Posts by Ashto5

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

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

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die

FacePalm

For god sakes just use MS office suite it costs peanuts and rocks.

US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content

Publishers or Not

I don't understand the problem here.

The platform allows users to self publish material on THEIR platforms.

They ARE a publisher.

Seems real simple, now time for the lawyers to jump in and start grabbing cash for total BS arguments.

If I wrote an article and sent it into the Telegraph or the Times and they published it, THEY would also carry liability, what's the difference ?

Google won’t let Australia have shiny new toys unless it picks apart pay-for-news plan

Seriously Who Cares

Any news you read is slanted to a political view point.

Getting news from google yahoo Facebook is just plain stupid.

Use as many sources as possible and remember that in all of this YOU are the least important entity in the chain

Everyone else has an agenda

GitLab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect

Cook your own

I had to show an Angular dev how I would have coded a small piece of a webpage in JS,

“why would you do that you can use a library” was the reply.

I asked him “what does the library do ?“

“It validates the input in the text box With simple markup”

I then asked

“what else’s it does”

his reply I think shocked himself

“I don’t know”

And the penny dropped ....

We couldn't deliver prisoner rehab plans because Sopra Steria ballsed up our IT, Interserve tells High Court

Outsource Fun

Well it’s been done for the last 50 years

You put bean counters in charge and BOOM race to the bottom

The old saying

“You think professionals are expensive, try amateurs”

Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it

10%

Companies should only be allowed to make 10% profit.

Any more is exploiting markets.

Fighting an insurer over lockdown payout? UK policyholders just won an important COVID-19 test case

WHAT!!!

Come on be real there is always space for MORE lawyers.

Up from the depths, 864 servers inside, covered in slime, it's Natick!

Warm Oceans

Well warm oceans won’t cause any problems

Great result morons

Don't pay the ransom, mate. Don't even fix a price, say Australia's cyber security bods

Hmm how long have we been doing this

Don’t you think that by now we really should have this s@@t sorted out.

I received a dodgy looking unexpected email, used the “report suspicious email” button and away it went.

Then all hell broke loose as the security guy just open the attachment and it proceeded to copy itself to all shares and encrypt an files found, 5 minutes it was all over the network.

Links / attachments from outside of your domain should be quarantined or just deleted.

Oracle customers clamor for its hardware. Yup, hardware. It can't build Exadata fast enough

Cloud IS Here To Stay

The skills for on perm infrastructure are fast disappearing over the retire horizon.

The latest set in “managers” will only know of cloud and it is still sold as a silver bullet.

Companies will NEVER get away from cloud.

Cops called to Singapore golf club after 'wrongdoers' use scripts to book popular timeslots

Glastonbury Festival

A friend did this with the Glastonbury website

He passed the script out to his friends and they ALL secured the tickets they wanted within minutes of the site opening up

That’s just clever people being clever nothing illegal about it

It was in their world of expertise so it’s not a problem

If someone else can’t get a slot well tough that’s the way the world works

Call the cops, that is pathetic

VMware staff in Silicon Valley can leave a pandemic, wildfire-ridden zone – if they're willing to accept less pay

No to pay cuts no to pay rise

Working from home saves a fortune in time and costs

I spent £7k on fuel last year this year I expect it to be around £2k that is a pay rise in itself factor in the saving of the 2 -3hr commute and I am on easy street

Think with IT people is you can always move job if your not valued correctly

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Makes No Difference

FB google etc will find a away to keep eating the data

Australia starts second fight with Google, this time over whether app stores leak data, gouge devs, steal ideas and warp markets

App Store / Play Store

The charges are wrong, just plain wrong.

App Store & Play Store are an offering to the user to BUY the damn device.

The security scanning etc.. THAT is what the manufacturers should be offering to make THEIR shiny product worth buying.

It is a monopoly (other games are available) 30% disgusting ... over £1k for a phone disgusting

UK Home Office seeks suppliers: £25m up for grabs to build database to keep track of crimelords' ill-gotten gains

Too Late Cxxxxa Has The Contract

They can do it for £10 million, fully tested and delivered to specification.

Small Print: BUT should there need to be any alteration at all, the rate is £10,000 per hour

The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?

Bean Counters & IT Managers

A while ago ..

We had a need to replace ALL the laptops and desktops (full upgrade cycle)

I.T. listed the specs and placed the order £70k

Bean counter objected

I.T. Manager jumped in and altered the specs to fit the "new" budget.

Kit arrived with 5,400 rpm hard drives and processors 2 levels lower than we requested.

Supplier refused to take them back.

They sat in the corner for years as they were slower than the kit we already had.

"A camel is a horse designed by committee"

Apple: Yeah, about those ground-breaking privacy features in iOS 14 – don't expect them until next year

Is There An App For That

We need a simple app that resets the ID for the user at random intervals.

SOD the big data slurpers.

I have NEVER bought anything based on an ad that was shown to me on an unrelated page, never had never will.

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

Not To Worry

Don’t worry peoples

Capita will be ok {thumbs up}

They will get the next government contract no problem

We all need to get behind Capita in these trying times

Crapita continue to make average IT people look like experts

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

So the UK is crap

At least we excel at something

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

Well I Believe Him

Yup totally believe him

He is a good guy

Try to see it from his point of view

He took the time to make a vid so he may be telling the truth

Yup I believe him

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

Who IS The Worst

China or the USA?

Both do things only for themselves, they will trample over any country or perceived rights you or I have.

In the last 30 years has it NOT become apparent that the rest of the world does not matter to these guys only your money.

AI world has gone bananas, it's official. This algorithm will help you optimize your peanut butter and banana sarnies

Graduates !!!

So let’s get people with no understanding of the real world and they can write the programs that will interact with normal people

What could go wrong ?

Let’s make a list or is there an AI app to do that for me.