You say that as if it were a bad thing....
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Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment
Uh-oh!
Two No, three new tasks just appeared on my to-do list:
1) Figure out how to downgrade TPM on my HP Envy desktop, when the BIOS config screen does not give you an option to do that. Seems that the BIOS version on that machine really wants to keep you locked into TPM 2.0.
2) See if Wine 7.x can be configured to run the Arturia soft-synth suite, Steinberg Wave Lab and Cubase. If I can get these to run on Wine, I will not longer have any need for Windows!
3) Load Linux Mint on SWMBO's laptop. This is a new on just added to the list. She, of all people, doesn't need to be bothered with a Micros~1 account.
Gonna be busy over the Memorial Day weekend (sigh).
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law
@osxtra -- Re: Restaurant Rules
And greetings to you in Austin, the highest point in the World's Largest Hole-in-the-ground.
They do not appear to be honoring the document they swore to protect, and though this law would prohibit that opinion from being removed from public view, [...]
You know, that brings up an interesting point: One could make the argument that this law effectively allows any libelous or slanderous material from being taken down. IANAL, but that could effectively neuter any libel and/or slander laws on the books in Tejas as well. (And, boy, wouldn't that be a kick in the tRump to the Orange-utan and other ego-driven authoritarians who have in the past threatened critics with such laws.
Oh, and do you really think Paxson believes Abbott is his boss?
Re: Gaping hole
As the article states, the interpretation of that First Amendment has been pretty consistent over the years and the experts seem frankly rather surprised that Texas is trying it on.
C'mon, Ken...this is Texas we're talking about here. The intersection between Texas and common sense has been an empty set for as long as anyone can remember.
Elon Musk 'violated' Twitter NDA over bot-check sample size
From the article:
Richard Holway, an analyst at TechMarketView, mused: "You may think this is just an entertaining sideshow. But real people are getting hurt. Twitter has already announced job losses and rescinded recent job offers. Recent buyers of Twitter shares might well have taken Musk at his word. Clearly that wasn't that wise as they are now nursing big losses.
I keep recalling something about a sucker, and every minute. I'm sure Elon is counting (possibly literally) on that.
And then there was this part, also from the article:
"I always thought there were trading regulations around making price sensitive announcements. Every tweet that Musk makes moves markets – see his comments on taking cryptocurrency to buy Tesla cars etc.
Silly Richard! Shirley, you should know by now that such inconveniences as "trading regulations" don't apply to fatasses like Elon Musk.
Infineon more than doubles profit as semiconductor shortages persist
@Filippo -- Re: Where's the incentive?
Point taken.
However, once such stupidity has manifested itself, there's no guarantee that los Stupidos won't take advantage of their stupidity by simply maintaining the status quo. Very few things assuage (or hide) stupidity better than sitting on a fat pile of cash.
Where's the incentive?
Seems to me, that if Infineon "has joined the ranks of chipmakers that are benefiting from the industry-wide global semiconductor shortages", and has doubled profits, then there isn't a whole lot of incentive for Infineon et al to actually increase production. Seems they're doing quite well as things are, and the fatasses on Wall St. wouldn't be too happy with them increasing production if that means a decrease in profits.
<conspiracy-theory>Is it possible that this shortage is being "manufactured" to increase certain chipmakers' profits?</conspiracy-theory>
Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff
Outlook bombards Safari users with endless downloads
US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
Windows 10 still growing, but Win 11 had another bad month, says AdDuplex
Heresy: Hare programming language an alternative to C
Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff
Blah, Blah, Blah...gak!
From the article:
Musk previously said he wanted to unlock the potential of Twitter, which he said hasn't been realized.
That's very close to the mating call of every hedge-fund manager, ever!
Often warbled just before said hedge-fund manager rends asunder their object of affection, thereby destroying it forever but insuring a reasonable supply of coke for them and their friends for the near future...
Elon Musk says he can get $46.5bn to buy Twitter
Re: I wouldn't give a fiver for it
Waste of the money he could otherwise spend on medical research and other desperate charities.
Putting money into those things doesn't stroke his tRumpian-sized ego. And would require something called 'empathy'. You don't become the world's largest fatass richest man by having empathy.
Putin reaches for nuclear option: Zuckerberg banned
Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain
Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD
@fg_swe--Re: COTS - Crap Off The Shelf
Enough already!
Go peddle your annoying panacea du jour garbage somewhere else, goddamit! By now, we're all aware you're a paid troll, and are becoming as annoying as Google "targeted ads".
Bugger off. Maybe there will be more fertile grounds for you to farm in a Reddit forum or something.
Growing US chip output an 'expensive exercise in futility', warns TSMC founder
Deja vu all over again?
From the article:
One think tank said that it thinks there will be several thousand positions left unfilled in any new factories due to a lack of suitably skilled semiconductor manufacturing workers in the nation.
Seems to me I've heard this refrain before...I wonder where....
Oh yeah...this is the same refrain from that old song...what's the title, again? Yes...now I remember: The H1-B Blues, by the Big Tech Grumblers.
Some said it was a catchy tune, but nobody could dance to it.
Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan
Just last week, winner of thickest person to ever exit, Marjorie Taylor Greene reported Jimmy Kimmel to his bosses, and complained to the police, over a JOKE https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511816972610244615Is she a weak leftie now?
You just won the Internet.
...or would have, were the Internet populated with a sufficient number of folks whose IQ is above room temperature...
Re: Content moderation
So tell me, Your Bombastic Heinous [sic], why can't I say "Fuck" in primetime on NBC, CBS, ABC, CBC, et al? Isn't that free speech? Why aren't you railing on about that, Mr. Free Speech Purist?
Or more to the point, why can't I say ,"tRump is a motherfucking lying asshole (or arsehole)" on those same outlets?
Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch
Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover
Re: Money can't buy maturity
An agenda that might not be very rewarding for investors, but possibly very rewarding for democracy the world over.
I have a hard time seeing purposely turning the platform into the world's largest disinformation and propaganda spigot can possibly be "very rewarding for democracy", but that's just me, I guess.
Unless, of course, your definition of "democracy" is the same as tRump's, which is something along the lines of, "You can do or say anything you want, so long as I agree with it, and/or it makes me money."
Re: Money can't buy maturity
That actually would not be out of the realm of possibility. Musk is a MAGAt, and a tRump apologist. He has stated in the past that tRump should not have been banned from Twatter, and is in favor of rescinding his ban. (It is entirely possible that one of the driving motives to get on the board and/or to control Twatter is to allow tRump and other such liars back onto the platform, in return for unspecified "future favors" from the head MAGAt.)
Russian media watchdog bans Google from advertising its services
Rivals aren't convinced by Microsoft's one-click default browser change
Re: Easyjet
I have encountered several sites that Firefox doesn't seem to want to play nice with. Somebody suggested that I use the Open in Private Window feature. That has solved the problem (for me, anyway) on all these recalcitrant sites. And the Private Window version allows me to engage NoScript and other plug-ins as well (so no, Mr./Mrs. WebProgrammerSurrogate, its not my security plugins that is keeping me from displaying your vaunted website!)
I have noticed that some recent updates of Firefox have allowed their "normal" browser to work on some of these sites. But yes, it is a PITA that one has to go through this, and the Mozilla folks should spend a few developer cycles on figuring out why this is, and fixing it. But I find this is an acceptable workaround for now. YMMV, of course....
Re: No Browsers?
The OS purveyors could write a little applet that can be clicked on to as the user what browser(s) s/he'd like to have installed on the machine, and said applet could then download and install the chosen one(s).
As was stated above: the Web is not the Internet. (See icon.)
Hell, Micros~1 could even write the applet in Visual Basic!
Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change
DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world
Re: Sooo...
They've tested two completely different designs for one flight each that they have admitted to, and consider that this comprises a battle-ready system...?
There, FTFY
And the answer to that question might well be 'Yes", if indeed they have many more flights logged than they are admitting to.
Any fool can write a language: It takes compilers to save the world
The time you solved that months-long problem in 3 seconds
Re: I replaced a network cable.
"The Lord and the Devil fight left and right, left and right..."
Link is to a Youtube page where you can hear the song