Posts by IGotOut

Brit MPs to Apple CEO: Please stop ignoring our questions about repairability and the environment

Easy way to get a response.

Send a tweet out that the UK Goverment were considering they may make it law that vendors have supply spare parts to any 3rd parties at cost price.

I'd reckon you'd have a response in about oooo 30 seconds?

Take your pick: 'Hack-proof' blockchain-powered padlock defeated by Bluetooth replay attack or 1kg lump hammer

Security Devices don't stop theft...

...they simply slow the person down.

And that is what you aim for. If the time taken makes the risk of getting caught to high, then it's worked.

Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive

Re: Nvidia and Linux?

"Well that puts paid to ARM processors for Linux or just about any other open source OS."

What a stupid statement.

Bearing in mind the vast majority of ARM chips are running *nix or BSD of some flavour, it's as dumb as saying Intel will stop supporting Windows.

Microsoft releases kernel for unique (but critically panned) Surface Duo phone

No inefficient wireless charging? Who cares?

Fixed it.

QR-code based contact-tracing app brings 'defining moment' for UK’s 'world beating' test and trace system

There are plenty over here as well.

Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD... and a Blu-Ray player

Re: Can we finally just accept that these are PCs in all but name now?

Add to that a bazzilion drivers and software options are not required.

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Contract Clauses.

Dear Facebook.

Contracts cannot override the law. Consumer ones are even more meaningless.

The End.

Customers defecting to Oracle? Not according to our research, says SAP chief number cruncher

Re: Top 10?

"that will cost Oracle $25 million or so per year, just in the Asia Pacific region"

That all? Are you running your DB on a Pentium 2?

AT&T’s CEO has a solution to US broadband woes despite billions sunk into the problem. You’ll never guess what it is

You missed out...

...the bit where is say a local authority tries to fix the issue, the Telcos get the lawyers involved to keep the status quo.

I won't be ignored: Google to banish caller roulette with Verified Calls

This could be illegal.

If I'm on the Do Not Call list and Google passes the call to me, then Google have broken the call, as they are the ones initiating the call (as far as I can tell from the description)

Apple to Epic: Sue me? No, sue you, pal!

Re: Has anyone else noticed...

It's easier for Google to defend their side, as they can simply say "you can get it from elsewhere, such as Amazon". There is no such option with Apple.

Now I'm off for a very long bath, I need to deep clean by defending Google.

Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don't have to - others disagree

Nothing works in bloody Firefox now.

Power platform envy? Google wants to 'empower non-technical employees' with new Business Apps category

Nothing is new.

So Access then. With the same unsupported, undocumented bodge job that someone has to support for the next 20 because Barbara in accounts uses it everyday and know one has a clue what it actually does.

UK Home Office seeks suppliers: £25m up for grabs to build database to keep track of crimelords' ill-gotten gains

I'll do it.

I'll create a AI blockchain cloud hosted neural network.

That's my tender, pretty sure I've already won.

In 5 years time, 3x over budget I'll happily delivery a completely unfit for purpose, half finished piece of crap.....just in time for me to win the bid for its replacement.

The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?

Re: Decimated

One day the pedants will learn to use a dictionary.

Collins:

To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.

Mirriam-Webster

3a: to reduce drastically especially in number

b: to cause great destruction or harm to

Lexico.com (Oxford Dictionary)

1Kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.

Hidden Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release – by using developer chatter as a side channel

Re: Security by obscurity, yawn

To quote from the linked article

"For the most part, the more security devices fitted to a property the lower the risk of burglary. But this is not necessarily always the case."

And regarding inmates

"Burglar alarms were mentioned as one of the risk factors they would consider."

I've seen plenty of interviews and the scenario usually is, given two identical houses, one with an alarm and one without, most would hit the one without.

Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it

Re: "updates that arrive in the summer of 2021"

Soooo having one of the most insecure pieces of software running on an insecure OS is a good thing??????

OK. Can I have your IP address so I can add it to my black list.

'We're not claiming to replace humans,' says Google, but we want to be 'close enough' that you can't tell it's a bot talking

Google promoting this?

Having battled with Googles script monkeys, sorry, support teams, getting this bot up to those standards, is a pretty low bar.

With a million unwanted .uk domains expiring this week, Nominet again sends punters pushy emails to pay up

But E's are good, E's are good.

Makes sense, this does, says US appeals court as it swats away Oracle's protests in $10bn JEDI contract spat

Expect a tweet

from the Brat-in-chief saying the courts are wrong and he is going to write an executive order that only allows companies owned by people called Larry to bid.

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

Re: Alternatively

"Diving at the target at 300 mph they produced remarkably clear pictures"

If your aircraft is as close the the object as these the brave souls flying those aircraft had to be, I'd find another airline.

Google Chrome 85 to block ads that hog power, CPUs, network: Web ads giant will black-hole 0.3% of web ads

Re: Firefox is calling...

@martynhare.

I took it you don't use Andriod?

If you did, there is no way you would be recommending it

"in about:config"

Nope, no more.

Plugins? Yeah, Mozilla forgot about those.

Search? Yup, that cash they received made sure that it was reset back to Google.

COVID-19 tracing without an app? There's an iOS and Android update for that

Re: Future of this

I don't know, some of their earlier songs were quite catchy.

Smash-and-grabbed: Chinese AI academic cuffed by Feds after 'binning hard drive' amid software leak probe

Re: that is not destroying

AKA the man drawer

https://youtu.be/wgrmB8M0sgU

Wow

China's National University of Defense Technology...is affiliated with the Chinese military.

Next, they'll find Lockhead Martin works with the US goverment.

Happy birthday to the Nokia 3310: 20 years ago, it seemed like almost everyone owned this legendary mobile

Sorry..but,

6310i or go home.

Once had a technical call that lasted well over 8 hours, still had weeks of standby battery life left in it.

Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report

Re: Dystopian Nightmares Inc.

"why would anyone work for Amazon or others engaged in similar practices?"

Take a look at the general jobs market outside major cities. You can be

1. Care worker (underpaid, lousy hours)

2. Van Driver (underpaid, lousy hours)

3. Warehouse worker (underpaid, lousy hours)

4. Occasional other job (X years experience, 50 - 500 people after it)

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

Re: I'm sure he'll get bail in the US

Whooosh. What's that noise? Oh it's the sound of the joke going right over your head.

Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content

Offensive material.

That would be practising any religion other than Islam them?

Before you head off for the weekend, you have patched your Pulse Secure VPNs, right? Wouldn't want you to be pwned via a phishing link

Re: You would hope

Going by my downvotes, I think some may of failed.

You would hope

that an Admin of a VPN wouldn't click any old link....oh yeah, you better patch.

Download here

Htttps://short.url/fhf1&65ggft

Microsoft reprieves SHA-1 deprecation in Edge 85 security baseline

Re: ...and no one noticed.

Dunno, given Mozilla's self destruct mission at the moment, it could end up as the no3 browser for mobile.

(Just moving to Vivaldi from FF).

CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5% of all internet traffic

Re: Great reporting

It also helps Cloudflare very early on going "It wasn't us!"

Yup I'm a CF customer as well.

China trolls Trump with tech export rules changes that could imperil TikTok sale

China's already trolled the world with their "handling of COVID-19"

You mean going into full blown lockdown before any other nation and having lower death rates than many other countries, despite having the worlds largest population.

Yup terrible handling.

Re: The whole thing is a mess

You raise some very good points and some stretching it a bit.

For starters, look at the demographics of TikTok, teenage wannabe media stars, is hardly the political hotpot. If they are worried about spying, then simply tell goverment staff and the military they can't install it.

The issue most have is this fake security theatre. If the goverments simply said, we are banning Huawei and TikTok until the Chinese goverment changes its rules on foreign companies operating in China, they would get a lot more sympathy.

As for human rights etc, well we (as in Goverments) can hardly moan at China whilst arming and supporting the same type of regiems in the middle east.

Little Timmy might not get that notebook this Christmas: HP warns of CPU, panel shortages in run-up to holiday quarter

No loss...

....it will stop little timmy get a useless piece of junk such as the HP Stream.

Facebook fires sueball at 'malicious' app SDK makers, accuses them of gobbling up people's personal information

Let me get this right...

Advertising scum used SDK as designed and released to obtain data freely given out by Facebook?

Life with Amazon's fitness band: Upload your half-naked pics to see how fat you'll look without exercise. You now sound stressed – relax!

Yup I trust them

“never get sent to the cloud, and can’t even be played back or downloaded, so no one ever hears them,"

Until an update "accidently" changes this.

Just remember, this the same Amazon tgat recently got caught recording sounds without a keyword...or was that Google.. Or Apple...or all of them?

Google Firebase Cloud Messaging offers spam tier for some – no account required, just knowledge of bad security

I've cracked it.

"FCM as a messaging backend – such as Google Hangouts and Google Play Music."

So that's why they got rid of them, not the lack of interest in another "me too" product from Google..

Nothing to worry about.

"FCM as a messaging backend – such as Google Hangouts and Google Play Music."

All 6

IBM ordered to pay £22k to whistleblower and told by judges: Teach your managers what discrimination means

Re: You want Equality? You get Equality.

When the majority of men do 50% of ALL the child care and domestic chores, you will have a point.

Until then, shut up.

'My wife tried to order some clothes tonight. When she logged in, she was in someone else's account ... Now someone's charged her card'

Re: Walmart?

Methinks it's someone that you've pissed off recently.

TikTok CEO quits after less than three months in the job

What would be really funny

Is Oracle buying it for a gazillion dollars, then the Chinese refusing an export license for the code and user database.

Re: Oracle ?

Oracle because Larry is a Trump donor.

Google wants to listen in to whatever you get up to in hotel rooms

Not recording promise

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/02/24/smart-speakers-accidentally-record-19-times-per-day/

The answer is Anthos, cries Google's OnAir videogasm. But what is the question?

Has it been a week already?

Doesn't time fly between Google's game changing pet projects.

/snarkmodeoff

Adobe yanks freebie Creative Cloud offer – now universities and colleges have to put up or shut up

Side comment

I just purchased Afinity Photo for about £25 after hunting around for a discount code.

I've been using GIMP for years, but now migrating to Affinty due its greater support for PS tools.

Be very afraid! British Army might scrap battle tanks for keyboard warriors – report

"Having only 200 MBTs is simply begging to have your ass handed to you if you’re up against even halfway competent opponents."

Unless of course that regiment of tanks is backed up with a few A-10s.

RasPad 3.0 converts Raspberry Pi 4 to a tablet – be prepared for some quirks

Re: Absolutely amazing...

Mine backs all my photo's, music and videos up, if I'm at home, or out and about.

Who owns your data?

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

Re: Genuine question

That's the back button tou can barely see in light mode?