Re: He said, she said
Yeah. After reading up on this and carefully trying (as a layman) to parse the arguments, I have to side with AT&T and Verizon here.
(GOD you have no idea how dirty typing that last part makes me feel.)
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AT&T, Verizon delay 5G C-band rollout over FAA fears of passenger plane radars jammed by signals
Remember Norton 360's bundled cryptominer? Irritated folk realise Ethereum crafter is tricky to delete
Wednesday 5th January 2022 20:01 GMT 
Re: This article made me twitch.
Heh heh. That’s genius, and I’m sure it made you popular with the marketing director!
I did a show in London once where as our local VP arrived to do his tour of the very expensive booth, I was up a stepladder gaffer-taping CAT5 cables to the booth structure. The reason why, I had to explain to him, was that the numpties who’d built the booth had laid out all the cabling on the ground, to every location where it’d be needed. And had then built the entire booth right on top of the cables. Crushing every single one. When we were allowed onto the booth, scant hours before go-live, I wasted precious time terminating, testing, rejecting, re-terminating, etc etc, before realizing the root cause.
Didn’t allow myself to get too cross with the stand builders though. Never argue with a man who has a nail-gun, claw-hammer, and knuckle tattoos. Oh, and who is busy rolling up acres of temporary carpet for disposal…
Wednesday 5th January 2022 18:41 GMT 
This article made me twitch.
I’m currently at CES, showing some new technology.
I thought the only virus-related thing that would intrude on my week would be this covid thing that seems to be popular right now, but noooo….
We have a number of PCs and laptops here to run our presence - digital signage, tech demos etc - and on at least half of them I’ve had to waste my time removing Norton or McAfee products, on account of their mania for popping up on the screen at inopportune times - “Would you like to renew your subscription?”, “Install our browser plugin?” etc etc. Aaargh. If I could get hold of the eejit that prepped these machines…
Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls
Wednesday 5th January 2022 19:51 GMT
Re: Gotta dust off my Playbooks :-(
if I get a text with a link in it (normally for me these are scams)
Ah yes. My particular bugbears at the moment are
“AT&T Free Message: thanks for paying your December bill, click here for your free gift hfbrhr.trbi/qwigrh”
“FRED your free $9341.27 cash is waiting, click here…”
Both oh so convincing and tempting. Of course it makes perfect sense that AT&T would use a scummy URL that looks like a drunken monkey pounded on a Dvorak keyboard. And of course I will take up an offer of unsolicited cash addressed to someone else, with an equally reputable and not scummy at all URL.
IBM bosses wrongly sacked channel salesman after Tech Data joint venture failed, tribunal rules
Wednesday 5th January 2022 19:25 GMT 
That JV sounds odd
Am I interpreting the structure of the JV correctly?
“If the IBM employee seconded to the disti didn’t persuade the disti to sell a certain target amount of IBM kit, the disti would have to pay a penalty to IBM.”
I hope I’ve misinterpreted the article. Because if not that sounds utterly odd. Conflict of interest, for one. “If you persuade them to sell lots of our products, we get the revenue. If you don’t, we get paid a penalty. Heads we win, tails they lose.”
Alexa and Webex to hitch a ride around the Moon on Artemis I – what could possibly go wrong?
Wednesday 5th January 2022 18:27 GMT
Re: Emergence
What is this Next Generation of which they speak?
There was only ever one Star Trek series. And as in all things, it offers us a parable for this situation.
Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked
Tuesday 4th January 2022 16:08 GMT
Re: Video..
Gah. Upvoted. I get so furious when I google “how to fix $error” and the top 10 results are youtube videos. I don’t want a video! A simple numbered list of steps would be more than enough, have more clarity, and save megabytes of download!
Can’t decide whether to use thumbs up icon, for you, or exploding nuke icon, for my current state of mind. Let’s compromise and have a drink. Cheers.
ASUS recalls motherboards that flame out thanks to backwards capacitors
Tuesday 4th January 2022 16:28 GMT
Re: It was fun when I saw that happen
I recall two capacitor-related incidents from my time at school, oooh several decades ago in the late 80s.
The first was when our young, hip, down-with-da-kids Physics teacher (Mr Fisher, if these increasingly senile memory cells don’t lie) was teaching us from the front of the room while idly fiddling with a rather large electrolytic that he had in his hands. Eventually the inevitable occurred and he touched the two fly-leads together, which led to a large spark, singe’d fingers, and a classroom of boys all learning the word “fuck!”, which of course none of us innocents had ever heard before. Nope.
And the second was a year or so later, when we were actually learning about capacitors. One of my chums seated on the back row of benches behind me obviously thought it would be fun to connect every electrolytic he could get his hands on together in series, then charge the two ends of the chain from the lab 12v bench supply.
Suddenly there was a loud “BANG” and we all turned round to see Bloggs Minor sitting there with an innocent expression as wisps of capacitor material drifted slowly down and settled on him like dandruff. The teacher for that class, who was infinitely more world-weary, just rolled his eyes and carried on with the lesson.
Ah, happy days. A big “hi” to anyone reading this who thinks “gosh, I saw that, I think I was at that school…”
Offering Patreon subs in sterling or euros means you can be sued under GDPR, says Court of Appeal
Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK
Some errors fill the screen. And some come from the .NET Framework
A proposal to beat below-the-belt selfies: Crowdsourced machine learning using victims' image stashes
Can you get excited about the iPhone 13? We've tried
Wednesday 29th December 2021 22:47 GMT
Re: So...
If you had a chainsaw made by Apple, ...
...the chains would only cut applewood, and certain other approved materials that bore the "designed for iChainsaw" logo.
But the chains would at least look fabulous. Rounded corners, made from ultra-thin, ultra-light exotic alloys. Oh, and prone to getting bent and scratched easily. Fortunately there'd be a vast industry of protective covers for your iChain blades.
Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability
Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion
It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine
Please pay for parking – CMOS batteries don't buy themselves
Who you gonna call? Premium numbers, but a not-so-premium service
Monday 27th December 2021 06:02 GMT
Re: back in the day
you would probably not want to share the lavatory with them afterwards.
Did it... happen often in that company... that people would share lavatories?
I mean, I remember myself in the early 80s having to endure TP that had the texture and absorbancy of greaseproof baking paper, but even back then in those coal-fired, benighted days, we got a lavatory to ourselves...
Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going
Sunday 26th December 2021 21:39 GMT
Re: No one has mentioned...
You're surprised that it has Paint?
It's Windows, being used for an embedded ePOS scenario.
I'm pretty certain it'll also have Candy Crush on there, along with Paint3D, Store, OneDrive, Mixed Reality Portal, and all the other shite shovelware that MS foist on even "Pro" variant users.
Anyway. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and peace and goodwill to all men - even Microsoft marketing managers.
(My chosen icon is a roaring log fire, as I look out my window and see 5" of snow all around. I'm pretty sure I just saw four small children following a faun and a lion across my front lawn, too...)
Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums
Wednesday 22nd December 2021 02:48 GMT
Re: Doctors waiting room?????
The original and closest Doctors was in a different STD code area.
Well I've heard of medics' notes codes like PAFO or NFN*, but this is the first time I've heard of codes for STDs. Are you sure you want to admit to having those?
(Pissed And Fell Over; Normal For Norfolk, in case anyone's wondering.)
Wednesday 22nd December 2021 02:38 GMT
Re: Machine that weighs less than its operating manual.
About 30 years back, an educational institution not too far from here and dispensing knowledge pertaining to agriculture
(Edit: Hmm, I see from your comments further down that you're actually in the Netherlands. So my guess of Cirencester is probably a little off, by several hundred miles. Oh well. Still mad about the Tunnel House, though.)
So how is Cirencester these days? I'm very sad that the Tunnel House closed permanently - that was a nice place.
(Aside: Hmm, I see too that the Royal Ag College now has delusions of academic purity and has renamed itself a University. Hmmm.)
Police National Computer not pwned by Clop ransomware crims, insists Home Office
Monday 20th December 2021 21:46 GMT
Re: I would like 100 upvotes for Christmas please.
I upvoted you. But be aware that my upvote would otherwise have gone to a very worthy post by a starving Guatamalan orphan, who was counting on the additional electrons to buy medicine for his desperately sick grandmother.
I hope you feel satisfied, you monster.
Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation
Saturday 18th December 2021 22:43 GMT
Re: Rocky atoll for sale
You've reminded me of the - probably apocryphal, but so what - delightful tale of the mob of angry paranoids who demanded a meeting with the cellular comms company that had erected a new tower in their neighborhood.
The rep from the cellco attended the meeting, and listened patiently as resident after resident related tales of woe - of sleepless nights, dizziness, rashes, sneezing, pustulent boils, rains of sheep and outbreaks of Gnats.
He expressed his sympathy and commiserated with them all, and closed with words to the effect of "After all you've experienced, I can't imagine what will happen when we actually connect and switch the tower on..."
Friday 17th December 2021 20:55 GMT
They're an unncessary expense anyway.
The absolute best way to make sure that 5G will no longer bother you is much simpler.
1) Eat at least 1.1Kg of bicarbonate of soda. Yes, it'll taste unpleasant but this is a natural remedy, and the worse they taste, the better for you they are, everyone knows that. If you find it difficult to swallow, try adding a drop of homeopathic Aqua, the smaller the better.
2) Promptly drink a litre of white vinegar.
Trust me as a person whose post icon has goggles and a sensible haircut. This will prevent you being bothered any more by 5G and, what's more, will protect all the rest of us from you too. And I can guarantee that it doesn't involve covid vaccinations and, what's more, is something that the Government doesn't want you to do.
Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure
The monitor boom may have ended, says IDC
Monday 20th December 2021 21:34 GMT
Re: Impressive???
Most of the ones I've seen are just some variant of 1080p - either re-cased 1920x1080p panels, or absurd aspect ratios with a bajillion horizontal pixels but still the same 1080 vertical that I had on my first LCD monitor in about 2002. To get usable vertical resolution - ie, usable for more than watching Youtube - $500-600 seems to still be the ballpark.
I'm currently rocking a 3440x1440 Acer X34, which I have to say is a good monitor, except for the fact that it really doesn't play nicely with my crappy AMD graphics (craphics?) card, and will lose sync just about every time the screen resolution changes. Doesn't have any problems at all with the Intel graphics on my other PC, so.. *shrug*
Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976
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