Posts by Multivac

Low AI rollout caused by dumb, fashion-victim management – Gartner

Re: Over-hyped, over-paid and over here

I've often wondered why people like Tesla don't supply a range extender, a battery that'll fit on the car like a roof box, could easily gain a couple of hundred miles there, and if you could swap an empty one for a charged one at a service station that would be better, and have the whole thing covered by some sort of subscription/rental service.

Imagine if all the cars negotiated with each other and synced up their entry and exit to junctions and roundabouts. I only ride a motorbike because of two points on my journey to work where traffic flows cross paths and massive queues form, if the whole thing was automated and orchestrated by a computer it would be free flowing all the way.

So net neutrality has officially expired. Now what do we do?

Re: Competition

You'd think that but you're thinking the average consumer is as intelligent as you, they're not.

Let's imagine the Daily Mail's parent company DMG bought a cable company and delivered cable for, say, 10% less than everyone else.

Obviously they're going to make the Daily Mail free to all those users and allow them to stream ITV for free so they'll easily recover that discount via advertising.

Non right wing media websites like the Independent would count to your usage and probably be throttled.

Huffington post would be all but blocked, far to lefty for DMG to allow it on their network as would the BBC.

So now you've got a significant portion of the population getting right wing propaganda pipped onto their devices for free, anything that doesn't agree with the media companies agenda costs you money or is too slow to be useable, these people don't really get that there is a bias, they don't know what VPN even stands for, they can play Fortnite anywhere in the country for free though so that's great.

You've got the basis for a good George Orwell novel right there!

Which? calls for compensation for users hit by Windows 10 woes

404?

I did wonder if the Which? website might be experiencing a few technical issues today, they are running on AWS though, I presume they checked that before releasing that statement.

Apple: No currency mining for you in our App Store thank you

If you wrote a really popular app, something that the average parent gave to their kids to keep them occupied on a car journey (and then inadvertently got addicted to themselves as keeps happening to my wife), then you slip in some code that uses say 10% of the phones CPU for mining while the app is running, and that's scaled across thousands of users, you can make a bit of token.

I'd expect that's really what this is aimed at.

First A380 flown in anger to be broken up for parts

Re: This underlines one more thing

United used to fly out of Birmingham, 50 minute drive from home, park up next to the airport and walk into the terminal, it saved about 2 hours on the journey compared to Heathrow. But United cancelled the service because of a lack of customers, I guess people were looking for connecting flights into Europe which Birmingham didn't have or they genuinely wanted a stop over in London. It sucks for the rest of us but that's the way it is.

Worst. Birthday. Ever. IPv6's party falls flat

Re: Lack of commitment

The fear mongers were COBAL and Fortran programmers, and most of them had to be brought out of retirement to fix the code, it's safe to say they are all dead now.

Lack of commitment

IPv6 has bumped along for years with nothing really happening, it's been around that long I remember having to learn it for my Solaris networking exams!

Tell the world that on the 1st of January 2020 IPv4 will stop working.

Then sit back and watch as everyone panics and sorts their s**t out just like they did for Y2K.

And on the 2nd of January you can sit bat back and wonder what all the fuss was about while cancelling all the contracts for the "legacy systems" developers you had to hire.

Oracle says migrating on-prem ERP to cloud now easier than upgrade

Does it go down for 24 hours every time you patch it though.

If there is one thing Larry is good at it's selling crap, every time we patch an exadata the thing goes down for the entire weekend, sometimes longer. All the technical staff keep saying "we need to get off this crap" but the CEO keeps signing the million dollar cheques to Larry. I wouldn't even begin the speculate what goes on in the background but if Larry's selling cloud there's a load of CEO's opening up their cheque books.

UK military may recruit wheezy, alcoholic keyboard warriors

Some of those are out for good reason

A serious drug dependency could leave someone open to blackmail, bribery or other forms of manipulation by an external source. Eczema and asthma, not so much.

Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion

Re: Worst thing: M$FT has now full access to our PRIVATE REPOS!!

All your code are belong to us.

Re: Shite

"They might not fuck it up."

LOL, that's awesome man, I'm taking that!

'Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ': Infosec boffins on surveillance capitalism

Re: "Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ"

Yeah, and any bank account info, like every time you use your cash card to withdraw cash from the hole in the wall outside Tesco's! So now they know when you go to Tesco they can check the CCTV to watch you and monitor the till to see what you buy. You should get a ClubCard to make life easier for them, they'll appreciate it when they're giving you the rubber glove treatment, an extra squirt of KY can make all the difference!

Is Microsoft about to git-merge with GitHub? Rumors suggest: Yes

So I guess Gitlab is where you want to be, they are planning an IPO on 18th November 2020 and migration from Github to Gitlab is easy.

Kill the blockchain! It'll make you fitter in the long run, honest

You could create your own clock chain to keep track of who's round it amongst your regular drinking partners or even tracking hours in a baby sitting circle, it doesn't have to be a power guzzling pseudo currency, just a distributed ledger. Bitcoin really gets Blockchain a bad press.

VMware declares energy-guzzling blockchains 'immoral'

Bitcoin is a product that uses Blockchain technology, reading the comment they made they seem to be treating those two terms as interchangeable which suggests the intern they picked to research it might have had an off day when they looked it up on Wikipedia.

Internet engineers tear into United Nations' plan to move us all to IPv6

30 second ipv4 redesign?

Why not 255.255.255.255 just becomes 255.255.255.255.255 that way legacy addresses become 0.255.255.255.255 and that's pretty easy to handle, probably doable in a firmware upgrade, I've spent no more than 30 seconds thinking about that so sorry if I'm oversimplifying it.

US websites block netizens in Europe: Why are they ghosting EU? It's not you, it's GDPR

VPN Hub

This the day after I read an article on here telling me about VPN Hub. IT moves a lot quicker than bureaucrats.

Microsoft patches problematic OS to deal with SSD woes

Re: Masterful PR tactics

You mean "Pay us money for enterprise level support and bug fixing"?

I never got the big hoo-ha about systemd, granted it's not as simple as dropping a bash script in init.d but for anything more complicated than starting up Apache it's a vast improvement.

Masterful PR tactics

Redhat: Here are some patches.

Redhat customer: Thanks they worked great.

Microsoft: Here are some patches.

Microsoft customer: AAAARRRRGGGHHHH my laptop is dead.

Microsoft customer: HELP ME!!!!!

Microsoft customer: I'VE lost everything.

Microsoft customer: I cant even work.

Microsoft: Here are some patches.

Microsoft customer: It's fixed, you're wonderful, thank you so much, you're the best company ever, even better than Apple.

And that is how you skew customer perception, take them to the depths of hell and bring them back, the sense of relief causes a feeling of euphoria that no logic can counter. There used to be an IT company in the UK called Phoenix that used the very same trick to make it's directors very rich.

About to install the Windows 10 April 2018 Update? You might want to wait a little bit longer

Re: I Saw No Problems (- No ships Either)

"The family's five machines all updated fine" - I guess that accounts for the 5 up votes then! I'm sure you'll get more when everyone else's machines finally finish updating over the coming weeks LOL!

The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB

Re: Wait

Don't buy a Bosch washing machine, completely wipes out the DAB signal when it's running.

Blood spilled from another US high school shooting has yet to dry – and video games are already being blamed

Re: Early information

I read your comment:

"Please don't say, "Ban all guns," or something akin to that. It may have worked in the UK and parts of the Commonwealth"

And thought it really needed a little correction:

"Please don't say, "Ban all guns," or something akin to that. It may have worked everywhere else in the world."

Mining apps? We're cool so long as they admit to it, says Canonical

Re: Crypto mining in general

If you want to mine bitcoin you'll need an ASIC, but some crypto's are ASIC resistant, ethereum is supposed to be one of these and they do it by using an algorithm that requires a lot of memory which takes up a lot of chip space.

Blockchain is finding more and more uses, a US healthcare provider is using it to store patient data and it lends itself to tamper proof accounting systems very well. They can use their own systems to build the blockchain but at some point it's going to be simpler to farm this out and if they can create a coin/token for their blockchain it's conceivable that instead of popup adds on your smart phone app you can rent out your processing power instead.

John McAfee ‘goes underground’ in motorcade to flee SEC

Doesn't John McAfee look a lot like Johnny Hallyday? Has anyone seen John since Johnny died?

Wanna break Microsoft's Edge browser? Google's explained how

I'd like to personally thank Microsoft for the close relationship I maintain with my parents, going round to fix broken Microsoft stuff is the primary reason for 90% of my visits.

Hey cool, you went serverless. Now you just have to worry about all those stale functions

Re: Who'll thnk of the data?

You put the code the developers write on the same system as your data, let's think of all the ways that could go wrong!