Posts by Prst. V.Jeltz

ok , so they are even more hidden from the user than Windows file extensions.

How does the user know what type of file it is and what the OS is going to do with it ?

Re: Begging the question

well , to get back to the original point , and indeed title of the article "MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?"

If an AI ingests copyrighted material by these legal routes and remembers it ,

how is that different to me remembering it ?

and I didnt have to pay the copyright holders

"Why isn't there a nice graphical config page"

so its scriptable and remotley adminnable , people doing that dont need nice graphics , although I'm sure you can buy a nice gui for it .

see also WMI

same applies

Re: MPs on a jury duty style system

I would have more respect for MPs , the ones in cabinet positions , if they didnt constantly RESHUFFLE to ensure that none of them are any good at their job and any mistakes can be run away from or blamed on the previous fellow.

and also if they voted on behalf of their constituents , or whats morally right - instead of whichever way the boss of their party tells them to.

and also if they didnt treat their job lack some sort of saturday doss around and get *other* jobs as well!

Re: Bogus

First, deltree does not 'delete the windows system'; it will delete ANY subdirectory tree you *tell it to delete*.

Yes , thats not in debate , the author was telling you which directory he was using it to delete !

wether deltree would follow a shortcut or sytem link out of that tree is another question

Also how deltree would do this with the files in use is dubious.

does that mean he talked the user , on the phone , through booting on a diagnostic disk , before scraping windows off the disk and putting it back ?

and then all the other crap that goes with that?

That is a worst nightmare scenario

Re: Outlook/Exchange ?

surely the the software you use to read emails is the least of your problems in this endeavor

Re: Locks.

I always found server racks / cabs fairly easy to open as the lock was always just clipped into a circular hole in the metal or glass and could easily be rotated with a screwdriver in the keyhole.

Perhaps they wernt the highest quality.

£90k car just by waving a sheet of tinfoil around.

I find it unbelievable cars are not 100% secure with the encryption techniques available,

Instead they seem to be working in the other direction by producing keys that you have to physically restrain from giving your car away to a scumbag in the middle of the night by putting it in a tin box!

Re: Daft?

" backing up the most recent two months, truncating said months"

My eyes glazed over at that point and i decided not to try to digest the exact specifics and just carry on with the story, even though that is currently my exact stock in trade . I import / store present data to the dept next door which makes all the pretty pictures out of it, usually via a "view" . These views can easily get last week / month / year / fin year at any point of the current week / month / year / fin year without all that jiggery pokery in the story .

Like this for example

WHERE (CAST(payday AS Date) BETWEEN DATEADD(DAY, 1, EOMONTH(DATEADD(MONTH, - 13, GETDATE()))) AND EOMONTH(DATEADD(MONTH, - 1, GETDATE())))

I just assumed there must be other factors / complications , and skipped to the "lost 75gb" part

Re: glueing thin clients

Thats some double sided joined up thinking right there!

whats the point bolting a mini pc to the monitor vesa holes if that means the monitor can no longer mounted either on an arm(wall) or a stand !

I guess the real ugly solution would be to get one of those two monitor stands and use one arm for mini pc , one for monitor :D

Re: words to live by

"People (generally) want cars with funky looking lights"

Well they shouldnt be allowed to av em! ( capitalism! ) .Did you know in the USA there was only one approved headlight that had to be used from the 20s to as recently as the eighties? Imagine how cheap and easy to replace they would be! More parts should be "cross platform" like spark plugs and batteries are - why are not Alternators and starter motors a universal fit ?

thats always a risk , swapping or not - put a new sound card in - it might immediately get killed by whatever killed the last one.

Re: Mikhail Vasiliev the “cyber-terrorist”

can hack the lock with a McDonalds coffee stirrer then it ain't by definition protected.

Who gives a fuck about the lock?

Are you saying its ok to steal something if you dont damage the lock? or if the owner forgot to lock it?

Not to mention that other shit you said about "its impossible to damage a computer with software" no doubt alluring to the fact that even if the system is totally borked the hardware is undamaged? Tell that to the people who died as a result of that software being interfered with.

you seem to be mixing up old school early hacker rhetoric from hackers who were just looking around out of curiosity doing no damage , with modern day extortionists who cripple vital systems demanding ransoms.

Re: Stop using certain products then

30 years in and Microsoft still hide filename extensions by default .

This is probly the number one way the criminals get people to click on exes in an email.

They even do it on server installs , who is running a server and wants the filename extensions hidden?

Re: PFY's responsibilities

The key swaps would be best done with remotely via software at random intervals , then the users do the physical key swapping for you.

Re: Niche market

exactly what I came to say.

You can make your phone exceptionally rugged these days for about £10 down the market.

Slapping these protectors on phones and reselling them to companies at ten times the price is a bit of a gamble.

Re: also: Rockstars

(developing in the language Rockstar).

I had to google that . That is awsome.

"Tommy used to work on the docs"

Re: It's time

These are not millionaire international criminals cosying up to sympathetic regimes in order to have the spetnaz covering their back door!

. they're kids in their bedrooms .

In most cases if their IDs were known Interpol would pick them up from said bedrooms

Re: This must rate as the most moronic management policy ...

I always assumed the conductive bits of these bags were inside the plastic , or outside it, to prevent this sort of thing.

Whats to stop a motherboard with a battery in it having the battery tracks / pins shorted?

Re: Skip steps

Thanks , I was gonna ask for a TLDR

Re: Being remote is career limiting

I've lived by the seaside for 50 years.

You forget its there for years at a time .

Re: Fuses?

yet millions of people do that every time they board an airliner

Yes people trust in other people or machines sometimes . When They Have To !

Theres no point blindly doing it when you dont have to.

The two situations are completely different.

Why not implement a virtually free , possibly invaluable safety measure?