* Posts by s. pam

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Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

s. pam
FAIL

Golden Dome, Golden Shower

The only difference is cost.

The latter is the total value of Gilead (was: USA) the president’s puppet master gets

The former is boll lox pure and simple as Reagan tried & failed with Star Wars

..

Ne’er will the Orange Manbaby get this built but his pals will laugh all the way to the bank!

Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization

s. pam
Mushroom

Musky Doge approval imminent

Just like the inevitable explosion and crashing back to Earth's realities...

Space-X: where no one expects anything other than failure!

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

s. pam
FAIL

Glad Timbo sucked up to Trumpty

Seeing him sitting behind Trumpty Dumpty was so heartwarming and reassuring that all would be rosy for Cupertino...

Guess the Infinite Loop syndrome has come home and Timbo will have to prostate himself to get any relieve from Trumpty!

Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source

s. pam
Headmaster

Gilead's DoD wouldn't know Open Source

If it stood over them and gave them a golden shower! Having been head of a company that made OSS products, anytime our sales 'roids got around US DoD it was a complete shitshow trying to deflect all the untruths and misconceptions their so-called experts had. Not that a single one of them had ever contributed to or worked with OSS beggared belief and if one asked them about compiling BIND or Sendmail they stared at you like a deer in the headlights.

No matter how many PIN tests, external vendor penetration tests we wasted hundreds of thousands on, their goons wouldn't accept.

...

Department

Of

Dunces

Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England

s. pam
Flame

another GIGO exercise

if NHS Bucks and NHS Berks are any example, even in this age they don't have electronic record sharing. so if you're lucky as a resident of either county when you have to take a ride in an ambulance to the other counties' hospitals your healthcare data will be INvisible to them.

if not when you're discharged you'll be handed 10-20 printed pages to be taken to your counties' GP who in turn will scan them and att them to your record.

utter

shit

show

of idiocy!

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

s. pam

Don't forget BR 549 for a good deal from JR Samples!

s. pam
IT Angle

Did she byte his hard disk

while he RAMmed her storage to capacity?

Sorry i'll get me coat!

Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency

s. pam
Childcatcher

Huh, Gilead is hiring?

I thought all they were doing was binning effective workers and keeping the ner'do'wells in their DOGEy games?

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

s. pam
Facepalm

BOFH wins, H/R sent to the rubbish bin!

HR doesn't need any fancy tools -- they already have the human shredder which is the tool they use to scan CVs.

What they need are actual HUMANS, with a brain, compassion and caring for the good of the employee.

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Sigh, loks like I've not sniffed enough glue this week, again :(

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

s. pam
Megaphone

Just join ABA -- Anything But American

Screw Trumpty Dumpty and those who voted for it and JD "Goebbels" Dunce by not purchasing American tat.

Job's a good one!

Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky

s. pam
Headmaster

Why can’t they just paint the damn

Things flat matte black so I don’t keep seeing them reflecting in my telescope? Or is that solution so incredibly simple there’s some inane reason why not?

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

s. pam
Facepalm

Fujitsu and Crapita must be foaming at the mouth...

Of the opportunity to get £1B of income and the neverending consulting from whatever clusterflock they create not if, but when, they win which they undoubtedly will!

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI

s. pam
Big Brother

Orange Manbaby approved???

Surely this’ll be cancelled as not interesting fake science news eh?

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

s. pam
Alien

win for uBlock Origin + AdBlock Plus!

I don't do cookies, nor does my wife.

Not sure why people still allow them!

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

s. pam
Headmaster

Re: Move MITRE & CVE to Europe

No way -- move it to Tuvalu! Given they're a cash economy it would also remove the bitcoin thieves as well as the meddlesome PeeYew and Gilead from tampering.

20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit

s. pam
Trollface

At least Dallas is safe!

I'm sure the boffins running DART (Dallas Area Rabid Transport) feel better seeing this news!

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

s. pam
WTF?

OneDrive to hell

at my last $dayjob before retiring they used it. regularly we lost access to folders, made backup copies of EVERYTHING and in the end discovered the only reliable network drive for Macs was to copy files into folders of, get ready for this -- Teams!

not well documented but Teams allows shared folders that live forever. who the fuck thought this was a better solution???

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia

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Alert

Re: Freebies

bypass-paywalls-free is your friend you didn't know you need!

s. pam
Flame

Leave it to bLIAR the war criminal

Totally scandalous to favour others in other countries instead of his native homeland.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

s. pam
Mushroom

alt.clueless.eu.fucks.3D

if the Pee You thinks for a picosecond this will do anything to help, they need to be boltholed and sent to an abbotoir for immediate assistance!

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

s. pam

Re: And a Little Bit Extra

At least, LIEbour will have someone else to blame vs the previous administration! #result

s. pam
Headmaster

Team American fsck yeah

And just like petrol at the pimp prices will rise in a microsecond even though there's likely a warehouse full of already landed stock in the UK.

Orange Manbaby will wreck his economy and we look forward to their citizens screaming in pain for it!

Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options

s. pam
Joke

Specsavers must be -- red faced!

Oracle red that is!!

i'll get me coat...

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

s. pam
Coffee/keyboard

and Power Resilience?

seems all the media hullabaloo on cyber forgets one important point -- no power, no cyber.

just ask the geniuses at LHR for more details!

Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste

s. pam
Terminator

Sellafield, where taxpayer monies go to die...!

Face facts folks -- anything with that operation will be 5X when done which smells just like HS2. Coincidence?

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

s. pam
Coat

I Be Mindless

Readers should grab a copy of "The Soul of a New Machine" and read what they may from the move as it is textbook US "cheapest supplier" mentality in IBM these days. You'll have a hard time contrasting the mindset of the company (DG) in the book to the behaviour of I Be Mindless!

UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year

s. pam
Facepalm

Huzzah -- the Reading <-> Maidenhead blackhole

Might be finally fixed as the operators & regulator don't get a flying fuck about fixing that black hole of mobile telephony!

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

s. pam
Black Helicopters

Orange Manbaby couldn't give a fsck

Between Pres. MuskySmell and his Veep Orange Manbaby they are only interested in building the 4th Reich and preparing for the future when JD "Goebbels" Vance take over and make Gilead (was: USA) look identical to Putting's Russia.

Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data

s. pam
FAIL

I'm certain Crapita will be happy to suck up to Palantir!

Any chance for mo'money from the government do less work is always welcome for both companies! And an utter certainty it'll end in a shitshow that'll make Fujitsu's mess with the Post Office look like Cinderella!

AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman

s. pam
Mushroom

This crap is going on everything!

AWS is far from being an outlier in this and younger readers should well take note. I’ve personally had this happen going back over the last 20+ years 3(!) times and now at age 65 I decided enough was way past enough! Age is NO DETERMINING factor to intelligence, creativity, and being able to find what’s needed yet industry continues with reckless abandon to pull this crap!

Fuck em, I’m mostly glad to no longer being hit with this shit so until older workers rise up and say they’re sick as hell of this shit it will continue.

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

s. pam
Coffee/keyboard

Glad I retired in Jan 25

I don't have to deal with this shit anymore and if you can at all afford to, now's the time to find a new employer!

My previous job offered all employees the decision point in 2021 to stay FTE onsite, or Hybrid, or 100% WFH.

I signed 100% WFH with only very occasional forays into the orifice, which meant my travel expenses were reimbursable! That company (now US owned) is now trying to force new contracts down everyone who'd signed WFH contracts and discovered that UK employees do not have to agree. So my prediction for my ex-staff there is look for another job now!

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

s. pam
Flame

Starlink = Starcrash!

In January alone, 120 satellites crashed and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in the shape of spectacular fireballs.

FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly

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Alert

Re: "Elon says"

Siri is as it is correctly calling VP Agent Orange a wacist!

s. pam
FAIL

President Musky Smell and VP Agent Orange

Will do whatever funding anyone they like is the real story in Gilead. There will be no bidding system, just lining the pockets of their 4rsehat buddies backed by kangaroo courts supporting everything they demand.

Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G

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Thumb Down

who actually gives a toss?

the operators can't even get nationwide 4G coverage so this should be blocked until such time radio surveys show they have solved it!

Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites

s. pam
Holmes

Test location nominee: A4 between Maidenhead and Reading

Almost the entire stretch between these two towns is a no-G zone, whether deliberate or not! It therefore should be top of the list as to where to cite this boondoggle!

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

s. pam
FAIL

Anothere total waste of your TV License £££ by Britain's Biggest Crooks!

By the cash sucking wokeflake Bleep. I couldn't give a toss about this nonsense which is more proof the TV license must be cancelled.

Along with all the fuckwits who were employed to "study" this!

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

s. pam
FAIL

MEH - Make Elon History

So how’s the Ginormous Orange Buffoon going to power Muskyboy’s cars then?

What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?

s. pam
FAIL

Skynet, meet Mr. Nuclear

Mr. Nuclear you're now pwned by Skynet and will ONLY do as instructed by it. Oh yeah, that's a great use of Ain't Intelligence isn't it ;-)

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

s. pam
Devil

Might as well put Muskyboy in chage

Job's a goodone and he'll sort it out quickly...

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

s. pam
Flame

No funding cut for Israel though

Let the genocide continue fully funded by Washington

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

s. pam
WTF?

Oracle contract tool anyone?

Heh, looks like Bad Red has made a tool for it! https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e13464/T241038T241043.htm

It’s got a typical ghastly UI which has features to enable overruns!

You just can’t make this shit up!!

LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages

s. pam
Trollface

I hope they do so

it would be amusing to see how it barfs on the message i just sent a salesroid which basically said "go fuck yourself you're now labelled as a spammer"!

Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3

s. pam
FAIL

Hey Siri, go fluck off

it will be IMMEDIATELY turned OFF in all our devices....!

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

s. pam
Mushroom

What utter twaddle

You don't need Ain't Intelligence boffinry to know where the potholes are! Just look for the tyre carcasses, drivers swerving/hitting their brakes to know where they are!

It would be shocking to deploy this gadgetry in Buckinghamshire, which is totally like driving on the Moon!

IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door

s. pam
Holmes

why not update/re-tool iDen --> 2.0/3.0/4.0

Given the huge number of boffins in IBM and their participating in loads of standards groups. why not use this as an excellent oportunity to improve iDen and UPDATE it to be compatible on today's networks? iDen has worked almost flawlessly in a number of countries around the world, unless NIH is the operating principle here!?!?!!!

Or is that outside the scope of profit making at Itsy Bitsy Minds

Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it

s. pam
Childcatcher

Beezelbub Trump will override this

Giled does as Gilead needs will be the new operating motto for the ex-USA once Beezlebub is installed today. God help us all!

UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff

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Thumb Down

Good thing StammeringMron and Thieves are all-in for AI

they'll have zero income tax received and a whopping big severance bill to deal with, combined with out-of-this-world software renewal charges!

i'm fucking retiring Tuesday, i'm sick of all the AI & ATS bullshit!

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR

s. pam
FAIL

Mega, the ATS sausage grinder, meet my middle finger

Sadly as a hiring manager I have zero doubt I've missed looking at some awesome folks! Whilst I have complete sympathy with the drudgery of reading loads of CVs, doing so has many times over led me to make some amazing hires in my career! It has never been more evident on the misuse of technology to those applying for work. The deployment of ATS software has so dehumanised the jobseeking world you're lucky to be contacted at all as shown in this article and other articles.

Fuck automation, I'm retiring on Tuesday and will be rid forever of this crap!

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

s. pam
Mushroom

Canon, the new bastards emulating HP

Sorry Windows users, Canon broke this for us Mac users several years ago and you've not a f*cking hope in hell of it getting fixed!

Having gone round and round with their (in)famous tech support gets you a "you need to buy a new model printer"

I've told them to shove a sock in that as my printer/fax/copier worked perfectly fine until they BROKE it!

There's a special place in sCUNThorpe for them, right next door to HP now.

PS> For those who suggest VueScan they want £49.95/year for the privledge of using their app for which even the free version doesn't work with our 2017 Canon 510!

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