Posts by A_O_Rourke

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

I wonder

If Microsoft will apply the changes to people in the rest of the world or will they wait for a government law suit before "fixing" the obscure information??

Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers

Makes me wonder

If it's not needed for anything except work why they are touting early trials to Veterans and promising all manner of benefits "About 1.8 million veterans are eligible for the card which helps proves their status to access services and discounts."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3zmjrzegjo

You can imagine the comments sections in the Facebook groups ;-)

Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch

Delivery Instructions.....

You mean like "Sneak past the Ring doorbell, behind the car, dump the package behind the bins and then Leg it!"

Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it

Re: I touch it and it breaks!

Or, the inverted Demo when on a call with the HellDesk, Look, I click Continue and nothing............ oh, right, its working now

Doomed UK smartphone maker Bullitt Group finally liquidated

Trump Mobile

Wonder if these will find themselves in the USA, sprayed gold, put in a box and "Made in the USA"??

UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb

On the larger scale, the government has announced a £14.2 billion ($19.2 billion) investment to START TO build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, as we all know the final cost will be around 71 Billion!

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

Trump’s ‘good time to buy’ smacks almost of insider trading.The FTC will game a dim view of this.

Trump’s ‘good time to buy’ smacks almost of insider trading.The FTC will do absolutely Nothing about this. FTFY

To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers' experiences

Re: once upon a time at the pub

The wight of Data, explained by Hanna Fry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo389Jv9Zkw

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Re: The orange dude is crazy

Do you mean Tim Apple?

Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used

Re: Question

The company I work for has a lot of Small / medium customers with remotely managed routers, we have started to switch out POTS Modems for GSM Modems. More expensive for sure but as the OP stated, cheaper than a truc kroll for an engineer to attend site for a 2 minute configuration change.

Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Had one of these yesterday

Managed to keep the nice young lady on the phone for an hour and 10 minutes (a personal record) before she used some very unladylike language and hung up on me!

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Ah yes, the most pointless petition ever, lets assume it gets 3.5 Million votes, that's around 5% of the 68 million UK population (OK, I know, not voters), let's say the voters = 35 Million, that's still only 10% who can be bothered to sign a petition which might as well have said, The british people want Turkeys to Vote for Christmas :-)

Transport for London confirms cyberattack, assures us all is well

I'm not sure why people use Oyster cards

I'm from a little country village "OOP North" but whenever I go to that there London I simply use my watch and tap to pay, unless the OP doesn't want their bank tracking their journeys (assuming they have a bank)

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

Chemtrails ............

Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

Re: So if I type a number with a leading zero into a cell...

or change anything I type in that looks remotely like a date into date format despite the cell being formatted as text??

Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions

Re: What?

And they have good names for certain Stories:

Phil McCann - Petrol / oil shortages

Sara Blizzard - Weather Presenter (really!)

G7 countries beat UK in worldwide broadband speed test again

Re: What is "enough"?

I think the post code lottery is becoming a thing of the past, I'm in a VERY rural location between Preston and Southport (Northern England for the geographically challenged), no Cable here but BT have FFTH with a 935 / 119 Connection to my router so maybe "Levelling up" is working "Oop-North"??

'Fibre broadband' should mean glass wires poking into your router, reckons Brit survey

Virgin Media are the worst

For me, every time I see that "Virgin fibre" advert with the logo being formed by a coax swooping in really gets on my nerves, almost as if Virgin are saying "we can say anything we like and insult your intelligence whilst doing it!"