* Posts by EricB123

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Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

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Re: FFI Libraries

"programming 101 folks"

Does that exclude tbe "programming boot campers?"

Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

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Rx

America is the worst, with endless big pharma trying to convince me I need their latest synthetic to calm my Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS).

Fuck off, please.

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

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Re: The Reg is British????

I'm an American engineer living in SE Asia and The Register is one of tbe few things I still look forward to reading.

Microsoft makes sweet, sweet music with Windows MIDI Services

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Now, I want Win 11

I guess MS will try anything to get Win 10 users to upgrade,

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

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Re: Not really a time to be owning a Tesla

My first car was a Chevy Vega, if that's of any help. It got up to 80 miles before needing a quart of oil.

Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet

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Black Mirror?

You are Charlie Brooker."

When will 'Black Mirror' return anyway? I've watched the Solar Dog episode way too many times.

Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability

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Re: Autonomous vehicles

"But in a European town with tiny crowded streets ?"

Worse, try SE Asia.

Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis

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Seriously?

If I hear a corporate spokesperson say "we take security very seriously" just one more time, I'm going postal.

Microsoft admits January's Windows Update broke USB Digital to Audio Convertor

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Focusrite Problems Too

Is anybody else having problems with the Popular Focusrite Scarlet audio interface?

You probably have more CIO experience than the incoming White House CIO

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ID.ME?

Try using ID.ME! I need to go to the condensate in Vietnam to keep me Social Security going. Total incompetence.

The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish

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The comments in this journal are going downhill fast

Just because you don't use TikTok, it should be banned? I'm 68 and I use it to learn languages.

The IT Register used to be a place I looked forward to reading. Scratch that.

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Re: Just get shot of it...

Your comment is the only sane comment here!

Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans

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YouTube Too

A channel on YouTube called Marques Brownlee offers a SUBSCRIPTION wallpaper app that seemed a bit snoopy as well. At least MS's was free.

Imagine a land in which Big Tech can't send you down online rabbit holes or use algorithms to overcharge you

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Re: I have to admit

And to think I thought there was no intelligence down here (I mean at the end of the comments list).

Mysteries in polar orbit – space's oldest working hardware still keeps its secrets

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Re: Photon Propeller

The one I bought from Edmund Scientific ran for 20 years, then it got lost in a move. It is likely spinning every sunny day on someone's window to this day.

China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos

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Re: Easily pwned Cisco kit

Same here. I was considered bad for rocking the boat.

It's no longer my department!

Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure

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Re: Curate's Egg

Who in their rigjt mind could down vote this, besides a terrorist?

Neuralink brain chips head for the Great White North

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Re: A cautionary tale

Thanks for the link. Those people are living a nightmare.

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Re: Great White North?

Oh, you too.

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview

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Re: Bolarks

Hell, I'm just getting started!!! Ugh.

US, China agree machines must not be allowed to control nuclear weapons

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Is this your gut feel, or can you point us to some tracking source for this information?

Don't open that 'copyright infringement' email attachment – it's an infostealer

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OCR- Now with ai!

"packed with AI capabilities for optical character recognition (OCR)"

So now OCR is an ai technology too? Department stores have used OCR for decades. But now OCR uses 10x the power!

That's what I call progress!

Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch

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This Just Isn't Working

The fact that there isn't a website i can go to with an audit of where the plastics I "recycle" are even going is very frustrating to me. Probably in a landfill if we're lucky, or just dumped into the nearest waterway.

I conjecture that's why nobody's put something like tbat together, save a few municipalities that care to "waste" a small amount of funds to do so. Better to spend taxpayer money on a fleet of additional garbage trucks to haul the stuff to non-existent recycling centers instead. A good way to increase carbon and diesel soot output, though.

I've strayed a bit from carbon emissions by tech, but the same principles apply.

AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan's engineers in $50M government deal

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Re: Puzzling Enigma

With those different answers from the same news service, Reuters, I'm wondering if Reuters "wrote" those articles using hallucinating AI.

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

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Well, Citibank once accidently sent the L'Oréal corporation almost a billion dollars.

Just to put things in perspective.

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Re: Ha ha ha ha ha

You are definitely a glass half full kind of guy.

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Re: I don't see what all the fuss is about.

OMG, you British make even my New York sarcasm to shame!

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space

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Re: What sort of wood ?

Not sure about that, but the price of wooden chopsticks in my alley supermarket has definitely increased lately. Wood buildings, now wood satellites, wood shortage?

We need to talk about criminal adversaries who want you to eat undercooked onion rings

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George Foreman?

Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

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Re: Old machines

Developing countries will snap them up. They will run windows 10 fine, which will be an enormous upgrade for the antiques they use now

GlobalFoundries fined $500K for violating US sanctions

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Re: So, for Virtual Realities to Grow and Profit in Prosperity rather than Die in Austerity ...

Maybe you could add an occasional period?

CHIPS Act funding in question as House Speaker waffles on plan to repeal bill

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A (possibly) complete 180 degree change on policy yet again.

Yeah, I'm the pesky guy who was bitching about America constantly changing direction every 4 or 8 years recently.

See what I mean?

Toyota and Joby complete Japan's first air taxi flight test

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Re: Solution in search of a problem?

Yes, no worries about trash being thrown in Japan. I've noticed in the absence of trash cans, they will just put their trash in their pocket and throw it out when they get home.

And they will undoubtedly invent the first automated flying taxi wash, as well.

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

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Re: This is a far stupider idea than just causing increased prices for Americans

I totally agree with your "every 4 years" assessment. With countries like China and Vietnam, you have a pretty good idea things will be stable for the foreseeable future. America slams itself from reverse to forward and back every 4 or 8 years. Not good for either cars or the country..

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The Gambia?

The Gambia is a sovereign state in the African continent. I didn't know that either. Learn while reading, I always say.

Singapore to increase road capacity by tracking all vehicles with GPS

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Re: Tracking people

"Take it off NOW, or else!".

I heard Nissan cars can already detect sex in their vehicles. Maybe the entertainment system will show a bit of light porn just to get the mood at it's very best, if you know what I mean.

Microsoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions

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Re: Net zero

Many Asians who move the the US say something like their house was built like it was to be used as a movie set. To be torn down after film shooting is over.

Amazon to cough $75B on capex in 2024, more next year

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Easy Money

"Last year, capex was at a relatively paltry $48.4 billion."

I'm detecting a touch of sarcasm here.

Uncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York

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I sure hope China doesn't know about this.

Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility'

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Two Thoughts

First. although I initially got mad at the CEO for the firings, he did give them 16 weeks of severance and, what impressed me, let them keep their office equipment assigned to them (I am assuming that means laptop and desktop computers). Yes, it still sucks, but during my career as an engineer I got laid off several times with freakin' zero of anything.

The other thought is the stock buybacks thingy. Yes, corporate has been using the smoke and mirror thing for years. I think the can has been kicked as far as possible. The next time it is kicked, it will fall down into the quarry!

Between those and the endless election finally coming around, the next few weeks will be most "exciting". You know, the kind of excitement when a car strikes your motorcycle and you are about to hit the pavement, that kind of excitement.

China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station

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It's Good to Have Adversaries

I mean it. If it weren't for Russia, that the USA wouldn't have much of a civilian space program. Then once the moon was "conquered", the funding ran out.

China to the rescue! "Houston, we have funding once again."

Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills

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Re: Sam Bankman Fried (FTX) or Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) levels of bad

Bingo!

Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads

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Re: The 'Cloud' dream is over!

"</cynical_old_fart>"

And damn proud to be one as well.

Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment

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Cough, cough

Thailand has a serious enough smog problem without the data centers. They ARE going to use "clean energy" to power these monsters, aren't they?

Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy'

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Re: Typical Theater

Why not upgrade to those IOMega zip drives? Lots more storage, not to mention IOMega's legendary reputation for dependability.

Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to help get it right

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You Mean This Could be Confusing?

"Microsoft famously rebrands stuff at quite a clip and isn't always consistent. In the case of Copilot, it started life as "Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365" before it was rebranded as "Microsoft 365 Copilot." Neither should be confused with the consumer version of Copilot, named "Microsoft Copilot." Nor with "Bing Chat" – another name used for what became Copilot."

So what's the problem here?

Worker surveillance must comply with credit reporting rules

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Other than the terms used, this sounds like a nation the USA abhors for publication of citizen's data.

Reminds me of a childhood saying "it takes one to know one".

Energy exec punts datacenter power options out to long term

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You should moonlight as a comedian.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

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Re: DSThesia

I walked to high school back then, and it was pitch black mornings after the "energy savings switch". An officer assigned to help us students cross a busy street had to push off the bonnet of a car to avoid being run over. No, thanks.

Tomorrow's class: Stop driving jacked up pickup trucks!

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Piss off! I'm sorry, what was the question?

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