Posts by IGotOut

Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to admit when they've been hacked

Re: I see......."Blame the Victim"......where have I heard that before!

Hi Bob.

Lenovo's ThinkPad line goes under the knife: X13 models look a bit taller but worry not, the 'nipples' are still intact

It's one reason I still use a fantastic Dell Ultrasharp monitor for my desktop. No stupid 16:9 format.

Then which flavour of Linux? What about Android? ChromeOS? And what's BSD done to upset you?

SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst

It's not like you can pop your sd card out of your iPhone.

Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?

Is this the same Spotify...

...that is saying the world as we know will end should they actually pay artists a fair share.

Re: can't tell the difference between speaker cable at 100 GBP per metre or 5 GBP per metre

Search for Audiophile coat hanger test.

The perils of non-disclosure? China 'cloned and used' NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public

TL/dr

So US used vuln on Chinese. Chinese thought that's neat, took idea and used it against rest of world.

Doctor, I think I have an HDMI: Apple starts investigating M1 Mac Mini graphics issues

Re: Not just the M1

"HDMI with my LG 4k display when Big Sur updated"

Well there you go. If you had an Apple Certified LG tv, it wouldn't be an issue, so it's your fault.

NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service

Re: 'bout time!

And hopefully the ICO will hit them hard, after all think of the children!

Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars

And 2,000 hours at that.

Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone

Isn't it the banks themselves....

...that state money transfers can't be undone and you should check carefully?

Hence the Western Union scams.

Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'

Debt collection?

Ok, that's a new one. Hats off for originality if nothing else.

Mobile World Congress to run this year's Barcelona event in June with 50,000 attendees. We're speechless

Interesting...

I've a relative who works in the event construction sector (think stages, booths, lighting etc) and they are not expecting even small events to start until June, and large corporate events such as this, until at least the end of the year.

Groupware is not dead! HCL drops second beta of Notes/Domino version 12 and goes all low-code and cloudy

Been a long time.

But didn't Lotus Notes have that crazy, whacky idea of being able to remove the "Reply to All" option?

No an infinite amount of Monkeys did work on Sharepoint. Unfortunately, the one that created the good one got "Restructed in a holistic business realignment"

Re: Notes - a blast from the past,

No. Notes was a corporate thing.

You may be thinking of Lotus 123.

Nurserycam horror show: 'Secure' daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users

Simple Answer.

Anything where "Think of the children" is concern, drop an email to the Daily Mail.

They love this shit, by the time the article is published, it will be Pedos (sic), the Chinese and ISIS watching naked children via online security cameras. Boris Johnson said to be fuming and asks for stricter border controls....except those that may have covid, then its ok, especially if it's a business trip, or you can afford the fine, or you're a MP, then just say sorry.

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Nope.

Sorry Zen. Your customer, your problem. End Of. Don't pass the buck in this shitty manner.

If I was the customer I would take this and raise an official complaint. No joy, small claims court.

Orange Internet (as it was back then) tried a similar stunt, only the court paper work got them to fix the issue and also compensate for the losses..and got me out of the contract.

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

This us a good thing.

One, it shows how badly the law is, even with the best intention.

Two, it shows how much power Google and FB have, opening then up even more for a takedown.

Win Win.

Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire

Re: Illegal

Large companies are skilled at this (seen it done many times).

Make redundancies. Shuffle team's, rebrand. Rehire in a "different time". Manager before? They now hire a Motivational Working Group Liason Officer. Desktop support? Now a Digital User Customer Support Team Member.

Oh and just stick AI or Cloud in the job description if to close to the old role.

Re: Go Electric

China has the largest number of electric cars in the world.

Just saying.

Now this is Epic: Fortnite maker takes Apple fight to the European Commission and... er... Bismarck, North Dakota

Re: McAfee all around.

What?

European Space Agency open to hiring astronauts with a physical disability

Re: Makes sense

Down voted by idiots.

Take a simple thing, a step. Why? Why are no at buildings all equipped with ramp entrances?

Train stations with no lifts.

Shops so rammed hat a wheel chair can't turn.

Toilets so small a wheel chair can't fit in.

Many things affecting wheel chair users also affect parents with prams and push hairs as well.

Let's not even start on badly designed packaging.

UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer

Re: Everyone knows that

Go back, read article.

Pat Gelsinger promises Intel can go back to the future – in memo to staff shared with world+dog

Ahh the good old days..

..of monopoly abusing anticompetitive behaviour.

How they miss the good old days.

Devuan adds third init option in sixth birthday release

Naming conventions.

Ok I'm sure its been around a while, but what the heck is a pre-alpha? Is that like a release 6.0-.1??? A time traveling release where its actually released before the first release so therefore isn't actually a release?

Or has this bizarre naming simply passed me by.

UK watchdog fines two firms £270k for cold-calling 531,000 people who had opted out

Can I have done of those drugs your own. I need a trip to Venus.

Microsoft tells Biden administration to adopt Australia’s pay-for-news plan

Re: Thumbs up for Bill

Err Bill Gates doesn't work at Microsoft.

Phishing awareness gone wrong: Facebook tries to seize websites set up for staff security training

Re: Where is human decision making?

"Common sense will probably be above the pay grade of those responsible."

Common sense will probably be BELOW the pay grade of those responsible.

tftfy.

British owners of .eu domains given an extra three months to find a European address

Re: Good read

"Covid's killed just about more people in the UK thant he whole of the EU combined. Who's fault is that?"

Err us, the residents of the UK.

Ask yourself why you have to have fines in the first place?

To many of us are arrogant, selfish and ignorant assholes.

Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform

Morris Marina

come back, all is forgiven.

Samsung floats autonomous ships as ready to sail in 2022

Re: Does size matter?

A bigger ship is easier as they have right of navigation. It's up to the smaller ones to get out if the way.

For those against it...

...just remember humans really fuck up.

https://youtu.be/MmQbEgUVz40

Re: Safety?

Actually maybe it is better to gave the likes of container ships automated.

They don't size off. They have absolute right if way due to the sheer size and problems turning and stopping and they go point to point.

Makes far more sense than say a driverless car.

Euro privacy watchdog calls for end of targeted advertising plus a squeeze on the processing of personal info

Re: No advertising

"Americans seem willing to put up with a lot more adverts than in the UK."

OFCOM has set a maximum amount of time allowed for adverts, 12 minutes per hour.

Open Source Vulnerabilities database: Nice idea but too many Google-shaped hoops to jump through at present

Re: Embrace, extend, and extinguish?

Google is, and had been for a long time, the new Microsoft. They are just better at hiding it.

UK.gov awards seats on £2bn 'digital outcomes' framework to suppliers – one of which doesn't even have a website

So..

A bunch of marketing companies?

This scumbag stole and traded victims' nude pics and vids after guessing their passwords, security answers

Re: Computer++ sentence

If you break in and steal nude photos, can you distribute those to millions of people?

Drag Autonomy founder's 'fraudulent guns' and 'grasping claws' to the US for a criminal trial, thunders barrister

Way to go!

"English thieves have no expectation of local justice when they target their fraudulent guns or grasping claws on American companies and American money,"

Great way to get an English judge on your side.

Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks

Re: The legislators need to get involved

Protonmail do business accounts as well.

Having dealt with Google "support"..

Understand.

Arse and elbows come to mind.

Trying to convert an enterprise account to a charity account. To cut a VERY long story short, 20+ "experts" had no idea what to do, despite documentation saying it was a simple 3 process.

In summary "Can't convert as doesn't exist. Can't create as already exists."

It took about 30 screenshots, videos and emails, before I just eventually gave up, telling them they were useless.

Minister tells the House of Lords it'll be another 12 weeks before UK's deleted criminal records can be restored

I can image why.

Try this tape.

24 hours later....

Nope.

Ok try this one.

24 hours later...

Nope.

Ok try.....

Microsoft suspends donations to politicians who backed attempt to overturn US presidential election

"I don't think we'll ever know exactly how much graft Microsoft pays. That's private, personal information because Microsoft is an individual, don't you know."

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=D000000115

Your welcome.

Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff

Re: The wrong software for the job

I haven't given you a downvote, simply because of the ending, but the rest of your post us pointless and irrelevant Windows bashing.

If you had actually READ the article, you would of realised it was accessed by an insecure Teamviewer session.

The same would of happened if it had been Linux, BSD, OSX or Unix. An insecure remote access connection is an insecure remote access connection. End of.

Barcode scan app amassed millions of downloads before weird update starting popping open webpages...

Re: This was inevitable. But Android handled it well.

Yeah.....thats right. It not like privileges tend to be all or nothing.

It's took ten years to get even basics right...and lets not even mention the location bullshit when "off" actually means "sort of off".

Intel sues former staffer for allegedly stealing Xeon cloud secrets in USB drives and exploiting info at Microsoft

Because that's what any responsible company would do. For starters would you want a suspected trade secrets thief working for you?

Re: Indeed

Even a half decent secure system

A) won't allow unauthorised network kit

B) won't allow unauthorised observers

And a more secure won't allow ANY unauthorised kit on the network.

Big tech helpfully offers Pakistan new social-media-friendly content-blocking framework

Re: "members’ own transparency reports are the best benchmark for such failures"

As much as I agree with you, just bear in mind, Pakistan is the kind of place you get murdered by the government for saying that you believe in God, and not Allah.

Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images

Clearview.

As they feel they don't have to abide by Canadian laws, due to having no presence, can I suggest the authorities block all their IP addresses until they do comply.

Linus Torvalds labels Super Bowl 'violent version of egg-and-spoon race'

Re: If NFL...

See above comment regards Hockey.

I presume you mean proper hockey?