Re: Do as I say not as I do.
Meh. In FaecesBook's defense, they do have a user agreement saying "all your things are ours" and people happily sign it,
Posts by Gene Cash
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Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions
The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout
Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech
Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture
What’s that in CES heaven, is it a star? Or is it that damned elusive flying car?
Wednesday 13th January 2021 18:21 GMT 
Re: Once more with feeling...
Exactly.
The "flying taxi" is already here, and it's called a "helicopter" and Uber already sell rides... at least in San Francisco and London.
However, they're really maintenance intensive and hard to fly, so if someone can come up with a better alternative, I'm all for it.
Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing
Your 60-second guide to what Intel announced at CES. Or in 5 seconds: New laptop chips
All it took was a pandemic to revive PCs: Canalys proclaims sales up 25% in Q4 as world+dog stays home
Two wrongs don't make a right: They make a successful project sign-off
Saturday 9th January 2021 01:02 GMT
> At a company I used to work for
This sounds like exactly the plot of the 3 or 4 books I have discussing the downfall of the British motorcycle industry. I believe at one point, one of the engine manufacturers had a guy with a special stick pushing on the lathe so it would machine proper crankshafts.
Along came the Japanese who ate their lunch.
Pizza and beer night out the window, hours trying to sort issue, then a fresh pair of eyes says 'See, the problem is...'
Beware the ghost of operating systems past: In which our hero is visited by an old friend
Assembly language, arcade games, and YouTube: The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer
Wednesday 6th January 2021 14:25 GMT
I got a TRS-80 Model I Level I for Christmas in 1979. I remember upgrading it to Level II BASIC and 16K was something on the order of $250. My mother was an IBM 370 coder and she was not convinced I needed that huge amount of memory!!
I went to Atari computer camp in Asheville, NC, where I met Dr. Alan Kay, and since I knew how to code 6502 with the Assembly Cartridge, he offered me an internship when I graduated from high school. I graduated in late '83. Oops. Oh well. I went on to wrangle dual-CPU CompuPro S-100 boxes running networked with Arcnet for my 1st job.
I just Googled it and apparently my parents somehow paid an ungodly sum for me to attend that. This was held at the Asheville School. Asheville is a beautiful place, and I went back for several of the Honda Hoots held there.
One of the guys at camp with me was Italian and came over on the Concorde. One night the school cafeteria offered spaghetti and he was really looking forward to it. I warned him that 1) it was American "Italian" food and 2) it was school cafeteria food. I still remember the look on his face at first forkful... which he immediately spit out.
Suckers for punishment, we added a crawler transporter to our Saturn V
I built a shed once. How hard can a data centre be?
As Uncle Sam continues to clamp down on Big Tech, Apple pelted with more and more complaints from third-party App Store devs
Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard
Yes, Microsoft Access was a recalcitrant beast, but the first step is to turn the computer on
Everybody's time is precious, pal: Sometimes it isn't only the terminals that are dumb
Why make games for Linux if they don't sell? Because the nerds are just grateful to get something that works
Earth observation chief Dr Josef Aschbacher takes reins at European Space Agency
Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty
Monday 21st December 2020 16:53 GMT
Re: xorg.conf
> editing xorg.conf
Before EDID and all that auto-configure magic, you had to calculate the dot clock line for your particular monitor and graphics card. This was a line that described the timings and resolution for the display.
And yes, if you screwed it up, it would kill the monitor. Since a nice Sony Multisync was a big wodge of change, you checked the calculation about a dozen times before actually trying it.
Nowadays, you just cable shit up and turn it on, and it just works.
US Government Accountability Office dumps sack of coal on NASA's desk over Moon mission naughtiness
Thursday 17th December 2020 20:50 GMT
None of this was unexpected
We all know you can't dictate a schedule. It will take as long as it needs to take, and it take as much money as it takes to buy all the things and pay all the people.
The reason the schedule is a row of dominoes is that each one builds on the other. If a test fire goes titsup, then you need to stop and investigate why. If an engine produces less thrust than expected or part A does not talk to part B, ditto.
This is why Musk is not afraid to break things. He does it "mostly right" and learns to do it differently as necessary.
NASA expects perfection the first time, because Congress expects perfection the first time, and that costs time and money.
Google Mail outage: Did you see that error message last night? Why the 'account does not exist' response is a worry
Wednesday 16th December 2020 21:45 GMT
I moved to Fastmail because I don't trust Google
Google shat on a bunch of my friends, insisting they weren't using their real names, suspending/deleting their accounts and wanting driver's licenses, birth certificates and crap like that to reinstate them.
With an unusual name like mine, I can see Google doing the same to me, so I moved to Fastmail. I sure as hell am not sending them personal documentation. They're not the bank or a government agency. Fuck 'em.
Overpriced, underpowered, and over here: Microsoft to bring the Surface Duo to British shores in early 2021
Australia sues Facebook for slurping user data from Onavo Protect VPN app
Wednesday 16th December 2020 13:56 GMT
Re: “deprived Australian consumers of the opportunity to make an informed choice"
Yes, from personal experience, i have to tell you most people are not aware of what Facebook is. They have no idea their personal life is under a microscope.
I have had to sit down personally and individually with all my relatives to explain this in detail, using small words. Sure, most of my friends understand, because they're computer savvy. The normal man in the street is not, and is not aware of Faecesbook's slurping.
Rocky has competition as more CentOS alternatives step into the ring: Project Lenix, Oracle Linux vie for attention
45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware
Double trouble for Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit as aborted test flight and COVID-19 keep both grounded
Cruise, Kidman and an unfortunate misunderstanding at the local chemist
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison
Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt
British voyeur escapes US extradition over 770 cases of webcam malware
AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds because it has a big 'blast radius' when things go awry
Back to the Fuchsia, part IV: Google's in-development OS now open to community contributions
Thursday 10th December 2020 12:47 GMT
"Google is well known for enthusing about projects and later abandoning them."
This is the meat of the issue. Is this going to be another Google playtoy to be abandoned when it grows bored? Their track record certainly discourages me from contributing or buying their products.
I only have an Android because Apple is worse and Microsoft is gone.
Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it
What's in HP's sack? Pre-built Ubuntu machines for the little data scientists in your life
GitHub turns on money tap for corporate open-source donations, turns off the lights with dark mode design
FOSS developer survey: Mostly male, employed... and many don't care about 'soul-withering chore' of security
Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97
Apple's M1: the fastest and bestest ever silicon = revolution? Nah, there's far more interesting stuff happening in tech that matters to everyone
Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home
Thursday 3rd December 2020 15:51 GMT
Re: Is that it?
Apollo 11 launched just after my 4th birthday. I remember asking my mother how they got the pictures if there wasn't anyone else to hold the camera.
I had a ton of posters in my room depicting the spacecraft and the flights they would take to Mars, Venus, and the Outer Planets (not my capitalization)
I also had large posters of the complex Lunar and Martian bases we would build.
Sigh.
How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed
New study: DNS spoofing doubles in six years ... albeit from the point of naff all
Tuesday 1st December 2020 20:00 GMT
FTFY
It may be done by internet service providers to respond to DNS queries more quickly inject ads
I filed a FCC complaint against Spectrum and I got a response saying it's ok because everyone else does it.
It broke some SAMBA scripts that relied on no-such-host to redirect to WINS resolution. Spectrum resolved everything to their shit adware site.
Arm at 30: From Cambridge to the world, one plucky British startup changed everything
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
