Posts by TimMaher

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

Re: I want to watch.

See you Jimmie!

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: HSBC's recent announce to relocate it's global HQ

They could have returned to 99 Bishopsgate. Oh, wait. Perhaps not.

Re: Flats

Yup. I’m totally in favour of ‘brown fielding’ offices.

They are already in an urban environment so the infrastructure is there and we would not have to use up more of our rapidly dwindling countryside.

Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law

The Undercover Policing enquiry.

I quote a witness:-

“These anti-democratic spying operations, and the abuses that resulted, were not the work of a few rogue officers – I hold some blame for the individual spies, but the real problem was the managers who tasked these officers, heads of the police, security services like MI5 who were recipients of the files and directed some of the targeting.”

This has been going on in our society for decades.

This bill facilitate the next generation of state corruption.

Re: Nobody is home

Well, the door was open but were the lights on?

Re: Quietly scraped

From the bottom of our collective shoe.

Mine has a doggies pooh bag in the pocket.

Comms watchdog to probe errors that left Brits unable to make emergency calls

66 years.

That is how far back I remember our first telephone, $TownName $Number.

I have never heard of this happening before.

The management at BT should face very serious consequences.

But, they won’t.

Sigh.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

Re: BS

I take it we are referring to a Batchelor of Science? Not the other BS used by the PR people and C-suiters?

Re: Two pennies

Don’t forget the tuppenny bit.

Re: results are currently flooded

I see what you said there.

Re: C level executives

R101 anybody?

Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay

Re: Pathological guesser

Just ask Boris Johnson

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

Re: LSE

You sure he went there? Bit lefty.

Not Elton and Oxford for classics or a PPE?

Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary

Re: Fireman

Fahrenheit 451 anybody?

Re: And by "solving" a non-problem ...

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“Wankers”

Financial services have already grabbed that with their collective name “a wunch of bankers”.

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

Re: underwear

“The soldiers are out of the barracks”.

Thanks Alan.

EU boss Breton: There's no Huawei that Chinese comms kit is safe to use in Europe

Re: Nokia 3310

And I have a Moto. Razr in reserve as well as some other ancient stuff.

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

Nobody mention AI

The grunts in large outsourcers are going to be replaced anyway.

Either the customers will run their own or the bosses will implement so called “AI” as a service.

In other news... Infosys. Will Rishi become poorer?

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Re: Scunthorpe problem.

Typhoo put the “Tea” in Britain but who put the....?

Re: dong

Or possibly “bang”?

Re: Heavily regulated.

Regrettably, I only recently saw an article that said your power supplier can switch your smart meter to pay in advance, remotely, and without even informing you.

British Gas have only just been banned by OffGem (or whoever) from breaking into properties and installing pre-pay meters when they feel like it.

Microsoft: Russia sent its B team to wipe Ukrainian hard drives

Re: TV show potential of the B-Team

They could be financed by a vindictive, incompetent and self promoting boss.

An ex-PM perhaps. Whose name begins with “B”. Hence the B-Team?

False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration

Re: Portable PC

We use to call them “luggable”... just.

Also, the programmer should have known better. CRLF or just LF should always be planned for.

Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry

How many wasps does it take to change a light bulb?

Two.

One to call the electrician and one to mix the dry martinis.

Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product

Re: A lot better than nothing

Greggs share price has done really well these past few years.

Yum!

Re: mistral.

Could be worse.

They could have called it sirocco.

I had one once. Utter crap.

Mine’s got the V60 keys in the pocket.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

And in other news...

...the House of Commons privileges committee have just well and truly kicked BoJo in the bollocks.

The IT aspect of this is that they have recommended that his parliamentary pass be revoked. Oh, as well as recommending his suspension for ninety days.

The pass might have a “beepity deepity” chip in it? I’m just guessing.

Mine has copy of the report spread across all of the pockets.

Re: narcissist egomaniac

Sorry, have we switched to BoJo now?

Or are we still on Trump?

Logitech boss Bracken Darrell steps down, effective ASAP

My old Air Mouse...

...has recently stopped re-charging properly.

I’ve had it over ten years, maybe fifteen.

It has been absolutely brilliant and vastly better than the Apple one that I currently have to use.

Anybody know if Ifixit can ship me a replacement battery kit?

Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'

Accenture

Those of us who are old enough may remember Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting.

That didn’t end well.

And so, Accenture was born.

UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation

Re: Option 1... Grant Danegeld to NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT AIdDevelopers .....

And, @amfm, has anybody asked the IAEA about Vladimir Purim?

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

I blame it on...

...the worldwide acceptance of MBAs.

Icon because——->

Re: .. One lump, or two ..

And then, finally, you lose your temper and lash out.

One lump and then two more.

Re: “what could have been”

“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.”

Thanks Thoreau.

Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure

I think it was a break away group.

Anonymous South Sudan?

Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem

Re: Miss Configuration

Ms Configuration surely?

Then you can say that it was “mis-configured”.

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

Re: Better subheading:

What was that Obi-Wan?

Did you hear something?

Google changes email authentication after spoof shows a bad delivery for UPS

Lack of SPF

A short while ago, any mail that I and my BH sent to the few friends who use gmail bounced.

It took a while rubbishing through the badly worded error message but I found that they needed SPF.

Went to Ionos site and yup, there was a note saying that they have recently had this from Google and I had to include SPF entries in our DNS entries.

I’m sure that non technical folk will find this troubling.

Thanks guys.

Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week

Coming together in person.

Barbarella anyone?

Browser extension developers targeted with schemes and scams

Re: Auto update...

...and even then I wonder what kind of mods are happening under cover.

PiHole is a good start for ads but... Hmm...

EU greenlights billions for microelectronics under Chips Act

Brexit

‘Nuff said.

Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money

This is not GPT.

It’s a stupid and lazy journalist who should be fired (like BoJo) for not even pretending to do their job.

And then sued.

Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC

Re: “one member from another forest”

Bring lots of toilet paper. Bears need it.

Sweden’s Evroc going full Viking with Euro cloud to raid US providers

Re: "nyob ”

You going all @AC today then Max?

Hong Kong tries to outlaw uploads of unofficial and anti-Beijing anthem

A chink in their armour.

Is El Reg allowed in the people’s republic?

Just humming for a friend.

The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023

Glad I didn’t have to go.

Just saying.

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

Re: ssh into a server.

My iPad does that.

Re: keyboard

I thought I read note somewhere that said you can project a Bluetooth keyboard onto the virtual screen.

Maybe?

Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month

Re: Ninja air fryer

Software problems with those though.

You select Roast, for instance, hit the timer button and the bastard reverts to Air Fry.

It defaults to Air Fry all the time unless you spot it and override the selection.

Icon because frying.