Posts by Mark 85

Re: Magic blue smoke...

Did you ever notice that when there was a loud "boom" or flames and smoke that unlike everyone else in the building running for the exits that engineers run towards the "boom"?

Re: When it’s their money...

If you owe them, as in they overpaid... yes automatically fixed. If they owe you, you'll need to fill out 10 forms in triplicate, attach a sample of your spleen, and wait until hell freezes over.

Re: @Wiltshire

Wrong... go to the FB link on the article page for this any other story... and then click the FB link. You'll see this:

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Yes.... El Reg seems to be Zucking us if we're so inclined to use FB.

Re: An Interesting Indent.

Most consumer drones operate on the unlicensed 2.4 & 5ghz band's it's not exactly subtle to roll up and disable all wifi in a block's radius, even the dumbest drug dealer is going to notice that.

No but if they put in some transmitters at more than a few random places on the boarder they wouldn't have to be manned. The effect would be that the bad guys would assume there's agents in place. Maybe kick off the jammer, have a half dozen agents run around for a week to show a presence and move on. Seems this getting to Spy-vs-Spy stuff. Do it enough with manning the sites randomly and the bad guys won't know if the border patrol is there or not.

Re: Return ticket?

and then comes home again? Wow!

I would hope that's the plan. We send them and leave them there...alone. They should come back home.

Re: Microsoft’s business models require stealing and reselling personal data

There's no "value" if the system keeps crashing as they'll just piss of the users who will find a new operating system. Their execution stinks.

But if it will help, there's potatoes in hash. And then there's hash for smoking...

This whole mess started back in the early 70's so nothing new here except the ferocity of the attacks. Back then, it was pure numbers.. the company needed X-number of engineers and Y-percentage could not be white. Not qualification based at all. Lots of folks were hired to fill the quotas without being able to do the work. Little has changed excepted the volume level of the attacks have increased.

Re: Respect to Musk but...

Part of the problem arises from a person being a visionary running a company of growing complexity. They are too focused on the ideas and big changes, but have little grasp of the detail needed to make a company of growing complexity, work.

I wouldn't say it's "part of the problem". In this case, I think it is the problem. Visionaries are good and great, but somewhere they need some advisors on how to implement that vision. Lately, things go the other way.. the bean counters run things and nothing happens.

Re: A bit of levity

Having a tinfoil hat is only a partial solution. It's also needs be grounded which requires a bit of wiring which might be substantial depending on where (location... like home) you wear the hat.

Re: ROFL...

I trust that clarifies the "paying for talent" myth for any budding MBAs reading this.

It should but the reality is that the MBA's won't read El Reg as it's below their pay grade. Now if a financial paper was running these articles it would be a different thing.

Re: I guess they will use this for deep space probes? like old RTGs ?

You could hook it out of spent nuclear fuel, but Merkins refuse to process the stuff. Even on site, even if it's going straight back inside a PWR.

Sad but true due to politics, the "oh my god nukes" brigade, etc. It would probably be safer to process on site than to ship it across country and bury it.

This really has nothing to do with "left" "right" or even politics. It has to do with being human, both the good and bad side. If you can' see beyond that, then there's a problem and it's not those of us who can.

Re: It WILL be found...

The ocean is very corrosive to metals. Part of this problem is the currents and how broken up was the craft before (from the dive when engines died) and how hard it hit. It's not like it did a nice controlled ditching.

Re: Claim They Did Nothing Wrong...

What is it with the culture nowadays, where so many people lie and have absolutely no conscience in doing so ?

Simple really, money and power. Add in a bit of "I got mine, so screw you." and so it goes. Look at the "activist investors" or even high government officials in every country.

Carl isn't interested in manglement or the company. He's a vulture who will strip the assets, sell of what he can and bankrupt (for a nice deduction from his taxes) the rest. Read up on him a bit.

The concept of activist investor isn't what he is.

Rich11... you best claim the movie rights for that.

Re: GDPR

I see your points but the reality is that FB should just shut up and comply with the law as it is now and comply with new one when it takes effect. Or.... they could just close up shop, take their millions and party for the rest of their lives. But we know that at the end of this month, the crap will hit the rotating air movement device as FB tries to continue doing business as usual and more lawsuits will be tossed about. I'm thinking lawyers are cheaper than losing the income from the ads.

Re: Common Sense Approach

The key result will be that Uber just has to make sure that the drivers don't put in more than 38 hours (in most states) a week. By doing that, the workers are all "part time" and thus, no benefits such as insurance, paid vacations, etc. The catch is that if the State is a "will at work" one which many if not all are. This throws a lot more fuel into the fire.

Re: Salary - That leaves patriotism

Ah... the same problem here in the States. Different people, same results however. Oh.. add the Norks as a "problem" along with Russia although in a couple of weeks (at least here in the States), the enemy will probably change.

Re: Facebook absolutely cares about your privacy.

Good conspiracy theory there.... I'm just not sure how much is theory and how much is reality though. Hell, even a non-FB user is tracked any more. I'll know if the conspiracy is out of the genie bottle if I suddenly get emails about "perfect matches". At which point... I'm thinking I'll nuke the computer and move to the woods. It'll be too late to nuke it from space.

Re: "Upgrading users should be able to ignore the viewer as before."

Thus, we have a couple of desktops and a laptop (for travel). I only update them one at a time... just in case. Even still, I usually wait at least a week to see what issues occurred. But if I had only one, I'd be very reluctant to ever run an update....

I find it sad that a company that accomplished what they did for Concorde is now doing iPhones.... seems like we as a civilization have slipped.

Re: "Keep clicking, Windows-lovers! It's bound to come along soon."

Not only have MS already dog fooded it internally, but several million voluntary beta testers that have signed up for Windows Insider have already tested it. So in fact way more testing than any other competing OS gets before release.

Do you really believe this or are you a paid troll? If they have (and may very well have) that many "testers" willing or unwillingly, then they are doing a piss poor job of fixing the deficiencies found. Testing is fine, fixing is different issue.

Re: Why would Apple (or anyone else) want to be in the loop?

The keys in the repository, if held by the manufacturer, would not have to be delivered to either domestic or foreign law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

This might work if the keys were not accessible from any network. LEA wants a key, it gets emailed or hand delivered to them. Behind a firewall isn't good enough it would only isolation will work.