Posts by TheVogon

Re: heh heh

"That is why the stock price is shooting upwards."

Quite right - highest it's been for 15 years now. They are already bigger in cloud than Amazon.

Re: Never had this problem...

"Microsoft's OneDrive price hike has wrecked its cloud strategy"

Nope, it's much more cunning than that. They are giving everyone affected a year's free Office 365 (1TB of OneDrive space) remember....Once that expires, a significant percentage of people will be too lazy to move their stuff and it will renew onto a paid subscription....happy days for Microsoft.

Microsoft are storming ahead in cloud - it's primarily for this reason that they recently announced record profits and the Microsoft share price is the highest it's been for ~ 15 years...

Re: This is a different meaning of security

"These protections are meant to protect the MPAA's valuable content from being lifted by hackers"

That worked well for BluRay....

"4K stuff that will protected by HDCP 2.2"

It's already been broken / bypassed anyway: http://www.myce.com/news/is-the-hdcp-2-2-copy-protection-broken-by-movie-pirates-77142/

Re: But it isn't in English

>> The French are still upset that English became the de-facto international language

If not clear, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hawRbECNX8o

Re: That's not quite how Oracle will gain a foothold

"Gartner’s take on the cloud is that AWS is number one, while Microsoft's now closing in as a strong number two."

Presumably in terms of mind share or something? We have now had 2 consecutive quarters results that both show that Microsoft is well ahead of Amazon in cloud revenue and that the gap is growing.

Re: Wonder how this fits in with the USofArms Castle and Stand-Your-Ground laws

"What if it had been an Airliner and he had shot at it with a heat-seeking Guided Missile?"

Then he was presumably a very good shot to take it out "below tree line level", and to survive to tell the tale!

Re: Feds, NSA seriously hurting the US tech industry

"I foresee US companies not having another option than moving their headquarters to outside the USA..."

They can just move their R&D - particularly anything involving encryption - outside of the USA. I know of one that moved this type of development to Russia specifically to escape US legal reach.

""It wasn't encrypted, nor are you legally required to encrypt it," she told the newspaper. "We have complied with all of our legal obligations in terms of storing of financial information.""

Let's see what the Data Protection Registrar has to say about that!

"But the company did reveal that some credit card information had been snatched."

If they in anyway stored the 3 digits from the back of the card then they broke PCI-DSS rules - which are a legally binding contract.

Re: I'm pretty sure her colleagues call her...

"...dildo hardon"

dildo hardin surely?

At least when she answered the questions for TV she was brave and sensible enough to admit that she didn't really have a clue what was taken and if it was encrypted.

Re: Cue all the usual stuff about incompatibility etc

'spammed by Microsoft staff who allege that MS Office is better at writing out OpenDoc format files, but that is patently BS'

The numerous ODF and file format / saving bug reports in the Open Office forums beg to differ. MS Office is in my experience far more reliable - even Office 365 supports ODF better than OO / LO do.

Re: This is why I love the bbc

"All TVs sold in the UK with flat panels have 60 Hz native panels"

Not true of my Panasonic Plasmas or my various Samsung LCDs. They all run at a multiple of 50Hz.

So for instance my UE40D6530 runs natively at 400Hz.

Re: Labour... now unelectable

"12mx12mx12m pile of High Level waste and a roughly 45mx45mx45m pile of Intermediate Waste."

So that's the size of a large house and a block of flats. Not exactly tiny - and of course it all needs packing in secure containers.

"but we're really not talking about a lot of physical material here."

It's substantial once you consider breaking it up in to manageable chunks, enclosing it, and storing / cooling it.

"UK is very geologically stable, being in the middle of a plate, and it should be straightforward to find a nice big chunk of granite to entomb it in. Not politically easy, but straightforward."

Well it hasn't been found yet. See above

"The low level and Very Low Level waste is probably ideal to use to fill up a few old deep coal mines."

Yes I'm sure the locals would be delighted with that added to the water table!

Regardless of all your attempts to avoid the point, we know that cleaning up after nuclear power already costs us tens of billions...

Re: Dell? R&D?

"Dell and R&D in one sentence. Are you kidding me?"

You must have missed their blade servers, Compellant and Equalogic disk systems, Precision workstations, Quest software tools, XPS infinity screen laptops, etc, etc, etc...

Re: Common Lego !!

Terrible how people discriminate against BDSM preferences these days....I hope she is ashamed of herself!

Re: @chris

"Speaking heuristically, it might be because you drive like a selfish prick and your other half doesn't."

So you are that twat that sits in the outside lane at 70.0 MPH with a long queue behind you?

Re: One sexual relationship in 32 years

"I've only had one sexual relationship in the last 32 years (I should point out that it has lasted 32 years)"

That will teach you not to play with Superglue whilst watching porn!

Re: Looky Here

"the Surface Book looks more modern with its sharp edges, and dramatic wedge design, compared to the softer curves on Apple's notebook." and "The Surface Book also has a more pronounced hinge design, which Microsoft is dubbing the Dynamic Fulcrum Hinge. While the hinge adds to the tech-inspired design of the Surface Book, it's not an entirely new design"

Sounds like they like it to me....

Re: Now this is just hilarious

"It beggars belief to suggest that Snowden, with his knowledge of electronic surveillance, didn't know that taking the data into China and Russia is functionally equivalent to handing them a copy"

Watch Citizenfour. Snowden was extremely careful of precisely that sort of situation - and left it up to the journalists to assess what could be released.

Re: Who cares?

"Only very few, and seriously broken or design-flawed software will send the same longterm secret several million times in a rapid fashion."

Or JavaScript that you send to the client to do exactly that...

Re: Optional?

"the fact there is no killer "app" on W10 to make upgrading worth it."

There is - Direct-X 12.

Re: How do you cook a backdoor?

"The pair point out that OWA server admins are owners of an organisation's domain credentials, making it a juicy attack vector."

No they are not. Email admins would not normally have domain admin rights in a properly setup environment. Also no admin should be using admin credentials to access their normal account / email via OWA.

That they got remote access to an OWA server - which are pretty secure by default - smells of a larger problem in the environment.

Re: Waiting for the trolling of Nvidia...

""We have 235 patent claims on your software but won't tell you what they are until you pony up the cash and sign a gagging order""

Of course Microsoft have to tell you what they are - they have to for you to be able to judge if you infringed! They just stop you telling others because otherwise they might workaround the patents and ship anyway - and Microsoft won't make any money out of it.

Anyway, that's now pretty irrelevant as Microsoft's 200+ primary claims are widely documented on the internet.

"when you can simply use containers and get full performance."

They are limited in scope at the moment - with say Docker only supporting Linux, and App-V only supporting Windows. Microsoft / Docker are working on a universal format that can potentially contain any OS / platform binaries. Expect that late this year.

Russia vows to shame ^^^NON RUSSIAN^^^ big biz that advertises on ^^^NON RUSSIAN^^^ pirate sites, and save the internet

TFTFY.

"Don't you already pay that when you pay for the server software, need a bigger one for more users, server OS costs more... and when you purchase workstation OS licenses ?"

Sometimes, but CALs lets you balance that by another usage measure. Windows desktops include a client CAL. Many of Microsoft's (and many other vendors) options let you choose a with or without CALs model - for instance you can choose to license SQL Server for a straight feature based price + CALs, or per CPU.

"Ripoff Redmond!"

You have obviously never dealt with Oracle licensing!

Re: I don't buy it

"The systemrescuecd can also help recover a Windows box when the MS provided tools fail"

Not if you use BitLocker.