Stupid question
If Intel Capital really did create $170 billion from a $20 billion investment, and it's not just a creative accounting swizz, *Why on earth would you want to sell it?*
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Up until now, Outlook has been one of the Crown Jewels for Microsoft: It's a So-So Email client, but as a PIM tool, it's hard to beat with any single app.
New Outlook is ameanic in features, but that can be fixed if they can be bothered.
The biggest danger is what killed legacy Edge; Microsoft pushed unfinished, rapidly developing software as the default, rather than as an opt-in beta; The papercuts caught so many people, it irrecoverably damaged it's reputation - by the time it was actually production ready, nobody wanted to use it as "Edge is slow and bad"
The unspoken dangers of releasing early and often.
At a bare minimum, I want Fujitsu's expert witness Gareth Jenkins up on trial for perjury.
If we can't nail such a blatant abuse of expert witness privilege, then what hope do we have of getting the others with a fig leaf of deniability and diffused responsibility?
Many SMB and Enterprise IT houses are - rightly or wrongly - dependent on Windows; The idea of moving to *nix to keep perfectly fine pre 2018/2019 kit just won't come up as a discussion point for many of them; They'd rather run Windows 10 unsupported than switch OS.
So, rather than predicting a big uptick on Desktop Linux installs, I'm going to say if you're a hobbyist or enthusiast, get ready for some amazing deals on powerful-but-old enterprise kit - Get ready to grab a good deal on your next project box.
If we had honest to god AI, it may come up with some novel unintuitive... thing?? (Tech? Policy? Strategy? Kill all humans plan?) to stop climate change (???), but that's not what the Large language Models everyone insists on calling AI, or the basic algorithm AI's we have today can do.
And trying to build the ones that can, will doom us (faster) if they can't.
Is this something you want Move fast and break Things techbros taking a gamble on?
That - this disclosure doesn't change the threat profile; even if whatsapp disable the phone's screenshot option while a view once message is on screen, you can still just photograph the screen. this feature by default has to assume someone can copy the message by hook or by crook.
As entertaining as it is watching these two tear chunks off each other and paying through the nose for the privilege, it seems a pretty straightforward case to rule on: Is the extended support services clause in the original contract valid or not?
Anyone brave enough to bet whether VMware or AT&T Have the better contract negotiators?
In either case, I think VMWare have more to lose; suing your customers to Strong arm an Upgrade.. sorry, a streamlined and simplified license is really not a good look.
100% correct, ChrisC: you explained all of that way better than I could.
it was especially galling as they required a scan of a recent utility bill and a passport/driving license to get the refund.
As soon as they actually sort the refund out (They've managed 2 out of 3 so far), I'm filing a right to be forgotten; there is just no need for that amount of PID to be stored for a simple trip on the tube, and that was before they managed to get their systems hacked.
ChrisC got the gist; I gave them bank account details, and they sent part of the payment without issue (missed one of the journeys, so have to yell at them about that)
I resent the fact they want you to register an account (And accept the terms and conditions) for a refund, when they'll happily sell you the ticket without one.
Had an un-registered oyster card since 2003; Needed to claim some Delay Repay, so phoned customer services who helpfully pre-made me an account.
This is what they got back:
I’m deeply unhappy giving TFL this much personal information to get a refund on a service that required no ID or registration, and I will be filing a right to be forgotten request to remove all this data once the delay refund process is complete.
I do Not want my Oyster card linked to any account or payment method, I do Not agree to your online account terms and conditions, and I want this account deleted right away, before I raise a further complaint about setting an account up against my wishes.
resting the urge to send back an I Told You So email today...
Assuming there's a catch to make Broadcom favour the extension.
Maybe imminent v9 having more favourable (to them) terms and licensing, so don't let people see them before renewal?
Or maybe they're getting a little edgy seeing the renewal drop-off, although it sounds like they've baked in expecting only the biggest and most inflexible of enterprises to be their clients from now on.
It's not brilliant value if you just have a single server, and certainly won't work for hobbyists, but for Enterprise IT (and even SMB IT), $2500 for 4 years of security updates and associated support is certainly not *bad* value and worth considering: I've sold some Dell servers where a 1 year hardware warranty extension cost half as much as that which SMB Clients were happy to pay for, as it's cheap compared to the hardware/license/support/downtime costs of replacing that system rather than eking a bit more life out of it.
On the plus side, the slowdown may help with the game's first boss, which was So hard on Game Gear, they removed the random ball height on the master system version. One of the meanest first bosses in all of Sonic History, especially on a 3.2 inch screen.
The key bit of info is whether this is scraping public servers with open sign ups, which is technically trivial but a privacy/TOS Nightmare, or if they found a way to break into and scrape closed sign up servers, which would more be a Discord technical SNAFU they'd have more culpability for.
The second option is basically this.
"We take [x] very seriously" should become legally binding - I'm fed up of spokesfaces rolling that line out when it's patently untrue, and would love to see them squirm trying to prove how seriously they take it to a court and jury.
I miss the Galaxy Mini and Xperia Compact ranges so much; mid to high end phones that you can hold single headedly are becoming so hard to find - honestly may be a case that the iPhone 13 mini may be the best one around, and at 5.4", that's stretching the definition of mini a tad too much for my liking...
I hate them on the quantum level, and deeply resent the fact they basically have a sizable amount of creatives held hostage at this point through their unfair subscriptions, Embrace extend extinguish company takeovers, and just generally being monumental dicks whenever they think they can get away with it.
I'm not an expert in either finance or fabrication so I may be barking up the wrong tree, but to me, outsourcing a key part of your business like the actual manufacturing sounds like a great idea until it isn't - what if the fab partner pulls a Unity and alters the deal, or they have a catastrophic event, and have to decide which chips to prioritise building?
"Capita strongly rejects any suggestion that there is any valid basis for bringing claims against it as a result of the cyber incident."
- You promised to securely store personal data.
- That personal data was illegally accessed and stolen.
That sounds like a pretty solid valid basis to me - It's about time companies like this stopped taking all the profits, and passing on all the liabilities.
I vividly remember being mad when they advertised the extended edition DVD's on the standard edition I rushed out to buy on launch day.
...then not being mad when I saw the staggering amount of extras that came with the extended version that kept me glued to the screen for a week.
I get some people preferring the standard cut of the films, but the extended disks are worth it for all the documentarys, commentaries, and behind the scenes footage.
"We have taken extensive steps to recover and secure the data."
How? Secure, maybe, but you can't recover it once it's out in the wild.
"We have worked quickly to provide our clients with information"
Not according to the impacted customers in the very statements your spokesface was countering.
Until line managers are fined/jailed for such IT mismanagement, this will keep happening - this isn't a sophisticated cyber hack which would offer a fig leaf of defence: This is an unsecured AWS bucket, the type of misconfiguration we've been warning about for over a decade.
for nigh on a decade, my simple advice for people that wanted an intel system was "Buy something with an i3 or i5" for a standard PC, or "Buy something with an i5 or i7" for performance PC's.
It's so simple and straightforward; buy the current Gen i3 for decent entry level, buy the current gen i5 for standard business use, buy the current gen i7 for gamers and content creation.
And I just know whatever bollocks Intel are cooking up is going to needlessly complicate that system.
For those out of the loop, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet came out last November: they've been massive sellers (10 million copies in 3 days), and they are undeniably fun (First game in the series to allow players to adventure together in full multiplayer), but they are plagued with bugs and performance issues, the most serious being the Crash to Home Screen error (Switch equivalent of a bug check) that led to the fish shenanigans (And many, many lost Pokémon over the world).
Nintendo are promising a patch in late February to fix some issues (As well as 1008 Pokémon), but we'll have to see if they manage to hit all the worse pain points...
With many people worrying about energy pricing and sustainable computing, it seems an odd choice to push such a power hungry chip family in 2022
You could kinda excuse it in the top end i7/i9 processors as you're paying for a performance premium, but in i5 land, is a 24 thread, 180TDP really a good choice for what will end up being the go-to business desktop?
combining that with talks of ever increasing clock speeds, it kinda feels like Intel has gone full circle back to the Pentium 4 era, where clock speed was king, efficiency be damned, and chips ran hot enough to melt motherboards (And gave AMD a unique and compelling USP with their "more is less" Athlon XP Range)
It's a long way from the original Intel Core design ideas.
Probably too late to help you, but the -allow-downgrade switch normally fixes issues with failed upgrades, or jumping back to an older ESR Version over the current standard version.
Had Yodel deliver a computer to the Police HQ about a mile from my house a few months ago; Had to phone the desk sergeant to ask if they could put it to one side so I could come and pick it up.
On the plus side, I'm one of the few people that have had the Police help with my enquiries...
You have a promising career as a Kingdom Hearts Game Namer
Happy but also very aggravated to see this - I spent a good chunk of time this weekend and beyond attempting to secure my 85 year old nan's Outlook account.
It didn't help the night before the sign in activity emails came through, my mum and aunt downloaded a suspicious Google play store app, which I assumed was the cause of it - looking at the activity, I could see they were Azure IP's but I assumed some miscreant had rented/stolen a 365 server to carry out an attack.
Still kept coming after a full account lockdown (Account sign out, new and Unique password set), so I went the full hog and enabled Multifactor Authentication on Monday.
That had seemed to have stopped the suspicious account activity, but now I fear this was all a Microsoft screw up compounded by bad timing, and I may owe my mum and aunt an apology...
How does any of this help when the parent US company can be subpoenaed into handing the info over?
Heck, if it's done by a National security letter, they aren't even allowed to disclose they've been asked for the info.
Did you know there's a maximum subfolder limit in a Microsoft Exchange mailbox?
We didn't, until we logged the PSS Request with Microsoft.
In their defence, neither them or us expected a user to attempt to file their email into 5,000 subfolders manually, and by the time we worked that out, the scope of the problem was well beyond a technical one...
The honest answer to that is the potential audience size for 1TB+ Card sizes is too small and price sensitive to be a viable market.
at the start of 2022, only 0.3% of all SD cards sold were 1TB - Several companies have Bigger designs ready to roll, once the demand and economics allow them to hit the market
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/where-are-2tb-microsd-cards-3077526
I don't disagree with the theory, but in all but the most insane edge cases, a single class 40 SSD would have so much I/O that Graphics or CPU would be the bottleneck, rather than storage latency.
All RAID 0 does for most gamers is be an expensive way to double the chance of data loss.
And as someone that's had to do grief counselling for lost animal Crossing islands and SIMS 4 Saves, I can assure the importance of the data is not matched by the backup regime of the average gamer.