Posts by Tubz

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

More lies and deceit from the Police ?

Didn't somebody awhile back say they could not comply with GDPR to delete information on people innocent of any wrong doing, as too complicated and time consuming and they got a whitewash get out of jail card. Seems they can be delete very easily !!

More lies and deceit from the Police ?

UK competition watchdog calls for views on Nvidia's prospective $40bn acquisition of Brit chip designer Arm

ARM needs to come home and be UK company again, I'm sure the price can be matched by a consortium, hell I'd even accept EU countries/companies chipping in, wasn't not so long ago, the EU banging the drum about becoming IT tech self-sufficient ?

Internet Explorer fails to make the cut, banished from Microsoft Teams for good

IE11 isn't the problem, its the damn stuttering, delays when typing, freezing when moving channels, general speed and the general childish look and feel.

Privacy campaigner flags concerns about Microsoft's creepy Productivity Score

If my company start this I will just turn around and say, fine, I'm working from the office and not from from home and they must provide all the health and wellbeing I need to ensure my safety. Cost them more for being dickheads !

Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info

Oh come on, if its not going to make Facebook money, why would they buy it? Finally a regulator standing firm and tell Zuck to go fook himself !

Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early

Moral of the story, don't work for Crapita or Three, 2 companies deserving to go bust and rot in the pits of hell !

Data protection scofflaws failed to pay £2m in fines from UK watchdog – and 68% of penalties are still outstanding

ICO is a useless quango and should be shutdown and a replacement with a enforcement agency with teeth and deadline set in stone for payment of fines and more. Time scum companies start taking privacy for real.

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

If I was the owner, I'd expect BT to buy me a new shiny 60in 8K Smart TV or I switch it back on. :D

Highways England primes market for £2bn tech spend as part of massive investment in crumbling roads network

£27B, so thats £1B for Scotland, £250M for Wales & N.I, 50p for The North Of England and all the rest spent on the South, quangos, consultants and other fat cats that have greasy connections to friends in Government, Parliament and the Civil Servants!

Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music

Can Google ask manufacturers to remove it from their stock images, since a lot of the time, you can't uninstall this crap !

Google: OK, OK, we pinky promise not to suck Fitbit health data into the borg. Now will you approve the sale?

You don't pay 70% premium on a share if you don't expect to get he money back. Google cannot be trusted, prove that time and again and should be broken up.

Collabera hacked: IT staffing'n'services giant hit by ransomware, employee personal data stolen

Seems common in the US of A$$, if data stolen, to offer a couple of years of so called "protection" with another dodgy company and they get off with a minor slap wrist. Hope the employees do a class action lawsuit, companies need to be punished, to fulfil their security obligations. UK/EU DPA/GDPR may not be perfect but offers more protection and our watchdog is finally starting to wake up and punish companies. Just waiting for the first %% of global turnover fine !!

Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing

Old school is cool!

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Re: Printing fail yet again!

Agree Edge keeps getting better on each new release, I just wish they would let us customise the new page/tab and give us the option to switch to a new tab once opened, instead of using 3rd party plugins. How hard can it be too code ?

Stinker, emailer, trawler, spy: How an engineer stole top US chip designs, smuggled them to China to set up a rival fab

Moral of the story, don't employ Chinese Nationals, you can't be 100% they are not dodgy and escape back to China to escape the law !

Fasten your seat belts: Brave Reg hack spends a week eating airline food grounded by coronavirus crash

I bet your butt hole and the toilet really appreciated the experiment.

Foxconn signals Indian expansion to make ... something it will reveal eventually

Cannot understand why companies have not started to shrink manufacturing in China due to their current standing in the world and rising costs.

Australian PM says nation under serious state-run 'cyber attack' – Microsoft, Citrix, Telerik UI bugs 'exploited'

Don't mention China, they get upset and say we all anti-Chinese racists !!

Netgear was told in January its routers can be hacked and hijacked. This week, first patches released – after exploits, details made public

So do nothing, your router may get owned, patch and your router may fall over or perform like a brick, as we couldn't be arsed to test it in time before the flaw was made public. Well done Netgear, glad I dumped your brand years back !

Nothing fills you with confidence in an IT contractor more than hearing its staff personal records were stolen by ransomware hackers. Right, Cognizant?

Class action suits both sides of the Atlantic !

How do you run a military court over Zoom? With 28 bullet points and a ceremonial laptop flunkey, of course!

Whatever happened to the right of defending yourself face-2-face as in UK law and ECHR, not by a video link ?

Gulp! Irish Water outsources contact centres to Capita for up to €27m over 7 years

Capita will roll out "new software and digital capabilities", so in plain Irish language, it will fail to deliver anything on time, in budget or working, contract will be terminated, Capita pays off customer but walks away with a nice earner ! !

Taiwan aims to trump China with new display tech industry development plan

Good, sooner we reduce relying on China the better.

Scottish cops dangle £6m for help understanding 160TB treasure trove of structured and unstructured data

160TB of data, and % that is unlawful, yet Police ignore UK and at the time EU rules and official guidelines?

Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021

So lets flip this, any EU company that has a UK domain name and does not have their head office registered in the UK, loses the domain, fair play !

We really need a new icon for the UK v EU or Brexit lark.

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Went to website https://5gbioshield.com/ and had to have a laugh at the description of "The Team", what a load of donkey poo !

FYI: There are thousands of Chrome extensions with so, so many fake installations to trick you into using them

Just ban all Russian and Chinese extensions, we all know they are fakes and laced with credential stealing malware.

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC

Intel stifled the PC evolution and ripped off customers, happy to notch up the speed here and there by a couple of hundred Mhz while raking in the cash with over the top prices, until AMD stepped up kicked them in the nutz and said this is how you do it, ever since, Intel has been playing catch up. proof, look how quickly the increased the core count and speed boost on their products within months of AMD's releases. AMD not perfect, but will never buy another Intel CPU unless they come up with something magical at sensible prices !

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl

So ADT systems allow access from any old IP address so long as you have an account setup, not smart, going to cost them big $$$$ !

SD cards hop on the PCIe 4.0 bus to hit 4GB/s with version 8.0 of storage spec

I can see me building a new mini media server, for my special movie collection.

Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework

Deloitte LLP, Capita Business Service, Fujitsu Services, Atos IT Services

Doomed to fail !!

The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs

Re: Linux desktop for decades

WinXP, M$ should have you burned at the stake, Heathen !

and for once, I don't disagree with Microsuck !

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

What happens to contact law, "pay once, use forever", would like to see someone takes this to court and become class action !

Tom Cruise to increase in stature thanks to ISS jaunt? Now that's a mission impossible

Can we leave him up there to be closer to his friendly neighbourhood genocidal alien overlord Xenu, as confirmed by your resident nut job Hubbard in his own handwriting !

China strings up red tape barrier that shows businesses they're better off buying local tech

Re: What goes around comes around

Always thought Cisco HQ was in the NSA basement or is it the CIA cloakroom?

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

Geely Group in partnership with PRC Inc, all your data belongs to us comrade and we know were you are, have been and when we can drive you to nearest re-education holiday camp.

Apple and Google tweak key bits of contact-tracing privacy plan

Funny how an app like this can be squeezed in to the OS, yet we can't squeeze out the useless bloatware, designed to make Apple, Google and manufacturers a quick buck !

Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground

beer keg, not that big, make a mini version for a vehicle, may be trucks ?

Where the hell Huawei? It should be a bit easier to tell now the AppGallery has its first proper navigation app

Doesn't matter if they reach app parity with GMS, the question of trusting those apps will linger unless they stamp out dodgy apps and I suspect that will not be high on their list of things to do.

Why should the UK pensions watchdog be able to spy on your internet activities? Same reason as the Environment Agency and many more

No judge, sitting or retired will deny UKGov, especially if they want their knighthood , seat in the lords and the pay/expenses that goes with it !

IBM Watson GPU cloud cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – because GDPR

Pointless And Political

Complete BS from IBM, UK will be GDPR compliant as its UK law now and any amendments will probably be implemented too, to keep things simple with our so called EU partners/competitors/dictatorship. Wonder if IBM getting any thick brown envelopes under the table ?

Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops

and if you fancy a bit of spamming ... [e-mail]

Lockdown endgame? There won't be one until the West figures out its approach to contact-tracing apps

Apple + Google + Gov = privacy disaster at some point it will be abused !

Microsoft drops a seemingly innocuous Windows Insider build, teases the future

I'm just so surprised that Teams hasn't made in to Windows 10 as the default free IM/Skype application.

Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin

Good luck getting any cash back from an EU doman registrtaion, I bet they have a keep the cash clause !

Intel shrugs off ‘new’ side-channel attacks on branch prediction units and SGX

Nice of Intel to shrug of the risks, watch for the stock dumping and the fake news to hit other chip manufacturers just before it all comes out as another scandal !

10Mbps for world+dog, hoots UK.gov, and here is how we're doing it

So will we get a 2 year reprive from BT, VM, Sky and the others putting up bills, while not improving t he network for existing customers, especialy pointing the finger at VM, don't think so !

BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose

Facebook conduct and audit just before GDPR, must be worried about being hit by 4% fine and starting it early is a get out of jail card. Hoepfully all involved will get serious jail time and masisve fines !

Brit retailer Currys PC World says sorry for Know How scam

Re: Sharp Practice

In my day at PCW, staff received a small amount of commision for gerneal sales, but a bigger lump for warranties and pressure from sales manager to flog it even if customer didn't want it. In my defence I used to respect the customers wishes and take the flak from managers, after 6 months, I left.