Posts by IGotOut

Ever wanted to own a piece of the internet? Now you can: $1 for a whole gTLD... or $2.8m if you want a decent one

.hiv?

Really?

Can I put a request in for .covid19 .ebola and .sars in?

Shheez. Money grabbing bastards.

Oracle sweetens Java SE subscriptions with a spoonful of free ‘GraalVM’ runtime said to significantly speed Java

This is Oracle.

Soon "free" will become a convoluted, impossible to understand licensing model.

Ahh it's free for THIS service but if you mix it with THAT service, then it is now longer free unless THAT service us using OUR version of that service, then its 50%, unless OUR service is used conjunction with THEIR service than that's 125%.

In fact just give us 75% of your turnover, just to be on the safe side.

Microsoft backs Australia’s pay-for-news plan, risks massive blowback over a lousy $3bn and change

I find Bing images better than Googke

So there you go.

Otherwise it's Startpage or Ecosia for me.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up

"Another self-made man"

You wouldn't be have a dig at Richard Branson by any chance?

To quote.

'Cause when you're laid in bed at night

Watching roaches climb the wall

If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah'

Going underground with Scaleway's Apple M1-as-a-Service: Mac Minis descend into Paris nuclear bunker

It refers to this.

https://hypebeast.com/2020/11/apple-iphone-waterproof-water-resistant-lawsuit-fine-italy

Chrome 89 beta: Google presses on with 'advanced hardware interactions' that Mozilla, Apple see as harmful

That's a design issue. Someone decided to use a proprietary (obsolete) browser and fudge it rather than a native program, because...errmmm. No idea.

Just wait...

...until Apple remove it from the store on privacy grounds

Watch a rapid change of mind by Google.

In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web

Google next?

Sogn into YouTube and you HAVE to agree to being signed into Safari as well.

Granted I don't use Safari, but besides the point.

Re: "...a unique per-user ID..."

Read the article. It's currently ON by default. Changing to OFF by default.

It didn't (sob)... even make it (sniff)... to GA: Microsoft to pull the plug on Azure Service Fabric Mesh

It's beta / preview. If you have built systems on it that you depend on, then you are an idiot.

It's not Google with either eternal betas or GA products they dump when they get bored.

Nvidia accused of cheating in big-data performance test by benchmark's umpires: Workloads 'tweaked' to beat rivals in TPCx-BB

Sue them.

Breach of copyright.

If they are using their name and logos etc without authorization, then they have every right to defend their name.

Google allows 15 more nations to offer gambling in the Play store

Wrong way round.

Gambling tends to rob from the poor and give to the rich.

GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features

Re: Everybody is doing it

But at least Netflix is rolling out new movies and shows (it's now one the largest production companies in the world,)

And remember this is not a price rise. It's an symbiotic enhancement of converging yet parallel synergies.

The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good

Re: Nostalgia

I think you'll find there was plenty if porn then.

Oh the suspense.

Loading....

Loading....

Loading....

Damn! A bikini shot.

Intel reveals US$475m investment in Vietnam as Communist Party says it loves high-tech industry

How long before Vietnam is on on the US naughty list? My guess once they start making a lot of money and start developing their own high tech industry sector.

Europe promises all-out assault on batteries to counter China’s lithium-ion domination

Hmmmm

Where are we going to get the Lithium from in Europe?

Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours

Re: Been there, done that.

Yup. On call every other week.

Eventually had a break down due to always worrying about when it would go off, being called on Christmas day and Boxing day and on and on and on.

Now doing a piss poor paid day job. Wouldn't go back to that for £100k a year.

Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers

Re: Once.....

Why? My iPad mini 2 from 2013 gets still gets patched occasionally.

How many Android 4.4 devices are still getting security updates? I guess....hmmm...none?

Typed on an Android phone before the rabid Apple haters get in.

What's a COVID-19 outbreak? Amazon gets all Trumpy over Alabama warehouse workers' mail-in vote to form a union

Re: "shit at taking orders and shipping stuff"

"especially if it means delivery people can work better."

Sorry to break the bad news, but many companies treat the drivers like crap and have done for a long time.

Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive

Surprised.

Didn't think either of these knew about web standards.

Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break

Re: New Features

Googles "magic' algorithms are just something MS and Nokia on the Winphone were doing

years before.

Spot on. I only upgraded my old (second hand) phone to another second hand phone when some key apps were going to stop working.

My old phone is still used as a media player and SatNav.

Digital burglars break into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission

It's ok. The government won't pay the ransom!

The crooks will just use your credit info instead.

Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague

Re: Racist programmers make racist AI

No, its Muslims or Not Muslims.

How many of the others were reported as Jews, Christians, Atheists?

Re: Racist programmers make racist AI

The mutilating and murdering IRA were freedom fighters if you lived the on the left side of the Atlantic.

Terrorists and run of the mill criminals to most others.

There may be not one but two new air leaks in International Space Station: Russian boss tells us not to panic

Do they not...

have gaffer tape?

Re: Gotta Blame Someone

Britain...it was those bloody immigrants!

Scottish enviro bods shrug off ransomware gang's extortion attempt as 4,000 files dumped online, saying it's nothing big

Re: Stop using windows for stuff

Ok, feel free to write the millions, of often bespoke pieces of software out there to run on your chosen OS, then we'll take a look.

Until then, leave running a business to the grown ups.

Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist

Re: There's a simple solution

So how do I get a ticket to a show in say London?

Travel 150 miles and queue up?

What about something like Glasonbury? Reading and Leeds?

If the venues and resellers were serious about this (lets face it Ticketmaster are the scum of the earth), they could follow the Glasonbury model.

Named tickets, with proof of ID when buying and upon arrival. No photographic ID, no entry. End of.

Only way to sell, is back to the original sales outlet at cost price.

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

Re: Is this the most stupid thing ever said by a google employee?

Use Startpage.

They proxy the results, so you get Goigle, without googles spying.

ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex

Re: Who would put a camera in their bedroom?

Or its a point of entry?

Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

Re: Free means somebody is not getting paid

Did you build you own washing machine? Tv? Car? House? Monitor? Mouse? Central Heating?

Well shut the fuck up when you have a problem with any of them. Build you own next time.

Reg reader's XXXbox oddity: The BBC4 topless thumbnail trauma whodunnit

Unless Lucy gets to dress up in a posh historical frock after the photo shoot, she'll say no.

Google's Alphabet sticks a pin in its Loon internet broadband service

Well done...

..youve discovered what the rest of the world outside the tech bubble knew from day one.

Chip fab Intel said to be using better chip fab TSMC to make 5nm Core i3 processors, 20% of its non-CPU parts

Somewhere, kicking around.

I have an Intel 486....

Made by AMD.

On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers

Re: Was it Trump?

Good idea?

So Google, Microsoft and Amazon have to verify all their customers?

Well that's a few billion bits of id required for starters.

And the answer I'd give if they asked for personal documents?

Well the same as most I think.

Screw you, gadget-menders! No really, you'll need loads of screwdrivers to fix Apple's AirPods Max headphones

Re: Extensive toolkit

You missed the other rules though

If it doesn't move and it should. WD40

If it moves and it shouldn't. Gaffer tape.

Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch

Re: GDPR

Well we had GDPR on the books for year's. Wouldn't of took much effort in all those years to do a copy and past.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency refuses to pay ransomware crooks over 1.2GB of stolen data

Re: Lemme guess running MSWindows

Computer User Not Technical.

You're welcome to use that one.

Re: Lemme guess running MSWindows

Please, leave these conversations on here to the grown ups, stick to Reddit.

Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

Go Labour!

Snooping is for Goverments, Local Goverments, partners of the government, official sounding quangos, random businesses and that bloke the MP knows from the golf club...oh an his wife...and her friend from the gym.

Go RIPA!

Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO

Because not everyone works in an office?

Most of engineering and manufacturing shut down last time. Oddly people want to buy stuff, but we've yet to automate the entire supply chain I.e. 99% of it still isn't.

Translation.

We sell products to help micro manage your staff. We are leading by example by making sure you can also justify having so many managers doing nothing but going to pointless meetings.

US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends

Hmmm

"work together to ensure the development of AI falls in line with US strategy"

They have one?

150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

Go on....

...see if the new guy will fall for the old DROP TABLE gag.

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere

From the country that has yet to discover metric

and seems unable to use even the ton

This item weighs 1,273,000 pounds. Wtf?

Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture

Re: Bullseye...

Nope someone over 40 from the UK.

Yours Mr Smith of Flat 327 of Tower Block One, proud owner of a garden patio set.

Under that pile of spare keys and obsolete cables is an IoT device: Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones

My old knackered phone..

...is used as a media player in the car (Music and Podcasts)

And my old tablet is a desk mounted audio streamer for my HiFi.

Doesn't take a lot of imagination to use old shiny.

Backers of Planet Computers' Astro Slide 5G phone furious after shock specs downgrade

They need to clarify...

...I'm not sure how Trumps meddling with PRC affects imports from ROC?

Or wasn't the hormone laden pig deal in place at time, so they were getting leant on?

Extreme Networks misses death-of-Flash deadline, suggests winding back PC clocks to keep its GUI alive

Wow...

...just wow.

And just a thought. "Turn back the clock" and when the DC automatically changes the pc's time back? Oh got it, don't connect the PC to the network.

Let me guess "We take our customers security....."