I left Jan 1. Like you, I received lots of cloying come-back messages.
Fuck these dirtbags. I went so far as to delete the password from my browser's cache. I'm not going back. This frat-boy-ish network's management is worse than United or American Airlines.... perhaps even worse than Comcast.
I know!! When Facebook Started Charging for Group Access!! YAY!
This is an unveiled way to mollify the EU, whose print publishers and site mavens want a cut of the action and therefore are attempting to throw copyright link blocks.
This is Facebook giving them a taste of the action.
It looks like five different aviation commands, but it's actually nine, and some say operationally, more. Think: DHS, DEA, NSA, CIA with more likely.
This is a PR stunt, and a sabre-rattling exercise. US space assets are easy targets.... and so are the assets of almost everything out there, given laser and microwave weaponry.
It's all for the fake news press, folks. Nothing to see here.
Wait a minute. Although I like AMD's underdog status, and have zero love for Intel, AMD's chipsets are perhaps even more dangerous than Intel's at this point, and they STILL HAVEN'T DELIVERED a fix for Epyc and Ryzen vulnerabilities. They ignore it like a health insurance provider breach.
There is NO good reason to buy either organization's chips until they fix the design, and with it, the code needed for quite a few apps (looking at you, VMware and Hyper-V) to get permanently fixed. Right now, the patch list is as long as your arms, pun intended.
Don't forget both of these nitwits have holes in their chipsets that make about every chipset put into a laptop or server in the past 10yrs dangerous to use if you value your data. ALL of their CPUs are broken. AMD isn't going to get a boost... everyone is going to have to re-buy, because the cracks will get exploited sooner than later.
Haven't worked with them. Young, long warranty, so not much in the aftermarket worth fixing. People usually drive them into the ground, so underneath where I like to buy and restore.
There is the warranty effect, insurance cost pressure, leasing skews, and other variables in the path, too.
With a large enough volume, a secondary market emerges with rebuilt-reman components, as well as suppliers offering "compatibles". Yes, badging and brand-proprietary parts are still a seller's market. Can't change that.
Mercedes took a huge hit in customer loyalty.... along with some other brands when they started selling parts as though they were made of pure gold, rather than the junk they were designing and passing off as high-quality. Cadillac to a different extent also diminished their brand significantly.... as did other brands that thought themselves cash-cows like Lexus, Infiniti, etc.
People are herd animals with new car purchases, either aligning themselves socially or by dealer financing. Only rarely do they think five years down the road about *anything*, sadly.
I understand supply and demand, and pricing for profitability. There is branding, and market positioning.
My long experience owning a lot of cars and restoring 90% of them as both a hobby and side-money, is that I walk away from the Accenture-like pricing brands completely. If the aftermarket or a boneyard can't supply a part that allows me a profit, I walk from that brand.
Brands that have a good aftermarket supply chain: GM, Ford, Ford Truck, Chrysler mini vans
Brands that I won't touch that I used to do: Jaguar, MG, Rover, Austin, Mini, Subaru, Fiat, Peugot diesels
Brands that I'll currently do: Honda, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, pre-1998 VW, certain Audis.
My goal is not to lose money, and make sure a vehicle isn't coming back from a dissatisfied customer. I outsource body/interior work.
Some vehicles have a strong enough statistical presence to force down prices. I go to dealers only as a last resort, and dealer parts networks are wickedly un-coordinated. Looking at you, Honda. Over the years, I've done plenty. Plainly, some brands are insane (looking at you, Mini). Consumers suffer. But I believe that the market place should decide, and let the assholes that over-price themselves get a bad rep, then crater. So long as the governments don't bail out the losers, I'm fine with watching brands disappear like Saab did.
Conferences are about conferring. It's not a PR event where you get to blather about your own stuff endlessly, while making sure that the competition and the tough questions aren't within a thousand yards.
It's a love fest. Kiss kiss. Pure vanity. Nothing else exists in the high-cost reality distortion field. The stench of bullshit is everywhere, and the fanbois are buying suitcase full loads of merch.
The venues that used to talk real issues are gone. It's all about the lovefest. Kiss kiss.
There were a lot of conferences, often the crux of independent financiers, that really evolved this industry. If it's a vendor show, however, it's a love fest. Nothing to see there, just a vacation with logo merch. Nothing controversial. Nothing to see there.
Bottom line: it's who's financing it that dictates whether you'll be subject to actual conferring, knowledge transfer across a spectrum, and independent voices, uncontrolled by a PR machine.
It would do my heart well if they'd just fix their processors so that they're immune from predictability attacks, rather than trying to distract the world with their latest PR shenanigans.
WTF, Intel? Can we even trust you? EVERY ONE OF YOUR CPUs made in the past decade is abusable. FIX THAT FIRST.
Seimens is one of many that have no clue about how to recruit. These guys would go into a bar and strike out every time, and with good reason.
It's not necessarily about the money, or the locale, but to geeks, it's the challenge. Yeah, you need to eat, but geek entrepreneurs need a challenge, and a good one. You only get to make a few chances at making a mark in this life. Cubicles in Frankfort ain't it.
Power to tax is granted to permit civil infrastructure and common good. The long term environmental impact is important, but don't forget that this isn't about US jobs, it's about US BRANDS.
Trade wars are mostly a fiction, because government accounting isn't transparent, and therefore is an oxymoron. The US subsidizes more industry than China does, especially the military, but the military isn't the only segment-- just look to agricultural supports if you had any question. You should be paying $6+ for a gallon of milk, as an example. You're underwriting all of the people who are paid so poorly by Walmart, Starbucks, and even public school systems that they need SNAP or other subsidies just to live minimum lives in the US. Power to tax? Or power to put money in shareholder's wallets? You be the judge.
I don't like them either, but see: "magic wand". You and I don't have control over this stuff. It's what the CE people design and sell to the automakers, the airlines, etc etc.
The fact is that there's lots of stuff out there that isn't recyclable! Lots of it! Not gonna change unless people understand what kind of mess it makes!
Today, on the screen of your laptop, you can design tons of SMT gear from your chair, and have it built and UPS'd to you, all in a couple of days. There are NO MORE solder jockeys in skunkworks building and inventing stuff. It's done with board CAD, for short runs and longs, every new nuance being designed into the gear to keep up (or down) with the latest market needs.
Much of it's designed in the good old USA, but the production is done in China and the ASEAN countries where pollution regulation and wages are low. It leads to poisoned rivers and lagoons that poison aquifers, and wages that get you a bowl of rice and a hovel compared to the standard of living in the USA.
Sanctioning Chinese goods does no one any good except the branding companies and of course, Wall Street.
Tell that to moms pacifying their kids with back-of-seat video players, or all those integrated dashes, or people that move from place to place, trying to keep their electronics working.
No, you've got other problems: fingers in your ears.
Not only is your list incorrect, but vendors don't want to fix even the most miniscule problem. They'd much rather replace than service. This leads to a whole supply chain of secondary returned-items refurbishers but also a huge pile of waste. User-serviceable equipment is nigh impossible. SMT-mounted electronics, crammed to the gills, are hideously difficult to service.
People are seduced in this over-consuming economy, to buy the latest greatest stuff. Who cares that there's only a scant amount of 4K media out there? People are buying 4K tablets and notebooks. Or if you're an Apple Macbook Pro user, new Macbook Pros because your old one had a worn-out keyboard. Keyboard!
Who will suffer in China over this? Not too many. $50B is not that much. Trump isn't protecting American workers, only American brands.
It's possible, although there's not an APP for that, to easily bond all of your keys against your own, self-generated private key.
That's what this shit is about. Is it your key? How many times did you hash it? Your own personal key store is a great place to start. Back up the key store and hash the backup once or twice for good measure and housekeeping. Just remember what you did.
Works for me.
BTW, VINs for autos and trucks past 1977, while tougher, may or may not have valid data links-- as anyone using CarFax extensively has observed. Indeed it might be best to check the vehicle manufacturer's warranty database at a dealer. Lots of salvage titles get washed this way.
Of course: Doesn't apply to trailers, RVs, boats, and more that don't require a 17-digit VIN. And it makes me wonder how many Department of Motor Vehicles machines have been hacked..... a passing thought from all the bad data I've seen.
Letters from my GGGfathers would call you not only a liar, but a dupe. Your knowledge of actual history somehow permits you to make such a statement using the Ayn Rand lens of life, which is a zero-sum observation.
Although the US-UK affinity is pretty unholy, there were lots of reasons to enter WWI. And bankrupting the Russians was the way to crack the Berlin Wall, perhaps the only wise thing R Reagan ever did.
AI has no feelings, doesn't cry, isn't likely to laugh at the million jokes that can it can memorize, and would put a bullet through you and wouldn't think twice.
This is because there are those that would abuse AI who can't start with a kernel that mandates the above emotions-- not the murderous ones.
I wouldn't trust Schmidt for a second. He blew it at Sun, then Novell, then turned Google from a Do No Evil into Do What's Good For Shareholders and keep sucking your privacy with a big straw.
Musk is a BS artist, but when his promises finally arrive, they work after a while, and faster than Bill Gate's promises ever worked. Expecting corporate executives to have a soul these days is asking too much..... same goes for politicians.
I'm no prude, but I don't want to see nudes on Facebook at all, and it's probably pretty easy for even the most lame AI to spot such things. There are fabulous porn sites for those that want them. FB ought to ban outright nudity, or at least the Revenge Porn shots described.
It's up to each jurisdiction to deal with the liability for posting such trash. Personally, castration on the first offense isn't a bad idea, to me. Others will rationalize the boorish behavior of so called "men".
A geometric increase in insanity requires a geometrically stronger response to it. The control freaks, the power-addicted, they'll use your "just algorithms and database" and it won't be pretty. Regulations are farcical. They're selectively used to control and obtain power.
Instead, the US right of free association should come without fear, any fear. Monitoring and surveillance stanch the courage to be free, and freely associate with whomever and whenever you as a citizen want to, unfettered by peering eyes that want to bruise your relationships into something sinister as coughed by bad AI.
Because it's ethical. You protect your customers and perhaps friends. There are legions of witless users in internetland that trust people to do QA, to run parsers on source looking for unethical or stolen code.
Canonical just doesn't want to pay for it. If one Snap is ugly, maybe all of them are. This is why chains-of-authorities and vetted repositories are so important-- TRUST. Without it, they're worthless.
Canonical knows better. Fraudulent crap code has no place in a Canonical repo. Shame on them.
That is correct. Every single Ryzen/Epyc CPU is in an unknown state. Was it intercepted? Probably not. Or: Maybe. Or maybe not. Or, can it be fixed with a BIOS reflash, or, um, not?
The CIA/NSA/DoD don't have to worry about "back doors" and all that encryption stuff. They have AMD and Intel, partners in our better future.
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You expected their instructions to be useful?
I left Jan 1. Like you, I received lots of cloying come-back messages.
Fuck these dirtbags. I went so far as to delete the password from my browser's cache. I'm not going back. This frat-boy-ish network's management is worse than United or American Airlines.... perhaps even worse than Comcast.
You're the product, until you aren't.
We need a new jump-the-shark metaphor.
I know!! When Facebook Started Charging for Group Access!! YAY!
This is an unveiled way to mollify the EU, whose print publishers and site mavens want a cut of the action and therefore are attempting to throw copyright link blocks.
This is Facebook giving them a taste of the action.
It looks like five different aviation commands, but it's actually nine, and some say operationally, more. Think: DHS, DEA, NSA, CIA with more likely.
This is a PR stunt, and a sabre-rattling exercise. US space assets are easy targets.... and so are the assets of almost everything out there, given laser and microwave weaponry.
It's all for the fake news press, folks. Nothing to see here.
Wait a minute. Although I like AMD's underdog status, and have zero love for Intel, AMD's chipsets are perhaps even more dangerous than Intel's at this point, and they STILL HAVEN'T DELIVERED a fix for Epyc and Ryzen vulnerabilities. They ignore it like a health insurance provider breach.
There is NO good reason to buy either organization's chips until they fix the design, and with it, the code needed for quite a few apps (looking at you, VMware and Hyper-V) to get permanently fixed. Right now, the patch list is as long as your arms, pun intended.
Don't forget both of these nitwits have holes in their chipsets that make about every chipset put into a laptop or server in the past 10yrs dangerous to use if you value your data. ALL of their CPUs are broken. AMD isn't going to get a boost... everyone is going to have to re-buy, because the cracks will get exploited sooner than later.
Let the puns begin.
An idea that's all wet?
Swimming with the fishes, Microsoft?
Offshoring your data centre?
Haven't worked with them. Young, long warranty, so not much in the aftermarket worth fixing. People usually drive them into the ground, so underneath where I like to buy and restore.
There is the warranty effect, insurance cost pressure, leasing skews, and other variables in the path, too.
With a large enough volume, a secondary market emerges with rebuilt-reman components, as well as suppliers offering "compatibles". Yes, badging and brand-proprietary parts are still a seller's market. Can't change that.
Mercedes took a huge hit in customer loyalty.... along with some other brands when they started selling parts as though they were made of pure gold, rather than the junk they were designing and passing off as high-quality. Cadillac to a different extent also diminished their brand significantly.... as did other brands that thought themselves cash-cows like Lexus, Infiniti, etc.
People are herd animals with new car purchases, either aligning themselves socially or by dealer financing. Only rarely do they think five years down the road about *anything*, sadly.
I understand supply and demand, and pricing for profitability. There is branding, and market positioning.
My long experience owning a lot of cars and restoring 90% of them as both a hobby and side-money, is that I walk away from the Accenture-like pricing brands completely. If the aftermarket or a boneyard can't supply a part that allows me a profit, I walk from that brand.
Brands that have a good aftermarket supply chain: GM, Ford, Ford Truck, Chrysler mini vans
Brands that I won't touch that I used to do: Jaguar, MG, Rover, Austin, Mini, Subaru, Fiat, Peugot diesels
Brands that I'll currently do: Honda, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, pre-1998 VW, certain Audis.
My goal is not to lose money, and make sure a vehicle isn't coming back from a dissatisfied customer. I outsource body/interior work.
Some vehicles have a strong enough statistical presence to force down prices. I go to dealers only as a last resort, and dealer parts networks are wickedly un-coordinated. Looking at you, Honda. Over the years, I've done plenty. Plainly, some brands are insane (looking at you, Mini). Consumers suffer. But I believe that the market place should decide, and let the assholes that over-price themselves get a bad rep, then crater. So long as the governments don't bail out the losers, I'm fine with watching brands disappear like Saab did.
Conferences are about conferring. It's not a PR event where you get to blather about your own stuff endlessly, while making sure that the competition and the tough questions aren't within a thousand yards.
It's a love fest. Kiss kiss. Pure vanity. Nothing else exists in the high-cost reality distortion field. The stench of bullshit is everywhere, and the fanbois are buying suitcase full loads of merch.
The venues that used to talk real issues are gone. It's all about the lovefest. Kiss kiss.
There were a lot of conferences, often the crux of independent financiers, that really evolved this industry. If it's a vendor show, however, it's a love fest. Nothing to see there, just a vacation with logo merch. Nothing controversial. Nothing to see there.
Bottom line: it's who's financing it that dictates whether you'll be subject to actual conferring, knowledge transfer across a spectrum, and independent voices, uncontrolled by a PR machine.
It would do my heart well if they'd just fix their processors so that they're immune from predictability attacks, rather than trying to distract the world with their latest PR shenanigans.
WTF, Intel? Can we even trust you? EVERY ONE OF YOUR CPUs made in the past decade is abusable. FIX THAT FIRST.
Yeah. Cry me a river.
Seimens is one of many that have no clue about how to recruit. These guys would go into a bar and strike out every time, and with good reason.
It's not necessarily about the money, or the locale, but to geeks, it's the challenge. Yeah, you need to eat, but geek entrepreneurs need a challenge, and a good one. You only get to make a few chances at making a mark in this life. Cubicles in Frankfort ain't it.
Power to tax is granted to permit civil infrastructure and common good. The long term environmental impact is important, but don't forget that this isn't about US jobs, it's about US BRANDS.
Trade wars are mostly a fiction, because government accounting isn't transparent, and therefore is an oxymoron. The US subsidizes more industry than China does, especially the military, but the military isn't the only segment-- just look to agricultural supports if you had any question. You should be paying $6+ for a gallon of milk, as an example. You're underwriting all of the people who are paid so poorly by Walmart, Starbucks, and even public school systems that they need SNAP or other subsidies just to live minimum lives in the US. Power to tax? Or power to put money in shareholder's wallets? You be the judge.
I don't like them either, but see: "magic wand". You and I don't have control over this stuff. It's what the CE people design and sell to the automakers, the airlines, etc etc.
The fact is that there's lots of stuff out there that isn't recyclable! Lots of it! Not gonna change unless people understand what kind of mess it makes!
Today, on the screen of your laptop, you can design tons of SMT gear from your chair, and have it built and UPS'd to you, all in a couple of days. There are NO MORE solder jockeys in skunkworks building and inventing stuff. It's done with board CAD, for short runs and longs, every new nuance being designed into the gear to keep up (or down) with the latest market needs.
Much of it's designed in the good old USA, but the production is done in China and the ASEAN countries where pollution regulation and wages are low. It leads to poisoned rivers and lagoons that poison aquifers, and wages that get you a bowl of rice and a hovel compared to the standard of living in the USA.
Sanctioning Chinese goods does no one any good except the branding companies and of course, Wall Street.
Tell that to moms pacifying their kids with back-of-seat video players, or all those integrated dashes, or people that move from place to place, trying to keep their electronics working.
No, you've got other problems: fingers in your ears.
Go ahead, wave your magic wand.
Then don't bitch when you get socket dioding, chips falling out of the freaking socket, corrosion, poor sinusoidal vibration fall-outs, and worse.
This stuff was NOT DESIGNED TO BE FIXED OR RECYCLED. The whole CE industry is focused this way, because: Wall Street, who is fed by Trump's demons.
Not only is your list incorrect, but vendors don't want to fix even the most miniscule problem. They'd much rather replace than service. This leads to a whole supply chain of secondary returned-items refurbishers but also a huge pile of waste. User-serviceable equipment is nigh impossible. SMT-mounted electronics, crammed to the gills, are hideously difficult to service.
People are seduced in this over-consuming economy, to buy the latest greatest stuff. Who cares that there's only a scant amount of 4K media out there? People are buying 4K tablets and notebooks. Or if you're an Apple Macbook Pro user, new Macbook Pros because your old one had a worn-out keyboard. Keyboard!
Who will suffer in China over this? Not too many. $50B is not that much. Trump isn't protecting American workers, only American brands.
It's possible, although there's not an APP for that, to easily bond all of your keys against your own, self-generated private key.
That's what this shit is about. Is it your key? How many times did you hash it? Your own personal key store is a great place to start. Back up the key store and hash the backup once or twice for good measure and housekeeping. Just remember what you did.
Works for me.
BTW, VINs for autos and trucks past 1977, while tougher, may or may not have valid data links-- as anyone using CarFax extensively has observed. Indeed it might be best to check the vehicle manufacturer's warranty database at a dealer. Lots of salvage titles get washed this way.
Of course: Doesn't apply to trailers, RVs, boats, and more that don't require a 17-digit VIN. And it makes me wonder how many Department of Motor Vehicles machines have been hacked..... a passing thought from all the bad data I've seen.
Letters from my GGGfathers would call you not only a liar, but a dupe. Your knowledge of actual history somehow permits you to make such a statement using the Ayn Rand lens of life, which is a zero-sum observation.
Although the US-UK affinity is pretty unholy, there were lots of reasons to enter WWI. And bankrupting the Russians was the way to crack the Berlin Wall, perhaps the only wise thing R Reagan ever did.
AI has no feelings, doesn't cry, isn't likely to laugh at the million jokes that can it can memorize, and would put a bullet through you and wouldn't think twice.
This is because there are those that would abuse AI who can't start with a kernel that mandates the above emotions-- not the murderous ones.
I wouldn't trust Schmidt for a second. He blew it at Sun, then Novell, then turned Google from a Do No Evil into Do What's Good For Shareholders and keep sucking your privacy with a big straw.
Musk is a BS artist, but when his promises finally arrive, they work after a while, and faster than Bill Gate's promises ever worked. Expecting corporate executives to have a soul these days is asking too much..... same goes for politicians.
It gets better and better. It's unlikely to be optimal for decades.
I'm no prude, but I don't want to see nudes on Facebook at all, and it's probably pretty easy for even the most lame AI to spot such things. There are fabulous porn sites for those that want them. FB ought to ban outright nudity, or at least the Revenge Porn shots described.
It's up to each jurisdiction to deal with the liability for posting such trash. Personally, castration on the first offense isn't a bad idea, to me. Others will rationalize the boorish behavior of so called "men".
Precision? How do we know precision is part of the program? Dominance is the program, likely. It's the end-game.
Ultimately, there is no need for war, no need for stockpiles of weapons. It is a legacy of our animal origins coupled with too much testosterone.
Leaders gin up false enemies, or go to war over oil or other assets they covet.
A geometric increase in insanity requires a geometrically stronger response to it. The control freaks, the power-addicted, they'll use your "just algorithms and database" and it won't be pretty. Regulations are farcical. They're selectively used to control and obtain power.
Instead, the US right of free association should come without fear, any fear. Monitoring and surveillance stanch the courage to be free, and freely associate with whomever and whenever you as a citizen want to, unfettered by peering eyes that want to bruise your relationships into something sinister as coughed by bad AI.
Because it's ethical. You protect your customers and perhaps friends. There are legions of witless users in internetland that trust people to do QA, to run parsers on source looking for unethical or stolen code.
Canonical just doesn't want to pay for it. If one Snap is ugly, maybe all of them are. This is why chains-of-authorities and vetted repositories are so important-- TRUST. Without it, they're worthless.
Canonical knows better. Fraudulent crap code has no place in a Canonical repo. Shame on them.
That is correct. Every single Ryzen/Epyc CPU is in an unknown state. Was it intercepted? Probably not. Or: Maybe. Or maybe not. Or, can it be fixed with a BIOS reflash, or, um, not?
The CIA/NSA/DoD don't have to worry about "back doors" and all that encryption stuff. They have AMD and Intel, partners in our better future.