Posts by ScottishYorkshireMan

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

The BBC is defunct in the regions

The BBC provides a lot of services for the world, not just the UK. This is where my enthusiasm for the BBC stops.

My issues with the BBC is its impartiality. From a view of Scotland, it simply isn't. I know this won't matter a jot to you folks who don't live in Scotland and fair enough, but if you are thinking "Back in your box, Scotland" then stuff you too.

BBC Scotland provides a persistent "Pro-Union" status. Its coverage of anything good from the SNP, Scottish Government or Scottish Independence interest, is simply non-existent. However, anything that can be spun remotely badly, is given full coverage, even when it ends up being complete garbage, we might see a correction (not apology) sometime in the following 3-6 months. Maybe.

Very little coverage of the antics of Farage's party, but hell, any opportunity to flame Nicola Sturgeon (murder tents), talk about Ferries or the new one of late, the QEUH, is taken with extreme enthusiasm. This is getting into full flow now the local elections are on the horizon.

So, excuse me for not being a fan of the Biased Broadcasting Craperation.

Scotland, maybe Wales and Northern Ireland too, need appropriate coverage that isn't decided on what works for London. If it is to be a true national broadcaster it has to cease behaving like its owned by a right-wing billionaire.

Upvote, downvote, don't really care much.

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

Oh how I wish you were whisky....

They could do what Finland did...

But they won't after all, Finland is run for its populous. UK is run for whoever comes up with the biggest bung.

Finland took the excess heat from their datacenters and made it available locally for the populous to use. Of course this could happen here but it wouldn't be free of course. It seems Finland has some of the cheapest energy costs in the world. Whereas Scotlands energy is sent south to keep London prices cheap, and yes, to the wags with fuck all better to do than look this up, it might be about 10p per kw/h but its still energy that was generated in Scotland. Why not build your own nuclear reactors, say, Mayfair or Belgravia, I don't really mind. While we think about that, how about moving your nuclear weapons and piss the radioactivity over Englands waters?

So, given that AI is going to remove so many jobs etc, who the hell is left to pay the subscriptions to use the services that they provide, or hasn't that been considered beyond the various currency symbols in the eyes of the worlds greedmeisters?

Upvote, downvote, I really don't give a shit.

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

So, the politician question...

COVID proved that Government still worked when MP's were 'WFH'. I use the quotes because I wonder what the likes of F.A.Rage actually do for their constituencies, especially when one manages to bugger off to the US when Tzump makes the call, but I digress.

What I am seriously interested in is why did it stop for politicians? There is no need for them all to be in London for that shambles of a shouting session that is PMQ's. There is sufficient technology available for issue voting to be done online and it would rid the taxpayer of the need to buy each of these shits a bloody house in/near London that they get to punt on and keep the damn proceeds. Anyone else who got a house given by their employer would have His Majesties Recovery Company on them like ebola.

Of course, I guess the bung opportunities are less, WFH, but who knows, it might even increase.

I know it won't happen, because well, politician pockets and their contents are far more important than taxpayer value for money.

Up-vote/down-vote knock yourselves out.

Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon

looks like

Larry "F-15" Ellison looks more like Mickey Rourke every day....

Johnson, Cummings met Thiel months before Palantir won NHS pandemic role

Re: Britain is run by corrupt people

Aye and Truss and Twateng were completely sane....

UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs

Bungs...

I wonder which politicians take the bungs to keep those usual suspects cropping up to claim the taxpayers coin.

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?

So, there isn't a politician getting a trip to the world cup off the back of this then?

The UK government is for sale. Has been since at least Bliar.

So, for some Post-Turtle to be able to splurge £9B of taxpayers dosh on this surely means they are getting a nice bung.

Alter the question, if this was being paid for from MP's pension pots, and the associated savings put back in as profits, would this be going ahead?

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Wrong place to start

How about we leave the potentially dodgy data alone for now and focus on an AI that is trained on the activities of politicians, their backers and ultimately those who would benefit from their actions. Maybe if it was good enough it might track down the £21B that Sunak pissed out the door.

However, this won't happen as it would likely benefit the common good, when all the common good is there for these days is to be shat on.

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: How does this work

In the words of Kevin Bridges, 'enjoy your night mate".

FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline

So...

Does there need to be a credit card lodged with google pay to cover the Ambulance and med technicians $400,000 bill ?

Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

Re: The headline

Well, I guess in seconds, half a trillion is about 15,823 years....

I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

Re: The real problem

Even an artificially intelligent prime minister would be better than what we have had, have and what is on offer for the foreseeable. Assuming of course that AI PM doesn't emerge from the Cult of Musk.

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

Throw them into the pond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes

so....

"Bad news always sells, that's human nature", says everything about how shitty humans are then doesn't it?

Thing is now though, Leon Skum (anagram for the hard of thinking!!), can just sack the people who are investigating him, or at least tell them his case isn't important.

humans have proven that they are not capable of owning large amounts of money, seems to make them, shittier, if not just downright assholey.

Upvote, downvote, don't give a shit, earth never had any problems until humans came along.

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Perhaps, its just a case that

someone or for that matter, a few.

Hold shares in Oracle, somewhere. Maybe a pension, maybe actively.

Usually find that the reason that government (central or local) does or doesn't do something is down to someone being on the gravy train.

After all, Streeting took £175k from Private Healthcare, so I guess there is something in this. (https://www.thenational.scot/news/24250557.wes-streeting-takes-175k-donors-linked-private-health-firms/)

Corruption seems to be a human trait, not a political one. Too busy fucking each other over to do the right thing.

Upvote, downvote. Whatever.

Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen

Well it won't happen in UK schools..

Unless some politician arsehole gets into the money stream of supplying them. A bit like the old days of the BBC Micro.

So, at least when the building collapses, due to neglect, there might be a robot explaining the number of 'r's in strawberry.

UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs

wonder if the special line...

for politicians to cover up their untaxed income are left on hold for 70 minutes....

UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey

Re: For context

"HMRC employs 61,186 people full time. "

Is that for the phone line that politicians get to use, just to cover up their brown envelope deposits into offshore accounts? After all, we can't do with the politicians embarrassing themselves can we?

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

Being customer centric....

doesn't pay those huge fuck off bonuses remember.... not in todays Greed-Centric world anyhow.

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

Re: Fools

In this case fools and the taxpayers money are soon parted????

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Kevin Bridges has it right...

Every Glasgow taxi driver is known for 'speaking their mind'.

Well, Gump and Leon Skum need the same response.

A hand on the shoulder and the statement 'Enjoy your night, mate'.

London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal

I wonder...

which politician is getting the coffers of their offshore increased by this deal.

At least this time, the owner of the coffers is likely to be a red tory.

Go on, mark me down, don't give a fuck. Humans are buggered anyhow, just a matter of time before the greed finally closes the door on the species.

UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in

Re: to deliver a critical Oracle ERP project

But they seem to always be the right people to receive the 'brown envelope'....

UK government plays power broker with small modular reactor suitors

but its the kickbacks, surely?

So, which round is it decided which politician gets the brown envelopes ?

I guess we could have thorium-salt reactors but hey, you can't make bombs from what they use, can you? and after all, they clean up their own shit so no tasty expensive decommissioning needed.

Lets face it, the only things that ever go ahead in terms of Government projects, are not always what are needed, its what the politicans get a kickback for.

Go on, flex your muscles and vote me down, then feel pleased with yourself as your little dopamine splat slowly declines.

Online media outstrips TV as source of news for the first time in the UK

The problem with news is....

Well its really the viewer.

If the viewer hears news that meets their own internal belief system, then that's great news. They like that and will parrot it out to whoever will listen. However, if they hear a story that lets for now say is factually true, but it doesn't fit their internal belief system, then whoa there, the viewer decides its BS. Very few go beyond the realms of the Daily Distress (Express for those regular buyers and the hard of thought) Daily Heil (Mail for those hard of thought and regular buyers) and in Scotland, well the Scottish Daily Distress is a fabulous source of the most random bullshit around, but usually angled to slant the SNP, in similar guise to The Herald and The Scotsman.

But we are talking TV here and since the likes of every eugenics supporting member of the 'Tory' party is now a Gammon Bollocks News TV star I think it says a lot both about the quality of what is broadcast and in a lot of cases, the viewer.

As with beauty, the news (or truth) is in the eye of the beholder (or viewer).

Given we know that the UK newspapers are shite, but when your broadcast world requires every single sentence to be fact checked, what the fuck is the point of watching?

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

too lazy to change though

From recent conversations it seems that Adobe have an ace in the hole.

People seem to be real happy to be gouged by Adobe because:

1. It meets their workflow needs.

2. They don't have time to learn something new.

3. It is the standard that all the others try and replicate.

4. No other package or suite has everything that Adobe offers.

5. Their work is so pish, they don't give a shit whose AI hoovers it up.

Pick from the above, whatever you need to avoid having to say, You were stupid in signing up and wish you hadn't. It's ok, people take fuck all responsibility these days for anything, especially personal choices which we see in software, politics and life in general, people just don't have the intelligence or personality to say 'jeez, I really did fuck up choosing that'.

Upvote/downvote, don't give a shit, but I guess the downvotes will be from those with who I have struck a nerve. Ha ha.

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

So, this is what happens...

when you get a government hell bent on getting all the money it can from private healthcare, and reducing the spend dramatically for the NHS. This is the sort of thing that happens. After all, the NHS gets a pile of cash, but how much of that cash is diverted to private companies with an MP as either a director, major shareholder or having received a bung (yes Mr Streeting, its been well documented) https://www.thenational.scot/news/24250557.wes-streeting-takes-175k-donors-linked-private-health-firms/ ( A touch of hail the new boss, same as the old boss????)

Which makes me wonder about the NHS, its quite apparent that it needs the private assistance but is the NHS getting the right private assistance or is it getting the one that was provided by a brown envelope stacked with cash? Probably not cash though, wouldn't get thru ALM would it. Probably just into an offshore account and His Majesties Recovery Company don't see it either.

Re: Maybe they did her a favour?

Looks like AC now seems to mean ASSHOLE COMMENT.....

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

Thing with humans is...

Things will only be done as long as said 'things' don't affect profits. We see this with the climate change situation. Those with the profits will end up holding their breath whilst they count their money.

There again, things seem to get done when there is a politician in the money chain, invariably not the right things, but something gets done and then sold to the proles as being the best ever possible solution. strange that innit?

So, likelihood of being prepared for an asteroid hit? Small, real small. Until we mature enough as a species to move away from financial and material gain.

Humanity's satellite habit could end up choking Earth's ozone layer

it can't be allowed to affect the profits!!!!

Go ahead, do all the researchy things you need to do.

However, a few kg of something or other, can't be allowed to affect the profits. You have to think of the poor shareholders.

They will be fine in the future, holding their breath whilst they count their money....

Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit

Make a gift to the Mozilla foundation...

I think that will be ceasing from me if this is how people are treated.

I always felt I was fighting a battle for Firefox as the RoW told me I should be using chrome, credge or something else.

I guess, for once, the RoW was right, but not for any other reason than this being piss poor behaviour from an organization that relies on donations.

Well, like Adobe, they can GTF!!!!

Footage of Nigel Farage blowing up Rishi Sunak's Minecraft mansion 'not real'

Fartage? Agin?

Thought Fartage was too busy selling crap gin to his munters who live of his/trumps every word?

Seems incredible that people still give this gob on a stick airtime, after he gets his Brexit, then goes on TV telling people how brilliant the French Healthcare system is, because it will likely pour money into his and his mate Aarons coffers.

The UK Will get exactly the Government it deserves, because voters don't seem to realise that politicians aren't there to make things better for those who elected them.

Upvote/downvote, don't give a shit. The UK needs an enema and the hosepipe needs to start in Wastemonster.

Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations

Re: Must see

yeah, when we aren't busy trying to blow the fuck out of each other. But hey, that BTFOOEA has a profit element.....

UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'

with a fatter brown envelope perhaps??????

more likely P4l4nt1r

Given we are likely swopping colours of management, we will likely just see the lobbyists brown envelopes having red tory names on, rather than blue ones.

Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

Re: Suckers!

Plenty of options, just seems that some want to be seen using 'Adobe' products. Can't think why, other than its the 'Tesla' syndrome of 'look what I can afford to buy'.

Luminar Neo, Affinity Photo, ACDSee et al all good options.

After the licensing shambles I experienced I got shut of them, never looked back.

London hospitals left in critical condition after ransomware attack

Re: This question should be put to Starmer and Sunak tonight

Aye right, and the Government then sells the data this organization holds to the likes of their favourite lobbying org and we are back to square one.

These problems exist because there is a politician making a buck out of the situation. Red Tory or Blue Tory, its just going to be different hands in the till.

UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

another shitpile of data for...

the tory chunts to sell to palantir, who with their NHS data will be able to build quite the picture of everyone they want.

The UK always gets exactly the government it deserves, because it outsources the thinking to the Daily Heil/Distress/etc etc etc. - Delete as you see fit, or as you are told.

They used to call this country Great Britain... well the ASA would have a field day with that one.

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

Remember, Rishi uses Helicopters, so potholes aren't his problem...

I know totally irrelevent title but nothing relating to Government ever seems relevent to real life anymore.

Those supporters of Blue Corruption will likely baulk at this but lets be sure these days, whatever is going on, if there's money changing hands, there's a tory chunt in the cash flow somewhere.

Just how it is, maybe next year it will be a Labour Chunt, doesn't matter the UK always gets EXACTLY the government it deserves, and for the last 40 or so years, that's been shit ones.

IT consultant-cum-developer in court over hiding COVID-19 loan

Re: £21 billion lost to fraud

IF it did anything of substance we would have a shit pile of tories in handcuffs....

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

Re: Thank you!

Its well past the time that these enormous companies were fined. No, its time to put the figureheads in prison, after taking their assets. Fines just get passed on to Joe and Josephine Customer.

Problem is, those who make these kind of laws are either shareholders or are in the brown envelope workflow, so it will never happen. Fines it is.

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?

"permanent salaries in UK government roles are not high enough to attract anyone good or competent"

Yet the corporate world is eager to sign up these incompetents in their droves post politics. BT took Tebbit (after railroading thru its privatisation of course), A plethora of companies took Ruth Davidson (no idea why but can't wait to see what companies sign up Douglas Ross and Andrew Bowie( nuclear minister - guffaw).

I wonder...

How many Government projects would fail if they were funded from the Politicians Pension fund, rather than the treasury itself? The fund takes a portion of the success, if there should be any and of course it takes the fall if it doesn't work out.

Would those ministers be so eager to make changes to just 'leave their mark' would they be so eager to agree budget increases?

Of course any Government Contract should NEVER be given to any company where a Politician or close family member of said politician is a director of that company, but I am sure there are those on here who quite like corruption as long as its 'their team' doing the corrupting and will mark this down. Yet, HS2 trundles on at £B's per mile yet other countries seem to be able to do everything so much better and so much cheaper. Wonder why that is? Perhaps we should ask Matt Hancocks landlord....

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

Re: "I have a hard time believing"

Why the hell would I pay for XYZ's opinion on the latest doodab, widget or whatever? If I am being offered actual knowledge, I will pay for it, and in a number of cases I have until I learned that even subscribing to the likes of a YT channel, YT take their cut of any subscriptions.

I think your expectation that we should pay for any old shite, deserves the Kevin Bridges response of "Enjoy your night, mate".

Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?

Re: I'm surprised

Methinks that Fujitsu have moved on

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/04/11/fujitsu-nuclear-uk-contract/?__s=pocan8tjr1dsedm1bg4a

Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder

Re: Can != will

All part of the Tory Eugenics plan.

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

Bung received..

Tory coffers obviously swelled in the usual manner that provides a get out of jail free for any issue caused by a corporate entity. Go one, you blue corruption supporters mark me down. don't give a shit. The UK always gets EXACTLY the government it deserves.

UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████

Have ITV got a script yet?

Just wondering which tory SB's have had their personal coffers enhanced by this deal and whether or not ITV have a script for the future 6 parter?

Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0

Re: Pints' on me Brian

Pretty sure we called it OS/Half

Does anyone remember Barclays Bank ATM's used to run on it for years?