Re: never again
Just wait til you want an upgrade. You'll find that the BIOS has been rigged that you have to kiss that fundament where their brain is located. The commentator early that mentioned the Carly Gang did not go far enough.
Posts by Grinning Bandicoot
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We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners
US 'considering' end to Assange prosecution bid
Friday 12th April 2024 22:07 GMT
1 second decision
The comments read including this one raised a question: How many have been in a military or police force where the time to make that critical decision of shoot/not shoot is equivalent to the blink of an eye. Training is available but it is still in a controlled environment. I listened to a LASO member relate his experience in a shooting incident where when asked why he shoot 10 times was that was all the clip held. In other words when the adrenaline level rises generations of natural selection short circuit the upper brain levels.
One advantage that we have is today's technology which means we get to see what was seen and what the reaction was all while sitting on a cushioned chair in a safe air conditioned office. Peckinpah fans can rejoice it is now possible to see the gore however it misses the fatigue, the odors, whole scenery that leads to bad 'after the fact' decisions. The difference between being there and being here is much greater than the letter T.
A challenge if you can go to a shooting course, try it. See what stressors exist in the controlled environment, how you performed.
Also I found a quick way of aligning my telescope when taking solar shoots; watch the shadow move from oval to circle. This means the solar view is normal to the line of sigh and a circle is the view.
Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens
Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former coworker
Sunday 7th April 2024 04:37 GMT
It is strange what thoughts that sometimes follow. The question reminded me of the Hitchcock program where the nice little ol' lady meets the obliging ol' gent. Each presenting the other's ideal image. The final is two insurance adjusters explaining that both had a long string of spouses dying on the honeymoon.
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone
Sunday 7th April 2024 03:55 GMT
Okay lets say our clock lands on the moon and starts generating a precise time tick. Let us also declare the site Zero Longitude. The question then is how at 50 degrees does the signal get used? There are no non-relalivistic means for the time to be shared. A couple of remarks have implied a means and if Clark were still around make him happy
Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare
Tuesday 2nd April 2024 01:35 GMT
RE: First paragraph
HOOSANA! Today it appears that the lawyers that are the barbarians at the gates. The Liability laws have been bent far from the original form such that today when a fault is found and announced as part of a safety program the announcement is used as an admission of negligence.
Russia's Cozy Bear caught phishing German politicos with phony dinner invites
Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems
Monday 18th March 2024 17:08 GMT
Re: Easy solution
Paper is flammable. In one historical balloting the ballot boxes strangely caught fire while being transported. It was funny that it happened to be from an area that was strongly against the incumbents. Its easier just to remove the person from the registry and substitute your own voter which indicates the flaw in election boycott.
German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx
Friday 8th March 2024 22:40 GMT
Re: Huh?
In the 1920s the US Army had War Plan Red. A study of the invasion of the British Isles. An emergency is when an event happens and the reaction must be prompt, decisive, and correct. On this basis in retrospect Chamberlain was correct at Munich in buying time and the US Army figured its invasion of the Isles all wrong. Disaster planning is supposed to cover as many possibilities without regard to probability but then we would not have this Friday forum if done. So the Germans conversation could be nothing more than a late night in a strange hotel room musing.
Friday 8th March 2024 22:20 GMT
Re: Paranoia Is Mandatory In 2024!!
Your comment about listens precludes the observation that the 'bully boys' are on the rise without any regard to ideology. The nazis as the most preeminent and best known built a cult and systematically applied the symbolism to attract those without a strong (or maybe even a weak) internal code. It was structured in such way that once infected made a new lackey willing to go one step further. Today's lost ones see the symbols and the 'apparent' purpose that these symbols provide and goose step down the line. The Czar though not seeing the symbols, however, sees ethnic protection (Sudetenland for comparison with the Dombass). Yet if following past Russian performance the react rather than being low keyed would have been that of tank, APC and assault troops. This has the same historic background as the Cosacks sent to put down any state threat. That 'bully boys' are on the rise look we can how Hamas was slowly being shoved into the closet by varied Middle East countries or the rise of an Israeli party that wanted its own private militia so the present abattoir. Modi in India is basically playing the extremes. Again 'Bully Boyism' is on a growth curve because there a some without internal strength that need something to provide needed cojunes and as a consequence are unable to listen.
Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats
Tuesday 27th February 2024 04:29 GMT
YES - it is an election year
It sound like a big thing but USCG USC 14 and 19 has provided these powers prior to WW2 and in the late 40s 0r early 50s they were strengthened. Throw in USC 33 and 46 you can be told where not to anchor, when not to sail and who to remove from the crew. But since money is not fore coming it will be in the queue with all the other tasks that have been shoveled out to them.
China's Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of 'large' US city
Tuesday 27th February 2024 04:05 GMT
Re: No White Hats Anywhere?
Two believers route step for all to whatever destination chosen by the leader. The Scots and the Welsh taught the English the value of one making ones own destiny. It was the English and the Japanese that took the US from "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail" to the enthusiastic reading, viewing and writing of communications as taught to those Anglophiles of the Northeast US. But if such practices are so new what was that bit about the spear and the letter in Commentarii de Bello Gallico or why was Caleb with Rahab.
Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1,000-plus home, small biz routers
Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
Indian PM's advisors suggest AI might lead to 'mass schizophrenia'
Tuesday 6th February 2024 06:38 GMT
Re: Digression...
I had a lot of fun building outrageous conspiracy theories about Covid but the one that bothers me at times has to do with the International Cooperative Games held in Wuhan just prior to the outbreak, The US team reported that they were feeling ill during the competition and attributed their falling short of their prior times. The US military gives sticks every oversea movement so the wicked thought was what if the various immunizations from around the world mixed in a low probability event. My best conspiracy theory had the Gnomes of Geneva as the causative agent. Such fun when stuck in traffic!
Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US
Tuesday 6th February 2024 04:47 GMT
Re: Saves billions of dollars for the Chinese
Sheeple want convenience and ease of use. If you doubt this go into ancient history, read the tears about the computer doing what is was instructed to do exactly not what was meant by the user. MS/DOS had the virtue of forcing thinking; hence it quick replacement.
Security is some variety of an inverse function of easy use. If the barns double barred and padlocked too, one is not going horse riding on a whim
EFF adds Street Surveillance Hub so Americans can check who's checking on them
Tuesday 30th January 2024 00:26 GMT
GIGO The equipment is low bid and often installed and forgotten leaving a spiders' webs or maybe a slight splash of bird droppings to distort the image. So then it is up to the interpreter of the images to make a determination of what is and what is not shown. This sounds like a verrry borrring task which means it is kicked down to the bottom of the heap meaning the newbie. So then it becomes a matter of money - who has enough to out last the opponent. That a ticket received one time when I was three hours from the supposed incident turned into one of these farces.
I see somewhere in the near future that these systems will be used to follow the policing authorities with these of a felonious nature practicing their arts where the police are not found. Also a grand way to blacken someones rep, fake plates going to the local place of ill repute. Just think what has been done in the past and looking to future elections I see a lot of FUN.
Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing
Friday 19th January 2024 23:48 GMT
Re: Biggest problem.
Grazing mostly now with some dry farming so consumption likely will be greater per acre. If, however, a tightly designed cogeneration and water rehabilitation were built the increase water demand might be meet by importing Vacaville's waste water. However then health codes need be modified. However the unions will start a turf war.....
The 'however' is why this ideal will remain just a figment of over usage of Boonesfarm and Annie Green Springs.
NOTE: to those not of the area nor of the time Boonesfarm and Annie Spring were the name of cheap tipple nominally called wine.
Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten
Saturday 13th January 2024 08:21 GMT
This is nothing new. Back last century I needed a unit fast so based on my past experience with HP test gear I went out and bought HP. When time came to upgrade the hard drive found you had to fork over to them a bribe because of a little BIOS trickery. Bought a pre-merger Compacq laptop that failed under warranty and had to pay again to get it out of hock (post merger). I have in the past ranted about Hell's Products so I am not sure whether to feel pity or to say 'I til' you so.
Same channel, same program just a different time.Recently I was reminded of Harrison's Bill, the Galactic Hero and his method of trash disposal: wouldn't HP offices make a nice recipient?
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors
Saturday 13th January 2024 07:22 GMT
Re: RE: doesn't make someone an employee
If you are told a start and stop time is the first thing to consider in being an employee but if you agree to finish a job by a given date for a given amount then you look like a contractor. Where it gets tricky is when unrelated regulation (noise, dust,parking or such things) or the ordinary operating hours determine your work schedule. Taxifornia made the determination that track exercise boys were employees of the trainers because the of long continuing relationship, the assignment of the mount, and that the trainer had to be present.
What is not considered is the person employable in the labor market or through some debility find a barrier to employment. Will these rules prevent someone between normal employment or short of cash an opportunity to Not sleep in a tent or under a bridge. This in many ways sounds like an attempt to boost the NLRB and its union activities. I know for myself that if I need a helper for some home project it won't be done unless I can afford the costs before I start. Maybe too much Ann Rynd in me?
Infosec experts divided over 23andMe's 'victim-blaming' stance on data breach
Sunday 7th January 2024 05:27 GMT
23andme correction 23and us
My passwords for mid level privacy if collected could reveal the algorithm which I use to generate these passwords. For my deep secrets I airwall BUT when Intuit demands that you pay their fee and to regain access to your data does not the question become moot? To unlock MY data one must connect to Intuit after payment and allow them to allow me access. To me this indicates that the "Quicken" series of bookkeeping has within its code has a door whether its a little hatch or a barn door - its still a door without a welcome mat. So if this gang can get in who knows what follows.
I had several possible attacks when I used one popular fitness which stopped after I quit being fit. The proliferation of devices having Bluetooth, whether wanted or not, is another weak point and I sometimes wonder if the reprogramming of the radio in the vehicle has been done that way. Viewing the spectrum through the shared WiFi and Bluetooth band in my locale it is a wonder that there is communication. But with the observed background I am sure there is at least one nefarious listener.
As far as the gene people none are forced to participate and as has noted some interesting things are found. With me its the pattern on the mDNA traced from Syria to clusters east of the Urals and to the Finger Lakes area of North America. Must have been very good or very bad maybe very good at bad. It also indicated that some holier than thou types had a definite ethical change.
The problems that I've had with the 23andMe MFA has been the time required for the response against the time of receiving the code. If a response is required in 10 minutes and the code is received hours later then no need for the life time service to be done. Uncooperative fleecee. Yah the creature being clipped!
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
Friday 29th December 2023 19:18 GMT
Re: Integration
Yes co-generation should be an obvious answer to economic use of waste heat. If one uses the waste heat as part of a hot water heating system through a heat exchanger, it might be possible to locate into urban areas and sell the process heat. Single pass systems where the maximum extraction of useful energy is not practiced is on the way out. There will be problems as things evolve but the big ones will not be in the engineering.
Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired
BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown
Friday 10th November 2023 20:21 GMT
I want one too
Back in the days when CRTs ruled the roost and flat screens were avante garde our shop felt the need for a "group instruction" system. After going through varied authorized suppliers we found a nice flat screen, purchased and mounted it. Soon the word was out about our nice "group instruction" system. The complaints came first slowly but probably on a log curve grew. Now the system was purchased and installed under budgeted authority and well below limits; BUT! So a spread sheet was created and the original shopping was repeated except on the clock. More time was spent on the justification then had been spent on the "group instruction output device". Soon a weekly visit from management for a while. Then the word flowed down from above and all appeared well. And it was funny but a lot of CRTs suddenly started appearing in salvage
Google ends partnership to build four San Francisco GoogleBurbs
Hacktivist attacks erupt in Middle East following Hamas assault on Israel
Tuesday 17th October 2023 07:37 GMT
Curious cynic
It has aroused my curiosity about the timing of this flare-up of a war that started in 1930. The Israeli government was beginning to make a detente with the Saudis while Jordan and Egypt had settled into a watchful peace. In Israel one growing party rejected any thought of any agreement with anyone including the Israeli government while demanding the right to maintain a private militia (reports dis not cover the shirt color) and the Hamas loosing local support because their promises made 13 year ago when picked as authority for the area now of a cause that unites people behind their seemingly opposing views. Is this a putsch by two group seeking more power? Any answers or is this cynic seeing chimeras?
Now for something different
It was a mere two weeks ago i believe that the IRC announced rules about legitimate cyber targets. It appears that the League of Nations rules fared better; those rules lasted to 1935. There exists an adage abut Sam Colt and equality. It appears that this means of communication now makes the keyboard more dangerous and of longer lasting effect. What is and has been said here echoes other outlets (!) and might be partial proof that cyber guerilla will worsen until it is destroyed.
Scripted shortcut caused double-click disaster of sysadmin's own making
Red Cross lays down hacktivism law as Ukraine war rages on
Monday 9th October 2023 17:10 GMT
It looked like blooming flowers
Also not considered is the civilian acting as a guerilla (in the mind of the hacker) where in physical war just a token of military organization moves the civilian into the Geneva Conventions. Maybe the Letters of Marquis will return. Since Ivan the Third a culture of smiling friendly handshaking with one hand while the other holds the knife waiting the plunging moment has existed in Russia. Uncle Joe feed that culture and his ideological son V has celebrated the old Soviet state. Since it only takes one to make a war the IRC must be smoking some very strong stuff to have issued what it did!
There exists another state actor that has and is playing fast and loose with the international rules of conduct. Their historical ethos suggests strongly that this too is non-operatrive. The idea of war is to establish your will upon your foe in the most economical manner consistent with your goals and if non targeted damage happens - so what!
City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?
Friday 29th September 2023 20:12 GMT
On the other hand -Re: Big Brother plc
These same corporations cross ancient linguistic, ethnic, and religious lines which changes the balance of rivalries. This for better or more probably worse allows a different type of progressiveism than the past. If it weren't for some greedy SOBs risking their funds and lives organizing and participating in the Moscow Company and upsetting the state church I probably would not be here questioning a part of your core beliefs.
As to the British East India Company and the British West India Company the government of the UK derived funds that allowed such organized sports as the the American Revolt, the Boer Trek and of course the taking of the India subcontinent from the French. Seeing as to how internecine has returned to the area maybe your right it should have been left to the French.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
