Posts by Gavacodo

Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch

An Election Stupid

This is nothing more than a press release just before an election so the government can point and say look what we are doing.

After the election this will disappear, never to be heard from again.

On the very small chance I am wrong then I expect either Social Media will pay a small amount ( aka only what they want to) or they will leave / be banned.

Remember this is the country where the laws of Australia are more powerful than the laws of physics and the government chased the car manufacturers out of the country.

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Sure most workstations could run W11 but do the apps work or are supported.

We just finished upgrading 1/3 of the company to W11. The rest of the company had a line of business app that works on W11 but is not officially supported on W11 by the vendor yet.

Until that happens we are not going to upgrade any one else.

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

Wake me up in 10 or so years to see who really wins this.

I expect there are at least 3 more appeals to go before we might know the answer.

Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends

MS says "Cheaper than continuing to pay our lawyers" ???

CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all

Sued yes. Win not sure. It expect they have very good contract law lawyers but I guess time will tell.