Posts by IGotOut

Imagine being charged to take a lunch break... even if you didn't. Welcome to the world of these electronics assembly line workers

Re: Americistan??

Sorry but I'll think you'll find this applies to a great many countries around the world

The harder you physically work, the lower you get paid and the more you get shit on.

Microsoft, you should look away now: Google's cloud second only to AWS in dev survey

So in other words

Azure users are less likely to click random shit on the internet and fill in questionable "surveys" online.

And some people say MS users are the stupid ones.

HPE: Since y'all love cloud subs so much, we'll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022

Technology as a service?

Fancy way of putting "you're renting it"

FFS.

Spin the wheel and find today's leaky cloud DB... *clack clack... clack* A huge trove of medical malpractice complaints

Not sure on the HIPPA bit

Going by "Practitioners and other healthcare providers cannot release any identifying information about their patients without written permission." I'm not sure this applies, as it is not the professional bodies that have "lost" this info, as it was the victims themselves that supplied the info to a 3rd party who then lost it.

Now if the USA wasn't so corrupted by big business, they may get some decent laws to cover this, but no doubt they'll just end up with another years free credit checking.

Youtube Queue Chrome extension booted out of store for search engine hijacking, revealing Google's lax dev checks

so tempting

" Google today announced the release of its Suspicious Site Reporter "

Knowing how Google like everything to be automated, how about if everyone decided to report double-click.

Ahhhhh! What year is it?! Users left without direction or clue after Google Calendar 404s

Am I the only one...

That thinks Google cayis one of the most ugly and nasty ones out their?

Brit hosting provider tsoHost takes needleful of 'unauthorized code' to the servers, suffers week of outages

Re: So, what's a good alternative...

I've been using tsohost for years (actually £5host before take over)

I'm on their budget cloud hosting platform that doesn't use Cpanel. I wasn't affected by this outage.

Personally I've always found their support really could, getting my old site back up and running after a zero day killed it.

Your not going to get anything better if your on the lower tries, as most budget ones don't include backups.

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Re: Can someone tell me why Venmo is a thing?

We old folks have this thing called cash.Totally private and the person instantly has it available to spend.

Think it may catch on one day

ALIS through the looking glass: F-35 fighter jet's slurpware nearly made buyers pull out – report

And wants to stop Turkey buying Russian SAMs because they "may" send info back.

It's all fun and games...

Halleluja! The Second Coming of Windows Subsystem For Linux blesses Insider faithful

Re: So what we're doing is...

You do know it's not installed and running by default don't you?

Don't want it? Don't load it.

UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange

You can say many things about Javie, but one thing he is not is a fan of Trump.

Wondering where that upcoming meeting with 'Cheap Viagra' came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics...

Oh no, they must be bricking themselves.

"Quick let's try and scam people out of a few hundred thousand dollars"

"But it's against their terms and conditions"

"Damn, best give up then."

Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar

it's the

Chinese, no Norks,...sorry Iranians...bugger I mean Russians...gah....Venezuelans, no Mexicans...aggh dammit Cubans...

Can someone remind me who today's bogeyman is, I've lost track....

'Cynical and bullying' TalkTalk hackerhacker getsgets 4 yearsyears behindbehind barsbars

Re: I've been caught ...... I must have Asperger's.

Asperger's, but it must have been a while...it's called ASD now.

Wrong.

ASD is Autistic spectrum disorder.

Asperger is subset of this.

Kind of like saying Hodgkin's lymphoma no longer exists, it's now called cancer.

This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras

Re: Firefox's global market share dwindles ...

In case you missed it, here is an idiot's guide to why they broke them.

https://www.howtogeek.com/333230/why-firefox-had-to-kill-your-favorite-extension/

Can't get infected via email if your messages aren't delivered: Seven-hour slowdown hits Symantec cloud filters

Re: Manually?!?

Well if the automated system is causing the issue, then it could be a "get it up and running until we find the exact cause workaround".

I've seen scenario's like this before, you let effectively knock one system off line to allow it to run down and clear a backlog and then bring that back online and knock out another.

Bad news from science land: Fast-charging li-ion batteries may be quick to top up, but they're also quick to die

Re: You control how fast you charge your car

Here we go again...

Electric cars are crap because xyz.

Electric cars are ace because abc.

For starters, the VAST majority of travel is within the range of a return trip.

If you are one of the majority AND you have somewhere to charge, then it could be for you.

If your do more than the range and/or don't have somewhere to charge then they are most likely not for you. No big deal

Battery technology and management is improving all the time, as are the number of charge points, so maybe it 10years they will be suitable.

Remember, you once had to buy you petrol from the Chemist that was only Monday to Friday 9 to 5.

Re: Sony

Yes because everyone fly 3 days a week. Does you car not have the ability to charge a phone? Heck I can do 5 at a time in mine.

Can you not afford a small portable charger for such times?

I guess 99.99% of the users should revolve around the .01%

Re: Duh!

The issue both NiMH and NiCad was they need to be completely discharged to maintain performance.

As for fast charging, this has certainly been around since the days of Lead Acid batteries.

No one remember having to put the battery on trickle charge overnight because your British Leyland car had completely drained it when trying to start it because it happened to a day of the week with a Y in it?

Tech lobbyists turn on Trump over Mexican tariffs, then quickly try to smooth the waters

Well...

If an import tarrif hurts USA consumers, then he should also slap a huuuuge tarrif on all exported goods. That'll learn them.

USA! USA! USA!

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

Yippee

We're all looking at this wrong.

Go to the USA, spend a huge amount of cash buying stuff, then say you didn't buy any of it.

When your bank's asks if you gave your passwords out, say "Yes, to the man in the embassy, his employees and those nice people at the customs gate....oh and the bloke he was chatting to on the phone at the time"

Kerching

Black Wednesday: DXC hosting services wonky for almost 8 hours after core switches go rogue

Maybe they should move it to the cloud

And leave it to those fresh faced graduates to fix it.

What do you mean by "real world experience"? Surely everything they use is the latest kit, all from the same manufacturer, all on the same firmware levels and with fantastically written documentation.

ProtonMail filters this into its junk folder: New claim it goes out of its way to help cops spy

Re: But who is pulling the strings of the courts?

"Tutanota puts out biannual reports of orders they've received and how many of those they've complied with. Protonmail, not so much."

https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/

Tricky things to master those search engines.