* Posts by EnviableOne

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EnviableOne
Linux

really?

https://itsfoss.com/32-bit-linux-distributions/

Most of the Debian tree still supports 32bit, and chances are if they stopped, there'd be a few downstream that kept going.

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Re: Insanity prevails?

or option 3, do they transition to using the bane of my existence known as Teams that they don't have to pay any extra for as it's "Included" with the latest name iteration of what used to be Microsoft office.

Calamity capsule: Boeing's Starliner losses approaching $1B

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Boeing are out Businesses to get out of

They are beaten in Civil aviation by Airbus

They are beaten in the Military by Lockheed and Northrop

Now they are roundly beaten in space by Space X

I suppose the only thing they win at is Tax Breaks and Executive pay

Is your datacenter safe from the next X-class solar flare?

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Re: Nice B-film - now back to reality

I think Goldeneye and Oceans 11 rate as an A movies

High-altitude nuclear detonation and Truck Mounted EMP respectively.

but the issue is very much the complex encryption to the 5$ wrench

a nice improvised AMFO bomb in a wheeley bin

Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse

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the thing is with the way GDPR is worded, Controller, Processor and Subprocessors are jointly and severally liable, so you might be able to outsource the blame, but the consequences and the costs are yours forever

FTC slaps down Drizly CEO after 2.4m user records stolen from 'careless' booze app biz

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the only way that CEOs are going to take responsibility for Cyber is if they are held criminally liable, as they now are for Health and Saftey (at least in the UK)

China chip imports down 12.4% as tech trade war with US intensifies

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Re: ...."to prevent it stealing industrial technology from Europe,,,,,,"

what you mean Edison stole the ideas of other Europeans like Joseph Swan and Warren de La Rue, Nikola Tesla, Alessandro Volta, Gustav Le Gray, Michael Faraday ...

he wasn't the end of it, he was right in the thick of it

Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info

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Re: So nobody checked

basically, they are saying:

"So we put some trackers on our website to find out how it was getting used and forgot to read the manual to see what data they actually collected, but it's not our fault it's those evil Megacorps"

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Re: Google is all seeing

and is now owned by UnitedHealth Group Inc

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

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a day is enough to qualify for the pension apparently

Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks

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SMS second factor

why oh why did NIST pull the advice against it from the latest SP-800-63b

SIM swaps are a problem

Rather than take the L, Amazon sues state that dared criticize warehouse safety

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Re: Who are their lawyers?

no, they are offering a wage they think they can get away with, not what they think is fair.

And where exactly are you supposed to work when they have systematically undercut and put out of business every other game in town?

Amazon's distribution organisation only has people until they can invent machines to replace them.

DoJ ‘very disappointed’ with probation sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson

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go directly to jail ..

She's been in jail since Jul 2019 and has release conditions on probation for 5 yrs, which will get her sharp back there, she has been punished, more so than anyone not causing death would be under the UK Computer misuse act.

she has taken an oath to be a productive member of society, and if at any point in the next 5yrs she isn't, its back behind bars

White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects

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Re: Fiddling while Big Oil carries on as usual

look at Wind power as a percentage of total consumption, and you will find the UK considerably higher than all the other mentioned nations.

In fact, Scotland produces more electricity than it needs, as do the Orkney and Shetland Isles

Wind generation is approximately 30% of UK capacity, carbon neutral at over 53% (that includes DRACS "Bio-mass" (trees) which is on shaky ground)

There is a long way to go worldwide, but the Uk is far from behind, and while the manufacturing companies might not be UK based, the Manufacturing is. The majority of UK turbines and blades are made in the UK. there are large production hubs in the north of England and up the East coast of Scotland, that are transitioning from rig building and maintenance to turbines.

California Governor signs child privacy law requiring online age checks

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Re: Confused Brit

the Problem is with this SCOTUS the interpretation can be whatever Republicans want it to be

and it comes down to a similar issue as the one they used to strike down Roe vs Wade...

US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database

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Re: unconstitutional

the problem is at the border, you are not in the jurisdiction, CBP are the guard at the gate

Tongues wag that Softbank's Son may sell Arm to Samsung

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The ownly option

public company owned by no-one in particular

or co-operative owned by all its licence holders.

unless someone in a totally unrelated business wants to shell out for it

Thoma Bravo, Berkshire Hathaway or someone of that ilk.

or it could be a complete odd ball like Associated British Foods ownership of Primark

and see someone like Coca-Cola, Disney or McDonald's buy it up from Masayoshi Son

Microsoft debuts Windows 11 2022 Update – now with features added monthly

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Re: New features every month?

I rember the good old days when MS product keys were valid as long as they were divisible by 7, but then they cottoned on to the all 7s thing, so the last 2 got replaced with 21

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Re: The best update?

By the time it got to SP5 98SE was rock solid, then there was the abortion of Me because XP wasn't ready

EnviableOne
Linux

Re: New features every month?

Some Finn named Linus came up with one a while back ...

Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples

EnviableOne

Re: Life is inevitable

Death Is Inevitable, life however, is a matter of happenstance

Admins run into Group Policy problems after Win10 update

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Re: That's how they get you.

Apparently there is a thing called Known Issue Rollback, where (once MS deign to release one) allows the OS to run the old code instead of the patch.

TBF it would be easier rather than including double the code for everything if they hadn't sacked their QA and testing bods, and actually shipped stuff that worked

NASA reshuffles dates for Artemis I launch attempt

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ULA (that makes the SLS) is a joint venture with Boeing and Lockheed Martin Space

Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne are also contributing suppliers.

so rather than attracting campaign finance in Texas and California, SLS brings it in across like 30 states

China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)

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Big Brother

Re: Who's the Colony Now?

Welcome to Airstrip1

Hybrid work not working? Try building an 'intraverse' to fix it, says Gartner

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Re: An "intraverse"

Just wondering where "Intraverse" is on the "Hype Curve"

Meta disbands Responsible Innovation team, spreads it out over Facebook and co

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Re: They have replaced it

"move fast and break things"

Laws are things

Ethical norms are things

Private equity suits at Thoma Bravo pull out of Darktrace acquisition

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Brexit delivering Global Brittan

Things keep going this way, and the entire country will be owned by foreign investment.

BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM

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Re: Where is my beloved "SFTW" chronicle?

Its more nibbling on the crumbs IT feeds it. now

ElReg used to pick justifiable holes in everyone and have a reasonable amount of scepticism, rather than swallowing down marketing speak.

US wants to give global chipmakers a 25% tax credit on new fabs

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Re: Hmmm?

WTF AMFM makes sense

This is ripe for an illegal state aid claim against Intel

Dead people could be designated authors of Atlassian Confluence docs and that can't be changed

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Re: Seems like a misfeature

In my previous role, I authored 100s of documents in multiple areas, I think I was only the owner of the ones in draft.

I was the person who went to a meeting, and everyone else at the table was accountable for drafting policies procedures and the like, but muggins was responsible for doing the work.

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Re: If you ignore a problem long enough

Sir No longer at this Company ...

UK government will not step in over Altice’s growing stake in BT

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Re: Not surprising

the TGV is based on the technology employed in the APT.

This was sold by the British Government to Alsthom and made the difference between the TGV002 and TGV001, some of the engineers from the APT project actually worked on the SNCF team to create the TGV as they had already solved a lot of the issues, and in the spirit of the Concorde agreement, there was a lot of co-operation on the project.

the Pendolino system in class 390 is directly based on patents sold to FIAT (who merged them into Alstholm)

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Re: Not surprising

their TGV was basically designed by British Rail, they own a large part of several franchises, as do Deutsche Bahn

Basically, SNCF through its Kelios subsidiary runs a whole load of the network

state-owned rail operators from France Germany, Holland and Italy run approximately 90% of the UK rail network

Instagram fined in Ireland for violating children's privacy

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Re: Appealing fines

At least the DPC has grown a pair and is starting to take on the firms taking advantage of their low tax status.

We will see how much they actually collect

Block sued after ex-staffer siphons customer data

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Re: "downloaded the files after leaving the company"

AUtomated account provisioning set-up in the HR system, and IAM tool.

This revokes all access credentials on leaving date.

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

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at least Dame Dido of Can't Talk isn't in charge of this one.

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Re: Who created this monster?

NHS could do with a system like Horizon, that invents money from nowhere

Lloyd's to exclude certain nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies

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Re: Value of In-House Talent

TBF, I know a good few industries, where cyber insurance premium reductions are being used to finance security improvement.

A lot of good insurance firms are working to that end, and providing proper mitigations gets you decent coverage at a decent price.

There are some that even actively work to asses and improve your security throughout the contract, and are becoming closer to MSPs than Insurance firms.

National data privacy law for the US clears first hurdle

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Re: The most nothing as possible!

That's because as part of the Executive branch the EPA was overreaching the remit given to them by the Legislative branch.

There is no restriction on the Legislative branch legislating.

Facebook and google don't negotiate, you want to use our services, we already have your data, click to agree.

no options nothing.

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

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Re: This could be the straw the breaks the EU's back.

and his wife wasn't aide to the vice-president of the Conservative Friends of Russia a.k.a Westminster Russia Forum

Despite describing itself as a think tank, no published research exists, and they are likely more akin to a lobbying group

Janet Jackson music video declared a cybersecurity exploit

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Re: Unbelievable

yeah but IoT doesn't have the budget for 5GHz, its all working on b/g/n

Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search

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nah, they read all the password research,

it has to be CorrectHorseBateryStaple

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

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Re: "Chinese law allows Beijing to compel local companies to produce data"

ignore NSLs

all you need is a CLOUD (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act warrant

US aims to step up security for federal datacenters: Both physical and cyber

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Re: True or False? Yay or Nay?

some thing's wrong here, AMFM actually makes sense, and I agree with him.

Save for the fact the chancellor of the exchequer is currently Nadhim Zahawi since Rishi resigned to hasten the demise of Boris...

More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns

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Re: Fingers Crossed

At least AliDabbs can be relied on to produce some satirical ire at least once a week

Emergency services call-handling provider: Ransomware forced it to pull servers offline

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Re: National Hacking Survival?

HCSN is on the internet.

It has a dual backbone, it's DNS is provided by Amazon, it's no longer an independent secure network like N3 used to be.

Ex-CISA chief Krebs calls for US to get serious on security

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so basically Krebs wants his old job back and the power of an ICO and NCSC combined

Tech industry stuck over patent problems with AI algorithms

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Re: Patents Require People

It's about the fruit of the tree.

if you plant and tend the tree (AI model) who owns the fruit(patentable outcome)?

in any logical world, you create the model and feed it the inputs you own the outcomes.

Google's bug bounty boss: Finding and patching vulns? 'Totally useless'

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Re: Without taking into account observed exploits, wasting huge amount of defensive resources

if you use CVSS properly and make your decisions based on the environmental score, rather than the base, then the efficiency of it is increased exponentially.

the base score is just potentially how bad it could be, with the temporal that's how bad it can be right now, and the environmental means how bad is it for me right now.

DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back

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Re: Where to Begin

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natrium