Posts by Phil Kingston

" the automaker is offering 12 months of free credit monitoring to its customers"

I'm starting to wonder if a lot of the recent system intrusions are the work of identity theft protection companies, making a coin by charging companies to "protect" their exposed customers.

"AI and learning-based assistant features for Office 365"

"It looks like you're trying to write a letter" for a new generation

Seems even pirate-enablers favour a subscription model these days.

"The protesters left the store on the promise of a meeting with Apple management in France within 15 days"

Well then, Apple management have got 15 days to learn "Je ne parle pas francais"

"when the dot-matrix printers are connected to their Windows 10 PCs via USB"

Surely not?

"Broadcast just leave my pj's on the landing, I'm trollied"

If it will save the ACCC some time, and God knows how many millions, I can answer the question of whether they should intervene for them now: Yes.

Give me a data-only SIM and allow me to port my 04 mobile number to a VOIP provider, then we'll talk.

Let me guess, Boeing will own the IP of any design submitted?

Does it come with the legend "Plonker" emblazoned across the back?

Because that's what everyone will think when they see the wearer struggling to brush it the right way while defending how useful it is to their mate.

"We are laser-focused on giving the enthusiast community the ultimate desktop experience"

If I were in the same room as a manager who decided to one-up the management-speak overuse of "focused" to "laser-focused", I'd leave, at best. Nut him at worst.

AU$630 million agreed to be paid back with no penalties?

That's an obscsene amount to have (seemingly) intentionally adopted dodgy accounting practices to avoid paying.

And if they agreed to AU$630 million, you can bet the "real" figure they should have paid was substantially more.

And no penalties? Well, that's the cherry on top.

I used to be pro-ad, I understood that publishers needed to earn a coin. Then, of all sites, El Reg had a massive IBM auto-playing, auto-expanding video/audio ad that interrupted not only my reading, but also my choice of music that was playing at the time. I went full anti-ad. I'm luck enough to be technically literate enough to block ads on my work PC, my home network and my mobile.

I like learning about new products and services, but if advertisers want to interrupt my listening pleasure they can get lost.

"Internet Australia continues a long campaign in which it insists that copper has no future, other than in short runs as part of a fibre-to-the-distribution-point build that could see twisted pairs used for longer distances than is the case for fibre-to-the-node connections."

Longer? Surely, shorter?

Does Bruce Willis know?

Kinda sad to see the segment disappearing. But time waits for no man.

As a possible correction, I thought the mini had a 4GB Hitachi spinning disk.

i tire of this government's "because terrorists" argument to every intrusion.

Of the many issues that arise, I'm most surprised at the idea that someone would accept a Medicare card as proof of ID. That's almost asking to be defrauded.

For non-Aussies, a Medicare card is like a 40 year old credit card - no hologram, signature, chip or other anti-fraud measures. I just imagine credit card fraudsters have been literally dusting of the machines they used to make fake cards back in the day and trying a new trick.

I hope the talks are kept brief and there's an end in sight to squandering tax payer's money on that showboating joker.

Nice

Everyone needs a private redtube.

"many agencies – particularly in the defense sector – are taking heat for being slow to adopt their prescribed IT reforms"

To be fair, I can't see many IT managers and staff (especially in govt sector) falling over themselves to move the data and systems they manage into AWS and hence make themselves redundant.

If you outsource all your IT folk to the point that your “associated governance was not robust and relied heavily on HPE recommendations” then there's only one place to ultimately point the finger...

" filed suit in 2009"

Just me, or 8 years seem about 7 years 3 weeks and 4 days too long to reach that conclusion?