Posts by SimonHayterUK

UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate

I hate my stupid government

It's bloody ridiculous that our UK government is playing internet nanny. It has always been the responsibility of the parents to restrict what movies they watch, and the internet is no different. There are plenty of apps on multiple store fronts to block websites, block keywords and even AI is able to tell what is suitable for children. Holding websites and user generated sites is not only stupid, it will never work. They should have just mandated UK phone devices come preinstalled with parenting tools, if the parent doesn't enable it, that's on them.

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

I can only see this working if Google get involved and all the highest authority regarded sites, but since Google is just as bad as the other scrapers, I don't see it happening.

The other point is, if webmasters are to publish fake information, it's very possible there authority on their site drops.

Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

15TB is not enough or near close enough for content makers, or digital agencies. They claim 15TB is enough to store 7500 hours of HD video which is misleading because that is processed footage stored in heavily compressed video such as x264, h265, VP9 or even AV1. They claim genuine business customers don't use that much but a real business that deals in video will have hundreds of terabytes, are these not legit companies? raw footage 7500 hours which actually be in in excess of 4.05 petabytes of raw footage. The issue is Dropbox is being used as a backup service without requiring the file to be stored locally. If they really wanted to solve the issue from the legit, and not legit, enforce the local rule, like Blaze does.

IBM US staff must be fully vaccinated by December – or go back to bed without pay

Hmmm

We know that BIG Pharma and the government are exempt from adverse effects but from what I can tell, employers are not. I'm fairly confident if the government doesn't mandate it, and the employer tells them no jab, no job, and then goes on to have some serious side effects, then the employer must be liable no?

They keep bashing on how safe and effective this vaccine is, yet the VAERS and Yellow Card reports are through the roof, that aside, the vaccine is no way effective as they say it is. My partner works in care, she's had both jabs and all the patients she looks after, if these vaccines are so SAFE why the non-liablity clause, and secondly if the vaccines are so effective, why are people still having to wear masks, aprons, spit shields in environments where everyone is vaccinated. None of it makes sense.

Whatever side of the fence you are in regards to vaccinations, this is wrong on so many levels, if the vaccine is safe, great, remove the clause, if the vaccine is effective, great, remove the masks.

I'm feeling lucky: Google, Facebook say workers must be vaccinated before they return to offices

Re: FREeDomZ

Traditional vaccines are great. These NEXT GEN vaccines do not prevent the transmission, they simply produce a protein that is responsible for making people very sick, by having antibodies for that protein you risks of dying or developing serious complications are lesser. Why are so many on here delusion to the fact these vaccines do not reduce transmission.

Re: FREeDomZ

Your assessment is wrong. You forgot to add risk of adverse reaction (death, deafness, blindness and long term adverse effects we yet to discover).

Re: I'm not sure

Sorry but that's all non-sense. Unless you are wearing a N95 or K95, a typical homemade, poundland or surgery mask will not prevent you catching viruses. A good comparison is asbestos which is between 0.1um to 0.10um and SARS2 is between 0.06um to 1.4um, on average COVID is a lot smaller. When removing asbestos you use a hazmat suit with a full ventilation filter, you don't wear a cloth mask, they don't work, you wouldn't even dare to use a N95 or K95. Social distancing and the washing of hands is what contributes the most effective way of not spreading infections.

I'm astonished that so many are willing to give their employers so much power with no countability.

I've had all my vaccines and believe in them but I have to say I am astonished that so many readers of 'The Register' are cheering on for employers with vaccination coercion. Enforced vaccinations are a breach of the right to autonomy and bodily integrity. It is a dangerous foundation to lay for any work place to require a medical procedure, yes it is just an injection, but these vaccines are not without risks. They save lives, but they can also destroy them, does Google, Amazon or Facebook provide insurance for them should something go wrong as it has for many of thousands around the world? since big pharma is exempt in both adverse affects, and even medical negligence under the emergency use clause.

Another issue is many Register readers seem to truly believe that these vaccines reduce transmission, as the great vaccines that have come before them, such as polio, smallpox, measles, rubella, and so on, but to compare these vaccines is silly. Traditional vaccines prompt a full immune response, and not a particular protein. They are NEXT GEN that are currently 'leaky' which is a medical term for many breakthroughs, which drives both the spread and mutation. If these vaccines stopped the transmission we would not be seeing a huge SPIKE in heavily vaccinated countries, Israel is a good, they are having more and more cases and the majority of the citizens are vaccinated, twice.

It seems to me that so many people want things to return to normal they ain't thinking through. These current vaccines you may need 2-3 boosters a year because the antibodies don't last for long the older you get, who wants that? and these current vaccines are leaky, and do not stop the spread a great deal as they should when comed with traditional vaccines. So many people have put the trust in these vaccines without data, and in many countries unable to challenge the status quo without being called a nut case. I seriously believe these vaccines are no good, and we should be working on new vaccines

AWS elbows Google Cloud aside in fight for SAP HANA customers

But Google has a better network...

I've used virtual machine instances on Azure, AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, UK2, GoDaddy, NameCheap and even IBM cloud, and it's IMHO and experience that Google offers unmatched network performance due to the fact the majority of traffic is served directly to consumer networks.

Alibaba wants to ship its own neural network silicon by H2 2019

Death by AI

It's worrying that China will be leading AI considering they have yet to master safety for building lifts and escalators.

Labour MP pushing to slip 6-hour limit to kill illegal online content into counter-terror bill

Rule one of taking away power from the people... start small and go from there. There is absolutely no way of policing what people say online those that want to cause harm to us do not use public websites. This will simply be a launching platform to take down copyright infringing websites. Just like the war on drugs, this will fail.

Cops: Autonomous Uber driver may have been streaming The Voice before death crash

To be fair streaming video within cars is growing, I personally listen to music, documentaries and storybooks on YouTube, just because there's video doesn't mean it's being watched and in fact, I stream at the low bitrate to save data from my sim-only contract. I also have YouTube playing in the office at work in the background and not openly visible in a tab.

The voice, for example, is very easy just to listen without having the need to watch the video, I'm not saying this is the case but to simply say the driver was distracted because of streaming video may not be as accurate as one may think, in fact, I bet the police are treating it as the smoking gun.

I say fine UBER, sack the driver and pay compensation to the family, then put in place measures to prevent this from ever happening again.

Dixons Carphone profits drop 24% amid hack 'n' high street struggles

Re: RE: Wolfe

Sorry but your talking trash. PC World Currys stopped paying commision to their staff on margin sales and insurance over 12 years ago (2006). Floor staff are now paid a low hourly rate which can only increase by taking training provided by DSG PLC. The only reason that he would have pushed you to a higher model is that he mistakenly thought it was right for you. Why? because these members of staff rather sell 'cheaper' items and then pile on the addon's that generate far more profit margin than the actual device. Sony laptops, for example, are only 1-5% profit margin, to put this into respective they make more money selling you anti-virus (40-50% profit margin) for £50 than they do the laptop. But why would the staff even bother attempting to sell high margin products and services? because the management run project fear with performance reviews on their staff, its an absolutely awful company to work for.

After working for various tech companies and retailers I can tell you first hand that they make very little margin on TV's and other techy stuff, especially on laptops. That's why the staff are pushed to sell things like insurance because the profit on add-ons is far greater than the device. Expecting a street retailer to offer the same price as that online is never going to happen on most things due to online retailers have less overheads, this is why the high street is slowly dying. With the 'Comet' comment, you should have said John Lewis actually and I'll get a free 5 years warranty and the staff ain't tw4ts.

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

Free WIFI

Does this mean I get FREE WIFI on the way to the hospital? :)

UK Prime Minister calls on internet big beasts to 'auto-takedown' terror pages within 2 HOURS

Our politicians truly deserve a spot on Loose Woman, they clearly have no idea how the internet works. It's a utter waste of time even attempting to block such content... they had the same idea about torrent sites and before you know it... you have thousands of proxies popping up. Terrorist are not as stupid as the government lets us believe, if you block such a website they will just use a VPN or use the Dark Web. The government know this and they just want another INTERNET freedom grab... sadly, taking more and more away from us.

UK PC prices have risen 30% in a year since the EU referendum

Confidence has a strong influence on the value of the British pound therefore those scaremongering just as they did before the result are directly and indirectly devaluing our currency. The pound will remain unstable and uncertain until 2019 and with the likes of Corbyn and everyone trying to undermine democracy is only creating more of a mess. Out means out... people need to stop QQing about it and focusing on the negatives.

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

Advice

When shopping in the ocean avoid the sea gates... head western and look for digital