Re: 2 questions
Don't bother- it'll be the same figure in a few years...
Posts by PATSYQB
24 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2010
Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data
UK competition watchdog fast-tracks investigation into mega-merger of O2 and Virgin Media
Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered
Friday 6th November 2020 15:31 GMT
I learnt something after having a fake "HMRC" call from a young woman who had a strong Indian accent. I repeatedly stated that her parents must be very disappointed with her because her job was scamming people and that she had let down her family by being involved in a criminal organisation. She repeatedly stated that she was from the HMRC and I suddenly realised that she might also have been duped by others and really believed that she was working for the HMRC. She genuinely sounded astonished. It wouldn't be difficut for someone in another country to put out adverts for "support workers" and convince them it was legitimate. There's always another side to any story...
If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed
Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78
Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it
AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne
Friday 29th May 2020 09:58 GMT
I have to disagree with some of the rather (IMO) harsh comments here. He founded a company that designed and produced robotic arm technology and computer assisted surgical tech... (anyone who has worked in that field will tell you how rigorous your design and quality need to be). He then sold the company and the tech. for an absolute shitload of money to a market leader in this field.
The slightly sad part of this (as this article correctly points out) is that the knowledge his engineers gained in the R&D will likely be lost or go to other companies.
There's no shortage of people, particularly in the USA, who are over hyping the next best thing. And it seems no shortage of people willing to jump off the cliff with them. Buyer Beware?
Bedroom design outfit slapped with £160k fine for 1.6 million spam calls
Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive
Don't panic, but your baby monitor can be hacked into a spycam
Juno finds some lightning on Jupiter is the polar opposite to bolts here on Earth
Thursday 7th June 2018 10:02 GMT
Now draw me a nice picture of Jupiter....
"You can ask anybody who lives in the tropics..."
"...generates a separation of electric charge to kickstart lightning..."
"...sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky..."
"When lightning strikes, electrical currents zap the atmosphere..."
"But a dodgy valve now means the spacecraft is stuck..."
Bloody Hell - this reads like an article for 11 year olds. Sorry to the author - I do appreciate the time and effort it takes to write but come on....
Rogue PIs found guilty of illegally snagging personal financial info
Mohawks fling patent infringement sueball at Microsoft and Amazon
Thursday 19th October 2017 23:07 GMT
Re: No way out
Yep - sorry - you're right. I don't know what came over me when I posted that comment. Exasperation? Possibly. Fear? Almost certainly. In my defence I had just read the article on civil forfeiture in America and was probably in a state of concussion. It's not that my country has laws any less deranged than your own, my real problem is that your country seems hell bent on exporting or this particular type of insanity to the rest of the planet. Sorry 'bout that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
