Posts by gandalfcn

Nuisance call-blocking firm fined £170,000 for making almost 200,000 nuisance calls

Re: Public floggings

The old bent over in a barrel trick?

Thank god for el Reg and dodgy wit, sadly lacking elsewhere.

Dear Vultures, hate to be a Grammar Nazi but "between October 2018 to October 2019."? It's between .... and, and from.... to.

Next you'll be saying metric tonnes like the Grauniad.

Ordinary salaried Brits: Sweet! Payday! Banking giant HSBC: Oh no it isn't

Re: Stop Me If You've Heard This Before

Midland always was a shite bank, as was HSBC, so it was a match made in the UK.

Re: Cartel

That may well be the case as their accounts are probably not in the UK. HSBC actually has operations in rather a lot of countries. So maybe the problem is with the UK.

Whilst The Bank may have started on drug money and still launders it the UK is not its main market, especially post Brexit.

We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools

Re: password managers

Given that Google, the Chocolate Factory et al seem to be everything these days we don't. But Password Safe seems to be well clear of them.

Re: Mixed model

Only for Septics.

Here's 30 servers Russian intelligence uses to fling malware at the West, beams RiskIQ

Do we know which servers the USA uses? Or the UK?

Re: if you know the suspect addresses

You say " ALL countries", which i doubt is anywhere near true as most not only do not have the need or the wherewithal but CBA,

In the world league the USA is and always has been the leader by far both domestically and globally.

Re: if you know the suspect addresses

A septic Septic?

Re: if you know the suspect addresses

Correct. But Septics stick their fingers in their ears and go lalala

Bush signed a presidential order in 2002 allowing the NSA to monitor, without a warrant, domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages.

FISA created the kangaroo courts that currently dole out secret FISA warrants to legalise spying on Americans.

The PRISM surveillance programme.

The network of “Fusion” centres.

Ever heard of Snowden?

The Patriot Act. The Freedom Act.

The USPS spies on Americans by monitoring their social media.

The NSA shares data with the FBI.

And that is just domestically.

Re: if you know the suspect addresses

"Lead by example." The US does. It's the biggest hacker of all, including domestically.

UK regulator waves through SK Hynix's $9bn acquisition of Intel's NAND and SSD biz

Re: I don't understand this ..

"I'd bet that this isn't a technically driven decision, but probably" political. UK needs help in the Asia Pacific region.

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

So did I. Until I told them where to stuff it. No problems now.

Re: "complaint by [..] a French privacy group"

Hint. Luxembourg is in the EU.

2nd. hint. France is in the EU.

3rd. hint. Not all companies in the EU fly the EU flag.

This is one of the reasons certain UK businesses wanted out if the EU- they didn't like social responsibilities and labour laws.

Re: But will they actually have to pay?

You mean like paying for whores and drugs?

'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

In the USA the GOP wanted business to control things because governments are corrupt and bad for business. but when businesses succeed the GOP wants government to control business. i.e. business is only good if it supports the GOP and their god.

When big business has outsourced everything overseas and pocketed enormous profits said businesses and the GOP want the government to subsidise investments. All very sad.

China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030, orders upgrade blitz

Re: A possible truth?

Bless. In the context, the last resort of the ignorant and bigoted, be a Grammar Nazi,

"Your attempts at insults are making everyone laugh,"

Correction

My pointing out your ies insults are making everyone laugh at you.

"The number of reader upvotes or downvotes does not correlate with the veracity of the observation." Yes dear, that is why you are a hypocritical failure, proved by "Your attempts at insults are making everyone laugh,"

Re: A possible truth?

As you obviously feel belittled they are not attempts. OK.

"You must be a hoot at parties." You really love your attempts at belittling comments, don't you?

I posted my comment twice just to see the result. A lot of people agreed with me, other than the obviously hurt Septics who somehow deny reality. It is why you had an orange moron as BLOTUS.

Re: A possible truth?

I don't doubt for a second you don't understand, and that is part of your problem. Wilful, arrogant ignorance.

You really should get some help don't you.

Re: A possible truth?

Really? So you are yet another denier of facts and reality. Still sore your god lost?

Re: A possible truth?

Bless. If you weren't so blinkered and bigoted you will have, or should have, noted I frequently criticise the PRC and praise "the West" and also post tech-related.comments.

Seems you gave a complete hate for facts and truth.

I also note you are part of the long established woke cancel culture.

Re: A possible truth?

Why? As you are so upset why don;t you?

Re: A possible truth?

To the ignorant, bigoted downvoter

Bush signed a presidential order in 2002 allowing the NSA to monitor, without a warrant, domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages.

FISA created the kangaroo courts that currently dole out secret FISA warrants to legalise spying on Americans.

The PRISM surveillance programme.

The network of “Fusion” centres.

Ever heard of Snowden?

The Patriot Act. The Freedom Act.

The USPS spies on Americans by monitoring their social media.

The NSA shares data with the FBI.

Re: A possible truth?

Bush signed a presidential order in 2002 allowing the NSA to monitor, without a warrant, domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages.

FISA created the kangaroo courts that currently dole out secret FISA warrants to legalise spying on Americans.

The PRISM surveillance programme.

The network of “Fusion” centres.

Ever heard of Snowden?

The Patriot Act. The Freedom Act.

The USPS spies on Americans by monitoring their social media.

The NSA shares data with the FBI.

FIFY

Anyone fancy a Snowmobile full of Bags O'Crap? It'll be on the list somewhere

Re: Deal with UK.gov for takeover?

BoJo is probably getting a cut.

Re: Deal with UK.gov for takeover?

BoJo is probably getting a cut!

Pentagon grounds own report that said China's DJI drones are safe

Should be good for sales elsewhere then.

Re: Surely you know by now not to take anything the Feds say seriously?

Sadly. most of the GOP and its supporters believe Trump is god.

Re: That's hilarious

No we haven't. The Middle Kingdom was quite happy blundering along in imperial splendour and societal decay until around the 1830s, tnen the UK realised it couls[dnlt pay for the tea it wanted so sold opium. The Opium Wars followed. A bit like Colombian Drug Lords invading LA and demanding everyone in the USA get addicted to happy powder.

And then a few years later that chap Perry forced the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.

You reap what you sow.

Bezos offers to knock $2bn off his bill to NASA to stay in the running for Moon contract

There's a good piece in huffpost about his tax and employee wages as well

Re: Dear Astronaut.

And subsidised by taxpayers and underpaid employees.

UKRI denies pulling funding from Newport Wafer Fab over Chinese ownership concerns

Sorry, I keep being told the PRC is stealing out tech. even when I show otherwise, as you have done. It seems a certain tye of person isn't very honest.

Re: Reciprocity

"You can't trade in china unless you have a chinese company, and you can't have a chinese company unless there's a large chinese stakeholder. " Who told you that? Mail? FoxNews? Trump? BoJo?

Re: Reciprocity

So will the UK gov. Your point?

Re: Such victimhood

But the UK and USA said they were clever by outsourcing everything.

"The Telegraph'.

“Johnson referred to the Telegraph as “my real boss”.

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged a national security investigation into the takeover of the facility,"

""Given that this is an aggressive attack," Iain Duncan Smith". If someone says hello to IDS he would consider it an aggressive attack.

Nexperia is handing over its research to the UK nit the other way round. And investing in R&D in the UK.HYes, it will find its was back to the PRC. So what.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US

Re: So

David Davis, the Brexiter, who lied about the economy, and who bleats endlessly about the EU and the UK having been prevented from following or making its own laws, is now lauding EU countries for doing what he says they couldn't do.

And people still can't understand they have and are being lied to.

Re: Popcorn.....

bless. You must be very "innocent". Or something.

Re: It's only fair

Not at all. There are many similar comments by those believing their own bs. Sarcasm is very difficut to detect in the Trumpistan world.

Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online

Re: They set out to piss off the gun owners? Really?

Splendid.

Re: They set out to piss off the gun owners? Really?

codejunky?

India changes tack and tenders for public-private partnerships to complete national broadband rollout

I note the usual people complaining about gov. interference in the PRC are deathly silent.

UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects

The 3 downvotes proved your point.

Maybe they should read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_the_British_Crown_Dependencies

What a load of old bollocks.

Re: Competence

"Dunning-Kruger explains a lot" So does nepotism and future directorships etc.

Re: Competence

"the usual length of time a Secretary of State spends in office" before a few cushy directrships and "consultancies".

Re: Great news

Why do you continue to post such drivel? Is it the drugs? Booze? Or lack of medication?

Re: Great news

"Since the government isn't much good at this"? Which one? Or did you mean government? Possibly governments.

"The UK gets stuff that works, on time and costs the tax payer less." So a government gets to decide which "off the shelf products and services" to use. Obviously no room for graft there is there? Not at all, not even a little bit. Right.

And exactly who makes the decision? Nudge, nudge. Dido.

F+cking amazing.

"fail to achieve what they're designed to do". That depends on who decides the criteria of what they're designed to do. Appease voters. Woo voters. Brown envelopes. Future directorships. And so on.