Posts by ruscook

Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory go TITSUP*

My first thought too - the new security is working :-)

BT backs down from charging millions in phone book listing fees

Waste of paper

I haven't used one for over 10, maybe 15 years. I filled in a form to say don't send me a phone book. Haven't had one from Telstra since. Still get a local private pink pages book every couple of years.

I did work with family friends as a teen in the 1970's helping them deliver the local phone book. They won the contract.

Got customer name/number and address cards in number order. Had to sort them in to address order, do the deliveries street by street and sort them back to number order for the phone company. About 15000 for the local town then. Can't remember what they got paid.

Dump ur mobile provider via txt by 2019: LMFAO cu l8r

This is a thing? With prepaid in Australia, I just buy a new SIM, activate it and port my existing number and voila' somewhere between 15-100mins (depending on peak times) I'm ported to the new provider with my existing number. No big deal, you can do it pretty much monthly if you wanted to.

US border cops search cloud accounts? Ha ha, nope, negative, no way, siree – Homeland Sec

Re: Sighs

Spot on frank ly I was just about to post the same thing.

Oracle settles court spat with fired cloud 'sales inflation whistleblower'

So if this is potentially illegal accounting practices why aren't one of the SEC, DoJ, IRS all over this?

So. Why don't people talk to invisible robots in public?

They do and call it God

US military tests massive GPS jamming weapon over California

I wonder how much of the kit they use is made by a company getting Foxconn to build it? :-)

Eight cores good, ten cores better: MediaTek resumes Qualcomm multi-core war

Yes battery life is a prime requirement - so turn off other cores as much as possible.

This argument does remind me of Intel and Sun.

Intel went GHz, Sun went multicore. A couple of years later Intel went multicore. Do multicore well and it can be better for multitasking than single core and lots of GHz.

Now Intel are working hard to catch up in the low power stakes with Arm CPUs.

Nothing new under the Sun (pun intended).

Want to hide your metadata? You probably can't

Re: Amazing

My first thought as well.

If Europe is against US's Irish email grab, it must pipe up now

Surely Micrsoft has pointed out to the judge that he is demanding they break the law of the country where the data is stored. I thought it was illegal for ANY arm of the gov't to require a person (corporate fiction or otherwise) to knowingly break the law.

Why doesn't Ireland, pass a law making it unlawful for subsidiaries, or any company operating in it's jurisdiction to pass on information to another gov't without the Irish Gov'ts consent.

That would put the ball back in the US gov'ts court to follow the MLAT protocol.

BAN email footers – they WASTE my INK, wails Ctrl+P MP

Re: What kind of numpty prints out email, ever?

Don't know about the UK but not here in Aus. Our electronic records systems and email archiving software (the same ones you buy over there) are certified for use by the gov't.

Just seems a copout by computer illiterate old farts.

Re: What kind of numpty prints out email, ever?

No it doesn't. 4 words - Electronic Records Management system

errr we're in the 21st century, why is he even printing out emails. They can be viewed on tablets, phone, web and desktop. They can be stored in electronic records management systems.

Learn to use the tools of the trade in an office / gov't department or get out for being incompetent at basic tasks.

Stopping IT price gouging would risk SOCIALIST DYSTOPIA!

That works for me :-)

Don't we have a free trade agreement with the US, wouldn't that require them to sell at competitive prices for product (or services) bought from the US?

Congressman pitches bill to disarm FCC in net neutrality warfare

This whole debate is wrong.

The net has been open to innovation and leveraged a lot of free technology to enable it's growth into a ubiquitous service.

Cable TV provided a "premium" path and all it did was nearly decimate the free to air channels. Allowing charge by speed of delivery at a routing, not an access pipe level is an arbitrary distinction designed to allow the big providers to lock up the net and you'll need to pay them for the key. We already pay for our pipe size (bandwidth) and volume why should we have to pay for an additional "service" that is nothing more than an artificial toll road ala' the Rhine in the medieval history of the Gernmanies.

Let capitalsim work by all means, but don't allow artificial super highways to develop that will kill the open nature of the net, boost profits for large vendors, add to the digitial divide and break what currently works!

NBN Co plans fibre-to-the-basement blitz to beat cherry-pickers

Agreed the whole reason we need an NBN is to get strategic (not necessarily commercial) investment in fast broad band. If the NBN just does what TPG, Telstra or Optus will do, then they may be the richer, but the country and the whole need for an NBN is the poorer.

Ancient video of Steve Jobs launching the first Apple Mac found

Ancient? 30yrs? Oh come on I know the world moves fast but that is totally inappropriate use of the word.

Qualcomm exec on eight-core mobile chips: They're 'dumb'

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Oh dear, didn't Intel also ignore multi core when Sun did the SPARC chips. Then when AMD copied Sun, Intel decided that gigahertz (chewing lots of power) wasn't everything and multicore did work. They then played catch up for a while.

Looks like the mobile space may repeat.

Australia threatens Adobe, Apple, with geo-blocking ban

Re: Grey importing??

Yeah, but assuming personal use VCR laws are the same in the UK as here. If I go to the UK, d/l or tape the show for personal use and bring it back (only for me to watch), then I've still grey imported it......

A lot of intellectual property/copyright stuff seems very arbitrary and quite useless at the end of the day.

I understand some of the issues might stem from the owners of the source show but globalisation cuts both ways. Do business in every country from any country :-)

Grey importing??

As far as I know it's NOT illegal to grey import. Everytime we buy a DVD or Book from Amazon or an overseas ebay merchant we're grey importing. So why is

a) broadcast ie. iplayer for BBC or whatever for Hulu/Netflix; and

b) software

any different?

Can someone explain how copyright works for s/w and movies?