Why so long?
It's takes time to figure out how to properly screw the American consumer.
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Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings
In a world where up is down, it's heartwarming to know Internet Explorer still tops list of web dev pain points
Alibaba wants to get you off the PC upgrade treadmill and into its cloud
Need to track IT kit? Business continuity? Legal? ServiceNow has a package of satellite apps for you... now
Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel
Experian says it recovered and deleted data on 24 million South Africans after giving it to random 'marketing' person
Aw, Snap! But you should see the other guy – they're in dire need of a good file system consistency check
Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB dips toe in serverless waters with pay-as-you-go preview
What legacy is IBM really shooting for? Cheating its own salespeople out of millions? Here we go again, allegedly
Shocking no one, not enough foreigners applied for H-1B visas this year so US govt ran a second lottery
Cisco to sell everything-as-a-service – even core networking hardware – and cut costs by a billion bucks
Trump administration reportedly offers Oracle cheap end to $400m wage discrimination case
Microsoft Defender casts a jaundiced eye over Citrix, slams services in quarantine on suspicion of being malware
We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses
China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden
What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out
I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault
Sunday 9th August 2020 07:39 GMT 
Re: Rudest, Dumbest - same thing no?
That's how most places I've worked do it, although we put a little more effort into contacting the user. But if after 3-4 tries and a week goes by without the user getting back to us, we close the ticket.
Funny thing though, the user ends up calling back within hours of the ticket being closed.
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing
UK govt finds £200,000 under sofa to kick off research into improving mobile connectivity on nation's crap railways
Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist
Microsoft wants to show enterprises that Edge means business, rather than the thing you use to download Chrome
Forget about Wipro chairman saying no one would lose their job due to COVID-19: UK staff told they're facing redundancy
Ew, that's unsanitary: SEO plugin for WordPress would run arbitrary JavaScript inputs instead of scrubbing them
Oh sure, we'll just make a tiny little change in every source file without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?
Saturday 18th July 2020 04:51 GMT
Re: Mail Storm
I once had an Exchange admin call us (helpdesk) wanting help with... Exchange.
I had a little chat with my boss asking him why the admin couldn't do their job and explained there was nothing we could actually do.
The look and response I got told me I wasn't going to be there much longer.
Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet
Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers
Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again
Linux Mint 20 isn't exactly bursting with freshness but, hey, there's kernel 5.4 and it's a long-term support release
Thursday 2nd July 2020 15:32 GMT
Re: Form or function?
For many "average users" (tech support people, please join in) a simple change of GUI is a major earth shattering event.
Yes. Yes it is and I've been downvoted a few times for saying so.
Which doesn't change the fact and the hundreds of trouble tickets I've gotten that prove it.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... but not your H-1B geeks, L-1 staffers nor J-1 students
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
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