Re: Microsoft are C%&$S!
This morning 12 thumbs up & 4 thumbs down ...
Is that 12 Microsoft users and 4 Google users? But maybe it's 12 Google Users and 4 Microsoft Users?
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Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess
Tuesday 17th January 2023 13:36 GMT 
Software problems are traditional ...
We see problems and everyone says that it's a "new" problem that can be "fixed" but the problem is not fixed, they just get the software working again...
"The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it. And that is where most of our troubles come from. The projects that are called successful, have met their specifications. But those specifications were based upon the designers' ignorance before they started the job." -- Douglas Taylor Ross, NATO Software Engineering Conference, 1968
Monday 16th January 2023 20:29 GMT
Re: Microsoft are C%&$S!
I'm not seeing any problems, Microsoft is an excellent developer and I've not seen any problems for more than a year now ... oh wait, maybe that's because I'm still running Windows 7 and it's working very reliably. Yes, I'm getting Google Drive warnings but I can delete the app and solve all those Google issues.
Of course U2 is one of Bill Gates' favorite bands
Nice smart device – how long does it get software updates?
Monday 16th January 2023 15:29 GMT
Re: Still waiting for the ultimate smart device to literally plug/wire in to......
Maybe she was upgraded and no longer prints out everything that used to make the snivelling, miserable coward happy every day?
That's the end of my joke ... Originally when we started making devices we built everything with hardware and virtually never saw any of the issues that we have today - yes, there was one problem when a circuit board died, or a compressor started to leak. And the manufacturer would say that it's no longer available ... so you have to buy a new device. This is just the way it all works, forcing everyone to keep buying devices, not keep using them.
Software engineer accused of stealing $300k from employer was 'inspired by Office Space'
Saturday 14th January 2023 17:33 GMT
Re: Code review is for wimps
Maybe he was writing everything in Rust so the management "knew" it was safe code without the risk of everything that happened.
This reminds me of a case I read about 60 years ago where a banker was calculating everyone's interest payments - the math was done in pennies but the interest payments were limited to whole pennies so he coded it to transfer all fractions to his account in the bank.
Maybe the code world has changed but this story is good evidence that what people do hasn't changed at all.
Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing
Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters
Friday 13th January 2023 17:59 GMT 
Our potential future is a carbon-heavy one
We have a lot of carbon dominant items, cars, plastic bags, knives and forks, water bottles etc etc etc etc ... if we're going to still be here in a couple of thousand years then we need to change a lot of things, self-driving cars are just a small example of what we need to change.
Euro-cops shut down crypto scam that bilked millions from unwitting punters
Friday 13th January 2023 14:17 GMT
Re: What crime?
I've quit all of this, it's just become crapto currency these days, originally it was a great idea, just a little technical entertainment when you understood how it was working. But these days it's just become a slick little criminal entertainment, delivered to everyone's phone and email address.
Amazon's attempt to crush New York union slapped down
Friday 13th January 2023 12:08 GMT
What was the situation before Unions existed? Well it looked like Slavery was very efficient and making corporate owners wealthy ... so what's going to happen again if Unions are banned these days?
I grew up as a little kid years ago, just a mile away from a coal mine in Leicestershire and played at school with a few miners kids, so I've always supported the existence of Unions, regardless of what's being rattled about them by politicians and corporate idiots.
First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix
Russian meddling in 2016 US presidential election was weak sauce
Wednesday 11th January 2023 11:28 GMT 
It's American voting
In most American political elections (not just your local mayor etc) the majority of people do not vote "for" a candidate but vote "against" the other candidate. For example Biden is president because the majority of people (including me) voted against Trump, not "for" Biden. This is the environment that causes the Russian attempts to influence American election to fail every time.
British elections are different, in Britain people just talked about a vote for Brexit - watching the events prior to that vote it seemed clear that there was foreign influences but the only people confident that there was no Russian influence in that vote were the Brexiters every time a little evidence appeared.
This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week
Tuesday 10th January 2023 14:49 GMT
I run everything behind an independent firewall with rules that prohibit all port access unless it's something that I am using - that makes so much stuff safer. So to keep our operating environment safe the only device that I allow to have direct access to the external internet without a firewall is a pair of wire cutters. We have never had anything hacked.
Monday 9th January 2023 18:54 GMT
The majority of hacking attacks these days seem to be looking for Windows 10 and 11 ... let's face it, there are a lot more people with "updated" operating systems who are more likely to think that they need to open their newpaymentdetails.pdf.img email attachments. The advantage of running XP and Windows 7 is that you know the internet is risky so the hacking level ends up being lower with very old operating systems.
Monday 9th January 2023 18:33 GMT 
Micro$oft update$
... which means users of those OSes will need to shift to Windows 10 or 11 buying new computers ... FTFY
I'm current working to update one of our applications' documentation - it was originally written for researchers and programmers using WIndows XP to provide them with specific clinical data access - we updated it a little and it still runs fine on Windows11 - but using Windows11 to update the user documentation is a total pain although I'm getting it done.
Windows Upgrades are actually Windows Upyourarsegrades but originally when users had to buy a new CD or floppy disk to upgrade (I was happy because it worked well), all the computer manufacturers were continually bitching that Microsoft Upgrades did not require that users bought new devices, those manufacturers are happy these days ...
Windows users are now just corporate food.
Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware
Tuesday 10th January 2023 11:13 GMT
Re: Security?
Security can improve if you hire a hacker to work on everything you do, to try and hack it, but then since they are your employee they can reveal how it's done and everyone can work to stop it ... but keep trying in future - that's hopefully security. Security may exist if your hacker fails to hack items but keep trying.
Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code
OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT
Disruptive innovation's like a party. It's always happening elsewhere
Monday 9th January 2023 15:07 GMT
Re: Innovation is always dying
"Innovation" is leading to people using Windows 11 these days and thinking that it's an improvement and much better than Windows XP ... an innovation that started with Windows Me (Argggggg, the icon is a joke). It's not "better" - it's different ... don't panic, I'm talking about an operating system not fooled into thinking that Fentanyl is an innovation much better than smoking a little ball of opium to sleep well ... although I just woke up and I am using Windows 11 this morning.
Microsoft said to be thinking of sinking $10m into self-driving truck startup
India partners with private company to sell ads to commuters via railway Wi-Fi
PyTorch dependency poisoned with malicious code
Thursday 5th January 2023 12:59 GMT
malicious code is normal ...
... it's always an option if you are using software that you didn't write yourself. I just arrived at work and did my normal "start of the day" activity ... deleting all the viruses that have been quarantined overnight on the mail server. Malware isn't a Python issue, it's a universal issue - you can fix it by writing all the code that you are using yourself or with your trusted team.
Ireland fines Meta $414m for using personal data without asking
Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal
Friday 30th December 2022 21:07 GMT
Re: Capmmunism
It's always seems that Labour were working at trying to help everyone in the UK, a policy that has failed to get them elected by the majority of votes but their proposals generally don't seem as dumb afterwards as the Tories policies always seem to turn out to be - remember what everyone was saying about Brexit before the vote. I wonder if one day we will start to think that winning a general election is a fatal damage to the party that wins.
India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones
New York gets right-to-repair law – after some industry-friendly repairs to the rules
Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth
Risk-averse Kyocera gambles nearly $10b of own shares on semiconductor growth
US House boots TikTok from government phones
LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults
Tuesday 27th December 2022 18:27 GMT 
The pandemic has kept my Password vault secure
Originally the cleaners would go over everything in the office and clean up, even flipping my keyboard over to reveal the password vault when they wiped the desk - setting me up to update everything, but now everything is secure and dirty - I'm very happy, this has been a big COVID benefit!
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Tuesday 27th December 2022 18:19 GMT
Re: Serves Google right
I think that Google sucks but on the other hand, I have not received any malware email via gmail ...so my thoughts are about the managers, not the technical workers who seem to be doing a damn great job with gmail functionality! OK, so the complete elimination of risks is a good feature, making the Google data theft environment only a small side effect compared to the risks of opening a phishing email that appears to be Amazon refund details.
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Tuesday 27th December 2022 16:20 GMT
Re: Critical thinking
"So, does AI do a good job emulating some behaviours? Yes, it does. But is AI any match to a natural brain and the capabilities directed by it? No, not even close." - I agree, AI is limited by the environment that it's running and fed by, but humans (HI ?) think about things, then read a few comments e.g., in El Reg, or talk with others in the field and then adjust their views, potentially after reviewing their votes.
Tuesday 27th December 2022 12:41 GMT
Re: Critical thinking
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, AI, with a judge from Facebook, updated" ... A relatively well known quote updated (LOL), my gut feeling for AI creative writing is that it would be crap but there's another side to this; I wonder how new laws and regulations would work if they are been not only written by AI but were created based on AI predicting the effects to boost the economy, employment levels and ... yes, political donors profits too.
FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign
Friday 23rd December 2022 21:24 GMT
Re: Makes more sense now
I answer all calls because we have customers who call us for clinical help occasionally - but if the call is asking, "Good morning. If you are still in the market for a line of credit we currently have an offer in the amount of $355,000, the funds can be used for payroll, expansion, marketing, taxes, equipment purchases and basically any business related expenses" then I tell them that they need to talk to my friend Rick in the accounting ... and I start playing the link on my cell phone into the company phone. After a minute they hang up the phone (thinking they were on hold?) but I still listen to the end of it - LOL.
BOFH and the office security access upgrade
Crooks copy source code from Okta’s GitHub repository
Friday 23rd December 2022 14:21 GMT
"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke." - Brendan Behan
I see so much happy commenting about Github these days but it looks like the original views and discussions of its' features, resulting in the name Github being used, have all vanished. But now we're seeing things happening that were thought to be potentials when the name Github first appeared. Originally today's levels of hacking, malware, and data thefts were not happening back then, so the name was just a joke.
Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up
Friday 23rd December 2022 12:42 GMT
Re: Hmmmmmmm
I drive in the USA, but I always drive at the speed limit so virtually all the other cars, including all the police cars, just go fast past me all the time. If I need to slow down I always look in the mirror quickly to make sure this kind of problem doesn't happen. I wonder if that was the Tesla problem, the software was only looking in front of the car in detail, not behind it? If so that might be a fixable issue in a new Tesla update.
I have a red sticker on the back on my car that says, "If this sticker is Blue then you are driving too fast"
Fraudulent ‘popunder’ Google Ad campaign generated millions of dollars
Thursday 22nd December 2022 12:51 GMT
Re: They're never legitimate
Originally online advertising was relevant to what we were reading, but that feature has been removed to help make it very profitable and universal - advertising is now fraudulent everywhere just making the posting profitable, but not the items advertised. Advertising will be heading to the graveyard.
UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself
Wednesday 21st December 2022 19:08 GMT
Re: Stay clam everyone and don't picnic!
LOL Scott, no problem, that was funny. I've always thought that the Guardian's spelling and grammar errors tell me that the stories are written by excellent journalists who are concentrating on what happened, not spelling. Sure, it will make me laugh when I see the spelling but the journalists are busy writing about what happened, not what their editor tells them that they need to say to generate advertising income. I'm not complaining, I'm laughing!
Wednesday 21st December 2022 17:11 GMT
Re: Stay clam everyone and don't picnic!
I monitor the corporate mail-server 7/24 and see that the anti-virus performance will delete 80% of incoming malware. If that's happening on other mail servers then there's a potential that someone will receive "paymentupdate_pdf.rar and open it - a malware delivery updated 10 minutes ago and currently undetected by the anti-virus performance.
My protection is to quarantine all risky attachments, that has kept us safe but means that we have a lot of work behind the scenes because virtually all Microsoft files (.doc, .img etc) are infected when they arrive. Basically, the delivery of attachments like these are allowed in many other instances. Other risks are receiving a warning email saying that your password has expired - with a link infection to visit.
Malicious PyPI package found posing as a SentinelOne SDK
Wednesday 21st December 2022 17:36 GMT
Python is great but ...
...as Python develops in future will this become more common? At least it's a confirmation that Python is universally popular these days.
I guess Python is far more popular now than COBOL or FORTRAN, I've never seen any malware or infections written in either of those languages - so if the modern environment doesn't change maybe we should return to the days when languages didn't support all of today's problems? I wouldn't be happy about that, but maybe we could be a hell of a lot safer.
Devil's lettuce: Toxic weed harvested with baby spinach causing delirium in Australia
Monday 19th December 2022 20:05 GMT
I remember all of those symptoms after a party when I was in college when we were all chewing Quaaludes and then I had to walk home about four miles that night across Oxford to my flat after midnight ... no problems for me at all and ever since I've been fine whenever I have any symptoms like these. So learning to work with symptoms was educational I guess.
GCC 13 to support Modula-2: Follow-up to Pascal lives on in FOSS form
Monday 19th December 2022 15:29 GMT
Re: Uni
The major advantages of Pascal back in the days when it was created were that it could be used in different environments and that when you gave the end-users the Pascal code that was all you need to do to document the functionality in most cases. I started by teaching myself assembler, went to college and learned FORTRAN and then got some jobs needing both methods - watching the end-users coding was a mess in both environments but when Pascal appeared then coding appeared everywhere in the academic world, everyone worked together to make technical calculations like gait analysis work and then shared their code to document what was done and how it was done. Modula-2 was an easy way forward that I enjoyed, but the academic world was addicted to Pascal so I ended up using that all the time.
I have never cared what languages people use, I'm just spending all my time helping people get their things working - and when they are happy then I am too.
Twitter staffer turned Saudi spy jailed for 3.5 years
Sunday 18th December 2022 18:52 GMT
Re: My 2 cents
Another upvote for this post, I remember being pissed when the voting was announced for a winning Trump, I was driving home and saw a cat run over on the other side of the road ... I was very sad but the next morning I thought that Trump might actually destroy the Republican party by just doing all the crap he'd been doing for years before ... we'll see how that goes in a few years now.
I have always appreciated Brendan Behan's Irish view of the world; "What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides." ... certainly that's true, and idiots on both sides too.
Friday 16th December 2022 21:31 GMT 
"Ahmad Abouammo ...convicted by a jury of acting as an unlawful foreign agent" - but the Saudi's would have probably convicted him for being an nonfunctional foreign agent if he hadn't done this. Is this conviction an attempt to make everyone think that all their comments on Twitter in future will be anonymous?
If you are posting an "anonymous" comment anywhere and believe that you can't possibly be tracked then you are a snivelling, miserable, idiot.
What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?
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