Posts by IGotOut

Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency

Lesson from the past.

"The company’s gaming business has prioritised quantity over quality, damaging profitability;"

Atari anyone?

Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

Your missing something huge

Tax.

Shuffle money and avoid paying tax.

Take gMail. Sure THAT part.maybe losing money simply because the income stream is in advertising, which will be under a different division. So they can claim a huge loss, despite it possibly making a truck load of cash.

$69b Activision deal totally helps gamers and saves them money, says Microsoft

Re: That's a load of dosh, that is

I take it you know little about take overs.

You ysually don't buy a company for it's assests (in this case programmers), you buy it for it's client base.

Re: We end up with a Soviet economy when these molochs are allowed to grow further

"Those restrictions have mostly come down and I suspect that it was due to some strategically placed pallets of casg...."

Two words describe when this and so many other things were FUBAR in the USA.

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Ronald Reagan

Back to work, Linux admins: You may have a CVSS 10 kernel bug to address

Wtf

Discovered .....Thales Group in July

6 months to patch? Really?

Luckily it's not a remote exploit...Oh wait.

FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign

Re: And the operators that allowed the spoofing?

I worked in Telco for 15 years and there are 100% legit reasons for spoofing ID's.

Examples (UK)

There are no such things as 03, 08 and 09 numbers. This are effectively redirects that point to real numbers. In the pre VoIP days, these could then point to a huge amount of other numbers, so calls get directed to where they need to go, duch as time of day, day week, how busy the lines are and fsult tolerance. Easier to give out one number than 10!

Contact centres. They handle multiples of customers, hundreds, even thousands. Better to send a spoofed id rather than withhold.

Our carriers insisted, that ALL our spoofed numbers would match the trunk line, or the call failed. Emergency services see the TRUNK line ( so if you had xxx 000 to 499, they see 000. But that is registered to the location.

It gets a lot more complex with VoIP but the concepts are the same.

Here is where it falls apart.

International calls. The source ID is not often transmitted, so the receiving carrier as no idea it is legit.

VoIP. Same as above, but its even easier to spoof, especially having a "local" call orginating from an outside location. There are, again, legit reasons for this. As an example, we had a multinational client, who wanted staff to call a "local" number. So we bought a San Fran numbers that simply pointed to a UK one (that then went to one of 5 countries depending on language requested)

TLDR:

There are legit reasons to spoof, many carriers enforce rules, but many abuse the system and turn a blind eye.

Being one of the 1% sucks if you're a Rackspace user

I guess you didn't didn't read the article. It's mainly small and medium businesses that took the hit. The ones, that can't affird a server team, a network team, a comms team, a security team.

Also the one that can't say, fix this, or your going to lose $50million of business from us, oh and we'll sue your ass into bankruptcy.

Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech

Re: Copyright & data protection

This is the USA. Dies that answet thevwuestion?

UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself

Re: Likely culprit

The Tories? No chance, it would cost £500million , take 5 years and the encryption would consist of renaming .pdf to .pdf.old.

Prime suspect: Amazon to loosen logistics and delivery from EU retail

Probaly the only reason I use Amazon

...is because the majority of time the parcels actually arrive.

Microsoft reports macOS Gatekeeper has an 'Achilles' heel

Re: I detect a trend here

Just like Google and Apple?

Epic payment: Fortnite maker pays record $520m to settle FTC case

So....

...will Apple, Google and Microsoft refund 30% of the takings as well, after all they were complicit in this scam.

Google adds stronger encryption for some Gmail users, in beta

Re: Window Dressing -- Is it paid for out of the Fort Meade budget?

Now AC, manage that for 500,000 messages a day, for several thousand users, many of whom can't remember their logon password if they go home for more than a few days, all whilst being able to retrieve and store messages sent and received for several years.

Sorry, I went off into the real world for a while there, my mistake.

openSUSE Tumbleweed team changes its mind about x86-64-v2

Re: Sensible

Unsupported and not getting the latest OS are two very different things. To be honest, I'd rather the cut dead crud out of the latest IS, so long as the continue to support the older ones as well. For example my 7 year old iPad mini just got an update, but its not on the latest version.

Think about it logically. If you are still running ISA cards with parallel and serial ports, do you actually NEED to be running the most up to date OS?

BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog

We have a commervial version of the BBC.

It's called C4 (Channel 4).

You know, the one the tories are flogging off to some faceless mega corp, where it will end up as another fucking awful ITV2 clone.

To the Banmobile! Huawei inks deal to create global high-end automotive brand

Here is one thing to note when reporting.

The "West" is not the world.

Much of Africa, Asia and South America don't give two craps about the US's views on China, in fact many will go to China BECAUSE it's NOT the USA or former colonial countries.

So add in the huge domestic market, that us one massive potential user base.

Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure

Re: ... or let people in cold houses host them

There was (is?) a company that actually did this a few years, but darned if I can find it.

European telco body looks into terahertz for future 6G comms

Re: 6G

Intetesting arguement apart from one slight issue.

Thz frequencies don't travel through water

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TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill

Where China leads...

....the US follows.

Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage

Re: Guard

You forgot the joke icon, or do you really believe what you have typed?

Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal

Re: Looks like Microsoft lassoed a dumbass cash cow

The relaxation of banking rules yet again? Just like all the other crashes.

OK, we know iPhones are expensive but... $11 a month for Twitter Blue on iOS?

Re: Apple users can afford it

And that extra is still there at resale, rather than deciding if to use the device as a doorstop or paperweight.

And yes I have both Android and Apple.

Europe's USB-C deadline: Lightning must be struck from iPhone by December, 2024

Re: Good.

Maybe next, the EU can pass a law requiring games consoles to be hardware and software compatible with each other,

Microsoft are going that way.

My daughter plays some Xbox games on her iPad.

Re: Can I get a refund then?

Will they pay me for a new adapter so I can plug two sets of headphones into an iPhone with USB-C connector instead of Lightning.

Remind me which was the company that ditched the generic inexpensive headphone jack, forcing you to buy the expensive converter in the first place?

How did that refund go?

Re: Lowest common denominator

@pleat.

I couldn't agree more.

My last phone bought 5 years ago was a £75 Huwawei P10 light. It was ok, did the job. Replaced 2 years ago with a 2nd hand Mate 30 pro, again 2nd hand and is still going strong.

The P10 carried on in service as a music / podcast player for my car until last week when the SD card gave up.

My 14 year old is content with her Iphone 6 and my 11 year old had a SE2 for last Christmas.

The same 11 year old saved her birthday, Christmas and pocket money to buy herself a 2nd hand ipad mini 5 and loves it.

tldr, teach kids you don't need the latest gizmo, be individuals and find what REALLY makes them happy, and not be clones of society and they will be grateful of what they have.

Re: Site radios?

"Roll on common battery tool connector and interchangeable batteries."

Take one apart. They are, in most cass, your bog standard li-ion rechargabke cells, just packaged in a 50p case with a 1000% mark up.

People are now starting to sell converters and 3d printed generics.

I could name other things as well.

Electric toothbrushes

Electric shavers

Vacuum cleaners

oh and lets not forget cars....no really, cars should be the top of the list

Washington DC drags Amazon to court for 'yoinking' driver tips

Re: Tips?

"have you never given the 'binmen' something at Christmas?"

Going by whst many Brummies have endured over the last few years, the tip I could give is try collecting the bins for more than 10 months a year.

Apple brings DIY fix-it store to Europe, UK – with gritted teeth

Re: No Mention Of "Planned Obsolescence" -- Why Not?

How much was the Packard Bell? No adjust for inflation.

Now compare to laptop.

I rest my case.

Hint. My 1995 P120 computer woukd knock you back around £1900 now...excluding a monitor.

Huawei teases bonkers gadget combo

Wait you mean....

...you can put your phone in a leather case that goes on your belt?

Where do they get such ground breaking ideas back.

Hopefully thry'll make these sooon for my 20 year old motorola.

Sandworm gang launches Monster ransomware attacks on Ukraine

Re: Illegal attack

You are incorrect, there is a legitimate reason go go to war in regards to International law, and Putin from has tried to use it, self defence ( The whole Nazi's and NATO about to invade bullshit)

This is the actual law as written in the US charter (2.4) about the illegal invation.

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

This us the self defence section

Article 51

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months

Re: Quick poll

How about from the donkeys mouth AC?

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?

5:45 PM · Nov 28, 2022

Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

Re: Translation.

"What’s race got to do with it?"

Ooo I don't kniw, who is most likely to get racial slurs sent to them.

Hint: Not middle aged white men with money.

No, because he had a child die as well.

Yes, he did actually state that as a valud reason.

Re: Twitter “poll”

It's a 101% unbiased poll.

It's like asking members of the labour party if there should be a general election. Or asking board members / MPs asking themselves if they should have a huge payrise.

Translation.

I'm a rich white dude, so fuck you you dumb women and non-whites. Oh I won't let Infowars back becuase I lost a kid, so yeah, y'know, we're like bro's.

Azure extends DDoS attack protection down to small business users, for a fee

Soooo...

Let me get this right...

You need to pay Microsoft to protect Microsofts infrastructure from attack?

Riiigghhhht.

Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid

Re: Who the hell cares about transmission capability?

You say the existing wire can handle it, but the US infrastructure is well known for being antiquated, mismanaged and partisan where an minor outage in one area can cascade and cause multiple outages in others.

Re: IT does not matter

"So assuming this is the real threat, then you'd think you'd be designing an energy policy around stuff that isn't vulnerable to extreme weather"

You mean when Texas' gas pipelines froze? You know, the one where the fossil champions blamed the wind turbines they have, for the massive problems?

Re: IT does not matter

Well the pretentious veggie hipters will run out Almond "milk"...oh you said downsides.

Google looking outside the usual channels to fix security skills gap

Re: Some evidence please?

I'll chuck out a classic example of why diversity matters.

Engineering.

Take cars.

Did you know only recently has there been a adult female crash test dummy? So long it was a smaller male dummy.

How about seatbelts? Women are far more likely to suffer chest damge in an impact than men.

Seats...designed for men.

Driving position...men (how often have you asked yourself "Why is she sat so close to the dashboard?" . When it should be "Why does she HAVE to sit so close"

Infosec?

Well we are finally working out that those with darker skins have more issues with facial recognistion.

What about alternative languages? Is Password1 as equally easy to guess in Hindi, or Urdu?

So yes diversity IS important.

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

Re: Just one question

The warrant is issued by a Judge to the police i.e judicial oversight.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Re: A bit much

So 11 years for massive fraud with the potentail of causing thousands upon thousands of deaths is to light?

She is scum, don't let the looks and money dustract from that fact.

Re: For UK residents

The difference between the UK and the USA is in the US l, the more people in jail, and for longer, the more money Prison Inc. make

Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader

Re: 80 hour weeks

One less, since one disowned him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61880709

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

Re: For Gods Sake ..... please stop !!!!

"it is not important, Ukraine IS important, COVID is important, Climate Change IS important !!!"

Then stop reading a tech reporting site then!

Eggheads show how network flaw could lead to NASA crew pod loss. Key word: Could

Re: Vetting?

Every single worker should be vetted by security agenciies.

Saboteurs can do plenty of bad things.

Spoken like someone who has no clue about the aviation industry...or any large scale operation.

Justvan example, who vets the staff in China, or Saudi, or Argentina, or Ireland, or Isreal.

Please explain who vets who.

World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare

Re: App Stores

By "True" smartphone, you mean one where you can't uninstalled preloaded apps / spyware. Aka Google?

Bring back WinPhones

Re: App Stores

Take it to the next level,Volleyball. If a point hasn't been scored in 60 seconds, you'll be watching one hell of a rally.

Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands

If Twitter dies..

...does this mean journalists will have to start reporting on things again?

The whole Ratner story was a case of the papers being their usual scumbag selves.

The whole story was a poor lad who did really well for himself. He was surrounded by arrogant elitist jewelly companies who mocked his customers and products. He flipped it on them and pointed out that selling cheap crap to those that wanted the look of the expensive goods, but couldn't afford it, gave him annual profits greater than all the other mainstream jewllers combined.

The papers took the quote out of context and used it to destroy the business.