Posts by ITS Retired

Re: "Trump's tariffs could result in the loss of 400,000 US jobs"

The domino effect in action. 400,000 jobs lost. Those 400,000 people quit buying anything not necessary to survive. Business go out of business because not enough customers buying their services/widgets. Causing more people to be out of work, not buying stuff. Bigger business go out of business. Survival is harder because less stuff is available. 1929 collapse was just a minor hiccup.

The rich and powerful buy everything for pennies on the dollar again.

Re: Micros~1 declares 2025

"Linux is good..but apparently still not good enough."

Mostly because people go with what they know. Change is scary 'cause ya gotta learn new stuff.

Do what Iceland did to the bankers. Tossed them in prison and did not bail out the banks.

Re: Better security doesn't just stop the scammers

80 years here. Linux, Apple, windows, 2 hand built web sites...

Re: Dead men don't suffer.

How often do cops find guns in households that do not have any guns? A bit too often in my humble opinion.

Re: you could see people start to pull over thinking it was the law.

And older cars don't nag you about you driving, making for less distraction.

Re: Being amazed no more

Its been my experience that people, how even musically talented people, will tolerate crappy sounding music coming from cheap too small speakers. i.e., nothing below maybe 200hz.

I don't understand why when reasonably sounding speakers don't cost that much. Not to mention ear and head phones sound so much better. My own hearing falls off a cliff at 5000hz and I cringe if I hear the fidelity of what normal hearing people listen to from their TV's, laptops, and even desktop computers with cheap speakers.

Re: They're not even hiding it

I clicked on the link. I did not find any reality, or common sense, anything involving what us commoners want or need.

Re: If he's guilty

They weren't Trumps to steal.

Re: CISO == Scapegoat (Traditionally)

"...budget requests and proposed policy/procedure changes."

Can't afford that. That money is earmarked for our share holders.

Re: How much data stored?

How much CPU time would this require? The next M$ computer requirements will include overclocking and petabyte hard drives.

"So, it looks like artificial intelligence (AI) is already ahead of voter intelligence (VI) in a significant fraction of the population."

No surprise there. 1/6 and the continuing aftermath is an example of this.

Re: We are looking in the wrong place fix problem

"Microsoft produces software that is hard to secure due to many things that constantly change the user does cant control. At some point, they need to be held accountable. Change my system without my permission, it is on them."

Especially when quality control rests more on the end user, than from the source corporation.

Re: PC-Board Dust Blankets

And away from any obstruction, buildings, vehicles, etc. The breeze, wind can whip the dirt in unexpected directions. A mask is recommended, just in case.

Once was enough.

Never happen. That makes too much sense and is easy to understand.

Re: You think it was just another isolated incident....?

Depends on the printer. Most office printers can be intimidated by waving a little green Xcelite screwdriver at them. You know, the kind with the pocket clip.

Very useful for many things, way beyond their small size.

Re: It just keeps getting better

When they start installing a microchip, powered by a moisture activated battery on your protection.

Re: WTF?

Probably went for pay raises, or bonuses for the upper echelon

Re: a politically neutral 'truth'

More evidence that today's conservatives are operating outside reality. Even the AI doesn't recognize much that far to the right side.

Re: Election Integrity

In the United States, lies, innuendo, propaganda and even outright slander are considered proper campaign strategies.

Good, honest people are buried under so much of the lies, innuendo, propaganda and even outright slander, they never run again.

Re: Not impossible, just ludicrously unlikely

Why should they want to destroy us, when we are doing a pretty good job of doing that for them?

Re: Auto-correcting antenna aiming! Amazing!

"Eternal kudos to the chaps behind the Voyager missions, their work is truly exemplary."

And doing it with both ends being moving targets, 20 plus light hours and growing, away from each other.

Re: In Brazil, of all places, I got 100 mpbs up and down already.

Basically, big corporation have bought our government. Too many of our congress critters are on the take. The average person can't have nice thing because those are reserved for the wealthy. That it in a nutz shell.

Re: Are people seriously buying these?

That is why tests till destruction are sometimes a good thing.

As is the air you breathe, coming from outside your state, totally ignoring political lines.

Re: Just a minor point from the Canadian point of view

How can our Border Patrol presume to be able to operate in Canada?

I would think the Canadian government would be a might upset.

Re: Oh FFS

Finally got it working from the last update. That;s why not. /s

Re: Not just about spying

Don't you mean THREE dictatorships? Is not the United States doing exactly what the other two are suspected/supposed to be doing?

Re: But the only question ever asked of Bing on Edge

Or Linux? When was the last time Microsoft ask their users what they wanted? Or listened to them?

Re: Shrieked

Worse, when it is setting in the garage, with the door closed and it drives off.

Re: They are NOT softening requirements for hardware.

There is an out here. Some version of Linux (free), or even Apple (kinda expensive up front).

Most people only do the basics, web, e-mail and maybe some word processing anyway.

The major problem is people only know Microsoft and think anything else would be too hard to learn, or having to learn a different/better way to do things on another operating system. Never mind the constant reshuffling in Windows.

Those back-up cameras make backing up much safer. So there is that. As for most of the rest of it, I agree, knobs are better.

Re: humidity air CON

Too many people have no idea that humidity has an affect on comfort. It's cool outside, so they open windows in their air conditioned space. Never mind 95% humidity and the fog outside.

Eventually, the ground sourced heat pump gives up because the circulating fluid is the same temperature going into the ground, as coming out. Winter did not remedy the problem, as the A/C didn't last through the spring.

It happened in an office I worked at. Manglement and their unair-conditioned lake cottages was the basic cause..

Keep this up and there will be enough stuff/junk in orbit to block enough sun to stop global warming.

See, it ain't all bad, even if it is all for profit. /s

Re: NBG

A Microsoft fan boy that down votes anything not complementary of anything Microsoft.

Re: Foolproof

NASA built and used a manned space capsule using well tested switches. Luckily all survived.