Re: Wow, a company that listened to its customers?
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It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild
Smart meters: 'Dog's breakfast' that'll only save you 'a tenner' – report
Monday 4th September 2017 15:10 GMT 
Got one
Bill went up by about a third, which coincides with a Dutch study.
"Why did you have one then?" you ask.
Because living in a flat, with smart meters in a common area, means the electricity company just rock up and change everybody's meter at once while everyone's out. And as it's Spain, if you ever told them that you didn't want one, they'd ignore you anyway.
Well, whad'ya know? 'No evidence' that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
Retail serfs to vanish, all thanks to automation
Google's Hollywood 'interventions' made on-screen coders cooler
Monday 4th September 2017 08:43 GMT
He says he has a wife, but we never see her.
For all we know, Mrs Columbo is his schizophrenic alter ego who goes out and commits the murders then Columbo finds someone else as a fall guy/girl. Any scenes of the fall guy/girl killing someone could be handwaved away because the series is shot with Columbo as an unreliable narrator.
Or perhaps I've been watching too much Mr Robot.
Monday 4th September 2017 08:00 GMT 
Halt and Catch Fire
Well... they didn't manage very well with making that technically accurate. I bet the elevator pitch was Mad Men with computers.
Obligatory link: Source Code in TV and Films
Linus Torvalds passed a kidney stone and then squeezed out Linux 4.13
Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest
Friday 1st September 2017 05:29 GMT
Re: Masks
No need for a mask, just some shiny clothing and make up, which you never get at carnival.
Or even just some new carnival glasses would do.
A carnival seems to be the worst place to try out this snakeoil that the police bought.
Big Tech slams Trump on plan to deport kids
Saturday 2nd September 2017 16:40 GMT
Re: Not quite.
Yes, as mentioned above I thought the US did the same as most countries, which is only give US citizenship to the baby if at least one of the parents is a US citizen. However it is enough for the baby to be born inside the US.
So what damn difference does it make if the child came when they were say between 0-5 and when they were born there? They're socially going to turn out an American anyway.
Why is one child sponging off the welfare state and the other not if in both cases the patents are illegal? Why put one child on notice of deportation if their brother or sister a year or so their junior is fine? Why break up their family? It makes no damn sense.
Friday 1st September 2017 22:14 GMT
Re: Not quite.
Interesting, I assumed like in most countries at least one parent had to be a US citizen for the baby to have US citizenship.
If US citizenship is that permissive then why suddenly get upset about, say, a pre-schooler getting brought in to the US yeaes ago and threaten to send them back years later when they are basically an American?
Friday 1st September 2017 21:50 GMT
Re: Not quite.
They did not sneak into the country, they happened to be born there or were brought there by their parents at a very young age. They did not choose to illegally enter the US.
Letting them grow up alongside other children, go to.school with them, pledge allegiance, etc... so they basically are as American as their peers but then letting it be known that they are not as American as their peers, that there is a sword of Damocles hanging above their heads, and they might be thrown out at some arbitrary age at the whim of the government back to a country they probably don't even remember is the height of stupidity, cruelty, blithering idiocy, is entirely consistent with Trump, and is only done to shore up support from mindless unthinking cretins.
So may I wish a great big hearty fuck you to any of you here who support this... policy, for want of a word.
That virtually impossible classic compsci P vs NP problem is virtually impossible, say boffins
Saturday 2nd September 2017 05:45 GMT
Re: What the hell is #P-Complete?
I know what NP complete means because I just Googled an explanation for thickies. It didn't mention #P complete anywhere.
'Independent' gov law reviewer wants users preemptively identified before they're 'allowed' to use encryption
Friday 1st September 2017 17:11 GMT
So, what they're looking for is...
... a way to link each email address and phone number to an identity (e.g. passport, driver's licence, etc...), hold them in some centralised gov database, and allow social media providers to query the DB to check if an email address or phone number has been verified.
I do wish they'd just come out and say what they mean.
We experienced Windows Mixed Reality. Results: Well, mixed
Friday 1st September 2017 15:45 GMT
Strange idea for a show
So it seems the writer of this esteemed organ went to a show and found out which vendor wrote the most bug-free device driver for Windows Mixed Reality and MS' Cliff House application.
Cliff. Nobody's going to mention Cliff, Edge, or jumping off. Marketing managed to walk into that one again.
Connect at mine free Wi-Fi! I would knew what I is do! I is cafe boss!
Friday 1st September 2017 14:01 GMT
Re: This is the reality of life
Most people aren't aware of the pitfalls of open WiFi and other stuff and a virus or malware is something that the fates bring. If it goes wrong, it was destined to. If they know someone who can get it fixed, that's destiny too. Very Athenian, but it's spread all around the world.
Western Digital has cloudified the NAS and shoved it in a trendy box
When uploading comments to the FCC, you can now include malware
China: Cute Hyperloop Elon, now watch how it's really done
Microsoft's fix for web graphics going AWOL? Disable your antivirus
Thursday 31st August 2017 09:33 GMT
Re: I have an easier solution.
It's pretty bad that this far after launch, UWP apps and UWPified software like Edge and Mail aren't compatible with screen readers.
Apparently Microsoft Narrator works the best, it doesn't seem they´re that bothered about helping third party screen readers to work. Link
Tech soap-opera latest: Alexa marries Cortana, will share custody of customers
Sweden may extend data retention, splat NAT and register VPNs
Wednesday 30th August 2017 09:18 GMT
Re: Next one in line
But really, there's no really way of checking how the Internet in the UK is being snooped on until the next big leak so it's academic (if there is a next big leak). Everything's buried in technical notes which have restricted circulation and are under a NDA. The wording could probably be tailored for each person to trace leaks.
Well, debugger me. Microsoft's BSOD fixer is getting a makeover
Tuesday 29th August 2017 15:58 GMT
Re: Know your market
Unfortunately if you hide the ribbon, the toolbars don't come back and the menus don't go back to the way they were.
People don't want the old way because they don't like change, they want the old way because the new way was worse. If MS had come up with a change that was better, people wouldn't still be complaining 10 years on.
India responds to internet shutdown criticism... by codifying rules to make it legal
Trump-hating Iranian is the new Uber CEO
Tuesday 29th August 2017 07:47 GMT
Re: Typical US corporate way of life....
You don't even need to insult him to get arrested.
Press freedom advocates condemn arrest of journalist in West Virginia
Dangle a DVR online and it'll be cracked in two minutes
Tuesday 29th August 2017 07:27 GMT
Re: Let's think like the marketing department
More likely the order will come down to Software from above that there is no extra time or money for security but instead they have to work smarter, but money would be allocated to Marketing to mitigate the bad PR, and Marketing would come with a new spec on the spec sheet: 0-Pwnage in 120 seconds. It then becomes an industry standard metric and companies compete to get it down.
Dell's flagship XPS13 – a 2-in-1 that may fatally frustrate your fingers
WannaCrypt NHS victim Lanarkshire infected by malware again
Ad blocking basically doesn't exist on mobile
Node.js forks again – this time it's a war of words over anti-sex-pest codes of conduct
Saturday 26th August 2017 07:54 GMT
Re: Well, I don't know who's done what to whoever
No, JavaScript has rigidly designed areas of doubt and uncertainty.
But back to my point, any framework based on JavaScript (which we know has RDAODAU) which has x forks and stuff like this going on in its steering committee isn't calling out to be used. I don't even care about the detail, it just gives off an aura of "you'd be better off choosing something else".
Nokia trademark filing reveals name of upcoming drone brand
UK.gov wants quick Brexit deal with EU over private data protections
Vodafone won't pay employee expenses for cups of coffee
Friday 25th August 2017 12:13 GMT
You might buy a sandwich if you're not travelling, other people might ordinarily bring their own lunch.
If Vodafone employees brought their own Tupperware to client meetings, that wouldn't reflect well on the employee. If they all did it and and explained their company policy, that might reflect well on Vodafone.
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