Posts by Khaptain 4041 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008
Don't worry, I've been on El Reg for many years and have become accustomed to the leftist swing, especially the articles from the SF Office.
But Times are a Changing, merci Monsieur Zimmermann,and they will start to swing the other way, pendulums don't remain on one side forever.
A tweet is not an immediate life threatening act, it's just some words on a screen whereas "yelling fire" in a Cinema is a whole other ball game.
"So let's see how the great algorithmally-driven echo chamber social (media) experiment goes just before election time comes round again. "
Why would it be any different from the last election or any different from what the MSM is doing actively on a daily basis ?
As I see it this should be the begining of a huge shakeup within the world of the media/social media and this should help bring the pendulum back to the center a little.
The only people that won't like the idea of what is happening are the extremists and ideologists. Ask them why they and their answers are likely to be very revealing of divisive and unaccepting mindsets... they and only they can judge what can and cannot be said... hence their fury to lose their primary platform.
Elon Musk has very well understood what he has bought and I think that he will really try to make it an open platform, and everyone from all sides can only benefit from such a platform.
When we stop talking freely that is when we stop learning...
Whilst they once strived for industrial and intellectual excellence Big Tech has simply moved on to being Poltically and Financially motivated at an extreme level. Zuckerberg and Google aren't constantly being sent to court because of engineering failures.
Big tech now appears to simply be a huge stream of endless Pipe Dreams, constantly bombarding us with product X, or idea Z. And even though there have been huge advances in technology I get the feeling that very few of them are being used for anything other than the rubbing of personal egos.
I can't/won't speak for Linus as I have absolutely no understanding of his personal objectives. He's a strange egg that is not easy to decipher.
Great , now when you leave your home in the morning a signal can sent by the mask to your local "personal care officer " informing them that they can re-authorize your bank account transactions in order that you can use public transport and buy your lunch in the attributed eating place...
Canada : Land of the most constrained 'liberals' on the planet....
Yes, it's sarcasm but there is a hint of truth..
And nowadays kids are being taught that they can change their body parts in order to solve their mental problems......
In the next few years or so the shit will really start hitting the fan when all these now young adults start to understand that it was just a fad and that it is no longer trendy but that the results of their actions were not temporary.
I don't see many articles stating that women are sick of not being able to get a job where they too can lift bags of plaster up flights of stairs, hump bricks up a ladder or strip cable till their fingers are numb.
If you want equity, then it has to be done at every level and every job, not just the white collar stuff, otherwise it's just ideology hiding other objectives..
A developer with only 3 weeks on the job had access to classified documents.
Question :. Developers don't usually need access to actual documents, especially not classified documents. So why was this not case here, we are talking about the NSA here ?
Question :. Why were the documents in a readable format and not encrypted?
Question : Don't the NSA thoroughly vet all candidates ? Even for the States a debt of 250000 is quite substantial and not easy to hide.
Haven't the FBI recently had a small problem with blaming the Russians ?
The phone has the advantage of putting you into a real world conversation, whereas Emails tend to be cold lifeless bastards where even a slight grammatical error can slip the whole conversation down into the proverbial shit-hole..
Teams etc are just the telephone with little moving images attached, so basically the same thing.
What do you suggest in order to replace the phone ?
Tesla are a high spotlight company, who probably take this kind of event extremely seriously. Imagine when the country is running at 80% electric vehicles, the fire depts are going top go crazy....and the pyromaniacs are going to be in heaven when the finally get round to understanding how to force the situation...
They could possible decide which informations are published and which are not.. Also they could artificially increase view, thereb creating a buzz on elements that they deem important.
Then they have access to user accounts, whats to stop them publishing on behalf of someone else.
There are probably undreds of reasons political reasons that go far beyond oour understanding,
Exactlly the same here, we had quite a few users complaining that it was not normal that they had to use their own phones for MS Authenticator...
We offered them the alternative of using the company desktop phone which meant that they had to be physically on-site. It reduced the complaints to 0...
And for once we are ready, we finished the last MFA activation last week :-)
I frequently get told "just type the name of the app". I usually answer "didn't we do that back in the DOS days?
No, we didn't, because we had first to be sure that the PATH contained the program directory, then you had to know the full name of the program, not just the first 2 or 3 letters.. And also in those days we had very few programs compared to what we have now..
The capacity to use TAB completion came much much later.
Rather than use the Start button, ie by clicking on the button with a mouse, isn't it far easier to just hit the Windows Key on the keyboard, start typing the 1st few letters of whatever you are looking for, it usually comes along as 1st item on the list, then hit the enter key...
It's around 98% proficient and almost makes the Start menu invisible, which kind of makes Harris' point mute.
@BigSLitleP
I am amazed that this is what your learned form Star Trek...
I was an avid fan when I was a kid and never once did I learn any lessons about racism, equality or sexuality... Those are very adult subjects, children don't generally see the world that way, they are still far too innocent....
"Because it had arguably the largest impact in real life than any TV show before or since, and that's not hyperbole."
That's only your point of view , I would argue that Coronation Street or Beny Hill had a far, far larger impact....
Why is so much God Status being given to actors and people on those Tele reality shows.
They are simply doing their job for which they have been handsomely paid.
I know several people who work hard and give their time freely to help others and yet they get zero acknowledgement and yet continue to do their good deeds.
Isn't it about time that we starting coming back down to earth and actually stopped all the smoke and mirrors.
Hypothetically speaking :
It might be in the interest to some powerfull people that Twitter could easilly be read/manipulated.
If such were the case and Zatko indeed has proof of what's going on there will be a lot of delicate situations that would hypothetically require immediate attention....
Judging by the immediancy of the preceding I would surmize that Zatko does indeed have proof and that it will be very difficult to dicredit whatever he has.. This affair will undoubetdly lead to a thick black cloud over Twitters head concernign the Musk case.
Heads are going to roll at Twitter in a very short period of time, they will have to sever the dragons head in order to save its tail...
I agree, that was very interesting, especially since everyone behaved like adults... something we don't see much of these days...
Zatko doesn't come accross as some kind of outsider; the entire team appeared to be very well educated and very clear about what they are doing... They could have chosen the Dark Side but didn't, that alone is a very powerful statement.
He was fired ling before the Twitter/Musk problem and writing an 84 page document takes time...
Then, since he was formerly part of the Dead Cow group, and also on the same role in other companies you have to admit that this guy probably knows his stuff.
If Musk was behind this he would have made a Tweet, oh the irony of using that same platform, but for the moment Musk hasn't said a thing which is out of character.
I very much doubt that Musk is behind this, I see more of a very bruised and frustrated ego that is really pissed off about getting fired ..
Why do keep droning on about women having their rights stripped, this is simply false..
The decision makers have changed that is all....
It's no longer SCOTUS, it's your local state.... Which means that "you" can vote to make the changes... Nothing is more democratic than that, the vote remains with "you".... What don't you understand about that, it really is very very simple.
DOXXING the Scotus memebers is tantamount to anarchy... It will achieve nothing but negative results.
The supreme court removed the law at federal level and put it back to state level.
That's a far more democratic movement because the citizens of the state do get to vote for who makes the decisions state wide.
The overturning of this law does not stop anyone doing what they want. They may have to move state but that's all .. that's like living in a dry state and complaining that there are no liquor stores..
Any it appears that judging by the downvotes that people here are ok with Mob Rule, good luck with that when you are suddenly on the wrong end of the stick....
So now if someone does something that the leftists no longer agree with they are then DOXxed with the future intention that someone will come along and possibly harm or kill the offending party..
Is this what is now known as democracy in the US?
In the beginning Twitter was against the idea of Musk buying them out , and now they are angry that he won't.
For a company that believes in socialism and liberalism etc why have they suddenly become Capitalist and Conservatist, is it the call of the giant GreenBack that is changing their minds?
They really are a very strange company...
I did it using this way by doing the two regedit's that Rufus does for you....
This link gives you both methods, I have tried both and can conform that they both work, Rufus obviously with a fresh install and also the Upgrade from W10..
https://www.alphr.com/bypass-windows-11-requirements/
There are quite a few sites listing the same method..
However even after 6 months I am still trying to find the advantages of W11.. It's ok but dfinately nothing world changing.. It's not bad though and I find it very stable..
The open source community is faltering because of the behavior you'd expect from unsocialized "men"...
If it's Open Source then you are free to do your own thing, why would you remain in such an environment if such is the case.. Do your own fork and develop a nice group of people, why is that a problem for you..
Don't look for a problem, become the solution.
I wonder if the study will also take into considersation the extreme levels of stress, lack of sleep, endless 24h thought processes and problem resolving mind games that a developer has to endure in order to perform his craft only to be confronted by a question from someone that can see no futher than their own belly button..
The toxicity often comes from the opposite end of the stick...
" Children killed because they got hold of parent's gun (which was not securely stored);"
Ok then there are a hundred other items that we should remove from houses thenm, Bleach, Gasoline , Medication etc etc .. Again the gun is not the cause it merly the catalyst. Why were the guns not locked up correctly.. It's a case of stupid people not dangerous items0
"Suicides"
Again , remove the gun and they will use Drugs, Alcohol, Pieces of rope. Gun's don't make suicide easier, it's just a tool as that moment.. All suicides are not done by shooting oneself.
"Making a start on gun control to address these areas would save many lives"
Gun Control already exists as it does in other countries where there are not the same problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Have a look at the deaths related to firearms and firearms per capita... Why does Finland, Germany, Norway, Switzerkand, Kuwait etc not have a huge amounts of firearms related deaths yet they still have a high number of guns per capita...
It's a culture problem no matter how you try and wind round it.
Every time there is mention of a ban the sales of guns sky rockets......
Ok lets say that you make a ban on weapons, how do you intend to enforce a ban on more than 300 Million arms... Yes, there are more than 300 millions arms in the States, most of them legal and most have never seen combat/fight/shootouts etc..
The guns are not the problem, the problem is the culture, and/or serious mental health problems, due to a multitude of reasons. Start by tackling the culture, and start addressing the mental problems then we might start to see a difference.
I don't have this exact model but I know that mine defiantly has proprietary connecters between the PSU and the Motherboard..
When my PSU fried it suddenly became a whole lot of extra pain to find the "adapter" and then have to perform some electrical shenanigans to correctly set things up.. You have to use a paperclips between two pin in order to allow for a boot.. It's easy to do but it feels like you lose any advantages that Lenovo has to offer( if there ever were any)
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