Posts by steviebuk

Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist

Re: Ooooo

Thanks, but I don't drink :)

I'll never forget their dirty deal with the dirty dealer Max Clifford. Create a hoax outcry for the game to make people want to buy it. Sadly, it worked on me as a friend mentioned it and we went to buy it. Got it home and I was disappointed by the old style top down graphics. So fuck them, I may have copied the disc then took it back. May or may not have applied a crack to "carry on trying it out". Didn't feel bad after finding out about the Max Clifford bullshit.

Ooooo

coughPRstuntcough

Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it

Sounds

bollocks to me. I'm far enough away from the screen when on a Teams call this would never happen. Not only that, the inbuilt camera isn't even HD so its never going to happen. Its not like in the Alan Partridge movie when she wonders into his office and you can see in his glasses he's watching porn. Maybe thats where they got the idea.

UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London

So...

...if all of Arm is listed does that not mean in one large whack, Nvidia can just try and buy all the shares or at least a controlling amount?

I can't remember the exact details, there is a video of it on YouTube. Where they asked a young Alan Sugar in the 80s why he makes all his electronics abroad and has them shipped in. He moaned about tax. I think he said if its made in the UK the electronics get taxed but if he makes it abroad and imports it, there is no tax on it. I think that's the same issue.

Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked

Re: Uber

Probably will now.

EU puts smart device manufacturers on the hook for cyber security

Offline

Should also be a rule that all devices should be either allowed to work offline so when they close the servers, all kit doesn't become useless. And would allow those who know to setup their own local or cloud based servers that they can point the device to.

Blue Monday for Blue Origin as rocket bursts into flame

Re: They must of

Its gone over your 'ed.

Re: They must of

Nope, West Side massive!

Re: They must of

As I always say as my excuse. I grew up in London innit. So its "must of" as in must've but typed the way I say it. Like birfday.

;o)

They must of

bought all the parts from Chinese seller's off Amazon. And all packages contained a bribe for 5 star reviews.

White House to tech world: Promise you'll write secure code – or Feds won't use it

A dangerous path

Because with talk like this you get the Post Office scandal that we all know. The scandal that saw innocent people jailed, death, ruined lives and Fujitsu constantly lying that there were "No bugs at all in their software"

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

Re: China Quality

and the problem is targets. A region will get "targets" to meet and sadly, its been drummed into the culture to just fake them. Been a video recently do the rounds showing a queue for Covid tests due to their stupid zero Covid policy. And the lady doing the tests can clearly been seen faking tests because she has to "meet targets".

Lets hope they aren't doing the same with the plane tests.

Its not the people of China that are the issue, it's the CCP that we all have an issue with, and Xi being as bad as Mao.

Re: Jesus

It's not xenophobia to point out Xi is an arsehole to his own people, other races in China and most of all the Japanese. Xi and the CCP claim xenophobia and racism when anyone outside of China questions them. No one wants to be called a racist so, in a small way, it works for them.

The point is still valid, the CCP is notorious for stealing other tech and lying about statistics. So where are you getting the safety record figures from? Especially if they are only internal flights? Don't say the CCP because then we know they are bullshit. Its the same bullshit that "China has ended poverty". That China will be carbon neutral but 2060 (they are the biggest miners and burners of coal. Having opened even more massive coal mines).

No doubt the wumao's will come along and downvote this more.

Jesus

"nation's aviation authorities are set to issue it an airworthiness certification"

Expect it to fall out the sky not long after then. Hopefully, with no one onboard and the crew getting out safely.

Xi will be telling them to sign it off no matter what.

Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK

Re: Diversity should be a consequence, not a goal.

Diversity is good but its never good for box-ticking reasons. If a person is going to be shit in the job based on their race/colour/gender than picking them just based on that because you have to meet diversity targets is a bad reason to pick the person.

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

And this...

...is the reason they are against right to repair.

Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test

Cough

coughbullshitcough

Nothing can be believed that comes out of China as "research". Not only that but they banned Twitter so why is that guy on Twitter. The CCP is full of double standards. Ban Tweet for its own people who seek the truth, but exploit western social media for their own bullshit propoganda.

OVH opens less flammable datacenter at site of 2021 fire

Re: "the lack of [..] an automatic fire extinguisher system"

That would of caused delay and money. Sod the staff there that could of died, we just need to save a bit of money.

Meta's next-gen Oculus headset kit left in a hotel room

Re: Kit was "left" in a hotel room

Just had a thought about what possibly gives away all these "leaks" over the years for kit as being fake.

Way back when, during Star Trek Next Generation a crew member and his mate broke onto the set after filming for the day (they claim the fire door was left open so didn't technically break in) they were trying to make their own behind the scenes documentary. Instead they moved props about, broke the claim shell table in sick bay and delayed filming the next day, due to having moved props about. Then in 2007 after the tape had been passed around it was finally on YouTube. Eventually, at some point CBS or Paramount had it taken down & continued to do so every time it popped up.

So if these were really "leaks" you expect said companies to fire off loads of take down notices which they never do.

Re: Kit was "left" in a hotel room

I've always said this to myself over the recent years of these "leaks".

Google Cloud closes $5.4b Mandiant acquisition

Re: Meaningless Execu-Speak

And to hide they just buy companies now to kill competition.

India's IT services exports top $150 billion for the first time, US and UK are biggest buyers

Do those figures

also include all the scam call centres? Look up Jim Browning for info on where most are based.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Re: She was a good one

Balls. Someone beat me to the joke.

Re: She was a good one

Cheese! That is a disgrace! We should be eating home made cheese.

Sorry, came over all Liz Truss then.

Re: She was a good one

And I hope she used what we use at work because its a word we're not allowed to say

"Boris, you're a 2868"

Look it up on a phones keypad.

She was a good one

She had a good innings. I might be one of the few that likes having a royal family. Don't know why just do.

I hope her last words were "Over to you Charlie son, don't fuck it up"

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff

Re: Light and shade

I dislike Apple and I, even more, dislike Steve Jobs but I'll give you that. When Apple was on brink of collapse and he came back. He got rid of all the stupid names like (making these up as can't remember) Apple IC2.4, Apple IC2.6, Apple IC 3, Apple Dome 1.6 for all their PC builds that were coming or already out. And just simplified it all which made a lot more sense.

I assume it will omit

all the times he was an arsehole? Which was quite a lot according to his book.

Windows 11 update blocking some users from logging in

And they want

to make updates automated. Try fucking testing them first before pushing out Sat Nav.

Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws

Blood

Can we do the same for the blood donar people. During Covid I apparently had it but had no symptoms so was asked to give plasma. So I did. Got there and they couldn't get it (apparently not possible on everyone) so I went home. They then kept emailing me to give blood and every time I unsubscribe but a month or so later I get another fucking email from them. So despite saying they have removed you from their mailing list, they fucking aren't.

Cyberattack brings down InterContinental Hotels' booking systems

Re: Can't be bothered to spend money on IT

Grew up in London innit so it was would've :)

Can't be bothered to spend money on IT

I remember way back in early 2018 I may or may not have been staying at coughPullman London St Pancrascough.

Bored in the room I started to sniff the WIFI. Fuck me! Everything was wide open! I could see all other devices as no WIFI isolation was on. I could see, what I assumed was the PCs down in reception that people staying in the hotel could use. Worst still I found an old server available that had the controls to what, if I remember right, appeared to be a heating system.

I mentioned this to them on Twitter while I sat in my room, they'd have ignored it otherwise with just an e-mail. Granted, by the end of that day or the next it had been locked down more than it had been. Sadly, my limits were reached but if I knew more I probably could of gone further and found more holes.

I would of mentioned my room number in the hope I'd get the room free for helping. But I suspect I would of gotten kicked out instead.

Shout-out to whoever went to Black Hat and had North Korean malware on their PC

Re: Malware at Black Hat?

The funniest story was the guy looking into home drone security and the one he had he knew had massive flaws and open ports. He turned it on very early in the lobby to do testing at which point someone was already awake and took it over :)

IBM wins contract to support NHS App

Mistake

But also

"standard way for health services to communicate with patients."

What about our builder who's in his 70s and has never owned and not interested in owner a smart phone.

Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister

China

We'll all be made to work like China now as she appears to think we don't work hard enough and should work "more like China". She appears to not understand that China is the way it is because Winnie the Pooh loves to use slave labour.

So expect longer hours at work, no more unions as she'll make them illegal and no more workers rights. Extreme? Yes, but then she is shit & still thinks Bojo is great.

Microsoft: The deadline to get off Basic Auth is approaching

This will be fun

We have a large section at work who we haven't moved over to MFA all because the original head of service (quite rightly) wanted to get them using IT kit first. She new if we turned MFA on for them they'd just find it so annoying they'd not use the kit. Passwords would be set for them and never handed over. But now we're gonna have to force MFA on for them. They've had enough time to get use to the kit but no doubt, some will still moan.

NASA scrubs Artemis mission yet again because SLS just can't handle the pressure

Re: Third time's a .... ?

Man mars mission isn't gonna happen in our life time unless magic travel happens as it takes so long to get there in such a tight space, you'd have to make sure you pick someone who's not gonna go nuts on the way & take out the rest of the crew.

Former Microsoft UX boss doesn't like the Windows 11 Start menu either

I miss these days, in the 90s, where MS used to do market reach getting people to run through the apps, talk about what they were doing and the issues they were having.

https://youtu.be/8Ybm4JxknTo

At

21:35

This will be a little pointless post as I have no link but I do know, from watching an old episode of Defrag tools, Andrew Richards would show how to modify the right click menu's. There is a place in the registry for it. I'm assuming it would still work on Windows 11.

EDIT: Found one of his posts

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/andrew_richards/enhancing-the-open-command-prompt-here-shift-right-click-context-menu-experience

Re: Swap to left align

There isn't one!?!?!?!?! Saves me spending hours searching for one then. I was going to push it out as the amount of comments I've had "Why are my icons now in the centre". Wasn't my fault, I wasn't the one who decided to fucking push out Windows 11 untested in our environment.

Windows 11

I dislike Windows 11. What happened to the "We will no longer have major builds just updates".

Man wins competition with AI-generated artwork – and some people aren't happy

Read this elsewhere and said

Mark my words. Some poncey "artist" WILL generate several of these "art works" and then display them in a gallery in London or other big city and sell them for lots of money to poncey rich people.

Much like Richard Prince did with people's Instagram posts. Just copied them and sold them as his own work and got away with it.

This is why I dislike the art world. In school I was a copy artist. Would copy drawings freehand but never make out they were my own work. This was back in the 80s-90s. During one art lesson we were talking about this issue with the art world & in fact Mark Gattis said this on the Richard Herring podcast recently "Who decides that someone's childish scrawl is worth millions and another childish scrawl is just a childish scrawl?". During our lesson we told the teacher our work was the work of one of the art teachers she liked and his work was ours. She said his work wasn't very good (thinking it was ours) and that our work was really good (thinking it was his). It proved our point.

There are people on YouTube I see who can do almost photo quality pencil work but make no money. My girlfriend's cousin can do near photo quality pencil work but makes no money. Yet a poncy "artist" in London can draw colour boxes and make millions. Then we have Bankys. Blek le Rat was doing VERY similar work but never made it big, Bankys seemed to essentially copy most his work and makes millions from it.

Meta hedges bets on metaverse silicon with Qualcomm VR deal

I'm now wondering

If Meta is one big money laundering scam. We really aren't anywhere near the tech advance for you to want to stick it on your head for the whole day.

Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI

No no no no no

just NO! If you are in the UK, most people moan when we get pushed to a foreign call centre. Rightly or wrongly this is just the mentality of us. We want an English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish call handler just because we then feel they can relate. Having said that when I had issues with PayPal many years ago I got better service from the Malaysian call handler than the rude Irish guy that answered earlier in the day.

But anyway the point is EVERYONE hates the automated call handlers. So much so I always swear at it telling it to put me through to a human. Knowing the more I rant with garbage, the more it won't understand the quicker it is to put me through to a call handler.

Germany orders Sept 1 shutdown of digital ad displays to save gas

Estate Agents in the UK

Need to be pulled up for this. The amount that have the massive TVs in the window and they leave them running 24/7 showing bollocks. They already have the big window with all the houses on display, why the big, pointless TV as well.

Re: Exceptions for such dual-purpose signs have been arranged.

Yeah. I also forgot to mention I was in high school back when I'd play my "game" :)

Re: Exceptions for such dual-purpose signs have been arranged.

I was amazed in the late 80s in the UK when we got LED displays at bus stops in London. No more having to look at the useless time table that was sometimes posted in the little window on the post. Now while waiting for the bus I could see from the display when the next one was. Eventually realising it was sometimes quicker for me to walk the mile home than wait for the bus. And a lot of the time I made it a game, see if I could beat the bus home :)

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Re: Apathy is the problem

The amount of up votes is really concerning. These are the people that will be running round with pitch forks with no evidence. The same people that would be shouting "She's a witch, she's a witch, drown her" then she survives so they shout louder "See, she MUST be a witch. Burn her".