Posts by s. pam

Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed

pop onto wapost.com for a real eye opening article on Palantir

their data grab is just the tip of the iceberg for what they're planning to land grab in the UK!

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

Texas renamed to Gilead

Between the Texas guvnor and their now-not-convicted-of-fraud AG they've turned a once decent holiday destination into a living (only!) hell.

Thus their state motto will be changing to "Welcome to Gilead, where we do your thinking"

iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way

I love cooked Apples

usually with a bit of brown sugar and cinammon on top...

Volkswagen stuck in neutral after 'IT disruption'

Must be a Bug in there....

Somewhere.

(Sorry couldn't resist)

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

what an arrogant arsed move!

I don't normally use the basic mode with the exception of emptying the Spam and Bins. By using basic mode, you can select all at the top of the left column and with 2 clicks (selecting all) and then delete-forever purge the folders.

This arse about face decision means I shall either (1) have to manually click every email, or (2) just never empty the folders.

Guess since it's free and not my disk spae I'll go with (2) then.

EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024

As if we can get it

EE can barely deliver more than 1-2 bars of 3/4G where we live. Perhaps they should suck it up and implement a better network first!

Menacing marketeers fined by ICO for 1.9M cold calls

Sweet FA for those of us harassed

All the times literally hundreds of spam calls despite our being on the TPS from the gitgo—who gets the money?

That’s right, the politicians :(

BT dips toe into liquid cooling in quest for a chill network

Have they called Thames Water?

TW leaks water by the billions of litres all the time, as reported in the media all over.

Perhaps, they could approach TW and get them to feed nice cool water to them.

Oh, it's Friday and I need to start drinking copious amounts of booze..

Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months

Many companies have already realised...

How badly they utterly fucked up sacking the very people in charge of strategy, operations and making new products. They did this instead of purging all the lowest performers, the slackers, the kinda-workers and boardrooms all over the world patted themselves on the back for job well done.

Now those of us who got fucked are trying to land new gigs, before our monies run out.

To all the companies out there involved in the abject fuckery 6 months ago, may you all crash and burn in shareholder hell.

Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign

Spam in a can, no thanks!

How much longer do we need to develop more ways to torture passengers?

How many more cases of DVT will these ultra long-haul economy flying nightmares create?

Chrome, Firefox and more caught with their WebP down, offer hasty patch-up

Chrome, when your privacy doesn't really matter!

Chrome has become the Ebola virus of browsers between these latest holes, the (in)security sandbox and all the other problems. Got to admit that we purged it years ago from our whole family for FireFox as Chrome had security debacle after debacle one too many times

Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost

I said that this was true -- in 2007!

"operating applications and services in the cloud can be just as costly as owning and managing your own infrastructure for this purpose, and sometimes more."

#insert <homer simpson voice.h>

There's little savings when all you've done is move apps and services from self-managed (on-prem) to the Cloud! Someone still has to build, deploy and keep them running which I said back in the early naughties!

Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit

That's why we use Signal

iMassage has been disabled on all our iDevices 2-3 years ago and Signal is great.

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

The polish came off of Chrome years ago

IMNSHO they've had far too many INsecurity issues and we dumped them years ago and never looked back. Still feel our decision was the right one based on this idiocy!!

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

You could fsck with the companies' minds if you think about it!

Create as much bogus names, plays on words, bizarre descriptions and truly fsck them!

PS> Edited to add given so many people stupidly don't delete their Bluetooth from a hire car's link, you could always seriously be a fly in someone manufacturers web

X may train its AI models on your social media posts

Bogus to requirements

we dumped Tshitter years ago, AND deleted all our posts in our famil of 12.

never been happier so hope they rot in AI hell!

Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

How about something more simple?

NHS trusts in England do NOT share any patient data between counties.

Case in point: I was in hospital in Berkshire and I reside in Buckinghamshire. When I was discharged, the Berkshire hospital gave me a PRINTED copy of my records with verbal instructions "Take this to your GP surgery in Buckinghamshire so they can, wait for it, -- SCAN IT IN!!

In the name of all things digital/holy, how the fsck can we be in the 2020s and this simple bit of "push a button, send to the patients' GP surgery be so damn hard? We're not talking about sending data to Scotland, Whales or NI -- we're talking about INSIDE England.

FFS, you just cannot make this shit up.

X tries to win back advertisers with brand safety promises

Didn't Muskyboy get the message?

No one cares if X sinks, companies are rightly leaving the decrepid corpse of the bird flu

Biden administration restricts US investment in tech China's military might employ

But Apple will be ok

Biden isn't stopping current investments, just new ones so companies like Apple can continue to ship in freighters full of cash!

Larry Ellison a major contributor to Blair Institute vaccine database plan

the B.Liar effect...

Tony has too much history with luvvies and cash donations for my liking. Lining up with Red Larry will not help the country and almost certainly will leave the country with a whopping big bill!

Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud

Que Surpris'

Wow who'd a thunk it that a data mining secretive company with almost no regulatory oversight would want access to our data?

Boeing abandons plans for crewed Starliner flight in 2023

We're sorry Dave, the spam in a can

Isn't fully baked yet

Europe sticks a monopoly probe into Adobe-Figma merger

Acquisitions are just a way

To crush competitors, reduce staff (Sales, Support, SEs, etc...) and increase profits for shareholders.

The governments holding up approval better keep doing so for Figma's sake!

Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

Welcome to the slaves

Appears it is just another Hotel California

Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will

Perhaps first TW should

Sort its own house out and quit leaking BILLIONS OF LITRES of water a year?

Or is that too simple for their boffins to figure out?

Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan

Why oh why???

I really struggle to understand why the heck the UK doesn’t deploy a few dozen submarine sized reactors!

Placed strategically all over the UK they could easily be self-sufficient and cleanly power the entire country!

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

Successfully Rubbish "We are committed to providing our customers with excellent service"

Worst

Broadband provider

Ever

IMNSHO -- they've raised our rate from £38/mo to £68/month in the last 18 months. As I'm currently underemployed I have to have internet access. About to call and threaten to leave due to circumstances and see where, if anywhere, that gets me for a reduction! Can't take another month if I can 1/2 my bill by moving back to Fibre to the green box instead...

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

Entra is the name of a new pre-penetration lubricant

Oh the irony of the bad drugs the Mktg folks must be on...! They'll need serious addiction attention soon!

NASA humanoid robot to be tested as remote oil rig attendant

All the opportunity...

For this to go very badly wrong indeedy!!!

I'm sorry Dave, the wellhead is supposed to be shooting upwards 200ft high flames.

UK's proposed alt.GDPR will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting

Wot could possibly go wrong?

If the forthcoming Digital Rights Act is any measure, this will be a total cluster flock of epic proportions.

There's zero reason to step out of a mutually beneficial data privacy law.

Utter fuckwittery

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

I want COMPETENT, not cheap workers

Damnit, as a company leader, the last thing we need is more cheap workers

We need workers who are competent, confident and quality oriented.

Sadly that's not been my personal experience with > 90% of their workers.

Deloitte wins deal worth up to £100M for UK border platform

Epic Chaos, General Chaos imminent

Let's see how many times Deloitte has been fined in last 3 years for mismanagement, lax procedures shall we?

Oh dear, https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=deloitte+fined+tax&ia=web I don't predict this going well, unless you're the account team getting the fat bonus for landing the deal we the taxpayers will probably get screwed...

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

Warning: CEO using the words "Family"

Inherently implies layoffs are forthcoming, as we recently went through at Hyland. The use by ANY C-level exec of "we're all family", "family matters", "family time" around the points of a year when financials are being discussed should be a MASSIVE RED FLAG to you to have your CV ready.

Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts

Reminds me of the clusterflock error

We had to use Zoom early on when it first turned on live transcripts.

We were not impressed that its generation was inexact when it turned the word Nuxeo into Nazis.

Yes, you read that right, as we discovered to our horror live in a call and then after a customer conference call when the transcript was reviewed.

It happened several more times before they did something about it.

Phosphates on Enceladus could mean sub-surface oceans teeming with aliens

Shhhh -- that's where Crapita

gets it's zero hours staff from, the primordal soup zone!

The ZX81 finally gets the keyboard it deserves

I saw a running one 3 days ago

the chap who works on our 1973 TR 6 has one in his office and a spare. both still work, he showed it playing Pong just the other day!

Capita wins £50M fraud reporting contract with City of London cops

Is it April Ghouls Day??

Shirley this must be a joke? Incompetence, inability to run IT infrastructure, insecurity, etc. etc. etc. are all synomous with Crapita

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Cavity searches need to be ordered

Florida Border Security clearly needs to retroactively do a search to see what else said washed up carrot has secreted about its person...I recommend they start in the lower back quadrant wearing gloves with broken glass on the outside!

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

Another carcass for Mojave desert?

Having worked at Edwards and Mojave, there's loads of aircraft carcass' scattered around the desert &/or permantly scorched earth from X planes.

I wish them every visible success and won't be flying that death trap!

BMW adds games to the 5 series but still ain't the Ultimate Gaming Machine

Perhaps it will have a game

To teach its drivers how to stay out of Lane 3

Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise

Get ready for the redundancies MSFTees

This is largely the same to how it went down in other companies, time to update CV, lube up your orfices and get ready!

Excess profits on Motorola's Airwave estimated to be £1.3B

and, how much will Crapita make from it?

just because Moto is supplying the frigging gear, where's Crapita in this?

Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs

time for the GDPR fine czar to step in

and fine the living hell out of Crapita for all these breaches!

More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder

why do i always see the vomit emoji

whenever i hear the name Crapita and a.n.other data breach i wonder???

Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?

Stammering his way to another disaster

There's zero percent chance that either party can solve the current ills with the NHS. Labour brought in armies of consultants who sucked off cash and delivered SFA. Then the Tories have tried to clean up the mess Labour wrought and are damned for trying to balance the books to know where to invest.

Frankly, the terms cluster and fluck are so obvious it is stunning that Sir Stammer now thinks his silver tongued wibble can fix it.

UK's GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

Londonium Uber Data Lords can ignore it...

the little dictator Khanaroid who thinks he is the Skynet overlord of The Big Smoke clearly hasn't received the news of the new guidelines as he's installing surveilance cameras everywhere inside the M25. this new surveilance zone will swiftly squelched by the BamBam Klub and others as they take it down.

SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings

Clearly looking to charge a few $M more per customer

i have to believe SAP clearly never heard of a [ Search Box ] if this is their future

Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest

Time for the Monty Python singers!!!

Singalong at home, everyone:

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great.

If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

The all-powerful Moron church probably wants more master-race babies!

How Sandia hopes to accelerate US hypersonic weapons development

All it takes is a slide rule and a pocket protector!

My dad worked on the SR-71 and before that the B-58 Hustler.

Both supersonic, both designed with a slide rule by guys wearing pocket protectors and horn rimmed glasses.

More != better

Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

Will Gingerwhinger get ejected then?

If these scum^scam companies can game the system, will there be any quarter given to a certain ex-Prince who has admitted drug use's visa remaining?