Posts by Sub 20 Pilot

Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes

Lucky you. I had to sort out my junk folder yesterday and there were about 50 ''i recorded you!!!!!'' emails alongside the dozens of ''your delivery is waiting, pay this deposit'', ''your internet / netflix/ instagram... whatever account needs to be verified''

Somewhere along the line we need to start finding these bastard scammers and killing them, slowly and painfully. Only way to stop others from doing the same.

If someone managed to scam my mother, which I suspect will not happen as she is quite smart and does not do a lot with tech, I would happily nail the fuckers to a tree and set fire to them.

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

Re: Last year's paranoid conspiracy is this year's policy

As someone once said - they are both cheeks of the same arse.

Re: Capita?

It is amazing how people like yourself and myself (a PE reader for almost 50 years) can see all of this but all government ministers, shadow government MP's (as it will be their turn to jump on the gravy train next.) and all their expensive ''consultants'' and advisors are too fucking dense to do so.

Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good

I can only assume that this is an unfortunate side effect of fucking up something else.

I am well aware that MS' main objective is to make everything ten times more difficult or awkward than it needs to be and that ''carefully curated partner '' companies' shite and their own shite is to be hawked at eveyone all of the time.

In Win 7 I was able to come back from work with hundreds of photographs and dump them into a job folder. Any duplicates would be highlighted and I could either deal with them individually or as a group ''replace all with the new ones'' or ''leave the originals in place and copy the rest''

In Win 10 this got scrapped and now you have to double click everything and confirm every fucking single item separately. Who the fuck thinks that is progress?

Things that you could do with one or two button presses now need two, three or more. Why are they allowed to do this because it costs every other company, government or person time and / or money for no benefit.

Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car

Re: Untrained (Police) Eyes

You did say common sense and this is in the US.

Toy guns, bit of underage alcohol - fucking death terrorists.

Real mass shooting of school children by fucking morons armed to the teeth - oh, say a prayer.

Bloody primitive society run by dickheads, voted in by even greater dickheads.

UK.gov withholds £10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues

One day I would like to be given the job of sorting out public contracts.

My first joyous task would be to jail the top officers of the companies that are endlessly scewing us over by overcharging for their fuck-ups. Closely followed by jailing the politicians and officials that have let them get away with it for years. First off would need to be Fujitsu and the god awful parasites in politics and in the post office as were that have still not been held to account for the Horizon scandal, 27 years after it was first flagged.

If a potential public service contract for rail, roads, hospitals, software etc, can not be achieved without being awarded to the usual suspects - Capita, Fujitsu, Siemens, G4S et all then it does not need to be done. I am sick to fucking death of seeing these bastards picking up another few billion, way over their initial costings, for something that does not work =and then moving on to the next one.

It is no different to me being paid billions of pounds of tax funded money to breed unicorns on the moon. It is not justified or needed, it is not possible but I can then claim extra billions because I have failed. Then I pick up the next job to develop flying pigs.

I would get the contract purely because ''nobody else could handle a job of this complexity and nature.'' which is the stock response to questions why these huige companies are given contract after contract despite spectacularly fucking them up. The fact that all of the usual suspects can also not handle contracts of this complexity and nature doesn't even occur to the wankers handing these things out.

Most of these projects are not essential. The NHS, pension department, border control etc. can function without needing a whizz bang all singing and dancing buzzword strewn AI - led ''solution'' Spend the money on better salaries and employ more people who are motivated to do their job. This would work in most cases.

I can contact most companies and official bodies via email or telephone and I can get work done. So can most people. Throwing money at tech solutions that don't work is old and tired so stop fucking doing it.

Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint

Re: Ah, the good old days

The fine is nowhere near big enough and OFCOM need to start looking at jail time for the top execs for this sort of shite otherwise it is just a small cost of doing business and they have no incentive to change.

I remember trying to cancel my father's Sky TV contract after he died. The dull fucker on the line tried to offer me a discount, to which I responded that my father was actually dead and thus did not need a bloody tv subscription any more. I got shunted to another level, again, they tried to offer deals to stay on, saying that maybe another family member may want to keep it.

I lost it at that point, but when I lose it, I get very quiet, calm and placid.

My standard response at this stage of any interaction with a big company's call centre is to ask if the call is being recorded for training etc etc, which they normally confirm. My stock reply is always - OK, get a grown up to listen to it and understand what I am saying. I expect this to be cancelled today and any further invoicing will be taken to my solicitor, my local MP and OFCOM.

Fucking parasites need culling.

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

Re: We should have outsourced it to Japan.

You say that as though it were a bad thing.

I would happily tell all NIMBYists to piss off and have done so repeatedly on my developments and others I have worked on.

Around here these arseholes object to almost every planning application and the spineless turds in the local authority bow to their demands.

The same NIMBY arseholes are usually the ones complaining bitterly in a few yaeras time that house costs are high and that their little Nutella of Tarquin-Storm can't afford to buy one.

The idiocy is high. You almost couldn't make it up.

There will be no large projects in that list. Small projects maybe, I have worked on a number of public sector contracts in the low millions and they are carried out by local-ish contractors who know what they are doing and have a reputation to maintain. That is they are not too big to fail like the usual suspects, GS4 or whatever they are called this week, SERCO, Capita etc etc.

From what I can see over the last 30 odd years of PFI and the like, these outfits know they will pick up the next job regardless of how spectacularly they fucked up the one they are on today so no incentive not to. If you are building a new hospital or school on a flat bit of ground there will be no unforseen issues unless the project brief has been put tgether by idiots(OK there is the answer..)

You do your services and ground investigations and infrastructure consultations which should have been done as part of the brief, then the rest is easy. If you forgot to price for the lifts or the roof or the VAT or whatever then that is a negligence or incompetence issue and not a technical issue.

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

The UK government can't wipe it's own bloody arse without wasting millions on a consultant to tell them how and when to do so.

Fucking ridiculous nonsense from the top down. A few years ago my local authority spent hundreds of thousands if not more, paying some fancy buzz-word strewn outfit of parasites to find out how to save money.

Of course they never came back suggesting not wasting money on expensive consultants or reducing management and their salaries. Cut back on the essential but poorly paid workers, cut services and pay our bill.

Fuckers.

Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365

Please stop quoting the canned bullshit from MS and the like This is not a response and it should not be credited as such in your articles,

If one of these arsehole outfits actually answers with something useful then report it as a response. If it is the usual ''our primary concern is...'' or ''we are focused / committed to...'' then they have not provided a response.

I am sick to death of these bastards getting caught out then releasing the usual bullshit only for all tech news sites to slavishly report their non-response as though it meant anything.

The article could state ''despite being questioned, the ...company only provided a pointless non response.'

UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise

Thanks for the link ! This is something I have missed but looks great. This is probably the equivalent to ''yes minister'' back in the day. Satire that was acknowleged by senior ministers at the time and afterwards to be stunningly close to the actual truth.

People will look at this in a few years and think ''wow, they were ahead of the game''

Only one real independent source of news in the UK and has been for years.

Private Eye magazine. Not beholden to any political party, any billionaire, any crooked politician.

I don't trust any other media outlet. The last one of any use was the BBC but that got neutered by rampant political correctness years ago.

Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax

Sadly won't happen as the big accountancy firms that advixse the government in the UK on their tax policy are the ones also making millions from their work for the big multinationals.

This needs to stop - you are either working for the government or the big tech bods.

I end up being taxed and regulated almost to the point of not wanting to carry on while these parasitic US companies just pile on billions upon billions for nobody's benefit apart from a few billionaires.

Surely there will be a time when this leads to billionaire / trillionaires being put in prison and their assets seized. Or heads on sticks like the French did. I am not condoning violence but how long does the financial raping of the normal person go on before there is a backlash.

O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date

Not a chance.

When I installed mine I made it quite clear that fuck all from an utility company would be connecting to my router. I have no time for the internet of things so apart from my PC, laptop, phone and tablet, no shiny bit of pointless shite will be installed in my house. Not anti tech just not seeing and benefit to me of letting some unknown tat from connecting in any way to my network with no accountability and with me being the one who would have to sort out any problems.

The installer was a bit miffed and tried his best to intimidate me into letting it connect so I gave him a response he was not expecting to his bullshit about problems for me if it was not allowed to connect through my router..I am not an expert but knew a shitload more than he did I suspect.

Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme

There should be a committee of experts who set out the requirements for any public sector contracts. These committees should have no politician or civil servant anywhere near them. They should comprise of IT specialists, financial and legal experts and people who understand how to prepare and administer a contract.

There should be strict penalties for incompetence, lack of progress and downright apathy when things go wrong, payable by the execs of the contracted company and easily implemented.

Most of these contracts are databases and we as a race have had decades of producing them. if something is too complex then break id down into smaller parts. There is no law that says that these hideous projects should do everything badly as opposed to some things well. Claiming you didn't understand the requirements and then asking for more time and money shoyld not be entertained and should be penalised financially.

There is no incentive for these fucking crooked shysters doing what they like as winning a contract seems to be like winning the lottery every week.

Until these happen then the usual crowd will get billions of our tax money on a regular basis, whoever is running the treaasury.

We are not as bad as the US but we are getting there. There has to be a massive backlash against the mega companies and the billionaire class otherwise there is no future.I would never condone violence but if these fuckers had all ther money taken off them and be thrown in jailit would be a good start. Do it to a few and the others soon shape up or fuck off.

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

People's republic.

Reading some of the comments on here, I wonder how long before the US gets renamed the Democratic Republic of America or similar. The most ironic name possible for the regimes that normally use DR ... to mean the exact fucking opposite to democratic.

Re: next week's production ????

Not sure you are correct there. It seems that there is an infinite number of fuckwit MAGA wankers willing to keep throwing their money at trump and his crooked regime.

UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

More fuckery by the morons in charge. Current lot and last lot. All the OSA has done by the look of it is to make life difficult for people who enjoyed mainstream pornography.

Who the hell would willingly hand their identity over to unknown online outfits to allow log in to sites that followed the guidance. The increase in VPN sales show this. How many people have been pushed to search the dark web and the other questionable sites that did not follow the rules?

Those under 16 who had any kind of tech knowledge or was able to find such info online were able to overcome the blocks while law abiding non technical people will end up being inconvenienced or even scammed for doing something wholly legal.

The UK is probably as bad as the puritannical tossers that run the US and from what I have seen of mumsnet, they are a vindictive man hating coven of misfits that would fit right in with the taliban and other dodgy religiously intolerant regimes. I remember when Corbyn was the labour leader. He put a vegan in charge of the shadow committee that dealt with agriculture and two prohibition supporting alcohol hating zealots in charge of the committee dealing with alcohol.

Another day, another step back to the middle ages. Somewhere down the road the normal people need to take over but that comment has no doubt put me on some watch list of dangerous subversives.

Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

Re: Is this not insanity?

I believe it was Logitec at the time? I had a couple of their mice which I was surprised at the quality, being microsiot and all but a friend told me they were actually re-badged Logitec..

Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

Re: Even Microsoft knows it stuffed up

May be true for a lot of mainstream stuff but the software I rely on, specific CAD, structural analysis and design, energy and environmental calc software, not to mention a host of small programs running mapping and radio comms for our voluntary first response teams - all require windows.

I have been using Ubuntu for my personal laptop for a while and none of these work so far.. I admit I am not a tech whizz but have a vague idea and have played around with different emulators over the years when I have the time. I hope one day that I can transfer to Linux totally and bin the sordid sack of shit which is windows and all it's invasive, interfering dumbed down shitiness but can't see that happening in the near future.

Re: Even Microsoft knows it stuffed up

Don't be so fucking stupid and obtuse.

I have to use it or I can not do a big part of my job Same with other people.

You suggesting people stop work because mS can not sort it's crap out.

Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops

Why is it that ignorant twats can not understand that people don't use windows because they want to but because they have to.

A lot of people have to run software for their work, that does not run on Linux and Mac. Not all of us have the luxury of running nothing more complex than a browser.

This is similar to taunting people with cancer and telling them to just not have cancer.

This is a tech forum and the number of posters smugly telling us they use Linux instead of windows is a farce. Yes, my non work device runs Ubuntu but this machine needs a number of programs that will only work on windows. Was that difficult to understand?

Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions

Re: If Meta wants to be fined on their UK revenues

Overall, the damage done by parasites like Meta far outweigh the fact that freeloading companies are using it to push even more advertising onto the platform.

If you run a business you have base line costs such as I have and that is the cost of doing business. I would never put my company on that shiteshow of a platform. In fact any company that tells me I can only contact them via their FB page is a company that I will not work with or for.

Another point - if these huge tech companies paid their fair share of tax I would be more sympathetic but as they all claim to make no actual revenue or profit in any place other than favourable tax havens then they have bought this upon themselves.

If all ''social media'' disappeared tomorrow the world would be a nicer place. And, before the usual suspects chime in and say ''but you are posting on social media'' go and look up the difference between that and a moderated forum like this.

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

The Welsh Senedd election falls on this Thursday and there are a bunch of crazed idiots running aorund and sending endless mailings telling us how they will be totally different from the shits that have messed the place up for the last 27 years, which also include the party of the shits that have done so for the last 27 years....We have the dubious delight of having their numbers swell from 60 to 96 for no real reason other than to take money from the system and micromanage our existence in ways the 60 have not managed as yet. Fucking joy.

Also DVSA or whatever they are called this week - is based just outside Abertawe. *Swansea for the non Cymraeg. Every few years they change their name, fuck knows why and at what cost. DVLA, DVLC, DVLB, DVSA... fcking tools.

I do agree with you that they don't really give a flying fuck though.

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

Re: Meta packed up its toys and went home

Not relevant. If you run a business that requires an online presence you can set up a website for very little time and money. I had a basic website for years but fortunately I have enough work without needing to advertise. This is a cost of doing business. It was more doing it to show that I could do it if required at the time and in the end I felt that I didn't want to spend money every year maintaining it but could have comfortably done so and easily absorbed the cost.

Wanting to advertise yourself on fbook or whatever because it is free is just being cheap and unprofessional in my opinion.

For me, if a business is only contactable by facebook and they want me to log in to a shitstorm of crap in order to contact them then it is a company I will not do business with.

Feeding billionaire parasites is not my priority and the world can only improve if the majority of people did the same.

Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Re: Got to pay that 'leccy bill somehow

Comment of the week == ''slop fountain.''

Excellent description !

I have been trying the establish the term ''x-creted'' to replace 'tweeted' for the numpties that still use the anger trumpet but slop fountain is a classic.

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

Another reason to stay away from the shithole the US has become.

Anyone with talent and a healthy work ethic should be looking to work anywhere but there until they imprison all the wankers in charge.

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

The same sort of people who slavishly follow ''influencers'' and such shiteholes will use AI to be told to spend money on shit they don't need or want. If they are so inclined, carry on, not my problem.

For me this is yet another reason to ignore all chatbots and the like.

I unfortunately ended up with one on the phone while trying to sort out a problem with my bank. All I did was say ''put me through to a human'' over and over at every pointless and wanky response until it gave up and did so. I wasted about a minute I suppose. Trying to make sense and working with the fucking thing would have wasted god knows how much time (mine, not the bank's obviously..)

If everone did this it may help to stem the flow of crap non functional AI rubbish and force the bastards to employ more humans. Also, anyone thinking that the proliferation of AI shatbots (not a spelling error..) is there to help us as opposed to further enriching the world's parasite class needs to learn quickly but these are the same ones that I refer to in the first paragraph so I doubt it will happen.

Have a good weekend wherever you are and good luck to the artemis crew later on tonight. Land safely and go home for a beer.

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: I dont doubt the story...

I have a big printer and a large format plotter. Neither are allowed to access the outside world.

The large format plotter nags to be let online to update every time I turn it on. It works so shut the fuck up. Any update I assume will either make it worse by adding shite I don't need, move all the icons around needlessly or cripple it in some way that means I need to get a new one.

The printer. a big xerox commercial one worth a few thousand, keeps doing the same as well as nagging me every day that I urgently need to purchase some new genuine xerox toner cartriges as I am about to run out of toner. It has been doing this for 14 months.

Is there actually a non crooked printer compay out there?

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

Why the need for yet another ID.

I have a passport and a driving license. The last time Blair tried this shit I couldn't understand why they could not use one of these as an ID. ''Some people don't drive and some don;'t want a passport' was the usual response. To which my response was that I don't want an additional ID card and the cost of maintaining it so why is their view more important than mine and more importantly as the mechanism of delivery is already there, why reinvent the wheel.

Everyone in the UK, as I understand it, gets a National Insurance number by the time they are 16. It is true for all those born and living here and I assume true for those who have moved here to work. What is wrong with that as an ID. Those below 16 probably don't need an ID for any service that is not controlled by a parent or legal guardian.

Of course if the shitshow Labour party keep their seats the whole thing will be shoehorned in regardless. It will cost billions and will be faulty and not do what it should. It will be ''delivered'' late and over budget by Capita, Fujitsu or Siemens et al. Same shit different day.

Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns

Anyone who sends me any message with ''reach out'' or other such nonsense in it gets the message binned.

I look after a small catch all email account for our volunteer first response team and I get a load from companies trying to sell us stuff, which is parasitic enough but when they are full of buzzword bullshite it automatically puts those twats off my purchasing list.

In my professional role I have to deal with a lot of contracts managers who love the wanker-speak so I put them right at the start. I inform them pretty bluntly in the next site meeting that if they want me to read their emails they write in Welsh or English, hell even French if they want but no text speak, no wanky marketing buzzwords. I have done this for years, responding to mangled messages with trendy (at the time) txt abbreviations in a professional email with a blunt return email asking them to send it in a recognised language if they needed a response. I am pretty fortunate that I can do this as these people need my input.

If more people did this it would remove most of the abomination of marketing speak. Worst people by far are those that have a huge linkedin presence and loudly state so in their email sig. Tossers.

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

Re: I’m a boomer (just)

Not a problem. If that is how they want to work they will not get my business.

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews

Obviously not related to the fact that most intelligent people are dumping google for search due to the fact that they have been shite for years and have made this exponenially worse by shoving AI results in as well as all the paid ads so much that it has been impossible to use.

Obviously the hard of thinking and non tech people will still be using the shitfest to find things to buy.

A we say in Wales - codi pais ar ol piso. Translated as ''hoisting your petticoat after you have pissed ..'

Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny

Yet the shitshow of a government we have here is happy to agree to pay the odius turd Mandelson a load of compensation for losing his job even though he was thrown out of three ministerial or government posts over the years.

There will be a breaking point somewhere and once that is reached there will be civil war in the UK.

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers

The only thing you can be 100 percent certain of is that the people who are pushing these AI crapbots into everything will make sure that the 'customer/victim' is never at risk of being provided with results that could favour them. Any such bugs will be ironed out but not the bugs that will favour the providers.

Can anyone think of a technology that has actually improved in the last few years?

OS' are getting bloatier and full of shite, PC and phones the same. Less freedom to do things with them and more spying and adverts.

Browsers are filling up with shit and ai rubbish. Cars becoming more expensive, more unstable and requiring to be online.

I can not think of the last time I looked forward to installing or purchasing some kit or technology as it would improve things.

Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma

To be honest, if some of the scum bag fucks that prey on the vulnerable and elderly are the subject of some extra judiciary percussive punishment it would serve them right. No doubt the guardian reading apologists would be screaming that this is an infringement of the little fuckers' human rights if it happened here in the UK.

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

Re: You can take my Firefox

Like a lot of smug twats on here, you repeat the lie that ALL MS users are dumb or lazy. Why can you pricks not see that a lot of people, me included, have not got a choice. I have three programs I need for my work that will not run on anything except windows. That is not being lazy or fucking ignorant.

I have several degree equivalent qualifications as well as a medical background and pilot qualifications amongst other stuff. I am not super intelligent but I am not lazy or ignorant. Pricks like you who can not see past this are both.

The day I finish work, sadly a number of years away, I will drop MS windows like the rancid turd it is but until then I am stuck with it. Ignorant smug postings like yours only serve to piss me off and demonstrate that there are wankers everywhere. I just hope that one day, your sort will have a problem that you can not change but that does not affect me so I can endlessly take the piss.

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix

Re: Wasn't the manager that approved the repair required to sign off on it?

Personally, although not a violent person - I pretty much trained hard at it for decades and can be but usually choose not to- my view would have been to tell them to let me go immidiately, followed by folding the fucker who was stopping me like a deckchair. Then talk to the police.

There is no need for uppity arseholes in charge of security in most of the world.

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

100% agree. I will not go into these junk food chains even if they were giving the stuff away.

Local restaurants, cafes and food vans I use a lot, same when I go away. I am fortunate enough to have a bit of disposable income so always tip well as I appeciate what they do. I will never spend money at a chain as it will no doubt be boring and tasteless crap sold by outfits that pay minimal tax.

Not to forget that the arsehole MBA's (but I repeat myself..) who think that upselling is a good idea. When this happens in a shop I will walk out. When I order something, assume I know what I want. If I wanted a doughnut or some other shite that you are trying to push on me, I would have bloody asked for one.

I am sad enough to email the company and tell them exactly why I did not spend my money with them, after all ''your feedback is important to us...'' If more people did this the fucking shitshow would stop.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

As always written by Private Eye !

Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US

Re: Gotta hand it to Trump

Maybe the dumbest president so far..

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI

Re: Catholics and critical thinking skills

I nominate you for a ''sentence of the week'' award just for ''I remember drinking rather heavily with a nun once.''

Fantastic line !

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

Re: En visio

Good to see you are alive sir. I really miss your articles. My French is pretty poor these days having not been in the alps for a while on my climbing / cycling / paragliding trips.

Hope you are well.

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Agree 100%.

I would rather pay a local human who then pays tax and who I can talk to over spending money on crap where no tax is paid in the UK and where the tech is nowhere near as good as the cleaner.

Too many people splatter their money on this type of nonsense, claiming that it saves them time etc, but most of that saved time is spent slumped on a sofa posting shite on social medai about it.

As an average working UK resident who has a lot of activities outside of work and with a basic grasp of technology, I am struggling to think of anything in the last 1o years or more, that has actyally led to an inprovement.

Software gets shittier and more complex and more prone to problems.

Cars get too complex to do anything with but end up going wrong all the time.

AI in everything - as shit as it can be.

Seems like the West has sold out and swallowed the party line that all tech is wonderful and must be shoved into all aspects of life.

I have a number of friends who will always spaff out on the latest shiny then spend a lot of time trying to persuade me how great it is and how it makes life better etc. I sometimes think they are trying to persuade themselves and not me.

Have a good week all.

US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Seriously, the world needs to tell this vicious orange fuckwit and his crowd to fuck off and die. It is obvious that their own people are to fucking dumb to do so.

If they were serious, then the Democrats would sail in at the mid terms and they would not hesitate but jail the convicted criminal and his whole entourage on day one. All of them, every single twisted fucker that is doing what trump wants to the detriment of their own nation and the rest of the world.

Also line up the tech billionaires and nail them to the wall until they start to behave. It may not be the way they are supposed to do things but every single rule has been broken by these arseholes so what is good for them is good for everyone else.

To all the EU fans on here, you slag off the UK for leaving your precious club but in reality, your constituent nations couldn't fucking wait to roll over individually and agree to the fucker's insane tariff nonsense.

The EU is a sponging, inefficient way to line the pockets of a bunch of suit wearing nonentities while doing absolutely sod all to help each nation's tax paying people.

As a trading bloc of at least twice the population of the US and a lot of money, why do they nnot stamp on the fucking insane crap that is thrown at them rather than prevaricate.

Even if we had stayed in the EU, the UK would be the first to roll over due to the continued belief of EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GOVERNMENT since the 2nd world war that we have a ''special relationship'' with the failing nation across the atlantic.

No doubt this post will be removed as the reg is now a mouthpiece for the US and criticism from outside in not supposed to happen.

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in

Why the merry fuck does a government agency not have the ability to enforce the log in and application to require the user's name, license number and possibly date of birth in order to book a test. This is hardly rocket science.

Instead the government can waste time and effort on making it difficult for adults to access legal pornography and pissing about looking like they are being assertive

Are we getting as dumb as the US now, where sex is seen as being immoral and dirty and not for the eyes of children but watching films full of death and violence is OK.

As usual, any government use of technology more complex than a pen gets messed up.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Another nation following the bonkers UK government.

Will they do things to promote censorship - yes.

Will they do things to help large US corporations who are not happy unless financially raping the whole world - yes.

Will they do anything to prevent the endless online and email scams, scam phone messages and all the other shite that annoys and cons it's electorate - no fucking chance.

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Re: Haggle

If there is one thing that is one hudred percent guaranteed, it is the fact that not a solitary fucking single AI product will be an useful feature for the end user. For the company paying for it, maybe,

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

I have to use outlook for one company I work with who have given me log in to their system and emails. One of the volunteer first responder roles I have enforces the use of gmail and gsuite.

The sheer ammount of fucking useless prompts and bollocks is relentless. Almost every actions results in some shit popping up asking me to use some bloody ai app or other. Every second email or so outllook brings up a fucking dialogue box in mid email writing asking me to rate it.

Simply fuck bloody well off the whole parasitic shitshow.

This is not seeping in, it is a fucking cancer.