Hillary Exits The Matrix.

Daily Caller: Hillary Clinton Withdraws As Cybersecurity Conference Keynote, Citing 'Unforeseen Circumstance'.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton withdrew from the cybersecurity conference where she was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, citing an “unforeseen circumstance,” according to an email from the FireEye Cyber Defense Summit.

Clinton - who infamously transmitted classified information over a homemade server once housed in her bathroom - was the centerpiece of the October 9-10 summit in Washington, where Clinton was to have “engage[d] in a Q&A discussion with FireEye CEO, Kevin Mandia on the geopolitical landscape and its implications for global cyber security today.”

The FireEye “Cyber Defense Summit brings together many of the world’s leading security experts, frontline heroes, government leaders, and executives from various industries to address the challenges of today’s threat landscape,” its website says.

An email from FireEye sent Tuesday said "Due to an unforeseen circumstance, Secretary Clinton will no longer be able to participate in this year’s conference."

Who in the hell knows they're going to have an "unforeseen circumstance" three months ahead of time?

Adventures in Tech Ineptitude.

And examples of failure to communicate?

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Never too early to get those school pencils:

It must be redistricting:

Adventures in Tech Ineptitude.

And examples of failure to communicate?

Craftsmanship...

No doubt, a recipe question asked by Cortez:

Junk drawer.

Clearing out some saved-up-over time images I found at various place around the interwebz (aka Albert Gore, Jr.'s Super Information Highway).

Time to clear out the junk drawer file.

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The juxtaposition of the headlines kills me:

Sometimes think not through is what do we:

No one noticed, until...

For curious sundry items?

The internet is "Baffled" that Trump can "hear Putin smile" during "phone call."

Oh wow, the internet is "Baffled". I did not know inanimate objects and things had the AI to be "baffled". My couch is "baffled" over climate change and I've tried to explain this to the couch, but...it seems a futile endeavor. The couch just sits there, unresponsive. Go figure.

stRaw Story articles now have a paywall, which is good because now I have no reason to ever go there again and read their fictional, LefTard bullshit.

The Atlantic: Phone call of Trump and Putin.

In brief remarks during a visit with the Slovakian prime minister, reporters asked Trump about the call. Had he discussed Russian meddling with Putin?

    Trump: He sort of smiled when he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse. But he knew that, because you knew there was no collusion whatsoever.

It certainly is "baffling" that someone could "see" someone smile on the telephone. We haven't yet developed the technological innovation where people can have a conversation while viewing the other party with whom they are conversing.

Why...combining voice and visual? It's so "out-there" that it couldn't be imagined by Huxley and Orwell.

It never occurred to any of these advanced, highly intelligent critics that maybe...just maybe...the President of the United States and the Russian President would communicate using some sort of futuristic video-conferencing.  No, that just couldn't be. Face-Time, Skype, mini-cameras in telephones - - - we aren't quite there yet. Technology hasn't evolved to the point where transmission of voice and visual can occur simultaneously

We remain in the Dark Ages of Technology where communication must be one or the other: voice or visual. The two simply cannot be combined. It's a technology impossibility.

Some day, maybe. We're not there yet.

Adventures in Tech Ineptitude

Maybe just a failure to communicate?

I've always known math to be dirty and filthy.

"Please...please describe. In vivid detail!"

Bloated Windows 10

Extreme Tech: Win 10 requires 32GB storage space.

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would begin using ~7GB of user hard drive space for the application of future updates. The advantage of this system is intended to be that it doesn’t break the update process halfway through by a system running out of space. The disadvantage is that it would eliminate virtually all of the storage available on small systems[.]

And more yadda yadda, blah blah the ExTech story writer goes on why Win 10 requiring 32GB storage isn't so bad...

But it's the comments at the link that are fun:

sola • 10 hours ago
What on Earth could need so much storage space for a baseline operating system?
[.]
Hard-core Linux people ridicule Ubuntu all the time for being bloated while a full blown Ubuntu x64 desktop installation is about ~8GB (1/4 of Windows) and that includes a full blown office suite, a proper web browser and a lot of usable cli and graphical tools.

ChromeOS also still works on 16GB machines and that includes a secondary partition for full-parallel, in-background OS updates.

Techutante @ sola • 5 hours ago
Eh, 2 TB hard drives are as cheap as 14-40 dollars. Get over it. Back when I started I ran my entire computer with Dos and Windows 3.1 on a 426 meg hard drive, of which windows took up approximately 35-50 megs[.]

John Galt @ Techutante • 4 hours ago
Sure thing, I'll just pop open that ultra slim laptop or tablet and de-solder the SSD and pop that 4TB drive in there... See the problem yet?

adamrussell @ sola 39 minutes ago
32 GB is pretty deep into the low end.

Uh, yeah - it sure as heck is deep in the low end.

@ Techutante, "Back when I started..." - - - then return to the days of DOS, Win 3.1, a 9.6 modem and those lovely, techno-gray dot-matrix printers. There's probably a good, used pre-owned horse and buggy for sale in Amish Country that may be of interest to you.

Fcuk...some people who defend Win and MS no matter how sub-par the OS. I do not understand.

 Ink well with Quill and Eight - and ONLY EIGHT- Crayons for you!

4Sysops: Windows 10 1903: defer upgrades in all editions, SAC-T removed, new reboot option:

After a lot of negative feedback about Windows 10 1809, which the manufacturer had to withdraw due to serious errors[.] ("A lot"? AYFKM? - DD)
[.]
Officially, the next release bears the version number 1903, but it will not be released until the end of May. Therefore, Microsoft also refers to it as the May 2019 update.

Well, MS has until midnight Tuesday to roll out their April patches. As for their May release being released during May, I wonder what Vegas odds are on that?

Sure, kind of. But not really; only sort of.

Unless it's meant literally...but...

And...we sigh...but only sort of. But not really...

We can confirm it ain't no Turtle Power:

3-year old locks dad's iPad until 2067.

Yeah...but since Global Warming Climate Change Global Warming should have killed us by now will have us all dead in three, eight, nine, ten, twelve years - does it really matter?

CNN: Wrong password locks iPad until year 2067.

That's what happened over the weekend to Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He put out a tweet -- or a cry for help -- letting the world know of the little situation his toddler put him in.

"Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it's our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?" Osnos tweeted. A photo of the iPad's screen noted the device was disabled. It also had this mind-blowing message: "Try again in 25,536,442 minutes."
[.]
Several others said no worries --- just wait out the 48 years. Because you know folks on social media are known for their patience.

So what does Apple suggest? Apple says you would need to perform a restore to use the device again (but you would lose the data on the device if you've never backed it up).

 Evan Osnos' iPad

The real shocker is that The New Yorker is still being published? Whaaaat...?

We have pencils and paper for the CPU-challenged.

Maybe if they rotated their computer screen by 90 degrees?

There are other options:

Instructions: use pointy, sharpened end to write on paper (the white stuff with the lines). The red thingy at the other end is an eraser used for...oh, forget it, it's already causing severe TechTardedness. Carry on, CPU-challenged person. Godspeed.

Trump Mocked on 6G but the joke is on the TechTards!

The TechTards are out in full force.

Caution: TechTards advised to have paper bag nearby in the event of hyperventilation. Or, a candy dish filled with Benzos.

President Donald Trump was mocked big-time today by the TechTards for his comments about 5G and 6G technology.

Let's jump to the finish line first.

6G was being discussed in January 25, 2018...(there goes the breathing in and out of the paper bag)...at...the University of California...(grabbing at the candy dish)...of...Santa Barbara! ("Jennifer... I need more Benzos!")

UofC - Santa Barbara "Beyond 5G":

...the focus of the newly established ComSenTer, a $27.5 million center for converged terahertz communications and sensing at UC Santa Barbara, led by UC Santa Barbara professor of electrical and computer engineering professor Mark Rodwell.

“Our center is simply the next next generation of communication and sensing, something that may become ‘6G’,” said Ali Niknejad, ComSenTer associate director and a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences.

How could all the TechTards, who are mocking Trump, be unaware aware of a technology conference, at their beloved Santa Barbara that included a UC Berkeley professor?

CISCO - not to be confused with CRISCO, TechTards - was talking about 6G in JANUARY 2019 at THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW IN LAS VEGAS.

ZD Net: Cisco talks 6G at the LV CES Show:

Cisco is looking to a 6G future, CTO of Service Provider Networking Michael Beesley told ZDNet at CES 2019, and already has a rough idea of what 6G will bring when it comes.

According to Beesley, 6G will take around 15 to 20 years to reach peak scale deployment, as the world has only just passed that tipping point for 4G.

Yes, a fully deployed 6G is several years away. But, to repeat part of the above, 4G peak just passed the tipping point, there's still plenty of shelf life remaining. With Tech, the leap to the next level can be well ahead of plans and expectations.

Recall your tech devices and network reliability of ten years ago, their capabilities and limitations and compare them to networks and the devices you have today. Night and day. We could see 6G Beta by the end of 2020.

April 2018: Engerati told us 5G is upon us.

September 2018: Verizon announces "5G is here."

Brad Reed, writing at Raw Story, got the ball rolling in mocking Trump and 6G:

Headline: Trump hilariously mocked after he writes technologically illiterate tweet

Reed's article appears at The New Civil Rights Movement.com:

Headline: ‘We Also Want Time Machines’: Trump Hilariously Mocked After He Posts Technologically Illiterate Tweet

Tom Nicholson, writing at Esquire (via Yahoo):

Headline: Donald Trump Really Wants (Non-Existent) 6G Technology. He Wants It Here And He Wants It Right Now

Sorry TechTards, 6G exists, is alive and well.

Sputnik News: China 6G Hype Premature.

"China is expected to gear up for its conceptual development and trials of 6G as early as 2020 in a bid to lay out policy brush strokes and its own sets of definitions and standards," Asia Times said in a recent article.

Sure, China may be a little overly-optimistic in their plans, but when have TechTards not been overly-optimistic in anything Tech? Especially Green Tech? How's all those solar panels working out? Are we powering all the country from the sun yet? How are EV batteries holding up in winter temperatures? "Can I get me some ethanol here?" All those things happened overnight, right?

Cali's L.A. to San Fran Train to Nowhere. Image: AP

If the TechTards want to justly mock Trump for 6G, the best, and only, ammo they have is that they're right in saying 6G "won't be here tomorrow." The least they can do is get their own mocking right.

That California bullet train from L.A. to San Fran, the Train to Nowhere, WHEN is THAT going to be completed, TechTards? Tomorrow? This year? May 9, 2065? I'd put down money we'll see 6G before that bullet train is operational.

Thank you, TechTards, for bringing your Tech Illiteracy front and center. Don't do the slightest due diligence. Why bother? Print anything. Anything. People will believe it because....because you write it? Not unlike an actor staging a racist attack on himself and maintaining a belief it factually happened.