Posts by neilg

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

Re: Ouch

Please don't ever forget Trump is a crook & a convicted fraudster.

Oh, and a liar.

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

1981 called.

Microsoft's licensing practices are harming competitors

Nothing to see here, move along please.

Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints

Re: Southern Water and Capita

Add Wipro as the infrastructure support partner for SCADA & the like. They're fucked!

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Re: Updated Speech

Wasn't the orange one the only one of the "Top 100 "richest" business men in N America", when mailed a cheque in the 80's (check for our left pondians) for 50 cents to actually cash it? thereby costing him money?

Sure I saw/heard it on The Parkinson show many years ago. or could have been The Frost Report..

Can't be arsed to google it, as I have no wish to purchase anything related to the above.

Answers on a postcard to Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: Skills

If they do have the skills they'll probably hold it wrong..

Re: Trump doesn't think

Correct. He's a Pillock!

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

My brain hurts

"Hence why" Make it stop

Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

Re: Default?

"Default on the loan". Said so glibly, Are you a cousin of the Orange one?

I think both Ford & Mercedes Benz also have one.

Bet you won't see many of those in the dumpster..

IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M

Re: Obscene!

I don't understand why you've been downvoted. It's a perfectly reasonable question.

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: This just keeps getting worse

Simply: He's a twat of the first water!

Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow

Re: Rainbow

But to those of us in both categories. Hats off Sir.

made I laugh.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Re: Xerox seems to be OK..

I snagged a Xerox Phaser 6125N for a nicker, yes £1 ! on a no reserve ebay Auction. Had to drive 20 miles to collect & got a hernia loading it into the car.

Month later spotted someone selling a box of 45 assorted toners - OEM & 3rd party. (office clearance)

Won at £5. Non OEM just display "non Xerox toner" but otherwise work perfectly fine.

Printer Works wonderfully, OK it's old but in excellent condition. It's fast, quiet, sits on my LAN (no outside access) Does the job and everyone uses it.

So I've now got a cracking Colour laser printer (from when they were made properly) & enough supplies to see me out. Stuff HP, Canon & Brother.

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Re: Cybertruck shape

WankPanzer perchance?

Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite

Re: I wonder if...

Would epoxy resin itself survive a shaking at -40°C?

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Google tracks.

Full stop.

No need to pussy-foot around.

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

Re: Angry of Tunbridge Wells

Thought the original was:

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

Re: Angry of Tunbridge Wells

Didn't Southern Water outsource all of their IT to Wipro.

Would explain quite a lot.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

Re: Irate customers

"hence why".

Make it stop please.

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

Re: Another franchise to be milked to death

Withone minute of unskippable adverts per 5 minutes of content.

Even though you've subscribed to Prime specifically to remove adverts.

Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’

Question:

Is it spray tan.

Or gravy browning?

Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit

Re: what are you paying for

I think all Commentards should search for "expletive grammar mug" & buy one. Worth every penny :-)

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

Re: The UK doesn't have a

"Gubbermint" FFS

They're restricted to states that border the Gulf of Mexico...

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

Re: A fair analogy, but...

Fair point, however Ducks don't "swim".

UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers

Fingernails down the blackboard.

Cheque's in the post :-)

Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data

I think Disney should compensate the entire creative world..

For its complete and utter corruption of "Copyright"

For e.g. Why should the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of an author make a living vicariously?

Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots

I seem to recall

it comes from picking oneself up by ones own bootstraps

BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows

Re: Ah, yes, those altnets

Slight nitpick.

Croyden &Preston.

But it is "fibre" in the UK. Both BT and Openreach spell it Fibre internally and on their respective websites. and that's what you're reportedly reporting on.

Bah!

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

"It's a perfectly cromulent word."

Using a children's cartoon as a form of verification? Are you Dubya in disguise?

Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches

sp

for the recall of Ionic devices

Think you meant iconic, though for the life of me why?

Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

Re: Just send 'em to...

.co.uk

Should then have the correct spelling and terminology.

apropos the above: What exactly is fiber in networking.?

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=fiber

Re: Failure to Plan and Test for Computer Failure is ... Failure

"Not for everyone I know, but if you can't operate your business"

Mate: can I point out the bleeding obvious, it's not a business it's a sodding school. Children are not "customers"

Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Re: 'Safely Switched'

When I worked at VMO2 (retired now) it was optimistically referred to (internally) as "21st century voice". - We were still supporting Telecare customers using 19th century (working) copper lines.- what a crock of shit.

Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK

Are you sure ?

The Coloured pencils department would probably disagree with your analysis.

Unfortunately we know who/what execs like the above will believe/follow..

Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate

Re:As much use as a chocolate teapot

5 - 4 - 3 -2 -1 Anonymous Boring Coward will start commenting soon.

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Same here, Jacqui once sent a pic of my parcel under the lid of the barbie behind the shed.

Re: Number10

Your username is remarkably accurate. I thought No. 10 Downing Street & No. 10 on the list was "humerous" or so I thought. - This is El Reg, take politics elsewhere.

Number10

Appropriately: Labour & Starmer being elected.

It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

Is it too cynical to ask what, having achieved a big scary headline, Morin and Sysdig are flogging?

Simple: LLMs

Judge again cans Musk's record-setting $56B Tesla package

Re: Odd

I think Twatter already has that covered.

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

Re: Screen savers

You cannot use "Bud lite" and Beer in the same sentense. As it isn't beer, not even remotely, . it's piss-water.

China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope

Re: Very Interesting

Mate, Jodrell Bank was put together withscaffolding poles, railway castoffs & bits of destroyers.

Just marvel. :-)

Re: Impressive

Me too.

I was bussed there in the 70's from Queen's School, Rheindahlen in the early 70's, green Army Bedford's.

school project to gawp at tech. - worked, I still love it. We did Philip's at Eindhoven the next year.

Bloody marvelous.

The workplace has become a surveillance state

Re: "there is a growing desire among"

You've obviously worked at the same places as me..

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous

the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value

the cost of management always exceeds its value.

Elon Musk's X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation

Re: Why should it be classed as important ?

Heh.

I@m shacked up with a Cherman so I appreciated that comment muchly :-)

Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh

Re: Tracking and Performance

Or me. El Reg, however, redraws & resizes whenever the ad does. Yes I have ad blocker :-(