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Loose Women woman's IR35 win deals another high-profile blow to UK taxman's grip on rules

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Pint

Very well done

Pint of champagne.

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Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

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Just more evidence

That Windows 10 has fucked up the PC market.

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Now that's service: TalkTalk customers enjoy a Friday morning free of pesky emails

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Re: I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

That anybody still uses TalkTalk.

And calls themselves an IT Professional!

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RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009

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Re: Hardware requirements

"I have spoken"

conceited plonker

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Russian parliament waves through powers for internet iron curtain

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Excellent

If it was an outgoing firewall as well.

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Be wary, traveller: There is no going back if you step over the Windows 10 20H1 threshold

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Re: Ugh. Sooooo very glad I'm running MacOS and Linux

Yep, sacrificial machine thats it.

And any version < 8 for productivity.

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Let our powers combine! Intel smushes Optane speed and QLC flash capacity into one drive

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I lost interest

After 'host systems need...'

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Sick of being the bad guy, UK taxman needs YOU(?) to help it be more 'customer-centric'

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HMRC customer centric?

They need to shutter Cardiff for starters, that would sort a fair few problems.

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Microsoft realises more testing wouldn't hurt and plonks Windows 10 May update into Preview ring

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More testing?

Well, I suppose anything is better than nothing.

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I know what EU did last summer: Official use of Microsoft wares to be probed over slurp fears

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Bin the lot

Be bold and choose a provider who respects privacy, as its clearl that Microsoft does not.

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Prepare yourselves for Windows 10 May-hem. Or is it June, no, July?

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Re: Such vitriol for something that costs virtually nothing...

Well,

I suppose they have one satified customer.

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Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space

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Re: Set up Guide?

Having also re-designed it on the back of a fag packet?

Pint, for all engineers who did so.

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2019: The year all-flash finally goes lamestream – but you know we were into it before it was cool

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But when it gets to accounts...

Option 1 - 3 x 4Tb spinning = about £360

Option 2 - 6 x 2Tb NVMe blades = Are you sure the decimal point is in the right place?

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Re: Headline

Aaagh,

Me too!

Can I sue for damages?

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Yup, it's the new tax year: If you smell a RAT, it's because crims are ramping up tax scams

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Re: The one positive HMRC IT trait...

No script & Hosts file keeps the barstweards down

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Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen

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Re: Don't travel to the US.

I just have an "America phone", which they're welcome to unlock, hack, malware or otherwise root to death.

Very good plan.

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FYI: You could make Tesla's Autopilot swerve into traffic with a few stickers on the road

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Stop

Can you go to the pub and get shitfaced?

Otherwise, these things serve no purpose, other than to line the pockets of techno companies and shareholders & I for one won't be following the sheep.

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UK taxman plans to, er, Crown Hosting boss. Who'll take £115k to be its champion in HMRC?

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Joke

Dido Harding ?

Perfect match!

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Microsoft reckons the accursed Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally fit for business

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never be fit for business

“We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.”

Until that and all the spyware and adverts are permanently removed

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It's coooming: Windows 10 October 2018 Update adoption slows ahead of the next release

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Just what inspired you to make such a senseless comment? Let me guess...

1. You work for Microsoft, so the customer is always wrong.

2. You have just smoked a large amount of herbal compund

3. Both 1 & 2

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Brit broadband giants slammed as folk whinge about crap connections, underwhelming speeds

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Re: Especially

Gmail?

F**k off, you are 'aving a larf.

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Brit Police Federation cops to ransomware attack on HQ systems

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foolish IT?

https://www.d7xtech.com/cryptoprevent-anti-malware/

That is all

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I don't hate US tech, snarls Euro monopoly watchdog chief – as Google slapped with €1.49bn megafine

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Re: Spank 'm!

More lubrication for the EU gravy train

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Sorry, Linux. We know you want to be popular, but cyber-crooks are all about Microsoft for now

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Re: BBC

What do you expect?

Wouldn't be at all surprised if they are using flash long after it's retired

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Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report

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Barstweards

The lot of them,

Hosts file, NoScript, Ad Block and Ghostery generally does the trick

Then cookie autodelete flushes the shite thats left

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We'll help you get your next fix... maybe, we'll think about it, says FTC: 'Right to repair' mulled

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Good stuff - hopefully

Meanwhile, I hope the pack of arse holes at Apple with their non removable batteries, discs and other stuff are put against a wall and shot, for the benefit of sanity, humanity and of course the environment with which they would like to fill with their irrepairable stuff.

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Cloud atlas: Oh dear. Now Adobe has mapped out a slowdown

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Yep

Creative ransomware springs to mind.

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Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

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Re: Best OS Ever

Yes, the XP interface was dreadful, I recall 'classic mode' got rid of some of the dross

W2000 much cleaner and none of that activation shyte when you add a bit more ram.

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Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)

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Re: No rush

slow and steady is fine with me

Me too, not long upgraded my early 2011 MBP to El Cap & alls well.

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They're BAAACK: Windows 10 nagware team loads trebuchet with annoying reminders to GTFO Windows 7

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Still on XP

Smart move.

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Re: Is it stable yet?

I really don't think W10 will ever be stable.

If by some remote chance it ever was then you could guarantee the next update would bugger it all up.

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Hapless engineers leave UK cable landing station gate open, couple of journos waltz right in

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Re: "A terrorist or foreign agent would have been free to plant explosives ..."

Its good of them to let every man + dog know

I'm not sure which side those half wits are on sometimes.

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Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good

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Re: Nonsense

"I'm all for sensible regulation"

But the same lot regulated the power of a hoover so it now takes twice as long with a Euro hoover.

Common sense has long departed and its just another station for the gravy train.

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TalkTalk returns to the email hall of shame as Pipex accounts throw weekend-long wobbly

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TT returns to hall of shame?

I was unaware they had left the HOS

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Transcript leak: Inside Facebook's secret crisis meeting, where Zuck and Sheryl race to save social network's rep

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We’re a software company

Really?

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Tech security at Equifax was so diabolical, senators want to pass US laws making its incompetence illegal

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Re: GDPR down the throat

Absolutely fine by me

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TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it's spamming my mates

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Re: Are any of them any good?

IDNet Zen and A&A

but clients would just stare like youve just spat in their face when suggested

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Level up Mac security, and say game over to malware? System alerts plus Apple game engine equals antivirus package

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looks interesting

currently use Sophos Knock Knock and avoid Safari. Prefer FF with No Script ghostery and Ad Block etc and always keep a disconected drive made with CCC

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Band banned, Tarka arrives on Windows 10 and Visual Studio hits RC status

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Re: What does Microsoft actually DO these days?

Slurp data

Pull the plug on stuff

Disappoint end users

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Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

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Its all about trust

Or rather who you don't trust, which is pretty well everything when it comes to the likes of Facebook, Google et all.

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Re: Wow

So it's really a lot worse than I thought.

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MPs tear 'naive' British Army a new one over Capita recruitment farce

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Re: Lather, rinse, repeat

How hard that can be?

Takes years, many millions and minions,

With frequent lunches at The Ivy.

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Lather, rinse, repeat

Until Crapita are dumped from bidding.

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Vodafone exec dons tartan tam-o'-shanter, clutches bottle of Irn-Bru, in snap shared with firm... just before Glasgow staff told of redundo dates

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Well said, Sir

Pint as its Friday.

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Qbot malware's back, and latest strain relies on Visual Basic script to slip into target machines

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Re: You can lead a user to security,

Well yes and no, it's up to admins to impliment policy on the assumption that anything is possible and treat the network as a castle, wall, moat type tiered line of defences assuming zero knowledge from the user.

Unfortunately, there are still people out there who click on everything and anything and have to ask 'what do I do with this?' when an email states ******INFECTED******* in the subject line.

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Windows 10 1809 looks unlikely to overtake prior build before 19H1 lands

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Re: My Own Voyage of the Damned

Windows went downhill rapidly after 7, they dont give a fuck and just turn out any old shite now as the great unwashed test it for them.

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Can you tell real faces from fake AI-created ones? It's tough! Plus: Facebook's chief AI scientist talks hardware

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Perhaps

Theyve looked at the Daily Mail? plenty of fake faces to be seen there.

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It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

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Re: "our next generation machine learning model"

@ Eddy42

Cobblers, W10 isn't that drasticly different from 8 or 7 apart from the usual aethetics and 'we've done things differently again...', yet they still manage to make a complete pigs ear of it all because they dont give a fuck about testing.

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Are any of those retards in Redmond listening to the whole World telling them this is a disaster ?

No, they are loving it because the great unwashed test out their shyteware for free. They don't give a flying fuck and any company that did, be assured, this crud would be long gone by now.

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Re: Fuckers got me last night

Acronis or summit like that for next time?

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