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  1. Amazing to see the same people raging about the WHO not taking the COVID-19 seriously enough are the same people protesting state lockdowns, they truly are morons.
    6 points
  2. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Sad to see that one person drops the ball and blames an organization that can only react when given proper access and permissions takes the blame, because Trump was perfect on his response and actually listened when they were warning him in January. But his supports will soon say that that is all a lie and that the WHO completely hid data and lied because Faux news says so. Just remember, murica first (In infected, dead, and stupidity) while other countries who listened to them and followed guidelines have either beat the curve or have been able to start to take control again.
    5 points
  3. Well, one can wonder why that... :rolleyes:
    5 points
  4. 2FA (at least SMS) should be mandatory these days
    4 points
  5. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Except multiple countries have called out the WHO. Jan. 14th, we were getting this nonsense: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152" rel="external nofollow">https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 Or seeing news outlets post things like: "The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time — the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe." https://www.statnews.com/2020/...virus-outbreak-a-pandemic/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.statnews.com/2020/...avirus-outbreak-a-pandemic/ Call out Trump all you like, but this isn't about him. Yet, somehow I have to sit and listen to people talk about how I'm "deflecting" as if I give two craps what Trump thinks. I'm not the idiot trying to listen to him, and fact of the matter is, neither should the rest of the world. I say all this because even if you take Trump out of the equation, you STILL have bad/slow info coming from the WHO. None of that is good. It's not a contest of abilities, but rather the simple lack thereof. If you're over here drawing a T-chart to compare the two though, chances are we're already doomed. So attack the organization that can only go off of numbers and data freely provided as they have no legal or universal rights to force anyone to actually tell the truth. you can be mad a China for lying and covering up the initial outbreak, but even if the WHO acted slow, they still acted faster than most governments including our own inept government no matter how you look at it. Every country had working tests before the us provided by knowledge gathered by the WHO, but let’s burn them because the American government was to stupid and bullheaded to think that we would be infected and can make our own test. So are you going to hold our government liable for their mistakes as well, or just pass the blame as they have still done a lot more than we have contributed.
    4 points
  6. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Chinese WHO btfo
    4 points
  7. At Jester: the key point is the WHO did NOT emphasize masks, social distancing, restricted travel, or confirm human-to-human transmission until FEBRUARY. Their 'everything in China is under control' attitude led many world leaders, including those with the greatest suffering, to believe it was just another 'flu'. Their initial figures (based on China's very transparent reporting) said mortality rate was 2%... after the Chinese returned to Europe and the USA after Lunar New Year, the real data started to surface and the WHO upped it's mortality rate to over 4%. And guess what, just 2 weeks ago, China revised their death toll by 50%... Yes. The WHO is doing a fantastic job. s\
    3 points
  8. Except multiple countries have called out the WHO. Jan. 14th, we were getting this nonsense: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 Or seeing news outlets post things like: "The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time — the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe." https://www.statnews.com/2020/...avirus-outbreak-a-pandemic/ Call out Trump all you like, but this isn't about him. Yet, somehow I have to sit and listen to people talk about how I'm "deflecting" as if I give two craps what Trump thinks. I'm not the idiot trying to listen to him, and fact of the matter is, neither should the rest of the world. I say all this because even if you take Trump out of the equation, you STILL have bad/slow info coming from the WHO. None of that is good. It's not a contest of abilities, but rather the simple lack thereof. If you're over here drawing a T-chart to compare the two though, chances are we're already doomed.
    3 points
  9. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    Privacy had gone bye bye a while ago.
    2 points
  10. 2FA via SMS isn't secure, 2FA via an authenticator app is the best way to go. ::rolls eyes:: It's totally fine for most users and general hacking efforts. The weakness of SMS requires a very targeted attack and isn't the kind of thing going on in articles like this. To flat out call it "insecure" is like calling a housekey insecure because someone could copy it. I realize a bunch of articles went around some time ago about how SMS wasn't a good form of 2FA and a bunch of armchair experts internalized that and now scoff at the mere mention of it, but it's still better than no 2FA at all.
    2 points
  11. Really good idea!
    2 points
  12. Idiot conspiracy theories? ;-)
    2 points
  13. Since when do CEOs deserve massive bonuses while the company they are running needs a taxpayer bail-out to be able to continue operating? And airlines want you to feel sorry for them?? Not me.
    2 points
  14. Before screaming at Richard Branson, people should probably first check who ACTUALLY owns Virgin Atlantic... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2019/07/05/richard-branson-and-virgin-atlantic-airways-the-next-35-years/#3f977ff17770 Not that I'm calling him an angel, I'm not, but seeing as he only owns a 20% stake in his airline, perhaps folks should be demanding the other LARGER stakeholders should sacrifice their personal holdings before getting a bailout, too?
    2 points
  15. Agreed. It was a colossal disappointment.
    2 points
  16. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    x86 chips are claiscally CISC whereas ARM is RISC. So whilst in ARM chips you have a very small instruction set and let's say you want to do some encryption on some data, you would call many, many instructions to do that, intel CISC chips could have a single function for that... However, under the hood, x86 chips are RISC, when a CISC command is ran it runs all the RISC commands to run that function internally. The things that greatly improve processor performance are caching, pipelining and (branch) prediction, when SPECTRE hit you may remember there were claims that it impacted performance, and it did, if you had a newer CPU it wasn't terrible but it had an impact, but if you had one of the older i7 CPUs you could expect your performance to halve because branch prediction was disabled. You're still not going to get an ARM chip to beat an x86 chip at this time, maybe one day. A couple of things to look for with ARM and Apple. ARM used to be more of a RISC purist design, around ARMv8 this changed with a lot of CISC code and modules being added to the design. This was the x64 change as well, but the performance leap came from the capitulation to taking advantage of CiSC as needed. Using the new module design in ARMv8, full x86 or x64 could be added to an ARM SoC. This was planned to happen until Intel started threatening x86 lawsuits. People at the time thought there threats were at Microsoft because of the upcoming WOA emulation of x86, but it was a direct threat to ARM SoC makers to not try to shove some unlicensed variation of x86 emulation into the ARM silicon (hardware). This is still possible with ARM assuming there is a way around the 'hardware' licensing of x86. However, more importantly, with Apple, they may be able to side step Intel with a licensing deal of AMD64 with AMD. The tricky part of this, is that AMD64 is based off of x86 and although untested in court may be subject to Intel licensing. Also, being Apple, they could just throw in a full x64 module in their ARM processors for compatibility, and fight Intel in courts for a licensing deal. Which they have done several times with technology, and have the money to do so now more than ever. As you stated, a current ARM SoC isn't going to compete with Intel or AMD in general computing yet. ARM can show impressive numbers, but these are specialized applications. A comparison for others reading, an NVidia 2080 GPU also cannot compete with a CISC ARM/Intel CPU for general computing, even with a ton of processing power. There are some exceptions to the CISC/RISC, and one of them is the kernel design of NT, and one reason it is very different from other kernel designs. WOA uses an agnostic scheduler technology that was updated and built on with the Vista GPU technologies. This allows Windows to throw RISC GPU calls through a CPU easily by packaging them, and vise versa, taking CISC calls and throwing them through the GPU - one simple example is CPU codecs in Windows often are packaged to run on the GPU reducing the CPU as GPUs and RISC are very good at codec work. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple come out with either an ARM SoC with x64 or some x64 to help the emulation of current software. It is also telling that Apple has done virtually nothing with their ARM CPUs for several years now, meaning the changes will be big if they can pull it off.
    2 points
  17. Microsoft Surface Earbuds could finally launch on May 6

    But it is very similar to Apple sticking an "i" in front of their products.
    2 points
  18. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    Everyone else will NOT have access to the API, just apps authorised to use it. And they'll be discontinued after COVID-19. Oh they will, will they.
    1 point
  19. Add this to the list of satisfying permission changes they've made in the last couple years. I was happy just to see Android give me the option to limit some permissions to only be in effect while the app is in the foreground. Disabling background permissions is great for apps that shouldn't need them in the first place. For apps I give background permissions to, this is a nice extra in case I get lazy or lose track of the app and it pulls something like that ES File Explorer crap a couple years back.
    1 point
  20. Heart issues

    Don't worry, we'll all die.
    1 point
  21. Heart issues

    A slight break from those "can you identify this bug bite" posts. It is weird...
    1 point
  22. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    What kind of updates would you want to keep you interested? I used Ubuntu for a while but stopped because it kept changing things. I'm happy using Mint because the updates aren't very noticeable, they improve things under the hood. I want a consistent reliable experience. I'm curious about what you would want/expect. Geezy ; I like your general mindset. I like Mint since it's basically what Ubuntu should be in the first place as I like it's more Windows like interface regardless of whether you choose Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce the general experience is familiar. it has just enough default stuff pre-installed and only a 2GB ISO size is reasonable as it's not super light but no where near bloated either. it strikes a solid balance. I've been on Linux for a long time and had settled on Gnome as my UI because it seemed to stay the same forever and only refine things. Then there was Gnome 3, which seemed to be redone from the ground up and only eventually gave you back the abilities you had in Gnome 2. Gnome 2 was still available and I could use that, but I didn't like the mindset of the transition the Gnome team envisioned. Their work on GTK is great but their approach to the desktop UX end user transition was the issue. Because of that I looked for another solution, and settled on Mint's UI offerings because they made it part of their mission statement to be as consistent as possible. The underlying OS was stable, based on Ubuntu/Debian, so I knew I could rely on that. It has a great community which is always nice and helpful too, I've reported bugs and issues and they have been excellent to work with at resolving them and with the community taking feedback constructively as well. Yeah, Gnome 3 still isn't great and I don't like the direction it took. Things that you pointed out are why Gnome 2 ended up getting forked into MATE which has kept the spirit of Gnome 2 while updating it's back end code for modern frameworks.
    1 point
  23. Heart issues

    Ok? Continue seeing medical professionals and raise your concerns with them...inquire about wearing a Holter. Seek a second opinion (not from a tech forum...or the internet in general).
    1 point
  24. A new notification bug can cause Apple devices to crash

    Lolcakes
    1 point
  25. couldn't be further from the truth... you need a serious reality check Steven. Darwin will take care of the selfish rednecks protesting the lockdown. Meanwhile, the WHO is in full cover-their-bums mode. You really just need to go backwards to December and review how this tragedy played out... the Mr. Tedros at the wheel... long-time follower of your site Steven, but your statement is severely off-the-mark. Cheers
    1 point
  26. As long as it is a pure software issue, there is not much to worry for the buyers.
    1 point
  27. Let's just say that there is enough blame to go around in this case. China tried to flat out cover up the outbreak, the WHO was on their side and never questioned the information given to them from the CCP. Taiwan was blowing the horn early but no one gave a care because of political reasons. Western governments acted slow in many cases when they should have been quick with lock downs. And last but not least you also have, and still do, a % of people who never took the pandemic seriously and didn't follow quarantine who probably helped spread this thing even more.
    1 point
  28. Hello, I would imagine that it is a feature of processors that manufacturers sell in order to allow system vendors (or users of systems from those vendors) to optimize for performance or for battery life. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  29. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Except multiple countries have called out the WHO. Jan. 14th, we were getting this nonsense: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152" rel="external nofollow">https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 Or seeing news outlets post things like: "The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time — the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe." https://www.statnews.com/2020/...virus-outbreak-a-pandemic/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.statnews.com/2020/...avirus-outbreak-a-pandemic/ Call out Trump all you like, but this isn't about him. Yet, somehow I have to sit and listen to people talk about how I'm "deflecting" as if I give two craps what Trump thinks. I'm not the idiot trying to listen to him, and fact of the matter is, neither should the rest of the world. I say all this because even if you take Trump out of the equation, you STILL have bad/slow info coming from the WHO. None of that is good. It's not a contest of abilities, but rather the simple lack thereof. If you're over here drawing a T-chart to compare the two though, chances are we're already doomed. So attack the organization that can only go off of numbers and data freely provided as they have no legal or universal rights to force anyone to actually tell the truth. you can be mad a China for lying and covering up the initial outbreak, but even if the WHO acted slow, they still acted faster than most governments including our own inept government no matter how you look at it. Every country had working tests before the us provided by knowledge gathered by the WHO, but let’s burn them because the American government was to stupid and bullheaded to think that we would be infected and can make our own test. So are you going to hold our government liable for their mistakes as well, or just pass the blame as they have still done a lot more than we have contributed. My opinion about WHO are corrupt as Taiwan, a model that acted early and potentially would save many lives if WHO would just acknowledge and acted as fast as it could. However, due to conflict of interest between China and Taiwan, Tedros chose to pick a side and ignore those warning.
    1 point
  30. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    What kind of updates would you want to keep you interested? I used Ubuntu for a while but stopped because it kept changing things. I'm happy using Mint because the updates aren't very noticeable, they improve things under the hood. I want a consistent reliable experience. I'm curious about what you would want/expect. Geezy ; I like your general mindset. I like Mint since it's basically what Ubuntu should be in the first place as I like it's more Windows like interface regardless of whether you choose Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce the general experience is familiar. it has just enough default stuff pre-installed and only a 2GB ISO size is reasonable as it's not super light but no where near bloated either. it strikes a solid balance. Have to agree as well, Mint is a wonder OS. While I will still throw this into a VM to test, I do see myself switching from Mint for my Linux boxes. Yeah, I think Mint is the all around best choice for someone coming from Windows to Linux.
    1 point
  31. They are also getting rid of one of the reasons people justify the price of buying them. Many people justify the cost because you can run Windows on it as well but if that is gone they will lose a few buyers for sure. I used to do tech support at a college and many of the students had to use Bootcamp and/or virtualization to run the Windows only stuff. Bootcamp might be possible since WoA is a thing. doubtful, the main thing bootcamp was used for in colleges was for all the engineering programs that only ran on Windows. Even then we encouraged students to have beefier systems built for maximum speed. Putting it on Arm would not work so well considering its 32-bit apps only.
    1 point
  32. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    Ahem. Take a look at the iPhones and iPads running on the said ARM chips. The fact that Android doesn't bother with their support doesn't mean that everyone does, the 5 years lifecycle on Apple devices is still standing and not that iPhone 8 runs impossibly slow given the time gap. Ahem .. ahem .. ahem ... someone so soon forgot about the "slowing down of iPhones" ... God knows for how long had than been happening ... Second, you are still looking at one application at a time product and comparing it with the performance of a laptop that doesn't limit you on how many apps you have open concurrently. So, ARM has yet to prove its strength in that scenario. Ahem x4, please refresh your memory and recall that it was done for the battery life sake and they sent a patch to turn it off on demand. One application at a time? I usually run 3-4 on my iPad (which is not even a Pro) simultaneously and sometimes in split-screen as well without any issues, not counting the background operations like messengers and mail. In most cases, that alone will suffice for a majority of users. The gaming will suffer but a rare person buys a Mac for gaming.
    1 point
  33. How to connect to NAS?

    Now comes the 2nd tricky part, can i make this as my plex server storage. 😝
    1 point
  34. How to connect to NAS?

    Winner-winner, chicken dinner. This device aint too secure, if it's so easy to reset and get in.
    1 point
  35. Microsoft Surface Earbuds could finally launch on May 6

    These look too feminine - like wearing earrings, and at such a price point with the reputation of Microsoft, these should go on sale within a few months then discontinued it within a year or two.
    1 point
  36. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    When Unity and the idea of a convergent mobile/desktop OS failed, they just decided to cut costs, and who can blame them? It's just pointless effort at that point, because even when someone innovates and tries to steer the ship like Canonical did, mainstream won't respond, and Linux geeks will criticize them of wanting too much control, and the projects simply spin off into 30 different directions. It's just the nature of the community. It works well enough if you know what you need it for, but we'll never see proper innovation or at least an ironed out desktop experience, it's just the nature of Linux. Actually canonical have themselves to blame entirely, whilst the whole world went full steam with wayland, they believed they were smarter and better than everyone else and created mir, which in all honesty is a pile of steaming ######, and they continued with this absolutely nonsensical path for a long time before dropping it, thus wasting everyone's time and a lot of money. That's not to say all their decisions are bad, their kernel live patching system is apparently pretty good, but a lot of decisions they took make no sense and didn't have the support of anyone except themselves. slightly off topic but speaking of wayland I wish other DEs would start supporting it besides just Gnome. Would love XFCE to start supporting it especially as that's my preferred DE via Manjaro. I just did a quick search for what Wayland is and don't really know the specifics of it, but what is it that you like about it? What specifically is the difference or what would it do for the XFCE desktop, as that's the DE I use also. Xorg has run its course. It's fine for a standard desktop compositor but when you get into things like gaming it starts to fall short due to output latency and this is what keeps some developers/publishers away from Linux from what I understand. Wayland has a more modern approach and from testing first hand I got better FPS in games that supported it on a slightly lower end laptop. Now since that laptop died I don't have anything running linux right now but I can see already that Wayland will just continue to improve where Xorg due to its ancient code is stuck just stacking minimal improvements. here's a good article showing the current advantages/disadvantages of both Wayland still has a ways to go in some aspects but the more support it gets the faster it can work on those issues. https://www.slant.co/versus/8634/8635/~wayland_vs_x
    1 point
  37. So Google will finally get to know who the Nigerian foreign minster who happens to have a mutually lucrative business opportunity for me really is? Do you think they could contact him for me? ... because he isn't on the Nigerian Government website. #Oversights
    1 point
  38. Bye, Battlefield series. With this huge disappointment of a game, I'll never buy another - except in a deep, deep sale. Like almost free or for the price of a very bad hotdog.
    1 point
  39. They weren't doing this before?!?!
    1 point
  40. Add your own airline CEO sob story you may have seen somewhere
    1 point
  41. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    When Unity and the idea of a convergent mobile/desktop OS failed, they just decided to cut costs, and who can blame them? It's just pointless effort at that point, because even when someone innovates and tries to steer the ship like Canonical did, mainstream won't respond, and Linux geeks will criticize them of wanting too much control, and the projects simply spin off into 30 different directions. It's just the nature of the community. It works well enough if you know what you need it for, but we'll never see proper innovation or at least an ironed out desktop experience, it's just the nature of Linux. Actually canonical have themselves to blame entirely, whilst the whole world went full steam with wayland, they believed they were smarter and better than everyone else and created mir, which in all honesty is a pile of steaming ######, and they continued with this absolutely nonsensical path for a long time before dropping it, thus wasting everyone's time and a lot of money. That's not to say all their decisions are bad, their kernel live patching system is apparently pretty good, but a lot of decisions they took make no sense and didn't have the support of anyone except themselves.
    1 point
  42. Update windows 10 home to pro

    Change the product key to a Pro key.
    1 point
  43. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    What kind of updates would you want to keep you interested? I used Ubuntu for a while but stopped because it kept changing things. I'm happy using Mint because the updates aren't very noticeable, they improve things under the hood. I want a consistent reliable experience. I'm curious about what you would want/expect.
    1 point
  44. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    When Unity and the idea of a convergent mobile/desktop OS failed, they just decided to cut costs, and who can blame them? It's just pointless effort at that point, because even when someone innovates and tries to steer the ship like Canonical did, mainstream won't respond, and Linux geeks will criticize them of wanting too much control, and the projects simply spin off into 30 different directions. It's just the nature of the community. It works well enough if you know what you need it for, but we'll never see proper innovation or at least an ironed out desktop experience, it's just the nature of Linux.
    1 point
  45. You can switch to Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, FB Messenger, ... They are not electron...oh wait you listed exactly why I was still using Skype, when they'll switch to electron there will be no more reasons because: - Higher cpu, ram and battery usage - It requires to be open and actually running to receive notifications - No inline responses from notifications - No ARM version. - What about other devices support like xbox, holoelns, hub - Why with windows 10x coming make this app run in container instead of native? - No more people app integration - No more sync with outlook - No more automatic MSA sign in - No more good looking title bar P.S. Whatsapp is an half client, that works only if your phone with your number is connected to the internet
    1 point
  46. It boggles the mind there is no glass option in Windows when they achieved it with Vista 13 years ago, but I believe the official explanation was about technical limitations and hardware manufacturers (and consumers) not being happy about it not working on all hardware. It was never about technical limitations, it was about perception and maybe a bit of battery usage along with dumb MFRs complaining. The irony is MS gave them 'Starter' edition - which was slower than using the newer compositor. There were 1000 guides on how to turn off Aero/Glass/Blur/DWM/etc. Because users 'thought' it was slower because it was pretty, this created disparity with users rejecting and turning off the composer. Windows 8 turned it all off because the Composer was forced on. This was to prevent users from screaming about the 'pretty effects' and preventing them from turning it off. Which worked. There are guides now that tell users to turn off blur/transparency - even though there is zero performance hit on hardware made in the last 10 years. I agree, and wish Microsoft would just turn it back on everywhere. It exists outside the Windows chrome, with Acrylic being used in most Windows Apps. The irony is that you have no idea of that about which you are writing — or maybe this is not ironic given previous replies from you. 'Starter' edition, as an example, was not available at retail ... so it would not really be available to those 'MFRs' ... thus Microsoft was not really giving it to anyone ... and it also would naturally be slow due to being sold on terrible hardware such as netbooks with Intel Atom processors. Your comment about being users thinking 'Windows Aero' was slower, well ... even Windows itself disables it when selecting 'adjust for best performance' ! What's more, it actually is disabled when the laptop on Power Saver is unplugged. Windows 8 did not disable blurred glass because the Desktop Window Manger was made mandatory; no, it was disabled on account of consistency with the new interface. The DWM would need to be made mandatory to support features such as the new Start experience ( the DWM is required for the Start screen ).
    1 point
  47. Stardock announces Curtains, letting you add new styles to Windows 10

    I would be fully on board if they could bring transparent acrylic title bars to Win32 apps
    1 point
  48. Add a link to http://www.stardock.com/products/curtains
    1 point
  49. lmao who was that?! Hilarious You don't know? He's the US General who comes on here and pretends to be impartial in his bias. Usually tells everybody how he's bought the newest and most expensive apple crap for himself and his whole family (They all have the latest most expensive iphones, apple watches, mac computers, etc.). Depending on the article, he's either devoted to Apple, in love with Windows 7 and it's the last version of Windows he ever uses, uses Linux instead of Windows or comes back to Apple only. Oh, he drives some American muscle car too and did I mention, is a strong American active/former military patriot (No idea and don't really give a royal toss). I know exactly who you're referring to, Mugwump00, because every time I see some ridiculously overpriced Apple product, I picture him driving up in his military uniform buying half a dozen of things "for his whole family" with his muscle car. We're talking about Mr. [Letters][Color] here, right lol? I have it down to I think either him or memoji picture guy.
    1 point