* Posts by BrianW

8 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jun 2017

Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica harvested profile data

BrianW

Re: Consider this very carefully:

Facebook already DOES do the exact same thing. They have an official staffed division to use the data they collect for political purposes. They even bragged about it during the Obama administration.

NiceHash diced up by hackers, thousands of Bitcoin pilfered

BrianW

Re: OK, I'll bite

The US Gov't could crash it simply by dumping the bitcoin they confiscated from Silkroad.

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

BrianW

Did they fix the memory problem?

I'm typing this right now on 56.0.2 (64-bit). Four tabs are open and Task Mgr says it's using 2.6gb of RAM and will climb until I have to force-close and restart, then do the same thing again in 3 hours. Obscene that this has been a problem for so many years.

VMworld security asked to probe theft of anti-Nutanix schwag

BrianW

Nerds.

WannaCry-slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos banking trojan' – FBI

BrianW

Re: Arrested on way home?

"Why else would he be charged before he left the USA and not when he set foot on US soil."

So they could surveil him and get to know all of his contacts in the USA that were at Defcon.

Democrats (still a thing, apparently) are super unhappy about AT&T's Time-Warner merger

BrianW

Re: it would be funny if...

They're all losing viewers. My point is no one really watches cable news any more, and even fewer believe what they see. #1 is meaningless. It's like arguing that your horse buggy is #1.

BrianW

Re: it would be funny if...

Technically MSNBC did win the ratings for last week but you're missing the steady decline of overall viewers. 2.4 million daily viewers is now considered a home run when not too long ago such a number would get a show cancelled immediately. Their 2.4 mill is for the entire day. I saw a statistic somewhere that Channel 4 - once the hip channel in England - now has an average viewer age of 55. BBC1's average veiwer age is 61! Television is dead. People growing up now will never watch TV the way previous generations have.

HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship running Swiss Cheese OS

BrianW

Re: Don't need an Internet connection

Umm no. XP was released in 2001.