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UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America'

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Re: What I see all the time

""So of course I get the same piece of mail redelivered, complete with my large Sharpie marking on it. I marked it in red Sharpie and tried again, and it was delivered to me again. One more try with a green Sharpie.

I then put it in an envelope and sent it to the nearest Postal Inspector's office, with a letter explaining the circus, and I haven't gotten the wrong mail for at least a week now.""

Next time use a Marks-A-Lot and blot out the little barcode the post office uses for it's data processing/routing that's just below the center address area. Then write "RTS" across the whole face of the envelope.

And, UnitedHealth currently has a major marketing program going to sucker users into their system for medicade/medicare services. Bunch of thieves.

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Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai

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Camels

Can they swlm?

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Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause

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Re: By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing...

"The Outer Limits".

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Re: What an excellent way to persuade people to

Yeah, You are now number 1...............

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Apple to allow some iPhones to be repaired with used parts

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Re: Usual Bullshit Bingo Weasel Words

Thank You

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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

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No adds for years

Brave browser, no extensions installed, no adds, no pop ups. I control java, group policy(Windows), firewall rules.

I haven't been bothered with crap for years and I won't be.

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3 million doors open to uninvited guests in keycard exploit

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Re: Garbage Locks

There are really strong in the magnetic field game.

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Garbage Locks

I was a Building Engineer for a few years. I could open many "electronic locks" with a magnet from a microwave. If you knew where to place the magnet and how hard to thump it they would pop right open.

No security at all. Even the security log wouldn't show entry at that time.

Security by malfeasance, that's the way it works today so some executive gets their bonus for the quarter.

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Fujitsu to shutter operations in Republic of Ireland

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Hey, Fugitsu

What's the corporate value of a life to you?

Never mind, I already know what value "Life" means to you.

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Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon

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Nounage and Verbage!

This is going to fuck my HOST file.........!

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Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11

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Re: Burn it with fire

I love O&OShutup10.

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World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

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Those trying to log into Meta's Facebook, Instagram, and Threads............Can't log in........

Not really a problem in my world.

0.0.0.0 Facebook, Instagram, X, Twitter, you get the drift.

Garbage, nothing but garbage I say!

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The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out

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Oedipus represents two enduring themes of Greek myth and drama: the flawed nature of humanity and an individual's role in the course of destiny in a harsh universe.

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Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption

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Kind of like america's gun laws then.. How is that working out?

And, everyone in euor-o-land owns a knife.

I can kill you with a rock, or a phrase........

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Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

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Ads

Haven't sen one in twenty years on any of my PC's.

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Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope

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Re: if you, as a "middle manager"

As we all know "Shit Rolls Downhill"!

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Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

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Once Again,

Please, think of the Children.

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At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form

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Re: On a giving things away the worst offender was my mother.

[1] Apparently they now have new paint which lasts longer, so they get a break[2]. Anyone know of anything with a never-ending paint job to replace it with?

Golden Gate Bridge, takes 5 year to paint

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Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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Gather All the Billionaires in One Spot!

It just makes them all easier to find at the right time to die by their own hand.

Or, with help if necessary!

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Exploit for under-siege SharePoint vuln reportedly in hands of ransomware crew

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>>>>>>>>>"Manual, SharePoint-specific patches are required to ensure the fixes are applied properly as patches won't be installed by Windows Update." - well add them to Windows Update ffs.

They're to busy rounding corners to do anything needed.

SharePoint, It do share there now doesn't it!

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Fidelity National now says 1.3M customers had data stolen by cyber-crooks

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So, What Do They Say...........

With there mouth full of what.

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Pennsylvanians, your government workers are now powered by ChatGPT

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How Cheap can Government Get

At this point, if I had any kind of charge in this state I would contest it all the way to the SOCTUS.

This is just WRONG.

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Xerox prints pink slips for 15% of workforce

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HP

From the article, it sounds like HP bought Xerox. /s

Watch out Xerox customers, the prices are a rising!

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Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago

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What crap load of side talk.

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Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater'

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Re: Of course sold out

Re: Of course sold out

> I happen to live on the Palouse where the original image was shot. Microsoft bought and paid for the entire field of WHEAT, then spray painted it green for effect.

Troll harder.

What I'm I trolling, I stated a fucking fact you moron!

Now, take your bot app back to the outhouse where it belongs.

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Re: Of course sold out

I happen to live on the Palouse where the original image was shot. Microsoft bought and paid for the entire field of WHEAT, then spray painted it green for effect.

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Japanese brewery using generative AI to dream up new beverages

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Garbage.............

Anybody can make it, even AI="Ain't Intelligent".

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Intel scores a reprieve in $2.18B VLSI patent case after court orders retrial

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OK.....I'm Confused?

Quote: "The Patent Office has already found both patents invalid. Intel looks forward to making its case to a jury that the VLSI patent sent back to the trial court is also of little value."

If the patents are Invalid, how can they be of low value or even (in)fringed?

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That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

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I think there is one safety critical standard that all the wires must be the same colour.

Generally on commercial or industrial equipment if all wires are the same color then each wire is individually numbered with either a tag(s) or a printed number in the insulation.

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Re: Indeed a good "Who Me?"

Having to check that 10,000 pins are correctly connected, down to the last one ?

I learn'd how to wire wrap in the 70's. We ohm'd out every trace. The largest assembly I did was 3K connections.

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Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab

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More BS

"Apple and Goldman Sachs are focused on providing an incredible experience for our customers to help them lead healthier financial lives," an Apple representative told CNBC. "The award-winning Apple Card has seen a great reception from consumers, and we will continue to innovate and deliver the best tools and services for them."

Focused on thieving more $ anywhere they can.

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Cruise parks entire US fleet over safety fears

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Re: The only way to make autonomous cars safe

Better yet, just cut a few cables and the entire problem is solved forever.

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It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

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Re: Optional

The switch on your phone just turns off the screen. The microprocessor has to awake several times a second no matter what.

Push the button in for 2 seconds and up pops a menu that says:

RESTART

POWER OFF

CANCEL

Guess what happens when you touch

POWER OFF.

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Optional

My phone has what's called a power switch.

I use it all the time.

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Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word

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We're

Getting into trouble here.

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UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters

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Re: Assumptions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionella_pneumophila

So what happens when the cold water isn't heated.

Here,let me explain.

It's called Chlorination, it's the process of adding chlorine or chlorine compounds such as sodium hypochlorite to water to kill bacteria, viruses, and other microbes.

In Vietnam we used Calcium Hypochlorite to kill the bugs in the water after running it through an evaporator.

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Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users

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This is Crap

Microshaft pushes this shit with their 23H2 update, can't uninstall it, then complains when their poop for service gets overwhelmed.

Maybe they should stop pushing crap and ask someone if they want copilot in the first place.

Sympathy (for MicroShit), it's in the dictionary - - - - someplace between "Shit" and "Syphilis".

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Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks

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YOU............

You don't pay me for what I do, you pay me for what I know................

And, if you are to stupid to already know this, I'm way happy to walk right NOW!

My favorite saying is "BYE BYE".

And India should worry about fixing their failed infrastructure, Clean up the nasty mess(pollution) shit hole they live in.

And stop trying to emulate China.

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Clippy-like AI at forefront of Windows update previews

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Rectify11 and OOSU10 (works on 11 too)

Rectify11 will smooth out your WinWhore visual issues, issues like improper scaling or using dark/black theme mode and not being able to set a lock screen image (plus other issues). Seems Micros~1 can't hire anyone to deal with issues such as these.

OOSU10 will lock down system settings using a lot of GP.

I just did the today update and haven't seen any of the new "Want to be Clippy of Today" shit.

Fine with me, If it wasn't for security updates I would have updates locked down and blocked forever.

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Cruise blues: Robotaxi firm pauses all driverless operations

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"How we can better operate in a way that will earn public trust."

Hey, General Motors

You blew your public trust out the window 40 years ago...................

Why don't you move your crap corporate headquarters to Mexico.

And sell your over price, shit engineered junk to the China!

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Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M

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Stock Options

...........and what are they worth?

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Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics

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AI...............

=Ain't Intelligent.

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LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most

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Linkedin

............nothing but a Large pile of SHIT!

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Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach

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In the event of publication this could affect Equifax Inc's share price

There's the fucking problem right there!

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The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue

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Xitter?

I just call it Shitter!

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After years of fighting Right to Repair, Apple U-turns-ish in California

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Louis Rossmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tB3t7xGWjk

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Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues

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Maybe..

People should try dialing a phone number and talklng again.

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Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

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Re: It Pays to Advertise?

Quote "I may get carried away, but the placement of ads could also be better. For the sake of argument: how about marketing cars in wildlife documentaries?"

Better yet, ads for guns! /s

Ad slingers want sympathy? It's in the dictionary someplace between "Shit" and "Syphilis". This whole thing is nothing but a cost to bear buy the customer and at a cost of about 30% of value, so we already pay for this shit on the front end.

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Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May

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We have asked the company for comment. ®

Might as well go talk to a wall!

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Google accused of urging Android devs to mislabel apps to get forbidden kids ad data

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What are they doing

"Where's the Money".

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