Posts by rskurat

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

"Over the last couple of years, we've actually been removing labor from the stores, I think with the hope that equipment could offset the removal of the labor,"

"And I think what we're finding is that was just – that wasn't an accurate assumption with what played out."

What? What does this even mean? What are "that" and "that"? Sales? Can I get paid to talk gibberish?

Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market

"burdensome" by the regulator

heaven forbid companies being required to adhere to agreements & regulations, that wouldn't do at all. Such a burden!

unenforced regs everywhere you look

Glad to know I can do anything I want with folks' personal data and there will be no consequences

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

has been, long ago

Except for a brief period of neutrality ca. 1955-1985 the US legal system has always been captured by business

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Beyond me

bribery does have a tendency to work

Re: Holidays

Stop being a d*ck? on Twitter???

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

melon melon melon

"To be fair to Musk, it is quite convoluted" - not really. Mr SuperGenius just doesn't know anything about computers

Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model

Re: Illness

It might be more effective to publish Google employees' search histories. Difficult to do at scale, but beautifully poetic justice

JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup

"enhance" our process. Simply for crimes against English they ought to be shot

Twitter launches probe after miscreants claim to have swiped 5.4m users' details

Re: Nothing romantic

the WSJ is a tabloid?

Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back

impact

The illiterates use "impact" for both words now because they're, well, illiterate

Oracle, SAP suspend business in Russia amid invasion

seriously?

"KleptoCapture"?

How about Operation Boot In Your Nuts?

[Checks meeting agenda...] Where does it say 'Talk cr*p and waste everyone's time'?

wireless earbuds

When those things first came out I kept thinking "what incredibly ugly hearing aids they have"

A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly

Re: Black week season

Black Friday will always be a Steely Dan song to me . . .

Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees

Re: But it is crypto

"specific narrow use of cryptography they're almost gaslighting the existence of the entire rest of the important field of cryptography"

not gaslighting; unaware of is more like it. Blockheads love blockchain

Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have. No, you really shouldn't have

Re: Regomiser requires an update!

and the truly woke call girls "dude"

not even halfway through . . .

. . . the comments and I've counted at least three David Brents

Fancy the ultimate no-Air-outside-bnb? NASA willing to rent out ISS for two weeks

Re: Catapults & beer...

I'm sure that no matter what sort of waivers they sign, the first time a billionaire is hurt on one of these flights the lawyers will be out in force

Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots

no sympathy

no doubt the group uses Fecesbook because of it's reach & demographic. But really, this is Fecesbook: incompetence is the norm.

Rude awakening for O2 customers after network runs surprise test of emergency mobile alert system

Artificial Ineptitude

I've got to remember that for future emails & tweets: "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk"

Train operator phlunks phishing test by teasing employees with non-existent COVID bonus

This isn't a crisis of PR, this is a crisis of employee stupidity. I think for the first time in my life I'm on the side of manglement.

Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’

I can't even

2023 tagline -

Marketing: Because Our Bonuses Depend On It

BOFH: Postman BOFH's Special Delivery Service

Re: Peace and quiet

<don't mention the war!>

'There was no one driving that vehicle': Texas cops suspect Autopilot involved after two men killed in Tesla crash

Re: "more of a super-cruise-control"

You can't argue with the marketing department; they have more pull with the C-suite and are too dumb to understand what you're objecting to.

Scottish National Party members found among list of names signed up to rival Alba Party after website whoopsie

just what we need

"making sure that all parties and campaigns are aware of their responsibilities"

Oh good, another "awareness" campaign. Which color will the ribbon be?

Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website

Re: How many times?

And their search is unbelievably bad - I can be very specific about what I'm looking for, and that exact text string match is number 8 in the results.

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA

seriously?

Brokenshire is a real name? Sounds more like something out of Private Eye.

FYI: Someone wants to launch mobile broadband satellites into space used by scientific craft – and NASA's not happy

Re: Not a problem, so that's all right then?

A scam based in texas?!?? Unpossible!

Gone in 9 seconds: Virgin Orbit's maiden rocket flight went perfectly until it didn't

new 'paradigm' god I hate that word

These are "agile" launches, and they just "pivoted"

BOFH: Will the last one out switch off the printer?

Re: I'd have gone for Risk!!

That's not an invasion, it's a Cooks Tour

Tech won't save you from lockdown disaster: How to manage family and free time while working from home

Re: Catch up with all that stuff you wanted to see

a veritable lark compared to The Plague by Albert Camus

but is it made from real goblins?

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

"In a preferred situation, we want to make sure that we’re proactively mitigating issues in advance"

Is that even English?

Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution

Re: My word...

Who is Susie Linux and why can't she just ring me up herself?

Samsung cops to data leak after unsolicited '1/1' Find my Mobile push notification

Re: Lost in Translation

yes, but this is corporate communications we're talking about. Lying is their job.

The Register disappears up its own fundament with a Y2K prank to make a BOFH's grinchy heart swell with pride

Had all the carpets removed

BOFH: 'Twas the night before Christmas, and the ransomware struck

Sounds like something from Private Eye's In The Back

Clunk, whirr, buzz, whine. Shared office space can be a riot and sounds like one too

Re: Companies in France

The Chevrolet Nova didn't sell very well in Latin America. I'm sure GM twigged early on, but I don't think they ever re-badged, since The Company Is Never Wrong.

Ding-dong. Who's there? Any marketing outfit willing to pay: Not content with giving cops access to doorbell cams, Ring also touts personal info

malgorithm

perfect: right under Kieren's byline, a Ring ad

BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret

Re: Learnings

These ridiculous MBA-isms have nothing to do with communicating, and everything to do with being part of the club. I remember when they couldn't be arsed to figure out affect/effect and so substituted "impact" which was infuriating.

World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)

sounds like Kieren has been drinking the Kool-Aid

Sometimes shining a light on a nuclear problem just makes things worse

Re: This has sparked a memory

I used P32 once a week and had the usual film badge finger ring with minimal exposure readings for months. Suddenly one month it came up offscale. Turned out I had left the ring for a whole week on the shelf over the waste bin rather than in the drawer under the bench. Big oops, radiation safety was NOT happy with me for a long long time.

Alphabet's 'love rat' legal chief David Drummond ejects after 18 years at web goliath, no golden parachute attached

Re: Or Brooks, "It's good to be the king."

your naïveté is breathtaking

A sprinkling of Star Wars and a dash of Jedi equals a slightly underbaked Rise Of Skywalker

Re: A remake of Episode 6

I can still remember my Dad telling a 12-year-old starry eyed me that Star Wars' story was a cross between a western and a world war II movie. At the time I insisted he was completely wrong; now I agree.

Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K

Re: Clipper

. . . and their wholly-owned subsidiary, Spall Chuck, Ltd

Deadly 737 Max jets no longer a Boeing concern – for now: Production suspended after biz runs out of parking space

So do executives at Boeing of the FAA ever fly in 737s? I suspect not.

I stopped taking flights using 737s 25 years ago, after I heard about the spontaneous oops-there-goes-the-rudder issue. This plane has had problems for 30 years, at least.

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

Re: It's the new way

wouldn't be surprised if 'hot desking' was invented by PwC or EY

Re: Academy

It's similar in the States. At the Federal & State levels (especially big states) there's a level of professionalism that isn't perfect but resembles that of a half-way-decent corporation. At the county level it's like Grammar School, and the local town level is Lord Of The Flies.

Taxi for Uber: Ride-hailing app giant stripped of licence to operate in London

Re: re. "Passenger safety is not our priority"

How do you know a corporation is lying? They issue a statement.

Handcranked HTML and JPEG japes. What could possibly go wrong?

Humourless HR has never heard "no harm, no foul" apparently