Posts by Noonoot

What a time to be alive: LG and Italian furniture-maker build smart sofa

Re: How to know which ones are jokes? - don't be so grumpy

@Milton I know it's Friday, and it's also the 13th (oh no....twilight zone music can be heard in the background), but a Natuzzi sofa with sensors that puts the lights on and activates the TV would mean that when I get home, I don't have to do anything except head towards the sofa, in the dark mind you, and just throw myself on it. Fantastic!!!! And now I'm rubbing my bloody big toe that I stubbed on the stupid Calligaris table that stands stupidly just next to the stupid Natuzzi sofa.

British government to ink deal for yet another immigration database

"There is simply no way to have an effective immigration control system in a country without a mandatory identity system.

You see a guy in the street. How can you enforce an identity check on him as an immigrant in a country where identity is not mandatory even for driving licenses while driving?"

Someone finally talking sense. .

.and who said you can't have a system without knowing what's going to happen regarding Brexit? With or without Brexi, it's called planning, and doing things in modules.

I'm not convinced that Accenture will do that much better than what IBM (?) tried to do back then.

UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data

The topic

Is the article is really about privacy concerning your origins, it's not about healthcare, yet most of the comments are about migrants (who are probably criminals according to some of you) sponging or using frontline services???

Privacy. Privacy of everyone. So don't ask me if I'm white British,afro caribbean,Indian, Asian, male, female next time. Just take everyone to be sexless and possibly from planet Earth for absolutely everything: schooling, job interview, healthcare, and any other occasion when an authority thinks it has the right to know where I'm from. That way we never know who is doing what, where and when.

Hell, yeh, let's just not know anything about anyone, then UK can get back the control it's already lost.

Nope, you're still a transport biz, top EU court tells Uber

Re: @Noonoot

@ShelLuser - LOL LOL Poor saucepan!!

Europeans are so pragmatic

Like with the duck scenario, if it stinks and its brown, there's only one thing it can be

Facebook suspends, investigates CubeYou, another data-harvester

When Italy puts on its rubber gloves.....

sono cazzi amari....

Facebook can’t count, says Cambridge Analytica

Fiction predicted all of this and more

"....CA and dark arts ....Facebook..... it’s shocked – just shocked - that anyone would ever think to pervert its good intentions."

Oh come on. No one in FB has obviously read Jeffrey Deaver's Broken Window.

Furious gunwoman opens fire at YouTube HQ, three people shot

Disgruntled youtuber?

I would be equally disgruntled if I was producing shit content for my shit website.

This is just some shit-crazy Persian woman with a chip on her shoulder.

Unfortunately, innocent people took the brunt of it.

The Register Opera Company presents: The Pirates of Penzance, Sysadmin edition

Re: Ooh, tempting

"come up with a song at work next week."

Can you make it Easterish with frollicking lambs and cuddly bunnies?

Pronunuciation of superfic'ial

To make the rhyming work you have to pronounce superficial and artificial with the stress on the last 'i' :-)

Superfic-eeal, artific-eeal....

Btw, where I am we don't get Good Friday off.

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

Re: Where are the Brexit fans?

"its going to take time, but the uk, with strong leadership, will recover."

Well, UK ain't gonna be 'lead' for sometime, unless it's down the garden path.

What leader would that be? Reesy Moggy?

Details of 600,000 foreign visitors to UK go up in smoke thanks to shonky border database

Re: Guardian has more details.

"Those who want to disappear in one of the many "indigenous communities" around Britain will do so. This is in addition to those who are fluent in English to a point where they can "go native" in the middle of any suburbian street."

Is that a polite way of saying that UK has so many non-nationals that English isn't even the common language?

What a Docker shocker: Founder, CTO Solomon Hykes takes a hike

Another one?

All these disruptors just end up erupting

Probe: How IBM ousts older staff, replaces them with young blood

Meanwhile in Italy - Chinese box practice

Other companies are doing exactly the same thing.

A more recent practice is to bundle all the unwanted or nearing retirement workers into a spin-off, sell it and then 4 months later the new company goes busts and bobs your uncle you're without a job.

You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding

North starts at Melton Mowbray

Apparently the NORTH starts just over the Melton Mowbray (north side) border, so Nottingham is technically the NORTH!

Not that they know how to eat any better in South.

Laser sauce, cheat code, jam seshs: The Waymo vs Uber trial kicks off

Just a ploy?

And what if Levandowski ending up at Uber was just a conspiracy by the big G to get rid of its competitor?

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, says report

Re: If a chick wants to get with me, she needs a big pair of swinging balls.

so if you're the Anonymous Coward that posted it originally, I'll take back my reply that I would swing them, you know where LOL

If a chick wants to get with me, she needs a big pair of swinging balls.

Yes, swinging towards your arrogant head

Cisco cuts 250 jobs in San Jose, has 850 more pink slips to hand out

Old and bloated icons of the past

Why blame Trump (note I am not a fan of him)?

Cisco is laying off because there are too many employees for starters and they have nothing to do, additionally many of them are simply not up to scratch. Same story for Ericsson, IBM, and the other "biggies". They're so pompous and full of their own bureaucracy. They simply don't know how to innovate, and whilst they're stumbling, smaller companies are coming along and filling in the gaps, and doing it very well.

The only reason they continue to survive is because they have massive stashes of cash. Unfortuntely, it's money being thrown to the wind.

Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners

Unity was a drag

As someone who works for an ISV whose software has to run on the Linux OS (among others), Unity only ever brought us headaches and more headaches. One down and 1000 more to go. There's only ever one winner, and it ain't Ubuntu.

Parcel bods Hermes become latest London drone delivery droogs

Re: Seriously?

"these things have cameras, so I suspect they'll post their theft to Youtube while they can"

So everyone will be going around in balaclavas.

Re: Seriously?

Yes, I've always wondered how these drones avoid being intercepted by villains. Just like pets get stolen, washing from your garden, shoes from the porch or any thing else the buggers can lay their hands on, what's to stop some someone from picking up the drone and walking off with it, or simple stamping on it to get the parcel?

There's no shame in VMware quitting the public cloud

When the going gets tough, the tough are no longer tough and chicken out

Adieu pour toujours! VMware flogs vCloud Air hosting biz to OVH

Lost count of all their products

Remind me what all their products are again? Too many products, too little of too much.

After London attack, UK gov lays into Facebook, Google for not killing extremist terror pages

History - repeating itself

"This sort of shit, blowing up people, mowing people down in cars because of a religion didn't exist 15 years ago."

Religion has always, and will always, be the forerunner behind the notion of terrorism. Then come politics. It doesn't have to be about blowing yourself up or mowing people down.

To say that the idea of blowing up people (or mowing them down) didn't exist 15 years ago is an insult to the memory of those who have died at the hands of individuals and groups carrying out atrocities in the name of their religion.

True, history shows us that it's predominantly groups that use religion as an excuse to terrororise innocent people. You can go as far back as you like, but the most formidable examples are: the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the Sicarii, KKK, IRA. What about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh? Whether it's bombs, torture, mass poisoning, or simply opening fire on innocent people, often it has been individuals representing a cult or ideal, to which their "leader" has then acknowledged it was done in the name of their fanatical organization.

Cult or religious faction - to me there is no difference.

Brit ISP TalkTalk blocks control tool TeamViewer

Re: Talk Talk should just progressively block more and more traffic...

No one dares to admit the c..c...slur was very funny and instead prefer to show their disdain when in fact they probably use it more than yourself

Uber hires Obama's attorney-general to review its workplaces

Re:Why? and then we ask ourselves why women in are few and far between

I've often asked myself the same question.

And why is that companies promote themselves using adjectives and ideals that follow the "gender equality" agenda when if I were CEO of any of these companies I would be embarassed to say the least that 15% or even 19% of the staff were women.

In colossal shock, Uber alleged to be wretched hive of sexism, craven managerial ass-covering

She had to make a choice?!

WTF, if you read the original blog post what is even more disgusting is this:

I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that. [snip] .....One HR rep even explicitly told me that it wouldn't be retaliation if I received a negative review later because I had been "given an option".

What kind of dickheads are working for this company? Doh! Big ones obviously. The whole company and its politics are agressive. One reason why I will NEVER use their services.

A webcam is not so much a leering eye as the barrel of a gun

Alistair Dabbs is obviously a Depeche fan: Stripped, Barrel of a gun

Magic Leap sued for sex discrimination … by woman it hired to stamp out sex discrimination

Re: "Create more female charachters and ditch the sexist representations of existing charachters."

Is there a Tom Hardy virtual character available? Preferably reading bed time stories

Big blues: IBM's remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers

Pissstakers galore, crap management

A couple of rotten apples will always spoil it for the rest. A handful taking the piss and not being caught means that management sucks and the company is totally ignorant as to what is going on. Remote working or flexi working is a must for those who are parents with young children or for whatever reason are unable to live near enough to the office.

Companies that don't want to compromise or go back on what they originally said are simply admitting that they f***ed up and their managers are incompetent.

Oh and by the way, Ericsson is no better in terms of presence vs absence. But it's not the remote workers taking the piss, it's the ones that work on site: arrive at 10, 2 hour lunch break, go to gym next door, cigarette breaks, leave at 7pm. How many hours do management really think they put in? Come on. And the one that arrives early to leave early and actually WORKS?! That person is frowned upon for "leaving early".

Trump's visa plan leaks: American techies first

First your own, then the others

Everything starts at home. First your own, then the others. That's the way it has to be.

Educate your own, put the mechanisms in place to ensure they have a chance of being hired, then, and only then, if you can't find who you are looking for, you bring in manpower from abroad.

These mega corporations are just milking the system globally, any way they can to f**+k us all over, several times. In the US, in Europe as well.

Prioritise "the protection of American workers – our forgotten working people".

Trump is seen as a modern-day tyrant over the pond. But if this his mandate, the US people should hope that he sees it through.

Police raid India call centre, detain 500 in fraud probe

Where is the money going?

Ahh so that is what turbans were made for.

Dell trademarks everything it does as 'Cross Cloud'

Cross as in pissed off? Opens up opportunities to take the mick when something doesn't work.

"I use Cross Cloud"

"Well, I use Angry Cloud"

"Who cares! I use Pissed Cloud"

Hans off! Ericsson unplugs CEO after gräsliga results

Investing in workforce might have been better

Speaking from experience......Ericsson Italy, where hundreds have been laid off including employees with much to offer, employs 1000s of people which to be honest seem to be part of the woodwork. I have no idea what they do in there, many have been there for 15+ years doing the same thing. How can any company have a future if you don't invest in the staff you have and you just let them rot with you?

Their strategy to cut resources by outsourcing i.e bring in outsiders to learn with you, fire you, then send the outsiders back to where they came from to do your job hoping it will cost them less, obviously didn't pay off. So it's back to the drawing board for them. Complacency is a company's worst enemy.

Fraudsters are using you and this Ammyy of malware downloads

Non-serious companies attract non-serious users

I don't believe for one second that Ammyy software is used by banks and other top companies. Their web page content is as trustworthy as their software. Use a professional remote access software, not these scAMMYY applications. Oh and I am not going to nominate the other alternative, that's just as bad and used for scams as well as by sexperts online.

TalkTalk offers customer £30.20 'final settlement' after crims nick £3,500

Re: Customers CAN rescind.

yes, it did go something like that!!

Re: Customers CAN rescind.

yes, not exactly the best way but one hopes.

Customers CAN rescind.

TalkTalk should be ashamed not so much for the fact they got hacked, but for the simple fact they don't give a sh*t, are constantly condescending and so obnoxious. AND THEY KNOW IT!!!

I have had to spend days helping my elderly parents on the phone with Mr TALK TALKINGNONSENSE being told they will have to pay cancellation costs, changing bank details, moving funds, and in the end we contacted BT, yes British Telecom. They offered to pay £150 towards Mr TALK TALKINGNONSENSE's cancellation fee and now we're back online with BT, Good riddance TalkTalk.

I hope that others do the same.