* Posts by deevee

42 posts • joined 15 Jun 2017

Institute of Directors survey says most bosses expect no mass return to the office if COVID-19 crisis ever ends


People will never be as productive at home as they will be at the office, where the boss is watching.



Seems UPS's cause more downtime than actual mains power failures do.

Even large global datacentre providers that promote rock solid power, with multiple UPS's, dual supply feeds and automatic static switching, and generator backup are always suffering power outages in their data halls.

More complexity causes more outages, not less.

Australian contact-tracing app leaks telling info and increases chances of third-party tracking, say security folks


Maybe 2 million people use the app, but that means 20 million don't.

Also the 2 million who did install the app probably have no idea what it really does, and think its going to save them by knowing they walked past someone once in the street who had coronavirus, when in fact 99.9999% of the time it wouldn't have a clue if your paths have crossed with someone with the virus, and it certainly won't be notifying you about that, and the only people its really even likely to match you with is one of your family or close friends.



batteries in their B787's caught fire, now batteries in their satellites exploding....

Maybe Boeing and Tesla should merge, they can call themselves "the exploders".



AT&T just need to die.

Qualcomm to appeal against another antitrust whopper: This time it's $873m courtesy of South Korea


Bring on 5G where Qualcomm doesn't have the patents to block out competitors and competition.

Just look at the sick state of the US mobile market, where half of the phones still use Qualcomm's 20+ year old incompatible (with the rest of the world) CDMA technology, and half the telco's there are so cheap they won't/wouldn't move to more modern GSM/LTE technologies.

Won't it be great when tourists can roam in America like they can in the rest of the world?

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website


Re: Like rain on your wedding day

Its what happens when you start defining your network in software!

Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US peeps? Well, guess what…


AND in typical denial fashion, they declare China is the threat, because US communication gear can spy for the FBI/NSA etc, and Huawei/Chinese gear WILL not.








Typical American company, using "agile" to shortcut development and customers to find the bugs.

This Tesla autopiliot is in exactly the same class as Boeing MCAS. Faulty and potentially lethal software that's flaws have been covered up and hidden.

The only thing for it is criminal charges for those at the top.



Don't worry, IBM will do what it always does. Pump the latest and greatest "strategic" product for 18 months, sell it to who ever is stupid enough to listen, then dump it and pump the next "latest and greatest" strategic product.

Blockchain must have been sold to those silly enough to buy in for 12 months now, so give it another 6 months before its dumped and buried in favour of some Red Hat "strategic" vapourware.

FedEx fed up playing box cop, sues Uncle Sam to make it stop: 'We do transportation, not law enforcement'


hahahaa, karma, now US citizens need to use an offshore "reshipper" like all the rest of us outside the USA have had to use for years to buy goods from the USA.



Maybe Boeing can just sell Virtual Reality planes too, you know, so they don't have to spend money building REAL planes...

US: We'll pull security co-operation if you lot buy from Huawei


Yeah well, Trump needs to "Make America Great Again" but the US tech world has suffered from many years of cutting costs, cutting staff and cutting R&D and sending jobs offshore so the capitalists can make more profit.

Now Huawei and China are 18 months ahead of the Americans in 5G and they don't like to lose, hense them bullying all their allies to ban Huawei and buy inferior American crap.

As long as the rest of the word uses the inferior US crap too, then they think the US can keep its place in the IT/IoT/5G/communications/always on world, and hold the rest of the world back and stop them getting any more of an advantage in the new world than they already have.

Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies


Just contact the NSA or the FBI, they have built in backdoors to access everything. Lucky it isn't a Chinese/Huawei switch, otherwise it would be totally unhackable!



Re: In a branch? Out on a limb!



Tesla fingers former Gigafactory hand as alleged blueprint-leaking sabotage mastermind





Apple idiots




Reverse phone number lookup, NO PROBLEM!


Nothing ironic about that!


IBM's chief diversity officer knows too much and must be stopped!

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Re: Chief Diversity Officer?


All our coffee, tea, milk stirrers are gone!

India signals ban on cryptocurrencies, embraces blockchain




NHS OKs offshoring patient data to cloud providers stateside















I guess its just not Global any more!


Re: In the great IBM tradition

Sounds reasonable, what is IBM's cloud offering called this week?

Smartcloud? Softlayer? Bluemix? IBM Cloud?









Re: Psychopath bosses 101



BT plots to slash pension benefits for 32,000 staff


and the race to the bottom continues....

Google Drive ate our homework! Doc block blamed on code blunder





Re: The whole thing's stupid






(dot)amazon never referred to your wilderness.

Google routing blunder sent Japan's Internet dark on Friday




Gone daddy gone: GoDaddy offloads its cloud businesses



wow, $1.8b down the tube.







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