Posts by Kev99

Too bad mictosoft doesn't bother with such in depth testing anymore.

Many years ago some genius in congress decided to raise the tariffs on Japanese vehicles thru the the roof, especially pickups. Subaru got around it by putting two jump seats in the bed of their Brat. Drive down any road and you see how effective those tariffs were. It was around the same time American cars went from acceptable to rolling dust bins.

I bought some ink off Amazon that was half the cost of hp branded ink. Interesting that the ink would not flow correctly until I "cleaned" the cartridges. About every ten pages. Since I'd bought the same brnd before and never had to clean the cartridges, it makes me wonder if the printer was intentionally choking the cartridges.

"Is there no cure for this cyber-plague?" Yes there is. Quit putting confidential. proprietary, business critical data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor just because it's free.

I know of a cheap almost free way to keep win10 safe. It's the same thing I used for win7 until micotsoft's sycophants purposely crippled their software to not function except under win10. It's called Common Sense.

1) Install a good anti-virus, anti-malware package. I'm partial to Norton since it's what I've used since 1985.

2) DO NOT click on every URL link that shows up in emails and web sites. If you don't recognise the site, don't click.

3) Get a decent email client that will show the real address of the sender when you hover the cursor over the sender name. That let's Outlook out. Again.

4) Regularly use CTRL-SHIFT-DEL to clear the browser.

5) Set the browser to clear everything when you close it.

6) DO NOT leave the browser open all the time. If you're not actively using it, close it.

7) Only install reputable software from reputable vendors. That means if Joey in accounting has a great app he wants you to use, DON"T.

8) Install a decent cleaner, such as BleachBit or CCleaner. In a pinch, use mictosoft's built in disk cleaner (that they bought from another software house decades ago).

9) There no need to have "office" software that connect to the internet in order to function.

10) DO NOT allow mictosoft to force you to log into their network in order to use YOUR computer. There's absolutely no need for it.

Is that a real, dollars and cents, cash money, loss? Or is it the smoke and mirrors AICPA accounting rules, tax evasion loss? Most likely the latter.

One thing that confuse me. If Linux is so good, why does the kernel need to be updated continually? Can't Torvalds get it right?

Yup, let's put our proprietary, confidential, business critical data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor. It's perfectly sfe and secure. Besides. it's FREE.

Intel is throwing off billion in free cash every year. Instead of using their own money, they want to suck at the public teat while feathering their nests and those of wallstreet. Aren't these subsidies what a certain polity claims to be socialism?

Hurry up and buy a subscription for your perfectly capable software. Why? Because mictosoft needs to continue to rip off its customers and keep the greedy goofs on wall street happy.

Boo-hoo-hoo.

Intel is throwing off BILLIONS of free cash flow. They no more need subsidies than the man in the moon. All the subsidies will do is fatten the pockets of the C-levels and wall street vipers.

I really wish reviewers would show/list real world statistics on how fat this distros are. How much RAM does it need to function? How much disc does it glom? What CPU will it need to avoid its own shadow. You know, stuff that minor impact on usability.

Let's see. The IG thinks NASA should centralise all its HEC infrastructure and rely on the bunch of holes held together by vapor for storing mission critical, and in may cases, life dependent data. Let the missions talk together AFTER a mission is finished. I for one don't want to become Major Tom because some rectal orifices cramped NASA's style.

Is that a picture of a Xiaomi SU7, or a design study of a future Porsche Panamera? And isn't the SU7 an old Russian ground attack fighter?

I wonder if setting your VPN to a European address would us Yanks to benefit from the EU requirements? They sure as hell won't come to the US where we have the best con-gress money can buy. And remember what a group of Baboons is called.

Good grief! Doesn't anyone bother to QC on their code?Doesn't anyone bother to keep an eye on CVE announcements to see if they might cascade to their kit? I swear the quality of code today horribly worse than ten years ago, or even twenty.

Real cash money profit or AICPA smoke & mirrors, fictional accounting rules profit?

Last I heard, Russia still replies mostly on paper ballots. Which, OOPS! Who let the hungry goats into the ballot rooms?

Too bad they couldn't strap a couple small thrusters on the puppy and aim it at the sun.

This reminds me of a prank we pulled on a coworker. He had the ratty, falling apart dictionary so two of us decided to glue and tape it back together. In order to make sure everything was held tightly, we wrapped about a dozen rubberbands around the book. And taped them to his desk.At the end of the day he went to put his dictionary in his desk, after thanking us for trying to repair it. He gave a yank, the rubberbands yanked harder, and he almost face planted into his desk.

Mictosoft hasn't know what quality control is since w3.0. Every update that comes along seems to be mostly to fix errors that the original code or updates have caused. And in win11 so secure why does mictosoft keep spitting out security updates/patches?

When Henry Ford first started out, he did everything he could to have a vertically integrated company. Libby Owens Ford was originally Ford's glass company. River Rouge Steel was his in house steel mill. He even had a rubber plantation in Brasil. So what goes around, comes around.

Oh, let's put our business critical, proprietary, confidential, and private data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor. It's free, so it won't cost us a dime. Plus, the savings from this secure & free marvel we can throw into our back pockets and Wall's Streets.

Doesn't surprise me.

Ask Weird Al Yankovic what celebs think about impersonations. Everyone should be covered. Period.

I still belive the technology exists for the phone companies to track & identify spoofers. If they don't know where a call originated it makes it very hard to complete the connection. Even VOIP needs to connect to a number.

By the way. As of 5:48 PM ET, there was nothing on the FTC public comment web site about this rule.

If you don't want everyone and his sibling to have access to your personal, critical, proprietary, or confidential information, then don't put it out on bunch of holes held together with string / vapor ('Net/Cloud).

I still believe the winn11 hardware requirements have nothing to do with functionality and everything to do with helping mictosoft's sycophants sell new kit to replace perfectly serviceable machines.

IT would be great if they also cracked down on insurance company bureaucrats playing doctor and denying coverage for meds and procedures a persons physician has determined to be necessary, and in some cases, critical.

The price alone shows some people have more dollars than sense. Which is true for almost all Apple products.

Besides mictosoft's shenanigans, my wife has discovered some related bovine excrement courtesy certain web sites. She will often enter various sweepstakes or order items online. She claims the sites will only function correctly using edge. Hmmm...Sound phishy to me. I have noticed that the HGTV sweepstakes page returns the underlying code instead of the web page when successfully entering their sweeps.

{"state":"success","url":"/display/confirm/sweepstake/a587a142-38bd-4a4b-ad68-939d090ab1d1/313669/confirmation?campaignId=313669&channelId=30847&medium=direct&source=hgtv&containerId=32a0e70d-bc38-4281-af24-46e89bac32f7&channel=website","entry":{"id":"9e586639-6cdf-471a-b890-c20d7a63461c","uid":"w1f1ef105ebef075e0fe0788fc782b5a9","ngx_ext_id":"62a4e7faf65bc16d411a1a6c6728747b","ngx_ext_id_type":"integration_id","content":{}},"route":{"routeRef":"display:route:activate","token":"|:|WmF2No9XkTU4GX41y8L_Fw3ZLK9xFfG5BrBqtY70yEU"}}

Intel no more needs government subsidies than the man in the moon. It's just one more case of corporate America suckering and extorting the various governments into throwing tax dollars at them so they can fatten their own back pockets and make wall street drool.

One of these decades people, businesses and governments will realise the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor is NOT safe or secure. Prior to DARPA releasing the 'net into the wild, electric companies used their own power lines, railroads used their rails and telegraph lines, and many, many businesses used dedicated lines to transmit their data. Then the beancounters decided that since the net was free everything should be put there and hang security and safety. C levels agreed because it made their stock options more valuable and made wall streeters gloat. And gave jobs to PFYs.

Yes, please. And be sure to ENFORCE the law, unlike the do not call registry which is largely ignored and unenforced.

"Although Microsoft is noted for maintaining backward compatibility,..." PINFEATHERS! Mictosoft is as bad if not worse than apple on backward compatibility. They purposely crippled millions of pc with their hardware requirements for win11 and did the same for software when win10 came out.

But, how fat are they? RAM? HDD/SSD?

Can't they look for the related files and whack them?

Considering the umpteen dozen CVE patches mictosoft has issued just for win11, I'm not at all surprised.

Benny Hill Called It Decades Ago When He Asked If You Really Wanted To Fly On A Plane Called "Boing".

Why does AI need to be included in ANY software other than dedicated AI programs or databases? Just because mictosoft thinks it's the be all to end all doesn't make it a good idea. I've been using computers since the old TI-99-4A and I've had no desire or expectancy to use AI. It's far, FAR from being perfected, secure, stable, or uniform.

Over on the mictosoft forums, out of 300+ ;posts, only one or two will accept copilot. Everyone else want to get rid of it. The only way to do it so far is to delete ALL traces of Edge on the PC drive and in the registry. No loss losing Edge.

Why does anyone need to have their appliances connected to the internet?

We're still using office 2016 and arr quite satisfied with it. Well, as satisfied as one can be with mictosoft bloatware and open door policy to hackers.

Hopefully someone will find a way to block the telemetry as they have with mictosoft's spyware. Either that, or Reynolds Aluminum Foil will start coming in 3 meter wide cartons.

I wonder if they'll do anything about mictosoft's plan to put a copilot key on keyboards.

Do any of these outfits bother to run QC on their code?

Once more the idiocy of putting confidential, business critical data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor is proven.Are these entities so beholden to their bean counters that security means nothing?

Isn't interesting the analysts almost always miss actual results?