Posts by whileI'mhere

Nest's slick IoT burglar alarm catches crooks... while it eyes your wallet

Re: Rasberry Pi to the rescue?

Which piece of your mind is that, then?

Re: Battery life on the sensors?

What is "burglarization"? Is it what burglarizers do? (Hint: 'burglary')

IT giant CSC screwed its 1,000 sysadmins out of their overtime – jury

Re: "... a significant driver of CSC’s profits and success..."

If 'no pun intended' then the correct spelling is 'plain'.

Volvo puts Swedish families to work on driverless data-slurp trials

Re: Chelsea Tractors

I'm guessing all that tech has to go somewhere and may be a bit bulky? As it develops, miniaturisation will kick in along with manufacturing scale and smaller/cheaper cars will be able to have it shoe-horned in?

DXC spills AWS private keys on public GitHub

Re: Tribal Frankenfirm

It is ambiguous. "legacy CSC staff" could be as opposed to "bright, thrusting wave of the future colleagues" or it could be as opposed to "legacy HPE colleagues". Either way, "one DXC" is clearly fractured and the splints are not yet working.

Activists launch legal challenge against NHS patient data-sharing deal

"they could perhaps control one of the world's easiest borders to control a little better than turn the NHS into big brother. "

Which prompts a thought. If the NHS is now to act as a de facto border force, perhaps the real Border Force could start doing health screenings at passport control? This could catch on. Let's get the MOD to run whatever DEFRA is called these days and let the farming and food lobby play with the ships, planes and tanks.

IBM: We're now a, what's not losing money? Ah, a cognitive cloud champ!

Two people in this thread have now claimed that staff reductions (a COST-reducing action) have propped up revenue. Please explain how cutting costs increases the money people spend with IBM?

Layoffs may be propping up margin or profit but do not impact what clients spend (REVENUE) other than perhaps negatively in the short term.

Sometimes, bean-counters can be useful to help us all understand what it is we are actually counting!

€100 'typewriter' turns out to be €45,000 Enigma machine

Re: FailCEO

Cool you? Why? Are you hot? And why "as well"? Nobody else mentioned needing to be cooled.

(Punctuation. Makes a difference, every time!)

When we said don't link to the article, Google, we meant DON'T LINK TO THE ARTICLE!

Re: Not so easy...

We're at war with Europa? Jeez, how did I miss that?

From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong

Re: So when will the politicians learn?

"A politician thinks of one thing only. Their next election."

I guess Jeremy Corbyn is not a politician, then.

HPE hatches HPE Next – a radical overhaul plan so it won't be HPE Last

Re: How many times must HP "Invent" itself?

They reinvented themselves agin in 2017 when they spun ES into CSC to create DXC. And now with ALL the baggage dumped, time to start chopping off the limbs

DXC Technology puts reluctant office movers on naughty step

Re: 2.5 miles may not sound like a lot

Which stop is that?

Capita call centre chap wins landmark sex discrimination lawsuit

So much fuss?

So much fuss for a principle, actually.

Whoops! Microsoft accidentally lets out a mobile-'bricking' OS update

Brick or Jelly?

Brick or jelly? Which is it? I feel there may be a slight difference...

Or is it this: http://www.instructables.com/file/FXINSU9FN82TMFF/

BA CEO blames messaging and networks for grounding

by the death birth of idiots.

FTFY

DXC Technology warns staff of multiple office closures

That memo you quoted from must be a fraud. Because it said "Royal Pavillion" which as any fule kno is in fact "Royal Pavilion" and I can't believe anyone inside DXC wouldn't kn... (oh, wait, as you were, par for the course)

IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni

That'll be Ginny Streisand then (or Barbara Rometty)

UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election

Re: FailCEO

I think this graphic from the Ministry of Acquired Information is more apposite: https://twitter.com/richard_littler/status/753169513722552320

Facebook fake news: Sort it out yourself, readers

Re: Only one rule needed

"Is there a professional, journalism trained editor in charge?"

Like the Evening Standard? (Not that I'd pay attention to a single thing it published before or after that smarmy git took over as editor.)

'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'

Re: Bureaucracy

An American? Talking about regular verbs?

HINT: Dive is a regular verb whose past participle is dived, and dove is a type of bird

Re: Bureaucracy

You're saying a FRENCHMAN said that????? My experience is that French bureaucracy is the most rigid and petty of all.

Customer satisfaction is our highest priority… OK, maybe second-highest… or third...

Re: "coffee please"

I remember the greasy spoons where it was instant (powdered, not freeze-dried) Nescafe - black or with cold milk in (and ordinary milk, too, no reduced fat choices, and with a fruit bowl of sugar on the counter, next to a teaspoon with a chain on its handle, and the other end of the chain nailed to the counter.

Unlike a visit to Star*ucks today, there was no confusion at all. I prefer that. I wish I could walk into Star*ucks and simply say "mug of Nescaff please".

Anti-TV Licensing petition gets May date for Parliament debate

Re: Okay mr lets tax everyone regardless.. because reasons?!!?

You use that term "commercially viable" like it is the only criterion. There things that are a social good. I want there to be an efficient transport system that adds to the economic and social health of the country, even though I rarely use it, because I want it to be there when I actually DO need to use it. So I am not enamoured of the "marketise everything" approach that says all railway costs must be borne by passengers. You sound like one of those neo-liberals who knows the price of much but the value of almost nothing.

Re: Yours is really the standard pro argument

... Jaguar ... Nissan...

You do realise that your unypothecated taxes are to some extent subsidising both, don't you. What all the licence fee haters seem to hate more than the BCC is hypothecated tax. But we need it to be hypothecated to PREVENT it becoming the state broadcaster, or the LCD ad-fest of US TV example.

Re: Public good

I disagree about it not operating FOR the public good, but you fail to understand the subtle but important difference between "for the public good" and "a public good". Whatever your OPINION as to whether it operates in the public good or not, it is clearly a public good.

Re: Privatise It

It is not a monopoly (other broadcasts are available) and it is not a state broadcaster, being independent of any government of the day. Please rewrite your drivel taking account of these facts.

Get orf the air over moi land Irish farmer roars at drones

How does a drone control crim? How does it do it in an obvious manner? What is crim?

(Or perhaps "drone-controlling crim"?)

A hyphen had gone quite astray.

Made things sound quite a different way.

The drone was controlling.

So I came here trolling

The grammar of young folk today

RAF pilot sent jet into 4,000ft plummet by playing with camera, court martial hears

Re: A very long time ago...

And here (thanks SkippyBing) we have, in one simple comment, the full argument against autonomous/driverless cars that are not in fact actually sufficiently autonomous to be capable of operation without mandating that a 'driver' is 'at the wheel' and ready to use the wheel at a nanosecond's notice.

Stupid law of the week: South Carolina wants anti-porno chips in PCs that cost $20 to disable

Re: Out of State

Because after the usual suspects at whom the memo is directed are excluded, the only options left are the boneheadedly stupid ones. But at least they are an option (the memo writers figure, not paying attention to that option's consequences). If they do not vote for the only other option available, the memo does not get sent.

Rivals' keyword marketing activity censured by High Court

One or other of them will no doubt be creating a "win fountain" and calling it a Victory Plume.

Loyalty card? Really? Why data-slurping store cards need a reboot

M&S - yes

Marks & Spencer - yes

Marks & Sparks - ok

But "M&S Sparks"? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Customer data security is our highest priori- ha ha ha whatever, suckers

Re: Company law

These are the people for whom the phrase "attention span of a butterfly" was invented. Frankly it's amazing they can envision a quarter, let alone anything longer.

User needed 40-minute lesson in turning it off and turning it on again

Re: Can you hold down the power button

Many years ago, before such things were standardised (US motor manufacturers apart) a friend of the family was driving my Dad around in her new car. She kept indiciating right and turning left and vice versa. After one close shave too many my Dad finally broke: "What do you think you are doing, you keep (etc)"

Her reply: "What do you mean? It's up for left and down for right"

(Readers can work out the instrument design differences between her old car and the new one for themselves.)

Facebook chokes off car insurance slurp because – get this – it has privacy concerns

Re: Zip code?

Not just that but I'm pretty sure Admiral never used a zip code to rate an applicant's premium, either.

Pitch Black: New BlackBerry Classic is aimed at the old-school

Non-removable battery? That's a deal-breaker. Been using a Bold (with the ball trackpad - not the modern touchy thing) for many years. Been through four of them 'cos the USB socket always fails so they will not charge. I use an external battery charger for the latest, to avoid its USB charging socket also failing.