* Posts by Youngone

1575 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2009

JPMorgan Chase readies for post-quantum security world

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Re: Post Quantum Security

Did you just threaten humankind with extermination?

You're hard to understand at the best of times but I'm buying tinned food just in case.

Microsoft 365, Office 365 price hikes delayed

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Re: Yammer

I have a Yammer license at work, and I get emails about Yammer groups I am a member of (apparently) but I have no idea what use it could possibly be.

My boss pays $11 per month for the license (I think) which seems mental, but I don't care because it is just one huge voracious corporation passing money to another.

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One of the question I ask at any job interview is "What is the boss' background"?

If the answer is Finance or Accounting I end things right there. I have been bitten a couple of times.

GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft

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Re: On that note...

Where is Stephen Elop, the Microsoft man who headed up Nokia, working now?

Good question. I did a little checking, and it looks like after Microsoft sacked him he got a job at Telstra in Australia, but they seem to have figured him out fairly quickly, because he only lasted a couple of years there, then he was sacked by some aviation company I had never heard of.

He'll be fine though. He has a vast pile of cash to keep him company.

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Re: Stockholm syndrome

I agree entirely with your sentiments about the Gnome desktop.

I find it an absolute joy to use.

Co-inventor of Ethernet David Boggs dies aged 71

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Re: Ethernet turned out to become the network winner

All I know about Boggs is that he once drank 70 beers on a flight across America, and batted .300 the next day, may he rest in peace.

Good: People can spot a deepfake video. Bad: They're not so hot with text

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Re: Skewed?

The voter turn-out rates seem to indicate that a huge number of Americans are well aware that voting is pointless for almost all of them.

IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO

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Re: Get out while and if you can

I have been assuming they want cheaper workers.

Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall

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Well, I ordered a bunch of Dell monitors in August 2021 and they're currently promising delivery in June 2022 which is nice.

Just in time for my working at home people to come back to the office I would imagine.

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation

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Re: VR drinks?

I quite enjoyed Second Life, until it got to the point where evertime I logged on some arsehole tried to sell me something.

European Union takes China to WTO over smartphone patents

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Re: Will continue

What some don't realise is for foreign companies to trade in their market over there...

Anyone who doesn't realise that has not been paying attention for the last 35 years and deserves everything they get.

China has used the greed of the capitalist West against itself, and didn't even make it a secret.

In the 1990's, when China decided to start to open itself up to trade, the greedy bastards who run the vast corporations that run the West looked at a huge, cheap labour supply they could exploit, and a huge new potential consumer market they could profit from and China gave them some rules they had to follow.

China also made it clear that the rules might change at any time, but they dived in anyway and they're reaping what they sowed.

The vast corporation I work for (for instance) makes nearly $1 billion in profits every year from China, and if the locals steal some stuff along the way, well the shareholders don't seem to mind.

Comparing the descendants of Mandrake and Mandriva Linux

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Re: Activity manager

Do I remember Mandrake as being the only distro that would work with those crappy "Winmodems" out of the box?

I think that is right, and if it was they got some of my money in 1999 or so.

World's top chipmaking equipment maker claims Chinese rival may infringe IP

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Re: "Chinese authorities have been informed."

China's economy is entwined with the economies of the west by design.

That was done in the 1990's and is not for your benefit, but the benefit of the shareholders both in China and the west.

Xi has nothing to worry about as long as the money keeps flowing.

KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24: It's eccentric, just like many old-timers

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Re: Kameleon Desktop Environment.

I think the endless configurations available in KDE is what put me off the last time I made a serious attempt to use it. It just seemed to keep getting in my way when I wanted to do stuff.

I can absolutely understand why people like it though. One of the many joys of Linux are the choices we get to make.

Working in Arm's engineering team? You're probably happy with your pay rise

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Re: Or

Oh, that's a great idea!

I have been offered the standard 2.5% raise in our company, along with a small bonus which is obviously a pay cut with inflation in my country at well over 7%.

Along with everyone else I have decided that someone is going to pay me more and it will either be my current boss or another one.

Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

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I'm pretty sure I saw Magnetar open for Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique

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Re: Simplicity

Crap! I'm ready for my mid-life crisis and a Tiger might just fit the bill.

I wonder if they deliver to New Zealand?

Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'

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Nah.

We're really big. As in top 200 companies worldwide, and we're in the process of ditching them due to the audits.

UK, Australia, to build 'network of liberty that will deter cyber attacks before they happen'

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Re: Politically incorrect minnows in a dark deep pool of ravenous sharks

I hope she's as funny as the comic on Radio 4 who plays her.

Move over exoplanets, exomoons are the next big thing

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Re: Supermoons

Super Mars? You've just started a whole new stupid line of superhero movies.

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Re: Supermoons

...could we put a damper on all these pseudo-Earth-like planets we are finding until we find a planet that is actually Earth-like in size and density ?

Are you suggesting we ignore any exoplanets we might happen upon if they are too big to be useful?

Kepler 1708 is 5,436 light years from Earth. We're not going there anytime soon.

Crypto.com acknowledges 'unauthorized activity' on servers, maintains no funds have been lost

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Where does the money go?

Cryto.com also signed a weird sponsorship deal with the AFL in Australia just yesterday.

If you read between the lines it reads a little bit like some sort of money laundering scheme which would not surprise me in the least.

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

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Re: Sanctions

At no point was the Soviet Bloc totally economically and socially isolated from the West.

A friend of mine worked for a print shop in Austria in the 1960's and 70's whose biggest clients were all in Hungary and the USSR.

He used to go the both places regularly to tell them they were doing it wrong.

Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than us due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays

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Re: "Earth’s magnetic field will disappear in 6.2 billion years or so"

What? Shit!

Only another 700 million years! Why are we not doing something?

Anonymous employee review site Glassdoor research: Tech companies dominate the best places to work

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Re: I know my last company...

...your work machine...

And yet here I am having to explain to people that no, that laptop belongs to the company and I won't let you take it with you now you've quit.

Yes, I know its 2002.

US Senator Marco Rubio calls Intel cowards for scrubbing remarks about Xinjiang and apologizing to China

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Re: This is not cowardice

Cowardly capitalism comes without a conscience it seems...

Why would you think capitalism has ever had a conscience?

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Yes, the downvotes are probably going to be Americans.

They still think they're the good guys despite all the evidence to the contrary.

You are exactly right about America's need for an enemy. I'm old enough to remember the existential despair from the US military after the Berlin Wall fell, and the terrified casting about for a new one. I also remember the attempt to use India for the role but I'm not sure why it failed. India seems like a pretty good choice.

Meanwhile, here I am working for a huge American corporation that makes nearly $1 billion in profit from its Chinese holdings every year, and these idiots think the US (or anybody else) wants to stop doing business with them. Capitalism cares not a jot about human rights and they should stop pretending differently.

China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations'

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Re: Now the question is...

Nonesuch is correct.

The vast American multinational I work for makes nearly $1 billion in profits every year from its various businesses in China and the shareholders would throw a huge tantrum if management put that in jeopardy.

None of them really care what China does as long as the money keeps rolling in.

It's your Loki day: The Reg takes Elementary OS Jólnir for a quick test drive

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Not for me

I have played with Elementary a few times and I would love to like it, but I just can't.

I can understand how people would like it though. I may be one of those people with strong personal preferences I suppose.

Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation

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Re: DO NOT DO THIS!

2003 was not nearly 20 years ago, it's more like 5.

Humanity has officially touched the Sun (or, at least, one of its probes has)

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Re: We are lucky

Jules Verne? I thought it was Rick Wakeman.

Better CEO is 'taking time off' after firing 900 staff on Zoom

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Re: Better?

I was laid off when the drooling idiots who ran the company messed up the integration of a company they had bought.

One of said idiots made the mistake of turning up to one of the branches to make the announcement in person, and he was so rude that several hot-heads decided they would beat the living snot out of him in retribution. Cooler heads restrained them, so no blood was spilt unfortunately.

That put the wind up the company so badly that they fired the rest of us by email.

I paid a lawyer $400 to write a threatening letter and wound up getting nearly $10,000 worth of training for free in return for promising not to drag them through the employment courts.

The moral of the story? Don't live in America.

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

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Re: Give Biden some credit

America has always worked like that. They sell ambassadorships to friends of the current president, which is how my country wound up with a former soft porn actor.

Dumb as a sack of rocks, but very nice is the comment I heard through the grapevine.

Shocking: UK electricity tariffs are among world's most expensive

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Re: 70's electricty

Do you live in a volcano by any chance?

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

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Re: Glassdoor...

Go out of business ASAP and do all of us a favor.

I agree with the sentiment, but unfortunately we have had 40 years of being told that regulation is bad and have wound up with a whole bunch of "markets" that are only theoretically competitive.

The vast multinational I work for (as an example) buys any competition as soon as it looks like they might grow into a problem.

I'm pretty sure they can point to a competitor in every market segment they operate in, but the reality is that they send out a price increase to their customers every year.

Now that there is a labour shortage the boss is trying to figure out why he can't get new staff (hint: offer more money) and he doesn't know that ~50% of his current staff are actively looking for a new job.

However the company will continue to make money hand over fist because what are the customers going to do? Buy from someone else? Ha!

China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon

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Re: Get the popcorn ready....

I heard that too.

China plans to swipe a bunch of data soon so quantum computers can decrypt it later

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Re: Quantum computing and decryption

Booz Allen Hamilton make vast amounts of money from the US military, which is looking for another enemy since the Afghanistan gravy train has ended.

China is one that they're trying at the moment to see how much they can shake loose.

Theranos' Holmes admits she slapped Big Pharma logos on lab reports to boost her biz

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Re: Somehow I don't think the court will be convinced

Is one of them this guy?

Desktop bust and custom iPhone 13 Pro made from melted-down Tesla car for the Elon Musk dork in your life

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Weird is what it is.

Their target market seems to be a bit limited because I don't think there are that many people smart enough to get hold of enough money to buy that crap, but stupid enough to actually want to.

I could be wrong though.

Max Schrems hits Irish Data Protection Commissioner with corruption complaint

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"an investigation against anybody would be turned into an open, public process before any decision is reached against them."

I'm not sure I have a problem with that. The justice system ought to be public.

Also "Mr Schrems maintains his present position that he must be given access to all materials on the basis that it will be for Mr Schrems alone to decide what (if anything) he may publish or use, and retaining the right to change his position at his sole election and at any time of his choosing."

Public documents are public. Again, what's the problem?

Should be easy to win the rights to .tv when you're name-checked in the contract's tech reqs – right, Afilias?

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Re: "Afilias has ignored [..] our offer to let it tell its side of this story"

Maybe. It depends on whether New Zealand or Australia (but mostly New Zealand) decide the corruption is getting out of hand.

New Zealand and Australia fund most of those Pacific countries through aid and there is an expectation there will be a certain amount of palm-greasing. However when it all gets too blatant a quiet word is had with the interested parties and things calm down a bit.

The exception being of course the Tongan Royal Family who continue to exploit their people with impunity.

Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value

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Re: If Amazon can't make it work

The huge corporation I work for uses Workday, and its fairly poor on the whole, but poor is standard for all of the cloud services we now use.

Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email

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Re: My email wasn't blank...

"Brexit has meant that VISA could now increase their merchant fees/charges to retailers"

Hang on! Was that the Brexit that people voted for?

What's next, needing your passport to go on holiday to Spain?

Vodafone bringing back roaming charges?

There's something to be said for delayed gratification when Windows 11 is this full of bugs

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Re: Windows Update makes me happy

Me too. My desktop machine has a quad-core processor running at 2.8 GHZ and 16 GB of RAM but apparently Microsoft are saving me from something because it is not good enough.

USA signs internet freedom and no-hack pact it's ignored since 2018

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Small Problem

...the USA's decision to adopt the Call "reflects the Biden-Harris Administration's priority to renew and strengthen America's engagement with the international community on cyber issues".

The problem being that the republicans are going to take over fairly soon and again all bets will be off.

The United States can no longer be considered a reliable ally

International Space Station fires rockets to dodge chunk of destroyed Chinese satellite

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Re: Misleading headline!

Thanks for the video, I can only vaguely remember UFO on TV as I am old, but not that old.

The general feel seems to me to be 1940 with better music.

Linux PC shop System76 is building a new desktop environment in Rust

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Re: Let us hope ...

I disagree quite strongly. I find Gnome 41 on Fedora to be a joy to use.

You are more than welcome to your view though, and I'm sure Mate is perfectly fine.

Oh, Comcast. An Xfinity customer and working from home? Maybe not this morning

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Explanation

Like McGuire, The Register has asked Comcast for an explanation for today's impressive outage...

Well, you see, we're more or less a monopoly.

No day in court: US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rulings will stay a secret

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Re: Remind me

It is no different, except "we' are the good guys.

In reality Erich Honecker would have been thrilled to have access to the various secret police agencies the US maintains.

The one thing America is really, really good at is propaganda.

Fedora 35 is out: GNOME 41 desktop, polished UI, easier-to-install closed-source apps

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Re: Gnome 40/41

I disagree entirely. I find Gnome an absolute joy to use. Fedora 35 seems to be a very boring release which is a good thing.