Posts by IGotOut

Microsoft nukes 9 million-strong Necurs botnet after unpicking domain name-generating algorithm

Re: MS at least try to be the good guys every now and then

It's interesting how many people slag off Windows and rave about the like of Linux like it's some magic bullet. They take great great delight in saying how secure it is, but completely ignoring all those insecure routers, IoT devices, TV's and other tat that are currently causing huge DDOS issues across the internet.

The simple answer is an unpatched OS, regardless of who made it, is a liability.

So grow up, I've heard these My OS is better than your OS for close on 4 decades.

Use what you like, but keep the bloody thing up to date.

Disclaimer

I own a Windows PC, an iPad, an Android Phone and run a Linux based webserver.

Butterfly defect stripped from MacBook Pros, Airs by Q2 2020, reckons Apple analyst

Re: I liked the butterfly keyboard..

Pah! I'll take your namby pamby VT keyboards and raise you what my first true love used, the Malatron.

And yes you can still get them, and yes they are still bloody expensive and yes her dad was loaded! Oh happy days.

https://www.maltron.com/store/p10/Maltron_L90_dual_hand_fully_ergonomic_%283D%29_keyboard_-_UK_English.html

Avast pulls plug on insecure JavaScript engine in its security software suite

Bin Avast..

...it's no better than the malware than it pretends to protect you from

Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by... web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags

Further clarification...

has the website been taken down as a precaution, or because a backend has been compromised, or please, please don't say the have been running an unpatched Windows server as a web front end.

I never like to victim blame,but this is a bit odd.

Broken lab equipment led boffins to solve a 58-year-old physics problem by mistake

No good enough!

It's no good just casually throwing around things like "potato shaped"....you need to be more specific, this is science go damn it!

"Jersey Royal potato shaped" is far more accurate and scientific.

Ex-director accuses iRobot of firing him for pointing out the home-cleaner droids broke safety, govt regulations

Acid test...

Find devices from the time period before and during he was employed. He wins.....then the relevant authorities sue the hell out of the company.

Firefox 74 slams Facebook in solitary confinement: Browser add-on stops social network stalking users across the web

I can't say I've had problems except by lazy, shit webdevs that don't bother testing with anything other than Chrome.

US prez Donald Trump declares America closed to those flying in from Schengen zone over coronavirus woes

What a stupid fucking statement! How you supposed to kill the virus is you don't own a dozen semi automatic rifles with 10,000 rounds of ammunition?

I felt a great disturbance in the tourist industry, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out.....

He has regularly called it "The Chinese Virus"

Appareils électroniques: Right to repair gets European Commission backing

Re: Good

"Well then why don't we just stop selling iPhones in Europe...."

Yup, always a good way to wipe 10's of billions of dollars off your returns. Remember, no iPhone = no iTunes, no iWatch, no Airpods and on and on....

White House turns to Big Tech to fix coronavirus blunders while classifying previous conversations

Re: Oh my goodness -- the US administration is thrashing?

"not as bad as influenza? COVID-19 has about 10 times influenza's fatality rate"

Does it?

It's now looking to be below 1% possibly as low as low as .2%.

They are cases of people contracting it with NO symptoms at all.

The figures can look scary, but once you rule out the elderly and those with existing respiratory conditions, the numbers are very low indeed.

In fact resources would be be spent monitoring those in these brackets rather the mass hysteria that is currently going on.

But sure, put on your face mask on, if it makes you feel better.

AI startup accuses Facebook of stealing code designed to speed up machine learning models on ordinary CPUs

Re: "nifty software tricks to achieve similar speeds on CPUs"

"There are motherboards that can work with two CPUs, but they are rather rare"

So I'll pretend the dual Petium II system I had quite few years ago...oh you can easily go and buy a quad processor HP server right now.

Budget 2020 in tech: UK.gov splashes cash on broadband and R&D while trying to limit impact of COVID-19 outbreak

Pay increases (compulsory such as minimum wage and voluntary such as wages over this), with no income tax threshold will bring in some.

2% tax on e-commerce should bring in a fair chunk.

Infrastructure building can bring in a good amount (it worked for the US during the depression), but yes I can see more borrowing.

Core blimey, that's edgy: HPE makes a play for next-gen 5G market

I wonder...

if he with the terrible tan has shares in HPE?

Post Office burned £100m in UK taxpayer cash on Horizon IT scandal legal fees, MPs told

Simple formula.

The people responsible pay all the lost money out of their own accounts. If they have to sell up and go bankrupt, so be it. If they can't pay, well send them to jail.

After all, it what the victims faced.

Think your smartwatch is good for warning of a heart attack? Turns out it's surprisingly easy to fool its AI

What a suprise..

consumer junk gives false readings.

For years, time and time again, they have been shown they can't even take a simple pulse correctly, so why do people think they can do anything more complex.

Oh yeah, shiny. The same dumb Muppets that buy bottled water for £10 a time.

UK Defence Committee probe into national security threat of Huawei sure to uncover lots of new and original insights

So let me get this right....

If they do find something, they will therefore be publicly declaring that GCHQ are incompetent?

Avast's AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping

Avast

No better than the spyware it is supposed to stop.

So much so, Mozilla kicked them out before Christmas.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/04/avast_avg_mozilla_takedown/

NSO Group fires back at Facebook: You lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we've got the proof

So you don't think the NSO would of bothered hacking WhatsApp if it hadn't been sold?

Curious

Facebook, distributor of deceptive political ads, sues registrar Namecheap over deceptive domain names

Re: Only in England the source of the Skripal fantasy would this title fly

Of course we can't have facts get in the way

UK RANKING:18

USA RANKING: 37

And now your beloved leaded has broken it even more, expect it to drop.

Still who needs insulin jabs for diabetes eh?

Source:

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/best-healthcare-in-the-world/

If you're wondering how Brit cops' live suspect-hunting facial-recog is going, it's cruising at 88% false positives

I have no issue with this

I have a list of places where they are trialling this.

I now own a large brown suitcase full of mirrored aviator sunglasses. I'll only be charging £20.a pair. Meet me just around the corner from the camera.

Actually thinking about it...sunglasses and face masks.....this time next year Rodders....

Re: Trial it at Westminster

Well it would certainly help get the stats up. Crooks, con artists and fraudsters.

Android users, if you could pause your COVID-19 panic buying for one minute to install these critical security fixes, that would be great

Not at all worried.

"and can spy on you and mess with applications without you realizing what's going on."

That's just Googles binary blob isn't it?

Google sweetens return of K8s cluster management fees with new SLA, Anthos exclusion ‒ and customers aren't pleased

Cloud computing....

Other peoples pricing you have no control over.

HMRC claims victory in another IR35 dispute to sting Nationwide contractor for nearly £75k in back taxes

Re: Accountants

Do they work for you full time? Do you insist on dealing with one account and one alone?

Uncle Sam breathes sigh of relief as Singaporean hopeful thrashes China's candidate in vote to elect new WIPO boss

I've got 2 tonnes of cocaine I need to ship....

...who do have to get in touch with now?

Motorola bounds out the G8 with a harder, better, faster smartphone for the thrifty

Re: Not progress

Yes because dpi on a small screen is SO important.

Hold on I need to swing my willy out as I have a 600000 gigapixel camera. Pictures look shit but wow look at that number of pixels!

Open-source, cross-platform and people seem to like it: PowerShell 7 has landed

Re: Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft?

So embrace (their own product), extend by letting others use and write for it it and extengish by releasing it as open source.

Yup sound like the same old to me????

Brit MPs, US senators ramp up pressure on UK.gov to switch off that green-light for Huawei 5G gear

Dear US protectionists

FUCK OFF and mind your own business.

Don't like it, well guess you'll have to find another partner to spy on your own citizens.

If Tesco was prodded and probed by hackers, your data could be being flogged for just £2.70 – research

I'm impressed

"Money Guru claimed the average Briton's entire online identity could be bought for "less than £750".

There was me thinking the likes of Equifax, BA, Cathy Pacific, Yahoo and Talk Talk gave all this away for free these days.

Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023

Uggghh

"will unlock solutions to society's most complex issues and answer questions we never thought were possible."

Knowing if they can destroy the world* 10x over or just 5x over is right up there on my list of things I need to know.

Still,nice to see it being rented out to one of the richest companies in the world to help them make drugs many won't be able to afford.

*Yes I know all the nukes on the planet will not actually destroy the Earth.

Download this update from mybrowser.microsoft.com. Oh, sorry, that was malware on a hijacked sub-domain. Oops

Re: Pedant

Hmmm...how would it be if you set up a little "login authentication" asking them to put in their name and say email address with a phone number for y'know password recovery and that sort of shit.

Would MS be liable under GDPR as the subdomain belongs to them?

Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift

Re: Similiarly...

The Falkirk wheel is an wonderful piece of modern engineering, something the Victorian's would look on and admire.

Fancy that: Hacking airliner systems doesn't make them magically fall out of the sky

Re: The human factor

To be fair to modern pilots, getting experience in a war conflict is not a good indication of skill . After all, the less skilled pilots then were not around to fly passenger aircraft after the event either.

So long as there isn't a bloody great aircraft sat on the runway right in front of it, I'm sure it'll be fine.

MPs to grill Post Office and Fujitsu execs on Horizon IT scandal after workers jailed over accounting errors

Still, I think a few months in prison is not bad for a golden handshakes and huge pensions this arseholes now most likely have.

I hope they not only get jail time, but have assets seized under the proceeds of crime act.

GCHQ's infosec arm has 3 simple tips to secure those insecure smart home gadgets

Re: Create strong password, write it on the monitor

"Obviously not many people on here have had children. "

2 kids, one of those had a heart condition, occasional fits and breathing isdues. However one of the joys of going out is NOT "having" to constantly fret all the time. As someone said above, getting you life back is NOT being a helicopter parent and both you and your kids learning to be apart.

Re: Create strong password, write it on the monitor

Why do you need an internet connected baby monitor? Unless of course your popping down the boozer for a few hours.

Broadband providers can now flog Openreach's new IP voice network in bid to ditch UK's copper phone lines by 2025

Re: From an ancient, but still active, "PSTN" techie

"VoIP needs approximately 100 kilo bits/second of the IP transport pipe, in each direction."

While that is true of something like G.711, many of the newer adaptive codecs use far less than this. Even the crappy of g.729 uses less, but quality is ropey at best.

Re: ISDN

Last I checked ISDN2 is EoL this year. No more sales and switch off in 2025

Microsoft's latest cloud innovation: Printing

Can't wait

until marketing send the latest 60page A3 double sided 500 run document. You know the one, the one with all the images in tiff format resized to fit the document by dragging in the edges.

Yes, I had seem documents that ran into the 10's of Gb because of crap like this.

UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own

Re: No thanks, I'll go live on my boat...

Go check you fucking facts.

They didn't eat bats, it has been found in bats, but they know there is an intermediate carrier, which could easily be a cow or chicken. They are still hunting for this.

The last outbreak if memory serves me correctly was a dog...a pet dog.

And remind me again, who started the world's biggest and most lethal flu outbreak? Oh yes a US serviceman.

Re: Government Guidance

"Except this isn't flu and there isn't a vaccine"

Re flu vaccines:

It is a best guess effort. There are often times where the vaccine is not much good as that years outbreak is to disimilar to the vaccine to have an effect. Hence you have to have an annual one, hoping to get it right for that year.

Re: Government Guidance

"Died vs those who have Recovered is currently about 6%:"

Wrong. Those are these cases that are known about. The vast majority of healthy people get little more than a bad cold, so therefore do not show up in these stats.

Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya super-pwnage

There is no such thing.

as company loyalty, especial once you teach a critical mass i.e. once the boss doesn't know your name or job role.

It's easy to sack a person if you have no idea who they are.

Windows 7 goes dual screen to shriek at passersby: Please, just upgrade me or let me die

Re: eh?

"PSA - Steam runs on Linux now"

He's happy with his Win7. Why is there this bloody obsession with you must move to Linux!

First MWC, then GDC, now Nvidia's GPU conference is online-only as coronavirus spreads in Silicon Valley

Re: Correction

Hey it's better than saying "the coronavirus has infected X number of people" when the vast majority of people on the planet have been infected by A Corona virus.

Delicious irony: Credit rating builder Loqbox lets customer details and card numbers slip after 'sophisticated attack'

Oh the irony...

Twitter users complaining about loss of personal information.

Don't want to alarm you, but your data is already aggregated by multiple companies. Otherwise you wouldn't have a bank account.