Posts by Lord Elpuss

OK, your boss allegedly called you a lazy n*****, promoted the person you trained ahead of you and paid you less, but you can't PROVE it's racism, Facebook says

Re: Shocked?

A downvote - blimey. Shows there's at least one racist asshole on every forum...

Re: A Narcissist's Corporate Prayer

"Or Hillary or McCain or Obama or...."

Nope. Trump stands alone here - a cretinous glob of festering protoplasm sitting proudly atop a putrid (and increasingly shaky) pile of mindless morons, pathological liars, career criminals, nauseating sycophants and racist homophobes.

Putin really has done an outstanding job of setting Western democracy ablaze.

Re: Shocked?

I'm not PC in the slightest; but even I can see that If you call a black colleague a f***ing monkey, regardless of performance, you can expect to get fired.

'We don't want a camera in everyone's living room' says bloke selling cameras in living rooms. Zuckerberg, you moron

Re: Pay YOU?

Agree with the sentiment, but nobody's forcing you to use the product. Having your data scraped is the price you pay for a 'free' product - if you don't want it, don't use it.

It's one of the reasons I use iPhone instead of Android. The phones are more expensive, but at least you know what the business model is; rather than having a 'cheap' phone which is partially paid for by you being the product.

Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019

"If ya can't do it yourself you is someone's bitch"

Did you survey and draw the map yourself? No? Then you're someone's bitch.

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

Re: Nothing like having your work day extended a few more hours

Got that, just wanted to highlight the difference between 'free', and 'free at point of use'. Somebody, somewhere, is always paying. And if they're not, then they're the product.

Re: Price?????

But Office365 is 200x more ribbony than Office 97.

So can I. And I'm using 365. Just sayin'.

Two words - involving sex and travel.

Re: Whats the difference?

If it's in OneDrive it's also synced to your local machine (unless you changed default settings). So you'd have to take additional steps to ensure it was ONLY stored on the Internet, and not on your machine. Not steps that IT n00bs will be taking any time soon.

Re: Nothing like having your work day extended a few more hours because 'The Cloud' is unavailable.

Makes sense. So for most users that will be fine - checking in once per 30 days allows for internet outages, holidays and so on. Presumably after this you can check in by phone as well if you're out in the boonies somewhere?

Re: Whats the difference?

Except that's not true at all, is it.

Re: Nothing like having your work day extended a few more hours

"It's a free download for students and teachers at schools and colleges"

It's free to the user, but not to the establishment (site licenses can cost serious $$$, even for educational institutions)

Re: Nothing like having your work day extended a few more hours because 'The Cloud' is unavailable.

I use Office 365, have never had availability issues. As far as I can tell the app is local but checks in with the mothership from time to time; I've gone 3 weeks with no connectivity and it's been fine.

iPhone price cuts are coming, teases Apple CEO. *Bring-bring* Hello, Apple UK? It's El Reg. You free to chat?

Re: The reasons for the iPhone sales slump were threefold

They have a walled garden of disgruntled users that have no way out.

They don't seem to be too disgruntled.

Apple Devices Earn Highest Customer Satisfaction Score Among PC and Tablet Makers

iPhone 7 Plus tops smartphone consumer satisfaction survey

Re: Re They are still THE premium smartphone.

it's superior in every way to iOS

Apart from privacy. And updates. And transparency.

Personally I think the head of every smartphone manufacturer should have something about themselves they want to keep deeply private, in order to truly understand how important privacy is. In Tim Cook's case, it was being gay - until he was accidentally outed on national TV.

Re: Re They are still THE premium smartphone.

A Pixel2 is indeed a fine smartphone; except for two major downers. A. it's only (remotely) affordable because it sells your data to the highest bidder, and B. the app that connects to my bike works on every Android phone out there, except the Pixel2 and the Oneplus 5T. Go figure.

Fake broadband ISP support scammers accidentally cough up IP address to Deadpool in card phish gone wrong

Re: Dirty Scammers

Put them on a real technical support desk. That's enough punishment.

I don't think this works any more with digital exchanges; signals are clipped, so a rape alarm or similar will be heard as an annoying peep, but won't bust any eardrums.

Re: Well?

Unfortunately I would seriously, seriously doubt any prosecution will be forthcoming. Even if the police knew what to do with the info they've been given, this will have zero priority for them.

I say unfortunately as I've been scammed a couple of times (I buy and sell a lot online and sometimes don't do due diligence as much as I should) - and despite in two cases giving the police a complete evidence file including IPs, complete communication records, actual bank details of the scammer, address and copy of photo ID, they declined to pursue. That's not "we had a look but on the balance of the evidence realised no prosecution was likely", they declined to pursue at all. As in - not even look at the case.

After I raised an official complaint I was contacted by a police representative who said it was staffing and priority issues, also the amount involved was less than 300. I reminded her that speeding fines are mostly also less than 300, but they have no trouble at all pursuing those.

I want to like the police, I really do. But on the small number of occasions I've needed them, they've been absolutely no use whatsoever; whilst managing to pick up every small infraction the other way and prosecuting it to the greatest extent permissible by law.

Huawei and Intel hype up AI hardware, TensorFlow tidbits, and more

Re: deepfake?

Deepfake is the new AI. The same media that considers a DB lookup with a speech-to-text interface as Artificial Intelligence, also thinks that a bit of minor video editing is the same as a deepfake.

Sigh.

Re: That is no deepfake

Came here to post exactly this; this is not a deepfake, it's just basic video editing. I could do it in 10 minutes on my iPhone.

If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home

Very similar story did the rounds when I was at IBM back in the '80s; the S/370 mainframe would suddenly going haywire every couple of months for no apparent reason. System software reloaded and parts replaced to no avail, the problems would appear, and then a week or two later disappear with no explanation. Until a tech looked out of the window on the day that the problems started, and noticed that the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise was in port. Turned out the mainframe was susceptible to radiation from the carrier radar array, and installing shielding in the server room fixed the problem.

I've heard this story in a number of variants many times since then, I used to think they were all retellings from the same source. But then; if one mainframe is susceptible to radar frequency radiation, it stands to reason that others are too. So it's definitely possible that multiple variants of this situation actually happened.

Did you know that iOS ad clicks cost more than Android? These scammers did

”have you taken a ride on the proletariat omnibuses recently? ever council estate mum has an iphone now. it's not the glorious symbol of wealth it used to be. it's tinsel for idiots.“

Insular thinking. Try expanding your world view to include Africa, India and big chunks of Asia rather than just the UK, which sits fairly close to the top of the GDP per capita pile regardless of where in the UK you live.

Council house mum has hundreds of times more disposable income than 90% of India - where landfill Android is a status symbol.

"iOS users are more suggestible than Android users? Say it isn't so!"

No, it's that iOS users are perceived as more well-off, and more likely to part with their copious quantities of freely disposable income because they can clearly miss it.

"Easiest way is torch on / off commands typed in a google assistant window on stock to avoid d/l of a potentially dubious torch app - takes a few seconds longer but safer"

The easiest way is to buy an iPhone.

It's official. Microsoft pushes Google over the Edge, shifts browser to Chromium engine

Re: OK, then...

I'm no Microsoft fan, but Insecure Exposer, really?

GOPwned: Republicans fall victim to email hack

Re: All we can do is wait

@Big John

"They didn't because there is no there there"

Leaving aside the nonsensical sentence, how on earth do you know there's nothing there? Either you were involved in the hack yourself, or you're just another Trumpian blind follower with zero knowledge and enormous opinions. Either way, what you say can safely be discounted.

Not a price cut! Apple perks up soggy iPhone demand with rebate boost

Re: iPhone SE

@RegGuy1

The fact that you don’t know how to use your phone doesn’t mean it’s shite.

Uh huh.

Doomsayers have been forecasting the imminent demise of Apple since the 90s; if not earlier. Only thing it’s proven is that they don’t ‘get’ the company.

Re: Who needs analysts?

”It's like if New Coke cost more. Now, that's an extreme example.... But you don't see McDonald's messing with Big Macs and whacking the price up.“

Bad analogy. McDonald’s prices across the board have risen astronomically last couple of years. I’m addition to supply chain alterations (eg fresh beef), they’re trying to transition to a regular restaurant model. Service to your table, gourmet burgers and so on.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/30/investing/mcdonalds-earnings/index.html

iPhone XS: Just another £300 for a better cam- Wait, come back!

Or the Privacy Price.

Re: SE for me

<italic>"My private phone is a google Nexus"</italic>

If it's a Nexus, it's not private. That's (one of) the reasons why Android phones are cheaper; because you're the product.

Oracle sued by app sales rep: I made tens of millions for Larry, then fired for being neither young nor male – claim

Re: The bare facts of the matter

The article's not completely clear, but it appears she was personally responsible for $20m in revenue, and contributed to a $73m deal. This is the kind of loose change that Oracle execs find in their pockets when looking for parking money, so it's unlikely she would have been kept on sales performance alone.

Re: PIPs are fake

"The easiest way to fight this in court is to ask for evidence that a PIP has ever been successful.."

Speaking as someone with some legal experience in this area (from the company side), there is pretty much zero chance that this approach would work. Oracle would argue (and the judge would concur) that whether PIPs have been successful in other circumstances is in no way relevant to THIS PIP, for THIS particular situation and THIS person.

Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality

One way or another they'll get their money...

Re: You paid

"I pay good money to build my own (desktops)."

I used to, then I got fed up with running an unfunded helpdesk for my entire extended family. For the last couple of years I've been on Mac - only additional software is ABP on Safari, and since then have had exactly zero complaints.

"MS will happily sling any old shit, so long as they get paid."

Ah yes, but therein lies the rub. MS will only get paid (in the long term) if the ads are somewhat successful. So trying to flog you sh*t you neither need nor want is counterproductive - hence the massive investment in AI Business Analytics.

Re: Got Linux?

Got MacOS?

Re: WTF?

Sure for you and me $16bn is a lot. Per year, for a company the size of Microsoft? Not so much.

Can your rival fix it as fast? turns out to be ten-million-dollar question for plucky support guy

Re: recompense?

I worked on a 5-man support team a couple of years back which collectively drove a $20.7m deal. The salesman got a percentage (in theory anywhere up to 5% although obviously nobody knew exactly how much - mucho $$$ in any case). We got an email from the big boss to say good job. The kicker was that the email started with: Dear ELPUSS, LORD,:... even the thankyou letter was a mail merge.

5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles

It is if you work for Samsung...

Re: There's a sucker born every minute?

"Please stop rubbishing people's life style choices."

You're on a hiding to nothing on this site, son. Spent more than the absolute bare minimum on a device? Can't view and/or edit every line of code ever used to program it? Don't have a security certificate signed in blood by the Elders of the Internet? Prepare to be ridiculed until you break down and repent.

Mourning Apple's war against sockets? The 2018 Mac mini should be your first port of call

Re: Naysayers ...

"Nope, us Linux folks also think appletards are soft in the head and the wallet."

Nothing soft about my wallet thankyouverymuch

@Lee D

"With that OS, running inside a Windows 7 hypervisor, I can allocate 25% of the laptop resources and enjoy BETTER performance inside the VM than on a real Mac. "

No, you can't.

This one weird trick turns your Google Home Hub into a doorstop

Re: Well it's probably the Google brain drain

"their Android is just as bad as any other mobile operating system"

It's not 'just as bad' - in ways that matter (security/privacy) it's orders of magnitude worse.

Watch closely as NASA deploys the world's biggest parachute at supersonic speeds

Re: Empathy

"I can certainly empathize with this. Firing prematurely rarely turns out well "

Yup. And it usually results in a crash and burn.

Re: re. as big as a size of a house

"Please note that the proper scientific unit of volume..."

And some miserable twat downvoted you :D :D

Boffins have fabricated microscopic sci-fi tractor beams for real

Re: diverse new possibilities

IBM Atoms

And that was back in 1989.

Official: IBM to gobble Red Hat for $34bn – yes, the enterprise Linux biz

Re: @AC ... Redhat employees - get out now

"Sorry, son, but you're dead wrong."

I disagree. I worked for IBM back in the 90s, pre PwCC, and loved it. The company had a culture, an identity, innovation and creativity, and some very very talented people. And that was in the 90s - not exactly IBM's best time. My dad worked there from '72 until he retired in '89, and constantly reminisced what a wonderful career he'd had.