* Posts by Hans 1

3796 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009

Quip away, but Microsoft Excel 365's REST APIs win the day

Hans 1
Facepalm

>Maybe I'm old, but I still can't believe that businesses allow their data to be placed anywhere off premise, other than backups.

Not only that, when comes the day to migrate the data off-of MS' cloud, ouch, that is gonna be haaaaard and paaaaainful... basically, they are shafting themselves with 15 foot barge-poles ...

And, you have absolutely no control of where the data is held, they can claim the data is in France, Ireland or whatever, but how do you know for sure they have not copied it to the states for NSA's inspection ? How do you know your data is safe, they allow you to encrypt it, but who knows, MS might have a master key ... or can siphon your key otherwise ... who knows ...

Don't trust a convict, why trust MS ?????

Microsoft Azure doubles up to $800m a quarter – and is wiped out by dying phone sales

Hans 1
Windows

Re: Pull the plug...

>And with the next Xbox Scorpio version they might well jump ahead of Sony as it is apparently far more powerful than the PS4 Neo.

I heard that one before:

And with the next Xbox version they might well jump ahead of Sony and Nintendo as it is apparently far more powerful than the PS2 or cube.

And with the next Xbox 360 version they might well jump ahead of Sony as it is apparently far more powerful than the PS3.

And with the next Xbox One version they might well jump ahead of Sony as it is apparently far more powerful than the PS4.

At each iteration, "might well jump ahead of" but never did ... and with the PS4, Sony helped them hard by choosing a subscription for online gaming ... the PS3 was wayyy more expensive than the sh1tsbox 360...

Microsoft extends bug bounty to cover Edge remote code exec

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Paris Hilton

Re: Is there a pool on...

Edge has already had a number of CVE's with remote code execution ... Knowing that and the fact that they try to force you to use it ...

The other day, I wanted to open an app and was too quick, in the "start" menu, I typed the name of the app, and hit enter ... result? It attempted to search the Interwebs for my program using Edge and Bing ... haste on my part, but still.

Classic Shell, Audacity downloads infected with retro MBR nuke nasty

Hans 1

>There is no patch for human stupidity, but there may be a way to alter their MBR?

Hey, you, get off your high horses for a second ... these are ordinary citizens who were force-fed Windows X^3 and who really want their Win7 back, hence they revert to downloading some software from some rogue website .... ALLL BECAUSE FSCK'ING REDMOND DECIDED TO DO AWAY WITH WHAT EVERYBODY WAS ACCUSTOMED TO SINCE 1995 .... and failed to recognize their error when Windows 8.x tanked .... they are not asking a lot, just an option to revert to "sensible Windows", whatever that means ....

Hans 1
Happy

>Careful what you wish for, overwriting efivars on the MB could brick your computer in the kind of way which can't be rescued with any boot disk.

Upvovoted, but, Windows Cleaner and Suface Experts do not understand that downloading something from some rogue website and installing it is insecure. They do not know what MBR is, or EFI for that matter ... else they would have jumped to Linux/FreeBSD/AnythingButRedmond a long time ago.

In short, you are wasting your time with these n00bs.

BlackBerry DTEK 50: How badly do you want a secure Android?

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Facepalm

Fingerprint Snesor ? WTF!!!!

>For tech-savvy consumers it’s harder to recommend, as Huawei has raised the quality around the £220 to £250 mark such that you get a fingerprint sensor. I missed that here

NOBODY with a working pair of braincells (or more) wants a fingerprint censor! If the image of your fingerprint gets 0wned, you are fucked, sorry for the bad wording, but you can change passwords, try to change your fingerprints.

Windows 10: Happy with Anniversary Update?

Hans 1

Re: Bing had better 'techy' results for me, than Google for the first time this week.

>I'm asking as I haven't used Windows since the days of NT4 and Win 98. I would have thought that that sort of thing was long in the past by now.

BS! Do you not re-install Windows when you get a computer, to get rid of all the "free" software ? Often, I have to download the ethernet driver and ALWAYS need the chipset driver from the manufacturer's website ... Windows update to install the other drivers. Oftentimes, I then have to go back to the manufactuer's website and download WIFI drivers ... until I am fed up, then I put linux on the box and am happy ...

TP-Link fined $200k, told to be nice to wireless router tinkers after throwing a hissy fit

Hans 1

> allow people to install custom firmware with protections in place to prevent any tampering with the radio's broadcasting parameters. That's good news for fans of open-source router firmware. ®

I re-re-re-read that and I do not understand why "protections in place to prevent any tampering with the radio's broadcasting parameters" is good news for fans of open-source router firmware.

Yes, it is good news that they will shortly be able to flash their routers again, but these protections can go the way of the F$(K ...

Android's latest patches once again remind us: It's Nexus or bust if you want decent security

Hans 1
Windows

> Probably totally different drivers so I would assume so.

Probably, but who knows ? We are talking Qualcomm code, here, not MS'. Yes, MS is better at patching Windows than Sony is at patching Android, MS have had a monthly rehearsal over the past 20 years.... but I think chances are there are some issues with the Windows phones as well ... just that, the three or four users simply represent too little a target audience... ;-)

Nice to read Blackberry is taking this shit seriously.

Australian spooks' email guide banishes MS Word macros, JavaScript

Hans 1

Re: User education needed

>We didn't take any risks, we just took the PC off that user and re-imaged it.

Did you also check his share, because, well, the malware could have disguised itself in a few files on the user's network share ... just saying.

User education is pretty much futile, they open gazillion documents every day, even enlightened people get caught by this, one day or the other ...

Ditch your Macs, Dell tells EMC staff

Hans 1
Happy

>You can still quit your job at EMC and apply at NetApp.

Probably the safer option anyway as Dell will waste this acquisition.

Hans 1

Re: Dell's Microsoft dilemma

Upvoted, Mr Anderson!

Hans 1
Joke

Re: XPS aren't gaming machines

>The XPS line *were* Dell's gaming rigs

there, says it all, thanks for confirming ... XPS line are NOT gaming machines!

Hans 1

Re: The screen is another story...

>Well... you can't. Corporate policies are strict and you cannot have OS XYZ on your laptop if OS XYZ is not in approved list.

Yeah, I worked for a bunch of a*holes like that ... came in early one morning, started by installing Windows 2000 again, without domain (I am a grown-up and responsible person, I think I can choose my desktop background) ... then, later, installed Linux ... nobody noticed ... especially when Nimda, Sasser, or whatever (cannot remember) brought down everybody's desktop except mine ;-). After that, anybody with one or more working braincells migrated to either OS X or Linux.

Rules are made to be circumvented ... gimme awk, sed, vi etc and a decent shell (NOT CMD.EXE) and I can get more stuff done than the rest of the team combined ... ;-)

Kaspersky so very sorry after suggesting its antivirus will get you laid

Hans 1
Boffin

All it takes to get laid in confidence ... looks do not matter that much ... it takes confidence, that is all!

My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell

Hans 1

Re: "surely the whole world can't be wrong?"

> And if the shit does hit the fan then it'll be on your plate. Because you took it "as is".

How is that different to MS telling me to piss off - I PAY (my client pays) FSCK'ing dosh to MS Support to get told to F off ???? HELLO???? Don't get me wrong, this was for a customer's file server that was paging like shit ... with 32Gb of RAM ... I repeat, Windows 2008 R2 file server, paging the shit while having 32Gb of RAM ... I replaced that box with Suse, 4Gb of RAM, CPU 5 years older ... customer happy. We put Suse on the former Windows file server with a bunch of containers ...

yes, customer pays Shitloads for me to come over and fix shit, but I have always made sure I replace at least one MS server, so they recoup their expenses for me ... What I work, MS loses 10 fold in cash flow!

PS: I hate Suse, with a passion, but customer wanted that ... I would have unleashed Jessie!

Cortana expelled from Windows 10's new school editions

Hans 1

Re: Gotta be paying off a lot of governments with data

@ ShaolinTurbo

> France has already started proceedings against them for breaching data protection and bad T&Cs.

Interesting (got my upvote), do you have reliable sources ?

Hans 1
Joke

Re: K12? Google Docs

>just check how they butchered Kerberos.

Come on, do you "really" expect them to know what Kerberos is ? They'll look it up on g00gle and come back claiming it is box office software.

Hans 1
Happy

>Because "discounts".

>Everybody loves discounts!

Exactly, so much better than "free".

HPE promises users Itanium server refresh next year. In Dutch!

Hans 1
Facepalm

Nou, dat is iets, ongelooflijk!

Incredible, it's 2016 and iTanic is still around ... who is buying that, then ?

Microsoft adds useful feature to PowerPoint. Seriously

Hans 1
Paris Hilton

Have they fixed the distortion effect that plagues callouts when you move them ? This bug crept in in Office 2007, and has not yet been fixed ... 9 years, FFS, and it is a regression!

Wake me when that's fixed ...

Pokemon GO-ZILLA: Safety fears after monsters appear in Fukushima danger zone

Hans 1

Re: Pokemon/Godzilla aside, anyone else finding this recent admission pretty sobering:

>Except they are very much into anti nuclear conspiracy theories which makes most of their output useless.

Well, it depends on which side you are standing ... IAEA or Greenpeace, basically ... and WHO is a WHOre to the IAEA. Don't believe me, that is all fine and good:

http://independentwho.org/en/who-and-aiea-aggreement/

Now, those are also "anti-nuclear-guyz", however, they make an undeniable point.

You might also want to believe scientific publications on the matter, published on http://www.eea.europa.eu, right ?

Eat this, mate:

http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/late-lessons-2/late-lessons-chapters/late-lessons-ii-chapter-18

Nuclear energy allows the rich and powerful to get richer on the back of future generations and they use every dirty trick to make nuclear power seem safe and sound ...

BlackBerry snips Alcatel label off a midrange biz 'Droid, sells it for $299

Hans 1
Boffin

Re: Hmmm

@AMBxx

>Can't see anyone getting excited about a mediocre camera

I guess you are into optics and could enlighten me what makes you think that camera is mediocre ? Pixel count "IS NOT A RELIABLE MEASURE". Besides, we are talking business phone, here, not toys.... if you have used the blackberry hub, the blackberry software keyboard ...

Add to this that the phone in question has 3Gb of RAM compared to 2Gb for the Idol 4, it costs a little more, though, and I would pay that bit for the 50% increase in RAM anyway ... more RAM increases the lifetime of the device.

Seagate's south UK factory hasn't a future but HDDs do (it hopes)

Hans 1
Holmes

Re: Would Brexit stop something like this?

Dear Erik4872,

I understand where you are coming from, but you make one mistake ... why are we offshoring the production of, say pants, to Bangladesh where they can be produced at $2 and sold here for $150 ? It is the same for electronics, yet not as big a margin ... except for inkjet printer ink, where ml's are sold for the price of a 100 liter barrel. Thing is, if we start having to pay factory workers, say, $1000 a month instead of $20, what will the price of the goods be ? Nobody would be able to afford a radio ... welcome back to the 50's. And, the investors are used to high returns, this is only possible on the back of the third world.

If you impose tariffs on others, others will impose tariffs on you, d'oh!!!! Now, this does not really hurt the UK, as they produce nothing of interest anyway ... but the US exports a lot of software, electronics, crops, cars etc ... not that good for them, methinks. So far, Trump has not made a single proposal that made any sense at all, imho, and he knows it ... it is a populist tactic, he makes ridiculous proposals that sound "great" because "he is after the masses, he will never get the intelligentsia anyway", he knows that ... others do the same, Farage, Le Pen in Europe, for example. I will stop here, cf Godwin's law ...

Best Regards,

Prof. Fcuking Obvious

Microsoft ordered to fix 'excessively intrusive, insecure' Windows 10

Hans 1

>I haven't looked at this for a while, but didn't they once have a ban on encrypted communications?

I think that was 20 or even 30 years ago, unsure ... then again, when is CNIL gonna slap MS for the Windows 10 upgrade fiasco ?

Microsoft lures top Linux exec from Oracle to Redmond

Hans 1

Re: They have hired top Linux people before

Damn, too late, here is the link:

German court interpreting European Law:

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=124564&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=5213884

See last two paragraphs - Oracle haters rejoice, they also lost this one !

Hans 1

Re: They have hired top Linux people before

@ JLV

>I wonder when MS will do away with the can't run Windows on a guest VM using the host PC's current Win license...

Not everything in the EULA is legally enforceable everywhere, I know that according to my lawyer, this is not enforceable in Europe. As long, of course, as you do not have two installations of Windows running on the same box at the same time.

You can even transfer, as in "sell", your Windows license ... provided, of course, you stop using it.

MS knows this, so they baked the license into the firmware, forcing you to pay again for each new motherboard you use. For the moment, you can still contact MS Support and they will sort it out ... not sure how long they will do that.

Bloke 'lobbed molotov cocktails' at Street View car because Google was 'watching him'

Hans 1

Re: Just out of curiosity

> Probably can't see much beyond them though.

That is why you have google earth ;-)

Microsoft's cringey 'Hey bae <3' recruiter email translated by El Reg

Hans 1
Paris Hilton

Hey Bae intern <3

I initially thought Bae was misspelled Bay.

Thanks for your explanations, guys, now I know what this is about:

With MS revenue taking a hit, MS San Francisco no longer has the funds to pay hookers, so they thought they could invite some students for a party, much cheaper, less chances of getting std's etc.

Prominent Brit law firm instructed to block Brexit Article 50 trigger

Hans 1
Windows

> Quite honestly I don't see why so many reg commentators are pro remain?

Quite honestly, there has not been a single, I repeat, not a single argument brought forth by the leave campaign that was not an outright lie - not a single one.

When Boris says something, I, like many other comment@rds on here, check the facts ... shit, we are well educated people who have learned to read, been to uni, got highly paid jobs ... we are not bricklayer pensioners with as much common sense as a male praying mantis.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the posh with a passion and always fight, in my spare time, for the rights of the working class, but in Holland, France, and Germany, too many times, working class people tend to repeat, like the proles in 1984, what they hear "populist" politicians say - it is the same in the UK.

Even Mr Farage, when confronted with undeniable facts, counter-attacks criticizing his opponents hair cut, attire or sex appeal, the bloke's full of shit! A clown, entertainer, not a responsible elected politician.

The UK outside of EU does not stand a chance in the global economy. The UK will never again get what it has today, a say (MEP's), access to the common market without taking any risks (euro vs pound), or without paying what it's due, as compared to France or Germany, or, more importantly, refusing free movement of people. The free movement of people and goods is at the heart of the EU, you cannot pick and choose that its either both or nothing.

What this referendum means is that you do not want to have British MEP's (hence you do not want to have a say), yet you want access to the common market - this means that the UK will have to implement European directives AND accept European immigrants to be able to freely export goods produced in the UK to the EU - note that banking passporting rights are central to the UK's economy, not sure you will retain those, even if the UK accepts to implement European directives to get access to the common market ... just saying.

Via the EU, a British voter has more "sovereignty" over his country (and the whole of the EU) by electing his MEP than he has his MP, mainly, because, well, in the EU, we do not have houses of hereditary lards, but an elected president of the commission and parliament.

So basically, if you voted leave, you do not understand the issue, it is as simple as that - don't believe me ?

From http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36659900

"Any agreement, which will be concluded with the UK as a third country, will have to be based on a balance of rights and obligations. Access to the single market requires acceptance of all four freedoms."

The "four freedoms" that underlie the EU's internal market are the freedom of movement of goods, workers, services and capital.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told BBC Newsnight that once Britain had made its proposals, "everything" would be on the table.

"We will negotiate all these aspects with a desire to come to an agreement."

But Britain would not be in the same position as it was beforehand, he said.

"We return to zero."

Hans 1

Re: What a horrible waste of time and money

Exactly, and, some of us do not have the right to vote in the UK, because we left UK when we were infants - so we had no say in what was decided yet still affects us. Don't get me wrong, I never thought at the age of 18 I would need to intervene in British domestic political affairs, since I do not [wish to] live there, [ever], and I only had a few months to register when I reached 18 (15 years rule for British living abroad) ...

So, as I wrote previously, attempting to get German or French nationality ... well, not immediately, timing is everything, I need to keep my British passport, so I need to actually apply after the brexit ... I might have to live a few months as an illegal immigrant in France ... so what!

5 years, 2,300 data breaches. What'll police do with our Internet Connection Records?

Hans 1

>If I, as a fairly law-abiding citizen feel compelled to go dark just to protect myself/my clients from the consequences of these fucking idiots inevitably misusing/getting compromised/losing/etc. data

Contradiction, right there (in the minds of MI5) ... law abiding and "go dark":

Clerk: Something fishy, here, sir, don't you think ? This guy is using heavy grade encryption on his home connection.

Serg': Indeed, I need a full checkup on this guy by noon tomorrow, everything, family, mistresses, whereabouts ...In short, everything, I wanna know when's the last time that guy had diarrhoea!

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Hans 1
Stop

Re: Theresa May is Watching You

>- it's worth it to imagine her seeing the same picture and asking herself "WTF was I thinking when I chose that?"

I dared to a look, and ... nothing wrong with that dress, not something I would wear, then again, I am a man.

The sad thing is that she is there to get a job done and NO, she is not in the fashion business.

You sound like the cretins who keep track of the dresses celeb's wear, then call foul when the celeb (usually female) dares to wear the same dress/shoes/whatever twice or did not keep track of some other celeb who wore that same dress/whatever the other week/month/year.

This has to stop!

Judge gives Zuck a US$6 million Brazilian

Hans 1
Facepalm

@localzuk

>Spy on you? How so? WhatsApp is now encrypted from end to end, so how would they spy on you? If they could spy on you, don't you think they would've handed over the messages in this case already?

Hello, anybody in ? WhatsApp wants access to your texts and contacts, if that is not spying, then I do not know what it is ... like facebook, they create webs of people who know people, can read any of your texts you send out at any moment ... encryption means that you do not know what they send to mother-ship .... Just d'ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, must hurt, at some point, right?

Hans 1
Coffee/keyboard

>On one hand, WhatsApp is life and blood for many Brazilians

Thanks for the laugh ... there are many alternatives out there ... some of which do not spy on you.

Lenovo scrambling to get a fix for BIOS vuln

Hans 1
Boffin

Re: Back to the old laptop for me...

>>I have an old ThinkPad T400 that I installed coreboot and OpenBSD into it. Seems to be the only way of remaining safe from security holes like these...

>On x86 servers UEFI does most of those things you wished - it has filesystem support, TCP/IP support, ability to change any HW settings remotely, apply HW settings from a config template. Useful when rolling out a large batch of servers. So it's more like a small operating system - whether that's a good or a bad thing I cannot tell. UEFI shell isn't UNIX-like, though.

How could you miss that first paragraph, maybe you did not understand, let me re-phrase that for you:

Crazy Operations Guy has an open source firmware (UEFI-replacement) and OS. He then goes on about how his open source firmware has got open source tools to get stuff done, so, he clearly states that he likes that.

What he dislikes is bloated buggy proprietary crap that can only do half of what his firmware can do, needs 17 to 34 times as much space and [my addition:] then only with specialized (:= expensive) software.

In UNIX, you combine tools to get stuff done, each tool is very specialized in a specific task, which decouples the combined features of the whole system.

Hans 1

Re: Not Again!!! - Because ...

>There's no hardware you can trust.

Yes, there is, ever heard of coreboot or libreboot ?

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems

Here you can find systems that work well with GNU/Linux - If you want to trust your hardware, you might as well trust your software:

https://h-node.org/

MS software cannot be trusted, proprietary Bios' cannot be trusted (with BIOS I mean both Basic Input Output System and its successor, UEFI), binary blobs CANNOT BE TRUSTED, no tin foil hat or flying choppers around here, they CANNOT BE TRUSTED, as simple as that, no ifs, buts or maybes.

Sadly, a number of vital pieces of hardware, such as high-end graphics cards or some WIFI adapters require binary blobs in their drivers, this is sad, so, as much as I would like to be 100% LibreHardware, for the moment I have use-cases which are not quite fulfilled by LibreHardware ... I try to get as close as possible, though ... and avoid a lot of this stuff ...

Researcher pops locks on keylogger, finds admin's email inbox

Hans 1
Holmes

Re: Located or Accessed?

>Trustwave researcher Rodel Mendrez has gained access to the inbox of the criminal behind a commercial keylogger

Is this NOT clear ? The other accounts were just forwarders to his account! Now, this might not have been his "private" account linked to his facebook et al, bust still, with logs, they will, hopefully, find the tor exit which he last used ... then, they will ask NSA for all details about the guy ... there, caught ... might have already happened, hence the revelation.

Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware goes FULL SCREEN in final push

Hans 1

Re: A final throw of the Minty dice before

@Esme

Same here, get my upvote, with one minor change:

>Personally, if asked to set someone up with Linux, I first explain to them that it isn't the case that all software will run on all operating systems, and that if there is anything that they really really don't want to lose use of, they need to tell me about it first so I can see whether there's a suitable alternative or workaround. Either way I explain the options before doing anything else whatsoever.

... at first, users would forget this or that app that they were not using often and call the odd week ... so now I look in Programs and Features to see what is installed ... mom and pop do not want to play GTA V ... Usually, VLC, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, gimp, darktable with a nice little Debian (over the time lenny, squeeze, wheezy, now jessie), icedove and iceweasel I remove, too confusing, since they were already using Thunderbird and Firefox on Windows XP or 7 ...

My kids enjoy Minecraft on Linux, still waiting on EA to port The Sims to Linux ... the worst thing is, they use a wine-like runtime to port it to Mac OS X, so it is a matter of little changes here and there - BASTARDS!!! Yes, it works fine in wine, so I use that.

New phones rumoured as BlackBerry cans BB10 production

Hans 1
Unhappy

Re: Hmmm.....

I have two z30's in this household ... ;-) Same here, not sure what I will get next ... I try to separate personal and work life as much as possible ... mainly because I like to troll/piss people off every now and then in my personal life ;-).

I was looking at bb10 devices the other week and the prices have not come down, I really want to get a few to keep in a drawer for when the one I have fails ... but only when the prices come down ...

UN council: Seriously, nations, stop switching off the damn internet

Hans 1
Coat

Re: South Africa a democracy?

UK a democracy ? Don't make me laugh ...

See, I can do the same, there is no true democracy on this planet.

Hans 1

Re: Surprise!

>A pro-human-rights motion that was actually passed by a majority of nations.

+1, though seriously watered-down, thanks to "democracies" like India, South Africa, and Russia ... and despotic regimes like China etc ...

Gun-jumping French pols demand rapid end to English in EU

Hans 1
Headmaster

Re: "If only there could be some possible lingua franca apart from English"

>It used to be Latin not too many years ago ...

It used to be French not too many years ago ... well, until 1900.

Hans 1
Coat

Great idea, that would probably compensate somewhat the exodus you will witness in the financial sector, as the banking passporting rights to the EU will be withdrawn once Britain exits the EU ... we are talking 10's of thousands of highly paid traders, here (some of these guyz are millionaires!!!) ... shitloads of tax income for Britain. The EU will not grant banks in Britain "passporting" rights, they have already said so, besides, they would be stupid if they did grant that, since, now, Frankfurt and Paris are the financial places in the EU, and this means a great number of highly paid workers.

You guyz are in a shit, Christ, worse than I had dreamed of ...

https://next.ft.com/content/a3a92744-3a52-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8ee7

All that thanks to your spoiled brat mentality, you deserve all you get.

Hans 1

> 'it is forbidden to spit on the ground or speak Breton'

No, that is no longer the case, has not been for the last 30 years, heck, they are trying to teach regional languages in schools across France, without great success, but that is another matter... go to Toulouse, in the metro the stations are announced in French and the local dialect, for example... go to Jersey, who speaks patois in Jersey ? Right!

Hans 1

The whole point is that now the major member who imposed English as one of three main languages spoken across the union has decided to call it quits, piping its economy into /dev/null, BTW, there is no more a basis for English being among the top three ... compare 4.7 million English speakers, when before that you had 70 million ... makes quite a difference, Poland has 10 times that, maybe we will have Polish as a third language, why not ?

Besides, we will soon teach German and French as main second languages across the continent ... English becoming an opt-in third language, you'll see ;-)

I think we^H^Hthey* non-Brit EU members are really pissed off, because they made so many concessions so often for the British ... yes, it is their fault that we have become spoiled brats ... they should never have made any concessions ... lesson well learned over in Brussels, don't worry .... especially when come negotiation day with the UK gov.

*Sadly, I am a Brit, not for long, don't worry, and am so much looking forward not to being one anymore ... I will shortly send applications to all member states (except France) to see if there is one that would accept to give me citizenship, if none will, I'll have to become French (I am legally entitled to it, have been for over 13 years), not something I really look forward to, but hey, still better than British ...

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber

Gartner: Brexit to wipe $4.6bn off tech spending in Blighty

Hans 1
Windows

>The UK could try to adopt the path followed by Norway, which is a member of the European Economic Area but not the EU. But that has drawbacks: it requires Britain to implement all of the EU’s rules without having a say in writing them.

>Jonathan Hill, the Briton who resigned at the weekend as EU’s commissioner for financial services, told the Financial Times that he was not sure an arrangement would work. “Most approaches that offer access come with free movement of people and I can’t see that flying given the weight of immigration as an issue in the referendum debate,” he said.

src: https://next.ft.com/content/a3a92744-3a52-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8ee7

Britain, soon to be know as Europe's poor member ... ;-)

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Happy

And the stock value of British banks has just lost 30% or more ... If I were in the UK and/or paid in British pounds, I would be queuing before my bank branch getting my savings out converted to euro ... but that is just me ... you sure will be by the end of the week ... think 2008 again ... the longer you wait, the fewer euro you will get ...

Dev boss: What will Microsoft do with Windows 10 Mobile? Surprise – it's for work!

Hans 1
Windows

Can a Windows Phone do contacts properly ?

We have moved to Office 365 and, well, roughly 5% of contacts are completely mangled up for me. These same contacts work perfectly for the others ... I expect them to have these types of issues with other contacts ... I contact a great a number of contacts of our company, so .... maybe it is that ...

We all have pictures, name and email address ... now, in, for example, Lync (Skype for Business), when I search for, say "John", I get a contact with John Doe's photo, named Erika Mustermann, which is another employee of ours but in no way related to John Doe, the email is john.doe@company.com.

If I search for John in Outlook, I get neither Erika Musterman nor John Doe, but some Joe Don (name made up) with John Doe's photo and email address, when I search for "Doe" in outlook, I get Joe Don, with John Doe's photo, and some other email address, not related to either ... Now, the worst is, I get that with 8 others and we have a headcount of like 200 ...

Now, this is Office 365, Lync as shipped with Office 2016 with latest patches, I call it lync because that is the name of the executable and it has nothing to do with Skype, apart from the theming.

I took some screenshots, we have been laughing like mad for quite some time, as I find new discrepancies ... but in outlook, I have to REALLY make sure the email address is correct, I expect that to be the email address used when I send the message .... not even sure of that ... note that I do not have that problem on my BB10 phone, so for these contacts, I send a message from the phone ....

Any such mashup with Windows Phone ? I would appreciate if the three Windows Phone users would reply to this post separately, even if I know they are all in the same office room over in Redmond, Washington.

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Re: “tea before milk”.

>This has divided my wife and I for a considerable time. She insists on milk added before tea bag removed. I find this horrendous.

>However, I will leave her to her deluded ideas of what tea should taste like and stick to correclty prepared Earl Grey.

Ok, well, I think the article was about tea [from tea pot] before milk or milk then tea [from tea pot].

The real answer depends on your tea service, if you have expensive China, you will pour milk first, as pouring tea first can stain your cup.

People who use tea bags need not even discuss do's/don't when it comes to "tea" as, well, "tea bag" contents has been all over the factory floor prior to reaching that bag, and, seriously, is like instant coffee to coffee out of an Italian coffee maker, or nespresso compared to a "real" espresso machine ...