Posts by IGotOut

Someone not only created a comment-spewing Reddit bot powered by OpenAI's GPT-3, it offered bizarre life advice

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3, it offered bizarre life advice

It was spotted because some of them were factually correct.

From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key

Re: Hmmm

My friend got 3 cases of Monster Coffee. Luckily he hates coffee, so I was bouncing of the ceiling for months (wasn't so bad if you diluted it with cold milk and only used half a can at a time).

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

It's witness intimidation in a major case.

EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online

No...

...if only Google put so much effort into not tracking people in the first place.

BOFH: Rome, I have been thy soldier 40 years... give me a staff of honour for mine age

It's Always....

...the cleaner.

Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board

Re: The solution to this issue is simple

If you own a domain you can now transfer to Cloudflare

They don't do frivolous takedowns. Court order or nothing. Plus you can use their always online option if they go after your hosting provider.

Third time's still the charm: AMD touts Zen-3-based Ryzen 5000 line, says it will 'deliver absolute leadership in x86'

Re: Why skip a number series?

It's most likely the same as cars.

For decades BMW had the 3, 5, 7, 8 series.

When they wanted a new range of smaller cars they could drop in the 1 and 4 series.

It would of been a bit odd to have the smallest car become the 9 series.

UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?

Damn. I just voted for an A/C. Still can't be any worse then the current mob we have here in [insert country].

Disgraced cop, 55, spared prison term after admitting he abused police systems to snoop on his girlfriend's ex

Costs are based on a number of things, mostly the ability to pay.

Unlike the US, the fact he now most likely has no income is taken into consideration.

Re: Not proportionate at all!

"The Police are civilians"

Armoured vans, assault rifles, sub machine guns, bayonets, grenade launchers, snatch squads, stun grenades, full body amour.

Hard to tell the difference in the US.

Re: Not proportionate at all!

"A civilian certainly would not get mere community service."

First offence, pleading guilty, no one injured, no money stolen, loss of career.

Pretty sure nearly every "civilian" would get the same.

It like reading the Daily Mail on here at times.

Why?

If you were sacked from your job, would you expect to lose your pension?

He has lost his job, will have to declare the offence for job applications for a few years (and for insurance policies, loans etc). He will be barred from many jobs ex-coppers go for.

The sentence and collateral effects seem about right.

UK ISP TalkTalk confirms it will MullMull go-private takeover offer valuing it at £1.1bn

Well the service couldn't get any worse..

...could it?

Death of the PC? Do me a favour, says Lenovo bigwig: 'I'm expecting the biggest growth in a decade... for 2021'

Re: Is it 'PC is dead' time again?

IDC say it every single year.

Maybe at some point where "Death of the PC" and "Year of the Linux Desktop" actually meet, they will be right, but until then....

Re: I think Lenovo is right

"But Lenovo could improve this even more by offering pre-installed Linux on ALL systems!"

Odd that the largest PC maker doesn't offer a such a niche request across it's entire range. I mean, why not completely redesign the supply chain to cater for the .001% of buyers who want Linux preinstalled, but are not technically competent to install it themselves?

It's in their DNA: Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to pioneers of the CRISPR gene-editing tool

Re: Amazing work.

Don't put it past him.

Amazing work.

... One of the many amazing achievements that genuinely change peoples lives.

Still, their names will be forgotten by next week while some moronic, botox infested, silicon deformed bimbo will be next weeks headlines because she posted a picture of herself in a bikini.

Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google

Re: ...and how well did that work out for us?

The problem with the Bell break up was the complete corruption of the US political system.

What you had was on huge monopoly broken up into small localised monopolies.

Rather than choice of suppliers, you just had defacto supplier for one city or county. Lawsuits and back handers ensured competition is kept to a minimum.

Re: “the decline of trustworthy sources of news"

@ a/c "There are 2 Fox News like stations starting up in the UK shortly."

Unlike the US, the UK has regulations when it comes to unbiased news.

RT and TalkRadio have both been fined in the past for this offence.

Re: "AD requires a CAL which means its not financially viable"

"Can you buy a PC without the Windows tax?"

Little company called Dell do this.

BTW it often costs the same with many manufacturers because they are special orders, not mass produced off the shelf images....then there is the OEM crap they often get paid to install.

Re: FTC v FCC

Yup my bad. Fancy mixing those to up.

Give the FTC more power?

With that asshat in charge? What could go wrong.

It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes

Re: Cinemas in their current form are an artefact of the limited availability of reels of film

The small cinemas are the hardest hit. My local one has closed permanently, and the others in the small chain are looking doubtful.

The makers of Bond say they want people to have the full cinema experience, but come April, there may not be any left.

Nvidia promises once again to let Arm keep its Switzerland-of-chips biz model – and even license some Nv GPU tech

Simple...

...make it a watertight legally binding contract...including any name changes, mergers or future sales.

Microsoft: After we said we'll try to promote more Black people, the US govt accused us of discrimination

Dammed if you do....

Etc...etc

China takes TikTok-WeChat ding-dong to World Trade Organization, accuses US, India of breaking global rules

Re: doesn't China already ban a lot of US apps?

@Rich 2.

Some bloke called Adolf Hitler once wrote this book of hatred.

In it there is a quote:

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”

It's one of the few things he got right.

Verizon: Just 25% of global businesses comply fully with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

The same Verizon...

....that allowed 14million billing accounts to be lifted?

UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China

Can someone clarify something?

It seems to be hidden in SPI flash storage soldered to the MB...it seems to be targeting charities and diplomats.

So am I missing something, e.g. these are being shipped pre-hacked knowing their destination? Or is it a scatter gun approach it just hopes it gets to these?

Or is it simply some mb company has a dodgy firmware image?

IBM manager had to make one person redundant from choice of two, still bungled it and got firm done for unfair dismissal

"They thought of that, too. Some directors have stated that all feedback will be ignored unless someone also has negative feedback."

That was never a problem...I often got moaned at for calling people out....usually my senior managers / directors.

Wonder why I always got passed over for promotion? (Actually one of the top directors liked me BECAUSE I didn't arse kiss)

These point scoring things....

....are a joke.

Currently facing redundancy I was given an OK (rather than good or exceptional) for the amount of times I have to seek clarification for work.

Had to argue this was unfair, given the fact I'm usually given the brand new or prototype works, rather than the work we've been doing for several years.

They can make to scoring fit the situation if they want.

Windows 10 to let you know that your SSD is dying rather than throwing out a BSOD when it's already too late

Re: And if your SSD is soldered down?

Yeah, don't buy cheap HPs

Re: SSD Failure Warning: Only Fair

You can use it, set it a limit, disable it or set the drive.

Not sure what your issue is....never had a problem disabling it on large systems....but why would you....it is only there if you need it....looking at you SQL server.

Sony, Kioxia ask Uncle Sam for exemption to serve Huawei with components

It's called collateral damage.

When the US has a stroppy brat in charge, everyone gets hit by his toys being thrown.

Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it

Apple vs Google.

I own both Andriod and Apple devices, yet have never bought anything via Google Play (have given F-droid devs money).

I don't know if it's me, but I just don't want to give my card details to Google, I don't trust them not to track and flog the info.

If I had to buy a must-have off Goggle, I'd buy a gift card from a supermarket.

What is it about McDonald's, cultural black holes, and not being able to make tech work?

Re: "we're not sure we'd want to touch it these days"

And that cashpoint or card pin pad is most likely equally contaminated.

You never ever ate the peanuts on a bar for good reason.

Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers

Re: Shrill

So an email (and other secure services) company complains that an ISP redirects all their traffic....and they are in the wrong for complaining?

What a strange planet you inhabit.

Imagine running a dating app and being told accounts could be easily hijacked. How did that feel, Grindr?

Well now they have got to the bottom of the issue, I can only hope they have got on top of things. The really should take along hard look at the bear facts and trans form over to a better set up. It's no good having sub routines or DOMs if it's easy to grindr away at basic URLs to strip away the info for someone's safe word.

Huawei's UK code reviewers say Chinese mega-corp is still totally crap at basic software security. Bad crypto, buffer overflows, logic errors...

Re: Not sure about this...

why are we doing their work for them in drawing "the equipment's vulnerabilities to their attention?"

Because as of yet, we haven't decided to rip up that agreement.

Re: Huawei's attitude seems very odd

"it explains the river of terrible quality products flowing out of China."

That's because we, the consumer, want it cheap.

Look this widget cost X...but look this similar looking widget is 1/10 the price....I'll take that.

And to be fair I've bought Chinese stuff that's been better than the far more expensive rival.

Federal judge temporarily neutralizes President Trump's blockade against visas for foreign techies, other workers

Damn...

Curse those pesky laws getting in a way of a dictatorship.

How's this for overachieving? Man accused of running software outfit as a Ponzi scheme while on parole from previous fraud

Re: ERP deployments

Atari?

Spectrum?

There ain't no problem that can't be solved with the help of American horsepower – even yanking on a coax cable

Just replace the switch with a junction box and blanking plate.

Job done.

Google adopts ‘value-neutral’ language to make selfies less about ‘beauty’

It's even worse..

...when you see middle aged women (and men) using these.

They end up looking like deformed 13 yr old kids.

Robot wars! Scandi automation biz AutoStore slings patent sueball, claims it owns Ocado warehouse tech

Hmmmm

Some of those patents are iffy at best.

Change "Bin" to pallet and it suddenly becomes a lot murkier. I saw automated fork lifts 20 years ago that read the barcode on the shelf (rather than the box itself) and pulled off the pallet. Is it sufficiently different..maybe?

Microsoft Exchange 2010 support ends in a matter of days and there are 139,000 internet-facing servers still up

Re: Vnext - and so it starts

You may of missed the fact many businesses have been using subscriptions for on prem MS stuff for year's.

CapEx vs OpEx etc etc...

How's this for open government? Amsterdam, Helsinki put their AI system designs on public display

Yup that's AI / ML

Algorithms with a trendy name

NATO's at risk if you go your own Huawei on 5G, US government warns Germany

Re: @Potemkine!

"Germany couldnt even get planes and pilots to Iraq, the only one arriving was the war minister"

A war that killed thousands of innocent civilians, led to the formation of ISIS and the 10s of thousands of deaths as a result. All based on US ego and a non existent threat.

Good example that one. Still US contractors and arms companies made a fortune,so not all bad eh?

Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest

Digital Ocean?

You mean those assholes who host 95% of "customers" that attack my website and do NOTHING about it.

Cloudflare rule no.1. Drop everything originating from them.

Wouldn't suprise me if El Reg have the same rule.

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

Delayed delivery?

Does that mean people rang the doorbell and you didn't have a clue?

I'd be more concerned how the car was stolen in the 1st place.