Posts by David 155

AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright

Progress

At least it isnt as idiotic as using all that energy to mine crypto.

Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims

I have heard that some people are mugged and at knifepoint or threat of violence, forced to unlock the phone, remove pin etc. I dont see a solution to this. All you can do is report it stolen once you are safe. Phones are being shipped abroad or sold on very quickly.

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Sign me out

"the sign-out command is added to the account manager in the Start Menu."

Would that be the same command they took away / buried in a sub menu just a couple of months ago?

I just dont know how they manage to keep coming up with this stuff.

UK council yanks IT systems and phone lines offline following cyber ambush

Re: Ah, the good old UK public sector!

I think you'll find they employ plenty of private sector consultants too.

'What's the point of me being in my office, just because they want to see me in the office?'

solved our lack of space problem

Before covid our organization had a major lack of space problem, if you werent using a space you'd lose it. Millions were spent on refurbishment, reorganising and letting additional office space. But now we've got hotdesking and WFH the place is half empty. They're still trying to drag us back into the office.

Take the day off: Windows Autopatch is live and can even fix cloudy PCs

But

But you can already automate updates.. how is this different?

Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit

How many of their users are bots?

Windows 10 to hang on for five more years with 21H2 update

Re: So funny

Already get plenty of driver compatibility problems with LTSC 1809 and I guess we'll see more of that down the road, until its unfeasible to use on new hardware,

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

Why dont the news sites just stop posting their articles on Facebook? You cant setup an account, post a load of content then complain you arent being paid for it.

Virgin Media adds 200% to its new broadband contracts in 2020, slips back in black (just)

sounds familiar

This all sounds painfully familiar. My price for 200mbps will soon rise to around £45.

After 30 mins on hold I was told theres nothing they can do. For about an hour could not get any sense out of one of their chat people about a 'deal' being offered to me on their website for tv, phone and internet that was about £10 cheaper than current package. Despite not even wanting tv and phone I go through the wizard to order it anyway and on the last page the price is £19 higher than advertised- that'll be the line rental and believe it is not legal anymore to show prices which exclude this.

Once openreach get around to upgrading the network in my area I'll be switching, not just because of the price but because the customer service is atrocious. Shame because the connection is decent.

Nokia 2.3: HMD flings out €109 budget 'droid with a 2-day battery

Re: Should please some around here

What they dont tell you is that with Android One you cant use the SD card slot as internal storage, as I have found with my Nokia 6.1.

Transport for London Oyster system pulled offline after credential-stuffing crooks board customers' accounts

How do they know?

How do they know that the accounts were compromised by people using the same passwords?

The peelable, foldable phone has become the great white whale of tech

Re: Like self-driving cars, isn't it?

Over a million people a year dying from road accidents isnt a problem?

Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

blocker

Is there a blocker for these cookie boxes that seem to appear repeatedly on every damn website?

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

what is the solution?

What is the solution? Social media seems to be increasingly lawless, with none of them accepting responsibility for their content.

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

Stability

Dont they realise that some people like stability and dont want updates and features(like bugs) continuously added?

London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial

London

Romford is in London, not Essex.

Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again: 'This time we mean it'

Forced updates

Any chance they will turn off the forced updates? Its quite annoying to get asked by users to update their Skype every week. The thing wont run if you're not on the latest version.

Still using Skype? Good news! After HOURS of meetings, Microsoft reckons it knows when you're Not Active

Update prompts

Yeah but when are they going to stop giving standard users admin prompts to update the thing? You'd think they'd know how their own os works.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 gets new support model

"security only quality update" - that does not make sense to me. If its 'security only' then why add the word 'quality'? Just call it a security update.

Oh good. Transport for London gives Capita £80m for WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi

Countdown

Does this include stuff like the bus countdown displays?

UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT

Re: Ransomware

Spin? What makes you think cyber warfare is not a possibility?

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

Can I have a patch for

when installing updates, our computers take half an hour to restart!

Robots blamed for wiping 10 per cent off the value of sterling

Good grief, cant we just get on with our lives without them being affected by these gamblers?

Android's unpatched dead device jungle is good for security

MS manage it

I dont understand why Google cant send out updates themselves? MS manage to patch Windows on an even more diverse range of hardware.

Vodafone UK rocks the bloat with demands for vanilla Android

Whats the problem?

I dont see why Google cant just send out updates directly to Android devices? Microsoft dont have to send their updates via hardware manufacturers.

Déjà vu: Virgin Media jacks up broadband prices

Monopoly

In the name of competition, why arent they forced to open up their network to other 'providers'? Is that not what happened to BT?

Adobe goes out of band to fix frightful Flash flaw

auto update?

"Users running Chrome and Internet Explorer will automatically download the update through their browsers, while other users can obtain the fix through Adobe's Download Center."

Does their auto updater (accessed through the control panel) not work then?

Google 'fesses up: Yup, we're KILLING OFF IE9 support for Gmail, Apps

'Widows Vista'

What an apt typo.

O2, Tesco Mobile go titsup for 220,000+ Brits in 13-HOUR 3G cockup

I wouldnt notice

Awful problems on O2 where I live for months and they just arent interested in fixing it. Signal is up and down and barely existent indoors, calls drop regularly.

Setanta, ESPN couldn't make UK footie TV work. How will BT Sport?

lets get this straight

So it isnt 'free for broadband customers' because you need to have their telly service too? Can you watch via android/apple app if you only have the broadband?

Oracle slaps critical patch on insecure Java

Java 6

Thought Java 6 had its final update in Feburary? Now they've released update 45.

Here's the $4.99 utility that might just have saved Windows 8

Nah

Looks messy to me. In the video, he opens an app and the window size isnt big enough.

We cant go on with a windows 2000 start menu and UI forever and ever. There is definitely room for improvement, especially for users who dont have a touchscreen but I think most people will just get used to it.

Not done yet: Oracle to ship revised Java fix on February 19

Re: Any chance...

Was that added recently? In my experience it just notifies the user that there is an update available, but doesnt actually install anything and is useless for Standard/limited users anyway.

Any chance...

Of adding some auto update functionality?

BT's 'six-month free broadband' offer is a big fat FIB - ads watchdog

Another unfair BT practice...

is to charge me £2.50 if i DONT make at least two phonecalls per month. Highly annoying considering i only need the line for broadband.

N00bs vs Windows 8: We lock six people in a room with new OS

Touchscreens

It looks like it was designed for touchscreens, presumably MS expect us to use new desktop touchscreen computers to be able to use it properly. But even then your average office worker would die of arm ache after half hour.

'Over half' of Android devices have unpatched holes

re: 6310i

Sounds like you have too much time on your hands.

The 'experts' who never see BBM will never understand RIM

I dont see what the fuss is about

Its just an instant messenger and not even a free one! People like sheep have gone with bbm just because their friends are on it, without realising that there are multi platform equivalents available. But with all your pals chatting away, who is going to go out in the cold and leave first for an android or iphone?

Cumbria County Council: We'll sort our own ICT support, thanks

How could they save money if it would have cost..

£10million for a year?! Really?

ALL NHS patient records online by 2015

Its about time

Welcome to the 21st century, NHS. Fed up with ringing appointment lines that are only open when venus aligns with jupiter and it beggars belief that paper systems are still in use. Should have been sorted years ago.

National Rail Enquiries

Alerts

The alerts function would be useful if it would automatically check for delays every day, rather than just the day you specify and only for a specific train. Unless its me....?

I'd also like to see an app that can combine national rail and the tube.

Microsoft to bake Windows 8 in three flavours

Windows RT = .......

Windows ReTard, right?

iPhone fanbois enraged by Instagram's Android triumph

typical hipsters

Something becomes popular, so they don't like it anymore.

Man stabbed at BlackBerry bash

why

why are they promoting bbm? Its not new

No-strings nookie radar tugged offline in stalking backlash

privacy settings

I dont use facebook but you would think that the default setting for this 'checking in' rubbish would be to display to friends only, just what is the point in making that information public? If the default is to friends only and they've changed it to public then i think those users are very naive.

A million TVs to go dark across London

when

Does anyone know when exactly they are upping the power?

Wii U graphics said to be no better than current consoles

Innovation

Its the Nintendo way, they prefer to innovate with new control methods etc rather than going for pure power and its a strategy that works for them.

Sony PlayStation Vita

jack of all trades

Its like that episode of The Simpsons when Homer designs a car- they've just put everything on it. Its like they've got no idea what they actually want to do with it and just making the same psp mistakes(i love my 2000 series btw). For all its features there's not a single game that interests me though, yet...