* Posts by Someone Else

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First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk

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[...] did no-one listen in Civics 101?

Civics is not taught in US schools anymore, the result of a decades-long campaign to keep that commie-pinko stuff outta our schools, goddammit!

'Cuz, you know, an ignorant populace is easier to control.*

*ref. Donald tRump

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Re: Polarization - existence vs. enhancement

Shareholders are used to rely on official company information divulged in shareholder briefings and to the SEC as being factual and correct, exactly because it is a criminal offence for companies to lie in these statements / filings.

In other words, shareholders are dumber than soup.

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Re: Polarization - existence vs. enhancement

In short, Zuck traffics in hate. Full stop.

Microsoft's UWP = Unwanted Windows Platform?

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...without the bread.

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@Terry 6--Re: "MS lost the plot when..."

Everywhere you look Microsoft have made perfectly sensible customisations difficult or impossible.

I suspect that's because their devs can't figure out how to make those perfectly sensible customisations (sic) work properly, reliably, and securely.

There can't be any great technical justification for that. It has to be pure stubbornness.

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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Once again, sticking with the "Win32" APIs guarantees you reliability.

Well, in general, I agree with you. But writing to the original C Win32 API is an immense hemorrhoid. And then there is the cross-platform angle, which is not insignificant.

From the article:

[...] and Windows developers wary of how long WinUI 3 will endure have to consider options including sticking with Windows Forms or WPF, or jumping ship to JavaScript or other cross-platform solutions.

Javascript?!? Shirley, you jest! In my experience, Qt fits the bill nicely.

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

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Speaking of "circle", I would propose InfiniteLoop for the new name. Seems to fit what they're about, and as stated elsewhere in this thread, accurately describes their attempts to create infinite scrolling by their addicts er..."users". (InfiniteLoop also accurately describes addict behavior, as an extra side effect).

Oh, and then the Regtards here can locally rename them (a la "Chipzilla", "Micros~1", etc.) as "InfinitePoop", which is also quite accurate.

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Just be honest and call it Zuck.

A simple, truthful, and ego massaging message.

For real truthiness, it should be "ZuckUp".

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Maybe just, "Mine."

Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe

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Well, the Country Music Awards could withhold any and all platitudes, and not let him appear on their annual show (which is coming up soon...)

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Or...

Or we could use the same approach that the Tejano SB8 uses: Allow anyone with knowledge of the offense to sue the "offender" for at least $10,000 (wtrh all court costs being paid by the defendant, regardless of who eventually prevails).

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

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Re: Fax

And then there's that sensitive fax sitting for an indeterminate period on the fax machine just waiting (in amongst an indeterminate number of other sensitive faxes) for the right person to saunter by to pick it up. No security problems there, no siree!

Meatballs, Abba, and bork: 3 things Sweden is famous for

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Coffee/keyboard

@Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse -- Re: 3 things Sweden is famous for...

Look what you went and made me do! - - - - ->

Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?

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Re: Pirate an Enterprise IoT Licence

As soon as Proton/Wine/Corssover can run stuff from Steinberg and Arturia, the version of Windows I will be running is 0.

(Oh, and to add my tuppence to the discussion, I use Mint/Cinnamon for my other, non-music machines.)

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

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Re: "Modern"

1) Enormous amounts of margin and padding, resulting in a crapload of white space everywhere. Pick any Win10 modern config page; over half is blank. If you have five radio buttons, you need to scroll to get at the fifth. My screen has easily twice the area of the one on which I used to run Windows 7 and four times the pixels - and yet, when I open a system configuration page, it somehow manages to show me less information.

Well, that's because the ADHD-addled "marketing genius" Millennials (and up-n-coming Gen Z'ers) simply can't handle the information density that a normal person could. When confronted with that, they go catatonic, which the Micros~1 manager class considers to be "unproductive".

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The best I can get to is right clicking on a directory ("folder") and click "properties" on the context menu. After some thrashing around (proportional in some way to the amount of stuff in that "folder"), you get the size.

Never did experience the "hover-over" behavior you describe....

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Re: "design paradigms from those devices could successfully carry over into a new Start"

The thing is that the developers could quite easily put their "new, improved" interface as the default; and then allow everybody else disagreeing that using a mobile phone interface designed for a 8" screen on a pair of 24" screens is an improvement could perhaps select "classic" from a menu and just use something akin to the interface that looks and feels familiar to people who used NT4, 95, 98, ME, 2k, XP and Win7.

Oh, no, that would never do. Because, you see, the "telemetry" slurped from all the many millions of poor sods using Windows Windows users would unambiguously tell the little darlings who came up with this tripe that they don't know everything, that they're not always right, and their opus dei has been REJECTED! The carnage from their heads exploding would be horrendous.

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Re: "design paradigms from those devices could successfully carry over into a new Start"

"more moderner"

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@Hubert Cumberdale -- (untitled)

Lack of attention to detail, or arrogant stupidity in not knowing (or caring) what the purpose of the typewriter font test is? You decide...

That may well be an inclusive 'or'...

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

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Re: it saved a single network administrator over eight hours of work each week

And caused a share price drop that reportedly cost the boss $6 billion.

You say that as if it was a bad thing.

Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close

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Re: As a young broadcast engineer, unschooled in IT at the time

Monitoring the output sounds like an ideal application for one of these AI programs. IF the image does not change much if at all AND IF the audio is silent/single tone/ repeated cycle of test tones THEN email admin?

Yup. That's state-of-the-art AI, then....

Samsung is planning to reverse-engineer the human brain on to a chip

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We don't know what the difference between the brains of for example Donald Trump or Dominic Raab, and a human of normal intelligence.

You're making a dangerous assumption, there, katrinab, that either of the two you mentioned actually have one in the first place.

Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey

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Re: It's "NOB" !

::gets picked up bodily and thrown out the door::

I originally read this as, "gets pricked up bodily and thrown out the door". I guess in the context, the misreading was understandable.

Something about attention and set...

Microfluidic processor brings us one step closer to a future of squishy DNA computing

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Re: Better programing technicques...

Would that include relegating javascript to the dustbin of history?

Linus Torvalds admits to 'self-inflicted damage' with -Werror as Linux 5.15 rc1 debuts

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Re: The warnings aren't always bad code

Hmmm...can't you simply SIGINT or raise an interrupt known to shut down the beast?

There was a point in a past lifetime where I needed to crash an embedded program if all hell broke loose unexpectedly, so I simply divided 0 by 0. The code reviewers never quite got their arms around that, even with full commenting. So I reverted to calling a trap instruction that would crash the program.

It was a while ago, and recollection is faulty, but I might have called the trap instruction that fielded division by zero...

Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

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Re: AI

The update on that old saw goes something like:

"To err is human, to really fuck shit up requires a computer."

...or a Micros~1 operating system...

Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format

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Re: Hope the perp's were intelligent Badgers

"Badgers? We don' need no steenkin' Badgers..."

Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?

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Re: The law and order and right to life party say what?

Truth is, he never actually saw any video. He just parroted the line of blather he heard on Fox Noise or One America Numbnutz.

Of course he wouldn't actually watch the videos; his head would explode...

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Re: The law and order and right to life party say what?

Don't bogart that joint, my friend...

Pass it over to me.

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Re: Republicans see themselves more aligned with the Taliban than America

"We've always been a war with Eastasia."

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Re: i.e. he confesses there is evidence

Funny how they're so "pro life" until someone needs social care, or healthcare, or decent schooling...

...Or wearing a mask in schools to protect the unvaccinatable from COVID-Delta

Windows 11 will roll out from October 5 as Microsoft hypes new hardware

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Re: That was fast

Windows is going to be with us, for ever and ever, as [smoothly, unnoticeably, rotfl] self-upgradable service. waas or something

waas == "Windows, as always, shit"

Microsoft has reimagined each part of the process, to simplify the lives of IT pros and maintain a consistent Windows 10 experience for its customers.

Well, that explains why "Windows 11", because if they were to make this release under the Windows 10 moniker, that would lend the lie to this statement.

Not that anyone really believes Micros~1 doesn't lie...

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What? You don't believe in Truth In Advertising?

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WTF?

@jake -- Re: Opting out -- meaning keeping Windows 10

When was the last time you tried to run WaveLab, Cubase or any of the Arturia V Collection on Linux?

And that includes under Wine....

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Opting out -- meaning keeping Windows 10

OK all the snark about FOSS, Linux, etc. is all well and good (and even expected, these are the El Reg forums, after all). And I actually do have Linux on my main machine. But my music machine requires Windows (well, the machine itself by no means requires Windows, but the applications that run on it certainly do). It is an 8th gen i5, and so may well be in the crosshairs of a Micros~1 forced-march into their revenue stream.

So let me rephrase Tom Chiverton 1's original question:

How do I opt users who must remain Windows users (may ghod have mercy on their souls) out of this "upgrade"?

Easy on the snark, and heavy on factual, useful info, please...

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

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Re: Telemetry

Look. All the "Marketing Geniuses" (oxymoron alert!) and GUI "Designers" (probable oxymoron alert) Micros~1 hires these days are are classic ADHD-addled Millennials (and possibly some Gen Z'ers fresh outta school) who:

1) Think they are ghod's gift to the world

2) Think every thought that passes through their minds is The One True Way, and must therefore be right

3) Were born with silver smartphones in their mouths, so that is all they know (see also item 2)

So, they must make everything they encounter look like a cell phone interface...it is inconceivable to them that anything else could possibly exist.

Almost forgot: 2a) Anything that happened before the were born doesn't exist, and therefore isn't real. (I actually had a Millennial tell me that once... and it was clear they believed it!)

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Re: Hah, but the launch version was hot garbage.

Something about the definition of insanity comes to mind....

Cops responding to ShotSpotter's AI alerts rarely find evidence of gun crime, says Chicago watchdog

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Re: How is that working out?

Why is Chicago paying for Shot Spotter again?

Something about brown envelopes....

Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

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@Charlie Clark -- Re: The teapot with craft IPA.

Personally, I prefer gentler bitters where the balance of malts and hops is more difficult to fudge. But variety is the spice of life!

I saw what you did there...

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Re: The teapot with craft IPA.

I vote for a good Reposado Tequila.

But then, I color outside the lines now and then, so....

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Re: Worth repeating

simulacrum

On the one hand, kudos for expanding my vocabulary. On the other hand, perhaps showing off just a bit?

You decide.

But in the meantime, somebody hide this guy's thesaurus for a bit, 'mkay?

Facebook sat on report that reveals most-shared post for months was questionable COVID story

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Hmmm...3 downvotes (at the time of this writing).

Zuck? That you?

LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility

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Re: LaTeX

I sometimes use vi to edit LaTeX documents.

I admire your tenacity, but I can't keep and old line from Star Trek from coming to mind... something about stone knives and bear skins....

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Re: LaTeX

...the 'vi' of text processors.

Ooops! Almost wrote 'word processors' but LaTeX is hardly that.

Senators urge US trade watchdog to look into whether Tesla may just be over-egging its Autopilot, FSD pudding

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Re: I should sue for false advertising.

Upvote purely for the Johnny Cab reference.

Apple's iPhone computer vision has the potential to preserve privacy but also break it completely

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Re: Lovers or dolphins?

Yeah, and what color would Apple think that dress is?

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Re: What has apple NOT seen?

Wait until it will be mandatory to have a phone with you at all times, like a tag.

George O. would have never, even in his wildest dystopian nightmare, ever thought that the proles would be convinced to spend their own hard-earned money to purchase their own telescreens.

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Re: Capability

And this will certainly spread to all kinds of consumer devices, because there are more and more governments out there who want to make sure you don't watch/do/say forbidden things.

Like ours.

And it doesn't matter what country you're reading this post from, it's still ours.

Version 8 of open-source code editor Notepad++ brings Dark Mode and an ARM64 build, but bans Bing from web searches

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Re: the text editor for granddads

[...] but vi will always be there for you.

...providing that steel-reinforced brick wall to beat your head against regardless of what system it's on....