Posts by sanmigueelbeer 1502 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2016
I really didn't think he'd get away with that.
Nothing strange about it. It is to be expected.
The American "justice system" is really, to be polite to the Americans, "weird".
Look at HPE vs Autonomy: The US DoJ is now thinking of extraditing Mike Lynch because it is now beginning to show that he is going to walk away with a slap on the wrist.
Let me try ...
1. For ever 24 hours of outage (or up to 24 hours) = £50 credit to the customer(s) affected.
2. Proof by affected service can be submitted by screenshots or photos taken from phones.
3. Processing time by the bank will take no more than 4 calendar weeks. Any delay will incur an additional 10% interest per day.
No - US companies should pay THE CORRECT tax in the country where profits are earned, simple as that!
FTFY
Corporate America Is Repatriating a Fraction of Foreign Profits
companies kept much of their overseas profit offshore to avoid a 35% tax that kicked in when they brought the money back to the U.S. The Republican tax law set a one-time 15.5% tax rate on cash
people holding onto their devices for longer as reasons for the weaker sales
Oh, DUH!
If the prices of the phones weren't "over the top", consumers would have reason to upgrade sooner rather than "why bother?".
crappy demand in China
In India, guess what the fastest selling mobile phone manufacturer is.
If Apple can't dominate the mobile phone market in China and India, all bets are off. If I may be allowed to quote the late Bill Pullman, "Game over, man. Game over!"
A few years ago, BOSE ran into a fiasco when they released an firmware update to their flagship QC35. The firmware update degraded the ANC performance of the headphones.
The update wasn't the fiasco. It was when several people started posting the issue at the BOSE website. Those people who started the thread noticed that, without any notice, the threads were deleted by the moderators.
Fast forward, the moderators came clean and, using lawyer jargon, "did not admit any wrongdoing" and "BOSE website is owned by BOSE and we can do whatever we want (including deleting threads that bad mouth the company)" finally caved in.
BOSE finally issued a world-wide recall of QC35 headset regardless of age in order to stop the issue getting worst.
"I think a combination is a no-brainer, I believe very strongly in the synergies,"
And at the end of the mergers, the new entity will (still) be flogging printers and inks.
They are not called "raiders" for nothing.
Medieval raiders only care about the loot. When they are done, they kill (or enslave) survivors and burn anything left to the ground.
Not much different to modern day financial versions.
Icann cares nothing more than the profit he will/might get when he sells his shares.
At the end of the day, the low-level staff will be the biggest losers.
Meanwhile, Nunavut has some company in Spanish media company Cadena SER, who this week was revealed by Spain's National Security Department to be one of a group of local companies to fall victim to a ransomware outbreak in that region.
Don't forget IT consultancy firm Everis got hit too.
I find it ironic that "Everis, an IT consultancy firm owned by the NTT Data Group" getting hit with ransomware.
And oh yeah when getting a direct tip actually follow it up.
The US intelligence agencies got the complete "blueprint" for 9/11 attack about 3 months before it happened with KSM was arrested in Manila, Philippines.
The information was not "actioned" (or taken seriously) because the Americans all believed that "no one DARES to attack US soil".
Well, Australia was meant to be the "lynchpin" to ban (or limit) flushable wipes. Unfortunately, the government was (easily) trounced by Kimberly-Clark.
The problem with MAX's is that Boeing was allowed to determine whether they could reuse the type certification from the -700/800/900 model series.
The job is with the FAA. Unfortunately, a lot of FAA "staff" are not really FAA staff. A lot of Boeing certification are made by Boeing staff seconded to work at FAA. So the FAA certification are handled by Boeing staff. It is not really "ideal" but trying to maintain talent is getting more and more difficult with an always-shrinking budget.
The issue with the Boeing MAX was that Boeing knowing & deliberately kept key documents away from the FAA so the MAX can be re-certified quicker (two- to three years faster). FAA was keen to "rubber stamp" the MAX.
This would have also required that pilots operating the MAX series to have received a new round of training that would have included awareness of the MCAS system and troubleshooting issues with it.
Read this: Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus With the 737 Max. This explains why Boeing did what they did: Boeing needed to bring MAX out NOW (and not 3- or 4 years later) in order to compete with the NEO. This means Boeing had to cut a lot of corners (which resulted in death).
But y'know what is sad about this? No one goes to jail.
So much for America's much vaunted "do the crime, do the time".
NOTE: U.S. FAA revokes certification of Xtra Aerospace after Lion Air crash
Could be worse, Capita could have been involved
It is worst than Capita: ABF's IT is mangled by none-other-than IBM Australia.
Used to work for Aust Customs Services and all I can say is that this organization doesn't look at "IT" too kindly. Old guards composed of ex-Australian Navy (flag officers) with a "JFDI" mentality can make "do the right thing" difficult. "Change control? What change control? I don't care about change control. Turn it on OR ELSE ..."
When I left in 2008, ACS still had a lot of "servers" running on NT and COBOL that had an uptime of >5 years.
I remembered in 2010, the CIO of ACS had an interview with ZDnet and he explained/bragged how, under his leadership, he instilled a level of "reluctance" to technology. Let's just say he "quit" a few months after the interview was published.
"Young kids are earning $5m playing Fortnite," he said, "but when a business executive devotes a huge portion of their life... that it's somehow morally wrong they get rewarded for it."
Because these "kids" are very good at what they're doing (i.e. playing Fortnight), thus, fairly "compensated".
Telstra executives, however, not so.
Blizzard Entertainment cuts punishment for HK gamer in protests row
“I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision,” he said in a post on Blizzard’s website.
BULL5H1T!
And I’ve heard personally from folks inside Apple who I’m friends with and others that I just know by reputation, that my comments were hurtful.
and
he thought Hall's critique is mostly fair.
Is Hall not meant to voice out (or criticize) what we all thought of Apple's state of quality control of their software?
Apple management, it seems, need to grow up if they can't handle the truth.
Remember: Being number one is different to STAYING number one.
After taking a helicopter view of this issue, we have discovered that the people responsible for maintaining the relevant systems have been let go some months earlier in-spite of these requirements being clearly communicated last month.
You sound like Kim Jong Un. Is that the reason for AC?
HP Inc to cut about 7,000 to 9,000 jobs in restructuring push
We are taking bold and decisive actions as we embark on our next chapter
Translation: HP do/will not know what is going to happen after getting rid of the MOST EXPERIENCED STAFF.
we will accomplish this by advancing our leadership
Translation: Managers who can get rid of their OLDEST staff will be assured of promotion.
'System is not broken' after 737 MAX crashes: review panel chair
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration process for certifying new airplanes is not broken but needs to be improved ...
At the end of the day, the FAA is "owned" by Boeing. When Boeing says "jump" ...
The trustworthiness of FAA as an "independent" organization is now a myth (and a running joke).
Boeing is THE FAA.
In other Boeing-related news: Fleet of Boeing 737 Max to be Parked in the Middle of Australia
I suspect Singapore's aviation regulators do not see 737MAX returning to service any time soon.
Funny you should say that ... U.S. transport chief warns against mixed messages on Boeing's 737 MAX states: U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao warned regulators on Wednesday against sending conflicting messages as they work to ensure Boeing Co’s 737 MAX is safe to resume operations.
That to me sounds like FAA is telling every regulators "you WILL approve".
Sometimes, I really wonder how far corruption in the US has reached.
and then they go and not vote for Fatty McFuckhead despite all the money he threw at them
If you understand our three political parties right now, I don't blame people for voting for Clive. He is the "best" of the lot (and that's already "scraping the bottom of the barrel").
I do like the fact that Clive spent millions on the campaign and didn't get a seat
No he didn't. It may say that $60mil was "his" money but in reality he can claim that as a legitimate "tax deduction". Why? Because the Australian Tax Office is terrified of "upsetting" the big business.
PS: And he's what I call a "media w h*re".
I have two suggestion:
1. Can Nokia and Cisco drop the prices down by (at least) 50%? I mean, it's not as if the kit were made in their home countries. For Pete's sake, the kit are made in China.
2. If Huawei owns 2/3 of the 5G patents, why don't western companies reverse-engineer the software and patents just like any Chinese-owned company would do?
In other related news, after reading about Nokia and SORM, I now understand why US intelligence is also in this scheme (to ban Huawei).
Are you saying that all Mac Pros are manufactured at this factory, but because the number of Mac Pros sold is less than other models, because they're sold to a certain target market, and (possibly) because they're made in the USA they're more expensive then other Macs like the iMac?
The US factory doesn't churn a lot out. I don't have the numbers, HOWEVER, because the output is very low, the price is high. Very high.
Also, some people (in Apple) like to brag that this factory churns out "custom-made" Mac Pros, hence, the price tags.
The factory exist, not (just) because of this, but also gives Apple a "tax benefit": Factory sits inside US territory and has a monthly output >1. This means Apple is entitled for the tax minimization break.
Apple has assembled the Mac Pro at its factory in Austin since 2013.
Actually, this sentence is "half true".
It is true that Apple has been assembling the Mac Pro since 2013, however, the factory is small (compared to ones in China).
Not only is the factory small but the "target market" for the output are for high-end music studios, graphics houses and/or Hollywood-style film production studios.
The prices are more expensive than the Made in China variety and are out of reach for the majority of the American public.
So this announcement is actually a "hallowed statement".
Am I the only one that reads this as saying they still have no intention of complying with this order?
Quite the opposite. They will comply with the court order. A few options IBM can use to stymie the other side:
1. Redact everything but the white spaces;
2. Bury the documents under mountain of other documents;
3. Buy Tesla solar panels and the documents self-combusted "by accident".
Look, if IBM is trying to "limit" the discovery process, then it is very obvious they've got something to hide.
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