* Posts by SundogUK

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AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers

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Re: Capitalism is back, with a vengeance.

You think a communist society wouldn't do the same or worse?

Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit

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Re: Rogue national regulators aside

Hungary = Honest.

France, Germany, Spain = hypocrites.

Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not

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Re: Not really

I still use a Zoostorm Windows 7 laptop I bought in 2012, at least weekly, and it works fine for what I want it for.

Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint

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Re: More than surprising

My grandfather flew a Beech Bonanza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Bonanza) from north America to southern Africa in the early sixties. Work that one out...

British businesses told: Compliance with EU AI law will satisfy UK guidance

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Re: Hold your horses!

Good lord, that article is nonsense from start to finish.

Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices

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Re: Given the layoffs...

Given the financing involved it's cheaper to demo it and start again.

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

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Re: Free speech 101

Again, Who gets to decide who is a Nazi?

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Re: Free speech 101

You disagree with me = you're a Nazi?

'Return to Office' declared dead

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Re: I think the WFH rate will creep up

Regardless of wiki's bloviation, it is still true: Egypt was never a UK colony.

Ofcom proposes ban on UK telcos making 'inflation-linked' price hikes mid-contract

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Re: Hey, there's an idea...

That's the M1 I mentioned. The ratio is controlled by the central bank.

Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

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Re: I gig, therefore I am not

Absolutely. If your business plan requires employing people at x/hour and nobody is willing to work for that, you don't have a business. Go do something else.

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Re: I gig, therefore I am not

People are worth exactly what employers are willing to pay. Demand more than that and you are out of a job.

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

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Re: Reap what you sow

No it doesn't.

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You said 'extremism.' I don't think that word means what you think it means.

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Re: Reap what you sow

Aircraft are built around the wings, not the fuselage. You can have flying wings; you cannot have flying fuselages.

Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

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Re: Flexi time

And I don't blame you. But this simply isn't a thing in the UK.

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Re: Flexi time

"In the low skilled, low paid and low security positions 24x7 availability is the default, baseline expectation of employers."

I have never worked anywhere where this was the case.

Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

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Re: Did anyone ....

"malicious compliance"

Can you even hear yourself?

Apple Vision Pro units returned as folks just can't see themselves using it

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Seriously? $3,500 simply to mirror another display? There's one born every minute...

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

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Re: Air Canada must really be terrible

Canadians used to be reasonable. Now? Not so much. Recently, a Canadian military veteran, when complaining about not getting funding for a stairlift, was asked if they would consider suicide instead...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christine-gauthier-paralympian-euthanasia-canada-b2238319.html

Worried about the impending demise of Windows 10? Google wants you to give ChromeOS Flex a try

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Re: ChromeOS *is* Linux

Sadly?

Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims

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You don't own the company, so you don't make the rules.

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This has been Amazons standard practice for more than twenty years. If you weren't aware, more fool you.

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Re: I can't see the injury here

"...showing a price that people might assume is the best price"

Might.

Amazon are going to win this one.

Dutch insurers demand nudes from breast cancer patients despite ban

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Re: Alternative solutions please

Nah. Put them all in prison.

Oracle partner gets multimillion top-up after Edinburgh Uni disaster

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"another contractor would not have access to the Inoapps proprietary methodology for design and implementation" and that "disclosure of the methodology or technical products from that approach to a third party would be a breach of confidentiality."

Why is this allowed to happen?

When it comes to working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends

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Re: Problems in the future?

Yes but you have a real job, so you don't count!

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Re: Abrreviations only vaild in

Yes but nothing happens in Africa.

Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments

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Re: An easy solution

Should. Mostly don't though.

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs

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"corporate greed" = maximising shareholder value. I'm good with that.

AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan

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Tesco is already doing this.

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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Re: Brilliant!

Hadn't you heard? Farming is 'ecocide!'

Anyway, it may be designated as farmland but there ain't a whole lot of farming going on.

Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers

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Re: Ripped out O365 last year

"Google has stopped scraping customer data for profiling years ago."

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Re: Revenue Stream

"...as long as shareholders exist." And your alternative is?

Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs

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Re: why I is it nothing happens till its on TV or in the press?

Design us a 'just and fair system' and we'll take a look.

Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now

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Never going to happen. And it's not greed. It's STATUS.

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane

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Re: Slow down

It was never meant to be democratic.

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Re: Slow down

Judge Sarah Wallace had no standing to make that judgement. Insurrection is a criminal offence and guilt can only by established in a full criminal trial, which has not and never will take place. Because it was not an insurrection.

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

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Re: Nothing

If you are underpaid, go work somewhere else. Oh, what's that? No one will pay you what you think you're worth? Maybe you're not worth that much then.

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Re: Building software is hard...

Governments are the ONLY people who can afford large scale mistakes. They know they can make the tax-payer pay.

Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next

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Re: Davos launches new bid to stay relevant

The jury's still out on mRNA.

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Re: Twats

Where 'sensible' = I agree with it.

Office gossips beware – chitchat could choke your career chances

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Re: Top notch investigation

Yes, given all the evidence, Pope Francis is NOT a Catholic.

How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu

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Re: Time for legislation

All utter rubbish.

Jujitsu is staking all the flak here but most of the issues are on the buyers side:

"Budgets should be baked into the contract and legally enforceable" - legally unenforceable if the buyer changes the specification constantly, which always happens.

"Likewise timescales" - see above.

"...to a maximum of 20% of the total contract value." And if the buyer demands changes costing +100% of the original contract?

Until government/civil service learns to nail requirements down up front and stick to them, this is going to keep on happening.

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Re: at the mercy of the big contractors

I think it is far too easy to claim that because in-house government projects worked well in the past, they would work well now. I suspect this wouldn't be the case. Back then civil service was seen by many to be an honourable duty; people tried to do the best they could. I don't think this is the case any more, in the private or public sector.

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Re: BTDTGTTS

"(see also: US school shootings)"

You were doing so well until this, which as written is meaningless but I'm going to assume you favour increased gun control of some sort. Which isn't the problem, never has been and will not be fixed by 'political will.' The US constitution will put paid to that.

The real issue is the mental health and routine doping of ten's of thousands of kids.

Silicon Valley weirdo's quest to dodge death – yours for $333 a month

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"weasled his way into the mainstream media"

Really? He is living his life and doing what he chooses to do and the mainstream media have decided people might be interested/it might sell. Can't see any weasling going on.

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

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"...actively allow people back on who were banned for good reason."

They were not banned for any good reason. They were mostly banned for saying things the wokerati moderators disagreed with.

As lawmakers mull outlawing poor security, what can they really do to tackle online gangs?

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Re: Long-term solutions require short-term sacrific~1

So we should declare war on Russia, China, Iran and North Korea? That'll be fun.

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Re: Nonsense

Dump all the DEI consultants.

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