* Posts by Jay Lenovo

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Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion

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But most importantly, his cat ("Embassy Cat") was released and given new sanctuary months before.

Despite evidence from his previous residences, there are no plans to extradite Assange's former pet for "kitty" leaks.

US boffins tangle with quantum entanglement in spooky rack-mounted networking hardware

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Holmes

Sure it will work great

"... will mark the first real quantum communication network in the world that truly connects quantum computing processors and memories using photonic quantum entanglement," Figueroa claimed.

I guess you'd have to see it to believe it, but not anywhere in between?

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

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Facepalm

Oops, forgot to search for hosts without hidden cameras.

...or maybe video exploitation is considered an Airbnb "Experience", where you can be immersed in the host's own perverted little world.

Creepy to say the least.

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

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Black Helicopters

Laptop Measles

ASUS.. WSUS... still generally better to accept the vaccinations than risk doing nothing.

...but like an Apple iOS update, you probably should go first and let me know how it went.

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'

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FAIL

Fast Times at Silicon High

Despite publicly stating its intentions to do the opposite, Facebook continues to out-due itself with the next greatest work of stupidity.

Maybe Zuc has been receiving advise from Nicolás Maduro on how to run a social network?

Azure thing at last: Windows Virtual Desktop takes to the cloudy stage

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Slippery Slope

When your company is tied to a virtual infrastructure you don't control, who gets to make the rules?

I believe Casinos would call 3 years of extra Windows 7 support as "free play". You'll need to buy more in game "gems" later.

UK libraries dumped 11% of computers since 2010-11... everybody has one anyway, right?

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Re: There are more vulnerable than you think

Bank accounts, paying taxes, and internet. The current standard for active and lawful citizenship.

Avoid the internet at your own risk Luddites.

When the US Lifeline Program (Obamaphone) added internet to the essential services, many seemed to miss the congressional concession that living in the country without modern technology is considered quite perilous.

Even the technologically and government adverse Amish, concede they must use phones/internet (cannot own), have bank accounts, and pay taxes.

That's Numberwang! Google Cloud staffer breaks record for most accurate Pi calculation

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Re: Pi day

To be fair, Pi is an irrational number, so an irrational date format seems apropos to celebrate the day.

Big and Blue: IBM boss's wage package shrinks in 2018 on her own recommendation

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Devil

We can't ask, but.. we will.

"...while IBM also performed well on other key non-financial factors such as diversity and workforce engagement."

When you ask for applicants' ethnicity on recruitment pages, I guess it might help completing your diversity directive.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_racist_job_applications/

Microsoft blesses the clouds down in Africa in full-blown Azure-gasm

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Meh

Great!, Super?, or not

If they can find plastic contamination at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, Azure Cloud residing in Africa was long overdue.

Hurrah for Apollo 9: It has been 50 years since 'nauts first took a Lunar Module out for a spin

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Modern space exploration is largely resigned to delivering our interstellar "Columbus" moments via remote controlled boats.

Armor Games admits all its users' deets slurped in database mega-hack as site moves to repair chink

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Angel

Death, taxes, and data breaches.

Isn't it time that El Reg provides a "private data" obituary page?

Keeping data private, seems to violate a faux 2nd law of "data dynamics", where the entropy of private data eventually must migrate to a public state.

Boffins put the FUN into fungus by rigging yeast to squirt out the active ingredients in cannabis

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Just a matter of time before your local "grow light" store will start carrying bread-makers.

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

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Childcatcher

Freedom to be Tossed About

When you let a third-party manipulate your internet compass, you can't complain about the places you'll end up.

To think, both priests and pedophiles are watching and commenting on Youtube videos.

Salvation, damnation, and sin are all valid destinations in the A.I. driven addiction machine.

If at first you don't succeed, you may be trying to install that Slow Ring Windows 10 build

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Trollface

Brown Ring of Quality

There are actually three rings:

The "slow-ring, the "fast-ring", and finally..

the "O-ring" ...Where the build is launched to consumers and presumed not to explode in mid-flight.

Vodafone exec dons tartan tam-o'-shanter, clutches bottle of Irn-Bru, in snap shared with firm... just before Glasgow staff told of redundo dates

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FAIL

Center of the Me-verse

So if the "Head of Customer Care" shows this amount of empathy and compassion for his fellow employees....

...Good luck being a customer

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

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Facepalm

Nikes Knot Working

So ideally with "working" internet Nikes, Zion Williamson could get a monitored alert that his left shoe is about to disintegrate?

Head of Apple's insider trading program charged with… you guessed it... insider trading

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Well I must admit, insider trading isn't my bag, baby

How that trade might have gone down:

Broker: But you're Apple's Head of Corporate Law! Might you reconsider?

Levoff: Trade it, trade it all... I like to live dangerously.

Hackers KO Malta's Bank of Valletta in attempt to nick €13m

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Dust-off old Tools

BOV customers request for the meantime...

"Will you accept a check?"

First they came for Equifax and we did nothing because America. Now they are coming for back-end systems and we're...

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Facepalm

Re: So they took almost three months to notify people involved?

...was accessed some time around November 1 and the intrusion was discovered and locked down on November 14.

They locked themselves down the very day it was discovered, but the peoples' exposure and needed remediation couldn't be shared for 90 days.

Your situation was never a priority, just the hassle of an overdue obituary.

DXC Technology utters words 'hiring' and 'digital' 105 times in Q3 earnings car-crash

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Alert

Re: A very short conversation

I know that agent.

He also places cows looking for work with McDonalds.

After Amazon's Bezos exposes Pecker, National Enquirer pushes back, promises to probe itself

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Devil

Amazon Godfather

On second thought, AMI reconsiders their actions...

"Sorry Don Bezos, The news stays like before. We'll even lower it."

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Jay Lenovo
Unhappy

Cloudy Aspirations

Trust Microsoft with your business... unless it was yesterday's trust (they don't recommend that anymore).

Now Microsoft bravely desires to cut tail from their own dog food.

Thanks for the loyalty, I'm sure you won't screw me over again.

Amid polar vortex... Honeywell gets frosty reception after remote smart thermostat tech freezes up for a week

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Black Helicopters

Cloud casting shadows

Some people bought this as a component of a whole home monitoring solution (video cameras, locks, garage doors), also for an additional cost.

The company providing the cloud services is Resideo, a recent spin-off company of Honeywell. So "Total Connect", is no longer a Honeywell solution.

If smart-phones are any indication, smart-thermostats may need to be replaced on a similar schedule to remain tech viable...or maybe just their cloudy overseers.

Raindrops always require their cloud.

You're the Swan that I want, you are the Swan I want, ooh ooh ooh: Intel anoints Bob as CEO

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Coat

Ruler for the Ruler

His success or failure will largely be measured in nano-meters (10 to be precise).

Ad-tech industry: GDPR complaint is like holding road builders to account for traffic violations

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Collective Authority

Ultimately, the decision will come down to the three data protection agencies – in the UK, Ireland and Poland – considering the challenges.

How does this tournament work...Best two out of three agencies for the win?

Canadians moot methods to embiggen moose monument and make Mac great again

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Size Matters

"not ashamed" of his size, but that it was a "pride issue"

So now Mac will start a regimen of "MegaMoose" supplements and drive an even bigger car.

Florida man's deadliest catch forces police to evacuate Taco Bell

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FAIL

Bomb Squad Fail

Yet, they found no issue with the loaded Bean Burritos.

Improvised domestic weapons of "ass" destruction.

Crispest image yet of Ultima Thule arrives on Earth, but grab a coffee while the rest downloads

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Trollface

Checked with the FCC...

With their new rules, this still might be considered a high-speed connection.

Under Armour and Virgin Galactic team up so tourists can stay on-trend throughout white-knuckle ride into space

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Finally, a company addressing the issue of "space junk" and how to contain it.

Office 365 enjoys good old-fashioned Thursday wobble as email teeters over in Europe

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Meh

Re: And this is why

The cloud is largely a surrogate for businesses who want to avoid being parents to their data.

When you allow an unrelated third-party to hold your data in undefined locations under their sole control, I guess you might get flustered at times.

Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

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Holmes

Re: "As old as 100 million years"

If one reads the lost biblical Book of Beyonce, (Fits somewhere after the dinosaur part of Genesis), we find how this occurred.

"And on the umpteenth day, God looked again at the heavens and it was still good. But woman pointed out he hadn't done much with the heavens since the 4th day, and also that he hadn't paid enough attention to the heavens in quite a while."

"So the almighty placed a large ring around an object in the night sky to again demonstrate his love for the heavens."

"Woman again pestered God as to why she hadn't received such a ring? God, in his omnipotent wisdom, recognized that this labor was something Man should be tasked with doing."

Thus the biblical parable "If thou liketh, thou best to put a ring on it"

It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

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Alert

Please Play Responsibly

An update lottery of sorts.

Have a gambling problem? 1 (800) xxx-xxxx (Microsoft Customer Support)

Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo

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Thumb Down

Re: Bland shite

Doesn't it scream "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge" ???

...or maybe I have it confused with "Intro to Microsoft Paint"

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

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Angel

Games of Owns

So he's suggesting...

OpenSource is like Daenerys Stormborn, and Oracle are the Masters.

...and apparently we've been deceived so back to the slaves' quarters we should go?

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

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Re: Puzzled

The moon is still very much what we thought it was, inhospitable.

I don't envy the hoopla of being the first to foster the Moon's first dead visitors.

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FCC's answer to scandal of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US selling people's location data: Burying its head in the ground

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Facepalm

What's the difference?

The FCC has been affected by the partial US government shutdown – now into its 24th day – and has stopped non-essential services

Like maintaining rules and oversight, but that may have already been suspended long before.

World's first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff

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Representative Please

"Hospitality" and "robot" are as rewarding, as "customer service call" and "voice automated prompts".

Pleasing people effectively was never quite that simple. Otherwise we'd buy our own robots and stay home.

Royal Bank of Scotland, Natwest fling new bank cards at folks after Ticketmaster hack

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We won't be fooled again

Ticketmaster could consider donating tickets. Maybe a "Who" concert?

Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend

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Sounds like she walked into an Austin "Bezos" Powers photoshoot.

"Look at my Blue Origin space rockets"...Yeah Baby!

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

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Meh

Somewhere in the middle (does that still exist?)

In the old days, politicians used a concept called compromise.

You didn't get everything you wanted, but most tended to get at least a combo of good and bad. Add a little pork, and just the right number of representatives could be convinced of the greater good.

Unfortunately, now I prefer more pork barrel government. You seemingly can't get 536 modern day ego's working collectively without it.

The growing ultra orthodox party-religions of Republican and Democrat no longer want to share the same country. But everybody needs to eat, so throw out some pork barrels (and I guess the "vegan" alternative) and lets get something done.

Microsoft wins today's buzzword bingo with empowering set of updates to Teams

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Trollface

Office (Space) 365

Oooh, can't wait to acquire all that Team "Flair"

Just updated Windows 7? Can't access network shares? It isn't just you

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Pirate

Re: You must be new here?

Windows updates are like getting regular hospital checkups, but "occasionally" coming home with C. diff.

Please boil any MS Software (via WSUS) about a week before letting it out of the bag.

Microsoft vows to destroy Office, er, offices: Campus to be demolished and rebuilt

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Angel

MS Design

The new buildings will have tiles... lots and lots tiles of which you can't be rid of.

Aussie Emergency Warning Network hacked by rank amateurs

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Black Helicopters

You're getting hacked, that's worthy of an EMS message

At least the "nice" hacker in Australia notified everyone they were getting hacked.

In contrast, Hawaii's EMS doesn't get hacked, but sends out false messages that missiles will be arriving.

Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON

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Paris Hilton

The search continues

China goes to the Far Side and still no evidence of where Gary Larson found his material.

Hands off that Facebook block button, public officials told by judges in First Amendment row

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Re: Also facebook

If Zuckerburg managed to hold a government office, hmm maybe.

...But let's not fix one bad problem thing with another.

Mainframe brains-slurper sues IBM for 'age discrim', calls Ginny and biz 'morally bankrupt'

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Meh

IBM Fresh Market

If you assume they did and were allowed to age discriminate... Has IBM been any better in developing products since doing so?

Seems like no.

They have all kinds of IP real estate, yet they can only muster to run Sears stores on top of it.

Maybe experienced people do provide value?

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