Re: Bitlocker?
Oopsie, I forgot the footnote
[*} PIN Number - To trigger certain people :-)
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"using a TPM-aware full-disk encryption solution capable of making disk data inaccessible if the UEFI Secure Boot configuration changes."
When working on some customer laptops, if I make changes to the BIOS config, eg disable Secure Boot so I run external diagnostics, Bitlocker has a hissy fit and requires a recovery key entry instead of just the PIN Number[*}. Of course, I put the config back to the original settings after I'm done, and Bitlocker is happy again. So I'm wondering if changes made to the UEFI settings will also trigger Bitlocker. I would assume other disk encryption will be equally paranoid about hardware or firmware config changes.
"Seriously, it's like posting your nude pictures publicly and expecting that pervs shouldn't be able to see them, only good-looking, educated and wealthy bachelors please! It's either terminally naive or extremely disingenuous:"
On the other hand, collecting every face you can find on the web and then using them as the basis of a facial recognition database isn't on. According to most commentards here anyway, whenever ClearView gets mentioned.
It's not just about scraping publicly accessible data, it's about doing it on an industrial scale and what it's then used for that counts. However, drawing a line which must not be crossed will be an immensely difficult task.
"I wouldn't be surprised if 95% of calls are like this."
I think I read somewhere that at best, 2% of cold calls result in any positive outcome. Positive outcome doesn't necessarily mean a sale and this relates to legit calls only, no using of TPS/Do Not Call numbers.
I was think along different lines based on the same quoted part of the article. *IF* it works, which is doubtful, not only will it help separate the best salespeople from the rest, it'll help separate the good products from the bad if the bullshitting salesperson can be called out on his/her AI emotional analysts. After all, there's no reason why the customer won't have their own AI software at their end too. :-)
Which raises an interesting point. How would that section of the article have read if the author had wrote it from the point of view of the potential customer using it to separate the wheat from the chaff?
"When someone with a big pulpit starts making overtures directly to shareholders, there's a reasonable chance that a significant number of them will go for it despite its being underpriced. When that happens, the 40% or whatever who wanted to hold out - are screwed. They have no recourse but to go along with it, whether they like it or not."
You just described how Governments and Presidents are elected
"When that "someone" has a reality distortion field of Musk's calibre, the risk is much higher."
Trump (A card game reference :-)
Nah, the BOFH said they can do a serial port based firmware flash that takes hours to do because it usually fails 4 times out of 5 and is slower anyway, rather than the quicker network port based flash because now it's borked the port based flash is no longer an option.
RTFA, as they sometimes say around these here parts :-)
"2. Who says taxes are due in India? She is a UK resident, she is tax resident in the UK, and her status is "non-domiciled" - that doesn't mean she's an Indian tax resident. "Non-domiciled" is just a way of reducing a UK tax bill with a flimsy excuse, basically a hangover from the British empire that is still alive today."
Clearly you've not been reading or listening to the news recently or you'd know that being "non-dom" doesn't mean you don't pay taxes at all. You have to declare *where* you are domiciled for tax purposes. That makes it harder to avoid the taxes where you *are* domiciled. I don't agree with it, but I have bothered to listen to the reports of who the law works currently. And FWIW, Labour have been bleating about this for many, many years, but never did anything about it when they were in power for 13 years.
"On the one hand, Musk could start Mutter and fail to get enough users to make it viable."
I'm not sure the build fast, fail fast, learn, rebuild model works in this case :-)
Although to be fair, I'd much rather see a Twitter crash'n'burn rather than a Falcon or Starship.
"A manky, rusty old trampoline is probably better than most of the kit the Russians have now "
Isn't one of the US launch systems wondering where their next engines are coming from now thay can't buy from Russia? I'm all for beating on Russia, especially right now, but lets not forget they still have stuff.
Yeah, so rest have to suffer. The large paying customers have the option to use their own patch deployment servers and in the main do that, so can choose whatever patch schedule they want. They don't actually need MS to have a monthly schedule. Of course, it might be lawyers demanding the MS patch release cycle. If they get hacked while sitting on a non-deployed patch, it's their problem. If they are waiting on the MS monthly patch cycle, it's "out of their control" and "unavoidable" because it was MS sitting on the patch.
"for others it Excel macros"
LibreOffice does macros too. Just not MS ones. So it's not a problem for people wanting to write macros for use on LibreOffice. It's only a problem for people wanting to run other peoples macros from MSOffice. But then those people on MSOffice can't run my macros because they probably never installed LibreOffice. That;s their problem, not mine. On the other hand, LibreOffice run on both Linux and Windows, so everyone can be happy running LibreOffice Macros, but not vice versa. :-)
"And in my experience it's no less dysfunctional on the Windows desktop than in the browser-based incarnation I'm obliged to use on Linux."
I find the browser based version is very, very different if said browser is running on Linux and not Windows. Even when the browser, Firefox in this case, is the same point release version. Outlook web access functionality on a browser seems to be dependant on the underlying OS, which is something a web app should never do. I have no idea if this is a real thing or if MS are simply being bastards to anyone not drinking the correct flavour of KoolAid.
LOL, at least one person didn't get the joke.
On the other hand, I told the scammers one time that I used Linux. They immediately switched scripts and tried to get me to install the Linux version of TeamViewer. I was quite impressed, but still managed to waste a good 20 minutes of their time "waiting for the download" :-)
"And Linux has so many patches that practically every day is patch day. And don't deny it."
Worth bearing in mind though that the patches are for your entire installed system, apps, libraries, fonts and all, not just the OS. I'd be worried if my OS of choice only ever got patches on a specific day of the month instead of as soon as practically possible though.
"Unless you can't run your application because of something weird."
They are trying. They are trying really hard. I still remember the days when I could sort the Start Menu into the order I wanted it, so even the less frequently used programmes were still easy to find, not just the most often used at the top and the rest buried miles down a long list.
Windows used to have many different desktop configurations, not just from the options in Control Panel, but many 3rd party add-ons that could totally change or even replace the original desktop. That was back in the Dark Ages, before MS took away users choices. Remember the Themes Pack? Good luck trying even that basic level of customisation of a Windows 10/11 desktop.
"And you still haven't accepted it. You keep finding any other reason rather than accepting the truth. In another post on this article there was somebody complaining that Dell stopped selling Linux laptops. I pointed out that nobody (in economically viable numbers) was buying them."
Strangely, when Dell first started doing that, Linux laptops cost more than Windows ones, despite the cost of the Windows licence. Maybe it was because of the all the other "demo" shit that Dell were paid to put on the Windows desktop that simply didn't run on Linux? Or also partly because those Windows licenses cost pennies when pre-installed by the manufactures 'cos MS REALLY want every PC to have Windows on them.
"Windows+R type control hit enter."
Yes, but it used to be easy to find from the Start menu. Most average users have little clue about ANY short cuts. Many still type their password in then USE THE MOUSE to select the password box. No one ever told them about the TAB key. Never mind ALT-F-S (save), ALT-F4 (exit), CTRL-P (Print) to mention the most common shortcuts. I've been doing various levels and type of IT support for 30 years and I'm STILL showing the basics to users, both newly minted straight out of school, and users about to retire.
"And then, this: I plug any of my old (10 - 15 yr old) lenovo laptops that run, hell, I'll say it, run WINDOWS (7 and 10) - and the screens _just work_."
Odds are, that old Lenovo will quite possibly run Linux very well, with all default drivers from the install. Lenovo are pretty good with Linux support. Hell, their own bootable hardware diagnostics tool is a bootable Linux distro on USB stick so, by definition, there are Linux drivers for the hardware.
I've had similar issue here too. My wifes Dell laptop is a pain in the arse as to whether or how well it will work plugged into a large screen/TV. On the other hand, my Toshiba "Just Works" on the same large screens/TV. My rouble-free Toshiba is running FreeBSD, her problematic Dell is running Windows 10 and had no issues running Windows 7.
Hardware and software combinations are complex and mostly work, but when YOU are the one with the problem, in isolation, with a specific bit of hardware or software, it's easy to blame whatever is new and unfamiliar. For the non-techy users, that can be a deal-breaker because they don't know what to do about it.
In general though, Windows has fewer issues because most hardware is designed with Windows in mind and thus provides relevant drivers. Linux and FreeBSD often don't have drivers from the manufacturers, relying on open source reverse engineered drivers using the manufactures specs. That becomes an issue when the hardware has bugs which the manufacture resolves by working around the hardware issue in software, often without telling anyone or updating the specs. Not sure about nowadays, but GFX cards were well known for bits of broken hardware being bypassed by changes to driver software behind the API. ISTR a specific ATI chipset years ago that boasted various hardware accelerations, but some specific function was buggy. It came out later, when the v2.0 hardware was released, that at least one of the v1.0 hardware functions was disabled by the driver, which took on the job in software. Texel shading seem to ring a bell.
Yes. Because anything other than "human standard" materials will be unique to the robot supplier and be patented. The robot builder will be cheap, but the new patented modular Brickoids, which will only stick to the patented CemGlue, will be expensive and from a single source, possibly as expensive as printer ink.
Thanks for that. The Hadrian[1] is the sort of thing I was envisioning. The other one seems more like just a repurposed existing robot arm and very limited.
[1] hah!, nice name!, I live near Hadrians Wall, I can Segedunum from my window :-)
I wonder how many people will "get" the name of the robot system.
We don't seem to hear much about what he does with his $billions. I mean, Gates has his foundation, Bezos and Musk of the penis substitutes space programmes etc. Does the Zuck do anything "good" with his money or does he just wallow in it like Scrooge McDuck?
"In previous lives I worked in the centre of Manchester,"
I'm with you on that! My job sometimes takes me to Manchester. I'm far enough away that morning rush hour is over before I get there, but sometimes I hit the afternoon rush hour on the way out. What a pig! Even with the completion of the M60 ring road, there are still significant bottlenecks on that motorway in numerous places all around it.