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Re: How much?

Almost all corporations (not just Microsoft) are busy offering totally secure functionality even though this requires additional update payments from users. This is very good because they offer a lot of support to their users when the hackers start working to break into their applications and functionality. Imaging how much the corporate income would go down if hacking was stopped - we're seeing hacking increase every year now, and corporate income going up too, hackers seem to be making everyone (except themselves) very wealthy.

It's the same environment we see in the USA, people get shot around towns all the time and we're told that the bast way to stop this is for everyone to buy more guns, and walk around town with a pistol in their pocket.

Re: That means no re-installs?

All "upgrades" these days are designed to upgrade corporate income, so often when you try to upgrade to the new Windows version, then you are told that buy a new computer. And the hackers are all working on the new upgraded Windows versions.

Re: “Have a cigarette, kid”

But in Australia the kid would reply, "But tell me what time's fuckin' smoko? What time do we knock off? And I'm busting for a fuckin' shit so where's the thunderbox? And do we get our daily rollie weed and six cold cans of piss?"

Re: Agenda

Monitoring the water on our planet is going to be very useful, essentially water initially helped the creation of life after the planet stabilized in the early years. I expect that NASA's interest is that seeing how life is on our planet will lead NASA to being able to look at other planets that have the potential of life. After reading Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish" book about our creation and his highly technical "Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA" book too, I believe that they also define how life has probably been created to exist throughout the Universe - "life" not just aliens.

So we have the potential of being miraculous life!

Re: A global solution

I've been getting AI-generated voice robocalls for a while, asking me if they can talk to me about my health requirements, I assume that their action is to use AI to transfer my vocal response to text, "Tank U eye am two fun king healthy, mine aim is dick, bud eye am not floppy"

Certainly, but it's worth remembering Albert (icon) Einstein's view that "... time is an illusion."!

I'm a Windows User, but Microsoft hates me because I'm still using Windows 7 everywhere - using Windows 7 and Office 2010 gets everything done quickly and easily and no bloody adverts and data theft doesn't even exist. The laptop boots up fully function in a few seconds with no half hour waits for crappy updates.

Re: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

When I got a calculator at school I showed my dad, and he gave me a calculation (what's a third of the diameter of a 13.25 inch circle?) to show him the answer while using his slide rule to get the results. He showed me the answer on his slide rule much faster than I could get an answer with the calculator. I laughed when my second calculation was accurate :-)

Re: Straw man

I quit cryptocurrency a couple of years ago as a result of these issues but before then I had been running a bitcoin generator in my home office during the winter for years - the generator heating cost me money that bitcoin paid for with a bonus for me. The original bitcoin concept was very good, but criminal activity has made it embarrassing these days so I'm just paying to stay warm in the winter.

Re: Glad this nonsense

In America I get spam AI calls several times a day ... I assume they are using AI to process my speech so I play Jenny Talia singing F.O.C.U.S. ... I love her song so I am laughing to get an AI spam call.

Re: Keep on running

The design and survival of the Voyagers has been a wonderful item in our human improvements and there's the potential to continue working with the implementation and the information that it gives us ... remember how much we learned a few thousand years ago after getting the first stone axes to work well but then discovered that the stone could be crushed and heated to enable us to create a metal axe.

We're reasonably convinced that there are aliens out there in the universe, so we need to continue to develop and evolve in the way they have been doing!

And any error was easy to discover when the code was written in FORTRAN or COBOL because neither language needed large numbers of comments to explain what the code writer thought.

Certainly AI is normally accurate but if AI is generating an error then the person using AI will be seen as responsible.

Re: "settle the question of water worlds once and for all"

Water on our planet originally resulting in the creation of life that evolved eventually to create fish, and then after even more time the fish left the sea occasionally to become creatures on the rocks and evolved even further to be us.

So water on other planets is probably required to create alien life - we may have the potential for a common life environment in the universe.

Re: Nukle the alien beaches

Imagine a radical form of life (completely unknown to us) on or "in" Mars that is looking up at the "alien spacecraft" that are appearing on the planet ... but could it be that about a billion years ago our little ancestral fish, walking our of the sea around the Earth, started to evolve to hide from helicopters sent from other planets?

As humans today we can see what is happening recently but only hopefully guess what might happen in the very distant future.

Re: Time to call

I remember working with a company that had "updated" it's applications from the RSX11M environment to the Windows 3.1 customer world, creating a lot more new customers and starting to see the new Windows environment. But the positive side of the problems was that the programmers creating the new Windows programs (based on their original PDP assembler code) saw the error environment and worked well to describe it and fix it permanently ever since then after fully understanding what had happened.

Just an example that errors can be very helpful - teaching the programmers things that they had not previously thought about. And are normally fully solved.

Perhaps AI would evaluate all the comments and attribute that comment to being from Bombastic Bob - an El Reg poster who's always been entertaining for years now.

The icon is for Bob, not AI.

Re: When did Windows turn into Linux?

Hacking has not been an issue for Microsoft, it's making so many users upgrade to a new version and then, when the upgrade fails, buying a new PC with the current Windows version. As a result hackers are pushing up the corporate profits, so economically corporations like hackers to keep hacking their customers.

Re: Four vacinations and I still caught Covid

I might have caught Covid when it first appeared. before any testing was available in the USA so I have no proof what happened, but I've always been happy to be vaccinated for about 40 years now and even though most of the people I work eventually got Covid infections, I've not had any issues at all.

Yes, this story illustrate that if we have aliens visiting our planet easily then we need to investigate the Time And Relative Dimension In Space functionality.

How much more secure Hospitals would be if they stop using the internet and return to exchanging data via faxes - back in the days before the internet was available outside the military we only occasionally got a letter or fax theft attempt. They were easy to immediately put in the trash can in those days. Abandoning the internet would be miserable but being safe would keep the medical world working well - if data is hard to exchange then workers at both ends will look at it well.

Re: Only stupid people use google crome

MajorDoubt gets an upvote from me for that comment, although while Google is making money from peoples privacy via Chrome, I think that there are even worse apps and situations. Compare what you browse for, to the junk emails that you receive, to help get you some clues.

Using a browser to visit a website is two independent risks.

Re: Customers are the security liability

At a corporate level it seems that security issues are very profitable, forcing all users to buy new computers and upgrade operating systems ... and at a corporate level a new cybersecurity issue will result in new updates and profitability. Creating a 100% secure environment would reduce corporate profits.

Re: Year End Reminiscing

An accurate statement from an earlier environment:

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann, 1951.

In the old days every movie was paused while the cinema workers changed the rolls of film and the cinema had sales people walking around everywhere selling drinks and sweets while most of the people in the cinema talked with each other, smoked cigarettes, or walked off to pee. Everyone was happy, we all talked with our friends, it was a much nicer and calmer social world originally because if a movie created any discussions then we would spend an evening discussing our opinions of everything in a pub afterwards.

OK, it's clear that I too should probably say, "I am a daylight atheist" like Brendan Behan did.