Posts by Ashto5

Blue Origin sues NASA for awarding SpaceX $3bn contract to land next American boots on the Moon

Nothing like a muppet scorned

Tesla roadster car currently going further than anything BO has launched and that was years ago

Let’s be honest Bezo you didn’t hire the best and SpaceX did

Now go back to shipping boxes like a good little shop owner

Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system

Time to get rid of smart phones

When is a smart phone no longer a smart phone, when it works against you!!

I have been in the receiving end of the police with a speeding image and the prosecution that follows, your guilty end of story.

That was until the day before when they sent me a copy of the image and I pointed out that my reg has a B and the image has an 8, no apology nothing they just hung up.

A very narrow escape but that’s what happens AI / ML is not infallible and innocent people will be prosecuted withy the threat admit it or the sentence will be loads worse.

See UK post office scandal if you don’t think that happens.

Time for a basic phone methinks

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns

Maybe this is the last iPhone I own

To be honest I really just want something that texts and makes calls

If your going to attempt to make me a criminal by your definition

Then I don’t want your product

Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims

PR Stunt

It is the same as the USA investigation into its tech sector pure unfiltered BS

Nothing to see here move along, everyone is doing the right thing.

Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week

700 Vacancies

Dismiss 10% while hiring 700 I didn’t think that was allowed ?

Still 700 vacancies is a lot, bet you fill them with min wage people

UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects

DHSS. 1988

Joined the project it was £2bn over budget.

It was run by Aurthur Anderson’s who had to change their name to Accenture (for some naughty reason)

You had to use their proprietary pseudo code generator which the DHSS had to license, well what a bag of crapola that was, I was reprimanded for putting a red pen through some of the code as it would never work “true = false” type stuff.

There mantra 4 weeks in ops, 4 weeks in development, 4 weeks as an analyst and then you ready to lead a team.

NIRS - did it every go live.

The simple thing is with government IT no one every gets sacked.

Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

Re: To quote a well known phrase...

Did not know about the X-15

Wow pretty amazing stuff

Re: To quote a well known phrase...

The glass is likely to be damaged by the swelling ego’s of the passengers

Re: Do we have to let them back in ?

Don’t hey have to to isolate when they arrive and when they get back ?

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

Never met him

Never met him

But his bloody software has killed a lot of my machines over the years, reducing powerful pc’s to spluttering husks.

Sounds like a guy to party with but not let into your life.

EU court rules in Telenet copyright case: ISPs can be forced to hand over some customer data use details

Very apt

Bunch of w@@@@@s prosecuted by bunch of w@@@@@s for another bunch of w@@@@@s.

It just sort of writes itself.

India tells Twitter to obey its laws — or make wielding them easier

Democracy ??

How can democracy really exist when in the rich and powerful can be elected ?

The UK 2.5 party system is a demonstration in a system that no longer represents its people.

No party elected in the UK has ever had a majority of 50%+ of the electorate.

They get by on 60% turn out resulting in governments voted in by 33% of the population.

India is the same I believe, right family right connections

Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated

Leave them alone

Clearly Toshiba have totally got this

A couple more fumbles and the board will be replaced by the company that buys Toshiba for peanuts.

Personally I am more upset at the fact my Toshiba TV plays adverts at me and I have no way of stopping it.

Some of the TV ads are for violent programs that my youngest saw.

Let them fail.

Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset

Re: tribbles, how to remove?

Or “it’s game over man”

Three million job cuts coming at Indian services giants by next year, says Bank of America

Who cares ?

The UK & USA all sold their people down the river.

BOA can make speculation all they want.

India & China are the powerful entities now.

America is sliding towards the “ End of Empire”

What can the UK IT person offer ?

A real willingness to get the job done and NOT a billing cycle uplift mechanism.

Virgin Galactic goes where it's gone twice before, for the first time in two years

Amazing

We are so close to real space travel

I hope it happens in my lifetime

Beijing bashes Bing and lashes LinkedIn over improper data collection and storage

V Scary

First it was the Americans putting demands on other countries to follow its own rules

Now we have China doing the same

And American IT rollover like puppies

They chase the dollar and the yen and don’t care who gets hurt along the way

Americans chasing the dollar never saw the rise of China and now as they slip into subservience to China laws they go blindly still chasing the dollar

And so goes liberty ...

39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question

Hope it brings some closure

The IT staff and managers should have owned up immediately NOT 10 years later.

I would NEVER let someone be prosecuted if I new it was based on a lie.

As for the lawyers involved each should be struck off they apparently knew what they did was wrong, maybe put them in front of the same judges they misled and see the judgment passed on them.

Finally I do believe a name and shame for ALL of those involved.

Full compensation, each SPM PM should be treated as if they had perfect careers and successful businesses and they should be paid out accordingly.

I am so glad that they finally have their justice.

Patent battle over Facebook Live and 'walkie talkie' tech rattles through High Court in London

Yawn ...

Boring ...

Docking £500k commission from top SAS salesman was perfectly legal, rules judge

Torn Between ...

A sales person NOT getting a ridiculous sum

AND

A company reneging on promises, by using the fine print.

Judges, seem to fail in their role these days, they are supposed to use their judgement.

From now on I will include a clause in my employee contracts, "The company will pay you at its discretion" as the judge praised the company in inserting this type of clause.

NASA's Mars helicopter spins up its blades ahead of hoped-for 12 April hover

Love it

This will be amazing if it works imagine being able to fly over Mars

Wow

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

FB is Too Powerful

It needs to be stopped

I used a site and it offered me the ability to select which cookies features etc I was willing to accept

BUT

It stated FB is not part of the recognised process to opt out, so basically tough shit we are sending FB all your searches and pages you look at

Cheers for that mate

Simple concept

Facebook want a free ride and want to get paid by advertisers

If you play music to the public you have to pay royalties

It is exactly the same

USA don’t like it when other countries don’t want to just pay them money for nothing

Honestly OZ should just block FB in return

It’s simple really

When a radio broadcasts music

It pays royalties

FB wants to do this but for free

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers' fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack

1000 programmers

The only place you see those numbers would be in India

Methinks they doth protest too much

It was probably a couple of guys who spotted the security hole

And now the big boys look stupid

Classic technique exaggerate the story to not look stupid, children do it all the time

Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks

Avoid Google

Simples

No login no account

No real use for them other than search

And frankly I can no longer be bothered to scroll past the paid for ads

Will not miss them, they have invented all the best bits and now they are out here we don’t need them

After 7 months and 500 million kilometres, the Emirates Mars Mission has to endure 27 nail-biting minutes of engine burn

Love all this space exploration

You can not get enough space exploration

Let’s get to the moon again before I die and let’s aim for Mars as soon as possible

As a species we need to get off this rock just in case dint what to be a dinosaur

UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent

Paid for failure

Yup that sounds like a government contract

Pay for bad code

Pay for bug fixes because of bad code

Pay for bug fixes to the bug fixes because of bad code

Scrap the system and pay the exit clause

Rehire the same team and expect a different outcome - total insanity

Well done Dildo

In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web

There is no choice

This is just another illusion out forward by the bug tech privacy advocates

It is just white wash, apple will give you the option to not be tracked by anyone other than apple

Come on ....

Just be honest apple and state

“ we will milk you for all we can get, and we will milk anyone using our equipment “

Man arrested after UK school finds wiped hard drives on devices connected to network

Re: But Why?

You don’t need to understand this guy

He is a fool and you just don’t want to waste time on him

Now point the spotlight on HOW he did it and WHY was there no one to stop him and then sack THAT monkey

On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers

Push to use UK providers

In this post EU world we should be trying to get companies to move to UK cloud service providers

Data should stay in the country

Infosys follows flag-waving US hiring spree with quieter Canadian and Mexican hiring spree

Remember Billing

It’s funny you pay to get the code written and then you pay again to get the code fixed

Each time the offshore companies take your money

And the donkey bean counters convince themselves they are saving money

Look at the cost of fixing bad software and then wonder why these offshore outfits are making loads of money

It seems it pays to write bad or terrible code

Bill

Bill

Bill

Bill

JetBrains' build automation software eyed as possible enabler of SolarWinds hack

Looks like finger pointing

Oh quick everyone look at them ....

Don’t notice that regardless of what software was involved we got hacked ...

Personally I bet it was intel they built the chips or maybe the electric company ...

Amazon turns Victorian industrialist with $2bn building project to house workers near new headquarters

Re: Scary

Could be described as servants quarters maybe ?

America formed on the basis of breaking away from a monarchy, now run by another type of monarchy

Ya couldn’t make this stuff up

Scary

Just scary

I will provide a home for you as long as you work for me, but I will pay you very little as I provide a home for you, of course you can leave and be homeless

Is that not a type of slavery

USA is a worrying place

Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine

Facebook Times Up

I wish !!!

The new UK WhatsApp FB data feast coming in feb is bad news

FB was a great idea now it’s just money

Assembly language, arcade games, and YouTube: The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer

ZX81

Only thing I ever pestered my parents for

Dad hated me hogging the tv

But it helped me to a 30+ year career in software

Back then you had to prove yourself with logic tests, a degree was something other people did

You can’t take a c..p now without a degree

Rose tinted glass are great

If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app

Not Fair

Once a product becomes this ubiquitous it should fall under the control of the country’s regulatory system like BT

There should no take it or leave it option as leave it is no longer an option

I only used WhatsApp because colleagues are using it and the data was secure and not sent to FB

What option do I now have

I will point it out to the data security team at the company I work for and maybe they will ban it from work devices

It is a pity as this was very useful

Deloitte's Autonomy auditor 'lost objectivity' when looking at Brit software firm's disputed books, says regulator

Accountants Should Be Personally Liable

If accountants were personally liable for signing off accounts then issues like this would go away

HP should be chasing Delloite for the monies as THEY signed them off

One prosecution like that and the whole issue will disappear

It appears that the big 4 seem to have a real reputation issue to the public but NOT to business

UK competition watchdog calls for views on Nvidia's prospective $40bn acquisition of Brit chip designer Arm

Bring it home

Without companies like this the UK IT sector is diminished

UK plc need to arrange the purchase by UK buyers

Once it’s in the USA we WILL be screwed over

Example look at Cadbury they promised it would stay it was gone within a year and now the chocolate tastes of coconut oil

You cannot trust the USA on business

Uncle Sam sues Facebook for allegedly discriminating against US workers in favor of foreigners on H-1B visas

DOJ Issue

So once the Trump has left office, nice Mr Biden will kill the lawsuit and allow millions of H1 visa people to flood in.

Hmm sounds very ANTI AMERICAN.

As for outsourcing here in the UK it is massive in the financial sector THE IR35 rule almost forces employers to use off shore, the quality is truly something to behold ....

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

Copying Apple

They are just copying apples amazingly successful lock in model.

Next they will charge 3rd party suppliers a 30% fee to use their cartridges in a HP money pit.

It’s just business ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges £12bn green economy package

Hybrid Failures

Hybrids have been reported that they produce MORE toxins than petrol or diesel cars

Better to just ban petrol and diesel personal vehicles

Allow business to use the hybrid model

Fill the roofs of the UK with solar and hills with wind turbines

If it is still not enough energy TOUGH

Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators

Google have enough data

Help google

No thanks I will pass on that

Every website I visit is passed to google even when I use a different browser

G Analytics is everywhere it’s like some sort of virus just slurping the data up

I now have blocks on google URLs but they keep changing them hardly a reputable action, none of the GDPR cookie consents EVER turn GA off

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

Everything Is Subscription These Days

You own nothing, but are on the hook for lots of subscriptions.

You can not stand still in the UK without a £1000 revenue stream.

The evolution of C#: Lead designer describes modernization journey, breaks it down about getting func-y

Horses for Courses

The question I would have asked him

"Given a blank slate, what would you do now?"

C# is great and has provided me with a good living for a long time, VB before that, Delphi before that and Cobol before that.

When I look at what these guys and gals produce, I can see that I stand on the shoulders of GIANTS, I am OK with that :)

Former Microsoft tester sent down for 9 years after $10m gift card fraud

Bitcoin for crime

Bitcoin has a full ledger of where and who touched it, look at Silk Road billions of $ just sitting there crooks know it’s being watched and will not touch it.

Cash IS KING

Untraceable and easily stored and spent as long as you DONT do as this muppet did and flaunt it

India slashes red tape to make life much easier for outsourcers and outsourcing

Example of a true government

India is planning ahead, good for them

Glad to see the UK government doing the same, IR35 has helped to boost the Indian outsourcing companies.

UK plc closing down its freelance sector to help India, it just makes sense, after all India has its space program to fund.

Well done Mr Sunak for helping India it shows where your allegiance is.

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

Amazing

Seriously the voyager missions are just amazing

I can’t run a modern phone without weekly updates

Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US

Re: "Christopher Taylor, a 57-year-old labourer, appeared by video link"

You have to hope he was clothed