advice.

Streaming apps – and maybe even Cloud PCs – coming to electric cars

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Re: "subscriptions that enhance the EV experience"

You're okay with having heated seats that do not heat only because BMW are greedy bastards? Weird.

Microsoft's Garage band offers album of experimental Excel jazz

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Re: They keep tinkering around the edges with new features....

But that really is no excuse why when entering 0110 in a column that you have given data type text, it converts it to a number.

IBM shrinks z16 and LinuxONE systems into standard rack configs

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They will happily license you a lift if you fork out enough dough.

Euro privacy regulators sniff Italy's ChatGPT ban, consider a pizza the action

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Re: Extreme Right or Left Politicians...

You might want to read up on Giorgia Meloni

Google halts purge of legacy ad blockers and other Chrome Extensions, again

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Re: user scripts, which allow the execution of arbitrary JavaScript

Indeed, I had a few of those that got rid of css paywalls.

Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing'

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Gartner forecasts that by 2026, 25 percent of the world will spend an hour a day in this virtual world.

When was the last time they got something right?

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

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Re: Basic UX problems

Cmd shift H

Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug

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Re: It beggers belief...

In Word (and PowerPoint) you are supposed to use the compress pictures tool to remove cropped parts and size them down. I actually find this useful in a text editor because it allows you to revert the crop or resize the images before finalizing the document. You can always use an image editor of course.

With respect to the first part of your comment, 100% agree.

No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh

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Re: Just check the commas

Yes,,,,,, it's quite the conundrum.

Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket

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Re: A computer IN a bike?

Your bicycle will now be out-of-support in about 2 years.

"Pedals away on his 40 year old Panasonic.".

German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook

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It's no different than giving a speech in a youth community center promising this and that for young people and on the same day promising so and so for pensioners in whatever place they gather. It's a trick as old as politics itself.

Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty

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Re: VW too

I had an Mk8 Golf that would slam on the brakes at the curved exit of a tunnel every single time. Turned it off as it scared the hell out of me.

Now collapsed SVB's parent files for bankruptcy as Biden calls for stiffer penalties

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Re: too lazy to look

That's what Dodd-Frank did in 2010. However it was substantially reverted in 2018 under the orange clown.

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Re: De ja Vue

They had no one in charge of risks for the better part of last year. They had no diversification. They did not have to invest everything into 10 year bonds. But they did because of greed. And this is the result.

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

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75000

Why do you keep records on 75000 patients? There aren't 75000 patients currently undergoing treatment, are there?

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