Posts by Mark 85

Greedy, bottom-line-obsessed fuckwits.

Can you name one company that isn't this? I can't. I daresay most corporate directors would sell their mothers if improved the bottom line.

Re: Users don't help themselves.

Even if it did display the extension, there's a lot of users who remember zipfiles that were ".exe" to auto un-zip. But yes, MS has not helped anyone, ever, by hiding the extensions by default. Assholes.

Re: "Vexatious Litigant"

Indeed vexatious. I'm surprised he's not working for a patent troll or perhaps the motion picture industry in their pursuit of huge amounts of cash for "presumed piracy".

Methinks someone needs to be institutionalized or merely shot and buried out back for being a twatdangle of the highest order.

I have it on good authority that they're going to strap abrasive pads to a cat and push it through using a really long flexible pole.

Not another damn cat video in the offing, is there? Say it ain't so....

Re: So what?

Go back to his interviews early on... he has no regard for anyone else's privacy other than his own. He did just buy a bunch of property around his house to ensure this.

Re: A break-fix techs nightmare.

So we all will have be licensed plumbers now. <sigh>

Re: Does the phish & malware

Either way... it still smells bad after 3 days.

Re: Might be interesting

I think that depends on whether they have friends in high places....

Re: "let us know if the issues are indeed solved"

If this just meant that they wanted to offload testing onto users, that would be bad enough.

It seems to be normal. They've gone from users being beta testers to everyone being a tester. The quote from my engineering days applies: "We now have our customers do our testing. We're saving a bundle."

Re: I'm still upset...

So how do you feel about television becoming "telly"? To be fair, I always used to refer to it as "A box of mind numb", but I digress.

Re: Teamviewer was ok before V11

For 1-2 sessions a month the money needed for V11 is enough to make the bean counters turn in their grave.

That implies the beancounters are dead. They are more like undead.

Re: 9 1/2 shoes

I can remember that in the not too distant past, one could find shoes in "narrow", "regular", and "wide"... I think the designators (if memory servers right) was something like A, AA, AAA. And then the cost cutting, profit climbing began.. If we're not in the majority for whom the shoe is made, tough...our business isn't wanted.

Long sleeve shirts used to come in different sleeve lengths also...

<Sigh> Sometimes I miss those days.

Yep, they danced and dodged around that issue. I'm not a TT customer nor can I be as I'm in the States. It would look like either our companies are following yours or vice versa or maybe they're just sharing how to ignore customers and rip them off.

Re: Excellent

The problems faced by SCADA systems is only the beginning. There's a whole new, wonderful world of vulnerabilities waiting to happen as IoT starts to make inroads into the corporation.

This is fine for most of us in IT. We either know or should know this stuff and have it second nature. Joe User doesn't. Therein is the problem and why it's a problem. Too many Joe Users who don't have an understanding or a clue much less the knowledge to set up a mail server, etc.

Re: Dictaphone

That one caught me by surprise as I didn't think there were any left anywhere in the world. Add parchment scrolls to the clay tablets... since apparently there more ancient tech out there then anyone thought.

Re: What a coincidence!

How much stress does a telephone sanitizer have?

I'm retired.. little to no stress but wonder about some of these things.

Re: Unsurprised

These things are inconsequential if you're fit and healthy, but their automation can result in a huge improvement in quality of life to the disabled or elderly.

The problem here is those are generally the folks that won't understand the security issues nor be able to properly address them. Ok... I'm wrong... most folks not in IT will have the same problem.

Re: Where is my fiber?

Well said, but as commentard Youngone below says (and so have others) it's all about profit. Their bumping the spec (as well as everyother ISP is merely a software bump back at the datacenter and not hardware or copper to fiber.

Nice thing about the US government, once officials are bought, they usually stay bought. Which pretty much allows them to continue their monopolies and the buying up of the weaker companies while ripping off the customers.

And before the downvotes start... anyone care to explain why we pay more in the US for less bandwidth and speed than those elsewhere in the world if not for the monopolies and lobbyists.

Re: What date is good for you?

I posted this on another Win10 topic and I'll drop it here.... we are not alone in our being pissed off.

And then this past weekend I read that the Chinese are really pissed with the MS tactics and the problems with Win10...

http://fortune.com/2016/05/28/china-microsoft-windows-10-upgrade/

Sent the link to El Reg but so far it seems to have been ignored.

Re: Phalanx

GAU-8 and you've got a Goalkeeper.

Exactly. Fortune favors the very well armed.

That's according to astronomers from Sweden's Lund University and the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, who questioned the plausibility of a planet some ten times the mass of Earth forming at such a great distance from the solar system's centre.

And then there's this ^^^ which means that Jupiter and Saturn are exoplanets also?