Posts by A.F-G

A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: 'Click here to re-register!'

Two months later, it's still not finished...

Hi, El Reg team!

You may want to follow-up on this story... someone asked in the comments if they lost some data during transfer... well, I can confirm to you that Thames Water created a move on my account, affecting me a new meter and a new address (that I've never seen in my life), leading to billing problems. All happened around the 14/15/16 October, obviously. And getting an answer and a cancellation seems to be quite an ordeal.

Antoine.

PS: also, there's this story about login.microsoftonline.com ... and they payment processor which redirects you to some third party website (worldpay) without any reference in the frame asking for your banking card details...

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

(slightly cynical) Oh the Great Idea of Morality is back...

If they try to enforce it, they will undoubtedly run into occurrences of words or expressions that have different meaning depending on the context or intention.

It reminds me of the great purge of "porn" domain names in enterprise firewalls, which made some tools unattainable... I remember, on my first job, freshly out of uni, receiving a menacing mail one week after starting, for consulting pornography website. At the time, I was working with VxWorks Ex, wich had a dedicated website... www.vxworkSEX.com . Real-time pornography for real-time developers... :)

US Supremes take a look at Microsoft's Irish email slurp battle, and yeah, not a great start

Re: "The whole idea of territoriality is strained"

Right on target: this is exactly the point that will kill not only microsoft, but all American cloud providers... so out MS, Amazon, Google,... and all services dependant on them (like Dropbox...).

What's more, this does apply not only to EU government, but also to all para-public services: universities, healthcare, public transports... and we're not even thinking about defence contractors.

If this opinion is hold, there would be a nice side effect: on this side of the Atlantic, we would have to develop our own 'in-house' OS, to replace Windows and its cloud components...

EE Business Broadband digital transformation: Portal offline until July

Re: BT are great

When you own the lines and make the access rules, you can have a fantastic service compared to other providers (who are forced to use your services...).

OpenReach (part of BT group) can say whatever they want, when the guy checking the connections for Openreach and configuring the access for BT is the same guy... it's slightly easier.

Also, EE has just been bought by BT for its mobile network. What BT will do with legacy and dull and uniteresting fixed broadband users is not decided yet, especially if this situation can be regarded as monopoly construction. One thing is for sure, since BT overtook EE, my fixed broadband (I'm with EE) has become slower and less reliable...