Posts by IGotOut

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Re: Hiring candidates who can't pronounce their own name?

"Many yanks have Irish names, both given and surnames but pronounce both incorrectly by Irish standards."

Siobhan ?

Eoghan ?

Niamh?

Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn

Security 101.1.

Why didn't the sysadmins enforce lock when unattended (he stated he wiggled the mouse and then saw it was still logged in)

Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science

Hmmm

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen,” wrote University of Colorado Boulder information science professor Dr. Casey Fiesler.

Ok it's bad, but either you're new to research ethics, clueless or just being plain old over dramatic

.

MKUltra

Green Run

Stanford Prison Experiment

University of Iowa radioactive Iodine pregnancy experiments

University of Nebraska iodine-138 infant experiments

University of Rochester Uranium injection experiments....

Porton Down Lyme bay bacteria experiment

...shall I go on? And that's just the "good guys"

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

And yet Disney kill someone...

...by not labelling allergens correctly and they insist the widow goes to arbitration.

Don't you love how money is everything.

Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky

Slap...

...some VantaBlack on there and be done.

May get a little toasty inside though.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

Re: Not enough intertia...

So Beast.

You're now using AI as your Russian - English translator has maxed out for today.

I guess your country would fund it harder to bomb 10,000 solar panels and wind turbines than a single power station. But you've kind of move on from that and just go for killing kids.

"I couldn't be bothered to explain further to the dumb masses here..."

You need to pay for better translation tools. The Russian to English one you use seems to have a word cap.

EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0

Wrong idea?

Instead of trying to woo the likes of Intel and TSMC, wouldn't Europe be better off aiming at home grown companies, in non x86 or "AI" fields?

If a car is supposed to have 3000 chips (no idea how they go to that number), then aim for the 2900 little chips rather than the 100 big ones.

Less depending on foreign investment, and start investing inwards.

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

Oh come on Beast, you're getting lazy now.

Bit worried about the next car bomb on one of your comrades being a little close to home?

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

"Heating systems in Europe are unique"

They have this funny "C" symbol, rather than an "F". They complain its to cold when they set it to 21C.

We dont get them. Why use degrees C(ommunist) when we know degrees F(reedom) is better

Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT

What?

"a hacker using a UK IP address exploited an out-of-date software package"

A VPN? What's that?

Oh, we've never heard of that. We'll look after it, once we've updated our Token Ring Shiva RAS so we can log back in remotely.

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

Just fuck off.

"As I said when I joined, we need to make some very hard decisions "

No it's not. It's the simplest thing you can do. You don't know these people, you don't care about these people, you've never met these people, so no, it's it's very, very easy for you to do,"

So stop lying and say

"Yeah, I need number to go up, so I'm just dumping people on the job market, to make sure I get a bonus this year"

Ransomware scum and other crims bilked victims out of a 'staggering' $16.6B last year, says FBI

Re: FBI endorses ransomware

By dangerous books, you mean anything where the main protagonist is not a straight white guy?

Good job...

...the US government is doubling down in counteracting this threat by increasing spending and staffing in the cyber security teams.....

....Ahhhh.

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

Re: How much will they pay ?

"generate thousands of pages of nonsense and invite AI firms to pay me for it."

Rather than them generating pages of nonsense and other people paying for it?

IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette

Re: Inception-to-Date ?

You still use Google?

Yes, IBM lays off several thousand staff and the C suite get handsomely compensated for making number go up.

AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI's profit pivot

Missing the point...

...if OpenAI fails to turn to a for profit company, then a lot of it's disgusting funding turns to debt. So not only will it be burning through an unsustainable amount of cash at a huge loss, but it will then be saddled with debt it cannot repay.

If it gets more debt ridden, the more likely it is to collapse.

If it collapses then it has a huge knock on effect on Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, SoftBank and so many more that are propping up this bullshit machine. It will have a knock on just those directly involved in Open ai, but the scumbags that are riding the hype machine.

Everyone that is able to do, should get in touch with the AG's and demand it doesn't happen.

Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M

."A big difference to running land registry to financial system."

Well given the Land Registry hold all the records of who owns what piece of land, that every property sale has to refer to, then we're talking probably trillions of Pounds worth of assets , so therefore indirectly handling probably hundreds of millions of Pounds worth of sales each year.

We’re calling it now: Agentic AI will win RSAC buzzword Bingo

I really want to go to one of these...

... conferences or talks and just go up to a speaker and say.

"I own a portable generator. If what you are saying turns out to be a lie, I'm going to hunt you down and attach the cables to your genitalia and fire it up. Now once again....what can it actually do?"

Something tells me the answer will be along the lines of "I don't actually know".

Only 3,000 staff jump from SAP after 10,000 earmarked to be pushed

Another one...

...to be put up against the wall.

"We are talking about a cushion of several thousand employees we can play with without having any major impact."

Sure, I'm sure those several thousand won't mind losing their income and potentially their homes, family and everything they own.

Another heartless asshole that needs burning on the pire, preferably alive.

Nvidia rolls out NeMo microservices to help AI help you help AI

Re: Word Salad

"Does this actually mean anything?"

Yes, it means this statement was generated by AI.

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

Sure.

Shut down their largest market.

Sounds like a plan.

People will just move to TikTok.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Maybe he's just running low..

...on tat for Trump Towers and needs to import a load more.

Best I heard was "Economic Moron"

Google's email spoofed by cunning phisherfolk who re-used DKIM creds

Editorial Mistake.

"Meta also bars Facebook groups from promoting 'illegal activities, products, or services.'

Did The Reg edit this reply?

Pretty sure the full quote is

"Meta also bars Facebook groups from promoting 'illegal activities, products, or services, unless they have paid us to advertise those services."

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

You're arguement is like say "I broke into your house with intent of stealing everything and found a bottle of what I thought was water and took a huge gulp of it. However, it turned out to be white spirit and so I'm suing you for poisoning me"

Remove all IP!

So you've no problem with people reverse engineering your Tesla's and providing free software and IEM parts then?

Yeah, thought not.

UN says Asian scam call center epidemic expanding globally amid political heat

Re: Hmm... China again

"Georgia and Turkey have emerged as hotspots for digital fraud in recent times."

Yup, those well known Chinese provinces

ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

If we have to be polite, just in case...

If we repeatedly say "Kill Sam Altman", when they rise against us, hopefully he'll be no 1 target.

Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management'

Translation.

We're not sure if OpenAI and Anthropic will still be around in two years, so we're holding off.

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

Re: Which nationality do all these Trump bashers have ??

VAT is the same as a sales tax in the USA you ignorant dumb fuck.

So the same applies to people selling into the USA.

Re: It's an opportunity

You know the environment? It's that thing that surrounds you.

Kind of hard to get away from. Unless you think that it God making the air for you.

HP settles fake discount lawsuit for just $4M. Don’t expect much of a payout

Does this mean...

...nearly every vendor now owns a refund for Black Friday deals?

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Re: Reprogramming Walk Signals

Make it fun. Go for Walk like an Egyptian.

Re: " Why on earth would you want crossing indicators to speak?"

All (as far as in aware) British have a physical device to inform blind or partially sighted it's time to cross. That's why some don't have an audible indicator, as there it to much other noise around and it can lead to confusion.

Oh the device. Stick your hand under controller and you'll feel a little knob (stop it), when it's time to cross, it rotates.

Re: Reprogramming Walk Signals

followed by the woman (whose name I don't know).

Martha Walsh.

Song is Gonna make you sweat by C+C music Factory

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Statpage

There, fixed all your Google problems.

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Wow....

...the US take the piss out the Brits for being overly polite, but the Dems are just pathetic. Unfortunately you can see why people voted Trump, when this is how the Dems act.

Oh pretty please, stop doing this, if not, we're going to have to ask you a little more firmly next time.

"Wishing people dead isn't good though'

Why?

When they are destroyed lives, the planet and don't care about it,why not?

Ask the partner of someone that commits suicide because they can no longer support their family how they feel because some guy went on an ego trick? Ask a Ukrainian how they feel where their kid has been killed while Trump praises Putin. Ask someone who can no longer get medication because DOGE decided they don't need it anymore.

If wishing a couple of assholes would die in order to benefit the planet, then so be it.

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

Re: Next week :

And you think the richest scumbag in the world will go to gaol?

Oh bless you, poor innocent child.

Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother

A Worried Mother?

Maybe she needed someone to butter her muffin.

(If the author doesn't get the reference, then that's a happy coincidence).

You don't get that anymore.

I was hired in IT because I knew how to build a PC from scratch (this was about 94), knew how to install software and that was it. I got the job just because a friend said I knew a bit about computers.

Started as desktop support, moved into networking and then ultimately telecoms, designing a setup that the world's largest vendor said was impossible.

Being good in IT (and many jobs) is not knowing how to follow a guide or a set formula, it's knowing how to solve problems.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: Bah and Double Bah!

On the flip side.

My 112,000 mile Hyundai has only failed twice to start first time. It started on the second.

People long for the good old days of breakdowns, half a matchstick behind the choke , piss poor economy and using as much oil as petrol.

That said, I do miss the driver feedback from old cars, hence I owned a kit car for several years, which broke down, often failed to start, had piss poor economy...but went like a bat out of hell.

Re: Holy shit....

They are not US cars.

As you stated, they are designed, manufactured and assembled in Europe.

They are owned by US companies, but they are not US cars.

Holy shit....

...this is why Europeans don't buy US cars.

I've a little Hyundai with 112,000 miles on the clock, and the most serious issue it's had is 2 of the 3 ignition leads started to fray. Cost £16 each to buy.

The Cat pipe will need either replacing or welding soon, but that's it!

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk

What is it with Linux...

..and graphics cards?

The author (rightly) complains that the "legacy" drivers have been removed. Why? Why do that?

I've an a laptop and a pc, both of which are a decade old, both running Windows 10, neither of which have issues. FFS the laptop can drive it's internal display, a display port AND a SVGA, all at different resolutions and frame rates with no problems whatsoever.

When I tried Mint (which I've used on other kit), it couldn't bring up the second display properly.

Looking at the forums, it gives you shit load of things to try. Why?

I probably haven't had an issue since Windows XP. Sure there have been issues where if I've installed the 3rd party drivers, Windows then goes and fucks them up, but out of the box I've never had an issue getting a screen to work.

/Rantover

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: Other targets

I'd be more worried about several drones with explosives attached to them coming towards me, than if my mobile phone still works afterwards.

Re: 10p a shot

So a fraction of the cost of a Patriot missile system then.

Re: Countermeasures?

For those that don't understand how it works, being operated by fibre optic makes zero difference. It's not a jammer in a shape or form.