I'm sure "ethical" in business terms really means how much can we squeeze them before they revolt.
Posts by TheSkunkyMonk
111 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Dec 2015
One-time permanent DWP secretary Robert Devereux set to rock up at 'ethical' tech biz Salesforce
It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze
The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco
Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity
Re: And I thought Smart TVs were bad
Had my Viera up on the wall for well over a decade now only time it will come down is when it no longer turns on. I fear for that day, do they even make Tv's these days without microphones and cameras built in? Mind its only used for watching episodes off the pc anyway.
Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it
One way ticket
I know there isnt many things humanity can agree on but can we atleast accept these marketing folk aren't doing the world any good and we'd be a lot better off with out them, anywhere, on the planet and they should all go and shoot themselves for the sake of humanity. Back on topic, if a site doesn't work with noscript&ABP enabled I simply just don't use that site, advertisers are just as bad as bankers.
NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...
May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'
Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today
EU politely asks if China could stop snaffling IP as precondition for doing business
China has got this one right, no one should patents on ideas/inventions and if someone can make something better then so be it! Specially with drugs and medical equipment absolute joke we allow companies to hold patents on cures and treatments and allow research to be done behind closed doors. If humanity ever wants to progress we are going to have to start being more open the idea of sharing our ideas/designs/inventions. Ffs all IT folk should know this, without RFC's and sharing we would of never had the internet and the tools we have today.
Bethesda blunders, IRS sounds the alarm, China ransomware, and more
So sad Bethesda had to go and trash Fallout, this could of been massive if they had just gave us private servers and mod support, the kind of crap we'd expect with a Fallout game. But nope, they wanted a cosmetics store. Shame so many companies have gone this route and forgot what made them great, I miss pirates on Battlefield :(
A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace
Warning: Malware, rogue users can spy on some apps' HTTPS crypto – by whipping them with a CAT o' nine TLS
Re: It's time to start over
I thought it was working as intended, it was built to get data from one place to another and security was never its intension. The real problems happened when it started getting used for commerce and cost cutting by big business with poorly trained or sometimes overtrained people setting the stuff up to add to the fire!
The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box
Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait
Yup why bother paying people to test your product when you can get people todo it for free, same with the games industry as well just its called Early Access. Absolute joke and the practice needs to stop sadly the only way this will happen is if the kids stop parting with their cash for incomplete garbage and the chance to be the first...
Microsoft loves Linux so much its R Open install script rm'd /bin/sh
Now Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown CPU design
Universal Credit has never delivered bang for buck, but now there's no turning back – watchdog
The only good thing about this is the name! Why not dump all the paperwork and pay every British citizen a universal income instead of the current benefits system, a basic living allowance to cover the costs of life allowing us to work towards better things and brighter futures, it would ease the labor market and make companies give better benefits to get those workers, it would lead to people living a more varied and rewarding life instead of the stress and divides we currently have! Lets keep the name and make a change for the better of society instead of for the greed of others.
Intel confirms it’ll release GPUs in 2020
WannaCry reverse-engineer Marcus Hutchins hit with fresh charges
He probably did the deed in my eyes but when people are extradited the country they are sent to should at the very least have to cover the legal costs for them if they are removed from a country where a solicitor/barrister would usually be provided for you free of charge, this should be part of the UK's conditions on letting our citizens go through this process! always knew it was to good to be true, and it was probably a story to cover him accidentally registering the domain in his name in the first place, but that is for the court to decide.
Britain's new F-35s arrive in UK as US.gov auditor sounds reliability warning klaxon
Mind the gap: Men paid 18.6% more than women in Blighty tech sector
Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?
Microsoft loves Linux so much it wants someone else to build distros for its Windows Store
I hope they stick to there guns and stay away from the store until Microsoft decides to dump its forced upgrade policy(YES WE ALL KNOW SEA OF THIEVES COULD BE RAN ON WINDOWS 7 OR EVEN XP! yes Im a kid at heart forget office)to its crappy Marketeers wet dream that is Windows10 and they themself's finally open up their source code. I know when 7 finally goes(its only for games its used atm anyway) Ubuntu with GnomeFlashback and a few other alterations will be my goto OS.
UK smut overlord declares age checks should protect users' privates
A Little Out Their
I know this may seem a little odd in the modern world but have we erm tried parenting? Like old fashioned style where the parents pay attention to their kids and what they get up to... I know giving them a smart phone and unfettered access to the net is easy and give you mummies plenty extra time for candy crush but maybe we need to get a little old school and start looking after our families again! We could start doing the same for our old as well instead of dumping them off in old peoples homes, imagine a world where people cared...
Bitcoin's blockchain: Potentially a hazardous waste dump of child abuse, malware, etc
Sysadmin held a rack of servers off the ground for 15 mins, crashed ISP when he put them down
Birmingham UK to Uber: Want a new licence? Tell us about your operating model
They are just taxi's that don't need to have the extra vehicle safety checks, or special insurance, or local knowledge tests, or any form of check really, face it they are nothing more than a taxi you order with an app instead of a telephone call. unless they are sending out registered taxi drivers they should be fined and stopped from trading in the UK or the regulations on insurance and vehicle safety tests should be dropped for taxi drivers.
Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage
When clever code kills, who pays and who does the time? A Brit expert explains to El Reg
Wish you could log into someone's Netgear box without a password? Summon a &genie=1
Here's why online social networks are bad for humanity, the nerds who helped build them tut-tut
Hold on to your aaSes: Yup, Windows 10 'as a service' is incoming
How much will Britain's next F-35s cost? Not telling, says MoD
GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online
GCSE is a joke if its still anything like it was when I did it, we had to make a Zeotrope, write a letter in word and produce a presentation to explain how we would design a website no actual html or php just an explanation as to how we would lay it out, in English words not code, no image editing no nothing it was the biggest sham I had ever seen. Their only defense was we were the first year to take it.
Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons
Faster? its using more memory/cpu than ever! Plus the new look is absolutely hideous, and I only see a hindrance to the new layout no extra benefits to it all. All in all they dragged me away from Microsoft over ten year ago and now they have just pushed me right back with this godawful update! well until a fork comes along then I might have another look. Hope NoScript gets ported to IE it was Firefoxes biggest selling point for me(yes I know firefox will have it back soon as well).
IBM: We're now a, what's not losing money? Ah, a cognitive cloud champ!
Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond
The internet may well be the root cause of today's problems… but not in the way you think
Re: The problem isn't ideologies spreading on the Internet
It was the only thing that Thatcher actually got right, when she decided that breweries should only be allowed to own a certain amount of pubs. This idea should be taken a step further and be implemented with property and cash. We don't need people owning hundred of flats and houses and it does nothing but increase prices for everyone else(I do see how that can be a benefit if you already have property, and yes I do and id rather see the loss). The same for money, it is not an unlimited resource we only have so much in circulation, so why on earth should people be allowed to hoard large percentages of it? I'm not even going to get started on the way it is created and paid for.
Ransomware scum have already unleashed kill-switch-free WannaCrypt variant
Facebook fake news: Sort it out yourself, readers
Leaked: The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors
UK ISPs may be handed cock-blocking powers
UK prison reform report wants hard-coded no-fly zones in drones to keep them out of jail
Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs
MtGox collapse victims now picked off by phishing vultures
i wrote abit of code on sorceforge years ago called mshell in vb, removed recently for some unkown reason highlighting the biggest problem with windows and trojans, with a simple dll call you can hide your process from taskmon to top this off this stunt can also be pulled off in the dev version spy++
its a stupid feature that should of never been added as it only allows abuse and personally I believe that is why it was added.
Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill
i used to work as a tech in a shop in my youth, we had a cock up on a receipt and the counter guy had put Mhz down after the amd 1800, its didn't run at 1800mhz, and at the time that was the fastest chip, i had to handle the call and well i told him where togo after he didnt accept the explanation(why i was never allowed in the shop front) and he later managed to come in the store and get my boss, i was shocked he just gave the guy a full refund on his system and let him keep it he even got software covered on his warranty he was in nearly every week with some idiotic issue and would always ask for me, sure he just liked getting under my skin. needless to say after reading this i now know why he just gave him his money back and kissed his arse.