Posts by technoscience

No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her

Now the SEC, and FTC have a taste of their own corruption

The FTC and SEC are all about severing their wallstreet/bank buddies a slap on the wrist to control markets. And take away freedoms eventhough they are unelected officials. A warning or guideline is okay.

But suing or restricting has been a weapon to kill innovation and freedom for the people.

Again taxation and NO representation with these corrupt officials.

Still no good reason for Apple to block their propaganda

Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?

Be careful what you wish for

If you want to limit Free and OpenSource, the first target would be to pull it from the US government, banks, Wallstreet, need to stop using it.

They have done more harm to the US citizens, and the world. Through fraud, lies, programs upon programs, over taxation (layers upon layers of taxes), devaluing the US currency, market manipulation, edicts by un elected officials, congress being bought by "donations" and lobbyists.

The US is NOT following the constitution nor the founding principles. Definitely not "For the people, by the people", Our votes are stolen by brides, and programs, and unelected people like the SEC and Fed Reserve.

Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code

ChatGPT is weak.

ChatGPT is worse than search. And most of the time the code is buggy. You still need to understand coding to make it useful, again a search is better, with a few alternatives.

It is NOT intelligent, it is affectively a parrot, just regurgitating the input with one answer with naive, but statistical probability the best answer. Again often the wrong answer. Often fake references.

It is best at fiction, writing stories, letters, or one possible answer. You are better off doing a search and look through several answers.

FYI bad guys use cars, banks, etc for crime. And most are in Government that defraud the citizens. So we should ban that first, before banning current buggy research.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

Re: MIcrosoft understood you can't compete with free software regardless of how bad it is.

Actually you have it extremely wrong. Users make things complex or those that do not know how to build a system. I grant I like to write complex software, because I have high expectations, and I have worked with others to try to dumb it down. But Windows is too severely dumped down for my use.

Windows has always been fragile. Anyone knowing how to setup a Linux box or asking a 18 year old enthusiast to do it for them would be better off than running Windows. My machines would run securely for 5 years (without ANY downtime) - for a firewall box and secured NFS server (behind said firewall), then I did a software upgrade (that required a reboot). (I am not a fan of the Graphical updates that want to reboot for when not needed and a process just needs a restart).

But I was maintaining machines with over 28,000 nodes or small clusters of 120 nodes, desktops, firewalls, etc. Often on the side for free on the small ones. Also converted schools and a few overseas hospitals to linux. (Mostly due to security and instability issues in Windows, also due to the costs).

And it is not April fools - I checked - but this is a 'marketing move'

How sad and desperate.

Yes Linux has dominated, even with Microsoft terrible history both in bugs and legal actions to manipulate the market (Monopoly practices) since the 1990s.

Microsoft repeatedly practiced deceptive practice, adopt, extend (make non-compatible) and extinguish.

They have abused uses both with basic level security flaws, high charges, and bloatware.

I agree Microsoft had to abandon Microsoft Windows for any serious computing on the edge or server to HPC.

But to claim they are 'good at computing' or linux is again standard deceptive practice.

Get over taking over Linux, Microsoft is decades late to the game. I stopped using Microsoft in 1995, and purely linux desktop and IoT to HPC.

But it is nice you finally realized it, and mostly use Linux for your Azure and want to get in the game. But NO ONE should trust Microsoft, they SHOULD have learned this by now.

'Oi! El Reg! Stop pretending Microsoft has a BSOD monopoly!'

There is a significant difference between a OS crashing and a poorly written application crashing or network failure due to unknown reasons.

BSOD was typically on Windows a OS/reboot required issue, versus a single screen application as displayed with a application or network problem.

Hey Amazon, why so expensive for SQL Server in your cloud?

Microsoft adds costs

Windows is Legacy Windows-NT based largely on VMS. And Windows 8 is based on Windows NT.

And VMS is basically a dead branch except Windows and 'OpenVMS'. VMS was developed for the Vax PDP in the 1970's, by David Cutler who was smart, but had a disdain (personal gripe) and was anti-Unix. Linux was based on MINIX and developed in the 1990's, now many companies use Linux for devices, desktops, servers, High Performance (from a raspberryPi, android, desktop, Tivo, SGI, Sun, IBM and Cray). Also its close cousin OS BSD used on the Apple Macs (which versions of BSD run anywhere).

Everything else is Unix/Unix-like is in what _everything_ else runs. (Linux, Android, BSD, Macs, most servers and really all HPC).

Microsoft SQL would be extra due to:

- Extra hardware overhead running Windows

- Extra cost running Microsoft Windows (license per instance)

- Extra cost running MS SQL (license per instance)

- Extra cost of security issues/flaws in MS Windows and MS SQL server

So Unix/Linux is anything bug Legacy, and the extra cost makes sense. Perhaps higher than it should be, but obvious why it would be more than free, open source, intensely tested server software. There are bugs in Linux also, but releases are often before exploits, and reboots are often not required (just a restart of a service)