Posts by TheSkunkMonk

Bad news: Robo-cars will make you work billions more hours. Good news: In 2040

Sooner or later Mr Cameron is going to have realise that Welfare is essential! It wasn't so long ago that we were proud to have a reserve workforce and do we really want to end up a nation of call centre workers and bean counters. As for the car we can barely get a desktop to run securely never mind something your going to trust with your life. Bet these things will be easy for muggers to target and pull over(or maybe just kids having fun) as well.

Over 50? Out of work? Watch out because IT is about to eat itself

Re: Say what?

"ok they have fiddled a bit with something and given it a poncy new name"

This is the very reason I got out of IT I was sick and tired of keeping upto date with all the rehashed crap. It became an absolute joke and still is it was mobiles that finally pushed me over the edge, Moving features, destroying desktops, turning ports upside down and for what? sales sales sales oh and don't forget the training courses! I'm sure that used to be called "RTFM" by the way.

Needless to say my grumpy view of the current IT system did not get me very far. I was hopeless at getting clients to upgrade, because to be honest most the time no new systems or hardware is required and I will always be a firm hater of virtual desktops and thinclients. A Lazy mans tools they are but ISO standards love em.

Sick of the 'criminal' lies about pie? Lobby the government HERE

If you change the base to 8 you can calculate pie as 3.1recurring alot easier to use

UK smart meters arrive in 2020. Hackers have ALREADY found a flaw

doesn't my current meter constantly measure my usage? thanks but no thanks just more info for the marketeers to play with.

'4chan may be just a sysadmin who knows his way around', claims so-called expert

There was a reason why mainframes were ditched for standalone systems, and a reason why personal images werent put on the net be it secure server or not. Just going to keep happening until people take care of there own backups and dump this silly thing we call the cloud.

Fast And Furious 6 cammer thrown in slammer for nearly three years

Yup commit a civil crime in a theatre and off you go to the slammer, Fiddle a kid and... you guys know the rest.

Hear ye, young cyber warriors of the realm: GCHQ wants you

Re: Well...

Damn it! Even the police weren't that clever. Now we will never know who, what and where :(

Windows users: You get a patch! And you get a patch! And you get a patch! Everybody gets...

Why not for once do the right thing Microsoft. Give us your code!!! Mind you may have to admit then that there isn't to much difference between the product range.

Hackers steal trade secrets from major US hedge firm

Thats because it comes from nothing, making diamonds out of dirt only they got that cheeky that they don't use the dirt anymore.

Hate phone games that make you buy in-app gumble? Congrats, you're a niche player

Re: Expansion Packs

Battlefield was built by the players, it was map making and mods that made it truly great and used to be common place in all multilayer games at one point. Now you need to spend weeks just to get a decent gun, and if you want to play more than a couple maps? you better get out your wallet. I just looked at the price of elder scrolls online, then the subscription and then the magic horse. Was time to walk away.

Yet another reason to skip commercials: Microsoft ad TURNS ON your Xbox One

Wait a minute, if you pay for an xbox one does it force adverts on you as well as spy?

Psst. We've got 400Gb/s Ethernet working - but don't tell anyone

I went from downloading images in 10-15mins to downloading high def video in less than one, sadly this has done little for making the world a better place. It's the same old story with large IT companies though always holding back hardware instead of producing the best they can, and the practices they have on the stuff they do release in the name of profit is absurd as well. http://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippling-from-nvidia-graphics-card/