* Posts by chivo243

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SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100m fraud

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Gun, Fish, Barrel

Social media channels are the barrel...

NASA starts assessing Orion capsule for refurb

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Two Words

Millennium Falcon.

TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill

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Re: Apples and Oranges

As the wise and witty Frank Zappa observed: "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation

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Angel

It's life like!

I had a quick gander at the pic, lovely. If it had been any other place other than an art gallery, I might have fallen for it too!

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Re: Well done to the officers involved

I think it was wonton soup!

Rivian abandons electric van partnership with Mercedes-Benz

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Re: A telling statement...

Nor for a forgotten Preston Tucker...

https://www.automotivehalloffame.org/honoree/preston-tucker/

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

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Voice Assistants

Pretty creepy, pretty invasive. Not under my rock...

US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough

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The cost of energy will never go down... even if they can produce it faster that politicians produce hot air, someone will find a way to keep the price high...

OK, we know iPhones are expensive but... $11 a month for Twitter Blue on iOS?

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Does Tim Care?

I have to think this is a minor nuisance for TC, if at all, doesn't he get more income anyway? And if nobody ponies up for the badge, what then?

Server installer fails to spot STOP button – because he wasn't an archaeologist

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Re: Renovations

I think that's what the extra thick layers are for... to hide the lead paint.

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Renovations

Gotta love the slop dash that some renovations bring... A room is supposed to look 'better' after the renovations. I once lived in an apartment in Chicago, there were so many layers of "emulsion" on the walls that the electrical outlets looked like Pink Floyd's pig pushing through the wall!

BOFH: Come back to the office. Your hotdesk is nice and warm

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I visit Dabbsy at his new digs. I don't think he's coming back, Reg.com® is heading in a new direction, and I think Dabbsy has his pride too! His new columns aren't necessarily SFTW, but still Dabbsy. He published a new column today. If you read him here, you should give him a chance and read him there ;-}. Maybe leave a comment, yeah, I know another login... deal with it.

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Pre-leveraging the inevitable knee jerk

Yep! New gaming chairs for all my friends at the bar! And desks you say? How big are they? I know a guy who knows a guy...

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Re: Like sycophants at a Tesla launch!

Thanks! Just remember, One never hurt anybody! --->

Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together

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I prefer the Clue by Four.. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clue%20by%20four

my son prefers the Shusher from the movie 'Home'.

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It came to pass

Back in the mists of antiquity, a company I worked for had an IT department with out a direct boss, the company added D levels for all departments, IT included. The new Director was a nice enough guy, and I was able to enforce some sanity under his stint with the company. D levels never got any admin privs...

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Gladly accepted! Have one on me!

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Wait, you've confused me... Simon T writes BOFH, we just read On Call by Simon S. I need another cuppa... or maybe time to skip right over to a beer!

Theranos' Sunny Balwani gets longer sentence than Elizabeth Holmes

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We won't be seeing Sunny

and he won't be seeing the sun.

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

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Re: It's always over budget

Bean counters... What a strange and warped dimension they live in, toss in the right manager, and we have a recipe for Twitter.

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My first flight

In March of '71 I had a flight on a TWA 747 from O'Hare to LAX. What a different time and place it was for passenger aviation. That's when they had gift bags! Playing cards, Captains Wings, coloring book etc, etc... I didn't get to visit the cockpit, grown men naked make me nervous, always have...

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

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SF bailed...

Detroit out bid them! I for one welcome my good buddy ED-209!

Musk's Hotel California erected at Twitter HQ, as some offices converted into bedrooms

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Re: Future conversation

I am so getting the feeling he is the real life Drax Industries... Hugo has 4 letters, Elon has 4 letters, Drax has 4 letters, Musk has 4 letters...

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One night's sleep or power nap?

One night's sleep or a power nap? Don't lots of companies have 'nap rooms'? I've had naps that have lasted 4 or 5 hours ;-}

Not really a facepalm, he's actually yawing...

Barge off: Nautilus to bring floating datacenters to two new sites in US, France

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well yes, but no?

A key part of the company's datacenter architecture is its cooling system, which uses a combination of a closed loop system and water drawn from the environment to keep IT infrastructure operating within acceptable limits. This system is claimed to consume no water and requires 30 percent less power than alternatives.

While I understand the first sentence, same concept keeps nuclear plants cool. But the second sentence seems to contradict the first?

Women sue Apple claiming AirTags helped their stalkers

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Find My? AirTags...

Case use. Where we live, I use Find My to monitor my wife and son when they are in transit on the mountainous roads that would have Jackie Stewart asking for new knickers. The local garage has a new roll over victim every couple of months.

Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan

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robots.txt not as effective as generally perceived. https://moz.com/blog/serious-robotstxt-misuse-high-impact-solutions

How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?

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Maybe, just maybe

This is the one time when putting our fingers in our ears and ignoring the problem might be the correct solution? It's already going away, like the Hindenburg in slow motion...

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

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Re: Fragile

you had me right up until politics... either brand.

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Re: probably wasn't an act of terrorism

Hmmm... North Carolina? Nah, it was a hold my beer moment... And the power station may not have even been the object of attention. Ever see Mythbusters?

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

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Re: Market size

XP at 0.4% increase, what a coinkydink, I've just learned of a need for an XP install. Where does one get an iso for XP.... Asking for a friend!

Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?

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Re: Welcome Back!

I thought you weren't supposed to google yourself...

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enough knowledge to be dangerous!

And quick thinking enough to blame the previous programmer. "It was like that when I got here!" I wonder what position Francis holds now?

Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?

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Re: Hmmm...

I still have real, wooden clipboards... One with a rubberized mat used on drafting table surfaces of the 70's and 80's.

Twitter tries to lure brands back with spend-matching scheme

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Re: What an attractive offer!

On a side note, I was once reading a column here about laser pointers harassing landing jets, and lo and behold, before I had a pi-hole, there was an ad here on Reg.com for laser pointers. I took a screen shot for posterity. Too bad Reg.com doesn't let us embed photos...

Blockchain needs a reason to exist, Boris Johnson tells roomful of blockchain pros

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I thought I read an article stating NFTs were dead already? Dead in the sense that nobody is buying any? Or maybe it was a comment here in a forum? And therefore needs to be substantiated.

Domain aging gang CashRewindo picks vintage sites to push malvertising

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2006?

That's the 'long con job' in action there. Gondorff and Hooker would be proud!

Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

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Devil

I've never touched Teams, and Exchange 2003 (circa 2005) was my last dealing with the devil! I guess, I won't miss out on anything...

Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

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Re: I was commenting on twitter the other day…

monthly "oops" room clean….

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Not only two signs...

But in two languages, and the plugs still magically managed to free themselves...

Musk says spat with Apple over App Store ejection threat for Twitter was 'misunderstanding'

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Let's think about this...

So, Elon farts in Apple's general direction on his newly acquired internet megaphone. Gets some press, gets invited(?) to visit TC. Struts into the meeting like cock of the walk, later after the meeting, he laughs it off as a misunderstanding, something taken out of context, and now he's marching in line like a good little soldier.

What would motivate a man to change so suddenly? Especially someone as bold as Elon?

Blackmail\extortion? We have the pics!

A quick look at his real financial situation, as I'm sure Apple can get the info they need.

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Re: Elon Trump Junior

Me and Mini-Me? No?

The school of say what you want, when you want, and back peddle like hell when you're called on your BS.

FTX's crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried admits 'I made a lot of mistakes'

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Coffee/keyboard

It works on so many levels!

A guy fiddling with and losing cash? And his name is Bankman?

Almost 300 predatory loan apps found in Google and Apple stores

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A Lending app ??

There are apps for getting loans? I'm confused, you can afford an iGizmo, but need a loan? We need a rock icon... one I can crawl back under. Lending apps, geesh.

Maybe there's a rock in my coat pocket?

Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles

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The other question

Will they ever pay the fine? Perhaps, from a rainy day fund. That amount won't be missed. In fact, I believe that the interest on their rainy day fund would pay that fine off quite quickly.

Windows Server domain controllers may stop, restart after recent updates

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Re: And don't forget the problem with the freezing task bar in Windows 10

Because the users are like junkies in that they are hooked on the product.

I was sys admin, and I gotta say, users had little input into the OS they were running, we tried to use the best OS for the task at hand. I supported macOS(writing this from macOS!), and Windows, if macOS covered the bases, they got that. If they needed a windows only app, then we would provide Windows.

As the arm chair sys admin(the only IT guy in the family) I tried in all cases to get macOS in their hands. But most opted for windows because of cost of the hardware and games...

users really don't care. Fanbois care.

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

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Re: IBM

I Be Milking it, for all it's worth!

See ya Suckers!

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You've just given Who? Me? the Syndrome Award. Lame! Lame! Lame! ??

Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months

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Real Twitter news...

Twitter chief executive Elon Musk confirmed plans for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on the platform.

Over at The Hacker News... https://thehackernews.com/2022/11/elon-musk-confirms-twitter-20-will.html

Perhaps this coupled with bans being lifted has attracted new readers?

Now on with the Twitter bashing bash!

Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

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shoulda

I should have grabbed a decommissioned laser printer from my last job, but I was also moving houses after my last job, and the missus wasn't keen on more junk to move. InkJet Never Again!