* Posts by Steve Davies 3

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Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth?

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The MAGA angle

2% off Apple's share price isn't just loose change down the back of the sofa, it will have made people panic and the 'drip drip' of anti Chinese manufacturing news could eventually force a rethink by some major players which could have severe implications for the Chinese economy.

Which is exactly what El Trumpo wants is it not?

Quite where they are going to find all the workers needed when say Apple brings their iDevice production to the USA is another matter entirely. Perhaps all those Coal Miners who have been led up the garden path by Trump and his 'Good Clean Coal' promise when mines and coal fired power plants have been closing at a faster rate than before he got the nuclear button codes.

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Alien

It is interesting in several ways

firstly all these MoBo's were taken out of use or never got into front line service several years ago yet the Apple and Amazon stock price dropped.

Their current results won't be affected by this so why?

Bloomberg has been running a lot of attacks on other tech companies this year. Their principle target has been Tesla.

Now for the conspiracy theory.

APPL and TSLA are two of the most heavily shorted stocks on Wall St.

Shorters bet on stock falls.

So the shorters buy options on the target stock(s)

Their golfing/sailing/frat buddies release a story about something that happened years ago

The target stocks drop

The shorters sell the options before the end of the settlement period.

The shorters make money, sorry, make that LOADSAMONEY.

If only life was that simple eh?

Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

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Coat

I blame the lack of testing

What? They didn't test it before release?

Coat with a full hip flask in the pocket. It is going to be a long weekend/week/month for people in support.

Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff

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Wow!

An article by Mr O on Apple that does not use derogatory terms like 'Foxconn rebadger'!

I hope that this is a sign of things to come?... Or maybe not.

I've yet to put Mojave on my MBP so this article was very timely. I'll probably skip updating it until 10.14.1 is out and a few more of the rough edges are ironed out.

Thanks for a decent review Mr O.

much appreciated.

Microsoft: OK, we have no phones, but look how much we love Android

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WTF?

The end of the world has just got that bit closer

MicroSoft getting all cuddly with Google? A WTF moment if ever there was one.

UK's Openreach sends full fibre to Coventry

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Re: Trenching

ROFL for that. All the lines in my area arrive at the premises via an overhead line from a nearby pole. Remember those things? Long bits of wood sunk into the ground. None of that new fangled stuff in trenches here. :) :) /s

Location, location, location... technologies under the microscope

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Re: CCTV and other news

In other news, sales of Ski Masks, Donald Trump masks and Nicabs have risen by 10,000%.

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Childcatcher

BlueTooth? No Thanks

I really don't want to see personalised adverts for me as I travel anywhere.

Let's face it, most of us hate pretty well all forms of advertising but having some is a just a fact of life. But the increasing intrusiveness of it into our lives has IMHO fallen victim to the laws of diminishing returns.

The more adverts the less likely you are to buy the crap that is advertised.

I skip all ads on TV. As I record almost everything I want to watch it is not that difficult.

As for BT on my phone? It has never been enabled and probably never will be. If I want to listen to Music, I have it all on my ancient iPod that has a headphone socket.

We all (at least most of those who read this site) use GPS and other technologies mentioned in the article. Some are of benefit to us and others are being abused by commercial interests. Enough is enough. No more.

If I had my way I'd send all people who work in advertising to Mars. Let them have the whole planet to themselves and leave the rest of us alone in peace.

Holy smokes! US watchdog sues Elon Musk after he makes hash of $420 Tesla tweet

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Childcatcher

Re: TSLA stock price drop

The one good (sic) side of this is that those who have shorted TSLA can't trade as the SEC rules forbid shorting when the stock drops by more than 10%.

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Have an Upvote

For admitting that you have an EV. Anyone doing that in the past has been downvoted almost into oblivion by the PetrolHeads here.

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Re: 5 minute recharge time

A lofty aim indeed but...

Recent surveys of EV owners seem to indicate that most of them charge their cars overnight at home.

How long does it take to put a charging cable in? Certainly a lot less than filling your tank as a petrol station.

Even using a charger that plugs into the UK 230V mains electricity you can charge the 95kW battery of the Jaguar I-Pace in under 12 hours. That give you around 250 miles of range. And to travel that 250 miles has cost you a lot less than if you had used a petrol engined car.(cost to travel not including the vehicle)

I've looked into buying an EV and even test drove a Tesla Model S and an I-Pace. Lovely to drive but hellishly expensive.

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Re: Margin Calling..

SEC issues small slap on wrist & the share rise (back to near $420?) short sellers make $$$

How can shorters make money on a share rise?

Don't Shorters by definition basically bet on a stock price falling to make money.

Intel boss admits chips in short supply, lobs cash into the quagmire

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Facepalm

Intel's inability to deliver

The company's inability to deliver 10nm processors is well known;

The company's inability to deliver 10nm processors that are not subject to all sorts of vunerabilities and with any recognisable performance improvement over what was release 2 or even 3 years ago is well known;

There fixed it for you Intel.

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

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And not that far away...

Is the Llangollen Railway. If you are going to visit the Aqueduct then it is only a few miles onto the Railway.

{Shameless plug as I'm a part owner (small) of one of the locomotives that is running on the railway.}

UKIP doubled price of condoms for sale at party conference

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Holmes

Not content with wanting to **** all of us

They seem to want to do the same to each other.

And they want us to vote for them?

National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

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Re: TNMOC

is also totally self funding. It deserves all the support from the IT Community it can get.

I've been a member for a number of years.

Remember when Apple's FaceTime stopped working years ago? Yeah, that was deliberate

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Holmes

Re: Punctuation

They have obviously been to lawschool as well where using punctuation is beaten out of you because of possible misinterpretation.

Big Cable tells US government: Now's not the time to talk about internet speeds – just give us the money

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Re: Look on the bright side

Corporate America is (admittedly slowly) driving the country to international ridicule and irrelevance.

The man at the top in DC isn't helping one little bit. If fact and IMHO, he is actively promoting the demise of a once great and proud nation. MAGA? Far from it if you ask me. {just ask a trumpite where those MAGA baseball caps were made. Then take a good number of steps back as the implode}

Brits pay £490m extra for mobes they already own – Citizens Advice

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Re: HP saucing

If you look in the small print you will find that they are licensed credit brokers or are agents for a licensed approved credit broker.

That's how...

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Can someone please remind of the upsides of a mobile contract...

as opposed to buying a phone outright (or from someone other than the Phone Company or PC-World) and getting a SIM only deal from the network of your choice?

What? is that Tumblweed blowing in the wind from Storm Ali?

Once upon a time there was a need for mobile contracts that included the device. These days? not really.

Apple hands €14.3bn in back taxes to reluctant Ireland

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All people on the Island

of Ireland are according to the Irish Constitution citizens of the Republic. That's why people born in the North can decide to represent the Irish Republic.

This is from memory so the situation might have changed.

Scrapping UK visa cap on nurses, doctors opened Britain's doors to IT workers

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Holmes

Re: UK IT shortage -Don't be silly...

Spot on, All our IT work is going to India. Didn't you get the memo?

Well either that or to the Cloud where it disappears forever once the rains (or monsoon) has stopped. /s

First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum

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Re: Feeling old yet?

Don't forget the Comets... and the Caravelle's

Ancient? Probably but only in body.

UK.gov isn't ready for no-deal Brexit – and 'secrecy' means businesses won't be either

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Coat

time for a chorus of

"Let's call the whole thing off" perhaps?

Coat with a soon to be useless passport in the pocket.

First 'issue-free' build of Windows 10 October 2018 Update arrives

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Happy

1st Issue Free Windows?

Ohhhhh This could get interesting.

Linux kernel's Torvalds: 'I am truly sorry' for my 'unprofessional' rants, I need a break to get help

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Linux

Re: Don't let the namby-pambys run the Kernel, Linus!

He could still do the telling off but in private rather than on the kernel mailing list.

Probably for the best: Apple makes sure eSIMs won't nuke the operators

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I can see some of the US networks

having a real hissy fit with Apple over this and demanding that the E-Sim is blocked on the phones they doll out in their contracts. For them it is all about lock-in. If you decry Apple for having a walled garden, the likes of AT&T have a far better one. Their bills are pieces of art with all sorts of extra charges and addons. Then AFAIK, one US network charges $80 to unlock the phone at the end of the contract.

It seems that in Europe things are a bit different. Many of us are on Sim Only deals these days. With one-month rolling contracts or PAYG we have far more flexibility over who we use as our network provider.

I can see business travellers using the E-SIm for their main network and buying a local PAYG when at your destinations. Granted, this is easier said than done in some places like India but it can even be done there.

My old Samsung Galaxy that I bought in Dubai years ago always had a local and a UK Sim card in it. Sadly the version of Android it used plus the Samsung crud that was layered on top meant that using it was shit.

Microsoft accidentally let encrypted Windows 10 out into the world

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FAIL

How dare you!

Mention Stability and Microsoft in the same sentence.

Go sit on the naughty step and say 1000 times, I will not download any release from Microsoft until at least 3 months after it has gone Gold.

Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?

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Big Brother

Re: More bloat in an already over bloated OS

didn't you get the memo?

you know the one from MS that clearly stated that the OS is theirs and their EULA means that they can do whatever they want to it even if it is on your hardware. What they giveth they can taketh away.

You will do what they allow and only what they allow or they'll take their OS and go home.

/s /s /s

Seriously, this is really taking the piss. SatNad and his crew in Redmond get more like BB each and every day.

Article 13 pits Big Tech and bots against European creatives

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Re: Does Orlowski ever do an unbiased piece?

Those of us who have been around here for a while know that every so often there is an article of his that gets a few backs up. It used to be mostly about Apple but he does seem to have changed target a bit recently (don't speak too soon you fool... there is an Apple event about to happen)

In general we handle them as a tongue in cheek event.

Variety is what it is all about and long may he carry on injecting a bit of spice into posts. After all, there are only so many arcticles on SAN/Storage that any sane person can read in a year.

Carry on Mr O!

British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment pages

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Third Party Domains

BA's payment page still loads content from seven external domains.

They are not alone in that.

The current trend to use multiple layers of frameworks that are loaded from 3rd parties for even the simplest operation is a huge hole the size of the Grand Canyon.

The event at BA is just the tip of the iceberg. If I was running a business that took payments online, I'd be taking a really good look at how that was working and what 3rd parties were involved.

Oh, and their cost cutting and sending all their IT to India naturally won't have anything to do with it...

Activists rattle tin to take UK's pr0n block to court

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Re: Educate, don't legislate!

That's why the Yanks call politicians "Lawmakers". As most of them are just that, Lawyers what else do they know to do? Well, apart from those who have done PPE at Uni and never had a proper job.

With PPE Grads and Lawyers... How worse can it get?

Don't anser that.

$200bn? Make that $467bn: Trump threatens to balloon proposed bonus China tech tariffs

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Re: The cost of theft

Then there is the little matter of how much US Debt that is owned by the Chinese.

Old Turnip Head needs to watch out or Bejing will call in that debt and basically foreclose a good proportion of the USA economy.

Trump seems to not understand how much the US is in Debt. He's only caring about imports and doing sod all about exports. But what does the US Export (that is made in the USA) that any of us wants to buy?

I can't think of much TBH.

Jolly Green Giant Corn perhaps?

Oh wait, could it be GMO'd? I'll pass thanks.

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Re: And the pollies let it happen.

You would have thought that being made Bankwupt how many times is it? Five? well, a good few that he'd have learnt at least the basics of economics...

He really needs to learn that the USA can't win a trade war with the rest of the world. The ROW economy is far bigger than that of the USA.

Perhaps he should go on TV and smoke some dope and say to his critics... Cool it Man! (only joking)

Tesla's chief accounting officer drives off after just a month on the job

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Re: The end of the beginning

What you say is very rational.

However, I'd love to see the reactions of the Teslerati if you posted this on a very pro-Tesla site such as

Electrek.com.

They'd probably want to have your guts for garters if they could.

But honestly, smoking dope like that. How bad is that for PR in the immensely puritanical USA.

Vodafone hounds Czech customers for bills after they were brute-forced with Voda-issued PINs

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Re: Geofencing for logins?

Sometimes, not having the right geolocation is a good thing. One website I use thinks that I'm in postcode NG20. That is over 100 miles away from there I really am.

Perfect!

Nokia reinstates 'hide the Notch' a day after 'Google required' feature kill

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Joke

It is all Apple's fault

Hasn't anyone sued them for starting this stupidity???

China will overtake America as leading AI superpower, warns ex-Google Beijing bigwig

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Re: Amazon

A lot of items on Amazon come from China, and you find that many are identical, but with different branding. It seems to be the plan to flood the market, and drive conventional producers into the ground, but it isn't sustainable.

This is all IMHO, part of Amazon's grand plan to drive all the retailers out of business. There is no real benefit to Bezos and Co to drive suppliers to the wall unless it is by price alone. They need endless supplies of 'tat' and 'crap' to sell to unsuspecting punters. If they had nothing to sell then why would the remain in business?

The 'there is more choice on Amazon' mantra is working. The death of retail outlets in the UK and elsewhere is clear evidence of that.

No, no, you're all wrong. That's not a Kremlin agent. It's someone with 'inauthentic behavior'

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Mushroom

And where was Google?

Oh, they declined to attend. Says a lot does it not!

Kudos to FB and Twitter for going but that's about all the praise they warrant.

See Icon for what should IMHO be done to all three

5G can help us spy on West Midlands with AI CCTV, giggles UK.gov

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Big Brother

Re: A possibly explosive question.

Hoodies and baseball caps with extra long peaks will be de-rigeur in Brum from now on.

And there we were thinking that 5G was progress...

What kind of fool did they think we were?

{don't answer that}

Microsoft Azure: It's getting hot in here, so shut down all your cores

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So MS expect us to trust them with our Business?

Oh sorry, MS does not work on Labor Day.

All is good then.

Nah. /s /s /s

Apple cops to iPhone 8 production oops, offers to fix borked phones

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Happy

Re: Dear Apple.

But... they don't make it. They just re-badge a FoxConn device. Don't they?

Huawei Mate 20 Lite: A business mobe aimed at millennials? Er, OK then

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Huawei has scared Samsung

into reviewing their mid range phones and to even go as far as introducing new features on their mid-range rather than on their Galaxy S devices.

Interesting times ahead for devices in this market segment but I have to ask if this is a precursor to Samsung dropping out of the premium phone buisness as apparently the S9 has not been selling that well.

BT scoops Home Counties chunk of new NHS IT contract

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Joke

re: Just wondering what a high bandwidth non-digital connection looks like...

How about a semaphore tower on top of each NHS building?????

2-5 words a minute should be enough for everyone.[see icon]

Microsoft takes a pruning axe to Skype's forest of features

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Dear MS

Please just return Skype to what it was on the day before you bought it.

Thank you

Former Skype User.

Plusnet customers peeped others' deets during system upgrade

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Re: We've asked the Information Commissioner's Office to confirm it is aware of the issue. ®

Why?

Simple really. People in the IT world hate BT. PlusNet is part of BT.

Do you really need any more to put 2 and 2 together and get 4?

Microsoft gives Windows 10 a name, throws folks a bone

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May I humbly suggest...

that we call Windows

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"

or

"There be trouble ahead!"

Or words to that effect...

Huawei's Alexa-powered AI Cube wants to squat in your living room too

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nope. Still not going to bite...

with any of this [redacted] stuff especially with amazon and god knows who else listening in 24/7.

Not going with Google or Apple shite either.

I'm sort of proud of my non-smart home... At least one or two less companies are stopped from snooping on me.

No need to code your webpage yourself, says Microsoft – draw it and our AI will do the rest

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Re: The Last One.html

Have an upvote for remembering 'The Last One'.

You beat me to the comment.

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Big Brother

Re: I do wonder...

Please don't forget all that empty vertical space that MS loves so much especially when we plebs have to manage with displays that are blessed (sic) with little vertical resolution.

All the easier to hide lots of lovely data slurping code in white on white.