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HPE to open private London drinking club
Lazy IoT, router makers reuse skeleton keys over and over in thousands of devices – new study
Thursday 26th November 2015 06:56 GMT 
IoT???
Idiots or Twats?
I can't decide which.
Obviously everything is build down to a target price, made to work and shipped. fuck security because it is Far TOOoooooo hard.
This is just one of the reasons why no IoT kit will be used in my home anywhere near a connection to the Internet. Isolated yes (well maybe). Connected, No, no and thrice no.
Where's the Disaster waiting to happen icon when you need it eh?
Cyber-terror: How real is the threat? Squirrels are more of a danger
Why Microsoft yanked its latest Windows 10 update download: It hijacked privacy settings
Wednesday 25th November 2015 11:33 GMT
Re: The Shape of things to come
along with a number of commentards, I think that this was deliberate. They (MS) put all this crap in thei OS and we go and disable it. so why wouldn't they want to enable it again?
This is nothing more than
The Shape of things to come.
or
seconds out, round 2.
This is not over yet, not by a long chalk.
Downloads for Windows 10 November big-bang build axed by Microsoft
Oracle confesses to quietly axing its UK software support centre
Dum dum dum - another cloud bites the dust (Adobe's photo cloud)
Tuesday 24th November 2015 06:27 GMT
Re: another bites the dust
Should that not be TWO large HDD's. One copy of your beloved piccies is far too risky.
I got an email from adoberevel.com about the closure. My spam filter thought that it was... well you know spam. I don't recall even knowing about this service before Adobe decided to pull the plug. Sigh. If no one know about it then it is hardly surprising that it failed then is it?
Windows 10 pilot rollouts will surge in early 2016, says Gartner
Monday 23rd November 2015 19:38 GMT
Re: Don't trust Gartner, but it is pretty inevitable
All it needs is for a new patch [1] to intricude a new slurp because MS thinks that far too many users are blocking their slurp to be deployed into a HIPAA site and bang.
The Febs come in and fine the HIPAA company yet MS will probably get off scott free.
Hardly seems fair does it eh?
[1] many of will have a bitt taste in their mouths when they recall some of the botched patches that MS has put out. They will have to significanlty improve the quality of their patches if they are gonna succeed in this 'pushing' of patches to all the W10 users. If not... then they'd better have a lot of very, very good lawyers on speed dial.
Monday 23rd November 2015 18:59 GMT
1 billion Devices?
well in 3-5 years this might happen (sadly)
The general concensus in this place that is it [redacted].
There are some fans but auond here they are in the minority.
From my experience this reluctance to use it is being reflected amongst the non IT gurus.
Many are gonna stay with Win 7 after reluctantly upgrading from XP in the last year or so.
Others have gone or are going to the dark side (Apple).
A good few have seen W10 and don't want a tablet/phone UI on their desktop. Full screen everything is also loathed especially those with 24in+ screens.
Running it on a 4k screen needs sunglasses.
However us commentards are the exception rather than the rule.
Many average users will go into places like PC-World and get sold a pup but they won't know it.
In conclusion, Gartner will probably be right but what next for MS?
Is that it?
Is that the UI that they are gonna plug for ever?
I really hope not.
Google takedown requests mushroom as copyright holders play whack-a-mole
TalkTalk Business email servers titsup for days after DNS config snafu
Blocking out the Sun won't fix climate change – but it could buy us time
Monday 23rd November 2015 11:09 GMT 
fiddling while Rome burns?
And then you have vast numbers of people (especially in the USA) who believe this is all utter rubbish.
North Carolina has even passed lasws restricting what their climatologists can report on.
Well done people. Put your head in the sand and watch the outer banks get submerged by rising sea levels.
Until the likes of the USA, Russia and China get on message the little bit was do towards reducing our CO2 emissions is a mere drop in an ever increasing ocean.
They will carry on burning coal, driving Pickups with 6ltr Engines and making hay while the rest of us suffer.
This http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34872956
is worth a read. Meanwhile sales of Air Conditioners will keep on rising.
Where's the 'head in the sand icon' when you need it?
Love your IoT gadget but could you keep the noise down?
Monday 23rd November 2015 08:01 GMT
Re: Needless wireless already with us.
Change the bloody channel your router defaults to then!
Mine uses Channel 2 because of just the problem you describe. I can see 20+ different networks from my home office. 95% of them use the same channel.(not Channel 2)
now some [redacted] two streets away has boosted his wifi signal (illegally) so that many neighbours can't use their networks in the evenings.
I know who it is because of the old Pringles can trick and a bit of Wardriving to detect the max signal.
Oh how life in the burbs works.
Seriously considering ditcihng the Wi-fi and running Cat 6 around the house when it gets rewired next year.
Remember Windows 1.0? It's been 30 years (and you're officially old)
Saturday 21st November 2015 15:17 GMT
Re: NT ... and Windows 2000
But.... Mommy SatNad wants you to know all this crap. Didn't you get the Advert telling you that once you install W10 you are part of the MS Collective and that there is no escape....
Joking aside this is just their headless chicken approach to development. Throws a whole shed load of stuff out there and a few things are bound to stick, that's what Cortana has been programmed to say....
Ofcom asks: Do kids believe anything they read on the internet?
Short weekend break: Skegness or exoplanet HD 189733b?
Apple's Watch charging pad proves Cupertino still screwing buyers
Friday 20th November 2015 07:26 GMT
Re: Clearly a ripoff
Whilst it is expensive please allow me a moment to correct you
The UK Price is with 20% VAT
The US price is always quoted BEFORE State Sales TAX. Only in places like Delaware that have 0% Sales Tax, is the advertised price the price you pay if you walk into a store and buy stuff.
Many US companies still use $1 === £1 as the exchange rate. Apple does not and is nowhere near the worst offender but we all like to take pot stots at Apple so
Keep Calm
and
Carry On (slagging off Apple)
It makes good reading these dark mornings.
FTC zaps more scammer loopholes with ban on wire transfers, cash cards
Thursday 19th November 2015 08:50 GMT
Reloadable payment cards?
how silly of me to think that these were actually safer then normal cards because the scammers could only take up to the balance stored on the card. Keep it small and you limit your losses.
I use a prepaid card in USD for most of my travel expenses in the USA. I can control when it gets loaded so that any moves in the exchange rate is in my favour.
It also has Euro and South African Rand on it as usable currencies.
FTC == Federal Twats congress
Or about to star in 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue'...
VirusTotal invites Apple fans to play in updated Mac malware sandpit
Microsoft revamps its developer tools with a new cloud focus
£2.3m ZANO nano-drone crowdfunded project crashes and burns
Wednesday 18th November 2015 18:34 GMT
Investments
can go up and down. If you can't afford to lose all your money then ANY Kickstarter investment should be treated as a black hole.
In this case there does seem to have been a lot of 'stringing the suckers along' with emails about product status. Perhaps a wee bit of fraud might have been taking place while those with the money disappeared off into the sunset?
The words 'Snake Oil Salesmen' come to mind.
Apple's design 'drives up support costs, makes gadgets harder to use'
French Playmobil heist: El Reg denies involvement
Reg reader achieves bronze badge, goes directly to jail
Yesterday: Openreach boss quits. Today: BT network goes TITSUP
Apple supremo Tim Cook rules out OS X fondleslab, iOS merger
Tuesday 17th November 2015 09:01 GMT
Re: Ha
Really?
Lets wait for the new year and the sales figures for the iPad Pro to come in. Then we can compare it to the Surface Pro & Surface book.
As I understand it, the MS offerings seem to be a tad more expensive that the Apple ones. does this make Apple no longer the most expensive toy on the block? Oh how the mighty have fallen eh? (tongue firmly in onces cheek here)
Refined player: Fedora 23's workin' it like Monday morning
iPad data entry errors caused plane to strike runway during takeoff
Monday 16th November 2015 07:05 GMT
Re: Using toys as tools...
6. The last radical change to Windows was in 1995.
Really? Where do you rank that POS called Metro/modern/????. If tiles are not a redical re-design then I'm Charlies Aunt
I'm with Trevor here. Metro is a steaming turd bolted on to something that was reasonably stable.
If you want stability in an OS then look at Z/OS. 3270 Rules Ok!
Pope instructs followers to put the iPhone away during dinner
Ex-competition watchdog and TalkTalk adviser calls for Openreach split from BT
BT reveals vanishingly small detail about its fibre broadband network
Friday 13th November 2015 11:49 GMT
Seems to concur with my use
Period Usage
03 Oct - 03 Nov 47.36GB
03 Sep - 03 Oct 25.83GB
03 Aug - 03 Sep 22.02GB
Used 23Gb since 3rd Nov. Those effing great Databases that I'm working on and stupidly large Server 2012 Patch files (1.088Gb...Wtf?)
seems to make up for most of it though.
I guess BT will have to keep on laying fibre for a while yet.
Your taxes at work: Three hours driving to turn on politician's PC
Friday 13th November 2015 10:00 GMT
But...
Did you have the right cerifications to reset the breaker?
Were you a member of the right Union?
did you have a 'mate' standing by in case you were electorcuted by the breaker?
did you make out a safety case in triplicate and submit it for approval first?
did you do a risk assessment?
Just resetting the breaker is clearly not enough in today's world.
MS Future Decoded conference, or The Empire Strikes Back
Thursday 12th November 2015 18:31 GMT 
Oh dear - two days of Powerpoints
is enough to drive anyone towards a pint at the end of it.
The sad thing is that all those watching those PP tricks will now return to their companies and make everyone else suffer them ad nauseum.
There have been two studies released this week. One about how producticity improved when Email was banned for a week. The second was how much happier people felt when they came off Facebook.
I'd really like to nuke Powerpoints from use for ever.
Then we'd all be a lot happier, wouldn't we?
Microsoft is about to launch a UK store within a store
Thursday 12th November 2015 12:38 GMT
Ah... The store in a store concept
Rent the space from the retailer. Then when the tumbleweed fills it up, they can quietly close it down. No Bricks and Mortar to look sad when closed but still identifiably a former MS store.
Probably a good way to test the waters but they really have a long way to go when it comes to retail.
The two big Apple Stores in London could hadly be in more prominent locations. If I was Sataya I would not want to rent space on say Regent St close to Apple and it not be a success. A very public failure is not what they need.
Got to be better than human protection: New firm using machine learning anti-malware
Virgin Media whines about Sky's customer service claims, ad watchdog agrees
Wednesday 11th November 2015 11:56 GMT
Re: Sky v Virgin Customer Service
The success/fail rate is IMHO down to who you get to speak to.
If you can get beyond the S. Asians with names like John and Mary and speak to some who actually understand English then you will get a pretty good response.
T-T are just about the lowest of the low and pretty well even a blind man/woman could do a better job at support than them so not good PR to use tham as a comparison.
There is very little money to be made in Broadband alone.
The sooner people understand that the better.
It is all about 'Quad Play' for the likes of VM, BT and Sky these days. So for your £100/month (and up) you had better get a decent service. Us cheapskates who only take Broadband/Cable (no TV) and phone are just not profitable to them so we get the service we deserve... crap and no matter which company it is.
If you want better service then open your wallets you skinflits and choose someline like A&A.
Get what you pay for
no such thing as a free lunch
Most developers have never seen a successful project
Wednesday 11th November 2015 09:44 GMT
Continuious Development
Means that the work is never done so how do you know if it was a good'un then?
MBA claptrap if you ask me. does he have a book or a training couse to flog?
Yes I have worked on many successful projects in the last 40+ years. This includes one for [Large UK City Gov Department] that came in on time and underbudget.
Naturally there were some lemons as well.
There were aqlso the ones that viewed from the outside you could see that it was a disaster waiting to happen. The savvy amongst us kept our heads down and tried to avoid being dragged into the mire.
Tim Cook: UK crypto backdoors would lead to 'dire consequences'
Riding on the memory bus: Micron brings out 8GB flash DIMM
LG picks up US smartphone crumbs, gains on Apple and Samsung
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