Posts by IGotOut

A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation

So long as my pension company..

...us not investing in them, let the idiots buy stock.

Tim Cook 'killed' TV project about the one website Apple hates more than The Register

Just a question?

How did they "intervene" exactly?

Or is this just a friend of a friend heard off a bloke at the bus stop who read it on Facebook where it had been reposted from Twitter from an account created 30 seconds before?

SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks

https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/china-accuses-us-of-hacking-109171/amp

US Treasury, Dept of Commerce hacks linked to SolarWinds IT monitoring software supply-chain attack

Not scary?

Wonder how many have SNMP write access?

Oh just fuck off and accept he lost.

Exonerated: First subpostmasters cleared of criminal convictions in Post Office Horizon scandal

Re: don't worry

Meh. Try living in a village, 4 this year or maybe 5...so not as many as normal.

Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison

Hey Cisco.

Apparently, there is a magic cloud-based system that secures all your network, including VPNs, from an easy to use web interface. I know it's amazing, the salesman told me so.

Check them out, believe they are called Meraki...or something like that.

You've got to be shipping me: KatherineRyan.co.uk suggests the comedian has diversified into freight forwarding

You may of not noticed, but there was an illness that went around for a couple of days that made filming stuff white hard.

Re: Honestly

You're presuming they have something to do with it.

Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

Four Nines?

Telecoms engineers laugh at your uptimes.

FCC mulls booting China Telecom from US networks over its ties with Beijing

Trumps lapdogs

..are frantically trying to rush policies through before he is evicted.

Re: China Telecom has ties with Beijing?

Next up up, Intel sells processors to the US government.

Back to the Fuchsia, part IV: Google's in-development OS now open to community contributions

Translation of Google speak.

We will adopt this until.

A) we get bored then abandon it.

B) we will get you to do all the hard work, but slowly but surely put in features that are only in our interests and screw everyone else. Sure you can fork, but well have such a dominant presence your forks will be minor niggles to our plans, but in the mean time, hey open source etc.

EU Medicines Agency hacked, BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine paperwork stolen, probe launched

Re: Don't patent COVID-19 vaccines

@stranger.....

You know many of the generic out if patent drugs come from India.

So feel free if you want you £5 a pack magic period pain Ibuprofen. Everyone else will stick to the identical 50p a pack, does everything without the marketing variety.

Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79

Re: Warranty replacement

Sigh.

How long will it take to win in court.

Pretty quickly.

"Small claims" court. They won't bother to turn up / defend, they may settle out out of court.

Quickly.

It's not worth their time or money fighting.

Done it with some major companies before, will do again.

Uni revealed it killed off its PhD-applicant screening AI – just as its inventors gave a lecture about the tech

Re: Problem

He didn't say 3 consecutive years.

When will they learn

AI is as shit as the data you give it, it just does a better job of making shit decisions.

Amazon learnt this year's ago.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight-idUSKCN1MK08G

OnePlus founder scores $7m from iPod inventor and other investors for audio startup

Audio Hardware?

Pretty crowded market

Either roaring success or crash and burn.

Historical credentials are meaningless

Essential Phone?

Quibi?

Apple's M1: the fastest and bestest ever silicon = revolution? Nah, there's far more interesting stuff happening in tech that matters to everyone

Wow.

I'm no fan out, but bloody hell that just smacked of "I know better than the richest company in the world"

Labor watchdog accuses Google of illegally firing staff in union-busting push – as AI ethics guru Dr Timnit Gebru is pushed out

Re: We strongly support the rights our employees have in the workplace

(How many rock stars are in unions?)

Well about the MU in the UK has 30,000 members and the AFM in the US about 80,000

Surprise, surprise: AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives

Eh?

Facial recognition stops school shootings?

There was me thinking it was mentally unstable kids having easy access to guns.

But hey no, it's they look eerrr like eerrr...ok how does it tell the difference between a pupil at the school going to class and the same pupil at the school ready to kill someone?

Boffins from China push quantum computing envelope for 'supremacy' in emerging photon field

No, it's just not a racist "publication" that thinks that one of the oldest civilisations is only capable of making knock-off clothing.

Yes

No

And an infinite number of answers in between.

Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma Machine

Re: Uninteresting

There are many war ships around the world. Why bother with rusty ones on the sea bed. After all many modern liners are way bigger than the boring titanic.

Re: Film Version

I thought us Brits were ALWAYS the baddies?

Uncle Sam sues Facebook for allegedly discriminating against US workers in favor of foreigners on H-1B visas

They are just leaving IBM to kill itself off.

Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code

AI?

So a GPS signal, altitude monitor and steering mechanism?

I've an AI keyboard. I press a "key" marked "A" and it uses AI and ML in a blockchain to make it put a "A" on my screen

Clever stuff.

As if Productivity Score wasn't creepy enough, Microsoft has patented tech for 'meeting quality monitoring devices'

How to make meetings efficient.

Don't bother having any.

China's Chang'e-5 lands on the Moon to scratch surface

Re: India too

@mark4155

If you are that concern about money going abroad, maybe you wouldn't if worked for a tax dodging scumbag?

I feel sorry for everyone loosing their jobs (I was very close a few months ago), but taking the moral high ground when helping shit bag con artists make money, is hardly appealing.

" i bet the plans on monitor #1 were from NASA, monitor #2 from ESA, and monitor #3 from Roscosmos."

Well considering the last time NASA did this a computer filed an entire room and most of it was done with a pen and paper, I doubt it.

When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way

Not really.

If you levy a tax where shops can compete, then they may find they have to absorb some of the costs.

AWS boss calls for racial justice, slams enterprise rivals, unveils a raft of real and promised services

Words.

Here try this instead of meaningless drivel.

Set up shop in poor neighbourhoods / cities.

Pay a decent fucking wage.

While the decent-paying jobs are in predominantly well off white areas, fuck all will change.

'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash

Re: As i posted in response to the previous article

No no no....that's not how it works. You'll need to DOUBLE management to look at the additional pie charts and graphs.

On the 11th day of Christmas TalkTalk took from me... the email address of my company

Re: Car Mechanics are not IT people

Interesting comments are garages.

In the UK, now I may be wrong, but a garage can't issue an MOT, WITHOUT an internet connection.

In fact many test devices are also now moving to compulsory internet connections.

Italian competition watchdog slaps Apple with €10m fine over allegedly misleading iPhone waterproofing claims

Re: Well

So is mineral water not water?

Gartner: You think Huawei's sales figures are bad now? Wait till you see next year's

Well...

..great news for Huawei. If Gartner are reporting it a fact they will suffer, then looks like it will be a good year for them.

Manchester United email servers remain offline amid what is being called a 'ransomware' attack

Many would argue...

...that parents are held to ransom every year over the disgusting prices of replica kit.

Spending Review: We spy a stray £60m – is that all you can spare to help 5G market recover from UK kicking out Huawei?

Re: But what about 2025?

You don't need fibre to the home for VoIP.

You just need an ATA (Analogue Telephone Adapter).

You DO however need power near the phone socket.

Ticketmaster: We're not liable for credit card badness because the hack straddled GDPR day

Ticket master

Up there with loan sharks, advertising execs, patent trolls and lawyers

Currys PC World website crumples into unscheduled maintenance as shoppers chase latest gaming machines

Re: Maintenance! Calling it maintenance makes them look inept.

How about

"Due to the amount of brain dead morons who are to fucking dumb to wait a day or two extra, our site has crashed by them constantly pressing refresh whilst complaining on twitter that their entire world is ending"

Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks

So..

... Google doesn't do this?

NASA building network cables that can survive supersonic flight - could this finally deliver unbreakable RJ45 latching tabs?

No!

Breakable latching tabs are the best invention.

Break it where the narrow part widens then the wankers cant remove them. Reduced the number of times a thousand fold when I had to go out and patch back in IP phones (despite them having a pass through port with attached cable), projectors, conference phones, digital displays, av equipment and on and on.

Apparently breaking tabs was a good idea, but breaking the fingers of those that kept unpatching this was not an acceptable, although preferred, option

AMD performance plummets when relying on battery power, says Intel. Let's take a closer look at those stats

I thought it was 103% of people knew.

Re: Great AMD

You know you can upgrade to GPT-2?

Alibaba chief says China's new internet laws aren’t just good, they’re right and welcome and necessary

Re: Not the Internet laws I was looking for

Yup the same as it is in the US, Europe, Africa and on and on.

80% of attacks on my site come from either US, Turkish or EU hosts.

Imagine things are bad enough that you need a payday loan. Then imagine flaws in systems of loan lead generators leave your records in the open... for years

Payday loans...

Aka legalised loan sharks.

America, Taiwan make semiconductors their top trade priority at first-ever 'Economic Prosperity Dialogue'

Is the new TMSC fab...

... going to be next to Foxconns?

Marketers for an Open Web ask UK competition watchdog to block launch of Google's anti-tracking Privacy Sandbox

If Google proposes improvements to privacy...

... when it comes advertising, file under "Trash"

Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits

Who do these cops think they are?

Politicians?

Crooks social-engineer GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names

By a routine audit.....

... they mean "We checked twitter and noticed loads of complaints. More than normal, that is"