Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

What an amazing career.

As per the title. And what a glorious time it must have been to be in aeronautical engineering.

Consultancy...

Consultancy : If you can't contribute to the solution, then there is money to be made in prolonging the problem.

Consent.

"The proposed law would require ISPs as well as social media giants to get user consent before collecting and selling their data."

They already do. But the bit where you actually give them that right it is normally buried on page 12 of some impenetrable set of T&Cs and caveated by them actually saying something like "we MAY transfer your data to 3rd parties to improve your experience blah... blah... blah..." i.e. something entirely different that if do chose to read and refuse would make the service unusable.

What it means at present is that you cannot actually refuse these terms if you want to use and modern services such as internet, apps, mobile phones etc.

And it is only getting worse, with more and more normal retail companies seemingly now wanting my data when I buy something over the counter.

More importantly...

Do El Reg have to pay a royalty fee to use the Thorgerson prism image?

TV Licensing...

The TV licensing idiots send a letter "to the occupier" of my house once a month with various threatening banners on the front such as "Investigations launched in your area" and "We've launched an official investigation" on the front. It's all very funny and a bit pathetic considering their complete lack of any authority.

How does this relate to scams... well, this the key reason I still receive these letter at my property : (A) Because there is no legal imperative for me to tell the licensing goons anything, via their website or on my doorstep, and (B) they are not having any of my personal details because of these persisiting scams.

The 419 boys from Lagos should certainly have a go though, as it certainly can't be any more laughable than Crapitas go at fraudulently and incorrectly trying to tell me why I need a TV license.

If he's that shit...

I've only skim read the report, but if he's that shit a smuggler does it not beg the question as to how he managed to get it through South American customs in the first place? I guess they just don't care...

Interesting.

I can't imagine that is the sort of thing any half decent financial auditor would let slide. But this is Deloitte I guess...

They are all as rapaciously sleazy as each other.

To address the skills shortages...

GDS should make working for the Government a welcoming and beneficial prospect so to recruit some highly skilled contractors who are used to working in unstable environments and on short notic... oh...

Just asking for a friend...

Not trying to take away the fuckwittery of this genius' crimes, but what of "he quit after filing whistleblower complaints against Blue Stone for alleged improper payments to Indian gaming officials, tribal leaders and a New Mexico politician."

Presumably these complaints have been swept under the teepee?

Dear new IBM'ers...

On second thoughts, as well as not mentioning "open" and "stack", please also don't mention "hybrid multicloud platform" unless it's the IBM Hybrid Multicloud Platform (TM), in which case... just plaster a fake smile on your face and refer back to "I" for obvious reasons that we don't quite understand.

Actually, it's better that you just keep your little mouths shut; that way no-one will realise it's all just bullshit and that we don't really understand it properly ourselves.

Thanks peeps.

""As T-Mobile customers, each Plaintiff accepted T-Mobile’s Terms and Condition," T-Mob's response reads. "In so doing, they agreed to arbitrate on an individual basis any dispute related to T-Mobile’s services and waive their right to participate in a class action unless they timely opted out of the arbitration procedure outlined in the Ts&Cs. Neither Plaintiff elected to opt out."

Hmmm, it's this sort of clause that should be illegal. Firstly, not only for the fact that it was probably buried deep down on page 12 of their T&Cs in a four point font, but secondly for the fact that it's highly unlikely that the average T-Mobile punter has the geological amount of time available to put into a challenge - which is how long these sort of things usually take, and thirdly because they'd probably be drowned in lawyers.

T-Mobile know this, and also know that it is a scummy position to put your "highly valued" customers in. Yet they do it anyway.

Scumbags.

Colour me dissappointed.

Awwww... I only came for the comments from the NIX community to say how much better their O/S is...

...it is, of course ;-)

Hey Google...

Hey Google, how are ya? I don't use Chrome. Never will. Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks.

And...

And it obviously shows how the US Gov are being mendaciously raped in terms of per hour billables by their subcontractors.

Sorry folks, apparently you'll never need more than 256k...

Just because we all have 4Gb minimum, it doesn't mean you need to use 4Gb minimum.

Luvvin' the optimism...

13 years!!! I give DXCXD or whatever they are called no more than 2 at best.

But but but...

"to instead SPE being simply "the marketing name for a set of functions which had been developed to handle structured data?”

This is no different to when HP re-marketed and branded their idiot filled SAP consulting division as Enterprise Professional Services.

Thanks for the gaming update...

Well looking forward to Cyberpunk, but it's not until next year so am looking for something to while away the time until it lands - so might give this a go or go back to Black Flag.

Re Google Stadia : I saw the details for it when it was announced. I then saw an updated release on some of the details of it this morning and my opinion has shifted somewhat from "no thanks" to "abso-fucking-lutely no way I'm going near it!!!" Apart from the fact that it is Google (which should be warning enough) they are suggesting that the costs are that they either rape you and your data and inject ads (i.e. free) for a reduced 1080p level of service; or it's £8.99 for the "premium" 4k service which I fully expect to still be raping me for my data, and plastering my game time with ads - but in a cynically less intrusive manner. But after all this you then still have to pay full price for your AAA games on top of that, but with no guarantees that you'll still be able to play it next year, or stream it in the first place due to your crap internet connection or service contention. It's being shilled as "giving the consumer more choice" but the only thing this is doing is giving the publisher and Google more control over how and when you can consume "their" product that you have paid good money for.

In summary, I hope it falls flat on its arse.

I'll stick with my Playstation thanks...

The rubbish arms race regarding who has the best GPU, CPU and PC build etc is why I'd rather just sit on the sofa with my PS4.

Thanks.

Alternatively...

Alternatively... perhaps he's dead? Just like it says in the story.

All of this noise is just a diversion...

Dear HP... pleeeeease just show us where the fraud occurred. It's what you are claiming in your suit and it's all that really matters. We've all been waiting 5 - 6 weeks now and I'm not sure any of us has really seen any evidence that puts your $8bn cash write off down to it. Anytime soon will do, but not too soon eh as I'm still enjoying watching you make arses of yourselves.

Thanks.

Not sure I really believe this...

Come on, are these results not just a little bit suspect?? The Dev shilling an app to "book a hotdesk" finds own requirement for app as part of their marketing effort.

Not convinced.

So...

So, so far we have seen the Mike Lynch defence focus primarily on the pre-sales due diligence shit-show and the post-sales integration mess. And whilst it has rightly painted HP as a bunch of incompetent asshats, unfortunately in my mind that really doesn't get to the nub of the issue.

As they are claiming fraud, I can only imagine that HP will be focusing solely on the accounts, and at the end of the day, that is all that matters : (A) Were they presented and buffed-up fraudulently by Autonomy? (B) Were the accounts actually good, but that HP just misinterpreted them due to differences in US vs UK accounting treatments?

If (A) is true then you need to ask what the hell the Autonomy auditors were doing. Case closed.

If (B) then all of the other due diligence and integration aspects come into play. Case closed.

I'm really hoping for A.