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IT4MD··on Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
Most criminals have a specific type of cleverness, but not intelligence. If they were smart people, they wouldn't do the crimes in the first place.

I dealt with a low-tech breach at one of the hospitals I worked for. The criminal worked in HIM, and used paper and pencil to note specific info about specific types of patients. Since they worked in HIM, it was expected for them to view many medical records in a day and no app detects paper/pencil, so quite clever so far.

Ultimately, they used this info to file false tax returns to steal the refunds.

The problem? They filed 881 false tax returns annnnnnd used the same address for all of them. DOH.

They were busted/arrested and off to jail they went.

Clever, right until the end, then abysmally stupid.

IT4MD··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
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IT4MD··on Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States
Smart move.
IT4MD··on The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop
Macs will never be cheaper than Windows machines over anything longer than a flash sale by Apple.
IT4MD··on Commodore 64 Ultimate
100% with you. I miss those times.. High-5 to a fellow 300bauder!
IT4MD··on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
I believe this is an Pollyanna take on AI. There is nothing about humans that tells us humans will bring AI to fruition for the other humans and a mountain of evidence showing how it will be used to abuse humans instead....for profits/power/whatever horse shit the masters of the universe have decided upon.
IT4MD··on Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars
What youre likely seeing is the inevitable endpoint for corporate growth.

Money over all. Safety should never impact profits, quality control is a cost not a benefit, poor design due to rushing something out the door, and lowest bidder for everything.

IT4MD··on We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents
Garbage or not, I disagree with removing an entire pie slice from discussions because reasons.
IT4MD··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
Would it surprise you to learn that they also sell data to anyone with a handful of nickels?
IT4MD··on OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months
>Why can't OpenAI keep projecting/promising massive data centre growth year after year, fail to deliver, and keep making Number Go Up?

Because eventually, Nvidia will run out of money, so the incestuous loop between Nvidia funding AI entities, who then use those funds to buy Nvidia chips, artificially propping up Nvidia's stock price, will eventually end and poof.

Competing forces are the market's insatiable need for growth every quarter, and other countries also chasing AIs and will not slow down if other countries, like the US, do slow down.

IT4MD··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
However, it's a very abbreviated way of stating, "soon you will not even be given this choice, because we make entirely too much money selling your data/info and we kinda bribe law enforcement by granting them any and all video, with a simple request"
IT4MD··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
Agreed. Ring has a proven track record of giving up whatever video law enforcement wants, regardless of your choice or privacy laws.

If it was free, I could almost understand. Nothing is free, and if it cost the customer nothing, then the customer is the product. However, people paid for Ring gear and as a thanks have their privacy violated with no notice, no info and no choice.

IT4MD··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
I just installed mine (last weekend) and use a Unifi stack at home.

100% recommended alternative.

IT4MD··on A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
A. This leaves a semi-permanent hazard in orbit for all other satellites. (Semi, because it can be cleaned up, but it's difficult, expensive and no laws require the idiots that do this to clean it up)

B. The Russians already have this tech and have "practiced" with it a few times, so have already added untold hazards in orbit.

C. The people that cause these problems, ignore the hazards left behind and let others simply die.

This is a horrific idea and not new. Let's not do more of it.

IT4MD··on We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents
I have personal experience with Dang on this topic, so while I don't doubt you, I also have a point here.
IT4MD··on Talent
>Sometimes I wonder if interest influences not just my motivation, but my capacity for learning and talent.

It does. Anything you have an interest in, you will spend more time thinking about in general, be more focused while learning the relevant bits, and will breed a willingness to learn something related, but not specific to what you need.

I'm senior technical in my dept and have had a lifelong interest in tech, how it works, why it works, etc. and in my case, my interest definitely influenced my ability to handle work, broad skillset, practical application and more.

YMMV, but imo, your statement is true.

GL!

IT4MD··on test-ipv6.com will stay online
cheering

Thanks!

IT4MD··on We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents
This thread has to go. so sayeth dang, keeper of all words, allower of some.
IT4MD··on Why more SaaS companies are hiring chief trust officers
Ironic, considering the last thing anyone should ever trust is a corporation who's sole goal is extracting profits at all costs.

This position is meant to shovel shit faster than the customers can figure it out.

Progress!

smfh

IT4MD··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
Agereed. Sadly, we're on the wrong planet, my friend. AI will be shoved into every available orifice and more. It's a great tool for "them" to gather even more info on you to sell to anyone with a handful of nickels.

The last thing any of these masters of the universe will do is leverage AI to make everyone's life better.

IT4MD··on US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
We had him over for dinner last night. He said he was find with this.
IT4MD··on Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
This works for about 95% of the documents.

For the rest you need a purpose built reader. Often Sumatra or other open source readers will work with the more complex functions in PDFs (signing, bill processing, etc).

I have Acrobat installed on my corp laptop, but I use Sumatra rather than Acrobat, because I like my reader to simply be a reader instead of a 13GB bloated piece of garbage. I'm also a big fan of my reader not crashing at the slightest breeze.

IT4MD··on Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
This is a lot like Microsoft having Outlook for multiple decades and it's somehow still the very worst email client.

Half my org still uses Outlook classic and even it's laughably unstable.

IT4MD··on Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
Only the one? Found the optimist.. ;)
IT4MD··on Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
Your statement: > Homosexuality and sodomy They do affect the future population count and this will affect the pension of everyone. They also will result in persons not being born. You can say that this is way less of importance then the right to do whatever you want, but it is not without effect to others. ===============================================================================

I assumed you were concerned with all social programs and not just your personal pension, hence the statement. Fixing pensions, while all other social safety net programs get gutted is not the way. Basic breeding by heterosexuals isn't the panacea you seem to believe it is, imo.

The real issue with US population growth is the insane world we live in. It's not "the gays failing to procreate". That's a laughable statement.

WTF would want to bring children into the world when literal criminals, rapists and alcoholics are running things, racism is on the rise and cheered, laws are optional for specific groups of people while abused for everyone else, SCOTUS is a complete parody of a court, Congress is run by wholly unserious people, prices of everything are rocketing up not because of genuine supply chain issues, or similar, but because of plain, old greed and much, much, much more.

Let's not forget that AI is being developed at a record pace to replace jobs, while shafting the working class, instead of being used to uplift everyone.

"The gays" were never the problem and never will be for population growth.

IT4MD··on Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
You state this like there aren't numerous other ways to fund these programs already.

We can start with actually taxing people with multiple piles of Scrooge McDuck money, as opposed to the current approach of cutting social programs that benefit millions of citizens to provide even MORE tax breaks for these "people".

Are you even serious with this?

IT4MD··on US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms
131% this. I'm still aghast when someone holds up Republican words as a counter to a point, as if their words had any meaning beyond the instant they said them.
IT4MD··on Dear Tesla Shareholder [pdf]
You're right. A large swath of people are apathetic, which basically makes them complicit with the current state of things.

I also don't count libertarians, because they are not serious people.

IT4MD··on State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments
Are you being deliberately obtuse, or are you just this obtuse?
IT4MD··on State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments
Ahhh.. 1A, but only for specific groups, in specific contexts, as long as you're ok with it. Yes, that's exactly what they meant when they wrote it. le sigh.

I hope your enjoying the current state of the country. It's people just like you that brought it about, so carry on with the winning!

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