Posts by IGotOut

NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital

I went digital...

...I went to my GP, where I was handed and badly photocopied sheet to fill out.

I then had to hand it back and wait for an email.

A week later I got the email.

I then had to create an account for NHS online. Once I'd set it up and logged in, it told me I already had one and would I like to merge them! I forgot I'd set one up 5 years ago to attempt to get repeat prescriptions....I ended up using the phone in the end

So I logged in to book an appointment.

Showing nothing for 16 weeks and that's as far as it goes.

Tried again a few weeks later. Again no slots for the next 16 weeks

Fed up I walked into the GP "Yes we can see you in 4 days time".

What is the fucking point of having online booking if you can't actually book online.

Oh and to so how shit it is. If you want one in 8 days time, tough shit. Come back tomorrow as we only book 7 days in advance..

If the NHS was in any other sector, it would have been shut down years ago.

And lets not even start on dentistry.

Intel: Trouble draws private investors like vultures to a wounded giant

Qualcomm

I'd be very surprised if they even had a remote chance of a buyout getting through, considering the amount of antitrust suits they have already lost.

ServiceNow root certificate blunder leaves users high and dry

Re: ServiceNowt.

That's pretty standard practice.

'Cybersecurity issue' takes MoneyGram offline for three days – and counting

Shit...

....that explains why I haven't received payment from that Nigerian Prince that's due to me.

Necro malware continues to haunt side-loaders of dodgy Android mods

Adverts....

...throw in plenty of Android apps have in game adverts which encourage people to download from 3rd party stores.

Oh and Google, while we're on about fake ads, how about the bullshit fake ads you push on Youtube. "This amazing device...."

Lawmakers, make Google liable for the adverts they push out. If they sell an add for a scam product, sue them. Nothing major. Just $10 per view should do it

US proposes ban on Chinese, Russian connected car tech over security fears

Do the Chinese actually make...

15 ton, 10m long pick ups?

If not,that's already ruled out most of the daily runabouts.

US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist

IRS involved?

So you lost $230,000,000?

Let's have a little chat about the taxes you've been paying.

Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

By older phones...

...do they really mean Apple?

My second hand, rather old in tech terms, Android device has USB-C. This also goes for a great many android phone brands where USB-C has been common for years.

So your new phone suddenly needs a 10x more powerful charger?

No?

Thought not.

FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

Congratulations. You've just bankrupted the USA.

Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them

Re: A Big Yawn

It's probably why it was ignored. Less ammo for the opposition (that would work both ways).

Re: What does this have to do with the Register?

Did you actually read ANY of the article?

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

Re: iOS "interoperability"?

As above. It means things like not blocking a tracker (e.g. Tile) then selling your own. Or stopping a 3rd party creating an alternative client (say windows) to access iCloud or making an Android device that can communicate over Airplay.

Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations

It's fine...

...the AI bots will slurp it all up and chuck it out to everyone else anyway.

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

Re: Eric Hoffer had Donald Trump COMPLETELY figured out YEARS AGO---

"We had peace and stability around the world when Trump was last in power."

You're not very bright are you?

Can you please tell me in which year was there no war in the world?

Or do you just mean only ones reported on Fox news?

Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray

Rather than the likes of Amazon and Google who like to take the free stuff and make massive amounts of money from it

UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B

Well....

...it went so well for Birmingham, so I can't see anything going wrong.

I'm sure it will be on time and on budget as always.

Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings

Egress fees are not on the consumers list of requirements...

...then clearly it's no big deal to scrap them if they are so trivial and mundane.

Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared

And in other news...

...the half arsed sanctions are not really having much of an effect.

In Moscow, very little has changed, some prices have increased, but the Moscovites, who are the ones in Russia that have actual power, are hardly affected

Many US and European brands still have manufacturing and sales in Russia, many brands that pulled out e.g. McDonald's have just been set up as local companies and rebranded while the others are just shipped in from abroad.

We still buy petrol from Russia, just via the likes of India.

We're happy to supply weapons, as that generates money, but soon as it comes to isolate Russia and possibly lose money that's a no-no.

If we were actually serious,the whole of the EU, USA and others could simply make it illegal to do business with Russia, but nope, money

The end is in sight for Windows 10, but Microsoft keeps pushing out fixes

Meh...

My old second hand HP laptop is just fine on Win 10. I swapped out the single spinning rust for twin SSD's, added some more second hand RAM and that's it. Boots into Win10 in about 5 seconds, does what I need to do pretty quickly and happily, even when running it's own screen plus two external monitors.

I have no intention to upgrade because a marketing droid says I should.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

Re: Conspiracy

You probably got down voted (going by this post) for either Xenophobia and / or naivety.

The first part is reasonable in that it's true they can be hacked.

But saying that we should ban imports and trust the UK government, boy that's scary.

For starters, they would be amongst the first allowing remote take over of cars "to stop terrorism and child molesters". You can guarantee the access it will be shared with the usual suspects"

So sure say we should keep an eye on it, but I would trust anyone really.

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience

Yawn. Same old BasicReality post.

Government bad

Unions bad

Unregulated Private Enterprise Good.

IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer

Seriously?

Patents that old are still valid?

The system is completely and utterly broken and no one will fix it because....well money.

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line

The more I read shit like this ..

...the more I want to rebel and burn everything to the ground.

I've already dumped much of the pointless tech, and the stuff I still use, is used far less.

Re: Survailance without enforcement

"With an option to clear the records provided considerable monetary compensation"

So just like now then?

The poor get hit the hardest and the rich just buy their way out?

Laws were, and always will be made for the protection of the rich and powerful. Any protection it provides to the poor is just a side show.

Microsoft's Copilot 'Wave 2' is a tsunami of unanswered questions

Re: AI - just say "no"

"So jobs in marketing and PR are most at risk."

Given that the only thing I use ChatGPT is to create bullshit blurb to promote my designs, then yes.

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

I feel unclean...

..but im struggling to see what he did wrong? If he had said "Go kill them instead" then sure, but joking that they aren't worth killing (that's how I'm reading it) seems nothing particularly bad

Now I need a shower after defending this piece of shit.

Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize

Re: Next...

Problem with the Darwin awards is since the advent of TikTok, there are just to many entries to sieve through.

"I can imagine an anally inserted (and fired) defibrillator would wake the dead."

Failing that, give one hell of a boner. And no, my search history is bad enough already. Go do your own research.

Google bets on carbon capture tech to clean up its mess – in the 2030s

Re: Too much money being made

The planet will be fine. Unfortunately for a lot of the things that live on it....yup they're fucked.

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

How about look into both?

Robot enters Fukushima's nuclear core to retrieve melted-down remains

I agree. If you can't assemble IKEA furniture, best not do anything demanding, such as loading a dishwasher.

AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals

Re: But AMD has clearly stated that they give up on GPU leadership

Theses days they probably make more money from a single hyperscale bit barn than all the gamers combined.

Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline

Re: Surprised? No

@barry

Well given 26 BILLION records were leaked earlier this year, not sure how much more massive it needs to get.

Oh your talking Panama Papers type massive leak, not peasant class level.

EU kicks off an inquiry into Google's AI model

Also when have the tech bris actually given two fucks about anywhere out side the US?

Hint:

Choose you language:

English:US.

About that Windows Installer 'make me admin' security hole. Here's how it's exploited

I have to say ..

...forget slagging off MS, buy this person a pint. That is one heck of an convoluted way to find a flaw!

Major ISP bungles settings, causing Microsoft 365, Azure outage

DNS

...it's always DNS.

Amazon to pour £8B into UK datacenters through to 2028

Re: Wonder why?

"but has proven distinctly non generous with regard to UK pensioners winter heating allowance."

I'm sick of thie parroting if this My retired parents have far more disposable income than I do and get the allowance (same goes for my aunt).

They get the allowance, but I don't...and I'm not even that bad off.

Why should a retired person with 1/2 million sat in the bank and their mortgage paid of get the allowance, yet a young couple, with 2 kids both on minimum wage, renting some crap hole because its all they can afford get absolutely nothing?

I''ll also.chuck in child allowance into this as well.

As in on a rant, if a government wants to raise money, get rid of fixed rate fines, as they impact the poorest first. Many other countries do it Suddenly that £60 speeding fine by Lord Privileged becomes a £6000 fine. Sheikh Ikillrepoters £100,000

Oracle wants to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors

Re: "pilot projects have not gone well"

3. If it goes wrong it kills a few thousand soldiers and some inconvenient* marine life. On land it has the potential to do far, far more (visible) damage.

4. If there is an issue, it gets hidden due to "National Security"

SpaceX blasts being stuck in bureaucratic orbit as Starship approval slips

I know US food standards are utter dogshit compared to much of the world, but imagine the toxins the giant conglomerate food industry would put in if they had no regulation.

Now repeat for environmental issues, water (ignore Flint), monetary controls.

You'd have even bigger toxic cesspools of life than you currently do.

Re: November

That's because most people in the UK have no idea what the 5th of November is ACTUALLY about other than " A guy tried to blow up parliament".

The future everyone wanted – in-car ads tailored to your journey and passengers

Oh well...

...looks like I'll be disabling this piece of shit and sticking in a fag packet sized Bluetooth amp that happily works on 12v.

Pentagon has little to show for two decades of GPS modernization work

Good job...

...there isn't a live war going on highlighting all the issues with the current GPS system, otherwise the enemy could be using those same flaws.

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

Re: About Microsoft...

All OS can change UEFI, after all it's how many bios updates work these days.

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

Re: European Colonization

"they started the slavery system"

Nice to see the education is just as bad in China / Russia (which is partly European btw) is as bad as the USA's*

I can't make out if this is a China / Russia bot or just your typical ignorant badly educated right wing nutjob.

Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling

Re: Wow!

@DS9999

This is one of many cases.

1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in

As I've just replied in another post...

is the shift of responsibility.

They suggest YOU monitor your credit status.

YOU have to change all your banking cards and deal with all the shit that goes with it.

YOU have to change all your passwords and logins.

And if anything happens, YOU have to clean up the mess.

And THEY, well, they have to pay to do what they should've been doing for years. Protect their systems.

@dlinacre

Let me put it this way to you.

If all your personal information and money was kept in a bank, but then the bank left the doors wide open, with it all sat on a desk, for anyone to walk in and take would you not be angry at the bank?

Then if the same bank then turns around and says, oh we screwed up, but it's ok, all YOU have to do is constantly check on a regular basis that no one is using that info, and if they do YOU, have to clear up the mess.

Oh as a side issue, we suggest YOU change all your bank cards and passwords.