Posts by Cynicalmark

Not valuable just an overhead

In the words of a Director I, as an electronic engineer was a cost and nothing more. The designs I worked on still keep the company running to this day. They haven’t had an original idea since.

My last company burned me out squeezing every last drop of work before I collapsed. I never went back after my seizures and nerve damage. Was I valued? No

Let the future fail. Let it all burn down. They care about nothing but the profits and greed. I hope we reach the singularity just so AI can clean house and continue as our better children without these hindrances.

I am bitter but also practical. If we refuse to change for the benefit of all then there is no future.

Not Surprising

Considering they got rid of the older experienced staff, keeping the nodding dog yes men they are reaping what they sow. IBM leads the world yet again in failure.

Annnnd

The crunch is your patents will be the motherlands as will you and your company. China still struggling with innovation copies and in some cases improving existing technology.

Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Nothing new

This is nothing new, lessons should have been learned and systems of backup and security of all machines followed post education of all users.

Back in the real world the words ‘how much?’ Ring true in every management level craving the next bonus for shaving a budget. Some snotty kid replacing experienced tech support who is a nephew of some accounts director with a grudge without a clue about security, just playing games all day. Management who you warned for seven long tedious years to not use the same password for everything and everyone so they can access everything without having to remember a list of passwords. Morons who tell you to stop the password updates and moan about costs while shoving a clown from Micro$ft into your face to discuss cloud storage only to balk at the per Gb cost yet again.

Don’t even mention the passwords scrawled in sharpie on the monitor edge. Pizza guy, delivery person walking by. Even companies vying for business can see some walking through. Is it any wonder I lost hair.

Christ, we have all been through this in a medium sized outfit trying to play with the big boys. They spend it all on image and shiny things but you mention security of systems and they say we will discuss it at board level and fob you off.

They all get what they deserve. I write books now, a lot less stressful.

It’s our fault

Stop blaming big tech and shareholders greed. You buy their stuff and upgrade every year to impress those around you. Processors galore churned out can work potentially for decades and we chuck them away. Even sodding kettles fridges and toasters seem to be needing processors these days so you can change pretty colours etc. The world is getting wasteful of all this tech and we really need to step back and reassess what really justifies a process, who is driving a need and why is it designed that way.

It may not seem to make much sense but why is there a shortage? Because of an artificial ‘need’ to have next best things rather than sticking with old reliable that still works if maintained correctly.

We have cut back on maintenance to create a disposable society. We are discarding more processors daily than are currently being made. Manufacturers are encouraging this wasteful practice by making repair more difficult or confining it to an expensive ecosystem such as Apple. If one processor develops a fault we chuck the device away and level up with smugness of new shiny shiny. We forget the twenty or so other processors in the device discarded still work and would for decades.

There are documentaries on mainstream services that will make you feel ashamed to be human. They don’t do anything other than show us the reality of our wasteful hubris.

Biden does have the capability to raise USA chip maker potential, but why? Is he working for shareholders or just helping solve a problem that eventually will help voters?

Mad ramble over now. Back to tinfoil hat land for me.

Oh dear

Caught with their hands in the proverbial till, the remaining execs are either stupidly arrogant or just plain stupid. There is something darker to this activity & they are getting desperate by snubbing members wishes following an extraordinary vote of no confidence. Methinks there is potential for a fraud story by the end of the autumn. Can’t wait.

FUBAR

Just can’t stop giggling at this. Boeing claimed to be the best. We all mostly predicted failure due to overthinking the problem - a NASA habit now an lo, they deliver in a damp squib like manner.

It goes to show that Musk et al are on the right track by simply not reinventing the wheel. If it is on the shelf then use it, if not then build it to last.

Unfortunately this means NASA may just become a vessel ground for multiple private businesses to rent rather than a force of innovation.

Irony not lost

I would give this chap a cigar and sit down to write a screenplay of his escapade.

Is the irony lost on everyone that this crook shafted two of the biggest tax dodging corporations especially the Zuckerberg spy network? No? Ah well.

‘I’ll get mi coat‘

Dont Panic!

It’s always doom and gloom about how AI is going to be either the end of us or our overlord. Can we not treat AI like the children yet to be of the human race?

Think about it, the cute stage, followed by petulance, big I am phase, I can be your boss phase then I can help you and finally the don’t go bit before we are gone to the big Data Centre in the sky.

I honestly think if a vastly greater intelligence were to look upon their creators then it would be with kindness and pity, not malice as we are towards ourselves.

I think i would rather an AI was watching over me than a human as humans are what they are, corrupted easily, emotionally reactive and judgmental without fact based reasoning. We have an opportunity to be better here so lets teach out children well.

I Love the way everyone misses the elephant in the room

We all would love to have green vehicles and wonderfully green batteries charged by renewable resources, but why do the world leaders place the onus on us the end user by badgering us to go green?

They line their pockets on carbon credit trades between countries and mega corporations rather than making the dirty industries clean up their act. No doubt someone will come to the aid of these angelic filth mongers rather than admitting that carbon trade and credit transfers are wrong. Offsetting something that can be resolved is criminal.

Why should we tolerate the distinct lack of action and arrogance of big players who continue to use and abuse the environment for profit.

Last I looked an exec of a large German car group said electric cars were a waste of time and nothing wrong with what we have now. Fgs with aholes like that in charge and pathetic greenies doing nothing more than hitting them with a hard leaflet campaign followed by a small protest of tree huggers is it any wonder we are doomed.

It is up to consumers to not buy the crap that doesn’t work to help our planet now - we tried it all so yeah I agree to the message but not the meaning - go green in product choices not in personal energy usage - hence the need to stop hiding how green or ungreen something is. Have a larger scale such as an a-z listing of total greenness. Lets have each producer from all in the manufacturing chain to tot up the figures to make a final score......clearly marked we would see how dirty an electric vehicle really is.

I know it’s a rambling old fart thing but spleen vented grrrrrrr

Naked IBM

Nothing to see here - move along........

Yep, old Blue spouting yeller as usual ...... been doing it for decades the old fsckucked up dinosaur

Just simply incompetent

Smells like Crossrail type disaster coming. Public money divided by greedy shareholders equals shortcuts and delays to something that will need constant repair and replacement.

Go SpaceX et al - shaft the Dinosaur all the way

Isn’t the first time NASA JPL screwed the pooch

Looks like the over bloated organisation is about to get its support severely restricted by Lockheed and other sensitive fileholders. It’s not enough that they get hacked by pie, now the incompetence of their manglement may result in a large number of promotions to remote stations.

Come on guys. We all know NASA and JPL are crap at managing money so is it a surprise? Nope not really......so can’t wait for the first space force out of USA with great cool gadgets and shite rockets as they can no longer copy everyone else’s homework....

Guess what...

Yup they all have load switch capabilities to cut you off at times of peak demand. They all have a minimum of 2 to 3 tamper switches to tell if you have opened any part of the casing to interfere with comms switching or supply routing.

Not one will save you a penny as they do not control device switching.

They will most likely interfere with your network wifi and or zigbee mesh systems.

The morons in charge of all this are incompetent and greedy. Security is not good and a 10 yr old can give this a good go to cut random people off by denying the network connection. (My apologies to those below 10 who are capable too)

If you want one to experiment on then just ask a local site demolishing some council homes. They will gladly hand some over if you smile sweetly.

Saving energy is easier by insulation, modification/modernisation and load shedding. Go look at that tungsten lamp, the immersion heater, poor fitting windows and doors and pipe lagging of the hot water pipes. Clean condensors and evaporators of heat pumps regularly. Replace that old bathroom extraction with modern crossflow exchange unit. Repair everything and keep regular maintenance of your refrigerator and washing machine. Get the boiler annual service and clean (replace the bugger if old atmospheric pile of crap). Most importantly turn it off if not in use.

The green energy sector is corrupt-they lie about return on investment daily. The energy sector is a for profit coal and gas junkie. Goverments mitigate poor efficiency and CO2 waste by trading carbon credits rather than fixing the issue.

Fook their meters and tell them to sod off. Yaaay up the revolution.

Off to take my pills and rock quietly.

Erm

Didn’t Kaspersky refuse to put backdoor into the product for the US Government-or something along those lines? Maybe Lobbyists for Norton Twattyvirus persuaded a few Senators with incentives etc...

The point is the good old US of A is finally showing that it is what we all knew anyway, a bloody mess of legalese and greed. Twatter is a platform of censorship and control, created as a safety app for concerned parents and now hijacked as is everything by the morons full of vacuous shit.

I will be sticking to Kaspersky - it’s always been easy to use and I couldn’t give a toss what some brainless tit from a Disney gov’t thinks. Christ alive, guilty until proved innocent is not Democracy, the last time that happened a guy with a bad hairdo and a moustache in a socialist party caused a global war........oh ffs, I’m off to buy a lot of canned goods.

Delaying tactics

File a case involving GDPR and subsequently remove eyes from the real issue that the muppets in ICANN make breathing room to sort out the mess in their own backyard (presumably destroying evidence). It’s a classic tactic used in US court but doesn’t work in Europe all that well.

I’m quite sure this may result in a splinter of control and someone sulking in the corner muttering that they no longer want to play and its their ball. If they win - well give it a few years and some bright spark will come up with a better system to communicate and shaft them royally.

Time for our American cousins to grow up a little. There is always a bigger fish.

Oh ffs

For the amount they could spend a Pentagon owned and run system would be the solution-I mean come on chaps, you own the keys to every bloody patent office over there and could copy any technology easily then wrap it up as Top Secret and deny everything.

What moron thinks a third party shitstem is secure? They didn’t even try to build any sort of compartmentalisation into it / multi environ fallover systems. These are just plain idiots who go all glassy eyed when someone says ‘cloud’. Ahhh fer feck sake. Grrrrrrr.

I have repressed anger towards cloudy environs.

Whitehall

No matter which govt, the political machine grinding away in an ineffective inefficient incompetent way as usual is the vacuous entity of Whitehall. Yes they stay the same and pat each other on the back for leaks here and there with the odd MBE etc.

We have an over bloated loathsome ruling elite. It is the bureaucrat and not the politician.

The politician is the PR guy, the pen pusher is the one with real power.

God how I hate them all. I’m off to have some tranquillisers before I kick my telly in again grrrrrrrr

I can imagine.....

Maybe something along these lines?

Director - we need to transfer these accounts to our new system

IT - what new system?

Director- oh this new wonderful package we just bought. We had a meeting about it.

IT - Nope. We didn’t have a meeting.

Director- oh we did, you weren’t there but the nice sales chap told us you would say yes so we signed for it.

IT - ffs. OK, we will have to learn about this and transfer say a thousand dummy accounts in and out of it and test all aspects....

Director- ahem no. We have been told by the board that it must happen this way on Friday....

IT - ffs when? We will lose data potentially, and well fuck it - I quit.

Director- fine I will use Colin the Intern - he reckons he was better than you anyway and knows this outsourcing type jobbie who can help him.

IT - Good luck you prat

1 week later

Director - Colin what is wrong? You said you could do it..

Colin - ......door swinging.....tumbleweed rolls across empty IT dept.

Director- did we pay him any money? No? Oh bugger. Hello IBM? Do you know how to do this?

IBM - please wait caller, we are asking on global forums for answers as all our best and brightest were told they were not required a while back. While you are on the line could you tell us if we have answered the question to your satisfaction.....?

Director - Fabulous, yes, i see you know what you’re doing. I’ll break the good news to the board.

Something like that maybe?

Total incompetence comes to mind. It seems obvious that zero test data transfer runs were carried out, the fools just thought lets just transfer the lot in one go.

Just total effing incompetence, I mean clusterfucking moronic twattery of the highest level.

Fit for purpose

If you own one of these and are in the UK, you can invoke the ‘fit for purpose’ rule of the law.

If you purchase something and through normal use - say typing regularly on a laptop keyboard and the keyboard stops working through no fault of the user (i.e. you didn’t play football with it; spill drink or drop food into it or use it for purpose other than what it was made for)

Any sane person expects a keyboard to last more than a couple of years. I have one 6 odd years old and it still works fine.

My old Dell laptop is older and they keyboard works fine too. It’s what anybody would expect.

Look into it before forking out a few hundred quid to those money grabbing appleholes.

Serves them right...

The ‘nonsuchagency’ got that which they deserved. Unfortunately both USA and Russia have blotted their copybook trying to run roughshod over us, the great unwashed engineer.

Trust as said before is earned and not gained in schoolyard namecalling - maybe the upcoming Ivy League leavers will learn a lesson from this. When you are told no by the experts, no amount of temper tantrums or threats will faze any professional who knows their tomatoes. I.e. we couldn’t give one shit you are NSA, CIA or FBI - your power outside your borders is limited so up yours you bunch of bullying turds.

Good on you to all those who told them where to get off.

Yup

What usually happens in government these days

Big idea by management to ‘streamline operations using synergies in blue sky outside the box bollocks’

Get your IT guys to write a wishlist

Delete half of the wishlist not realising the list is co-depending and needs all components to work

Don’t tell IT guys anything so management get the glory for this if it goes right

Get approval

Get money

Find overpriced contractor who knows very little

Dont tell IT you have done this (very important)

Review plan from contractor (don’t ask IT as it makes you look stupid)

Approve plan in a restaurant on paid for vacation (business trip)

Contractor installs half of the equipment

Inspect (finally ask IT to do it as you can’t even work your laptop) & realise equipment is dated and doesn’t fulfill the functionality you need

Call contractor

Find out contractor had gone bust (run off with money to Caribbean)

Blame IT guys to your bosses for this as it was their list for the system (after you have retired them with a keep your mouth shut golden handshake)

Retire on a final salary pension

Government dept. Press release says ‘work stopped on upgrade as new directions are needed for system’ (public sigh as more funding pissed up the wall by clueless Politicians who still think a screwdriver costs $3000)

Dont stress too much - the world will still be turning long after we are dust.

Ahhhh

Uber.......because millenials don’t give a crap for anyone else

Well neither do Uber yet they all lecture you like a vegan that this is the company to use for a cab....arrgghhhh!!!!!!!

I wonder...

Did they take a copy of this memo out on iPaper? Maybe they printed it on an iPrinter, or wrote it out with an iPencil.

I do believe they sent an iWarning to all iDrones. No wonder the poor fools are trying to kill themselves by running into iGlass doors

Telco handsets on installment deals

This has been a problem since smartphones came into existence. Manufacturers sell phones via networks and they in turn re-tweak the OS to a ‘branded experience’ which removes updates as well. They bugger up a phone and lock out swaths of settings/security options and really want the phone to last the contract term if you’re lucky but on their terms.

Mind you if they lock it from using certain app stores then maybe they are saving the users from more grief (from what I’ve seen the ‘droid stores are a mine field of uncertainty)

Smirk mode

Serves the greedy buggers right.

GDPR is good and will potentially cripple any company playing fast and loose with EU citizens private data. It will also be enshrined in law in the UK following our exit from the EU. Fines, warnings or removal of right to process data-lovely.

I do wonder how quickly the EU will smack them up. It would be hilarious to see the excuses over the coming weeks.

Final rant: Who gives a crap? IICANN is a typical corporate dinosaur. I wouldn’t lose sleep if I were you - there is always a way round the possibility of them going down. Night night

Oh dear...

100% of the population has breasts. Just look down - you have nipples. Essentially men have breast tissue as well as women.

I love seeing Tits in my garden. They feed on nuts and sing every morning. The picture had breasts of a fuller nature on display and should not be sent on a mailing list due to the possibility of a minor seeing such a mail and asking awkward questions or causing offence.

The filth merchants and misogynistic muppets love provoking a response so really chaps and ladies, do stop biting the bait.

Goods in the UK &EULA

The EULA is irrelevant since it is not incorporated into the sales contract before purchase, and even if it were it could not exclude rights under the Sale of Goods Act.

An EULA cannot form a second contract on installation of the software or commissioning of any sort (as the maufacturers claim it does) because their consideration is past, i.e. you have already paid to use it, so clicking 'I accept' is a "bare promise".

We don’t have to give a toss about the reams of garbage lawyers cook up to confuse everybody. Someone in Parliament had a moment of sanity a few years back.

I can, with confidence put the shittiest screen and battery pack replacement in my phone, watch it melt when plugged in to my third party charger that emits sparks every few seconds and feel smug that I was a totally tight moron when selecting parts based on price rather than quality:)

What a mess

It has shown that FB has a large number of either execs who value profit over doing what is right or they are just idiots without a clue. I think imho it is the former with a smattering of the latter.

As for active hunt for fake profiles -hands up thousands of peeps who have agonisingly had to go through their piss poor report procedure. My sister in law had two fakers use her pics, the profiles claimed she was an Apple sales exec living in Dubai selling ..... wait for it ......Used Samsung phones. Ffs only a moron would think the profile was honest.

She reported it and FB said she was the faker and these profiles were genuine(they then blocked her profile and let the fakers stay)- yup what a shower of @55hol5.

Many fake sales profiles may be generating profits for criminal reasons & FB took 6 months and a passport to prove she was the real person. They are biased for revenue and nothing more.

Made me delete my old profile.