Posts by steviebuk

HP Ink to compensate punters for bricking third-party ink cartridges

How is this not...

...seen and taken as anticompetitive behaviour so should be ruled illegal world wide.

DIY device tinkerer iFixit weighs in on 15-month jail term for PC recycler

Re: Prison is to harsh but...

Microsoft has made dick moves but appears not here as they were just a witness.

Prison is to harsh but...

....he did copy free cds, which is fine, but then printed Dell labels on the CDs so they looked like the originals. There was no need for that. And if he really did charge others for the CDs then he's fucked up there as well. Should of just given Linux away. Probably would of saved hassle and prison.

Microsoft still dicks though. As the saying goes "Microsoft, that was a dick move".

Who will fix our Internal Banking Mess? TSB hires IBM amid online banking woes

Also concerning is "Staff were trying to cope with a completely new system". TSB have never heard of training then.

"We're....

...putting things right, by making them worse by going with IBM.".

Oh dear. I don't see IBM helping and I'm not sure how much longer IBM will be around.

Whoops! Google forgot to delete Right To Be Forgotten search result

You can't ask NT2. As since the case ended, they will have forgotten themselves :)

I'll get my coat.

I wonder....

...if the results still appear on the waybackmachine.

AWS DNS network hijack turns MyEtherWallet into ThievesEtherWallet

And all these companies...

...what to stick everything in the cloud.

Yeah, nice and secure it is.

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

Re: Bill Gates

Are the down votes from the people who also believe WWE is real? :) I like WWE despite knowing it's not real.

Anyway, look it up on YouTube. The first iPhone release. You'll see people who were part of it stating it didn't work and they thought it would crash. Steve had to follow a script with what he was running. There were also multiple phones behind his stand and he, like a magician, would switch phones when one of them wasn't working but everyone was lead to believe it was just one phone.

I still don't like Apple or Steve but was interesting to see that video.

Re: Bill Gates

I could be remembering wrong but I think its in his autobiography or written somewhere else I saw recently where they admitted the iPhone didn't actually work and it was all just animated. Steve had to get the timings correct so no one would notice.

Re: Bill Gates

Read Steve's official autobiography. It clearly states in there that he was an arsehole. Even his wife didn't want them to hide that fact.

Re: Bill Gates

I always thought Bill was nice but apparently he wasn't that nice. There are a few videos of him around not being so nice I've recently seen. They are old but interesting.

Yay, you've won your Fitbit lawsuit, folks. But, lawyers, about those filet mignon expenses...

Re: America Fuck Yeah

I don't think it's finished as this has been going on for years. I bet it was even worse in the 80s.

The only lawyer I like...

...is Saul Goodman.

UK consumer help bloke Martin Lewis is suing Facebook over fake ads

Re: "... he should report any adverts ..."

And the fact, from another article about the same subject I read, he had been reporting and they'd done fuck all pretty much.

Brit bank TSB TITSUP* after long-planned transfer of customer records from Lloyds

Re: Just as worrying...

I wouldn't bother. The ICO don't appear to give a fuck unless its a massive breach. 2 of us reported a local recruitment agency for their continued data breaches. Although appear minor, they are still breaches. All the ICO advised was to try and sort it out with the company yourself.

I have, several fucking times, they apologise then do the same thing again a few months later. The worse was sending my payslip to another engineer.

Well....

....that's what you get for outsourcing your IT to IBM. IBM who are making everyone redundant so no one gives a fuck especially with the thought your IT job is also going to be outsourced aboard.

Keep staff in house and give them a decent wage and they'll give a fuck. Treat them like cheap dogs, then they'll be like Roy from the IT Crowd when he takes ages to answer the phone.

When will companies and mangers learn IT matters and isn't something you can just do on the cheap and outsource.

Fools.

Who, me? - Search

Re: Who, me? - Search

Thanks :)

Who, me? - Search

Forgive me for being thick but how do you search for all the Who, me? articles. It was mentioned the other day "Look/search for the Who, me? TAGs" but my search isn't bringing up Who, me? finds.

Millions of scraped public social net profiles left in open AWS S3 box

Jail time....

....is a bit extreme unless they did it maliciously. Fining their company and them personal based on their wage or wealth would be a start. I mention their wealth as they could hide their wage by just paying themselves a $1 a year or month like Steve Jobs use to (I'm not suggesting he did it for nefarious reasons. Just only example I know of where he paid himself $1)

Facebook previews GDPR privacy tools and, yep, it's the same old BS

And then start having to pay for Gmail, Outlook.com (although you can already pay to get rid of the ads on that), Facebook.

Annoying as these privacy issues are, I still feel it's up to you, mostly (sometimes you've not given a choice I understand that) to hand over your data to use their services for free. If you don't wish them to have your data, simply stop using their services.

But that is easier said than done when some sites only allow you to now login with Facebook etc.

Jeff Bezos purple prose reveals Amazon Prime's passed 100m customers

100 million customers....

...that can't understand why, with that amount of money, Amazon Primes video app is so shit and poorly laid out.

I want to go on Amazon and see the latest movies that have been released for rent that were in the cinema a few months back. Nope, no option. Not a pissing clear one anyway.

Not only that, most of the movies available on Prime are ones from the 80s and 90s. There are more current movies for your monthly sub on NOWtv.

Now IBM turns redundo gun on its Digital Business Group

Not long now then....

...before IBM goes bust. It stopped being the IBM of old years ago.

Machines learned to assemble IKEA’s semi-disposable furniture

Pleeeease, robots. Take this job away from us!

No thanks. I like building stuff so like building the IKEA furniture myself thanks. A bit of knolling helps. And if robots take that away as well, the guy in town that runs a business installing flat pack furniture for people and small business' would be out of work.

Elon Musk's latest Tesla Model 3 delivery promise: 6,000... a week

6000 a week?

Will it be like the film Gung Ho then?

Chrome 66: Get into the bin, auto-playing vids and Symantec certs!

Chrome 66 will roll out in coming days and weeks.

? Mine has just updated already so the coming days means today then?

Supreme Court punts on Microsoft email seizure decision after Cloud Act passes US Congress

Just start up....

...another company in the country you're in and call it your "data arm". So if MS really gave a shit they could start up "Storage Stuff (tm)-Steviebuk)". It would be a company registered only in Ireland and ONLY subject to their laws. Then MS can use it as their data centre (obviously it would just be their current data centre that they sold to Storage Stuff). Then the American government surely can't ask for shit. As MS could say "Yes, it maybe a sister company but it is its own thing and was never registered as a company in America".

Bit companies do stuff like this all the time. Wasn't a certain company called Alphabet started up just to avoid tax? Or am I wrong about that? Hmm.

Makes no sense...

...surely MS could of continued to deny them access to the e-mails by siting EU privacy law in Ireland?

No? (I don't know enough about the subject so could be wrong).

Windows Admin Center: Vulture gets claws on browser-based server admin

Maybe...

..I'm just getting old but why can't they just leave things alone. I don't want yet another fing app I have to learn.

Anon biz bloke wins milestone Google Right To Be Forgotten lawsuit

What's the point?

There are other search enginees and I don't think, although its not perfect, the way back machine site has to comply.

Sysadmin's sole client was his wife – and she queried his bill

Too true. The amount of times I've suggested to companies don't outsource. The last manager said he saw a need for both. He said sometimes it's a good thing. I kept quiet. It's never a good thing. Turns out his role in his last job before leaving was to outsource the helpdesk he used to manage. So we clear he never gave a shit about the people he worked with.

It's April 2018 – and Patch Tuesday shows Windows security is still foiled by fiendish fonts

Still impresses me...

...that someone can hack a machine using just a font.

Nervous Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg passes Turing Test in Congress

Bags under your eyes when...

..you have that much money. Why bother. I'd just quit and enjoy the money.

O2 wolfs down entire 4G spectrum as pals fiddle with their shiny 5G band

Three haven't even....

...sorted out 3G or 4G properly in the coastal town I live in. Regularly go into town and lunch and walk into shops only to loose 4G signal and forced onto H. On my old S4 I'd be forced onto nothing and would lose all signal.

Although I have a good package with Three, their signal is piss poor. Annoys me because their is a mast just up the hill from the house, yet still get poor signal in some parts of the house, even when by a window.

It's baaack – WannaCry nasty soars through Boeing's computers

Re: Hmm ...

Yes, like the one member of the bank Hawkwind live a couple of doors down from me when I was young. We used to go round his house as were friends with his son. I mentioned the area he live on the Hawkwind wiki page, not the street, but it was removed. I thought it was a bit of interesting history around the band, guess not. They had a big tree in the centre of the garden which they'd turned into a sort of shelter which their son played in. Was cool.

One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools

Although I like the BBC...

...I don't like the forced sign in on the iplayer now. Although you appear to be able to bypass that on the TV. However, what does annoy me is they claimed they wouldn't use the info for checking on licence fee payers (got no issue with the licence fee if it gets rid of ads. After all people pay for Sky and Virgin). However, they are now using it to get an idea about licence fee paying.

What person decided this forced login was a good idea? Now their database is starting to feel up with details such as

Mr Fuck Off (and other funny variations)

Who lives in a random location in the UK (whatever random post code I put in)

who's e-mail address is variations of [e-mail]

And if they turn on e-mail verification at some point, then the use of the throwaway e-mail site will just be used.

What's silent but violent and costs $250m? Yes, it's Lockheed Martin's super-quiet, supersonic X-plane for NASA

So quiet...

..they had to ruin it by putting music on the video or is that to hide that actually it's loud.

Mad March Meltdown! Microsoft's patch for a patch for a patch may need another patch

That's what you get...

..when you've been outsourcing since 1996. I assume the Q&A is outsourced to the cheapest bidder who then just marks everything as "tested" when in fact they've just pulled up into the work car park, used the work WIFI and just signed everything off from the car, before slowly driving home. Much like surveyors do when you get the basic home buyers surveyor done on a house.

Law's changed, now cough up: Uncle Sam serves Microsoft fresh warrant for Irish emails

Surely they could....

...of got around this by creating a new business that was registered in the EU but based in Ireland and linked to MS. Because it's then not a US registered company, surely US laws can't apply to the data storage arm of MS then, as it would be a separate EU registered company.

Much how it looks like, I could be wrong, Alphabet was created by a certain company to avoid tax.

It's Team America - World Police again.

For some reason, you lot love 'em. So here are the many ThinkPads of 2018

If I remember right...

...my ThinkPad is a slightly beefed up W540 I put more RAM in it to run VMs. Last year I finally replaced the hard drive with an SSD because it was taking ages to load Windows. Now quick again. I mainly use it for playing basic games on Steam when out and about or on holiday (yes I'm one of those people that goes on holiday and then just plays games on my laptop all the time. It annoys the girlfriend buy why? That's my idea of a holiday).

I recently watched a T42 go on ebay the other day for £74.99. I was going to bid, it was in good condition as a collector had owned it, but it would of been another project that would never had gone anywhere, like my many Raspberry Pi purchases. Watching LGR on YouTube made me want to put it's original OS on it etc etc.

Hacks Fifth Avenue: Crooks slurp bank cards from luxury chain Saks

Re: Owned by Hudsons Bay Co.

Never. That's the problem. IT is always seen as the lower class of a company so is often ignored, understaffed and underpaid.

The top brass always assume "IT works fine here, so what are we paying this people for to sit in our building all day doing nothing. Lets out source it to the cheapest provider we can find and save money".

Ignoring the fact IT is working fine because the IT people ARE doing work and doing a good job as you don't notice it. And external companies that manage IT for several business' strictly stick to their SLA contracts. You want it out of SLA urgently, you pay. If you have internal staff, you can tell them to ignore the SLA for that urgent call, because its, well, urgent.

Microsoft's Windows supremo Terry Myerson is now Terry BYE-rson

Re: Clearing House in Redmond

Or, like me, you find all your games work on Windows 7 but not on Linux so I stick with Windows. Linux is nice but still not user friendly enough for the masses. And I never recommend MacOS to people because of the high markup costs of Apple gear.

Java-aaaargh! Google faces $9bn copyright bill after Oracle scores 'fair use' court appeal win

All about the money...

...that's the problem here. Oracle had the money to keep fighting, little people don't so if Google had been doing this to a little person they'd have just had to except it, probably declare bankruptcy from not winning the original case. But with big business, they can afford to just keep it going forever. Google will probably appeal now if allowed.

PwC: More redundos at HQ of UK 'leccy stuff shop Maplin

Have you been living under a rock?

I heard a customer ask at the counter the other day while I wondered around the store looking at everything still overpriced, say "What's going on here then? Are they in financial trouble". The staff member wasn't sure if it was a wide up, then proceeded to inform them "Well yeah, they've gone bankrupt".

The only decent deal in my local store....

...and I'm no expert, looks like a DJI Phantom 4 Bundle for £758.40. It dropped £200 in the space of 2 days. Thought it would of gone at the weekend but it was still there today.

However, now looking online it looks like it's not the Pro version meaning it was already overpriced at £949 and they've now just dropped it to the price it is on other online stores.

Oh dear.

Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended – and that's not even the worst news for them today

I could be wrong but...

...I think Aleksandr Kogan is actually innocent of everything because listening to him on Radio 4 this morning he sounded genuine. Never sounded like he was trying to hide anything or lie.

Even he's said most of what Cambridge Analytica has tried to sell people doesn't work anyway. Like swaying the election results and convincing people to vote Trump-ton.

You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding

NO NO NO NO...

...I'm a southerner and this is a stupid idea.

Yorkshire Pudding with beef gravy. NO chocolate in site.

Made mine on Sunday just gone. Lovely. Following Jamie Oliver's guide he stuck on YouTube.

What's going great for Oracle? Cloud. What's not great? Just about everything else

I guess its passion...

...to want to stay in the company you founded that became massive but is potentially on its way out. I guess that's why people like Larry stay. I'd just sell up and enjoy the money. But then I guess that's why I'll never have the money or success Larry's had.

Uber breaks self-driving car record: First robo-ride to kill a pedestrian

"it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode [autonomous or human-driven] based on how [the victim] came from the shadows right into the roadway."

No. The whole point of autonomous vehicles is they are supposed to be super safe and better than human drivers. The whole point is they are supposed to have the tech so they can "see" in the shadows. Clearly Ubers tech isn't up to par so should be fully suspended for at least a year or so. Not to mention it was speeding. 38 in a 35mph zone. Only 3mph over you say. It's not the point. It's autonomous so should be able to keep to 35mph.

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

1998 all over again...

...but this time instead of "Deposition by Bill Gates" we'll be seeing "Deposition by Satya Nadella"

I remember those times when the rumour was, once MS lost, Microsoft was going to be forced to break up. Although that never happened.

The EU will hit MS with a MASSIVE hammer over this. Satya seems to be ignoring history.