Posts by MrTuK

ROFL

Really great article - even if it has nothing to do with techie news !

I bet you crapped yourself laughing when you wrote this !

Insurance companies move very, very slowly indeed !

I used to work for one arm of an Insurance company in London and to say they move very slowly is the understatement of the century !

I was using Win 7 64 as they were migrating from Win NT 4.0 to XP !

I was pushing them to get remote access years before they finally gave it to me ?

Their IT equipment was so far behind the times that I asked when were they going to open a museum to put it all into !

I had a simple laptop which was so much faster than their desktop systems that it was like a formula 1 driver becoming a milk float driver as a change of career !

A simple thing like using Win 7 64 with 8GB+ of ram was so much more efficient to work with that a XP PC with 2GB, but they just couldn't grasp that !

Agreed I am a PC enthusiast so I was always at the bleeding edge of tech, but when you IT manager and several other techy guys were asking me what PC's they should purchase, it really got me worried !

So yeah I know that in the Insurance business when they say move at full speed they actually mean at about half the speed of a snail but with a lot more red tape than you can ever imagine !

Oh no - Please doooon't !

Next we would have Google cars going around an F1 circuit !!

Apple please don't buy in F1, please, please don't.

sheeesh !

Trust

I have been involved with IT since 1981, so have some experience under my belt so to speak. I don't think I would ever trust an Autonomous Vehicle, I personally would never use one as a Taxi etc.

I can see Councils being very keen on them as ways to reduce staff for vehicles like Road Gritters, Rubbish collection, Road sweeping, Pavement sweeping/cleaning, Bus driving etc.

Which would reduce one's Council Tax Bill maybe but in the process putting a lot of people in the unemployment queue, so it will be very interesting how the UK Gov handles this. Also since a lot of this is done by private contractors then just by using a new contractor that only uses Autonomous Vehicles obviously at a vastly reduced cost would mean it would be outside UK GOV control and could certainly put a strain on unemployment services and costs in a very short time.

Sadly this is going to effect a workforce which is already on the lower end of the pay scale.

The one thing I would be interested in is how an Autonomous Vehicle would handle driving up a hill with a large vehicle coming down the hill with failed brakes beeping and flashing his lights, would it just sit there waiting for an obvious collision or would it slam it into reverse or would it drive through a hedge to avoid the collision or maybe it would eject the passengers like the Aston Martin in the James bond movie ? Now I know that many drivers would just freeze in that situation, but I would expect an Autonomous Vehicle not to do this and to be able to take avoiding action, even if it means driving through a hedge to get out of the way !

Win 10

So how did the Win 10 auto update happen in Canada, has MS been fined or did no one get autoupdated to Win 10 or maybe they just use Win XP still ?

1+1=3 !!!

How are NSA/Gov going to force the terrorists to use said backdoored encryption !

Some of these terrorists are actually quite intelligent and might even write their own encryption then what will said NSA/GOV do ?

Personally as soon as any said encryption is broken I would use another encryption, so I am sure they would do the same !

Unless you can force Google and Apple to block any NSA/GOV unauthorized encryption App's which would force them to use Linux as they already know that Win 10 is NSA spyware from day one although I am sure there were some who were stupid enough to use it !

BIOMETRICS hell !

It seems when it comes to security the UK population has gone to hell, look how many have a smart phone and/or Windows 10 !!

So I fully expect biometrics of every possible kind to be in full swing in the near future - especially the sphincter one !!

How anyone with an ounce of intelligence would allow their credit or bank card info anywhere near a smart phone is beyond belief and don't even go down that road concerning Win 10 !

Yes I use Firefox for browsing and internet purchasing on Ubuntu, I know its not perfect but its a damn sight better than using a Android or Apple or Microsoft based devices !

But back to the topic at hand or finger or iris, if the user does not feel the appendage is of irreplaceable value then cut it off or dig it out with a spoon for all to gaze upon and sell to the highest bidder - this will usually be China as they make great soup !

Cloud !

Sorry I don't use cloud services - especially if a the supplying company is any of the following ;

1.) Untrustyworthy.

2.) Insecure.

3.) Data slurper.

I use Ubuntu and I won't allow any of these updates into my installation otherwise I will use another distro !

Well, its nice to see we have intelligent people here :)

Finally something most of us are in agreement with - smart meters are for dumb people, dumb meters are for smart people :)

It just reminds me of two previous things the UK Gov has done in the past !

1.) Encourage people to migrate from Leaded petrol to unleaded by making unleaded petrol taxation cheaper and then when enough had migrated they stopped selling leaded petrol.

2.) Diesel taxation was cheaper that petrol taxation so making diesel cheaper for the consumer until demand increased so they then increased to diesel taxation to reduce diesel consumption.

1.) I think the encouragement to migrate from leaded petrol was a good one as we don't want children's brains damaged with the excessive lead content in the air.

2.) playing with the taxation for Diesel to encourage car manufacturers to develop cleaner/higher performance diesel engines without being aware of the harmful effects of sulphur dioxide was ill thought out, the same can be said for the smart meters - ill thought out and will cost the consumer more than than any benefits or savings can be made.

Sad state of affairs

Yeah !

What can I say, obviously the MoD has to think years ahead when allocating money to make sure that they have the necessary hardware and personal for the Military services to be able to do the job that the political system at the time wants them to do - that must be quite a difficult job to balance with the Topsy turvy political world we live in.

But to be honest I somewhat believe that somebody got their sums wrong and dates wrong because from what I understand we haven't had a floating airport aswell as after dumping the sea harriers no aircraft to put on a floating airport either !

@nematoad - Sorry m8, I don't mean to pick you out but your comments are what really annoys me, we had a vote for Brexit, it happend, thats the end of it, now get over it, people like you keep on painting doom and gloom as if you want the UK to go down the plug-hole just to prove a point that you were right and we were wrong ! What will happen if suddenly UK becomes super wealthy would you then say, "sh*t I was wrong so sorry guys !", nahh you will say, "Just you wait, next year the UK will go down the plug-hole just you wait and see, this is just a temporary blip ! - sheesh !

I just wonder if you do the same thing after whatever particular party you voted for doesn't get into Parliament - Do you still moan and groan how stupid the country is for voting X or Y into power or maybe you don't vote at all just so that you can moan about something rather than just getting on with it like 99% of UK citizens ?

I know what it is, I finally worked it out, you are a masochistic person and want the UK to go down the plug-hole - So sorry I just didn't realize what you were !

Try being a person that looks at life like it is a half full glass of beer, rather than its half empty or in your case that you didn't actually get to goto the pub because you are too busy moaning about the Brexit and that more than 50% of the voting people get it wrong - in your opinion !

I am still trying to get my head around how many people have actually upgraded - It really doesn't play well for the future but then again they have been conditioned to allow themselves to be data slurped since they have been using smartphones from all source be it Google or Apple !

To be honest even ISP's (Mi5 in the UK,NSA in USA etc) probably know a hell of a lot about you from your browsing habit, not even sure if VPN's make you truly mean you are anonymous these days with the powers that be to number crunch your every data transmission on broadband and if they can't do it on the fly the ISP has to keep it all under the retention law for 1 year or possibly longer - life is so Orwellian the world over these days - but its all done in the best possible taste as Kenny Everett but at least he was a happy person !!!!!

And next week they will sue MS, Apple and Google !!!!

I suppose model companies could pay a FB to do a search for what they classify as pretty ladies or men, that would be the scary situation !

On the other side of things, if you live in a rural area there are no camera's !

So until one applies for a driving license or passport you could remain off the radar for quite some time - shhhesh I have just worked out why they wanna push Broadband everywhere now, its not for people's benefit - its so they can have remote IP based CCTV anywhere - Doh - And I thought it was to improve the digital life of people living in rural areas, damn I'm so stupid sometimes, make that a lot of the time these days !

All this about encryption when we don't trust MS anyway !!

How can we now trust a company that we completely distrust for all its antics over the last 20+ years culminating to a climax when trying to leverage every user on Win 7 or Win 8 onto a data mining OS that doesn't even deserve to be on a ZX81.

MS might have some fabulous idea's but its all just smoke and mirrors, so that they will have access (they meaning NSA, MI5 etc) to all the data in one location or by one entity to sift through without a warrant of any kind using analytics !

Nope, a proper company keeps its data in its own location and uses firewalls etc to keep every fucker that shouldn't have access OUT or better still no access to the data unless you are on the premises !

Any company that puts its data in the cloud should be help responsible directly for any leakage or lost data with imprisonment for all directors and managements for at least 5 years !

I doubt they would risk using the cloud then especially if i was their own balls at risk rather than their clients and companies private data !

You had better read the T&C's before installing this, because at some later date it will probably try and upgrade you to Win 10 with all the said bloatware like Cortana, Edge etc !

When is something insecure ?

When is something not secure ?

When its created and controlled by MS !!!

ROFL - People are so, how can I say it - hmmm STUPID !!

FBI, CIA, NSA, MI5 - Listen up - Nothing is secure, just MS stuff is more insecure than everything else and trying to force a back door into encryption is like giving up on security.

Just name one security that needs a key for general users which still remains secure after 1 year ?

The final point I will make is that anyone that uses contactless payments are stupid, NFC payments can be read upto 5M away from you with the right equipment unless it is in a shielded unit, so unless you want to carry around a shielded wallet rather than a fancy plastic or leather one then user's beware !

Just a thought

I wonder if the stats are higher for Win 10 as when it data slurps - maybe it hits certain websites aswell to increase stats for Win 10 !!

No matter what the truth of the stats, I am just surprised at the amount of sheeple everywhere !

But as much as I hate Win 10 and will never have it on a PC/Laptop of mine I still defend the right for people to use whatever they want, maybe some of them will see the light eventually - But from looking at the stats it seems very unlikely !

I don't know how the law works but common sense would be that he stays in jail until 100% is reimbursed otherwise being in jail for X years means when he comes out he will still have £500k waiting for him - That would be a better deterrent to all criminals !

There was a Gov Petition to try and sort this shit out with MS and Win 10 - I was surprised it didn't get many votes, either there are a lot more sheep than I originally thought or just not enough people were aware of it !

https://www.change.org/p/the-electonic-frontier-foundation-have-the-eff-investigate-microsoft-for-malicious-practices-regarding-windows-10

Wow only 5,851 votes - This is really sad, so many sheep here in UK !!!!

I am sure we have a lot more intelligent people that were just unaware of this petition, but just how many I am clueless !

I am happy to see the French going after MS, but so sad that even after Brexit the UK population just have bury their heads in the sand attitude !

What does it say for the future, maybe we deserve the new Stalin and her Stasi followers to rule us !

Well, how do I do any of this biometrics on my old dumb not smart phone without a camera and I have lost my voice due to tonsillitis ?

Also I personally will not put add my credit card to my pay as you go smart phone ( I get credit via cash), I also went to my Barclays branch after they sent me a new Bank Card which I had cut in half and said why did my new card now have contactless payments added to it with me asking for it ?

They apologized (Which was BS) and said that this was standard practice well I said I never want this on any future replacement cards and send me out a new card as I have cut this one in half !

If more people were a PAIN IN THE ASS like me then maybe Banks would think twice before adding shit to customers without asking first !

They had my email and mobile phone number, but they would rather send out a new card assuming in their own wisdom that a customer would want an added service which would mean someone can deduct money with you entering a pin number at a range of upto 20 ft !

Yeah, NFC can actually be read upto 20ft away if you have the right equipment - scarey, just check your statements for any NFC payments, BTW try and argue that you didn't use your card for that !

As you can guess I am not in favour this new stuff, yes I am technical and used to be in IT, but for every lock there is always a way to crack it and I prefer a pin/password to prove it was me and I used Linux and not Win 10 !

LOL - So by the looks of things you will be eventually forced to use CSP - So it can data slurp your client data !!