Technology and fraud analytics – plus cybersecurity – will save $1 trillion
Over what time frame? If it is a year that's quite a saving (about 30% or there abouts). If it's over a hundred years, less impressive.
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IBM offers Trump its ideas to Make America Great Again
Forget razors and blades, APIs are the new gotcha
Former Autonomy CFO indicted in USA for misleading investors
Monday 14th November 2016 08:54 GMT
Re: Lawyers
Here is the first thing that came to mind (story about three bankers handed over when the treaty first came into force):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5174902.stm
However, although the alleged perpetrators and victims are based in the UK, the Crown Prosecution Service has not brought any charges against the three.We have requested British authorities to bring a case against us if there is one to answer.
The men have called on the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) to bring charges against them, but say the FSA has not done so.
They have also written to NatWest asking them to bring civil proceedings against them "if you consider we have committed an offence", but say there has been no action and the bank is still providing financial services to them.
Instead, the US Department of Justice has brought seven indictments of "wire fraud" relating to the deal, covering emails and faxes sent between Houston, London and the Cayman Islands four years ago.
Race for wireless VR headset heats up
Panicked WH Smith kills website to stop sales of how-to terrorism manuals
Friday 11th November 2016 14:42 GMT
Who ever wrote my A-Level chemistry text book had put little anecdotes about chemistry in the margins to make the topics seem more interesting. One that stuck in my mind was about how important surface area could be in the rate of a reaction. The example given was an explosion where one or two people died in a silo were powered chocolate was being stored. Something sparked and it became effectively a bomb without what most people would consider to be an explosive present.
Trumped? Nope. Ireland to retain corporate tax advantage over the US
Trump's taxing problem: The end of 'affordable' iPhones
Thursday 10th November 2016 14:16 GMT
Reorganisation on that scale will take far longer than a term or even two terms in office. If other countries slap tarrifs on US manufacturing in repsonce it will make US exports less competitive. There is no simple or easy way to deliver what trump has promised. Still he has the best brain and I look forward to seeing it in use.
One reason why China is so poluted is that we outsourced our manufacturing there. Trump seems to lower enviromental standards so I hope he has a plan for when lots of people start coughing and they have no health insurance.
Thursday 10th November 2016 10:54 GMT 
It is not efficient to ship raw materials a long distance to be transformed into a finished product. Unless the US becomes a manufacturing hub on a vast scale it won't acheive the economies of scale that can be acheived else where. Without the vast pool of highly talented people who live around the world it will slow down development until more people can be trained up or those people can be hired (and the taxes paid driving up costs) or brining them in. From someone who is suppose to have the best brain it's not a very well though through plan. Did get him elected though which was probably the point. Given that he has only a casual relationship with reality and the truth he can flipflop his way out and no doubt his supports will forgive him as they have forgiven so many things.
Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship
Thursday 10th November 2016 12:07 GMT
Re: Torture isn't even the biggest problem
Trump is talking about the targeted assassination of non-combatants even if there is no pretense of a milatary target nearby. Morally you'll have a hard time seperating that from 9/11, 7/7 and Paris attacks; not to mention it just a matter of scale before you're looking at genocide.
Thursday 10th November 2016 08:23 GMT
We have people that want to do really bad things!
Yes, and Trump is one of them. Doesn't matter if it works or not as long as it makes him macho seems to be his policy.
"Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise."
Shouldn't respect for the law and human rights been included in that list?
Trump's plan: Tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, turn off the internet
World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit
Friday 4th November 2016 15:34 GMT
Lots of wards are running XP. Even if the accounts are setup correctly, when you're running something that old there are going to be cracks criminals can creep through.
BTW those systems have email because it's how the different departments sent each other results e.g. get an x-ray and the image is emailed to the consultant before you can walk back to their office.
Build your Type 26 warships next year? Sure, MoD – now, about that contract...
Accessories to crime: Facial recog defeated by wacky paper glasses
We're great, you don't understand competition law, Google tells Europe
Google knifes Eclipse Android Developer Tools
Swiss, geez: Robo-hooker coffee shop to be erected in Geneva
Hm, is that a minefield? Let me just throw my magic bomb-sniffing spinach over there
Cheap, lousy tablets are killing the whole market says IDC
Boffins coax non-superconductive stuff into dropping the 'non'
Everything you need to know about HP's three-in-one x3 deals
Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog
I've arrived on Mars. Argggh, my back!
BlackBerry DTEK60: An elegant flagship for grown-ups
Will AI spell the end of humanity? The tech industry wants you to think so
Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%
Monday 24th October 2016 22:37 GMT
Re: Batteries
Pebble 2 have connectors for smart wrist bands. It's suppose to be for stuff like extra sensors but you could probably put a small flexible battery (assuming anyone would be willing to risk it post note) into a wrist band. Of course my pebble steel lasts about five days between charges so it isn't that desperately needed.
Hacktivist crew claims it launched last week's DDoS mega-attack
Monday 24th October 2016 14:45 GMT
Re: i worry
If reasonable safety laws can be written products from cars to phones you'd hope that fridges and webcams wouldn't be too much to ask. Not having a default username and password that gets metaphorically written in the sky or can be updated to patch vulnerabilities should be the minimum manufactures are required to do.
Newly discovered cave-dwelling creepy-crawly is four times the man* you are
Government Digital Service under review after rural payments cockup
Donald Trump running insecure email servers
This speech recognition code is 'just as good' as a pro transcriber
Wednesday 19th October 2016 09:15 GMT
Re: This speech recognition code is 'just as good' as a pro transcriber
I have plenty of Scottish friends and relatives who use hold yer wheest to tell people to be quiet (well it sounds more like howl yer wheest but I translate to to hold in my head). I doubt there is just one dialect covering all the highlands and lowlands.
Skin tattoo will tell your phone when you've had a skinful
Wednesday 19th October 2016 08:33 GMT
Re: Selfish
The few times I have been over to the US for work the people I was working with had a far more lax attitude to drink driving and saw a lot more erratic driving than anywhere in the UK. A car I was it was almost hit broadside by a drunk driver who then went off the road and staggered out of his car. People not drinking and driving would be the best solution and this might stop people in the morning after but it won't stop people who think they're better drivers after they've had a few.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
