* Posts by jockmcthingiemibobb

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Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

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Re: Bullshit

It's not just Europe. Businesses in APAC are also actively trying to unravel their deoendance on USA owned cloud providers and software. As a minimum, any company outside the USA should at least have contingency plans should the pin be pulled.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

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Re: Please explain

Fixed the USA's utterly broken infrastructure and public education system would be a good starting point. Paid parental leave and affordable childcare would also increase productivity massively.

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Re: Econ 101

So you're advocating no VAT on imported goods. That would then create an imbalance for domesticaly produces foods and services that would still be subject to VAT. Or are you now advocating that the USA should dictate other countries tax regimes?

175 out of the 195 countries on the planet have VAT.

https://www.globalvatcompliance.com/globalvatnews/world-countries-vat-rates-2020/

UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year

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Re: Impressive

Radio link budget is improved by increasing gain (antenna size) at either end of the link.

What The Reg should be asking is how many concurrent satellite calls can be made in a 10Km radius and whether these calls require line of sight to the satellite.

$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well

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Simeon Brown couldn't run a corner shop

Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5

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Re: Alternatives for calling U.S. toll free numbers

Similar, I call elderly relatives who have zero interest in WhatsApp etc as well as and banks, plumbers etc back in the UK.

I guess I'll have to find a UK VOIP provider and point a soft phone app like LinPhone to it.

Also what's going to happen to our Skype credit? Are Microsoft just going to pocket it all?

Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples, which isn't entirely welcome

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Re: "a person of Māori descent"

You've not lived there since you were a child so respectfully, keep your racist rants to yourself.

Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day

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Prob just the push I need to switch our org to Rocket chat.

T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing

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Re: Driverless Cars

How does this "Ubiquitous coverage" fantasy hold up once you're outside a city centre?

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

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Re: Confirms my decision...

Still got mine. I think it will outlive me.

Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet

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All about the share price

They've all spunked out 100s of billions on AI and inflated their share price based on the promised land of AI bringing the next Industrial Revolution.

Gotta keep the NASDAQ bubble inflated.

UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff

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Re: @wolfetone

Imagine the cheek of wanting to be paid a "living wage" to enable luxuries like food. Heating and a roof over your head? I mean it's just one step away from Communism.

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

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Re: And we skip over Musks real reason he's now involved

You can't "learn" transgender or homosexual.

I've never once thought "hmm, maybe I'll chop my ball off" despite learning about transgender identities. Nor have I considered boning any of my gay friends.

Although going by TV shows everyone "catches" gay in American prisons so perhaps it's different in the states.

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Just say no

As Queen Nancy said, "just say no". Vote with your feet and wallet. Don't give these arseholes your money or even your doom-scrolling advertising revenue. As Lemon Musk has already discovered, turning X into a soundboard for his followers isn't particularly profitable.

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Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

Turn off any commentary and just listen to any of Trump's off-the-cuff ramblings during his campaign and tell us with a straight face he's not mentally impaired.

Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off?

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Re: Free and running now

cLInt telco partners with cLInt space nazi. I suspect it won't be free once us Kiwis (again) do the beta testing.

Brit telcos to clash in high-speed mmWave spectrum showdown next year

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Re: mmwave use-case

Fixed wireless broadband operator here. You're spot on. Putting 25GHz on a handset is laughably stupid. It's a LOS frequency with an incredibly short range.

New Jersey man admits shipping sanctions-busting tech to Russia

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Re: Red tape

Probably some daft Klunt who gets "real" news and thinks the rest of us are sheeple

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

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Re: This seems unnecessary in China

Backpacking to cell towers through mountainous terrain is challenging to say the least. Aside from line of sight issues for microwave links, the distances involved can require relay sites. Then there's the issue of power. Solar is possible but they're not without maintenanc, involve massive arrays and the higher sites are often above the snowline. 600MHz is also quite low bandwidth and isn't a magic bullet for getting into valleys and dense forests.

Founder of Indian ride-share biz Ola calls for 70-hour work week

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Re: Typical of the "New Rich" all over the world

I have to laugh at all these rich squillionaires buying bunkers in New Zealand etc. Do they think us yokels don't know where they are and will just sit outside peacefully to die? Do they think their paid minions will not stab them in the back and take over their bunkers?

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

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Re: We love it.

You're assuming Musk isn't telling his usual pork pies, that laser links work and that they'll launch a lot more satellites. Bear In mind the early ones have already started falling out the sky

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

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Re: Missing functionality

Oddly enough, mail merge on my install of Office 2022 crashes when importing an Excel address list. LibreOffice Mail merge works like a champ

Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email

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Re: Audit? We don't want no audit.

Bollox. EULAs aren't worth the pixels they're displayed on

Twitter will lose 32 million users by end of 2024, Insider Intelligence predicts

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Spot on. I was a very active user. I gave Musk the benefit of the doubt & hung around for a few weeks but the tone of the whole site deteriorated. My twitter addiction is now cured. I can't ever see myself indulging in it again & I can't be the only one

Software-defined silicon is coming for telecom kit later this year

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Re: Remote kill switch

Yeah, because operators deploy their EPC with full Internet access..

Email out, Slack and Teams in for business communications

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Re: Cool & Shiny

Email certainly is getting more expensive. No SME in their right mind would run their own mailserver these days.

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Re: Except I don't use SLACK

Spot on. I get incredibly frustrated at the chain of 20 odd emails for something as simple as arranging a meeting between 6 individuals from different companies because some of them are dinosaurs and refuse to use Slack or any form of instant messaging.

Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus

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Decent ISPs are supplying Mikrotiks or Fritzboxes these days.

Apple seeks geniuses to work on 6G cellular modem before it's even shipped own 5G chip

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Reality bites us in the arse

How do you get 100 microsecond latency without defying physics? Or are we limiting communications to 15Km in the 6G future?

Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'

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Re: Looks like the ISP wants 2 bites of the cherry

Yeah it's really bizarre that there's no netflix CDN / openconnect in South Korea?

Got enterprise workstations and hope to run Windows 11? Survey says: You lose. Over half the gear's not fit for it

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Re: "an upgrade will have to happen in the coming months or years"

Pfft. More importantly if it's backed up correctly and you' workstation data isn't particularly sensitive then who cares? Half our workstations are still Windows 7. Only a lack of apps or hardware actually shitting itself will take my Win7 laptop out my cold dead hands.

See that last line in the access list? Yeah, that means you don't have an access list

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Re: was it seman's contracting dicks?

This ISP heavy lifting is Juniper. Sub 100Gb stuff is generally Mikrotik. Meraki wireless...no thanks.

I know plenty of people in IT who've never touched Cisco or Meraki gear outside of training courses

Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit

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Re: Sutpid

She'll be right!

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Re: My personal computer could survive this

Which is why we're all DC these days.

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

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I get 50Mbps from my local WISP. Decent router too (I could plug in my own). Starlink is faster (at the moment) costs nearly twice the price per month (and that's before the extra $15 electricity), is damn expensive to setup and his higher latency. Plus I'd have to trust prices won't increase after Starlink has it's IPO.

Microsoft reveals pay-to-Ping plan for advanced Azure availability testing

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I run libreNMS and smokeping but needed much more features (e.g. checks from multiple locations, dependencies plus SMS and call alerts) that would have involved way too much setup for the trifling $15 a month that nodeping charges)

British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica

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Cue some 18 year old lad appearing in the tabloids next year demanding compensation as he was traumatized due to attending a strip club at 17

SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for its Starlink mobile broadband base stations

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I know of no WISPs using point to point yagis.

Windows 10 quite literally projects its deepest, darkest fears on to New Zealand

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Re: Bork? Borkbork

Slightly less common than "EQC and the insurance payouts are munted"

SpaceX’s Starlink finally reveals its satellite broadband pricing for rural America: At $99 a month, it’s a good deal

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Re: Be careful what you wish for

As usual the Register ignores the excellent service that local WISPs provide. At the end of a 50/15 Mbps microwave link here and the performance in the service and evening is leaps and bounds better than the supposed 1Gbps connection over government paid-for fiber my friends in town have. I feel much the same as you about local service; if I have an issue I ring up, someone answers the phone (or calls back within 5 minutes) and if there's a problem they can't sort remotely they usually send someone out the same day.

Net neutrality lives... in Europe, anyway: Top court supports open internet rules, snubs telcos and ISPs

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So does this preclude QoS on contended links? For example, is the ISP now meant to allow torrent traffic to degrade video or video to degrade http or VOIP?

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

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Re: this isn't credible

Yep, that's what they do here. Handful of town connections get 8Gb connectios, the rest are on lousy sub 5Mbps DSL or worse. Next minute everyone is patting themselves on the back for the average connection being over 1Gbps.

Zealous Zoom's zesty zymotic zone zinger: Zestful zealots zip zillions

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Zoom's Australian servers clearly couldn't cope during lockdown and calls were hitting their US West servers. Obviously causing lag plus a major headache for ISPs. Quite why the media promoted them as the video conferencing defacto was beyond me.

TeamViewer is going to turn around and ignore what you're doing with its freebie licence to help new remote workers

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Anydesk.com is my goto these days.

BT's Wi-Fi Disc ads banned because there's no evidence the things work

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Re: Use a second wifi hotspot

I can't understand all the downvotes. Ir's almost as if most El Rego readers don't understand how WiFi repeaters work....or rather how often they don't work or cause horrendous interference. Modern homes have a lot more wireless than WiFi routers.

ISP I work for flicks dozens of powerline kits a week. They work excellently in 99% of homes. We pretty mutch ditched WiFi repeaters/MESH due to the huge amount if support calls they generated.

National Lottery Sentry MBA hacker given nine months in jail after swiping just £5

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Re: This seems out of proportion to the offense

Cumalot makes around 75M a year. To call them a charitable organisation is outrageous.

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

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It's ridiculous innit?. Calls, SMS, email, skype, slack, Telegram, signal, facebook messenger, twitter, meet, zoom, etc. That's why we're all chasing phone chargers but can't get a hold of anybody

American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum

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Re: An ISP fined $25K ? What's the use ?

$25K will hurt a little ISP. If they had $5K spare they'd be using licensed links anyway.

Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam

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Re: Please Move Along

If I've done nothing wrong, then what I do is none of your business

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