Re: Leave me alone!
This is still common on almost all large retail websites.
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If this headline was a security warning, 90% of you would ignore it
Thursday 18th August 2016 23:44 GMT 
So what else is new
Typical support call:
Me: "what messages are you getting"
User: "I dunno, I just click past them cause they don't make any sense."
Me: "Lets recreate what you are doing so we can see the message"
*recreates event - user closes the windows as soon as it pops up*
Me: "Why did you do that? I need to see message."
User: "It doesn't make any sense to me"
Me: Bangs head on desk for the umpteenth time that day.
My other favorite? When in remote session, user won't stop using the computer and I have to lock them out.
Two G4S call centre staff sacked over 999 answering scam
Thursday 18th August 2016 23:37 GMT
Re: All part of gaming the performance statistic
I worked at one call center for internal support and was often asked what the hell was taking so long to resolve the issues? I dunno, maybe because the fix needed 4 fixes to work? With the first fix being a remote connection problem? From literally a 1000 miles away.
Morons.
#Shadowbrokers hack could be Russia's DNC counter-threat to NSA
Baltimore cops accused of violating FCC rules with Stingrays
Wednesday 17th August 2016 01:48 GMT
When will politicians muster the political will to acknowledge that the police - as a body - cannot be trusted to, well, police itself?
They can't. Politicians are literally extorted and threatened by the police the same as the rest of us. So are cops who "snitch" on other cops. The U.S. police are literally the top gang.
US Dept of Energy lobs out $34m for bright ideas on securing grids
Wednesday 17th August 2016 01:43 GMT
That's a lot of money
That's a lot of money to basically determine that;
A. The grid should never be connected to the damn Internet in the first place.
B. Use good security policy and enforce it with an iron fist.
and C. Most buildings and devices are going to be self powered in another 30 years or less and the grid will just be a back up system.
But hey, when you belong to the right club...
A Russian cyber-gang, the Oracle MICROS hack, and five more POS makers in crims' sights
Adblock Plus blocks Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook ads
Internet of Car...rikey what the hell just happened to my car?
Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens
AT&T dinged for $7.75m after letting scammers gouge customers (again)
The next time Salesforce goes down, you'll get six reasons why
MIT's chip fires frikkin' laser at qubits
'Clock Bomb Kid' family sues
Violence, vandals and vomit: London's naughtiest tech Tube stations revealed
Big Red alert: Oracle's MICROS payment terminal biz hacked
Power cut crashes Delta's worldwide flight update systems
Windows 10 Anniversary Update is borking boxen everywhere
AdBlock Plus blocked in China: 159m forbidden from stripping adverts
The developer died 14 years ago, here's a print out of his source code
Intel's smartwatches are so hot right now – too hot: Basis Peak recalled for skin burns, blistering
IBM: Illegally Bleeding Mortgages (...allegedly)
Windows 10: Happy with Anniversary Update?
Wednesday 3rd August 2016 00:57 GMT
Re: Restart
Windows has ALWAYS been like this. Sleep and Hibernate more times than not will disable your network connection and require a reboot to reconnect.
Docking and undocking your laptop will cause this as well.
And it has ALWAYS required a reboot every now and then no matter what.
Updates have always been like your experience as well, but you at least had the option to manually update so you didn't get those rude surprises.
Wednesday 3rd August 2016 00:37 GMT
And lets be honest Linux is a PITA as well unless you like trawling through Man files or spending hours searching the net which is a problem when it's the wifi driver that is the issue.
Uhm what? I've tested and run THREE different Linux "brands" in the last 2 months on 2 wildly different PCs and all worked perfectly. Only manual set up was signing back on to my ISP and various websites.
Not only perfectly but fast as hell too.
You are either out of date or have some seriously obscure hardware.
Don't want to vote for Clinton or Trump? How about this woman who says Wi-Fi melts kids' brains?
Crocodile well-done-dee: Downed Down Under chap roasted by exploding iPhone
Going! going! pwned? 200! million! Yahoo! logins! leaked! allegedly!
Windows 10 Anniversary Update: This design needs a dictator
Sky fibre down at breakfast-time across the nation
And now we go live to Nashville for the latest on Google Fiber v AT&T and, yup, it's a mess
Windows 10 still free, even the Anniversary Update, if you're crass
Tuesday 2nd August 2016 00:46 GMT
Re: Good OS
Corporate environments pretty much demand they have to stick with MS due to the time and money invested over the years. Contrary to what others think, it is NOT easy getting a business system switched over to something else. Pushback from users and manglement and then the shear amount of time to convert everything are the biggest problems facing any conversion.
I'm no fan of Win 10 but the business version is actually the better and more private version.
I still wish more places went with Linux.
FBI electronics nerd confesses: I fed spy tech blueprints to China
Tuesday 2nd August 2016 00:16 GMT
All alphabet agencies are looking for good IT help these days, but the problem is that most of the talent have very spotty and slightly checkered backgrounds.
So they get what they can.
It mostly works, but I've been inside a few gov and quasi gov IT shops and they are downright scary in their sloppiness. From outdated hardware to outdated practices to low budgets, it's amazing they get anything done at all.
US state sues Comcast for $100m in row over 'worthless' repair plans
What's ordered in Vegas, doesn't stay in Vegas? $6.7m of printer ink 'stolen by office worker'
Sunday 31st July 2016 08:40 GMT
Working as a sysadmin, i can tell you half of the purchasing departments ive come across are bent,
So it isn't just me. I've noticed the same thing.
I've learned to spot the signs: the bent ones authorized to make purchases do NOT ever want me hanging about or asking about purchases or have some very secret pet projects or noticing or helping in any way lest I notice something amiss. Nor anyone else.
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