Posts by IGotOut

The girl with the dragnet tattoo: How a TV news clip, Insta snaps, a glimpse of a tat and a T-shirt sold on Etsy led FBI to alleged cop car arsonist

Tut....kids today....

Any fule knows that you cover tattoos up...for example, if you have arm tats, just buy a cheap pair of fake sleeve ones, or put on some kids transfers.

Rioters today eh?

NY Attorney General warns Apple, Google to police COVID-19 tracing apps in their souks – or she will herself

Re: from Germany

"KatWarn application, which concerned citizens have on their phones to know when catastrophes happen. "

I think paranoid citizens would be more appropriate. Do people really worry all the time about a "catastrophe" (maybe a lost in translation thing)?

I just get on with life and whatever happens, happens. Lived with the threat of terrorist attacks all my life, still more likely to get hit by a car because I'm to busy looking at the phone.

Google and Parallels bring Windows apps to Chromebooks, in parallel with VMware and Citrix

Re: Chromebooks are a breeze . . .

They are OK IF and that's a big IF you don't mind being locked into a walled garden.

As for viruses, I really can't remember the last time I got one....Windows XP SP1 maybe?

And you are worried about viruses, why not just go Linux?

Only true boffins will be able to grasp Blighty's new legal definitions of the humble metre and kilogram

Is that one of those shatterproof ones that any school kid knows, will shatter if you hit your mate round the head with one...either that or their skin gives way first.

Then, of course, there are Ems and Ens and the joys of printing measurements that are obviously divisions of 96.

Then we have paper sizes.

Yeah, next time, try a sweet shop, not the bakers. Otherwise, they just think you're a tight ass.

Sorry but I partly agree with OP.

I was educated in the 70s.

The only thing I measure in imperial is miles/mpg.

That is simply down to the fact that signs are in miles/yards and odometers are also in miles. No other reason.

I couldn't tell you how many ounces are in a pound; pounds in a stone and stones in a whatever. Inches in a yard or yards in a mile.

Re: Tine to redefine Pi(e)

Thank you.

I always (used to) ask if it's a proper pie or a dish of meat and veg with a pastry lid thrown on top.

This is WAAAYYY more important to define in law than any weights and measurement.

'Boringly reliable': Red Hat architect thinks Kubernetes is 'mostly done' – but there are still plenty of bugs

Give this man a medal.

Not for the software, but for simply saying...

It's done, let just fix all problems.

Wow, Microsoft's Windows 10 always runs Edge on startup? What could cause that? So strange, tut-tuts Microsoft

Re: Standard Win10 Error

Or you simply hold the Shift key down when you shutdown .

Exoskeletons-as-a-service offered as helping hand to warehouse workers exhausted by pandemic

Re: Already been there

Not really. I (did?) handle V8 and V12 blocks all the time (think up to 40 a day). As we have to lift flip and rotate them, they have to be worked using an overhead crane. This probably adds about 25% to the working time. Having an extra 28kg of lift would mean 80% of tasks would no longer require the hoist.

Bigger than big: Linux kernel colonel Torvalds claims 5.8 is 'one of our biggest releases of all time'

Is that the domain Linux.io is owned by someone else?

Watchdog snubs General Dynamics' gripe over Navy's $8bn IT network overhaul sub-contract decision

Translation:

If you had told us how much you wanted to spend we would have beaten it, no matter how unrealistic it would be. We simply would have ramped up the costs after the contract was signed.

RIP ROP, COP, JOP? Intel to bring anti-exploit tech to market in this year's Tiger Lake chip family

Exploit in

3...2....1

SGX anyone?

Well, we tried being a non-profit... OpenAI is now open as in open for business with GPT-3 cloud language model API

The reasoning makes no sense.

We didn't make money as a non-profit, so we'll make money as a for-profit.

Am I missing something.?

As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea

Re: I submitted my comment

Oh here we go. Let's get some history straightened.

The US ONLY entered WW2 after Japan attacked AND Germany declared war.

The only reason the US decided to sell us a large amount of arms was we passed decrypted information that Germany was encouraging Mexico to attack Texas.

After WW2 you pretty quickly asked for your money back, and it wasn't until we said we would pull out of the likes of Italy and Greece that were heavily leaning to the far left and Communism did you crap yourselves.

Only the USA came out of WW2 with far more money than went in.

Then how about Korea, Vietnam and the two gulf wars which we helped you out in? The US was at no risk of attack but many European states still came to your aid.

The reason the US maintains large armies overseas is for their benefit. A convenient place to project their power abroad.

All that said, I agree that without the US help after WW2, an large area of Europe would of fallen under communism and many do appreciate it, but that was a long time ago.

The US (as a nation) used to claim it was the land of the free and tried to be a example to.the world, but unfortunately, it has become to look like a cesspit of corruption and incompetence.

Re: You asked my opinion about drones...

. "I was trained in riot control in the National Guard, and we always employed snipers with the best visual equipment we could get to surveil from a tall building or other overlook in troubled areas. "

That right there sums up everything that is wrong with the US attitude to crowd control.

Still, the leadership was spot on in the '50s, the '60s and '70s eh?

Having the military involved in policing actions will ALWAYS result in problems.

And yes, the UK has a poor history on this as well, but hopefully, we've moved on.Time you guys did as well.

AWS won't sell facial-recog tool to police for a year – other law enforcement agencies are in the clear

Re: @ Steven Guenther -- Who cares - wear a mask and sunglasses

Then either you have

a) a badly fitting mask

b) a poor mask.

It's amazing how many are wearing dust masks incorrectly.

I've seen them upside down, just over the mouth and not the nose, inside out, or they clearly have been using the same one day in day out.

Still something is better than nothing.

We won't sell it...

...until everyone forgets about this pesky Black Lives Matter campaign and it all dies down....then back to BAU.

No joke icon, as this is going to be the reasoning behind it.

Bloke rolls up to KFC drive-thru riding horse-drawn cart only to be told: Neigh

Odd...

...considering "driving" was an agricultural term long before the horseless carriage came along.

In fact, when using a horse and carriage/car/trap you are actually driving.

Re: Horses?

It's not uncommon for me to have horses tired up on the railings outside my place. I have no problems with it, better than a dozen Boris bikes or hipster vehicles anyway.

Speaker for yourself: Looks like 5 patents are table stakes as Google countersues Sonos

Popcorn

Which one holds the patent for deliberately bricking old systems?

Hope this becomes a very long and expensive case given both their attitudes to the end consumer.

Re: Invention?

Wired systems have been around probably for close on a century, they are called PA systems.

Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

Re: Bug

It's not a bug, it's working exactly as intended.

Re: It's an unknown

A LOT of (UK) contracts exclude MMS in your call plans. For example, I just checked and 3 charges 55p each, Giff Gaff 30ppm

Add to that, many emojis can get changed to MMS, it can add up.

Logitech Zone Wireless: Swanky headset means business, but that also means it comes with a hefty price tag

Re: I might be talking sh*te..

Not at all.

ANC just takes the external sound and inverts it, cancelling it out.

All full ear coverings do is make it more effective.

Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo

Disk Free

Nothing new, Xbox did digital only vetsions sometime ago.

Still wouldn't buy one though.

Huawei's latest smartphone for the UK market costs £1,299. And yes, that's without Google apps

"Google Docs, Google Maps, syncing Google Calendar, Google Contacts? Nope. No facebook, twitter and the like. What is the point? "

Don't have any of those enabled on my phone. Works fine.

Maps? Here. Far superior.

Calendar, Contacts...nope Etar synched with my NextCloud...along with photos, notes, Contacts, Tasks, files, OTP, and much more...hell I can even track my phone. All under my control.

But I still can't switch to totally none Google, just for some of the apps I need.

Hopefully. Maybe when the EU force them to unbundle.

Russia-linked Gamaredon hacker crew using Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications to pwn Microsoft's Outlook

VBS through Outlook...

How many things do you have to disable to even let this through...

Please don't tell me "Cloud" has undone 20 years of basic security.

EU aviation wonks give all-electric training aeroplane the green light – but noob pilots only have 50 mins before they have to land it

Re: Hybrid arragement

Rather than the regular car hybrid model, you go the generator hybrid model.

Smaller engine running at constant revs is far more practical than a bigger engine reving all over the pace.

Add to that engines are getting lighter and stronger. We are working with a hypercar maker whose new engine block you can easily lift with one hand, yet revs to up to 10,000 rpm.

Re: Here we go again...

I guess you missed the paragraph

"The revolutionary powertrain is entirely liquid-cooled, including the batteries, and demonstrated the ability to withstand faults, battery thermal runaway events, and crash loads as part of the certification process,"

You know Facebook has an image problem when major nonprofits start turning down donations over political lies

So if the President says "Lynch all those Niggers", you'll be OK for that to be up there?

If not, please enlighten us where you draw the line?

As for freedom of speech, a private company. They can choose who they host. They can choose to host the KKK but decide not to host a Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute page.

So take that "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

And just tag on, "but I won't have you saying those things in my house"

US senators propose $22bn fund for new fabs on American soil because making stuff is better than designing stuff

Remind me which country...

...gets pissy over government subsidies?

Bombardier case anyone?

Keepnet kerfuffle: Firing legal threats at bloggers did infosec biz more damage than its exposed database

So...

Keepnet an information security company can keep information secure.

What a joke.

Maybe they should just become patent trolls instead, although their lawyers seem as incompetent as the security team.

Before Keepnet, the information not-sec team blame the contractor...

... WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOUR CHANGE CONTROLS?

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

Re: Foot in mouth

To be fair, if Russia had pulled the plug in 2014, the US would have no astronauts up there for 6 years.

Another month, another way to smash Intel's SGX security. Let's take a closer look at these latest holes...

I'm starting to think...

with all these performance hits, it may be faster to go back to a 486Dx66

Remind us again, why work for AWS? Petty Amazon sues marketing veep after he defects to Google Cloud

Re: Yesterday

Actually, I think you missed the bit about it not being possible in the timescale and for the money it would earn.

GnuTLS patches huge security hole that hung around for two years – worse than Heartbleed, says Google cryptoboffin

Re: One of the advantages of open source..

'I'm pretty certain that GNU TLS is not developed by a lone individual in a shed somewhere, "

You may be surprised how often these essential libraries are maintained by a few hobbyists doing it in there spare time.

Well said...

"McClanahan lamented, who went on to chide Google for hiring expensive security engineers but not offering financial support to the projects they criticize."

Couldn't be put any better.

MacOS on Arm talk intensifies: Just weeks from now, Apple to serve up quarantini with Kalamata golive, reportedly

Re: x86 support for at least one year (maybe)

Rosetta was on two operating systems releasing and was supported for several years. And your old Mac didn't just stop working after that time.

Re: reality of corporate IT

Re: Chrome

I think he is on about Chrome OS, rather than Chrome the browser.

A lovely vendor lock-in walled garden.

So what you are saying is every single bit of software will have to be converted on day one and developers maintain two flavours of software at the same time.

Sounds sensible.

As UK Parliament heads back to in-person voting, select committees are told they can continue working via Zoom

"the farmers are complaining because they can't exploit the workers by sticking 14 in a caravan and charging them for the privilege"

Oh fuck off city boy, stop reading the daily mail.

I know a LOT of farmers, none stick 14 in a caravan.

Guess why they don't employ English? Because we don't want to do the crappy hours for crappy pay. Oh I forgot all farmers drive around in brand new Bentley's. Not the beat up old Nissan and Mitsubishi pick ups I see.

But of course you're happy to pay £2.50 for a bottle of milk, or £5 for a punnet of strawberries? Ah no, you want it a cheap as possible.

Farming is a very risky business, a couple of bad seasons can wipe out a hundred year old business. Just do some research and see how many farms have folded and how many farmers have committed suicide.

But I'm sure your an expert, that's why you're posting as AC, to hide your real life credentials.

Explain New Zealand?

Lower population density.

Lower population

Less high-density areas

Less travel between neighbouring countries.

It's no good saying look over there. Europe and the UK are NOT New Zealand.

Again. How long do you expect us to stay locked up?

The company I work for is at risk of going bankrupt because the major UK businesses we supply are at risk of going bankrupt( 2 of of our largest customers have already laid off close on 4000 jobs). The people who supply us are at risk of going bankrupt. The 3rd party companies we use are at risk of going bankrupt.

We are talking about very high tech engineering companies. The sort that when they go, are gone forever.

How many indirect losses of life will that cause?

There is already huge increase in calls to mental health charities, people are terrified of going to the doctors with chest complaints, preventative medicine is non existent, domestic violence is through the roof, kids are missing vaccines and on and on.

So again, how long do we stay locked up?

IT people are pretty much immune to the effects, but hospitality, travel, certain areas of farming, manufacturing, shop keepers, independent traders are under extreme stress at the moment.

But it's ok, we'll wait another 6 months.

I'm sure your all happy to get your Amazon shopping, get your food from the supermarket and get your milk delivered, but hey, those live don't matter I guess.

So tell me, why is it ok for Sainsburys to sell you a pair of jeans, but not that independent shop that's spent 20 years building up their business?

Why is it ok for McDonald's to serve you a coffee, but not that little coffee shop down the road?

So again, when do we come out of lockdown?

When it hits 0?

Then what? We allow no travel at all from outside the UK? How long for 6 months.

I don't think many of you have a fucking clue how much trade flows back and forth. We used to have up to 20 different lorries from 5 different countries every single week.....and we're just a small business.

We could of course build great walls around the cities. There's a plan. No one in or out. I'm fine, no covid cases by me, not one. Hell, my county has had fewer deaths so far than London had in a weekend. So why not do That? Even better, why not lock the most deprived up in their shitty tower blocks.

So again. Wyour's you plan? When do we come out of lockdown?

But it's ok, you can work.from home....sid the 10's of millions that can't. But it's ok, I'm sure you'll be happy to.pick up the huge debt and tax bills.

Oh and when you see that homeless person, kicked out onto the street because they lost their career, or the widowed farmers wifebecause he'd killed himself, or the woman prostituting herself to feed her kids, feel free to say "still, I was right about being in lock down for 12 months"

So what do you recommend? The UK stay at home until a vaccine is found?

It has been since day one, about managing the speed of infection, not stopping it.

Re: Progress

It's down to one elitist prick.Mogg.

But I guess the butler and maids will look after his home affairs should he get sick.As for those peskyworking mothers, can't they just get the nanny to step in?

Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?

Interesting...

We in the west criticise China for its human rights abuses (and so we should), yet we'll sell arms and gleefully sell everything else we have to a far more oppressive and brutal regime.....Saudi Arabia.

China needs to start flogging us some more oil.

Brave soz about coding snafu that sent search queries to affiliate links, insists practice is 'industry standard'

StartPage still runs ads. Those ads work in pretty much the same way as an affiliate link I.e. they know you came from Start Page, but that is it.

China's silicon-self-sufficiency plan likely to miss targets due to Factories Not Present error

Yet again...

...the west underestimating China.

This is how China crept up and took the world by surprise.

When the world was hit by the last big recession, the west shut up, held back investment and general bickered about who was to blame.

China did the opposite, it trained people and invested heavily. Creating several enterprise zones that became the huge industrial and technological cities we know today.

It's going to happen again.

COVID has hit, and the west will bicker, fight and block, but China will double it's efforts.

I see no reason why they won't succeed.

IBM quits facial recognition because Black Lives Matter

It's easy to point the finger at IBM, but a huge amount of the US was either sympathetic or apathetic to Nazi Germany. Many companies were dealing with the Nazi government.

Had Japan not attacked the US and Germany not declared war on the US, it's unlikely the US would have ever entered thee war.