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In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app
Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole
If you really can't let go of Windows 7, Microsoft will keep things secure for another three years
Friday 4th October 2019 15:34 GMT 
10 UI is shit
I have recently been upgraded at work to a new PC infected with Win 10.
And so far due to a poor UI.
I sent a part written message to a customer as I thought the button was on teh dialog I was currently on.
Possibly moved rather than copied our source code.
The UI for 10 is horrific and is slowing me down and stressing me out.
Astronaut Tim Peake reminds everyone about the time Excel mangled his contact list on stage at Microsoft AI event
We're all doooooomed: Gloomy Brit workforce really isn't coping well with impending Brexit
Saturday 28th September 2019 19:17 GMT
Creating arguments
We have a person at work who goes to Europe a lot, so of course he voted to leave.
He said he doesn't mind it costing more to go, He is happy to pay.
But for some stupid reason or other he is not willing to pay for my daughters EU funded research project.
Also he went blank when I said "Good Friday Agreement"
He knows I consider him an idiot.
BOFH: We must... have... beer! Only... cure... for... electromagnetic fields
Now that's integrity: Bloke sinks 7 beers, turns himself in. Cops weren't looking for him
HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some
Wednesday 18th September 2019 09:40 GMT
Re: polluting the well.
Don't understand that, however I would not be surprised if it was some form of tax avoidance.
To be honest that would be fake details for me.
But supermarkets, got a Tesco card, but they should be concerned about us buying a lot less as they get rid of lines.
It is not the collection of data as such which bothers me but the hidden collection of data.
I KNOW that Tesco know what I buy, but I think like this, they can see I am not buying crap, that I am after high welfare stuff. That send me offers for good stuff.
Because of the Tesco card I know that if I wanted something not logged, no card, and cash. But my big shop, what does it matter that we buy a lot of tinned tomatoes for pasta sauces?
I can control what Tesco knows, but can I with say Microsoft, or various peripheral manufacturers?
But whereas with say Tesco I can control, can I control what say Google know?
Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...
Tuesday 17th September 2019 09:35 GMT
123REG passwords
I have had loads fail over the last couple of years.
They wanted non alphanumerics, they got them, then a year later could not handle them.
" was valid now invalid.
EVERY account has had to have a new password.
I did use a simple keyboard pattern with shift. Even if the keys were all known still have 21 million million (English BIllion) combinations. But they stopped me using it.
Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains
New lows at Bose as firmware update woes infuriate soundbar bros
Thursday 12th September 2019 09:08 GMT
Re: The Lexus of speakers?
Is plural Lexi?
If I HAD to have one it would get rebranded ASAP.
Why have a LS400 when you could have a Toyota Celsior?
I love correctly rebranding cars.
If I was in charge all GM Adams would be recalled to gain Adams surname (Opel). All Land Rover Evokes would be rebranded Freelander Coupe.
And all Subaru BRZ and Toyota GT86 get the new brand Toybaru.
Thursday 12th September 2019 09:01 GMT
Re: A grand?
SCART cables quality counts.
Audio interconnects depends on components.
HDMI, a simple yes no.
But I have found through personal experience that a decent pair of thick well shielded interconnect cables are fine. And not expensive.
SCART, that however cheap are junk, I had to pay quite a bit to get a decent one. All comes down to shielding, cheapies you can see interferance, better quality are fine. This is for RGB.
HDMI, I get middle ones, I buy on quality of manufacture not magic metals. Most were free though.
Simply put, does it pass the following.
Will it fall apart? WIll it be secure? Will it mess up other cables.
Thursday 12th September 2019 08:55 GMT
Re: Bose isn't alone with crap soundbars
Sound bars.
Are they actually any good?
I run a 5.0 system (never got round to adding a sub, but front stereo pair are floor standers).
Used for films, games, music.
Front pair are where a pair of HiFi speakers would be, actually they are.
Rear pair on brackets on the wall.
Centre on a microwave bracket above the TV.
Since I would need HiFi speakers for music, to me a sound bar would be no benefit in space used.
UK plod could lose access to 79 million criminal alerts in event of a no-deal Brexit
Monday 16th September 2019 11:02 GMT
Re: Hmm
There are many reasons I found to remain, my top was single market. But when i investigated reasons to leave apart from CAP and CFP there were no truthful reasons.
The Turkey argument I found was a lie because of a few Turkish laws were incompatible with EU membership.
The Lies on a bus were debunked straight away.
But recently I found the real leave reasons were by high finance and included.
1) Betting against UK by hedge funds (Leadsom, Banks, Cummings).
2) The risk to off shore accounts from the EU (same bunch).
I would no be surprised to see Farage on that list.
Thursday 12th September 2019 09:21 GMT
Re: Hmm
Got a few leave voters in the office. They have been asked.
Reasons
1) Hated David Cameron.
2) No point being in EU unless we take Euro.
3) EU industry regulations too lax.
Remainers
Biggest is trade by a LONG way, followed by banking, then ability to work anywhere in EU, that is for starters.
It is interesting that the remain voters have multiple reasons, the leave voters just one each.
If I say the words "Good Friday Agreement" I get silence.
Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?
Friday 13th September 2019 08:35 GMT
Re: No s##t Sherlock...
Conservatives died a couple of weeks ago.
The sacking of the 21 has killed the party for many voters.
Millliband was no worse than Cameron. He was wrecked by the media.
One thing did come out well from the coalition is the growth of the LIb Dems.
Yes they got hammered in 2015 as uninformed numpties came down hard on them. Yet a lot of people saw that they could govern, that they had for them worthwhile policies. Large numbers of young people who do not like the two main parties like them, and young people have caused MP changes already.
Business PC sales up as suits flee looming end of support for Windows 7
Thursday 5th September 2019 09:47 GMT 
Having to have 10 very soon, must be better than 8
My PC blew up a while ago, Windows 7, with fireworks.
RIP my Q8300 development machine.
Currently using a Win hate craptop with one of my monitors plugged in,a mouse and USB keyboard, SLOW SLOW SLOW.
Got a picture of a shell on the start menu but when it boots it has this weird screen which eventually goes away.
Title bars are completely broken as the text is not at the left so it can take a few seconds to find out what is what. Rather great when you have 6 or 7 windows open in the dev environment. Already messed up a new executable as I got the wrong window selected as the name was unobvious.
Getting new PC soon unfortunately with 10.
OK what will I need to do with it?
Got my old HDD ready for the desktop background and some development stuff. Oh and Firefox mods and my news group settings.
Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words
Thursday 5th September 2019 10:41 GMT
Re: This is stupid
I remember seeing an article about British athletes in the US.
They are British of mainly Carribean ancestry.
They got really annoyed about morons calling them British African Americans. They were not allowed to be Black British.
Can't remember who but pretty sure it was an Olympian. and they were proud of being British.
Let's recap reCAPTCHA gotcha: Our cunning AI can defeat Google's anti-bot tech, say uni boffins
GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?
Huawei new smartphone won't be Mate-y with Google apps as trade sanctions kick in
Friday 30th August 2019 14:25 GMT
Hurt Google more than Huawei?
An alternatve Android with no Google could hit Google more than Huawei.
Huge company and all it needs is a store with the apps many people want.
How long would it take to degoogle an app to go onto Huawei store?
Take a smaller commision, push it to big name app writers. Could be interesting.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament
Friday 30th August 2019 11:03 GMT
Why do leave voters hate the Pound?
Because they have signed the death warrant of the oldest currency in common usage in the world.
Do they realise that a lot of young people would vote to rejoin as soon as they could, once a large chunk of leave voters have kicked the bucket, we would end up rejoining?
With the Euro, Schengen, no rebate, no escape route.
Thanks for that!
I spent weeks looking into everything and found the following.
1) The remain campaign was useless, not a single mention I can recall of Good friday Agreement. No strongly put message that the banking centre of the UK was London and financed a large part of the GDP.
2) The leave campaign lied. (Turkey Bus etc)
3) Our shit governments both Blair and Cameron blamed the EU for their own incompentencies and the lack of immigration controls.
4) The best possible deal we could have we already had. EU standards fully included British standards (look at mains specifications for EU just enough wriggle to include 240v).
Gov flings £10m to help businesses get Brexit-ready with, um... information packs
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