Posts by IGotOut

Virgin Galactic declares May day for next test space flight

Oh c'mon, we have World Series Baseball, so why not?

Doncaster insurance firm One Call hit by not-dead-at-all Darkside ransomware gang

Beep Beep.

You have recently been involved in a ransomware attack.

Reply "Claim" to...

Google to venture where Apple soared and Microsoft crashed – physical retail

Do you...

have to turn on Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS on before you enter the store?

You don't need to turn location services on, as its never off.

New IETF draft reveals Egyptians invented pyramids to sharpen razor blades

Re: RFC is "rough draft"?

Or Request For Change.... Or Rugby Football Club.... Or

... Or... Or

UK's competition watchdog gives £31bn Virgin Media and O2 merger the seal of approval

Yeah Virgin customer service!

Ring Ring (repeat for 20 minutes).

Hello my name is David (it clearly isn't), how may I help you.

I can't get a signal on my phone. I can't make or receive calls or texts. Its OK on WiFi, so I can get Internet. I've rebooted it and took the sum in and out.

No problem can you restart the phone.

I've done that several times

I need you to reboot the phone please.

Still nothing.

OK I noticed you said your WiFi isn't working.

No it's OK on WiFi.

OK can you reboot your router?

Why?

I need you to reboot your router.

/repeat crap like this until you give up and get a new carrier.

Beyond video to interactive, personalised content: BBC is experimenting with rebuilding its iPlayer in WebAssembly

Re: Fuck the BBC - fuck iPlayer

Blame LG for flogging a gullible idiot a TV that doesn't get upgraded.

iPlayer still works on my 5 year old Amazon Firestick and 7 year old iPad.

iFixit slams Samsung's phone 'upcycling' scheme for falling short of what was promised

My old phone is my SatNav (Here, so works offline) and music player.

My old tablet streams music to my HiFi and sometimes slings content to my TV.

Just stop thinking them as a phone or tablet and crack on.

Currently using...

A mate 10 Pro bought second hand.

That replaced the P10 lite I had for 2 years, which I bought second hand, which is now my SatNav and music player in my car.

I'll no doubt go and play some games on my iPad Mini 3 which you guessed it, I bought second hand.

Or I may do some design work on my 7 year old pc, which you guessed it, second hand. Granted I did spend 30 quid on a SSD to massively improve the performance.

So feel free to buy your new shiney. Just look after it, I may want to buy it one day.

Waymo self-driving robotaxi goes rogue with passenger inside, escapes support staff

What?

"Asked whether he believes Waymo's robotaxis should be operating on the road, he said, "I think it's ready for this area and that's why they launched here."

Translation:

I've signed a advertising contract stating I must not negatively review the product.

Apple sent my data to the FBI, says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub

I got a similar email...

From the HMRC, oh and several banks I apparently have accounts with, of which I knew nothing about, oh and the Met Police.

When the chips are down, Intel's biggest gamble isn't what to do – it's whom to do it with

Subsidies?

Remind me how much PROFIT, they make?

And no doubt, the tax owed selling those parts, won't be paid in those places, y'know, IP rights and all that.

Facebook Giphy merger stays on ice after failed challenge to UK competition regulator

Re: @Chris G - Actually

Facebook: You can't touch us.

Government

Facebook.com 0.0.0.0

Done

If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can

Re: The Cloud

Many also do not realise that what you do on the local device is reflected on the remote storage. These online tools are not backups.

Not true. Many of the photo ones are not two way, but are back up. Apple actually recommendeds iCloud as back up storage to save space on your iDevice.

Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet

Re: Swiss number plates

Quite a few countries have licenses tied the owners rather than the car.

Rude awakening for O2 customers after network runs surprise test of emergency mobile alert system

It's like the one I heard.

Dudley is a not on the list of targets due to the amount of improvements it may cause.

Intel throws sand in the face of 'musclebooks' with 10nm Tiger Lake tech

Re: "a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter"

Sounds like you want a HP z-book workstation.

South Korea orders urgent review of energy infrastructure cybersecurity

Re: Is transportation by road so special?

Cost.

That simple.

Trend Micro hosted email service is down, inboxes still stuck in cloudy limbo

Is that still allowed?

"Brownout" I mean.

Surely some CEO and ethics commitee has deemed it unacceptable, whilst working on a project about which country to exploit, now China is to expensive.

As another vendor promises 3 years of Android updates, we ask: How long should mobile devices receive support?

I miss WinPhone.

By far the best UI, and if the cartier decided not to push out the update, you just got it from MS instead.

Vietnam’s biggest industrial conglomerate quits smartphones and TV biz, bets on electric cars

Or IP enabled beach gear and called it

VintSurf.

Vint Cerf... Get it?

Coat please.

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

I see a new line of T-shirt design

One with a nice big 5 in a circle.

Walking along your nearest A road could have all kinds of interesting* outcomes.

*by interesting read horrific multi-vehicle pile-ups.

Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

Helping Small businesses with targeted ads..

Such as Adobe, Eon, RsComponents, British Gas, 3, Wix and on and on.

China to enforce social distancing on peak of Mount Everest

It also doesn't help...

It's a dumping ground for the wealthy bucket list tourist.

Google Play to require privacy labels on apps in 2022, almost two years after Apple

So Google no doubt..

.. Will send you to a Web link, that contains a 10,000 word summary, with a thousand options, options such as "I do not want not to be tracked On / Off" where On / Off only mean that if you have changed 15 other settings, on 10 different pages.

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Ah that explains it!

We just had a 1 mile section of road "dressed".

Great.

Well apart from it was completely resurfaced less than 6 months ago.

Meanwhile, the stretch right after it still resembles to surface of Mars.

So clearly its Microsoft fault!

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

Boiler plate response.

Got compromised router due to our lack of updating?

Beware of dodgy emails!

OVH outlines three-point 'hyper resilience' plan after Strasbourg fire

Or as we called it in the good old pre-hype days"

A "Disaster Recovery Plan"

'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely

So you've missed the articles about Linux having driver vulnerabilities for 15 years then?

Bill to protect UK against harmful foreign investment becomes law

Rover?

This was a pointless money pit that was supported year in, year out with government bailouts.

Most cars from the 70s onwards were utter shit and it was riddled with mismanagement and staff who wanted to work a 3 day year.

Yes I know many ex-rover employees and many will tell you the same, especially when they've had a few beers and have removed the rise tinted glasses.

Streaming mad: EC charges Apple with abuse of dominance, distorting competition in Spotify case

Re: Nice article ...... pity about reality changing the actual result !!!

I take it you got to the subtitle and then came straight to the comments.

AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out

IBM have heard the news...

.. And to fight this threat they will lay off another 5000 staff.

BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw

Re: Name and Shame

You think people would care about it being part of a botnet when then can get shiney for a fiver?

It like presuming give a dam about privacy when they get stuff for free.

Korean app-maker Scatter Lab fined for using private data to create homophobic and lewd chatbot

Re: Leeches

I hear Google are after their empolyees, as they have a dislike for ethical behavior in "AI"

48 ways you can avoid file-scrambling, data-stealing miscreants – or so says the Ransomware Task Force

What?

"Other ideas include: tax breaks for organizations as an incentive for adopting secure IT practices"

Great. Can I stop paying tax because I've patched my devices this week?

How about this as an incentive.

If you have lax IT security, then not only will you get hacked, your hard fought brand name turned to mud, massive direct financial losses, but you may get fined at the same time.

If that's not enough of an incentive, then fuck em.

A trip to the dole queue: CEO of $2bn Bay Area tech biz says he was fired for taking LSD before company meeting

There are studies underway...

To study the effects of LSD on people suffering chronic depression and anxiety.

Underground experiments have shown LARGE doses effectively reset the brain.

A current study can be found here:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03866252

UK government resists pressure to hold statutory inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal

"Standard mode of operation for this government"

"Sandard mode of operation for government"

Tftfy

UK Court of Appeal rules Tiny Computers' legal remains can sue Micron and Infineon over 2002 DRAM price-fixing cartel

"So does this mean that people who wasted money on badly made computers 20 years ago can sue the liquidators? "

No but they can sue the Cartel.

Have fun getting your £5 back.

Words to strike fear into admins' hearts: One in five workers consider themselves 'digital experts' these days

Does the one in five...

...include Gartner?

They are forever making tech claims that turn out to nothing more than marketing bullshit they churn out year after year for the technological illiterate elite.

China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio

Re: How many were actually developed

Well considering Huawei's R&D budget is bigger than most of silicon valley, I'd say developed.

Thus and the fact the Chinese plas a high emphasis on maths and science in education it's no surprise.

Huawei wins big intellectual property case in Europe – against fashion house Chanel

Re: I have to agree with Huawei here. Uurgh, now I feel dirty.

@teknopaul.

Go learn some fucking history.

Battle of Verdun

French:

163,000 killed

216,000 wounded

In less than 10 months.

58,300 Killed

153,400 Wounded

18 years.

So which ones again are the surrender monkeys?

Oh you mean the French that defend the beaches so the British could escape?

Or do you mean the 85,000 British that surrendered after 5 days in Singapore?

Also if referring to WW2, you may want to look how long Denmark lasted.

Lock up your Peloton smart treadmills, watchdog warns families following one death, numerous injuries

Try this highly technical advice.

Ready.

Its hard, so get a notepad.

Wait for it.

Unplug when not in use.Yup i know, a tough one to master, but give it a go.

University of Hertfordshire pulls the plug on, well, everything after cyber attack

Re: Learning without a computer

Ahhh the good old days eh?

When 20 students would have to wait 4 weeks to fight over the out of date book from the library 60 miles down the road.

Either that or pay £80 or more for an even more out of date book, with someone else incoherent scribblings in the margins.

Happy days.

Listen, son... Monster trucks just aren't cool anymore. Real winners drive Tesla Roadsters

Apples and pears.

Just bear in mind many of the worlds fastest new cars are hybrids.

Last chance to grab an iPhone Mini as savvy analyst reckons Apple will scrap it next year

I think I know the issue.

I've never heard of the iPhone mini.

I thought the small one was the SE.

I've a feeling many others may be unaware of the mini as well.

State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade

Government Project...

Behind schedule and over cost.

Contact me when this isn't the case.

China requires 'self-correction' of monopolistic behaviour by 34 local web giants

Re: if you are totalitarian fascists.

China has been a communist country for some time now, despite what it says on the headed note paper.

OVH services still not fully restored as boss rates ongoing recovery efforts a 'real nightmare'

DR plans?

This is a fantastic lesson on how not to run a data centre company.

Still, I'm sure someone at the bottom will get the sack for not putting the lid on the pen correctly, or something like that.

Joint UK government procurement seeks supplier to support controversial Clean Air Zone system

Re: What's so controversial?

Also it's because a lot of pollution can be fixed by improvements to road layouts, better signalling, speed bump removal, better road surfaces, alternative routes and on and on.

UK government opens vaccine floodgates to over-45s, NHS website predictably falls over

So your real issue is not the availability of the vaccine, but your availability to have it on any given day.

So what? Everyone else has to wait for you, even if they live 300 miles away?

And chances are, this will be one of the alternative jabs, so not applicable to you anyway.

Re: over 45s - over 50s

I think one difference us GPs were contacting the over 50s before the announcment for that group. I know by my parents they were doing the over 50's two weeks before the "announcement" as they were well ahead.