Posts by Al fazed

Woman fakes pregnancy to smuggle hundreds of CPUs, iPhones into China

Disinformation

ALF

Domain aging gang CashRewindo picks vintage sites to push malvertising

Re: There is a simple way to stop malvertising forever

Since last week I have similar issues when attempting to watch TV streamed from the TV company's own web site..........I now have half dozen browsers to choose from if I feel that desperate that I cannot get through life without watching TV

ALF

Google frees nifty ML image-compression model... but it's for JPEG-XL

Re: Shouldn't be too tricky.

"setting camera focus"

Seems like AI is still having an issue with this............

ALF

Re: Shouldn't be too tricky.

we get fuck all

ALF

Re: Progressive loads prevented by front-end designers and coders

In our race to automate (improve ?) everything - we the able bodied often forget to include the likes of folks who are less well endowed with stuff like, vision - for a start.

In my own ADHD world, it appears that it has been decided by none ADHD people that ADHD people do not focus on the same bits of an image, or sound, or vocabulary that the other, none ADHD people do. Er, aren't these the people who are designing interrfaces for us ADHDers to use.............

When there are so many problems that need solving I am constantly amazed at the number of problems that are being invented currently which disbaled and able bodied people are supposed to solve before they can get any fucking work done.....

Is this more AI ? Artificial Idiocy at work - as usual I say, yawn. The human brain !

ALF

Re: @Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

El Reg lost a hell of a lot more when they opened up the editorial to the none UK litteratii.

No slurs intended peeps, English is English, as fucked up as the language is, it is unique for opportuning such delights as "humour" out of these ambiguities, ie; irony for a start.

What we in UK have enjoyed from this greater diversity of tech input has unfortunately, watered down our previous sense of enjoyment, having been created by such a warped sense of humour which often lays bare the marketing wallabies best efforts to confuse and bamboozle us. Dabbsie etc.

As I haven't been there it is probably incorrect for me to have an opinion on our friendly US and Oztrralian scribes, but from reading the lines here in el Reg, (as there are now less lines in between to read) it appears that OZtralian and US scribes cannot tell the difference between talk and mutter........ Having attempted to read the "news" on BBC Home recently, I assume they have taken a similar globalizing route to publishing news about the news, but not the "actual news" you thought you were gonna get......

Alas, our loss is also to our benefit..........?

ALF

ICE data dump reveals names, locations of 6,000+ asylum seekers

of all the

stupid idiotic things the UK Go Vermin have done already or are are planning to do in the future, handing over NHS patient data to the organisation which is claiming to be capable of handling the information securely...................

Aw for fucks sake, not again !

Sod it, I do believe that no one in UK Go Vermins is actually taking any notice, or maybe they already know about this shit show and are hoping to get their payout before the shit REALLY hits the fan.............s

ALF

European Parliament Putin things back together after cyber attack

More idiots

I suppose counting the cost of mounting a defence against the DDoS or making a recovery afterwards are not being taken into to consideration with your ROI statements.

No wonder Dabsy left................

ALF

Re: Oh we must have some Putin love children in the house

I think the responses above illustrate quite clearly the inability of some folks to think out side of the box.

Poking bears isn't very nice to start with, so if you get a bit bit, you are surely a very lucky idiot, pity you didn't stick your head through the bars mate..............

ALF

Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust

Personally

isn't it a bit late in the day for these muppets to be thinking about losing patients trust in the NHS, or in the Go Vermins

Just saying

ALF

Re: Palantir says....

ALF says, what a load of EULA bollox

ALF

and

probably, doesn't wish use the NHS personally, unless he's in a car crash, he has private medical insurance like the rest of them top twats

ALF

UK competition watchdog investigates Apple and Google 'stranglehold' over the mobile market

Re: "Its study found"?

What happened to Huawei ?

Oh yeah, shot down by British Go Vermin after a knee jerk reaction from over the pond..............

Were you asleep ?

ALF

NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data

Statuary

actually performs better

ALF

About

as useful as having laws that protect vulnerable people from ASB Officers or any of the hundreds of other paid for "authority" creeps who are abusing vulnerable service users, on a daily basis, by totally ignoring the remit of their posts or the procedural guide lines of their employers.

Jimmy Savile got away with his sexual predatory antics for years whilst his professional mates covered his tracks for him.

Well it seems to be the same MO (modus operandi) for all of our precious UK support services for British "subjects",- actually we only want your money, we don't give a shit about the rules of engagement, 'cos no one with any credibility is supervising .............and you cannot afford to appeal........

ALF

Re: Sending the data to Plantir

And the NHS delivery of services is being run by "panels" who review the GP's request for patient treatment, who make unilatteral decisions that the patient's do not really need the medical service which the GP has requested.

With this sort of information sharing already going on at pace, between the NHS and the NHS Trusts, what have we the patients got to worry about ?

ALF

Well

that provides some clarlity

ALF

Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk

Re: Why should they care?

Sounds like Twitter, Apple, Amazon, etc.

I do not see western govermins doing anything differently, mainly because they prefer to NOT let us see.

ALF

Tesla reports two more fatal Autopilot accidents to the NHTSA

Yes

and no one should be driving with a paper bag over their face

ALF

Iranian cyberspies exploited Log4j to break into a US govt network

I imagine

that the said IT mules unofficially installed the crypto mining software in order to leverage more income from their activity. Who would know ?

If the "Man" in charge is as clued up as our politicians and their per IT psuedo scientists, we as individuals wouldn't know if someone Carp Diemed (sieze the day) the COVID testing app, or the NHS 111 app, or your EV charging app, or the doorbell camera app, or the security camera app, or any other available "app" - until the ORGs involved got around to notifying their customers.

FFS ! If the Iranians are using Microsoft OS, then surely all this skull duggery is just to draw our attention away from those MACROS or wanting to PRINT, where we all know that Microsoft rules this roost.

ALF

Re: What goes around comes around

How can you be so confident ?

ALF

UK forces Chinese-owned company to offload Newport Wafer Fab

So what's new

Personally I no longer go "WTF ?" when I read about UK Govermins meddling in technology business.

Oh wouldn't they all (politicians) love UK to be the world's IT star............

Dream on...............

One minute we are at war with China 'cos America says so. The we are flogging IT tech to China, then changing our mind.

The bset bit about this whole story is that the company concerned has attempted to engage the Govermins in dialogue, as were the Chinese, but our head pol IT ician preferred to go look at a already burned out firework....................

Ahem..........Soz folks, once thought these muppets actually knew what theywere doing..........But I was only 6 at the time..

ALF

KFC bot urges Germans to mark Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken

Artificial

Artificial Intelligence as used in content creation apps widely available.

I wonder how many more companies bought that content creation app ?

UK Govermins must have used it, surely ?

ALF

Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud

F*ck me

I thought it was bad here in UK...............and we are drifting in that direction with the Americanisation of everything that once worked...........

ALF

Swiss drone-busting eagle squadron grounded permanently

sod it....

all of the eagles, fish eating or otherwise have either been released into the wild where they are free to prey on unsuspecting drones without all the red tape......, or they were rather tasty and are now the latest exotic item on the menus of upper crust restaurants in Geneva, London, New York..........

ALF............

Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister

Bugger, I read, "push so many flaws through".......

Probably more correct to use "flaws"...............

ALF

Re: The Tory mantra, "Over-promise, under-deliver".

Psychopathic is perhaps a more accurate description of those who think they should lead the country.

Psychopathic bastards think they have the right to bleed the country.......

Their will to power is the obvious give away that someone should definitely NOT BE TRUSTED, TRUSSED even..........

As for Funny Rickshaw.............

The list is almost endless as there is a vacuum cleaner sucking up potential tory voters and supporters from the educated ignorants of the UK's privileged set. Well those that think they are privileged anyway........

ALF

More Bollox

How does giving away NHS patient data give a positive message to the world that UK can be trusted to handle your data, so that we can be the worlds data hub ?

Oh, of course, when the rest of the world has converted to using pounds shillings and pence it'll be much easier...........

ALF

Yet more bollox

I would have thought that as far as any self respecting organisation is concerned that te UK has already shown "adequately enough" to the world govermins and business that UK CANNOT be trusted to act in accordance with their own laws when it comes to handling the UK public data or indeed anyone elses private data.

They gave away confidential NHS information about UK residents health.

They think that cutting red tape in one area of govermins tinkerings will cover the increases in red tape in all the other sectors.

If HS2 is a good example of "how" UK conducts large scale projects, then any more advance technical projects will be able to follow the wide road to oblivion that's already been demonstrated to the world.

Reintroducing paraquat use into farming and other bee killing pesticides gives everyone a very clear example of just how the UK privileged classes operate. We don't give a flying fuck about the damamge we cause in doing what we want to in order to preserve archaic British Businesses..... and A FACSIST GOVERNMENT.

ALF

IDIOTS, THINK WE ARE IDIOTS TOO..................

ALF

China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft

Microsoft said China is, "particularly proficient" when it comes to discovering and developing zero-day exploits.

Funny I always thought that Microsoft was developing the bugs without any help from China !

ALF

UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent

Re: And after

I'm 69 and I am frankly pretty pissed off with the way that most of my doctors applications for me to have treatments have been knocked back by "a panel of experts" who decide that the GP's reference was not valid in this case.

Chiropractics has been a recognised treatment which should be available under the NHS. In 40 years I have been unable to access McTimoney or any chiropractic via the NHS

I have had several GP's applications for a Mental Health Assessment knocked back.

The first retry was partially successful in that the "assessment" wasn't the type of assessment that the GP had asked for !!!

So I had to get a private psychiatric assessment done whilst waiting for the retry down the NHS path.

Getting the assessment was time critical, but the panel didn't mind.

And the panel struck again this year.

I imagine the people that sit on the panel get paid a reasonable amount of money for throwing my GP's applications into the bin and back to the bottom of the ladder.

Hopefully I'll have passed away by the time Palantair get their hands on my data.

It's all bollox

Look, sorry to those folks who've heard me saying this before,

for f*cks sake..........the patient data is not the issue, as everyone who commented above recognises, there's a problem at the top of the shit pile which prevents execution of the processes and functions at the botom of the pile in a timely fashion.

Then you have to run due dillgence on the data (?) being given away ............

Meaning, that unless you are a current main stream NHS user, sitting in a queue most likely, the rest of us have already jumped ship, a while back - when it comes to looking after ones Health and Well Being. We have been using Alternative Medicine and Complimentary Medicines, Herbalism, Shamanism etc,. generally as the queuues are a lot shorter and also generally speaking, as these "cures" are actually curing people of all the main issues that affect a modern body and/or mind.

Where is this precious, "accurate", "timely" data on British "SUBJECTS" ? It isn't in the NHS records.

The only accurate or timely data in the data set is confined to the above said NHS users, who are currently the "subject of" dodgy medicines from interplanetary pharma, experimental surgeries and orthopeadic and other exotic treatments, which frankly speaking, I wouldn't use one someone I loved.

So the NHS data is data on slaves and serfs who don't have any alternatives and have to use the NHS services, when they are available, whilst, GET THIS....

Nurses fight for 5% pay rise, Govermins say fuck off, you are having 3.5%, two weeks later Barristers get 15% pay rise, but I imagine barristers every where DO NOT USE THE NHS, unless they were unfortunate enough to be in a car crash and end up in A&E, they have Private Medical Treatment, backed up by Medical Insurance. So 11.5% difference in percentage must be to pay those medical expenses.

BUT WHAT DO I KNOW ?

The Government isn't fit for purpose.............

Re: Hidden backlog

It's not about curing people, for f*cks sake, it's about making money....

Unofficial fix emerges for Windows bug abused to infect home PCs with ransomware

Re: Relying on the unreliable

Every day there are thousands of new users coming into the market place. These are people who have never used a PC or Smart phone before. Of course there is a learning curve of things that you can do and those that you really should not.

This is the bleading edge of computer security. So the basic security messages have to be repeated endlessly if we are not going to miss informing the late entrants.

I don't believe that it's the same people making the same basic mistakes. Unless you are talking about those Microsoft devels...............

ALF

UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

Funny

Folks today do not seem to be talking about the other draw backs of nuclear powered electricity production.

It sounds like yoiu are comparing rotten apples to rotten pears.

Please look elsewhere for the massive amount of electricity needed to run our science experiments and the rest of us can avoid power cuts by switching off our lights.

I think they want us to switch off our brains.................

ALF

Too bad, contractors: UK government reverses decision to axe IR35 tax reform

Re: Screw them

They screwed NHS front line workers to 3.5% pay rise whilst barristers won 15% ?

Fucking cuontry is screwed wahey !

ALF

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Re: No. Stop it.

Yes they have redesigned the interface in GIMP once again, so now I cannot even crop an image without finding the HELP manual first and re learning how to fucking do something for about the fourth time.........

FOSS ? Up to a point you had me...........

ALF

Really ?

Linux devs will need to fix Libre Office first...........

What a load of Linullox............

I'm currently trying out MX Linux which is a great little desktop, er except for one or two small things..........

As a user of Microsoft products I agree with the drift about the cloud only stuff, but honestly you need to be more honest with the glossing. I have already run into issues with MX-Linux because I am unable to format external hard drives or indeed a hard drive internally attached......

Am I using the wrong disk partition manager ? Which partition manager should I use ? If I want to delete and make new partitions ?

FFS? All this was sorted out in Debian Linux so why is it so fucking hard to get another Linux distro to have the same basic features that any normal person would wish to have......

Instead I get an Ubuntuish distro with a host os limited apps and Libre Office crashing every few rows of data entry, without it having SAVED the most recent data entries, which I had even used the SAVE menu item at the end of each fucking row.

And when it recovers ..... the last few rows missing !!!!!!!

No Linux will not take over the desktop until using an word processor is so 90's..............

ALF

It’s Patch Tuesday and still no fix for ProxyNotShell Microsoft Exchange holes

Difficult all around

There are still people who are sending genuine marketing messages only to subscribed customers AND they are unknowingly contributing to this confusing situation.

I'm talking about the message composer who makes the content of the SUBJECT line read like a phishing attempt !!!!

They do not even have their company name in the email address !!!!

IT Amatures ? YES ! BUT ! They are being paid to do the vital comms and they haven't got one ouonce of common sense.

If I wasn't such a nerd, their messages would go straight into the BIN.

However, strongly suspecting some low paid do gooder minion is slaving away for this third sector/charitable organisation, I read the important communication in SOURCE CODE if I really want to keep abreast of developments in this particular industry.

SHEESH........Talk about shooting yourself in the foot over and over again...............from the bottom to the top, it's the "State of IT" rot, It's shit but, It is all that we have got.

Unless we just switch off the PC.

ALF

Re: click everything

I recently completed an on-line survey being undertaken for one of my supermarket providers, with the prize being £250 of the company's vouchers.

Oh, the survey was genuine, but I now receive hundreds of "YOU HAVE WON" - "NOTIFICATIONS" all bearing said supermarkets brandings...............

So we see how even a savvey IT user could be easily compromised............. the temptation to see if one of these is a genuine response is huge, but I haven't done it.

I notified the supermarkets IT department about the Phishing attempts.

Now the Phishing has become a deluge which even the SPAM FILTERS seem to be powerless to prevent them from landing in my INBOX.......

ALF

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

Re: We're all wise in retrospect

I hope that I will notice a difference as the last two unwanted PC's that I brought home have AMD chips.

They are now running MX-Linux sweetly on only 4GB memory and are looking for a home.

ALF

Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox

Re: Not for me, I'm afraid.

Don't you get fed up looking for the latest twitches in order to put things back how you liked them ?

ALF

BOLLOX

I got fed up reading this over glamourisation of Firefox,

Honestly, the more recent versions are shit and really STINK.

Firefox has been my browser of choice for many years - but hey ho - all things must go, in the end.

It's called Entropy my friend

A "Steady State", IBM coined the phrase and it is perfectly applicable to Firefox's Software Development Life Cycle as any other software development life cycle.

You have gone too far already.

I do not give a flying shit about your "vertical" tabs.

The fucking tabs that had been working fine for several months have changed positions - AGAIN, maybe to accomodate the vertical Tabs ?

I noW struggle to use Firefox as a web designer !

WHY ?

'cos not even with "no caching" and pressing Refresh too may times, the browser does not reflect the changes that I have just made to my web site.

I had to, (1) close and re start Firefox several times (no good) (2) reboot the fucking PC (no good) (3) change to a different machine using Firefox (OK one time) (4) Use a different browser (OK getting somewhere) (5) Seriously think about giving up web coding as this happens too often for Firefox to be considered professional or reliable software.

Gone too far you have. On the stuff that isn't fucking relevant. Even my Bookmarks have changed place on the screen (left to right), and no longer show the folder icons............it's gone too far.

When I think of developers, I think of privileged people running amock, re-developing stuff because they can.

EGO !

Please get a life besides coding.............and stop this stupid willy waving and wanking in public, it's screwing with your image.

CHEERS

ALF

San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor 'significant events'

Re: Well whaddya know

Or Minority Report.

ALF

UK here we come ?

I read recently that Amazon has turned the footage from privately owned security cameras (door bell cameras etc) into "Prime time" TV (pun not intended) for our entertainment.

I therefore surmise that some media company (saying nowt) has paid off what I assume are grown up hippies, who now make up the local government of Cali.

I also surmise that Hollywood is going to lose more of it's shine as your local neighbourhood, budding "film directors" also rise to meet the new opportunities, in order to get more ad income via the Internet where there must be plenty would be consumers of their products - memed or not.

Looking forward to a new series of "Jack Arse".............

ALF

Cambodian authorities crack down on cyber slavery amid international pressure

Sorted

Give them jobs in the UK where fgirms are struggling to get folks back into the orifice.

ALF

Re: deluded - Titanic ?

Tough,

The criminal gangs think it is a suburb of London, my friends and family say "popping into town" meaning a visit to London, NOT a bus ride into Oxford where they live ........ go figure.

The times they are a changing.

ALF

deluded - Titanic ?

These criminal gangs operate on a world wide basis. It said so in the article.

Just because you personally haven't read about, you refuse to believe it. It does not mean that it is not happeneing.

The real scale of illegal immigrants working in captivity in the UK has yet to be discovered, but the police are having to deal with these issues in connection with things like cannabis farms - throughout the UK.

In London's surrounding suburbs including Oxford, children as young as 10 years old are being dropped off with a quantity of heroin etc at a local dealers pad. This is where the stay until they have sold the "merch" in £10 bags............. Repeat this cycle........

Some drug dealers in UK cities (it has been discovered) move in to the "sheltered accomodation" which is being rented to one of their customers. It could be a single parent, the person often has a mental health disability, characteristics which keep them in housing, until the dealer gets caught and they are charged with "assisting" the dealer. The victim loses their "protected tenancy" and ultimately they end up back in the hands of the local authority and social services.

Recently it was reported that a bunch of folks living on a "travellers" site were discovered to have enslaved a chap who had downs syndrome. They had him working for many years, in exchange for a wrecked caravan for him to live in....

These are the tips of a fucking iceberg.....

Wake up !

ALF

well

it looks like that job at BT doesn't appear that bad after all............

ALF

IT services giant Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting

WTF ?

If they paid their trained monkeys enough money in the first place they wouldn't need to moonlight, or have a second income.

Would they now ?

Boo fucking Hoo

ALF