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Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me
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Dental app startup drama: Two attack websites and a lawsuit
Trump to world: Forget moving to America to do a startup
How does it benefit YankeeDoodle land if some US investor gives me $1m for my startup and I have to do everything in the UK? I don't employ any Mexicans (other low wage minorities are available), I pay no state or federal tax, nuffink. And it shows the world that the US is technologically in the stone age when everyone else is leaping forward. Stupid idea by a stupid....
Just in time for summer boozing: Boffins smash world record for the most perfect ice cubes
GSM gateway ban U-turn casts doubt on 7.5-year prosecution in Blighty
OMG, dad, you're so embarrassing! Are you P2P file sharing again?
Talk about a hit and run: AA finally comes clean on security breakdown
Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal
Jaw-boned: Wearables biz Jawbone shuts down
Largest advertising company in the world still wincing after NotPetya punch
WPP probably missed cut-off dates for adverts to be pushed (to magazines, newspapers etc) so their clients have lost out. Probably will look elsewhere for their next advertising partner.
Their big corporate clients will have clauses like IT security/best practices as part of any contract. Again, time to look elsewhere.
So WPP, to save a few pounds in the short term, will probably never recover financially from losing many lucrative corporate clients. This should be shown as a example of outsourcing to other businesses who think it's a good idea to get rid of their inhouse IT staff.
Boffins with frickin' laser beams chase universe's mysterious trihydrogen
Tesla, GitHub, tech bro VCs... Silicon Valley sexism row explodes as more women go public
Microsoft boasted it had rebuilt Skype 'from the ground up'. Instead, it should have buried it
Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway
SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row
Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck
One-third of Brit IT projects on track to fail
I used to be an IT project manager. Never had a failure to deliver. Why? Because you set everything up before hand (budget, people etc) and stay on top of things continually, not waiting for weekly/monthly meetings for someone to raise an issue.
However, in the same company, I've seen massive failures purely by putting the wrong IT PMs in charge of projects they have no idea about (internal politics, brown nosing for promotions etc) so before PMs start blaming others for project creep, budgets etc. they should look a themselves. Taking a course and becoming a PRINCE2 practitioner does not magically make anyone a project manager.
UK.gov tips £400m into digital investment pot
China pollutes ocean with bloody big rocket
Whoa, bad trip, man: Google workers' info exposed during travel-booking software hack
US Senators want Kaspersky shut out of military contracts
Inmarsat flings latest Wi-Fi-on-airliners satellite into orbit
Talk about cutting-edge technology! Boffins fire world's sharpest laser
Astroboffins dig into the weird backwards orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid
NATO: 'Cyber' is a military domain
Australian regulator will decide if Uber drivers are staff or contractors
Murderous Uber driver 'attacked passenger and the app biz did nothing. Then he raped me'
India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet
No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams
Idea to encrypt stuff on the web at rest hits the IETF's Standard Track
US Copyright Office suggests 'right to repair' laws a good idea
Tremble in fear, America, as Daesh-bags scrawl cyber-graffiti on .gov webpages no one visits
Robocall spammers, you have one new voicemail message: Cut it out!
Why not just boycott the company providing whatever. They're the real scum, offloading the telephone calls to India so their hands are clean. If someone phones up offering you a credit card from XYZ, blab all over the internet about how scummy XYZ are. The only way to get their attention about how unethical their marketing dept. is, is through loss of sales or existing customers.
We'll drag Microsoft in front of Supremes over Irish email spat – DoJ
Braking news: AA password reset email cockup crashes servers
Games rights-holders tell ZX Spectrum reboot firm: Pay or we pull titles
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UK Parliament hack: Really, a brute-force attack? Really?
Australian govt promises to push Five Eyes nations to break encryption
Blighty's first aircraft carrier in six years is set to take to the seas
Researchers solve screen glare nightmare with 'moth-eye' antireflective film
The good kind of data sharing: Reg empties its storage news warehouse
Men charged with theft of free newspapers
Despite high-profile hires, Apple's TV plans are doomed
Florida Man to be fined $1.25 per robocall... all 96 million of them
BT problems impact Department for Work and Pensions services
Ego stroking, effusive praise and promise of billions: White House tech meeting in full
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, says report
Researchers take the piss with pee-powered liquid energy project
Report estimates cost of disruption to GPS in UK would be £1bn per day
When corporate signage goes BAD
How do they do it?
It's a Cisco PR department trying to get free advertising from techie websites.
The large piece that fell should surely be on the floor. The stand-offs would have hit the angled piece and either caught it higher up or knocked it onto the floor.
I reckon a Lego mock-up should be done to test the physics (hence the icon).