Never mind the ads - I gave up Az prime after the frustration of no closed captions on 99% of their video finally wore me down (I’m deaf-ish).
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Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns
Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris
Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead
Re: I think I can safely say ...
Absolutely my experience too - I was able to sneak some automation, batch processes and simple analytical tools into the NHS in the 1990s (as a result of hobbyist Basic skills from the previous decade), while NHS central concentrated on the perpetual widening of the drain it poured its IT development funding into.
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
Re: Credit where it's due
Exclude the ‘bean counters’? Of course. That will make sure they are kept in the dark, uninformed and unable to either support or understand the work being carried out. And what you want in a well-run organisation are uninformed, excluded and ignorant people to provide and manage your budgets, don’t you? I’ve worked as an IT budget holder in those sorts of firms/orgs, and in the other more enlightened variety, and I know which works better (in both company and personal outcomes). Lay off this ‘bean counter’ bollocks.
$900bn coronavirus stimulus bill includes $600 for most Americans, $50 in monthly internet subsidies, $1.9bn to help rid the US of Huawei kit
WannaCry ransomware attack on NHS could have triggered NATO reaction, says German cybergeneral
Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!)
Re: Guilty Secret
BT have been telling me for 6 years that I am being transferred from BT Yahoo to BT Mail, on dates that varied on a weekly basis until they petered out. My experience of the BT Yahoo mix has been indescribably bad, and BT’s customer service is easily the worst I’ve ever suffered. Today’ s ‘temporary error code 15’ is finally the last last straw, so heave ho, out with the BT router and in with..... err...??
Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?
A Register reader turns the computer room into a socialist paradise
Re: College in the 80s
Yep - well, nearly. Amstrad, 1990, wrote the code myself, cabinet full of 5.25 floppies. At least I found out whilst *testing* the non-functioning back-up crud-code after a month or so, not in a real crisis. My amateur code just backed up the name of the file multiply enough to make the size of the outcome look like a real file...
The seven deadly sins of the 2010s: No, not pride, sloth, etc. The seven UI 'dark patterns' that trick you into buying stuff
Re: A Prime example
YMOV (where O=obviously) if you think Amazon’s returns policy is more friendly than anything at all - my experience is that it was invented by the devil and is managed by brain-damaged cyborgs using one-finger typing on reconditioned Amstrads, under zero-hours contracts that limit their ‘operating’ hours to ten minutes a week on alternate Mondays. Harrumph.
*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k
Re: Deranged?
It often occurs to me, as one of the least qualified users of this site, that the rest of you should (I mean this in the really nicest and most encouraging sense, truly) put up or shut up - and here’s a perfect example to put that into action . I can get a simple company structure set up for say 25 of the top posters on this topic by the end of the week; you experts can clearly get the solution scoped, timed, risk-assessed and option-rich by say Friday week, and we can approach one of our MPs with a career-enhancing and risk-free proposal before the next PM is elected. By the sound of your comments here the work will be 100% simple and straightforward, so the profit element can be trivially small - but reputationally redemptive, shall we say. Any reason not to do this?
London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange
Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog
In effect they do - I use one of their Play5s (8 years old now) via line-in as a dumb speaker for my cinemainashed, with the advantage that I can wirelessly connect a stereo pair....On the whole I agree that hifi it’s not, but the system works well and is handily mobile, and their customer support for occasionally challenged elderly nontech users is brilliant, even if their PR/dataslurp dept is obviously industry standard.