Posts by IGotOut 5324 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019
If crypto is supposed to be this amazing currency, free from interference and government control etc etc
How is it that a single entity can freeze it? Also how do you retrieve it?
What's to stop you selling a few hundred million in scam coin, then just freezing it and getting it back?
...why I should encourage my kids into IT?
Oh because....
So you won't lay them off when the massive profits aren't quite massive enough? Or outsource their job to another cheaper country? Or expect them to 80 hour weeks because others have left and you don't want to replace them? Or you believe the AI bullshit generators and lay them off because...AI?
"My network has a firewall. It does not even respond to connection attempts on any incoming ports. "
Why do people here always compare their SOHO set up and experience to say a 10,000 employee business?
How do you get an Email? IP phone calls? Host websites? See where I'm going?
@williamf
Reading your post, you realise you are posting the polar opposites of the case you are defending
An example
"the box is still with me as a keepsake). Even microsoft and intel told you to save a few bucks and get a 486SX"
So me a post from MS or Intel now telling us we don't need AI and Intel going, just buy the older processor.
I also heard this shit multiple times of people defending AI slop.
Oh people said a 386 was a waste of money.
Guess what, when they came out, for the majority of time they were, just like paying £Mark for a 4K was.
Here is the difference between those products and the AI joke beset upon us now.
People WANTED those products, but couldn't justify the expenditure, as it was overkill
Now the PRODUCERS of the products are justifying the expenditure, despite the consumers having desire to "own" the product.
AI is NOT another 386 or iPhone or Nintendo Wii.
No, AI is another 3DTV or Metaverse. A product dreamt up by growth a all cost shareholder driven assholes, to try and sell products people don't want, without a fucking clue how to make it profitable or, the gods forbid, have a use for the vast majority of people on this planet.
"Go research"
Ahh the classic tin foil hat answer.
Thousands of Scientists trained in the field are wrong
Guy on FB: Correct
Years of academic research: Wrong
Two line post post on X: Right
Do your own research man, it's out there, you just gotta keep looking until you find your confirmation bias.
Not sure why so many complain about IKEA.
Just get the Family card and your sorted. Best customer service I've come across (I once broke a cupboard because I was an idiot and tried to skip a step).
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/df104e78-fcdf-4570-b637-bdbbg5883cbe.html
Scumbag in charge:
So tell me about this breakthrough.
Engineer.
We've made a Quantum chip that can do 8 Qbits, but at some point, in theory, could go much bigger.
Scumbag in charge:
How long? How big.
Engineer
Well in 30,40 or 50 years it in theory go to millions
Scumbag in charge
So in years, could have millions. Got it.
Engineer.
That's not what I said, what I said..
Scumbag in charge
Send the press release to the stock market.
Quantum Computing with millions of Qbits just years away.
Scumbag in charge
[Checks stock prices]
Best Monty Burns voice.
Excellent, number go up.
I've two teenage daughters, neither of which know what they want to do in life, which I'm fine with.
After working in IT for 20 years, it's certainly not a career I'd recommend, not to anyone.
Sure you may earn decent money, but be prepared to either be offshores, replaced by cheaper locally or just have your soul removed by those above.
"I don't understand this, 200 seats is a truly large call center"
Not even close.
The one I did the Avaya IT for had 2000 contact centre +1500 regular staff, and that's classed as a medium size on the world stage
There are ones with several thousand staff, as an example, do you think when you phone your insurance broker the staff work for them?
"in September 2023 in a deal set to last 55 months, with the option to extend for a further 24 months"
Then what?
Spend another £1 Billion moving to another system (initial project cost put at 3 shillings and Six Pence)
Or pay the licence fees that will be double what they are now because, well what you going to do? Move?
" just to touch base. It's an opportunity to make sure everyone is aware of the bigger picture "
What base? The one at the bottom of the lamp?
What picture? The one in reception or the motivational one in the office?
Admit it, your the manager.
Please do keep going I need just three more for a line in Bullshit Bingo.
"If you want less black individuals in prison, you convince them to commit less crimes."
This just goes to show how fucking ignorant you are.
If you are a white kid, in a white neighborhood, and are seen speeding, you may get pulled over and may get a ticket.
If your a black kid, in a black neighborhood, seen speeding, you WILL get pulled over, you WILL get a ticket and most likely get a gun drawn on you and your car searched.
Then feel free to check out sentencing for white Vs black for identical crimes.
And as for "LGB's turning against other letters", that is the biggest pile of bullshit I have heard.
Now, more than ever, they are a closer community. Knowing a lot of gay, lesbian,bi, trans and queer people that you are just repeating bullshit your right wing bullshit machines are spewing out. There is and always has been friction, having dated a bi girl in the late 80s,she wasn't "gay" enough for some bars, but her greatest wish was to be closer to where we are now.
It's only pricks like you, recycling right wing propaganda that makes it worse.
Oh feel free to learn about the Compton Cafe Riots to see how far progress has come since "the good old days"
You may want to go back and think about your comment.
I got GCSE grades back in the day, but had 22 years IT experience in Desktop, Networking and Telecoms.
Something tells me I was better at the job than a fresh faced Uni grad....scrap that I KNOW I was better, as I had to deal with several thinking that they knew better.
I've know many people that only got GCSE's (some even failed) that are absolutely shit hot at their jobs
I don't think you know what AI is.
Your example "Shopify is AI"
Bullshit.
Shopify has a few elements where you can get ChatGPT to write some text, maybe generate some images, but that's it.
Shit like remembering customer preferences, abandoned cart retrieval, single sign on is NOT AI.
I came into work today and that stupid advertising, I mean lock screen had the following useful information.
Top right: "The end of the year is upon us once again and the holidays are coming up"
Centre: "Prioritise your well being this holiday season with Microsoft Search ...."
Checks date. Yup 10th of February.
Still makes a change from all the Copilot crap...
Congratulations on not understanding what you are talking about.
Cloudflares captcha (there are a few variations you can choose from) shouldn't in theory be presented to humans.
You seem to have a bizarre issue where it's checked that you are human then not presented you with the captcha i.e. its working exactly as intended.
