Posts by IGotOut

Tesla board members to return $735M in compensation settlement

Re: Board Members

Is that Old Ben?

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

Re: Behavior that deprives customers?

If a car company gave you free Shell petrol for life with a new car purchase, there is nothing preventing you buying a rivals.

See the issue?

Microsoft kicks Calibri to the curb for Aptos as default font

Re: I like serifs

Times was designed to be read in a narrow column format on decent quality paper, i.e. The Times Of London

Once they started to use it in wider format, such as books it becomes much harder to read.

Sans Serif are better to read where there is more text and, most crucially, is much easy to skim read.

I personally HATE ariel...Is that an I or an l

Is it Ian or lan?.

We will find you and we will sue you, Twitter tells 4 mystery alleged data-scrapers

Re: Profits?

The question is, are his lawsuits greater in value than all those that have lined up to sue him?

'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network

Re: "current hardware will be obsolete in 2028"

I'll do it for a Billion, but then if I fail to deliver anything, feel free to give me another billion.

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

Not sure where you go the "illegal to film without consent " from. In most places if it's a public location, you have no expectation of privacy.

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

As I've no need for a huge TV...

...once my ancient Samsung dies, I'll just use a HDMI monitor connected to my Fire TV stick. Sure it phones home, but as I cancelled my Prime membership due to the way the fucked up Prime Music, they can really sell me anything anyway.

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Checks date...

Nope not April 1st

"A Virgin Media spokesperson told The Register: "We are committed to providing our customers with excellent service,""

Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI

The last Indian Call Centre...

I had to deal with was Virgin Media.

AI would be a huge welcome.

The most incompetent, useless bunch of script readers on the planet.

Have you rebooted?

Yes about 5 times.

Ok I need you to reboot again......

Along with the.

I'm going to connect to your device and make a change.....Ok that's done now reboot and it will be fixed.

What change? It's just that I worked in networking for 20 years and I'm curious what change on the router will fix the loss of signal from the remote end. I'm also curious how you've connected with the link hard down.

I made a change, it will work now after a reboot, .....

China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

They must of stole the tech off....

...error, errmm.

The West....yes that'll do.

OECD finds 27% of jobs are under threat from AI

More bullshit AI.

So AI will do all those jobs on the high st? Hairdressing, nails, bar work, waitering / waitressing, bar work, cleaning, serving behind the till.

What about industry? 99% of the people I work with theirs jobs can't be done by AI.

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

Re: Poor design in my opinion

"I had an early Sony CD player in the 70s "

No you didn't.

Ofcom proposes Wi-Fi and cellphones share upper 6GHz band

Nope. The USA has often been incompatible with most of the world for telecoms going a long way back. There'll be just another kludge to get around it as ever.

Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments

Same thought. Sounds like an easily exploitable critical vuln.

Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount

Why does this sound...

....like a very loaded , US based survey?

Zero job protection. Check.

Over prescription of drugs. Check.

I'm not saying a lot of people may be on meds, but those figures seem way to high.

And before anyone jumps on me, check my handle and work it out from there.

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry

I use a phone with Vivaldi. Unless I'm missing something (other than trackers, twitter and other shit I don't want), what exactly is wrong?

Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones

Re: Snooping, or Lawful Interceptions

Different thing.

Those are all actions taken by the individual and intercepted at a 3rd party.

This allows them to do covert surveillance at any location they want and at anytime.

It's like having a camera and microphone in every single location in France.Just think how many locations and interactions you have in a weekend . All those are now fair game.

I hope Apple and Google track and remove the spyware.

Re: Selected Targets

Define journalist.

Before he screwed it up (for the better?), then a post by some random guy with three followers and one retweet was good enough to be classed as "news".

From cage fight to page fight: Twitter threatens to sue Meta after Threads app launch

I've not signed up...

.as I hated twitter, but the amount of bands, artists and others jump over is quite impressive.

Re: Privacy? what's changed

The thing is, even Android is reasonably good at limiting permissions these days. It even removes permissions not used.

It's not great, but it's better than it used to be.

Ex-Amazon manager jailed for stealing $10M using fake vendor invoices

Re: "more crimes while on release after posting bond"

$10 million in invoices is incredibly easy to hide in mega corps.

I worked for a large UK UT reseller and it was not unusual to see invoices for well over £500k.

A few thousand here, few there for fake companies wouldn't be noticed, especially if you're the one approving them

Important note: Humans can use AI to make music and still bag a Grammy

Simple question.

How would they know?

Let's face it look at a lot of songs and AI would generate fare more coherent lyrics.

I am the Walrus springs instantly to mind.

Brit broadband subscribers caught between crappy connections and price hikes

Re: Ofcom rules?

VM without doubt are THE worst compy, not just broadband, I've ever had to deal with. Incompetence at every layer.

From day one, I told them EXACTLY what the issue, having worked in networks and telecoms for 25 years.

If BOTH the live TV and Internet are dropping EXACTLY every 5 minutes. The logs showed a loss of synch and a reset exactly the same time.

It affected everyone we knew that were originally on the Telewest installs.

It's not

Turning of and on again (40 or 50 times they tried this).

It's NOT the router.

It's NOT the TiVo box.

It's NOT the hot weather.

It's NOT the cable into the house.

It's NOT the street box as it affected other streets.

Dozens and dozens of phone calls.

3 house visits

4 street engineers

It was never fixed.

In the end my parents switched to Sky and Plusnet.

At least 8 other households left them. It's probably still happening, but they are most likely fobbing off the remaining people to this day

China admits local semiconductor industry can't match world class reliability

Re: Step it up!

It been the case for a very long time. It was never the first to invent, but the first to patent.

Now it's the one with the biggest cash reserves.

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

Re: Funny

"You do realise that we have moved on since Trump and Brexit ,"

Wow, when did we rejoin the EU? I clearly missed that.

Still it's not like a lot of the people that voted for it are probably dead by now, leaving those that voted against it to live with the consequences for at least the next few decades

Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo

This is the same in most large companies.

Hey , great work, record profits!

AHH but challenging times ahead, so no / tiny pay rises.

.

Following year

Hey , great work, record profits!

AHH but challenging times ahead, so no / tiny pay rises.

.

Following year

Hey , great work, record profits!

AHH but challenging times ahead, so no / tiny pay rises.

China chokes exports of semiconductor secret sauces gallium and germanium

Re: Possible Impetus for Space Mining, and/or R&D of Alternate Materials

Stop using ChatGPT and Facebook as sources

TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade

Long overdue a name change.

I suggest the

People's Democratic Republic of America

Prepare for a meme massacre: Snap snuffs out Gfycat in September

I'm surprised...

....as GIFs, fonts and other external content are a fantastic way of tracking people without them having a clue it's happening.

Clearly they weren't very good at selling the data

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Re: Size.

"We have things called "mountains" (not to be confused with the little hills of the same name that you lot walk to the top of on a summer's day"

You know the Alps are higher than the Rockies?

Then again, your probably struggling with the metric measurements.

Oh a tiny place called China want a word about your post as well.

@Jemma. Careful, you're making Facebook experts look intelligent.

Re: Multiple redundancy

You do know BT is years behind many other countries when it comes to VoIP only roll outs?

Huawei claims it’s ready to ship entire 5.5G networks – whatever they are – in 2024

Yet again...

"Huawei, however, has been identified as a massive risk by many governments, which want its 5G and 4G kit disconnected and destroyed.".

.

But the other 2/3rds of the world would rather use it for cost and performance reasons, and they trust the Chinese as much, if not more, than the USA.

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

Security 101.

Need to secure a server in the "Western" world? Install a Japanese keyboard.

Job done

Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law

Simple.

I genuinely hope every single provider pulls out of the UK, even if for a day.

As the government runs on all these services, as do a huge amount of businesses, a complete tech blackout would hopefully topple these cunts.

Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature

On the flip side..

My address is pretty bloody obvious and couriers still fuck it up (hence I call bullshit when they say they couldn't find it"

Hint

It's the bloody great church , on the high street, you know, like it says on the first two lines of the address.

(Residential now, not still a church).

Sigh....

Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR

Re: The G7 are emulating China.

Not sure where your from, but you may want to do a bit of research before claiming state ownership is a new thing. Try looking at EDF. Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or UNICOR if you want a particularly insipid one.

Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them

Re: "There's also enough cobalt to build batteries for ten million electric vehicles."

Less than 5 seconds searching.

https://www.drivingelectric.com/lithium-and-cobalt-for-electric-car-batteries

Odd because my last work actually had a recycling unit for computers, printers, monitors etc.

If you think they have hundreds of people sitting there taking them carefully apart you are misguided.

You take pc, remove battery, love whole lot in huge bit of machinery and few minutes later you have several piles of shredded metals, plastics and glass.

Re: So, how much...

So AC your solution is?

Yeah, thought so.

Think of our cafes and dry cleaners, says Ohio as budget slashes WFH for govt workers

Don't see why people moan about the commute.

I mean I see hills, valleys and the river; cows, and sheep grazing in the fields, along with all sorts of wildlife. Seeing the odd steam train during the summer is a bonus. Granted being stuck behind a tractor for about 5 minutes is a real pain, but most these days can happily zip along at 40mph.

You know I had to wait a whole 10 minutes the other week due to roadworks.

Such a nightmare.

Oh yeah, my old commute into Brum...yeah that's been completely wiped from my memory.

JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup

Well simple...

as they are guilty of destruction of evidence, then use that as evidence in all the active cases against them.

Near Field Communication to get longer, stronger – better at contactless

They missed the huge one...

"As you move around, it makes it easier to track you around the store / town. We can then correlate this with your purchasing and sell this info to anyone that wants it"

I guess that one must of been on page 2 of the press release.

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

Really

Musk has arranged the time, but ultimately will fail to show, saying he never actually meant it, but if he must, he'll send someone else. If he wins, it's because he is the one that trained him. If he loses, they'll just get fired.

Zuck will turn up and walk through he crowd shaking hands, whilst removing the wallets and purses with the other. He will say the fight was all his idea and no one else was involved.

Ultimately it will be like the two blokes in the street that rip off their shirts shouting "c'mon then" over and over until their tiny trophy girlfriends grab them by the ear and drag them away.

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

£480 million pound

...that's a fair amount of money they are paying us for all this info.

What do you mean.....?

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

Well at least I know ..

...Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales has a new story he can draw upon.

Re: Psssst

It's hardly a secret.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

Yes, the Daily Mail (largest purchased Daily in UK) is known for its hard left policies.

It hated the idea of Brexit, thinks immigration is fantastic, loves Muslims, thinks Boris Johnson is evil, the drug laws are to strict and doesn't think that people having equal rights is a silly idea.

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Re: The flip side of this is a unique name

No point posting as Anon.

We know who you are Elon.