Posts by Mark 85

Re: Probably cheaper

It's obviously not about "cheaper" but about the write-offs for tax purposes. Buy the company.... write-off. Wind down products and employees.. write-off. Losses instead of profit in the middle of all this.. write-off. Sell it off at a loss... write-off.

I'm kinda' wishing (in an evil way) they'd do this with Windows 10.

Re: Is it just me, or...

And it's also part of the name of one of our favorite comedy teams.... "It's just a flesh wound!"

Re: @Microsoft

there aren't alternatives but because corporate users will simply not retrain their personal or put themselves in a position where there is not an ample supply of labor that has familiarity with alternative application software.

Then the corporates and their employees are all screwed because they will need training. Everyone who I've talked to says it does take a lot of re-thinking about how to do things.

Re: Weed whacker is more eco

Then the solution is simple... kill all the goats, sheep, cows, people. The grass and flowers can take over.

Re: Just lost 10 hours this week already...

I'm still waiting for some pissed-off lawyer who PC got upgraded to 10 and trashed it. Then possibly a class-action suit. I suspect that's what it will take...

Re: Cheapest answer

Perhaps that's the best answer... patent troll attorneys start ending up in a carpet rolls in the woods and the lawsuits might just stop... Then again, there's greed and there's lawyers... together they might just think the risk is worth it.

Re: Passwords are irrelevant when resetting them is an insecure process

I've seen that on a couple of sites. What they appear to be doing is grabbing info from a credit report as they have answers for things like: "where do you live" that are places I've never lived but the ex-wife did. Yeah... she tagged my identity a couple of times and it took some real screaming at the credit report people to get it fixed. But they still show up from time to time.

Color me pissed off... So pissed off in fact, I've gone back to those sites and demanded they cancel my account and remove all information on me or the lawyers will be knocking at their door. Get pissed enough and firm enough and they can and will remove you.

@Voyna i Mor -- Re: Why would they? - I guess that the droid boy is more prudish than we thought.

Zuckerberg wants world domination, for starters.

There it is in a nutshell. I trust everyone remembers his statements about how he views his company "users".. err... "product". Nothing but scorn because they will give him everything. Meantime, he has a large wall of privacy around him.

Personally, I won't use or buy anything from a company FB owns if for no other reasons than a) his attitudes towards everyone else and b) I don't want to be snooped and monetized.

Re: Lesser of two evils

Not the FBI. Given the politics this year, the Republican Party should probably be paying him.

Re: But...

That's coming, along with the orange paint and the Confederate flag but probably not until they build a couple of jumps in the track.

Re: Will they carry out a similar study ...

So when is the next revision of "The Little Red Book" due out? I'll assume that MAGNANIMOUS GLORIOUS LEADER is title, not name. So minimal change then?

@sux2bu -- Re: Corporate networks decrypt SSL

Two things to remember. Never underestimate the power of a stupid voter and just as important, PEBKAC! (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)

Exactly. If you walked up to the average person sitting in a coffee shop with their laptop and asked them if they had the padlock on the URL bar, most will give you a blank look. They have no clue what it means or do they have a clue what a MitM attack is. I suspect that if the average user did have a clue, they wouldn't use their laptop in the coffee shop. Or, they would be using VPN, etc. Most don't even know the first thing about VPN, like what it means.

Re: AND a better picture...

I'm assuming the pic of Dabbsy. Interesting how he metamorphosed due to the time machine....

@K - Re: I'm torn between..

See the SR-71 also then... as well as everything else. The museum is well worth the trip.

Re: past performance predicting potential problems

One of the main fears seems to be that if China gets too much input, they might just require massive web censorship. Same for Russia. I could see where those powers might demand micro-control. For example, a lot of posts and articles here in El Reg wouldn't be allowed.

And the corruption and misuse of funds by the ICANN is a big problem. Really too big to be ignored. It's one thing to buy the office a round of coffee or two but quite another to spent the millions on the unaccounted things.

Re: Isn't it time to start thinking in terms of Human Mission Support?

Good surfing though...

Perhaps it would have been 3 Billion years ago... today, it's probably sand surfing. Cowabunga!!!

Re: And the patent to UN-STICK the pedestrian???

Clothes..? Hit someone in a WalMart parking lot in July and there won't be much in the way of clothing stuck to the car.

Re: why is Theranos still a thing?

It's not just her, but the whole C-Suite should see some serious jail time. Banishment is basically somewhere below a verbal warning since it's industry specific. I wonder how many patients got the wrong treatment or no treatment based on their "test results" and died. This is beyond a mere travesty.

Re: Smells like a Joe Job to me

You're assuming then that Anon is filled with members old enough to know what a Joe Job is?

Re: Extraterrestrial?

Landing lights for the incoming B-Ark.

Great....so who's going to prison for this? At least one person should!!

If anyone does, it'll be some very low level person then again.. probably no one. Hell, Nixon's secretary didn't go to jail for deleting the tapes did she?

In some industries, this could lead to no job offer or a firing if found out.

True except in the tech/web world. How about "peeple.com"? Or the history of certain companies twisting and extorting suppliers... MS and the OEM's several decades comes to mind. Maybe he could work for Google to establish a "non-tracking" scheme...

Re: Sorry??

From the article, it probably should have been "lack of or incorrect cybersecurity"..... But then again... this is government so who knows. <shrugs> Not I.