Posts by ScottishYorkshireMan

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?

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

AI Ethics...

great things to say you have and follow, as long as they don't get in the way of the profits....

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

Re: Star wars?

You mean like the UK is? Remember that Brandon Lewis and his statement about 'they pay us because they admire us'. Feck me, if he and his cohorts are what the Russians admire then I'd say guys, no threat.

UK government plans to spend over £100M on AI ... but copyright code is held up

£100M???

I can only assume that from the paultry sum, that Sunak and Goons haven't got their shares bought yet, otherwise the figure would be much higher. After all, there's no purse, like the public purse. Look at the NHS, shed loads of cash poured into it, but its actually poured out of it into both Red and Blue Tory shareholder pockets. Why would AI be any different? Given the massive success this government has with IT projects, expect an absolute ballsup when it does happen, but at least the goons will have their shares by that time.

Go on, have a poke, pretty sure you'll mark me down whatever your favourite colour of corruption happens to be.

IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS

so, this £2.99 being bunged onto Amazon Prime Video....

Is it really that necessary, or has your greed capacity just had an upgrade?

Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

Re: Fuses?

Didn't Chenobyl have a big red stop button, that when pushed, seemed to make things worse, much much worse....

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

Re: Neuralink and Ethical Dilemmas: Balancing Innovation with Privacy and Humanity

> wouldn't it be more beneficial to direct resources towards research into regenerating cells in the human body to reverse cell damage or finding cures to reverse disabling conditions?

Pretty sure Big Pharma just had an ecoptic heartbeat at the thought of research into finding cures. - There's no money in cures, treatments however....

Can't have anything amazing that will affect profits or destablize the greed cycle.

Pretty sure, if it works, no one will get one beyond Musk himself as the cost will be made massive.

I guess if you downvote, you must be one of those 'Muskolytes' who pander to his every breath.

Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints

Re: Been here since, well Telewest

Good call, I might try it. On the other hand, hope to be moving house soon and ABW, 1.6Gb of EE is beckoning, unless someone has anything to say about EE broadband that is. :)

Been here since, well Telewest

I have the VM 1Gig service and to be honest, its been pretty damn good. My area was the original united artists fibre that they never lit, but Telewest did and can't really fault it. The price is a bit much, but its a fast service and only recently have there been any issues which is quite a funny process.

You can check the status on their app, which will say everything is fine, the problem is with your kit, we will send an engineer, in a week or so and an appointment is booked. Because you know the problem isn't with your kit, you give it an hour and by then downdetector is screaming with people that their broadband has gone AWOL. Next comes the text message to say that an engineer is en-route to fix the problem which has an SLA of 8 hours. To be honest, the last 2 faults have been sorted pretty quickly. So, can't really complain.

I guess I am just lucky with my area, I hear nightmare stories about other areas. The service though was definately better when they had their local centres in Glenrothes and Knowsley, you could ring them and chances are get a support person who did actually know their stuff. The good old days.

Now, the greed cycle is engaged to gouging raises every 12 months, well, I am out of contract so I guess when that bites, I will be off to another vendor. Shame there isn't anyone local that can offer data at a speed faster than an asthmatic pigeon. Don't fancy putting money in Musks pocket either.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

The way to deal with rich people....

is to turn them into poor people. - Billy Ray Valentine.

You know what they say. A billionaires biggest fear...becoming a millionaire.

So, thats the CBE returned...

How about Sunak and Starmer returning the 'bungs' that Fujitsu paid them along with the bungs from Pietas a consultancy company run by a Simon Blagden mentioned here https://www.vice.com/en/article/59x7wz/fujitsu-uk-sues-department-health-simon-blagden-tory-donor.It seems also that Fujitsu like to sue when their contracts don't get renewed.

Of course, those who approve of Blue Corruption will mark me down. You lot need to have a word with yourselves.

Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures

Re: Historical effects.

Probably because they make bungs to Tory Funds...

https://www.ukpol.co.uk/political-donations-database-fujitsu-services-ltd-to-conservative-and-unionist-party/

NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

Re: Doubt the UK voter gives a shit...

Actually, no.

Try talking to a few Scots residents and as they all seem to read the likes of the Daily Distress, Daily Fail and Daily Shitcord, they have been told their opinions. It seems to be beyond the general voter to consider the likes of The Byline Times, The National and The Canary for their news input.

Scotland is in a dictatorship, once London runs out of water, Scotland will have to pony that up too.

Jog on.

Doubt the UK voter gives a shit...

Because, both the Daily Distress/Fail will say this is a good thing.

The UK always gets exactly the government it deserves. This kind of thing proves it.

However, in Scotland, the prority is...

Ferries, Bottle return scheme, Motorhome, £600K.

No wonder the planet needs an enema.

Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices

Not a good experience

To be honest, I am surprised their stuff is as popular as it is. It may just be people like to tell you they subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, like people like to tell you they have a Tesla or a BMW.

My experience of them was generally unpleasant. I had a photo subscription lightroom and photoshop, however, a year last Sept, MS made some update to Windows that totally screwed up Adobes system, everytime the product launches it tries to connect to their servers. Well, it couldn't connect any more. Their support asked me to try another network, why that is a suggestion I don't know, but I did as they asked and it resulted the same fail to launch. They then wanted to connect to my machine, which I was very skeptical off, but I made it so only one machine was connected and let them connect up, no joy the tech support boy still couldn't solve it, and left it was my hardware/network that was at fault and they couldn't help me.

So, I wanted to cancel 3 months early, except I couldn't as they wouldn't accept there was a problem with THEIR stuff. So, I had to pay their early termination. Which is shite. But there again, a shite company with shite practices thinks that as long as the billions role in, why worry about the odd calculation here and there. Problem is, any fines they get will result in increased subscriptions from their existing customers. Not me though.

So, as far as I am concerned Adobe can fuck off, never again and now Luminar Neo gets my money.

UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim

Just considering...

The amount of Russian money swirling around in the Tory party, and this has been going on entirely under their watch, it wouldn't be surprising if this was a requirement by the Russians in order for selected tories to recieve 'sponsorship'?

Tories are only patriotic to a point, that point being, their own bank balances. After all, wasn't it Brandon Lewis who said, they pay us, because they are impressed by us or something to that effect https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/russia-report-conservative-tory-donors-brandon-lewis-560586

So, and considering the competence of the current 'Nuclear Minister' Andrew Bowie, I think that there's enough to make you go "Hmmmm".

But there again, "Nicola, Ferries, Motorhome and £600K". Obviously the Scottish Daily Distress and Daily Fail know which is most imporant to report on.

Vote up or down. Don't care. Merry Christmas all.

UK convinces nations to sign Bletchley Declaration in bid for AI safety

Considering...

"We learned what powers the sun, and we make bombs from it" - Jon Morlar.

AI may not be a danger right now, but in the hands of bent politicians and billionaires (and their fanatical supporters) you can be pretty sure that human greed will get in the way of any kind of safeguards.

As for Pishy Sunak 'interviewing' Musk, WTAF?

Michele Donelan some kind of minister for science etc etc until the next reshuffle sees her in charge of Shitters and sinks, such the way of shitty british (deliberate, doesn't deserve a capital) politiks.

Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts

Re: Tories positioning themselves.

You still hearing those voices? The drugs aren't working then AC.

Tories positioning themselves.

Whatever the future power source the UK uses, you can be sure that those in power, Blue or Red Tory, will be positioning themselves now to ensure their own bank balances benefit from any policy.

This is the current state of the UK and yes there will be those who benefit from above policy who will state, this is how its always been. Well actually no it hasn't. De Piffle, Pishi and Pals have made corruption an expectation amongst the electorate and the fanatics who support them are over the moon without realising that in the end, they may actually have to hold their breath whilst they count their money.

Upvote, downvote, don't give a fuck, whether you have the personality or intelligence to admit it or not, this country is a shitheap.

UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there

so, no brown envelopes then?

As with everything with this 'government', its all about money. Had said companies come up with a brown envelope stuffed with cash for conservative party funds and MP hospitalities, this would never have even made legislation.

Given that the ICE has been given a 5 year reprieve it seems that this type of transaction does actually work. I guess Mr Fishy and co will be able to hold their breath whilst they count their money.

Upvote, downvote, do what you will, this 'government' is shit for you too, whether you have the intelligence or personality to admit it.

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

you mean it wasn't a ....

DRONE?

I thought anything that went wrong nowadays with ATC was always the fault of a drone, somewhere.

I suppose the interference story is, "no you cannot say Cyber Attack, look, just blame it on the French".

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

Re: It was the Russians says the GCHQ /s

I guess if it was the Russians it must be ok then, after all, some useless tub of lard put a Russian in the House of Lords, to the delight of those who favour Blue corruption.

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites

Leave him making vacuum cleaners...

Leave him to his vacuum cleaners and hand dryers and of course his brexit.

Sorry couldn't resist.

Go ahead, mark me down, don't care.