User: bobstreo

So how many jobs

On: Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M (sky.com)

will be security? How many will be administrative support, oversight. or just plain bureaucratic overhead with cushy jobs appointed by their friends?

I thought it was

On: Purism Launches First Security Key with Tamper-Evident Protection for Laptops (puri.sm)

something you have, AND something you know.

I'd guess there would be a market to make the green light on the key turn on regardless of the state of the system.

The farmers lobbyists colluded with John Deere

On: Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? (wired.com)

Sold out by their own lobbyists.

I'd hope there would be some changes in representation in the future.

I'm guessing the majority of farmers in California are large corporations, maybe owned as a subsidiary of some multi-national holding company,

The actual small scale farmers would be best served not buying new .equipment from J.D. There are probably large amounts of older/non computerized equipment available at a lower cost..

Thanks for the tip

On: Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty To Hacking CCTVs in Washington DC (theregister.co.uk)

"made the classic hacker mistake of using their personal gmail accounts for the campaign, even accessing them from one of the compromised PCs."

I mean if you wanted to shift blame to someone, you'd never think of doing this.

Maximum Possible Penalty

On: Equifax Slapped With UK's Maximum Penalty Over 2017 Data Breach (techcrunch.com)

If it was per person, it would be better.

As a total, it's embarrassing.

Re:I have one of these

On: 'I'm Admin. You're Admin. Everyone is Admin.' Remote Access Bug Turns Western Digital My Cloud Into Everyone's Cloud (theregister.co.uk)

Or you could just shut off http services on the device. I don't think I've done anything but ssh into mine for like 4 years.

Why blame the algorithm

On: We Hold People With Power To Account. Why Not Algorithms? (theguardian.com)

when there are till people/companies responsible for implementing/coding/teaching the algorithm?

Algorithms don't just magically appear out of thin air.

It's like blaming a jackhammer when a contractor uses it instead of a nail-gun to install shingles.

There are manuals, then there are manuals

On: Research Proving People Don't RTFM, Resent 'Over-Featured' Products, Wins Ig Nobel Prize (improbable.com)

There's nothing I hate more than trying to figure out what some dyslexic English as a Third Language moron created using Google Translate actually meant.

Then there are the manuals that contain proper English that repeat everything, except the answer you actually need.

I had bookshelves full of Microsoft, Oracle and Solaris manuals that (with the advent of reasonably good search engines) I quickly tossed into the recycling bin,

Now if someone would do something about

On: Man Jailed For Hundreds of Fake TripAdvisor Reviews (tripadvisor.com)

all the "fake" reviews on Amazon...

Re:stuff that works

On: Google Temporarily Brings Back the www In Chrome URLs -- But Should They? (digitaltrends.com)

I guess google looked at URLs and decided that not displaying http:/// or https:/// was too hard. /s

If they're eliminating the www, does this mean they will also get rid of the ftp for ftp servers?

Don't really care about who

On: SpaceX Says It Signed First Private Passenger To the Moon (nbcnewyork.com)

what I want to know is:

How much does it cost?

Maybe the law was just a language Axel

On: The Man Behind the EU's Copyright Law is 'Surprised' By What's in the Proposal (qz.com)

just didn't speak.

I understand that some "politicians" are not very smart. It's not like there were open public discussions of the implications of law for months on many different web sites /s.

It is usually very convenient

On: FCC Data Exaggerates Broadband Access On Tribal Lands (arstechnica.com)

to support your position when you make up the data only to support your position.

I guess maybe someone hacked the FCC again to produce these outright lies. /s

Re:Stormy Daniels

On: FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com)

Clearly this is the work of the patriarchy.

FBI finally realizes that Stormy Daniels came from Planet Pussy

And her relationship with that orange one ...

E.T. bone home.

Maybe they should scan more than 1 of each sex

On: Plan To Build a Genetic Noah's Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species (gizmodo.com)

That way you could create a better model.

I guess once you've sequenced them all, you could beam the info to space, you know, just in case...

OK no more lying about

On: Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos (cnbc.com)

your penis size, or your income. /s

I guess BookFace wants to become Santa Claus

This is not the vsporware you are looking for

On: Apple Tries To Wipe AirPower From the History Books (zdnet.com)

This is not the vsporware you are looking for.

More Apple Mind Tricks.

I wonder what other revisionist history/alternate realities Apple has created/deleted?

Re:LOL.

On: Jeff Bezos Announces $2 Billion Philanthropic Effort To Help Homeless Families and Start Preschools in Low-income Communities (nbcnews.com)

Half of the recipients probably will be Amazon employees.

Oh come on, there's plenty of Wal-Mart employees that could qualify too...

Actually the name python is probably offensive

On: Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk)

since it's a reference to a penis. /s

Should change their name to naval or something which would only offend clones with no umbilical cords...

About that whole copyright thing

On: European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com)

Everything created (at least in the US) unless released under something like creative commons is copyrighted automatically. Everything.

Books, stories, articles, video, music...

Re:How NASA destroys its "brand"

On: NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com)

So now Bridenstine wants to take what NASA stands for and make it stand for anything else? The US Army could do the same with their uniforms. Make them like NASCAR outfits with logos and stuff (just as bright though, so they stand out). Judges could logo up their robes so we know who's paying for justice. We already pay for something that is supposed to stand for what is best in us, pushing at the final frontier. If the endeavor is not worth it, selling ads for chump change will make that clear.

Dibs on naming rights for a hydrogen bomb.

Sounds like a good start

On: Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com)

but with 5 billion new pounds of plastic ending up in the Pacific every year, they're gonna need a whole lot more booms.

Apparently there is also a large plastic presence in the Atlantic in addition to the East and West Pacific gyres.

I guess it's back to

On: Study Finds Probiotics 'Not As Beneficial For Gut Health As Previously Thought' (theguardian.com)

shit transplants for the health crazed. /s

Seriously, is anything really good or really bad for you in moderation?

Tne simplest solution

On: EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com)

Netflix gets into the porn business in EU countries.

There are decades of "local" porn out of current EU members countries, and for all I know, lots of new ones being produced.

Volunteer Moderators are dumb

On: Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com)

You can't get a tax write off for your time spent herding assholes on reddit as a moderator. If you have a need to help, volunteer at a library, food bank, or soup kitchen.

Reddit's business model heavily depends on people being so power hungry and loyal that they don't get paid for what is for some a full time job. As time goes on, the power hungry become somewhat insane, until they are deposed or regain their senses.