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'How can HP have a dress code if I'm wearing this wacky hat?'

Plus: Wanna know who played Magnum PI? Don't dial Blighty's cops

QuoTW We wrap up July with a week of Windows updates, camera controversy and an end to Internet Explorer.

These were some of our favourite quips:

HP Enterprise wanted everyone to know that, despite managers telling some engineers to smarten up for the office, it doesn't have a "global" corporate dress code, least not now anyway. To illustrate that point, HP Enterprise's head of HR Alan May showed off his crazy hat:

Guess what?! HP doesn't have a global dress code. And if we did, you'd think I'd know, being the head of HR for Hewlett Packard Enterprise an' all.

OK, so no global dress code. How about, as one HP insider put it, "appearance guidelines" instead?

Elsewhere this week, US watchdog the FCC said it wanted to fine AT&T $100m for throttling traffic. The carrier, in turn, had a good old moan by saying it really would rather not have to cough up the cash.

The result? AT&T has told the feds to take a hike. Besides, the company said, customers really enjoy being throttled, apparently:

The Commission's findings that consumers and competition were harmed are devoid of factual support and wholly implausible.

It's not often that a reader comment makes it into QuoTW but this week reader Chris Martin offered up the following gem to @theregister over on Twitter:

The biggest story this week was the arrival of Windows 10.

Not everyone was thrilled to see Microsoft's latest OS, though. Chris Beard of Mozilla hit out at Windows 10's questionable settings:

It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It's confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.

Kim Dotcom has a plan for a new biz, hopefully it'll be one that won't end with another international police action. The moneybags man-mountain said that he plans to move into the cloud storage space:

my non-compete clause is running out at the end of the year and I will create a Mega competitor that is completely open source and non-profit, similar to the Wikipedia model. I want to give everyone free, unlimited and encrypted cloud storage with the help of donations from the community to keep things going.

Speaking of internet heroes, master blabbermouth Edward Snowden finally got his petition for pardon seen by US President Barak Obama. To the shock of nobody at all, the White House isn't going to let him off the hook. Prez adviser Lisa Monaco explained it like this:

If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.

Looking for a nice, relaxing drone flight? Stay out of Kentucky. A resident recently took the law into his own hands and shot down a quadcopter that got a bit too close for his own comfort. Let's hear William Merideth's side of the story.

Within a minute or so, here it came. It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky. I didn't shoot across the road, I didn't shoot across my neighbour's fences, I shot directly into the air.

And we close out with the following anecdote from Tom Donahoe, head of the West Yorkshire force's customer contact centre in Wakefield. While talking about the abuse of 999 emergency calls, he offered up the following tale of TV trivia gone awry:

Someone rang us at two in the morning to ask us who the actor was that played Magnum PI. It was driving him mad, he was with his friends and couldn’t think of the answer, so he rang the police.

Happy weekend, dears. And in case you don't know the answer, it was mum pin-up Tom Selleck. ®

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