Posts by Alumoi

At least the Mafia has some sense of honor.

Re: WTF????

I wonder if all those politicians have even heard of video conferences. You know, when you settle your arse in your favorite chair, wearing only your briefs and a shirt with tie, looking into a camera and speaking into a microphone.

They don't fucking need to meet in person. Think of the savings in fuel, food, services, drugs, hookers, booze and so on they can save.

Re: But then

Why would he pay attention? He had Autopilot engaged.

/sarcasm

Re: Doing the Lords's wrok

EU: you're big, so we'll impose a large fine but don't worry, we won't collect it. Oh, and if we can come to an agreement we'll reduce the fine. But no worries, we still won't collect it.

USA: you're big, so we'll have you pay a small ammount, recognise you've done nothing wrong and carry on.

Re: @Korev "Well the Z in Regomised is still there..."

It's 'Vulgar' English and 'British' English. You know, just like it happened to the Roman Empire.

Re: Hidden the moment it arrived

Yeah, Microsoft listening to feedback NOT praising their crap. That would be a first!

Shoveling shit down the internet, right!

Re: Same old

You forgot influencers, politicians, celebrities, newspapers, lawyers...

Re: Google Maps asks how much I trust them

I absolutely trust Google to spy on me and they never broke that trust. So, for me, Google is trustworthy.,

Re: I Don't Care

You may want to give Cookie AutoDelete a chance.

Re: Whose data?

I take it your cars are at least 10 years old, right? And none has a CAN bus or you've never visited a service which connected to your car.

Re: 1st law of thermodynamics

Space?

Re: Simple

Big corps already own a lot of goverment (officials). Why should they pay taxes like serfs do?

Re: Aston Kutcher's startup Thorn has its finger prints all over this push for client side scanning

Funny, no such messages on FF or Edge.

It's been done before. Remember the Inquisition?

Re: Chrome

Chrome, Edge, same shit different name. I'm pretty sure MS removed all Google spying and replaced it with its own, but ICBA to check so, for me Edge = Chrome.

Re: Microwaves

Wait!, do you live in the same country I do?

Of course. Only government officials are allowed to do it.

Your mum's tablet could be rooted, flashed with a decent Android version and used until it breaks.

Your ipad?

Re: Nobody apparently cared?

You can have all the competent programmers and competent manglment you want, it's the accountants that fuck everything up. And nobody, not even HR, dares to stand up to them.

After all, they pay the big fat bonuses to the CEO.

Re: Never going to happen in the UK

...we can't be compelled to buy them...

Law no.XXXX

Article 1. Operating a combustion engine equipped vehicle on public roads is forbidden. The penalty shall be a fine no less than the value of the vehicle payable in cash in 24 hours, confiscation of said vehicle and no less than 10 years in a state controlled penitentiary.

See, we don't force you to buy one.

Re: "Google admits no wrongdoing"

Hey, it's a settlement aka agreement between the parties. The judge just rubber stamps it.

If the parties are happy with their agreement, who are you to judge? :)

/sarcams /joke /nuke them from orbit /etc.....

Re: Who can you trust...

When someone says "Trust me with your valuables," then I know that the chances of them being trustworthy are very low.

Nice to know I'm not the only one who doesn't trust banks, corporations and governments.

Five years?

Buddy, get on with the times, it's only 1 year now. I'm still not sure if this 1 year is about old-fashioned or obsolescence, the jury is still deciding.

Re: history repeats itself

The experiment was done (to/on) with ordinary people. Ordinary people who don't give a damn about the operating system as long as they cat pictures keep rolling.

Most people here are, at least, PFY-in-training level so they can glance the difference between a turd (Windows 10) and a polished one (Windows 11).

Re: how long until assistants are weaponised trojans?

What do you mean how long? I thought that was the current practice.

Re: Something went wrong

Maybe you did the same as I did: disabled and deleted a lot of Microsoft crap I didn't ask for.

A little:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

SFC /scannow

and presto! the update installed without problems. I can't be arsed to see which crap MS thinks it's so important as that machine is only used for the only program my government thinks it can only run on Chrome on Windows (yes, it involves digital signing, hardware tokens and no, the digital signer provider doesn't support linux).

Yeap, they will. They did that with 7, so it can be done.