Posts by IGotOut

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....."

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

Let's play a Free Speech game.

Let's change "President" to "Iman"

Let's change "supporters" to "followers"

See how long an app or platform allows this group to advocate violence and murder to stay up. Or maybe they could do the same at a large prayer meeting outside a major government property.

Oh sorry, is a "restriction" of "Free Speech" only problem when mainly white people are affected?

Unauthorised RAC staffer harvested customer details then sold them to accident claims management company

1. Read the article. They have both been "fined". Failure to pay results in a prison sentence.

2. Where does it say bulk export? She could easily have sent an email everytime she dealt with it. If she is a call handler, then sending out details of names, addresses and other persobal details would be part of her job, so again no easy read flags.

US courts system fears SolarWinds snafu could have let state hackers poke about in sealed case documents

No problem.

Surely sensitivity files such as these would have strong encryption on them anyway.

Wouldn't they?

Dusty passports, smart tops and tracksuit bottoms: Are virtual events better or worse than the real thing?

Hand in can.ouck up flaws in design.

Take a lovely swanky IP we once looked at.

Had all the bells and whistles, but the I picked it up and the handset fell off. Did it again, same issue. Looked for a latch, nothing.

Turned out they didn't think phones would be wall-mounted or used at a steep angle (a lot of people like an almost vertical phone to save desk space).

Buggy code, fragile legacy systems, ill-conceived projects cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020

It's not the programming that's the issue.

It's the "just get it done" attitude. This is true in so, so many professions. Quantity over quality.

The old adage still rings true.

Quickly

Cheaply

Correctly

Choose two out of the three.

OpenAI touts a new flavour of GPT-3 that can automatically create made-up images to go along with any text description

Well going by most AI, you'll just end up as a racist, woman-hating fourteen year old bro.

U-U-turn: New York Stock Exchange backtracks on previous backtrack, will de-list China's biggest telcos after all

Depends on your font.

Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable

Translation.

We're not scared of him shutting us down now, so we can pretend to take a stand and now kiss Bidens ass instead.

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

Re: a quirk of the American electoral system

We in the UK can't complain about the US system, when ours is almost as fucked up as well.

The electoral borders are a joke. Where I used to live, a small village, one half voted for one neighbouring towns candidates, the other for a different towns. It was even broken up down the middle of individual roads.

Don't even get me started on MPs that don't even live in the same fucking county as they stand for.

TikTok to be hit by a UK class-action-style lawsuit backed by the Children's Commissioner

I feel sorry for the girl...

...she is puppet in someone else's plan. If her name gets out, she potentially could be the most hated kid on the planet.

New York Stock Exchange U-turns on decision to boot China's three biggest telcos

My guess.

A few hundred very rich investors filing writs.

Women are 40% of Indian STEM grads and in just 14% of tech jobs. Not good enough, says VP Naidu

It is a very overly simplified and poor example.

You have missed out that India is rapidly expanding its STEM industries, so if anything, the difference should be rapidly diminishing.

Err isn't WHY they are not in STEM, and the CAUSE of them not being in STEM pretty much the same thing?

Bug? No, Telegram exposing its users' precise location is a feature working as 'expected'

Well, yeah.

Share my location tends to mean that.

Not sure what the guy was trying to prove.

Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back

So..

..how does it work with trademark infringement?

Could a eu resident own say as an example Sainsburys.eu and there is nothing Sainsburys could do? What if the have an European trademark, but not a European presence?

Answers on the back of a popcorn bucket.

New year, new rant: Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for 'killing' the ECC industry

Maximise Profit Margins.

There, explained in three words.

Julian Assange will NOT be extradited to the US over WikiLeaks hacking and spy charges, rules British judge

Re: So

Please explain how he was tortured? If you mean skipping bail then deciding to hide from justice in a foreign embassy, then you have a weird idea about torture.

File format conversion crisis delayed attempt to challenge US presidential election result

Re: US senators can lie through their teeth with impunity

Article 6 section 11 of the constitution says.... can tell as many malicious harmful lies as they want while in session...."

See, you kicked us Brits out, but you still our worst ideas.

It's called Parliamentary Privilege over here.

As Uncle Sam continues to clamp down on Big Tech, Apple pelted with more and more complaints from third-party App Store devs

Re: Is it me?

Not strictly true. The lobbying team also makes up a substantial proportion of the employees.

Re: Idiot dev

Time limited trials have been around decades, are you that green you are unaware of this?

Now go back to school, learn to read more than 5 lines, then comprehend the article.

Surface Laptop Go: Premium feel for a mid-range price, but Microsoft's Apple-like range once meant more than this

Re: Shite warranty...

It's a business device, not a consumer device.

It's up to your legal team to check your contracts.

Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet

Re: Mine is bigger than yours

Shhh. Don't mention children near Peado guy.

UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum'

Only 2%

Fine, hopefully you won't mind only 2% of your global turnover as a fine.

Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play

Re: Hasn't AMP made the web faster?

I run my site via Cloudflare, just like the Reg, and neither are slow, despite mine being very graphics intense.

I'd argue Cloudflare (and Akamai) are probably faster than Googles AMP and don't need special Google friendly fudging.

AMP should never have been allowed...

...but when the creator also controls much of the client market (ads, Chrome browser, Andriod) it bullied its way through.

The thing is CDN's do a similar job, WITHOUT the downsides to the content creator or the customer.

Atlantic City auctions off chance to hit Big Red Button and make grotesque Trump Plaza casino go boom

I know who will win this

Ren Zhengfei

Just imagine the smile on his face.

Of course, Trump will say it's a victory for him and how much money he made for the charity with his name alone.

Or he'll just sue as usual.

Google rejects Australia’s revised pay-for-news plan, proposes its own plan instead

Here's a compromise.

...simply limit Google to say the first 20 words, then the good old "read more" takes you to the website.

Or is that to sensible?

Stony-faced Google drags Android Things behind the cowshed. Two shots ring out

Simple, the couldn't get Apple certified, so the went for the bargain basket.

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Certification renewals to be free ... but annual

But it's always been the way.

The correct answer and the Microsoft correct answer.

Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password

Re: Not just Trump out

I agree, Trump is a stupid, racist, narcissistic prick.

Pence is just a racist prick.

Re: less than a month before no one has to care what appears on Trump’s Twitter feed ever again

"And forgetful creepy Biden, who voted through actual racist legislation..."

Ge did the decent thing and apologised for that and is running to rectify it.

As for forgetful? Are we talking about Trump? The one who denies he says or writes things despite it being recorded?

Top Chinese policy think tank’s new 15-year ‘smart economy’ plan admits US sanctions have hurt Huawei

The difference between China and the west.

They have a fifteen year plan.

We're lucky if we have a fifteen week plan.

Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own

Re: It is not just tech devices

Hmmm.

However you are moving things up. I've changed fuel sensors, knock sensors and many other "tech" with no problem. In fact with a laptop, the right cable and done cheap software, the car will tell you the faulty part.

If they STOPPED you swapping those parts, then that would be an issue, but EU law stopped that many, many years ago.

Of course, you can go back to the good old days, of getting you carbs set up, tuning, setting the timing belts, sticking a broken match stick behind the choke, bump starts, 20mpg, knackered points, broken distributors, putting foil over the radiator, waiting 20 minutes to pull off on a cold morning. Just don't mix cross ply and radials.

Or you can just turn the key and off you go.

Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off

Shall we not mention...

...Romania?

No, best not.

I know from experience that parts of Leeds are ridfled with Aluminium wire. BT used to come out, swap the faulty one with a spare ok one. Repeat every six to 12 months.