Posts by Vader

Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry

They are dragging this out. This shouldn't be an inquiry but a criminal case, if this was a normal company a police case would be happening so sad.

Farewell .NET 7, support ends in May – we hardly knew you

Do Microsoft themselves use .NET at all?

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

At least with Fujitsu we can expect them to fuck it up and deny it.

US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing

If the west doesn't trust China which it should not. Move manufacturing back and then leave those a load, there local economy won't support them.

Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare

Let's not get to carried away, let's get the post office issues behind and then we can address the library. Can't have too many inquiries the poor MP's will be overloaded and there chums can't go to jail either.

UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal

That's another fine mess Ollie.

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

What I don't understand is the inquiry.

This should be a criminal case and it's perjury. It was good enough without proper evidence to throw the sub postmasters into prison, the same should apply to all involved. Also the post office should be stripped of its powers to prosecute someone without a 3rd party over looking it.

An inquiry is for MP's and sorts and sweet FA will happen other than we are sorry but F them all.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

Nothing will happen

This inquiry like many others before it will achieve sweet FA. Even if Fujitsu payout £1 billion pounds in compensation. They will get contracts worth £15 billion. People always say they far east and Asia is corrupt, however this corruption is at it's finest.

UK government woefully unprepared for 'catastrophic' ransomware attack

We are fully prepared we have Boris, what more do we need. If things get hacked, it can generate it's own BS.

Lenovo to offer Android PCs, starting with an all-in-one that can pack a Core i9

they have been saying the Linux desktop since the 90's. At that time it was still very geeky. Don't know how I don't use Linux much.

Microsoft CEO whinges about Google's default search deals

haha pot calling kettle black.

India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots

Bribe someone and the data how secure is yours, money talks.

Volkswagen stuck in neutral after 'IT disruption'

ITGate maybe, like Dieselgate.

Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author

For now it's a win.

Arm reveals just how vulnerable it is to trade war with China

You can't stop any country from developing its own technology. If they are smart enough they will.

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

Does seem a bit odd that a dodgy flight would knock it out. For get taking control we can't even control our airspace without messing it up.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Re: If Torvalds says so

Didn't he go to anger management.

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

Wonderful marvel of engineering. Those 70's models keep on ticking.

China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party

Re: What is "The Party"?

tiananmen square they protected the people with brut force.

Since when have China acknowledged IP. They normally stick two fingers when questioned. But if the shoe is on the other foot, PRC must be protected lol.

Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary

Microsoft has a history of fouling up companies it takes over look at Skype. Most of the games are mostly the same first person shooting ones.

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

One rule for the big players 4 Million is peanuts and if a smaller company did they same off with there heads.

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

Most of the coders I have dealt with in India when we did a lot of outsourcing were poo. You explain things so many times and then they still foul it up and lie to your face. Deadlines mean nothing they don't care.

If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault

We don't AI for that, we are able to do that ourselves.

Mega patent holder Huawei said to be putting licensing squeeze on SMEs

They should do what the Chinese do, ignore the IP requests.

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

Oh dear and people are flapping over AI. We don't need AI to destroy things we can do it ourselves.

Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11

Oh well, it will be interesting. The shiny new thing in IT is AI at the moment.

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

Oh well, Here you go time for another contract to them to offset the losses if any from this one.

US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat

The west despises China, but need to them to make things. So move manufacturing over time away and stop buying from them. The local economy of China is weak and propped up.

Would China go to war if the world stopped buying from them?

Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage?

They are usually hogwash. I like when hosted phone systems go down, which according to the sales person, they never would. As you can't ring them because they use their own systems which are dead. Status page just says nothing is wrong.

Remember 8x8 saying they had all this redundancy and it would never go down, at a London council. Within one month the whole thing when pear shaped two times.

Dish confirms 300,000 people's data was exposed in February's attack

brings a whole new meaning to dishing the dirt.

Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy

Maybe once they have understood AI, they can finally have a PM that actually does a full term?

Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam

this is like Facebook,twitter and other social media influencers complaining that they are not as visible as they used to be. Well tough you have but your business on someone else's foundation and if they change foundation or logic tough.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

Will be interesting to see what happens. Surely the HP board and the others who checked the accounts like they were flicking through a newspaper at the time should held responsible as well to a certain degree?

Bankers 2008, the top brass hold be pulled in as well for fraud however we will give them free money and bail them out.

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

haha, next it will be, must have a fax machine built in just incase.

Cisco to manufacture telecoms gear in India – but not much and not soon

Hopefully they didn't have give too many brown envelopes to get things done in India. Red Tape and fools who are just after back handers is unbelievable.

Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight

The cloud should never go down right ?

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

Yes we have taken control and farmed it out.

Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?

Samsung is the jack of all trades and master of none.

India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences

After half arsed job then.

Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

Can't have been that important then TBH.

British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles

Maybe we should start with the MP's and regulate them properly and hold then to account. Once thats actually sorted then look at other problems.

Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm bought by HSBC for 1 British pound in rescue deal

All saved then

After this would people actually trust it or just move money else where.

Because you've all stopped buying PCs, AMD's wiped $1b+ off expected sales

Oh well.

Poor investors, how dare people stop buying things.

38 million records exposed by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM

Any can code.

This is BS. You need to know what you're doing.

Starliner takes off ... back to the factory and not space

Maybe they should just stick making planes

Oh wait they messed them up too.

BT tries to crack cyber crime, grabs stake in Safe Security

BT are just poor at most things. Their network division is laughable.