Posts by NoneSuch 2657 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2010
"In the meantime, users and admins are advised to protect themselves as best they can by avoiding software from untrusted sources and making sure their firmware and drivers are fully up-to-date and patched."
Says in the article this IS trusted software signed by MS. The cycle of flawed software > patch > Oops flawed software again > patch etc. is getting really hard to swallow day after day after day. Either the core tools that make these programs is flawed, the people who write this stuff are morons, or deliberate holes are being created by unknown actors for back door access. None of those options is assuring.
Whenever I see "Trusted Installer" in the process list, I shiver. I don't fekking trust it. They have abused my trust too often to put that title on a process and not have me laughing until I cry. Control over our personal computers and devices is slipping daily and it will not end well.
"Of course, redundancies in the system meant the capsule descended safely on just two parachutes and had there been a crew onboard, the 'nauts would have been fine. The test, trumpeted Boeing, actually validated that redundancy and highlighted "the robust and redundant safety features" of Starliner."
We design redundancy into our systems knowing the QA team have done slap-dash work and something is definitely going to go pear shaped.
The dragons are stuck in so much epoxy as to be irreparable.
Apple is suspended over a sheer drop and they are reaching up and slowly cutting the only rope. Let them add more razor wire on top of their walled garden. Their billions in cash won't last forever.
Fan boys may click the down thumb now.
It used to be mainframes which slid to workstations now we're going back to servers in the cloud.
Microsoft can only sell what people will buy. If you don't support on-prem today, don't be surprised when that option is removed and your data is held on their servers, subject to a monthly fee for access.
Think about that. It's your data and you need to pay someone else to access it. Any business putting themselves in that position cannot complain when things go pear shaped.
...that goes into the wilds relying on a fecking phone app for survival deserves what they get.
'Reg reader "Dobbs" told us that on his next stroll "in the Lakes", he'd be "taking good old paper maps and a compass rather than relying on the OS Maps app.'
Good. Also, take some water, rations, a rugged knife, an emergency blanket, firesteel, dress in layers and be otherwise prepared to stay out there for 48 hours, regardless of how long you plan on going. Tell someone where you are going and when they can expect to hear from you.
The survival kit I carried in the Canadian bush was used 95% of the time on people I found lost, dehydrated and bewildered on trails.
Man 1: "We had to make the frame ultra-light, so it doesn't handle turbulence well, might crash."
Man 2: "But it's weather-tight otherwise?"
Man 1: "Of course. However, rain tends to weigh it down and performance decreases, might crash."
Man 2: "Can't get it wet and keep it out of the wind. Can't imagine that will be a problem. So what's the cost?"
Man 1: "4.1 million Pounds each, might crash."
Man 2: "We're paying for this out of an MoD account, so we'll take fifty."
Man 1: "Excellent. That will give you superb coverage of all of Afghanistan."
Man 2: "Oh no. These are for post-BREXIT border enforcement in Northern Ireland.
"When police are investigating a terrorist plot or serious crime such as child exploitation, they need to be able to move forward without delay,"
By terrorist plot or serious crime, they mean whistleblowers, the press or anything else that threatens their re-election.
So businesses are being harangued by government agencies. Not for encouraging "anti-social" behaviour, but because their product might be used for anti-social behaviour.
Seems to me the politicians are just trying to insulate themselves from criticism, regardless of whether it is deserved or not. That's from the North Korean playbook.
If MS Engineers say your 9's should be 0's then your 9's should be 0's and you should be thankful for it. They simply know better than you.
They patch and reboot your PC when they want.
They download your personal info and data from your PC whenever they want.
They monitor your PC usage, who you talk too, where you go on the Internet and what you buy.
They install software automatically without your say so.
They use your bandwidth as they see fit.
They turn on services you disabled, because you really didn't mean to do that.
We're obviously incapable of making adult decisions by ourselves. Thank you Microsoft. Thank you.
I had a Win10 workstation generating videos for a time sensitive project due the next day. I had previously disabled the Windows Update service so it would run unimpeded.
Came back the next morning to find WU had turned itself on, installed updates and rebooted. That cost me money and was the last straw. I'm now using a Linux based OS with Open Source video encoder. It's faster to process video, I can uninstall what I don't want and I choose when to update it.
In the immortal words of Father Jack, Microsoft can feck off.
Critical Security updates wouldn't be necessary if MS would let me uninstall their piece of garbage browser(s) from my OS.
Time after time after time I have to patch my servers and workstations for software we don't use or even want on our machines.
The frequency of these events is either terminal stupidity or the NSA paying off MS engineers to keep the flawed software in place.
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