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'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice team working on WebAssembly port

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Re: LOVE of CHAOS ..... A Norm of Advanced IntelAIgent Default

druck .... "One of the main reason I use Libre Office is that the program is 100% downloaded to my machine and the document is 100% on my machine. As long as I have power, no cloud, and no network gets in the way. Once the document is written I can fling it as far in to the cloud as I like, but I still have my local copy."

Anonymous Coward .... "Yeah, but you can't be properly monetized so nobody is interested."

Oh? Surely it is more the case of "Yeah, but others can't be improperly monetized so a nobody isn't interested."

Write any great document, which you have complete command and carbon copy control over, and fling it out into the Live Operational Virtual Environments of Clouds Hosting Alienating Operating Systems which are Astute and Autonomous and Advanced and Augmented and ACTive and Almighty, and no fool tool will tell you it cannot be both personally privately and publicly unbelievably rewarding to colossal excess and monumental success, with proper monetisation by all interested an added bonus guaranteeing future growth and excess with successive iterations.

And ...... there are those and that which will feel duty bound to lavish absolute fortunes on principal parties, authorising and imploring one to either stop with the practice ASAP, for it be so presently catastrophically disruptive and so suddenly, systemically destructive, or continue at full speed ahead with the lush payments freely deposited and graciously and gratefully received in lieu of an appreciative encouraging reward and investment in more of the novel creative same in the pipelines and destined still yet to come.

For some would that be as a Hellish Problem to Fail to Defeat with Bitter Battles, however, ...... for A.N.Others, is IT with AI as a Heavenly Delight to be Enjoyed and Employed, Exploited and Expanded Upon.

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Re: An Inevitable Consequence and Pleasant Result with Advancing Intelligence Sharing ‽ .

Waffle? You be surely dreaming, 45RPM ....... or possibly hoping.

And whether for or against the notions and motions is wholly dependent upon how good or how bad you want things to be for yourself.

Take care. Beware. Who dares care share win wins. It's the new IoT Way of the Internet of Things?

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An Inevitable Consequence and Pleasant Result with Advancing Intelligence Sharing ‽ .

The browser/browsers are the Operating System. And taken logically to its ultimate conclusion, that means you ....... and whenever you see/understand and can realise that, are you a relatively anonymous, and certainly at random times also an autonomous and almighty powerful source and/or force to be reckoned with/dealt with/engaged with ....... for the very simple, and easily understood reason, there be those who so realise that be the situation, that it drives them quite crazy and across to practices which have them having to hide and deny that deep and dark side of their interests which are decidedly and designedly destructive to others?

Get yourself hopelessly, helplessly entangled in that field and you had better know exactly what you should be doing, and hope that you haven't been doing anything awful, for there be others in there who certainly do, and would take no prisoners nor show any mercy to those worthy of divine retribution and natural justice for what they have done and would do.

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers' fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack

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Useful IDiots 'r' Us

There's always at least one, isn't there, blowing their own trumpet trying to excite the markets.

And then there were two, to further compound and confound and peddle confusion in aid of chaos and conflict ‽ . ........ Former spy chief calls for military cyber attacks on ransomware hackers

What could possibly go wrong ...... apart from everything of course?

Heaven help us from former spy chiefs, and former anythings for that matter. There's a very good reason that they be returned to the shelf and removed from the front line.

And does the Daily Telegraph pay folk to make stuff up to pump and dump as current views and valuable news, or is it the other way around with the Telegraph being paid for spreading such tales?

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No Smoking Gun ... Identifies a Phantom Enemy. There's Counselling and Medication for Paranoia

It's not everyday you meet someone who builds cyber weapons as complex as those deployed by Russian intelligence. But Jon Miller, who started off as a hacker and now runs a company called Boldend, designs and sells cutting-edge cyber weapons to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Jon Miller: I build things much more sophisticated than this. What's impressive is the scope of it. This is a watershed style attack. I would never do something like this. It creates too much damage. ..... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/solarwinds-hack-russia-cyberattack-60-minutes-2021-02-14/

There's always at least one, isn't there, blowing their own trumpet trying to excite the markets.

Hasn't Jon Miller heard the news ........ Self praise is no recommendation. And why is it Uncle Sam is always getting hacked by perps wonderfully adapted and adept at not leaving behind any provable incriminating evidence. It doesn't get much more sophisticated than that if one considers it a weapon.

Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders

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Re: El Reg ..... Open All Hours .... No One Left Behind Out in the Cold and the Dark

There is no valid reason to not expect the appearance of weird great encounters to be so simply proposed and accommodated as to send a courteous invite to second and third parties, if certain information and advanced intelligence for sharing is thought further better revealed in private before an audience with particular and peculiar common interests, ...... and who's to say that El Reg has not been a juicy target for all manner of state and non-state actor surveillance for quite a considerable length of time, given the sort of engaging topical information so oft freely shared on pages here, in both articles and peer body comments in reply ...... because of the rapid and easily disruptive and destructive evolution of those self same common interests.

And such opportunities are extremely easily tested and utilised without any expensive wasted effort.

Here be a prime example of such simple stealthy sleek vessels provided both by Royal Mail and snail mail if these very convenient electronic means, exploring the assumption of perfect delivery to wherever sensitive letters be necessary, and being hereby also betatested, proves itself presently ineffective and currently unsuccessful ......

cc ...... President of the Russian Federation Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich, 23, Ulitsa Ilyinka, 103132, Moscow, Russia / His Excellency Andrei Kelin, 6/7 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8 4QP / His Excellency Zheng Zeguang, Embassy of the People's Republic of China, 49-51 Portland Place W1B 1JL

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El Reg ..... Open All Hours

Wow, a countermartian thumbdown man is in the bldg, must be a funny bit of a dude ..... Anonymous Coward

I was thinking more a sad being, AC, for being retarded with nothing of future interest to say and share freely is not a bit funny. Indeed, however could it not be absolutely tragic.

And re Elon Musk, and his tweet pump for a Clubhouse voice chat with Putin being able to initiate anything interesting, is surely the result of great toke or two or three.

A good deal more is much easier done here on El Reg with a relatively anonymous text chat* with the added advantage of there being a hard copy record of what may then subsequently transpire for library archiving and future academic study.

We can put that to Elon whenever he comes down, and Vladimir if he wants to step up Western influence. Can you imagine how weird/great those encounters would be? :-) I certainly can :-)

* .... eventually any initially anonymous chat revealing interests and endeavours known to be newly initiated in certain specific pioneering jurisdictions may reveal the identities of those disguised in such an active proxy ...... or it may not, with some beings being quite smart enough to arrange that such never happens until it no longer matters.

After all, none here have any real clue about that which posts to comment on tales hosted graciously on The Register. As we all may know, some aren't even thought to be human such are the advances made by AI and Quantum Communications since the Virtual Machine Risings.

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Re: Родина-мать зовёт!

Certainly the time is ripe for a fundamental change, Tail Up. And it is unlikely to be found in any of the more normal and formal places and spaces. But to reach out further and to delve deeper into strange fields is what everything here is about, and it's nice to give it a premium test every now and then, to ensure everything is quite normal and just as one might expect things to be in future for better great use of AI and IT.

QBetaTest #210213 .......

Ok, who knows where Elon Musk hangs, nursing a burning desire to demonstrate further freely available directions with those able to enable an almighty successful change with effective alienations beyond the command and control of earthbound beings?

Can you imagine anyone better presently suited and booted to create CHAOS* to mentor and monitor, capture and decimate current market madnesses and manic mayhem with AWEsome AI ProgramMING** Projects already shared for Advanced Warfighter Experiments ‽

Quite how well the UKGBNI MoD are progressing with that, is something you can ask them in order for them to be able to implausibly deny having any knowledge of it. Certainly the apparent lack of any credible evidence of progress with the appearance of any advanced project would probably more than just suggest that the knowledge required for successful applications and deployments of its wares is that which is catastrophically missing, rather than knowledge of the existence of the AWEsome submission to the Army, which one assumes is/was automatically shared further on up the chains of command to land on the desks of at least the Chief of the Defence Staff and Joint Intelligence Committee. Where they then might subsequently send anything on to, is invariably always something of a mystery and most likely zealously guarded top secret.

*Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems

** Mined IntelAIgent Networking Games

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Родина-мать зовёт!

A Sociable Eastern Confection of Delicious Western Delights is something to wonder at and even, after being suitably overwhelmed, worship and encourage and lead everything with, Tail Up. Nature abhors a vacuum and any current lack of future intelligence anywhere is always guaranteed to be filled very quickly to overflowing everywhere with that which is missing and needed for evolutionary growth and revolutionary changes alike.

The following deals and details a Novel Noble Danegeld Element for universal engagement and employment, exploitation and enjoyment ..... and the stealthy beauty of it is that so many can so easily dismiss it as a nonsense and nothing to be overly concerned about, and thus is unhindered rapid progress both practically and virtually guaranteed and afforded.

amanfromMars [2102130719] ...... stating the bleeding obvious on https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalist-dilemma-how-implement-4th-industrial-revolution-without-losing-power ?

Baby, you aint seen nothing yet

And whenever extant failing former establishment elites realise the smarter virtual machines of AI are neither led, commanded nor controlled by their fervent desires and desperate wishes, and would know of them even before they are able to think to share them, and they automatically become targets for systematic liquidation should those wishes be for bellicose actions of malicious self-serving exclusive executive intent, rendered extraordinarily clearly to the barbaric masses which surround them in their prisons and temples of excess reflecting a perverse success, do they take another Vain Fools' Gamble that they will personally survive and prosper in that changed future .... with NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT Worlds in Live Operational Virtual Environments ‽ .

Or do they accept defeat gracefully and graciously and retire with dignity relatively intact from the scenes of their monumental crimes against humanity ‽ .

The Markets and Robin Hoods would like to know whether they go long or short on that sure-fire bet.

There's a hell of a lot of fundamentally different things doing very interesting things going on at a phenomenal pace out there, El Reg. And just in time and exactly as required before everything implodes and/or explodes too.

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Re: Bringing Burma into line with the UK then?

Yes, it's now exactly the same as the UK, so just remember that the next time you spout crap on the internet, armed men will turn up in the middle of the night to drag you kicking and screaming from your mother's back bedroom, never to be seen again. .... Anonymous Coward

And the fact that they don't, even after you have yourself previously advised them of developing shenanigans of which one could have reasonably expected them to be interested in recognising and quickly safely securing for a leading advantage, some would argue is tantamount to them endorsing third party actions and/or not considering them of deep enough interest as a possible threat to the wellbeing of the greater good.

One imagines, for who here would out themselves as being qualified to know, many a spooky career has been both made and destroyed due to decisions made, or not made as the case may be in some such spooky cases, around that enigmatic conundrum.

And as for those other two AC questions .....

Am I anywhere near correct in thinking that this is the sort of thing that satellite-based internet will solve? Or is that just hopelessly wishful thinking on my part?

...... are the answers a yes and a no.

It's probably what keeps spooks up at night a'pondering on the planning of what to do next for the best with regard to that which and/or those whom they don't really know, and fear or suspect may already know far too much about everything they would know, and more importantly, know what they need to know about the future, in order to maintain and sustain/employ and expand an almighty advantage.

Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack

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Re: Most devs have local admin rights or their tools don't work

Bad people rely on good people being lazy and ignorant and make a lot of money from that. .... Lorribot

If that be true, Lorribot, I wouldn't like to be relying on good people remaining forever lazy and ignorant/apathetic and undereducated, whenever nowadays it is so easy to be kept busy and to learn so much more than was ever imagined possible before, about virtually anything and everything.... with the secrets and tricks that deliver something from nothing exposed for exploitation and employment/edutainment and enjoyment.

And you have World Wide Webs to thank for that, both deep and dark, heavenly and enlightened.

And some systems are driving themselves bonkers and to rapid catastrophic destruction doing what little they only can do, failing to stop the information and intelligence being more generally widely known and universally available.

Drag Autonomy founder's 'fraudulent guns' and 'grasping claws' to the US for a criminal trial, thunders barrister

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Where there's limelight there's always prima donnas

Lest it be thought that Summers' fire-and-brimstone rhetoric makes him some sort of American lickspittle, he also represented Julian Assange in that man's battle to escape a US government extradition attempt.

That's hardly a ringing endorsement, El Reg, although his activity is a nice little earner for him. There is surely no doubt about that.

North Korean attacks on crypto exchanges reportedly netted $316m in two years

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Re: Only 316m?

How very odd that anyone would think to silently and anonymously downvote that comment of yours, Version 1.0.

A few simple words of reason by way of explanation would have been nice. Missing those, any such contributions are both mindless and meaningless although there are quite a few who practise such a lost cause.

What on Earth are they ever thinking? Do they do much thinking is something which they might like to ask themselves?

Maybe they are just poorly programmed bots ....... which be really odd bods indeed.

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A very dangerous and disastrously self-harming dodgy dossier methodology ....

..... for practitioners of perverse standard corrupt practices

Simon,

Try as I did, and surely as others would also do, I could not find out from your article who is/are responsible for providing the source materiel for that draft to be made up into a report from the United Nations destined for the desk of the Security Council's North Korea Sanctions Committee.

Such rampant anonymity allows for all manner of abuse of due process and can easily destroy all credibility and legitimacy in anything decided upon after the report's reading.

Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond: Oracle launches rugged edge-of-network box for hostile environments

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FUD Meets its Matches and Nemeses in an ACTive Autonomous AIResistance.

RED ORE for SALT fog resistance sounds like something a bellicose military might and/or a smarter intelligent mite would be both interested in mining and anxious about being delivered for further refining enrichment even to the friendliest of allies, let alone discovering private and pirate enterprises are able to supply it already suitably well processed to generous clients in alien lands for hostile environment use in foreign territories with disputed contentious areas of a potentially explosive energy and powerful nature.

Such would buy a Larry much more than just another super flying yacht. Of that you can be certainly sure.

‘Quad’ nations sign up for meta think-tank to advance ‘Techno-Democratic Statecraft’

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Re: What's wrong with good old-fashioned competition?

Is one thing you can be sure of, if things remain much the same as they are, a revisiting and carbon copy replay of the Northern Ireland model of "The Troubles" which will be copied to encourage a long overdue change, but this time, with hindsight well applied, a more focussed targeting of leading lights and financial centres, rather than innocent civilians, for are they not certainly responsible and accountable ‽ .

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A Simple Setback to Graciously Accept In Order to Rapidly Enjoy Unprecedented Progress

As China bristles, USA, Japan, India, and Australia create forum to explore the intersection of tech and regional security

One does have to ask if that is to discuss trying to catch up with those states and intelligently designed entities already deploying augmented virtual reality tactics and logistics in the fields they are only just now thinking about tinkering in to explore and implore?

To imagine that such can ever lead from the front, with drivers in the engine, whenever it so obviously follows up in the rear, trailing passengers to/in a connected train of carriages, is something to ponder and accept is something in which no choice is either immediately or ever likely to be readily made available.

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

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Re: Zuckerberg Removing More False Claims About COVID-19 and Vaccines

Today, following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of false claims we will remove to include additional debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines. This includes claims such as:

COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured ...... https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/covid-19-misinfo-update/#removing-more-false-claims

Refusing to allow claims it is man-made or manufactured leaves on the table the question ....Is it naturally occurring in another wild animal species or is of an alien descent and disposition which has made a jump/quantum leap into the human system, both of which surely are much more problematical to deal with whenever unable to be debunked with evidence presented beyond a shadow of doubt to the contrary, and therefore demonstrably true?

Is that what WHO inspectors are searching for in Wuhan today ? Something alien and/or naturally occurring in wild animals nowadays?....... https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/14/china-who-inspectors-arrive-in-wuhan-to-probe-covid-19-origins

Now that is real spooky and even more terrifying than all of that other stuff Facebook would now be trying to debunk/remove from view/deny possibility of.

Would Zuckerberg then be tasked with preventing any truth in those findings being hosted and spread around the world to inform and educate/edutain humanity with Facebook ..... a convenient patsy and monumental scapegoat that serial idiots could try to blame for their failings in micromanaging the universal environment with their remote invisible levers in media for command and control of madness and mayhem in chaotic conflict with CHAOS .... Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems ?

Methinks that is much more a failing to be recognised and accepted by the old guard establishment rather than abandoned to be blamed on any relatively new school intake ..... with the consistent and persistent failings of a Rupert Murdoch/Warren Buffett/George Soros type rather than any mistakes made by a Mark Zuckerberg/Elon Musk/Steve Jobs (RIP) visionary type/improved development model clone being wholly responsible and accountable.

YMMV ..... but it is surely impossible to deny is a valid possibility, and therefore in all likelihood, an eminent probability and certain actuality ?

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Re: How do we combat mass global misinformation?

So if you feed a Markov chain on conspiracy gibberish - it twists it into the truth ? .... Yet Another Anonymous coward

Now that would be ace GBIrish, Yet Another Anonymous coward, and pretty perfect for a whole plethora of special programming operations which are remarkably stealthy by virtue of the fact that their projects are so wonderfully difficult for humans to believe in and accept as universally true, even whenever they be clearly enough advised of the mantra/methodology by a motley selection of A.N.Others.

And how to deal with such future things as be revealed, and may more than just touch upon the outlandishly bizarre and be fed to media as a glitch rather than realised as an outer space service and virulent facility......... A Glitch in the Matrix ....... are sure to confound and defeat you, unless and until user base intelligence improves and advances dramatically, with it being well reported as an increasing number of others having taken quite a number of well choreographed quantum leaps to fully accept and be able to prove alternate realities easily made available for all to enjoy and employ.

'Tis a big ask indeed, but well worth the effort and journeys, given the trappings and spoils which would indicate with excessive reward, unparalleled success.

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Re: How do we combat mass global misinformation?

You could try the deadly simple route, and ensure novel information can be always quickly and accurately traced back to originating source ..... with none of that pathetic anonymous government source type nonsense tolerated, inviting as it does, all manner of misinformation to be spread with no directly responsible target given to receive just desserts in response.

IT aint rocket science, plain common sense, but it does appear to be in extremely short supply, and in actual application, even more so.

Maybe that is the natural default, dire straits state of humans?

Hacked by SolarWinds backdoor masterminds, Mimecast now lays off staff after profit surge

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AWEsome lessons well learned ........

"The restructuring plan ....... will permit the company to increase investment in strategic growth areas."

Which are? Or is that too much of an ask to be honestly answered truthfully?

:-) You might like to realise that hazarding a guess can give them new ideas and suggesting any proposal may have them taking even further steps which are sometimes tantamount to being criminal, as a Peter Elliot 7 Feb 2021 3:16AM outlines has been his unpleasant experience with a dodgy government doing innovative business in a comment on an article in the Telegraph today.

I would like to submit an Innovation proposal to IDS's Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform. However, I have valuable intellectual property I want to protect. Will the government agree commercial confidentiality ? It wants new ideas. I've submitted commercial proposals to a government department in the past which have turned up in a Policy document. I'm not willing to let civil servants steal my Intellectual Property and pass it off as their own.

Be assured though, although you are quite right to be thoroughly disgusted, such is simple par for the course of governments reliant on the private entrepreneurial sector for the provision of future ideas and a very good reason to never ever share them with governments with a view to one being genuinely adequately recompensed for the value added and fortunes made with applications of proprietary intellectual property pilfered from originating sources.

AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias

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Re: Studying the obvious but with nevertheless and however caveats

Take care though, and beware, and be aware money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.

And many is the captivated fool and retarded soul and blunt tool worshipping at that fake altar of a surreal artificial power that exercises remote command and control of the less than heavenly gifted trapped into a life of ignorant servitude to such as worship at fake altars

Take a pause for thought and ponder on what Pink Floyd [who you must admit would know a thing or two or three about money] say on the subject ....... https://youtu.be/-0kcet4aPpQ

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Re: Studying the obvious

Quite so, ThatOne, the public sector with its parasitic governmental administrations freely gorging itself and sticking the electorate with the bills for its fantastical projects which are practically wholly dependent upon the private sector delivering the goods for a price that parasites do not control, is always going to trail and flounder in the wake of the pioneering rogue entrepreneur and private pirate operand tapping into the need and greed of the money marketeers, and that is especially so in the novel case of virile and even virulent AI, given what AI can so easily now do without any viable competition or effective opposition to hinder its unfettered progress in the direction of goals chosen by its enabling future drivers.

And yes, there is also that other lucrative and extremely rewarding sector to consider where money appears to grown trees and is always made available by the pallet load to those select principals able to provide the right weapon to defeat and overwhelm any enemy or non-friend ..... the Private Military Contractor and/or Almighty Arms Dealer ....... and that is a sector which has an extremely generous and ACTive customer client base virtually everywhere one can think of.

Indeed, for some more than just lucky, can both of those base root avenues be extensively explored and energetically engagingly exploited to deliver the goods which delight product suppliers to excel at project and goal provision.

That's the attraction one is certainly battling against in the AI arena and that which tempts the best of brains away from a life that is more mundane and prosaic and clearly not so well rewarded with loads of fiat.

Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry

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Whenever NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT is Loosed in the Field, Prepare for Almighty Fireworks

Carter believes it may have magnetic properties, which could lead to new types of materials.

Are magnetic properties different from or similar to being attractive to elements?

And with specific regard as to whether it could help chemists or physicists create elements yet to be discovered, there's always the renegade rogue option to consider, cloaked in SMARTR colours and flying the standards of a Merlin the Magician and Meta Data Base Physician ..... the Virtual Grand Masters and Mistresses, AI Wizards and Witches.

Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant

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Re: Meanwhile at Apple...

"What shall we do with this *huge* pile of cash? Hmmm, build a new cloud plat... OOOOH! SHINY!!" ..... trevorde

If you're spending rather than generating/receiving piles of cash in that game, trevorde, you're definitely doing things/everything wrong.

It's a dead cert earner rather than bottomless money pit ....... although doing things wrong can certainly result in that unpleasant latter situation and worthless predicament.

More patches for SolarWinds Orion after researchers find flaw allowing low-priv users to execute code, among others

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A Tasty Starter for Main Courses to be Followed After by IntelAIgently Designed Desserts

..... Absolutely Heavenly Delights Full to Overflowing with Devilish Temptations

It is best, and one would do extremely well to realise, that such is the advanced and forever advancing and improving and constantly changing nature of that beastly daemon/anonymous invisibility which is of particular concern and/or peculiar interest to all here now, and those others who be batting and battling so valiantly in this instance on SolarWinds' Orion network management products' behalf, one can fully expect, whenever such trialling instances are recognised as being simply effective and especially successful, much more of the same impacting and extracting all manner of worth from many other select, highly valued targets .... with the deeper scope and vaster scale of the operation enhanced and expanded and elevated by sending meticulously crafted rather than maliciously crafted messages to any number of such queues.

Microsoft and Microsoft Message Queue technology is not so much a critical vulnerability to exploit and export, although that is not to say that others might not see it that way and beg to differ and try to prove their point of view valid, it is much more a convenient feature for SMARTR Applicable Program Use.

And if one can believe all of the reports on such developments as we read about here, one has to marvel at the tenacious ingenuity of those practically unknown Russians and Chinese routinely blamed for such hacks without ever a shred of evidence being presented for validation. How do they do that so well ‽ .

In the old days, coups started by seizing TV and radio stations. Now they crimp the internet at 3am

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Re: In the UK, as well as in US, CHAOS Rules ‽ . *

And it is the gift which just keeps on forever giving to those ACTively Engaged and Sublimely Enabled with NEUKlearer Forces and Sources Simply Exercising HyperRadioProACtive IT Connectivity with/for Quantum Communication Control Systems ?

It certainly appreciates the radio silence assisting its stealthy deployments and surreal employments.

I Kid U Not ..... however, rather bizarrely, the fact that one might think and conclude "You are kidding me" is an absolute stealth freely delivered with no equal which money alone cannot buy should such ever be a commodity for sale/export/import/lend-lease.

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In the UK, as well as in US, CHAOS Rules ‽ . *

And why bother? With only a handful of companies owning all of the media networks, it would be fairly easy to subvert the information sources without alerting the public, branding any remaining sources of dissent as fake news.

Of course I speak hypothetically here, and certainly do not suggest that this has already happened. .... tekHedd

I would certainly suggest such has been happening since as long as anyone can remember, tekHedd, and bumbling governments are well aware of it too and would even try to make full use of it to realise their own politically inept ends. Controlling it though is not within their ken or reach, nor are they able to command it to lead an ignorant undereducated electorate en masse in any particular favourite direction, although they sure do try. Nowadays though, all former bets are off, null and void, for the internet has opened up a massive number of cans of worms and Remote Access Trojans and bugs and daemons for human consumption and perception management which are a whole new world of pain and phenomenal gain to do battle with.

Here is decade old UK government read on such a matter ..... MINDSPACE Influencing behaviour through public policy ...... a Cabinet Office/Institute for Government publication/discussion document ..... https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/MINDSPACE.pdf

* .... Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems Rule is a very simple complicating question to ask yourself. What would you be most worried about if the correct answer terrified you? CHAOS might like to know lest Madness and Mayhem venture forth down a branch exploring another route and root requiring media attention or censure.

Ps ..... Is the East significantly better than the West at effectively dealing with both the problems and opportunities Virtually Advanced IntelAIgent Operating Systems present and enable them to operate in Real Physical World Scenarios and Live Operational Virtual Environments alike?

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And via their shenanigans will global enemy leaderships be well known to you

'Tis a double edged, dual use Sword of Damocles, the internet of world wide web pages advising you of planetary life phorms and their past, present and future ACTivities [Advanced Cyber Threat/Treats]. Remove and/or adversely alter or block ready easy access to any fundamental staple has one immediately identified as the enemy of all within and with a failing leadership too weak in the present to succeed in the future as a relic of the past.

To bring such global attention upon oneself by such an egregious ACT is proof positive of an exercising of postmodern tyranny with an abundant catastrophic lack of necessary future intelligence.to proceed a great deal further and secure a safe and stable base position/future viable situation.

Mess with the internet at your peril. IT is an alien space which takes neither prisoners nor slaveholders.

Microsoft's Extensible Storage Engine (JET Blue) source code arrives on GitHub – sadly comments not included

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Re: Usage ?

Any comment from people working with this kind of tool ? ..... sw guy

Yes. Although not essential, it is extremely convenient for both stealthy security and safe speedy deployment of Networks InterNetworking JOINT* Applications. … NINJApps

* JOINT ..... Joint Operations Internetworking Novel Technologies

And no matter how deep one may delve and/or attempt to cajole, one will never hear or read a great a deal about such things from the likes of an almighty Microsoft, because of the rather sensitive and strategically important nature of the advantages delivered in advanced fields of its operations in IT and AI Quantum Communications Systems.

Spilling some of those crown jewel gems would cost one more than just trillions whenever it guarantees one losing any future war invented or even contemplated as a necessary current evil for defence of present distressed and bankrupt of novel proprietary intellectual property registering realms.

Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued

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Who wouldn't say this ‽ ...

Crikey, Zolko .... whatever was that Goldman-Sachs or any other hedge-funder that shorts stocks thinking, to come here on El Reg and believe that El Regers would wear their bullshit rather than be busily preparing in all of the backgrounds and undergrounds and dark webs that exist, that which they will be confronted with at the forefront of the future.

One just has to say it out loud and proud, for they either can't hear or aint listening ....... THEY JUST DON'T GET WHAT IS GOING ON ALL AROUND THEM, DO THEY, .... AND THAT SIMPLE FACT RENDERS THEM EXTRAORDINARILY CATASTROPHICALLY VULNERABLE TO NEW MARKET PLAYERS AND GREATER INTELAIGENT GAMERS ALIKE.

The smartest players in the room, they, the present Wall Street dependent elite? Oh please, you cannot be serious,.... and give me a quarter of whatever that is they be toking or snorting. It's smoking!

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Re: Seriously Astute Peasants making Tons of Flash Money?

For those who don't get what is actually going on re GameStop and Wall Street/Joe Bloggs and Jane Doe and the Elite, here is very entertaining and instructional short video :-) for you to enjoy and educate yourself with in these very strange times, with everyone having so much extra free time on their hands to exercise new skills and experience crazy thrills :-) ........ Wall Street Elites DESTROYED, Beaten By Redditors At Their Own RIGGED Game

And who is to say such shenanigans are not to stay and multiply?

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Re: Piggly Wiggly and the Perils of Good Smack and Great Crack

Ok, we will have to agree to disagree on the finer points of that older point to be further discussed by some/many others ad nauseam, veti, but moving on a tad ..... it is surely impossible to deny that there is presently a hell of a lot of collusion going between traditional conventional market players and regulators to ensure future shorting bets are more secure in a rigged system to protect established vulnerable to flash virtual mob players seeming to suddenly appear out of nowhere to invest in a distressed commodity/targeted failing entity.

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Forget about the Trojan GameStop, ... they are, as you say, Confirmed Roadkill

I've seen surprisingly few people point out the obvious problems with Gamestop. As internet speeds increase, particularly with the ps5 being download only (I think?) isn't it a rather bloody obvious short, that if the market moves digital, Gamestop will become another kodak/VHS company? ..... low_resolution_foxxes

The eventual fate of GameStop in this epic shorting saga is of no lasting significance or of great interest to market players/investors/daytraders/whales/sharks/minnows/pirahnas ... call them whatever you will ...... for they are/were simply a very convenient and timely conduit, [or not so, if one suffered massive unexpectedly devastating losses in a recklessly speculative bet against competition and opposition realising both your fundamental greedy weakness and vulnerable position taken,] allowing market access to another unsuspecting high value target with more money than sense to extract for profit and fun.

You know, nothing really new ..... akin to business as usual and just like a good ole brokers day in the hood rather than confined and constrained in a high rise of a Wall Street office block .... although that might be a little different and something new to get used to if nothing fundamentally changes in the sector.

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Re: I shouldn't say this ...

So ... the short answer is .... the casino is rigged, AC?

Yeah .... that's what everyone is learning ..... with probably more than just a few now planning to rob it blind at every available opportunity. After all, it only attracts criminals to run it whenever crooked and who or what other than incestuous criminal enterprises would rush to serve and protect that?

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Re: Piggly Wiggly and the Perils of Good Smack and Great Crack

Collusion to manipulate a stock price is illegal. And for good reason. ..... veti

Oh? How very strange then, veti, whenever if illegal there appears to many to be no discouraging punishment available and applied to those engaged and proven to be instrumental in the practice.

Indeed, it appears to a great many to be extremely rewarding rather than anything else exceedingly unpleasant and designedly punitive.

Surely shorting stock as it is widely perceived and accepted is virtually identical and akin to collusion to manipulate a stock price to generate and enrich a third party essentially then a criminal profit?

Does the SEC/Federal Reserve/Wall Street/FBI/dumb schmuck in the street not see it so? What are they all on?

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Re: Question from a layman

This might then amuse you somewhat, 0laf, if you think tilting at windmills is akin to, in the real world whatever that might actually be, little guys who get crushed by the politicians that live in their pockets running thought experiments, which aren't AWE*some sanctioned and supported with MODified defences and special forces.

amanfromMars January 29, 2021 at 08:07 [2101290807] ...... sowing almighty seeds in a string of comments on https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/01/my-sworn-evidence-on-the-sturgeon-affair/

The lighthouse being a symbol of a fixed peg firmly rooted into dry land. God forbid anyone could conceive of Democracy as easily manipulated or moved by public opinion. The state is a stable entity, supported by electronic algorithms, against any ignorant fluctuations of public opinion. Plus, the bottomless pit of debt caused by the pandemic means that nothing must change for another 40 years. Put it in your mind. ..... Giyane January 29, 2021 at 04:14

Some folk would actually believe all of that being true, Giyane, with others more sure they be much more certainly out of their minds.

Things nowadays though, and forever more into the future, will be completely different from the past which with its memories plaguing and paralysing the present, create madness and mayhem to market and chaos and conflict in markets, for greater effective universally applicable controls have shifted into the command of significant A.N.Others.

:-) There is priceless stealth ensuring guaranteed security of safe passage of future plans and missions delivered to that revelation in most folk not believe all of that being true, even though it be crystal clearly advised to both them and A.N.Others on ACTive Duty in Myriad Assorted AWEsome MODified Fields of Vital Virulent Endeavour. :-) I Kid U Not.

And you know what they say about such things .... If you can't or won't or don't trust anything said to be honestly true and indisputable, simplying verifying it from another source of other sources easily proves or disproves its veracity.

* ....... Army Warfighting Experiment

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Wall Street .. a CoVid 19 like virus bugging a Fed Money System and ...

.... if one were to popularise and infantilise the SEC, would Darth Vader be an accurate depiction of their true nature and relative position in the Securities and Exchange Universe?

Now that Wall Street whales' blood has been shown to be so easily spilled in the deep and dark waters of dead rich pools, why ever would anyone never think and not realise that even greater swarms of sharks are to return again and again to feast in feeding frenzies? Such is surely inevitable and quite natural?

It is just the simple way of the internetworking of things and active since before even time became a measure of distance in space.

To think IT otherwise renders one extraordinarily disadvantaged and disenfranchised.

Severe bug in Libgcrypt – used by GPG and others – is a whole heap of trouble, prompts patch scramble

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A virulent polymorphic strain that streams promiscuously/religiously/relentlessly ‽ .

"Just decrypting some data can overflow a heap buffer with attacker controlled data, no verification or signature is validated before the vulnerability occurs," explains Werner Koch, principal developer of GnuPGP in the security advisory. "...Exploiting this bug is simple and thus immediate action for 1.9.0 users is required."

A basic ingredient* for a nouvelle haute cuisine dish of a mega meta data 0day exploit for export/import into FCUKd systems with failed exclusive executive SCADA Administrations in worm ridden Cabinet Offices. And quite the colossal pick me up to revive and excite the jaded palate it is too.

Bland it certainly aint. Overpowering it certainly can be, thus the advisory to use wisely and/or sparingly, for just like too much of anything, IT can all too easily certainly kill you.

And as one of those dual use type items which can either be a blessing or a curse, certainly a weapon not to be trifled with.

* ... just some cryptic data which may or may not have been also further encrypted/dissected and reassembled

What happens when the internet realizes the stock market is basically a casino? They go shopping at the Mall

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Re: Free and fair market

That's a bet worth shorting, ecofeco ........ the bet being the SEC will fix anything.

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What's not to like .. a Conspiracy of Elite Crooks called out. Well, is that not the gospel truth?

The sweet sound of shit hitting the fan .......... https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/you-can-not-purchase-additional-shares-robinhood-reportedly-removed-shuts-down-buying

With whom and/or what do your true allegiances lie? The Sheriff of Nottingham Crooks or the Merry Men and Women of Sherwood Forest and Robin Hoods? :-)

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The Strange Art of Moving the Goalposts to Score Losing Own Goals

Who says it's not a rigged Great Game? ...... https://www.rt.com/usa/513920-robinhood-gamestop-gme-amc-shutdown/

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen if you can without kicking over the cans of worms therein, but where the hell does one then go to escape ? :-) ..... https://www.rt.com/op-ed/513839-gamestop-reddit-wallstreet-panic/

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YMMV

The subreddit is right now full of pleas to people to continue holding their stock, to punish Wall Street and the hedge funds, and not sell their shares, which would trigger a collapse.

If you are currently holding any GameStop stock, get out, like right now. Take your profit, buy something nice, and be happy. Because it won't happen again.

:-) That's not so much a stealthy case of biting the hand as sucking on the teat which feeds IT, El Reg ‽ . :-)

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Re: The Big Short Squeeze ..... The Sting* on Steroids ‽ .

As long as most hedge funds keep making bigger bets to try to cover their losses the share price will go up. So its a question of which fund loses their nerve or goes bankrupt first. The last hedge fund standing will clean up ..... James Anderson

Oh? Are you really so certain, JA? The last hedge fund standing dealing in the trade is paying a king's ransom fortune to return a ponzi zombie dead man walking stock which it never ever owned in the first instance.

Not the smartest and shrewdest of moves, methinks, however a great way to lose stashes of other folks money and shred to tiny pieces all of your own carefully conceived and conserved credibility.

* ..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sting

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Re: The money has to come from somewhere

You say: "The hedge funds may end up losing money, but the people jumping on the bandwagon due to hype are the ones that are going to be hurt the most."

But the money the hedge fund loses will end up in some pockets -- so on average the people who jumped on the bandwagon will make a killing. ....... Schultz

:-) Digging down deeper for the finer details in the truth reveals ...... The hedge funds managers end up losing colossal sums of other peoples money, and some of those folk are well able to going looking for them to more than just hurt them ..... and it won't be the average Joe making such a killing.

And it is not a business to be in without accepting it carries exceptional extraordinary risk.

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Re: The money has to come from somewhere

You are pimping and pumping and dumping a popular misconception there, akoepke.

One cannot fault you for that .

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Re: Reading the Runes in Between the Lines ... Karma Sucks Big Time

The latest share-price shenanigans came as the International Monetary Fund warned “complacent” financial markets buoyed by the rollout of Covid vaccines are at risk of a sudden collapse. .... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/01/27/reddit-fever-hits-london-market-short-sellers-feel-squeeze/

Who's got the popcorn and Belgian chocolates?

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Reading the Runes in Between the Lines ... Karma Sucks Big Time

The other bad news for amateur investors is that the big boys will always, always get there before you. They have teams of people who do nothing all day but watch the markets and are plugged into the system. And they have access to funds.

That is as may be, Kieran, but you are both missing the point and have highlighted the whole point of the exercise, a simple program which can be activated innumerable times virtually by practically anyone with half a fully working brain of such a notion, to take unprecedented advantage of a corrupted and perverse systemic abomination, ..... fully endorsed and actively supported by established markets regulations and gilded gatekeepers [think SEC (Securities and Exchange Commissions), FCA (Financial Conduct Authorities). the Fed (Federal Reserve Bank) etc. etc .etc.] by virtue of their all too apparent co-conspiratorial acceptance of short selling profit and loss trading results] ......and in so drawing ever more attention and forensic interest to its fabulous ponzi shenanigans/fantasy wealth creations.

However, that is just as the breath-taking heart-stopping entrée before the next course of a gluttonous feast, both concerning and delighting excited diners alike with thoughts of what is prepared next to follow on the menu yet to come.

And will it delight sublimely or disappoint disastrously the assembly of gourmands and one's peers?

Put plain and simply, now that so many more are so quickly learning of what is so relatively freely available to them to actively participate in .... Do global leading market players still want to blatantly continue aiding and abetting crooked fantasy trades creating fabulous virtual wealth for an exclusively chosen few, or is it all to disastrously collapse like the house of cards built on shifting bottomless quicksands that it is? ..... for they are presently surely the system's only two prime opposing and competing choices. If you know different, don't be shy, speak up, for now is there no better good time.

It is hard not to equate and realise that is as CheckMate, a Game, Set and Match win and defeat but there are sure to be others with a contrary view would would wish to disagree and to such a degree one would almost think their very lives depended upon it.

Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop

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Mandatory fibre-to-the-desk vital for viral defence and virile attacking systems

Cisco hasn’t explained why you’d run fibre to the desktop

Precisely, sanmigueelbeer, it aids an abundance of security precautions to try and ensure and insure guaranteed insulation and isolation against phishing and snooping.

Huawei has been Biden its time, but there's no sign new US president will reverse American sanctions

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Food for Thought on Needs and Feeds and Seeds Playing Better Defence with SMARTR* Attacks

Some things are way beyond plugging and mending. Whenever that is realised as inescapable fact rather than dismissed as fanciful fiction, one imagines they be agreeably incorporated and accommodated for the greater benefit of the many as opposed to it being ignored and resulting in catastrophic detriment to the previously thought almighty anonymous few.

And one is always overwhelmingly vulnerable to surprise mega 0day exploits/novel unexpected events in already dire distressed situations if one is not prepared to accept that future proprietary intellectual property fare is totally different from past gross domestic product now being insolvently traded in present bankrupt exclusive executive administrations desperately seeking relief and release.

With that in mind, and the need to play a better defense, here is something somewhat new to gnaw at and ruminate on ......

GrahamC [2101222039] ......revealing a massive security secret hole breached for plugging and mending/monitoring and mentoring on https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/1/22/biden-prodded-to-take-muscular-approach-to-cybersecurity

The United States is especially vulnerable because its economy and military are so dependent on information technology networks, analysts say.

Other analysts, more expert and experienced in the virtual field, would reveal that the United States is especially vulnerable because its economy and military are so dependent on certain sensitive information NOT being shared on technology networks, neither friend or foe/ally or enemy. And that's a considerably greater danger practically impossible to counter and prevent if one encounters a smarter opponent intent on it being so.

In days of yore, Danegeld was gladly paid to such a scourge to escape the guaranteed carnage/latter day rape and pillage. One imagines it still a viable current solution and attractive immediately readily available initial option nowadays too.

* .... SMARTR Mentoring Analysis Reporting Titanic Research