Posts by TeeCee

….if we started from scratch, would we design our organizations as they stand today?"

I'm not sure that being a slightly smaller bunch of disruptivedeliberately confrontational cunts is likely to be any real improvement.

Obvious solution.

The Inland Revenue should modify their tax processes so that if a corporate doesn't uncheck or check as appropriate a differently placed, sized and coloured box on each page[1], they automatically charge the full whack ignoring deductions for the following year and install a copy of Google Chrome on all their PCs.

[1] Instructions for which are held in a separate document which is updated hourly.

...performing such moves manually would soon become impossible.

Bit of an issue for any older or dead stuff already up there. Can't be long before a node in someone's "mega constellation" becomes a cloud of debris with random vectors inconveniently sited at the same altitude as the rest of said constellation, with obvious results.

Siri on the help desk?

Seriously? It'll be Clippy FFS. You just know it will.

"I see you've just fucked up spectacularly and deleted the system. Would you like help restoring that?"

Sounds like Lightsquared all over again.

When technically savvy people point out that your alleged multi squillion dollar business is unworkable shit made of fairy stories, sue.

Emperor's new suit 2.0. Which is the same thing, only the tailors bugger off with the investment capital for the Emperor's magic clothes as soon as someone notices that he's starkers.

Shame really.

Apart from the monoculture problem, I quite like the current Edge. One thing that nobody else seems to have noticed is that Edge for Android absolutely pisses over the competition for speed* and lightness.

*FF is on a par for speed but is a bit of a resource hog.

Coordinated?

Twenty-three towns in Texas have been targeted...

All this shows is that everything is bigger in Texas. I think we knew that.

Oh dear.

Sounds like he's fallen out of the giggle tree and hit every branch on the way down.

...such as geo-routing (where users are directed according to their physical location)…

Holy water, garlic, crucifix, wooden stake, etc....

Probably nothing wrong with it in principle, but many of the implementations suck so badly that it's frankly terrifying that they made it through unit testing. Microsoft? Samsung? I'm looking at you and "we're not the only ones completely shit at this" is not a defence.

As is usual after this happens.

I guess they'll be telling all their users to change their compromised access credentials then.

Ah.....hang on...…..oops...…..maybe biometrics aren't such a great idea after all?

But you're an Apple user.

All you have to know is that It Just Works.

How it works is something for clever people to know for you.

told to redirect their Dell payments to an account in Minnesota

And the gullible sod who answered the phone did it?

I can't help thinking that the best way to combat this sort of crime is to make stupidity a crime.

"barrister Robin Hopkins" ought to consider the terms "Prenda Law" and "it could happen to you" before taking his backhanderfee from scumbag scammers.

Did a fix break something?

I'm sure that Word used to generate Document1, Document2...….Document7984356 every time you started a blank document whether you saved it or not.

My guess would be that there were too many complaints along the lines of; "Yeees, but which one is it?" and that feature had to go.

You can't please all of the idiots all of the time...

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

There is one and only one reason why Windows succeeded and every other candidate for "future GUI OS" died. With Windows you could reboot into honest-to-God gen-u-ine MS or PC DOS and run Lotus 123, WordPerfect and any of the other "must have" DOS programs that were astonishingly prone to crashing like a sonofabitch when run on or with anything else.

So you could have your new-fangled GUI cake while scarfing down your old DOS based cake as well.

Really?

Sat Nav takes user off road / into lake / over cliff / into elderly couple's lounge / etc ad nauseum is still news?

The fact that it's satnav by Google doesn't make this any different to umpty-thousand other tabloid column fillers...

That's nice of them.

Saves the US lads detecting and cleaning their infected machines themselves.

Whether this is believable really rather depends on whether you believe the Iranian cyber lads really are so fucking stupid that they'd cack on their most valuable assets just to stick two fingers up at the USA. This, in turn, depends on whether you think some wankhammer's imaginary friend thought it might be a good idea.....so not such a stretch as at first glance.

Worst UPS battery lashup I ever heard of was from an Oracle colleague who went to Istanbul. In the bowels of the office was a load of angle iron, drilled and screwed to resemble Dexion racking. On this was a selection of old 12v lead/acid car batteries of varying capacities, coupled to the innards of an arc welder which was attached to the mains.

Unfortunately for him the server he needed access to was in the same room. He reckoned that a minute's hyperventilating bought him five in the room before the sulphurous fumes[1] started really getting to him. He just had to put up with watering eyes and prickling skin....

[1] Yes, they probably had heard of sealed batteries and wanted no truck with that new-fangled shit.

The survey was run by hotdeskplus…

Their take on the results: "You really need our app!"

Everyone else's take on the results: "Hotdesking sucks, we should get rid of it and you can shove your app up sideways."