Posts by CoolKoon

Re: John Deere-ism Goes International

Let's just say that that's most definitely NOT the way things work with trains and other big, state-operated machinery and equipment. In fact it's quite possible that Newag management might face criminal prosecution after all of this.

Re: How long before the whistleblowers get punished?

While that's true, this has blown up so big already (it made international news after all) that in no way would they make it even worse by attempting to punishing the hackers, especially now that the previous quasi-Nazi government of Poland has been replaced by its former opposition.

Re: Bleep -- bleep THIS VEHICLE IS REVERSING -- bleep -- bleep

I think it was a reference to Newag management being salty over their tricks being discovered. But I think that they actually are scared shitless, because this is something they can land them in jail.

"there's a tendency for American laws to be applied globally" - While that's true, not even the disgustingly anti-competitive DMCA forbids reverse engineering in cases like this.

"But it begs the question as to why this sort of thing isn't illegal" - It kinda is. The managers who ordered this ugliness might be charged with the felony of disrupting state infrastructure, which carries a light jail time in many parts of Europe, probably Poland too.

"Anyone remember Microsoft and CP/M-86?" - While I do hate all the shenanigans of Micro$oft it's still a private corporation and it didn't disable any government resources with their petty tricks. Which can't be said about this thing.

This wasn't on a highway though, but instead on an obscure and (by the looks of it) rather narrow rural road.

"So unless your data has been encrypted with your own personal key before its uploaded then you have to consider its not 100% safe from prying eyes while on Azure, AWS etc.." - People should've assumed this from the very start moment they started uploading their business data into the cloud.

Re: Shouldn't such keys only be issued

HSM?! They don't need no stinkin' HSM! I personally highly doubt that they have one anyway...

Re: It's about Oracle

If this was mostly Oracle then why did the RedHat C-suites badmouth CIQ, the company behind Rocky Linux? Also, why did they call literally everyone "freeloaders" and "rebuilders"?

Re: Simple solution

"Is Larry Ellison a cousin to Ryan Air's Michael O'Leary ?" - Bwahahahah :D :D :D The sad part is that he's actually starting to make Michael O'Leary look good in comparison.

"RH will simply terminate the free developer access programme" - I think that that'd be the last straw. If developers will have to pay a lot to be able to develop for RHEL then they're not gonna do it, simple as that.

"I can't see why companies would jump through these hoops." - One major reason I can see is Pacemaker. And the other lies in the fact that they have all their customers still running their production systems on legacy CentOS (6 and 7) installations.

Re: Fedora Dependency

The reason people gloss over Fedora's dependency more easily is because it's an upstream distro meaning that it's not gonna be installed on servers en masse the way CentOS was (and Alma/Rocky Linux will be) ever. And this makes the whole project much less critical in terms of general infrastructure too.

This isn't quite this easy. Amazon, Micro$of, Google and all the rest of the bastards can even make you agree in license that they can sell your organs or sell you into slavery if you fail to pay their monthly fee but they still won't be able to enforce it (no matter how badly they want to anyway). If Amazon is found to be doing something illegal in any jurisdiction where they try to pull this kind of stunt off they still can be held liable and even a class-action lawsuit can proceed against them. Oh and believe me, some lawyers would be VERY happy to take on cases like this, because the awarded damages can be quite hefty.

Re: Wow

Not quite. An increasing amount of such incidents attracts state regulators like flies and it results in new laws being enacted to curb these bastards.

Actually turning to the press seems to work all right too, it doesn't have to be Twitter only.

Re: Keys not yours

I don't think power companies can actually do that (at least here in Europe). They're much more heavily regulated than that.

ROFL I mean that's beyond the point of the whole story, but you're not wrong :D

Re: Peak China?

> It's not only Covid that's done damage to the Chinese economy but also Xi Jinping himself with his none too subtle attacks and restrictions against China's tech sector so he has been effectively strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs for China.

Oh yeah. Just when the whole West was holding their breath and worrying that China might actually surpass them in terms of technology development the Chinese have successfully shot themselves in the foot so the West can now breathe a sigh of relief. It was a close call but with their insane measures against their own tech sector they might be done for for a while. We all have the Dear Leader Xi to thank for that!

Re: Peak China?

> You only have to look at the European gas debacle to see how things have changed.

Actually those pipelines were (mostly) laid down during socialist times, so that's not a brand new problem at all. And the power of "Star Wars" wasn't only in the COCOM (although that was admittedly a big part of it as well), but also the act of tricking the USSR into using all of its resources to finance something (i.e. a space race) which they just simply couldn't finance. And this approach might actually work right now just as well as it did ~40-50 years ago.

.> It is a huge landmass and the elite are very rich.

The same could be said about Russia too and look what happened...

Re: Peak China?

> Which country came to their aid in each case? Answer: China.

Honestly I'd call the Khmer Rouge anything but "help"....

Re: Peak China?

Even if we assume that China has become more confrontational lately thanks to the policies of Trump (which were long overdue and had bipartisan support anyway) China did act like a bully even to countries like Australia thinking that they can force the OZs into obedience, so they've more than earned what's coming to them. OTOH threatening civilian airplanes is not only not gonna earn them ANY sympathy anywhere in the world (I think that we still remember what happened to the KLM flight that flew over Donetsk), it'll also attract even more attention from US warships and submarines.

Re: A feint?

Because those suppliers are probably con organizations who are exclusively in the business of selling fakes. The overwhelming majority of such fakes is literally purpose-made stuff (probably mostly stuff that didn't pass QC at the semiconductor fab) and not just something that "slipped through" due to issues with QC. 40% is WAY too high of a number for that.

"converting Linux systems to FreeBSD" - Yuck...

Re: It all makes sense now.

Well, "xenophobic" and "racist" actually don't mean the same thing in this case, because AFAIK most of the hate (besides the institutions of the EU) has been aimed at Eastern European immigrants, who don't belong to a different race.

Re: OVM

"Their software, their license, so they can do what they want" - Not quite. If any company would take them to court and prove that Oracle's doing this (mislabeling its own virtualization solution) only to keep the competition out (i.e. as an anti-competitive measure), they could sue Oracle for quite a lot of money (and other lawsuits would follow too).

Re: It might just be the price of doing business with Oracle

"Had they used a physical server or a one/two node VMware solution they wouldn't be facing this huge bill." - Except that companies that pretty much need to have Oracle databases usually aren't running their VMs on only 1-2 nodes of course....