Posts by sal II 149 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2017
"The firm also thinks Apple will deliver “a major iPhone design revamp” in 2027 to mark the 20th anniversary of the iPhone."
Not with Tim Apple as CEO, and if latest rumors that his exit won't be until late 2026, this won't allow sufficient time for any major change.
Unless of course they mean a switch to revolutionary aluminum unibody with rounded edges. /s
"Airbus is now ensuring adequate generator fuel reserves and priority supply contracts across its facilities in Spain, France, Germany, and the UK. The goal is to maintain operations for several days during a "massive blackout" without relying on external fuel deliveries."
They will also need to make sure that whoever provides their connectivity has similar provisions. Otherwise it will be a bit futile.
They can't get employees, because the paybands, that can't have an engineer earning more than their mediocre middle manager that has been in the job for 2 decades on like £40k or God forbid the senior management £50-60k. And you are not getting quality techies for £40k, yet alone seniors. So for long time they are forced to resort to contractors, because that's the only way to pay enough to attract talent.
The problem is that there isn't that much revenue to begin with. It's all hype. Large portions of the supposed revenue should be coming from companies laying off staff to replace with AI, but a lot these are starting to realize that AI can't quite hack it in most areas targeted.
More and more organizations come to realize that genAI is not AGI and outside of semi-useful chat bots that already exists without spending Bns on AI and fake videos and images for light entertainment - there aren't that many real world applications that could warrant the exuberant costs.
The study definitely confuses correlation and causation. Provides little evidence of specific exploits that were targeted in aforementioned big vendor FWs.
It's like stating it's less secure to use armored cars for large cash transfers, because you are more likely to be a victim of an armer robbery.
It completely fails to recognize the fact that large chunk (if not the majority) of ransomware attacks are not coming through the FW, but are a result of phishing, social engineering and malware triggered by users etc.
Why not let the free market handle it, rather than blocking it on national level? It's not like the US cloud vendors don't carry risk under the current regime in the US.
You should be encrypting any cloud data anyway, so the risk that remains is availability in case of a Government mandate. Which at this point is probably less of an issue with China, than US based companies.
"The move to France and The Netherlands is harder to explain, as both nations have expressed concern that Chinese tech vendors present risks to local users."
Trump's USA has proven to be just as risky as China for running workloads in Cloud. If they can provide better pricing I can see people and companies using it.
Dell already offer a solution to that conundrum with APEX, you get a bunch of hosts and only PAYG for the ones that go over 5% CPU utilization. Allowing you to have a sizeable standby capacity to meet increase of demand without going through procurement. More importantly it's all structured as OpEx, which is music to the beancounter's ears.
Sadly you still need to pay for the VCF licenses regardless.
But if you have big enough ELA with Microsoft and go down the Azure Local route with Dell APEX (or similar PAYG offering from other vendor) you kinda get the best of both worlds
No, he was a permitractor. And people like him are the reason for the reform.
This is the only positive thing about the IR35 reform - it will weed out impostors like him that give contractors bad name.
Unfortunately the ham-fisted approach by HMRC is going to make a lot of collateral damage.
Fingers crossed, once the dust settles, the rest of us will be able to resume providing our services on a flexible and professional basis.
The problem is that IR35 is so ill defined that even HMRC are having trouble explaining it. so they don't even bother. They never provided companies with clear set of unambiguous rules that would allow them to make proper determination of the tax status of the freelancers they employ
Which lead to a situation where the biggest market for freelance work - large corporations are faced with a choice:
A) Accept quantifiable risk of HMRC investigation and tax grab
B) Stop using freelancers at all
Guess which option most of them are going for...
It's not apocalyptic, labour market have seen much bigger upheavals through the years, but there will be significant impact for both clients and freelancers.
HMRC doesn't care either way, they wan their pound of flesh
Only it wasn't true redundancy. The secondary/passive one couldn't take over mid flight if the main failed. It required manual switch over.
In server terms it wasn't a cluster, but a identically configured cold spare sitting powered off at the bottom of the rack, used as a failback while the main is being fixed, or under maintenance etc.
Their latest fudge I guess is trying to run them in parallel for actual HA. Only every engineer understands that you need a 3rd (or any higher odd number) point for arbitration, they haven't learned even the recent lesson of having 2 pitch sensors speak to the MCAS
As with most password managers it allows for copy/past of the password without revealing it on the display. Handy against shoulder surfers in the office etc.
It also handles well concurrent updates to the same DB file and merge of the changes.
Neither of these is an option with just a file. I'm sure there are other advantages to it. Not saying it's the best password manager or anything, just pointing out that it's one of the last remaining non-cloud and completely free options for a decent password manager.
You of course are talking about commercially available software.
Large organisations like NHS thrusts are riddled with custom in-house software that someone wrote/bought donkeys years ago and the original developer is either gone or otherwise incapable of updating the application for Windows 10.
Then there are a host of medical devices that for whatever reason use windows as OS and the hardware is simply incapable of running Windows 10
You know that you can put these chips/SoC in a non-phone envelope right?
This should read as ARM (at least mobile derivation of it) being more powerful than x86
And it's already the case with Apple's A13 that has performance comparable with Intel's Core i5/7 CPUs and has been gaining 10-20% YoY, vs. like 3-5% for Intel's x86 CPUs gimped by legacy architecture way past it's life time.
Russia isn't that important market for Apple, they don't even have Apple store there.
Despite the territorial size of Russia, it's population is slightly higher than Japan (about 140 mil). The low income for large portion of the population is pricing them out of Apple products.
Even if Apple officially pulls out, there will be plenty of sales on the black market and people just buying from abroad during their holiday etc. So the financial loss to Apple will be minimal, while the "moral" gain will be significant.
Now if China decides to pull something like that....
Who the hell uses their app, or their services for that matter. Only an insane person and corporate bean-counters going after the lowest bid would hand Yodel their parcels.
The odd time when I'm due shipment from an above mentioned company i try to keep my interactions to a minimum, tracking the delivery on their website. Really no point in installing their app.
How are they going to fund it? the 3Bn windfall from the the Fujitsu JVs and lawsuits are barely 1/10 of what they need.
The interests on a 27Bn loan for God knows how many years will be crippling for already struggling businesses. There is only so much that streamlining and economy of scale can achieve in terms of savings.
Seems like some C suits are looking for a way to cash in from the transaction and then jump ship.
had hired, past tense. Presumably the service is already paid for as an yearly subscription or contract.
Even if it wasn't and Skurio is out of pocket, if they already had done the work in setting up the monitoring etc. releasing the info to the public is good marketing for them.
I wonder which is faster - Booting up a laptop/phone and starting an e-mail client/application or browsing through 100s of faded paper receipts in a drawer to find the one you are looking for. I somewhat doubt you are using the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
I agree the paper copy should be always available as an option, but make it an opt-in, rather than opt-out similar to how most self-checkouts now ask you if you want a receipt at the end, instead of automatically spewing one, just to remain discarded there or instantly binned.
"National Grid said that just 54 charging stations, placed at appropriate points along the strategic road network, would mean 99 per cent of drivers in England and Wales would be within 50 miles of a charge point.
It estimated that this could be delivered at a cost of £800m but said "investment will be needed by industry and enabled by government"."
So 100 miles round trip with couple of hours wait for the charge, when most EVs have about 200mil range... How moronic do you have to be to even put that proposal forward...
And then to top it off, ask for £15mil per charging station
The "problem" has two parts:
On one hand MS is upping the ante in spam control, simultaneously better protecting their Outlook.com users and highlighting shortcomings with other providers to promote O365
On the other hand mid size e-mail hosting providers have grown complacent and not staying on top of the spam emitted from their networks.
I'm surprised that in this case where it appears only individual IP addresses are being blocked, they haven't redirected the traffic to the servers that are not yet blocked by MS.
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