Posts by BebopWeBop

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

little monkeys the lost of them.

(OK I know they are apes!)

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

I doubt it. US politics is run by the risch for the rich - Senators and Congresspeople generally start off rich and end up richer - and the rich pay for their campaigns. There is much rotten in the State of America.

Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads

Re: Ach, one word too many there

Maybe you should add 'without a revenue stream for Blue Shield'?

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

The consequences

Musk's ability to raise money is intimatly tied into Tesla's ridiculous valuations. As the share price detiorates watch SpaceX and Starlink get sold off pdq.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: Looks like China Learned the Lessons of the Opium Wars

Not is you are a member of the press (largely based in London) - in that case anything good comes from England, otherwise it is the 'other' nations' fault.

Re: Looks like China Learned the Lessons of the Opium Wars

I think the key word is gentry.

Re: Dementia

Young enuff shurely?

White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades

I think the subtitle is understated,

'We have a fucking problem'

But then thwe whole of the US does as well, not to mewntion the rest of the world.

UK's attempt to keep details of Apple 'backdoor' case secret… denied

I would aslso suggest that the Home Office can also be considered an incompetent organisation on so many levels (remember Windrush) and is extremely keen to keep its dirty linen well away from the sight people who are paying the bills.

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Thank you Comrade Trump

The first collection of that kompromat has been arranged, and we promise we have not kept kopies.

Yrs

Vlad.

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

Re: Cue donations to POTUS

That will be marshmallo law?

Re: This one should be interesting

No, not quite. Keeping the poor poor, distracts them - all the better for the fat arses.

As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal

Re: Worth it?

Certainly not now - he (Trump/Musk) seem to have a gtievence about SA - they want 'their' country back!

US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

Re: American desperation? Routine British feel-good panic?

Generally I both laughed and agreed - but it was not 'just one gun toting caretaker was it' - legislation restricting hand guns and others in the UK has my full support

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

Nice business

It would be a shame if it met an unfortunate accident....

Google reports halving code migration time with AI help

Re: "LLM-driven verification"

Totally?

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

Meanwhile in other news...

Google reports halving code migration time with AI help

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/google_ai_code_migration/

BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget

Re: "By my calculation, the Boss has now made 12 contactless payments of 100 quid"

I suspected it might be so - the credit5 card being on a lanyard and all that :-)

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

Re: DOGE Fight

Would that be falling out of a convenient window? Trump having taken lessons from Putin.

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Oops

"The founders were convinced that the service was superior and more secure than previous applications used by criminals."

I wonder, given the alleged behaviours of the criminals they enabled, the founders are now looking over their shoulders nervously? Squeaky bum time?

China's Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in 'test-run' for US telecom attacks

This has the potential to end very very badly. One of the parties will be tempted to launch a (physical) preemptive strike while they believe they still have the capacity to do so.

Cognizant discriminated against non-Indian workers in H-1B visa case, US jury finds

I thought that was the whole point of the H1B?

NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital

Re: fuck plantainr, just sort it out internally

Obviously a problem but not one that is necessarily related across the UK. My partner has had to have multiple blood tests (mainly run through her GP), as well as scans in three different hospitals (based on facilities available). All of the information has been available within a day to her consultant and team. This is based on hospitals in Inverness and Edinburgh and a GP in the Highlands with the SNHS. So there is good practice in some places.

iPhone 16 dubbed Apple's most repairable model in years

If you are able to modify the hardware, what better than a glued in battery to prevent someone changing it as a precaution?

Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use

Re: Suckers!

Try Affinity. Very good and it will read/write compatible files.

It hasn’t

24 year old version of Photoshop. And remarkably I have the paper! licence, and the CD. No they do not.

Anyway we abandoned Adobe 5 years ago.

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

Re: never again

What did the river do to you?

Re: never again

My LaserJet 5 is a solid beast - but that was well before enshittification.

HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic

Re: Old HP

My LaserJet 5 will be as well. Once leaving HP, I never bought another printer from them - and that is despite having my name on some patents for the earlier machines. It was a good decision.

Tesla nearing shareholder vote to grant Musk $46B

Getting his money out

Before the value of Tesla plunges even further...

Brexit border system outage puts perishable goods transport in peril

Re: "dozens of lorries were being held at the government's control post... for up to 20 hours"

And pints of Champagne...

UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems

Get your headline correct for once

England not UK

Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row

Re: LOL no

Or just a picture that the image processing software has not determined will be 'perfect'.

Engine cover flies from Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 during takeoff

Yeeeek

Been there, seen that :-( An engine cowling flying off an Airbus on a flight from Nairobi down to Mombassa 25 years ago. The flight staff didn't believe me (a scruffy student) until I insisted they look out of the fekin window. I suppose it wasn't a Boeing so not newsworthy :-)

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

Cynic, moi?

Dare I suggest that this was a paper grant, never expected or intended to achieve it's goals and constructed to be cancelled quiely?

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

Treaties

So the PFY is on a protracted holiday in a part of the world with more favorable (to him) climes

One assume that is a part of the world without extradition treaties?

Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

Re: Sweating assets

Maybe, but they worked and our 5L, still does years later.

“Despite pockets of softness in Q1, we saw signs of improvement overall,” said Lores in summary. He added that HP expects the “pace of recovery to be uneven across different segments.”

Those pockets did not include printing quality or customer sattisfaction.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

Revenge

Best served cold with a side helping of hot cash

Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier

That depends on the quality of their filtering. If it savs money, and they can get away with it, I would not be too sure.

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

Did the BA

admire the fenestration on the way down?

UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

I can be confident

That any recommendations will be ignored but police forces in England and the government. Other findings of unlawful behaviour in this area have been.

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs

Re: Our three weapons are…

Shhh - next you will be suggesting that private companies benefit from public investment but should not have to contribute....

And day two

"From Day One, our [7 million joint] customers will enjoy faster, more reliable coverage over more of the country – and without paying a penny extra. We are confident that this transaction will deliver significant benefits to our customers, the country and competition, and we look forward to working closely with the CMA as they review our notification."

Our 7 million locked in customers will find their levels of service quality go down (yes, it is possible, even from a low start) and their bills go up.

UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims

Re: Hot air

And tainted blood products.. a strategy based on making sure claimants have died before anything is done.

Re: No Justice

A mail lion signatures? They have ignored physical protests of the same order of magnitude. But Vennals is disposable, so….

Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight

Re: 16000ft iPhone drop test

One suspects it was a pretty standard terminal velocity :-)

Units of worry

The passengers had a right to be concerned.

No shit Sherlock!

NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

Re: Doubt the UK voter gives a shit...

The priotities of Scotland are rather broader than that. You are just repeating what Westminster and the MSM claim the priorities are.

Re: Threats to the UK NHS

The demise of the UK as a single entity is something to be looked forward to.