Posts by NoneSuch

Re: Singularly pretentious

I say we take off and nuke it from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Re: "Perhaps Gao didn't read The Register's February 14th story about Foxconn ..."

"outside of the control of Gao Feng's China's Ministry of Commerce (for now, at least)."

Forever, we hope.

Re: Patenting pi, digit by digit

Software patents should be burned in a massive pyre.

Barring that, Open Source software declared as "Patent Free" by the creator should not be able to be patented by anyone but them.

PS. Reg, any chance of getting Dark Mode for the site? New 1,000 nit Predator monitor is burning my retinas when I visit from all that white.

The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.

Re: wilfully decode ASCII

HR: "I see on your resume you were at Wormwood Scrubs for ten years. I presume that's a legal firm?"

"They were very much involved with the law, yes. Spent many evenings and weekends there."

HR: "Excellent, we need dedicated chaps like you. We're short of staff, so we'll forgo the usual background and reference checks. Welcome aboard. Here's the admin passwords, good luck."

Re: Hmm

I am psychic.

I sense a deed poll name change is in the works in the near future....

Re: New wine in old bottles

My guess...

Monthly payments to keep the CPU you paid for working at full capacity.

Welcome to the world of Goodfellas meets Corporations.

"Business bad? F*** you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F*** you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? F*** you, pay me."

Re: I'm still trying to understand how Apple failed even to consider this use case

"I mean, love 'em or hate 'em, Apple aren't stupid."

No, just greedy.

They would have to do another lawsuit to get any onerous charges reduced or eliminated.

Cheaper for Apple to finance multi-year legal battles then actually pay people an honest income. That tells you how much money is on the line.

Anyone who has dealt with a cranky two year old has the same experience as vendors dealing with Apple.

Re: Ice mining

Knowing Lockheed Martin, they'll equip any retrieval device with a pair of Hellfire missiles in case the locals get uppity.

Re: Utterly sh*t

W11 is a data surveillance platform with full integration with the NSA datacenters.

Or are you a "sure, they bugged international telephone cables, faxes and emails for 70+ years, but not Windows 11" person.

Re: Agree 100%

Incognito browsing. Close the browser and bye bye cookies. (Yes, there is a bit more to it than that. Just imposing brevity.)

Every time I see the Europeans kicking Google, Apple, Facebook et al. in the pants for being personal data vacuums, it fills me with hope that humanities rights are greater than corporate bottom lines.

Then I remember BREXIT and shudder at what we're in for here.

Re: How about this instead...

"Legislation to punish online services for users' illegal content would damage speech and encryption, it's claimed"

And this legislation will make rich mega-corps even richer, so swings and roundabouts really.

It isn't the CEO / CIO

It's the accountants with their (penny decimals set to four digit) Excel sheets cutting corners to reduce overall costs by any means.

In their minds, quality is an excess that can be removed, They are the reason modern corporations outsource IT, why todays burgers taste like cardboard and why services have user fees.

Intel accountants felt that cutting back on R&D would improve the bottom line and damn the consequences.

Re: Someone here can tell me.....

"Assume your adversary is capable of one trillion guesses per second. If the device you store the private key and enter your passphrase on has been hacked, it is trivial to decrypt our communications."

-Citizenfour

Re: Would be really nice

Let's Encrypt certs have a duration less than the half-life of Fermium.

All they have to do is wait and the problematic certs will be replaced.

LE certs are a great idea, but the 90 day time span is just silly.

Re: Too true

"Players and executives often remain tight-lipped and refrain from speaking out against the Chinese government over fears that the NBA could lose out on fans and lucrative sponsorship deals by upsetting the Middle Kingdom."

And then no one is surprised when nothing changes. Support dictatorships at your peril. If the CCP have not banned you or your company, then you are not doing a good enough job. They need us and our disposable income a lot more then we need them and their shoddy knockoffs made by political prisoners.

Re: There's something I don't get

Corporations routinely use (or copy) free or Open Source code for their own benefit; where do you think Excel and Android came from?

Open Source should be free to individuals, but companies who use that code for profit need to pony up some of that cash to support the people responsible for making them money. They make billions and owe nothing.

Try using any of their software without paying and watch as they release rabid lawyers upon you.

Re: What would happen if

"Netizens on Weibo, one of the biggest Chinese microblogging sites, slammed Intel over this letter, and sided with the Chinese government"

Given that disagreeing with the CCP government subjects you to hefty jail time, this is hardly surprising.

Re: Good.

My contact list has decreased significantly over the last year. Almost all anti-vaxxers have been removed. Either by myself, tired of reading their ignorant posts and theories, or right after the funeral / memorial service.

Re: Discovery

"The Star Trek computer was part of our original inspiration for Alexa,"

Monitoring users and determining what they need through surveillance to generate profit inspired Alexa.

The CPC wants Taiwan as a prize. It can be a barren uninhabited island covered in craters of radioactive glass and they'd be happy.

Taiwan is a beacon of democratic resistance to the communist dictatorship. That alone is enough to damn them. Hong Kong, Tibet, the Urghars, the South China Sea (and many others), all ground under the heel of a despot nation to prove their superiority.

Every nation on Earth should recognize Taiwan as an independent country and place Red China under the heaviest of sanctions until the CPC amend their ways for the better.

Typing those words in China would subject me to a three year jail sentence.

Re: Now the question is...

Any western business that does business in mainland China is tacitly accepting their human rights abuses, constant lies and suppression of minorities.

What's a few political prisoners as long as their bottom line is healthy?

Re: "Just like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter"

Fight this horse plop with all your might, because when governments see others clamping down on freedoms without any push back, it's inevitable they try to do the same to yours.

"The government is committed to levelling up the country through digital infrastructure, and will not hesitate to act if required to protect our critical national telecoms infrastructure."

BT is barely beyond the telegraph level of hardware. It needs a lot of investment and modernization to stay competitive.

Patrick should invest in a direct BT competitor and leave full government control over the sinking ship in UK Gov hands.

Re: Being a better workplace?

“The Board has engaged an independent 3rd party firm to do a leadership and cultural assessment. "

Corp-speak for "Standby while we're looking for someone junior to blame."

@Throatwarbler Mangrove

"Not to derail the conversation, but ... "its."

Not to be pedantic, but it's "Throatwobbler Mangrove" according to original Monty Python source material.

C'mon Reg, You Missed The Obvious...

Let's call it Jabba.

Re: The results speak for themselves

Was +3.8% for BREXIT and look how well that turned out. The majority is always right.

"I have a horse... He runs on carrots..."

Re: its not where, but what.

At the end of the day, I turn my workstation off. Zero electricity costs after that point.

Cloud computing is on 24 / 7 / 365 with multiple redundant data centers on standby burning through multiple KWh of electricity regardless of who is on.

There is no such thing as cloud computing, it's just someone elses computer. The fallacy that someone else can manage your hardware or software better than you has been proven wrong repeatedly. It's more expensive, it's less ecological and puts your critical data in the hands of another corporation.

This misinformation is spread by companies like Microsoft who make billions in guaranteed revenue hosting other peoples data. Over time they are removing on prem options forcing you onto their hosted systems. It isn't a better business solution for you, but it does make Microsoft a massive profit.

Over time, the MS accountants will get involved reducing staff and equipment quality over time while raising usage fees, once people no longer have on prem options, to improve their profitability at your expense ending in massive outages and trillions in losses. And everyone who falls for the "Cloud" horse dung marketing will deserve what they get.