Posts by IGotOut 5328 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019
I wouldn't be surprised if China is just waiting for the US to run out of missiles and interceptors. It's pretty well know that Patriot stocks are running low and the amount of missiles and guided bombs they've chucked at the civilian infrastructure, must be a huge drain. Add in the fact the aircraft are running so many sorties that they will soon require extensive maintenance.
China just has to sit and wait
..as the US will only be using outdated, obsolete routers from now on, there is no point trying even trying to protect the countries infrastructure.
Come 2028:
"We've detected an critical attack that is using Netgear routers from before 2023. It seems only the USA is affected as everyone else has since bought newer, more secure kit. Our advice is to suck it up, as Netgear said these were EoL in 2026."
...at one of our engineering site (low level pc repair back then) that also held the contact centre, pretty much the whole place went to the local pub at lunchtime over a few hours so to keep the place manned. However loads of the staff and managers went to the off licence after and bought cases of beer. By 3pm pretty much the entire contact centre staff were utterly shitfaced so they had to go home early become they were incapable of answering the phones. So the management asked if I could close the phone system down. No problem I thought in my semi sober state....And promptly fucked up the master script on the Nortel Symposium system... something that multiple people told me afterwards (and beforehand) was impossible. 3 fucking hours it took me to get it back online! Didn't get a bollocking, because the management that turned the place into one giant piss up could hardly say anything could they?
"Since running a remote monitoring system costs money, they may not actually connect the billboard to the internet."
Nope and nope.
There is plenty of free monitoring software (you check to see if a service is running, rather than ping) and it may not be on the internet, but it's sure as hell going to have some sort of remote connection to the main company. Otherwise someone has to drive to thousands of billboards to.update them.
Of course you may have meant remote low level management software.
"It can tell me the intent and reasoning behind an image, make up stories about them, it's like it can really see the image"
I can taste the vomit in my mouth and I've not even had breakfast yet.
Meanwhile, tomorrow I'll be interacting with a bunch of real human artists, in a pub, talking about real human issues, and how real humans come up with original art, based on human interactions and experiences. Then I'll be out partying until dawn, interacting with real human beings, creating real memories that will make me smile years later. Your image? Probably forgotten in a few days or weeks.
Feel free to generate your slop and think it's the same thing, because I know it's not.
@quando
"and the estimated fix date has gone from today to the 8th April"
Ha, ha, ha.
Good luck.
The last time I had to deal with those incompetent morons was with my parents.
I found the issue in less than 30 seconds of looking at the router (clock sync issue at the exchange meant it was resetting EXACTLY every 5 minutes)
First the 15 calls the the useless Indian call centre .
Then engineer comes out replaces wall socket (even he said it wouldn't work after I told him the issue).
I then told the call centre that neighbours were having the same issue (still insisted on rebooting the TiVo box despite the entire internet dropping).
Another engineer came out replaced the external wiring.
I once again pointed out several other people I know had the same issue. Ignored.
Phoned up help desk again and had found out that everyone having issues were old Telewest customer and even people on a different street had same issue.
Ignored.
Several engineers came out and started working on the street box AND Virgin had sent out engineers to a neighbours house to fix the same issue, unaware that they were already working on the street box for the same issue .
Pissed off I went and spoke to the guys.
They were saying it was probably down to the hot weather.
So when I said how come it happens 24/7 they were stumped.
I told them everything and said it was an exchange issue, they were adamant it wasn't and it was the street box.
So when I pointed out that it was only the original Telewest customers affected, that our phone numbers were only a few digits apart and that we were on different streets, they couldn't give an answer.
The issue was resolved, by everyone leaving Virgin.
Source: I did telecoms for 20 years and I can spot an clock sync issue in minutes.
..that'll be the CORRECT driver for the part, that you then rewrote with a downgraded PoS, that you then have to fix by reinstalling the correct driver again. Graphics cards were the most notorious for this
So excuse me while you say "the logs showed you installed a driver, so it broke it" and call it bullshit. After all who installs a driver and doesn't reboot?
That's not how you start an unbiased report.
"The People's Panel will debate how a digital ID can work for everyone"
I can imagine the arguement.
Do you want an ID scheme or do you want benefit cheating, pedo (sic) , illegal immigrants who eat swans, mug defenceless old women and kidnap babies.
Anthropic don't know how it works and neither do the "customers", but you shove an unknown quantity money in one end and at the other end, take the money add it to the pile of cash you already conned out of others, burn the lot and in return you may or may not get something almost close to what you asked for.
That's progress for you.
Probably 95% of people, if not higher, NEVER upgrade their pc.
People on here, and in other tech oriented places just forget there is a world out there that is not theirs. It's like watching Linus Tech Tips and many on his channel complaining that Linux isn't good enough because it can't play AAA games. Guess what, most people are not fucking gamers. Or like the poster above saying it can't run multiple monitors (they can). Guess what, most people don't use multiple monitors and if they do,it's usually just two
For the VAST majority of people SoC are absolutely fine. The really issue is if you buy one that is under spec'd from the start (think those horrendous HP things).
Yeah would of helped, but the actual reading was this
"ADI, a non-UK person, instructed a UK based bank to make two payments (one in June 2022 and another in July 2022) totalling £635,618.75 to Okko LLC (“Okko”), a company wholly owned at the time of the payments (and in the case of the July payment also at the time of payment instruction) by the designated person JSC New Opportunities (UKSL ref RUS1489). ADI did not cancel these instructions, leading to the subsequent release of funds to Okko. This conduct, in particular the failure to cancel (an omission), amounted to conduct in the UK by ADI.
"realize a business scale and technological foundation capable of competing in the global market … maximizing the corporate value of the integrated entity.”"
Translation
By reducing competition between ourselves, we can choke the market even more and enter the cartel as an equal partner in order to keep prices high
"I have a theory: many who work in IT have a deep-seated bias against stuff that "just works" because then they feel less necessary"
I agreed with you up to that point. I can't think of a single IT person (we had well over 200 in my last place and I know dozens more outside of the hell hole I worked in), that came in each day and went "Geez, I really hope the latest patch has fucked everything up, so I feel important"
There is nothing more soul destroying than reinstalling a piece of software on a load of pcs because Windows decided to update something completely unrelated.
"Critical industries like healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and retail and wholesale consistently let their operating systems languish.”"
Wow, could that be be because they are a gizzilion times more likely to be running obscure, niche or bespoke software than Mac or ChromeOS user's? That they don't want to rush out and patch some PC's that may costs them millions of lost revenue per day? If you think that is hyperbolic, the last phone system I looked after, if that went down, it was roughly £1,000,000 per HOUR in lost revenue and penalties. So yes, we were very slow and careful to roll out patches, be they Windows, Linux or BSD.
You only gave to watch Wes O'Donnels, along with the likes of Cappy Army and Task and Purpose to realise this is already a well established fact and it is already being acted upon. Poland, Finland, France, Germany and the UK are already working with the Ukrainian's on counter drone measures and some US start ups are already live testing AI anti-drone drones in the battlefield, co developed by the Ukrainian forces.
We also have to get partly away from the "No point firing a million dollar missile at a $20,000 drone" If that Patriot missile is protecting a bunch of fighters, its money well spent.
