Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Study says SEC 10-K not fit for purpose when it comes to Big Tech, and the companies are using that to their advantage

Re: Incompetence

But the SEC only cares about financials. Google doesn't sell Android or search, so it doesn't report it to the SEC, so the government doesn't officially know that Google does Android or search.

HCL accused of wage theft, underpaying H-1B workers by at least $95m a year

Re: There is no shortage of skilled labour

No there is no shortage of people who want to work for the wages they offer, they are just in India and will do so for the promise of a US citizenship.

So long as they don't find out that the wait time for H1B->Green card->citizenship is currently > 100years

In other news

The National Park Service had determined that Ursine mammals do indeed defecate in Silvicultural environments

The CIA has uncovered links between the Pope and the Catholic church

President Biden orders transformation of 'Federal Customer Experience'

Customer survey email

Thank you for being a black victim of a police shooting at a traffic stop.

Would you describe your experience:

A, Effiicient

B, Slow

C, Can't reply I'm a dead

Do you feel that being hit by a full clip of 9 bullets was

A, An efficient use of police resource

B, Wasteful of public money

C, Can't reply I'm a dead

If you had the opportunity to book your next police shooting at a time convenient for you

A, That sounds good

B, No I like the unpredictability

C, Can't reply I'm a dead

T-Mobile US figuring out international roaming on 5G

Sponsored content much

I'm so glad that Tmobile(tm) were able to discuss the problem that Tmobile(tm) are having with Tmobile(tm) 5g service available from the wonderful Tmobile(tm)

Re: Many years ago I had a company dingle

Hello 21st century knowledge worker, here is your company laptop.

If you need to do any of the things you normally do on your phone since you were 5 years old - just patch your laptop to the phone with GPRS, don't forget to reverse polarity on the frangipane converter when connecting to the hyper domain via wizzlebang protocols - that's much simpler for the accounts dept than giving you an iPad with a Sim.

Re: Let's see if they figure it out before Apple do...

If you pay it will call 0118 999 881 999 119 7253

Nvidia CEO Huang jointly files patent for software tech in the metaverse

Re: Google stadia again

Or going back nearly 40years we had X windows

What if we said you could turn any disk into a multi-boot OS installer for free without touching a single config file?

There is a bios and UEFI version. The UEFI used to be an experimental fork but is now the default AFAIK

Re: Thanks muchly !!!

And with this you can use the rest of the space for ordinary usb key things

It's only the boot partition that is special

Irish Health Service ransomware attack happened after one staffer opened malware-ridden email

Re: Further training needed

Then block all attachments.

Allowing attachments, some of which are vital to getting any work done, and some of which are malicious and relying on the users to decide.

It's like having Boeing say to the production line, 90% of these parts are fake and will destroy the aircraft, it's upto you when selecting a bolt to make sure it's correct before looking at it

Re: Patient Zero?

Or the IT clowns who have a system where a random minion has write access to the entire health services file systems ?

We get lots of training in not opening attachments (we also get daily emails saying we should click on the link to allow new security update with a new company name from the last one)

Wouldn't it be safer to ensure that not everyone of the 4000 employees, fi they did click on a link, can then rewrite every file in the company ?

Bloke breaking his back on 'commute' from bed to desk deemed a workplace accident

Re: Who Pays?

Unless the insurance company denies the claim because the home staircase didn't meet HSE standards and the company was negligent in not inspecting it.

Then the company goes bust, everyone gets fired, shareholders/pensioners lose all their money - but fsck the bosses right ?

But if he was carrying a drink he couldn't have been maintaining 3 points of contact while climbing the stairs and so was negligent. Assuming he had received working at heights safety training, if not everyone who works from home in a house with stairs will now need their fall-arrest ticket

What came first? The chicken, the egg, or the bodge to make everything work?

Re: Where are the instructions?

And change into pyjamas then retrieve a rubber coated brick

Re: Where are the instructions?

Yes you could use a pressurised system where the pumps push air down into the sealed tanks which forces the fuel up, or you can have staging tanks above flood level with suck and blow pumps.

Re: Where are the instructions?

When the hurricane hit New York a few years ago. Lots of companies had backup generators on the roof, added after 9/11.

The fuel tanks were in the basement, because of weight, filling, safety etc

Guess where the electrically driven pumps for the fuel were ?

A lot of people trying to carry tons of diesel up 20 floors in buckets

See also, computers are connected to UPS but auxiliary equipment like printers and MONITORS weren't

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

Re: Give Biden some credit

We should have held him hostage until they coughed up some Lindt?

Is there a tool on a Swiss army knife for threatening Swiss diplomats?

Re: Oh Ginny Rommety

Is there an ambassador job in Afghanistan going?

Re: One Way Ticket?

>she can only do what she thinks is right for her and her other friends of privilege

And yet failed to become a politician

Re: Give Biden some credit

We just got a visit from the Swiss ambassador - our parent company is Swiss (and skiing is good here this time of year)

We didn't get any Ferrero Rocher!

Re: How much?

It was more that she was a prominent "successful" business leader who told Trump to get stuffed.

Thus proving to legions of Fox News voters that the democrats weren't a bunch of communists about to put the bourgeois elite into gulags.

That anybody thought this would sway any voter is a bigger example of how bankrupt both parties are.

(HP itself donated millions, but scrupulously to both parties - they don't care who wins, they just need representatives on both sides to vote for whatever HP needs)

Without hesitation or deviation, but definitely some repetition

Re: Give Biden some credit

Odd that a business leader would work with a party I am reliably informed are all communist terrorist sympathisers

Re: Give Biden some credit

>If confirmed, she is going there to do something else.

Ambassador does have a bunch of perks. Apart from the free mansion you get an army of flunkies doing what you say, private planes, your own pet Marines and legal immunity if your family drunk drives over people.

It's the next best thing to actually being a CEO

Revealed: Remember the Sony rootkit rumpus? It was almost oh so much worse

And an image file format that let you put batch commands in the header and it would run them before it displayed the file

You have to wonder

If you scattered pills outside MSFT HQ with a note saying "eat me" how many wouldn't?

China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future

Re: Question is

But the USA can solve that by cutting math classes until all students are equal.

Don't worry this doesn't apply to private schools so we can rely on children of rich parents all becoming engineers

International Monetary Fund warns crypto-related risks could soon become systemic

Re: you mean

But if only it had done what the IMF typically advises. Slashed pensions, tax cuts for billionaires, privatised health, sold all its public services to US corporations and abandoned any anti poverty programs it would have been fine.

Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911

Re: Does this issue impact all emergency phone numbers?

And because 1 1 1 could be triggered by line noise more easily

Re: Time to lawyer up?

>so the FCC might take an interest.

It's the one thing the FCC goes nuclear on, mainly because its the sort of thing a politician can get voters worried about. They tend to do massive fines for telcos fscking up 911

Actual metal being welded in support of the UK's first orbital 'launch platform'

Also a risk basing it somewhere that's likely to become not-Britain as soon as it gets a vote.

Perhaps we need Spaceport Berwick ?

>so UK government/industry can spend money with a UK-based organisation for lofting things into space rather than sending money overseas.

So long as the rockets are built in Britain, with British aluminium refined with British electricity from British coal from British mines...

Re: Equator

Since becoming the world's leading exporter of sovereignty once again, all the warm sunny little islands near the equator will be queuing up to come onboard with global Britain.

We can launch from one of those, the only real limit is how many ribbons the Queen can cut/year

Re: Testing is good, but...

Worse, Texas

Re: Testing is good, but...

Because the launch site is probably in the arse end of nowhere. Somewhere that it's expensive to get people and kit to and there are no local welding companies

It's why SpaceX builds stuff in LA but launches from some 3ed world hell hole

More than half of UK workers would consider jumping ship if a hybrid work option were withdrawn by their company

It works well for everyone remote, or everyone does a few days home / few days in the office.

But if you have a couple of people who are always remote, unless they are so specialised/important that they are effectively full-time contractors, they get forgotten about for new projects / not invited to meetings etc.

>but instead in more suburban areas so as to mean there is no commute

Problem with "surburban areas" is that there often is a bigger commute and it has to be by car.

Office in central London = everybody can get there.

Office on a business park somewhere off the M25 = everybody has to drive there.

Turned down a job here because it was in a business park 10miles out of the city. After watching people spend an hour after work trying to merge out onto the single road along with the other 5000 people who work there.

Canadian charged with running ransomware attack on US state of Alaska

Re: Revolting!

I want to know how he got good enough internet in Canada to become a cyber criminal

Shocking: UK electricity tariffs are among world's most expensive

Re: 70's electricty

>Is there now such a thing as a free lunch?

Well it ultimately costs you a star burning 5million tons hydrogen/second - but you don't have to pay for that

We're hoping that "wires causing 5G cancer" nuts would persuade them to bury the wires up here in the Pacific North West - but it's cheaper to send out trucks to remove the fallen trees and replace the wires the day after each storm (apparently)

Did have a cool demonstration once where we had a suspect fault in an underground line to the lab. They bring out a big truck with a serious generator and some fun-sized coils and send a mega-zap (technical term) into the cable to find the weak point = a bang and a jet of steam come out from the lawn showing you where to dig.

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

Re: What a cowardly little shit.

AFAIK the Thames Tunnel wasn't excavated under pressure, it would have been far to big to do this at the time. The tunnel shield was supposed to support the tunnel, and keep out the water, until the brick lining was done.

Re: Glassdoor...

The risk is if security escort you "off the premises" !

It's primed and full of fuel, the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to be packed up prior to launch

Re: Why so long to fill?

Is good reason tovarisch

Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree

Re: Deck chairs

The White Star is announcing invitation to tender for contract deckchair movement services.

No previous experience of deckchairs or ships required

Having been to same school as captain an advantage

Re: overseas

So the solution to the NHS is identity cards and making people speak French ?

"Pas de Problème"

But the old system would have been really difficult (or at least obvious) to privatise.

Now you can transfer an NHS primary care provisioning facility into being a self-managed autonomous treatment center owned by a special purpose corporation with scarcely a yawn