Lettuce

avon b7 said:

My scheduled video conference with HP has hit the skids. I was told at 8am this morning that IT support were working on the problem but I doubt they'll apply the machine-by-machine workaround offered by Crowdstrike which requires booting into Safe Mode and deleting a file.

It's touch and go for the meeting which is scheduled to start in 30 minutes. 

It is more likely they'll wait for the fix from Crowdstrike to flush through the systems. 

Global automated updates should be rolled out in phases to catch these glitches before they become wildfires. 

I see some airlines still have boarding cards that can be handwritten for the lucky ones who have been able to get off the ground.

EDIT: meeting postponed.

anonymouse said:

nubus said:

Vestager is ultra pro open markets. It seems not all here get that part. She is pushing for competition all the way by keeping competition fair. If you're like Apple doing tax evasion with a "Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich" model then you can expect to take some heat. And EU is by the way not keeping fines. Those fines are 1:1 deducted from what the countries pay and EU can't charge taxes on their own. EU is not like the US government.

If Apple can't handle a person running things by the book, fighting for open markets, and being passionate about fair competition then the person replacing Vestager later this year will be a nightmare to Apple. The election earlier this month gave nationalistic parties more votes. Trade protectionism is high on their agenda. Tim Cook shouting at Vestager has all the way been very unprofessional. You don't see him like that when working with communist dictatorships.

She's not pushing open markets or fair markets, nor is she running things by the book, unless it's a secret book that only she has access to. What she is pushing is preferential treatment for European companies at the expense of American companies. She's pushing for markets tilted in favor of companies like Spotify and against companies like Apple. Trade protectionism is alive and well under her leadership. Perhaps that's difficult to see from a European perspective, and obviously an American perspective may create an opposite bias, but her actions against American companies, and to give European companies whatever they want, are so blatantly protectionist, so precisely targeted, that the objective truth clearly is closer to the American perspective on this issue than the European.