Posts by IGotOut

Gartner's Windows 11 adoption advice: Explore but don't rush

Wow...

Another stunning piece by Gartner.

Cue a thousand directors telling every Windows admin on the planet "I personally think its not a good idea to roll out a brand new version of Windows just yet."

Then sits back bathing in his knowledge of IT.

Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error

Re: Out of band management?

"all have physically separate connectivity ( fibre or 4G dongle"

Oh you poor deluded fool.

Just wait until a digger slices between the trunk line of an exchange. Then you have a cascade fault, which means the alternative exchange, that your other carrier uses falls over. Then you realise your 4G is relying on the same fibre bachaul as has just been sliced.

It's OK you have a third link, but that alternative European link you have is now routing through another country, who just happens to have a big outage themselves.

If this sounds like fantasy, it's not. Had it happen..... Twice.

Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor

It's OK, it's cloud, so they will already be no doubt automatically paying for more licenses than they need.

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

Ii can't see the problem.

They look exactly like the correct answers you'd get on any forum or social media.

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

All their tools were down as well...

... How about a "I could of told you so".

That's why you have all your tools and documentation on a couple of laptops, that don't require online access.

Signed every techie over 40 years old.

My experience. Internal DNS went nuts and pretty took out the entire business. Luckily us telecoms guys had the ability jump on our kit, get going and let the server kids fix their fuck up.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Other sites down...

Look at many others and they will have "Log on with Facebook" Option.

The same thing that took down loads of sites just a few months ago.

"I suspect users are blaming their ISP for their lack of Facebook connectivity"

I'd say the "No Internet Connectivity" on all my devices is the real giveaway.

And as many will use Vigin for at least part of the back haul, it will affect other carriers as well.

Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services

It's reading articles like this....

... that make you think the luddites may of been onto something after all.

Re: "when the rain and fog aren’t too heavy"

"Well they're not going to be opening offices in London any time soon then."

Never underestimate the power of a brown envelope.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

Re: Pointless

Then you would pay for most of the stuff on the Web.

We want content, but we don't want to pay for it.

And no, I don't know what the answer is.

If it's going to rain within the next 90 mins, this very British AI system can warn you

I've a similar method.

Look out window... Done.

Re: Don't need AI for this!

I love the Scottish phrase "Summer is the best day of the year".

UK MoD data strategy calls for social media surveillance on behalf of 'local authorities'

Re: "efficient and effective planning of supply chain and people"

Mr Churchill would disagree.

In times of unhappiness with working conditions, get ready to machine gun those peasents.

REvil customers complain ransomware gang uses backdoors to filch ransoms

Not a bad idea...

Multiple "gangs" infect some of the same gang (to get the stats), then go on forum to say they themselves have been compromised by the malware the were distributing and all their bitcoins have been stolen. Thus sowing doubt amoung other crims.

Did I say gangs? I meant to say law inforcement agencies.

Tobacco giants don't get to decide who does research on smoking. Why does Facebook get to dictate studies?

Re: Gotta agree with FB...

"Don't read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly."

The magazines have just been replaced by (filtered) photos.

Oh and its ruined decent food. No longer can you have a pie and chips on a plate, it has to be severed on a germ ridden plank of wood with your chips in a f'king plant pot.

Story of the creds-leaking Exchange Autodiscover flaw – the one Microsoft wouldn't fix even after 5 years

Hold on...

MS is being targeted but...

"What I found was that there were a bunch of email clients including Outlook"

So is it an Outlook client issue, an MS Windows issue, or a general email client issue?

Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

Or they are paying the correct salary for the job, it's just everything else is underpaid.

Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass

Why?

Other than jumping on the "Connected Car" bandwagon that only Car manufacturers and governments seem to want, why on earth do you need fibre optics in a car?

We've gotten pretty good at car electrics these days.

One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it

Re: Buy cheap, buy twice

I've a 6 port at home, I bought a four port for my parents and kids, and I have a 2 x 2 ports in the car (as well as the cars built in USB).

The only single ports I have are those that came free with devices, and they serve little use.

Re: Apple don't like it?

I've always bought Anker or Aukey (same for chargers) and have only had on (USB) cable fail, and that got some serious abuse.

Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning

Re: Deterrent

You've never clearly never dealt with civil engineers.

Researchers finger new APT group, FamousSparrow, for hotel attacks

Stop it.

No FamousSparrow or SparklingGoblin.

Why not name them things like the DogShitCrew and ShitLickers?

There go any bragging rights a kudos right away.

"Hey I hacked them, I'm part of the ChickenButtKisser group"

Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time

Here is an idea for the US.

Make it illegal for tips to form part of the wages, so the companies actually pay their fucking staff.

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Because they have work to do?

Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey

Regional differences.

In some parts of the country words have different strengths.

Take "twat"

Some parts of the country its a highly offensive term, yet in others its almost a term of endearment.

Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon

Re: Alas, I fear that these service robots days are already numbered

Ahhh and if you give the microwave a burnt wood exterior, the "plate" is an old sure, and you have to have to put the ingredients in yourself, you can charge 50x the amount to pretentious wankers.

So long as it looks interesting on Instagram / Pinterest, you can overcharge for any old shit.

UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones

Re: Is there something I need to know about cosmetics?

https://www.dangerousgoodsdelivery.co.uk/shipping-perfume/

Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box

Ban the Blob

Sooner the Google Blobi s made illegal the better. But I won't hold my breath, to many brown envelopes keep getting passed around.

Re: Question

Removed but uninstalled ?

Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS

Good for them...

"But the taxes are controversial because they are seen as a unilateral response to the wider issue of multinational companies picking the jurisdictions in which they'll pay tax"

Because the USA that benefits the most from the tax avoidance companies have politicians in the pockets of those companies.

They have no incentive to fix the problem they helped create.

They can impose tarrifs on this countries, but if enough do it, they eventually have to cave into the economic bully boys.

UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters' personal data exposed in email blunder

Don't worry.

They have the details already thanks to a previous **** up.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/27/british-embassy-left-details-afghan-staff-taliban-find/

Re: Too many blunders

Two weeks? It'll be lucky to make it to tomorrow.

Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit

Re: Maybe

"public enemy no. 1 - Trump!"

Who?

Re: Every breath you take...

"While I appreciate the joke, Sting sang that."

Can we add him to the space walk? He can do some semi naked yoga if it helps.

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

He may want to leave the office....

... the Phalanx system has been around for some time... Heck it even managed to shoot and kill one of its own side (So gaining its US fighting credentials).

Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks

Nortel clearly learnt from this...

The "Option" range could by hit by a nuclear bomb and still keep working.

The 81 was the most reliable kit I ever worked on. You counted outages in times per decade, not per year (or month as seems to be the case for "cloud")

Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV

Re: Privacy, public safety and security: The tools of the censor.

Fine, can you let us know your address.

We'd like to come round and get some photos of you in the buff photos and publish them all over the Web, along with all your contact information.

UK funds hydrogen-powered cargo submarine to torpedo maritime emissions by 2050

Re: Box ticking

Don't worry about block chain, that was last year.

It's now VLCSaaS (Very Low Code Submarine as a Service).

Ransomware-hit law firm secures High Court judgment against unknown criminals

Sigh...

"hostile foreign country, possibly Russia or another ex-Soviet Union nation"

The 1950s called, they want their propogander back.

Ransomware crims saying 'We'll burn your data if you get a negotiator' can't be legally paid off anyway

I like the US idea.

Just call the a criminal / terrorist organisation and make it an offence to pay them.

Facebook building 'on-demand executable file format' that self-inflates using homebrew compression

Re: give developers minimum spec

This is exactly what they did for the game MDK many years back. They developed it on good machines, but then had to test it on machines that were bottom rung of the ladder. If it ran crap, they had to go back and work out why.

It's why it was one if the smoothest games of its time.

Apple emergency patches fix zero-click iMessage bug used to inject NSO spyware

Re: Apple screws the pre-iOD 13 customers

Don't be so sure, you may find older devices still get the update. My old ipad mini 3 still gets critical ones from time to time.

Re: What could go wrong with browser lock-in?

My 10 year old ipad has no issues and still gets security updates, so meh.

Off yer bike: Apple warns motorcycles could shake iPhone cameras out of focus forever

Surprise.

It's almost as if you need some sort of phone designed for this.

I've put my phone in a sandblaster and now the screen is scratched. Can I get a refund?

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

Isn't it obvious?

Put out you bins out on the wrong day.... BLAM! No more bin for you sunshine!

Amazon to cover 100%* of college* tuition* for hourly employees* in the US

Ahhh the missing point

"Workers are staying on the sidelines because of too-generous government benefits (now mostly expired), fears about the virus, lack of childcare, and other factors."

Those other factors.... Low pay perhaps?

Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash

Re: SUS!

"Does this company look and smell like a Swiss company or an American CIA front company?"

If you spent 5 seconds looking at the founders and why, you'd know.

Still, I guess the moon lands never happened either.

Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas

Rember folks...

Foreign Goverment subsides = illegal.

Massive tax breaks for multi billion $ profit companies = Good!

Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question

There are two types of programmers...

... those that are "right" and those that listen.

Give UI's as example.

If you dare suggest a change that may make the product run better for the end user, you 99% of the time get one of the two answers.

From the listeners "Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into it". If they the choose not to, then that's OK.

Then there "I'm the programmer, I know best" is the "If you can do it better, it's open source, fix it yourself"

Intel may spend up to €80bn on chip plants in Europe over next ten years

Where is the bit...

... "if you give us, a multi-billion $ profit company, huge tax breaks, to employ a few hundred people"