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Move along there, nothing of significance to see (or so they hope by doing this over a holiday)
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Microsoft reveals 'limitations of apps and experiences on Arm' – then deletes from view
Kentucky gov: Violent video games, not guns, to blame for Florida school massacre
Sunday 18th February 2018 19:08 GMT 
The 2nd Ammendment was probably right for its time
i.e. the time of Muzzle Loaders and single shot pistols and no organised police
Now the USA has automatic weapons and has at least three layers of Law Enforcement.
Is there a need to still have the 2nd Ammendment?
I know that the gun lobby will be out in force but personally, I don't think it is needed.
Let the downvoting begin.
A computer file system shouldn't lose data, right? Tell that to Apple
Saturday 17th February 2018 10:22 GMT 
Interesting.
In the Blog post 'Mike B' says
"This week we reported to Apple a serious flaw in macOS that can lead to data loss when using an APFS-formatted disk image. Until Apple issues a macOS update that resolves this problem, we're dropping support for APFS-formatted disk images."
Then he goes on to say that it only affects 'Sparse' Images.
Then at the bottom he says (who reads down that far these days eh?)
"Until Apple resolves this disk images bug, we strongly recommend that people avoid using APFS-formatted sparse disk images for any purpose with any application."
He's got all the clicks and promotion of his product by the first paragraph.
He could have said "we're dropping support for APFS-formatted Sparse disk images." (my ephasis) but the headline writers may well have passed over it and therefore he'd not get the Interest in (a.k.a. clicks) his product.
Hands up who HASN'T sued Intel over Spectre, Meltdown chip flaws
HomePod, you say? Sex sex sex, that's all you think about
Friday 16th February 2018 11:19 GMT 
Simple solutions to the HomePod thing
1) Don't buy it. Get a Sonos instead... Oh wait.. It leaves rings as well. Just don't bother with this POS and technology dead end.
2) Got a paper hanky? Put that under it and problem solved. Fanbois won't do that though. They'll spend thousands on new 'ring proof' furniture instead.
Robot cars will kill London jobs – but only from 2030, say politicans
Thursday 15th February 2018 16:56 GMT
Re: A lot of 'hot air'
There ARE 100% Electric Busses running in London at the moment.
From memory, they are built by BYD (Build Your Dream) and are used on route 135 from Finsbury Park to Morgate.
TfL seem to be concentrating in getting the single decker fleet to be all EV before the Double Deckers.
BYD built all the 2100+ all electric busses for Shenzen in China (their home city).
UK names Russia as source of NotPetya, USA follows suit
Hate to ruin your day, but... Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU design flaw exploits
HTC phone supremo leaves months after Google guts firm for best and brightest
Winter Olympics 5G isn't real 5G, says Qualcomm, that won't land until 2019
Wednesday 14th February 2018 14:57 GMT
Interesting
And there were plenty of cough-cough comentators in the media slagging off Apple for not having 5G functionality in the ultra expensive iPhone X.
I had reservations about those comments simply because there was nowhere to use 5G and Apple being Apple won't include anything that would make them 1st to implement something.
Now we get Quallcomm (not a great fan of Apple at the moment) telling us that it won't be until 2019 that we can get the chips to support it.
I know that it is cold outside but I have to wonder if hell is actually freezing over?
Apple's HomePod beams you up into new audio dimensions
Tuesday 13th February 2018 07:39 GMT
Love the Picture (with the Hacksaw)
Other reports stated that iFix it realised that the mesh would come off quite easily if they'd attacked it from the other end! Doh!
I wouldn't put it past Mr O from wanting to take a hacksaw to every Apple device (once the Batteries had been removed that is). :) :) :)
In my worthless opinion, the only thing going for this is that it will not be used to :-
1) Sell you more useless tat on your Prime account
or
2) Slurp your listening details and conversations to the highest bidder (both Amazon and Google kit)
As for Siri? Please Apple get rid or do something about it. It is an embarrasment (As if the non removable power cord isn't enough of one as it is)
Samsung needs to eat itself, not copy Apple's X-rated margins
Monday 12th February 2018 13:54 GMT 
Huawei?
Oh yes, the Phone that is banned from being used by the US Government and has been dropped by several US carriers... All because of Chinese Government Spyware...
As for the iPhone 6S, why not get a secondhand one and get a £29.00 battery swap from Apple? Does that not make it even better?
It has TouchId which in my mind is superior to FaceID but at least the latter hasn't been fooled by a Photograph like the Samsung version.
It is all a game of cat and mouse between Apple and Samsung. Each one trying to out-do the other.
Yorkshire cops have begun using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners
The Register Lecture: AI turning on us? Let's talk existential risk
Due to Oracle being Oracle, Eclipse holds poll to rename Java EE (No, it won't be Java McJava Face)
Monday 12th February 2018 10:50 GMT
Re: Greek coffee
The coffee in the cafanas as well as the stuff in nearly all small hotels is all spiked with shit and practically undrinkable.
That must because it all comes out of a huge tin with a 'Nescafe' label on it.
The same goes for large parts of S. America and Africa. Even in places where they grow Coffee, you seem to get served luke warm dishwater instead of the real thing.
Tech giants' payouts go to everyone but affected citizens. US Supremes now urged to sort it out
Brit regulator pats self on back over nuisance call reduction: It's just 4 billion now!
TalkTalk to splash £1.5bn laying full fibre on 3 million doorsteps
Thursday 8th February 2018 13:04 GMT
re: Investors
Yeah, but investors bought shares for the dividends, not because they're interested in the company's activity.
and only what happens in the next 90 days. Plans about investments outside the next quarter are seen as negative in their view of the world. This short termism are be the downfall of many a company. I've even seen one with a full order book for the next TWO years go under because they could not get a line of credit extension for more than 90 days. When their products take at least 120 days to make they had no choice but to shut up shop. Madness.
Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason
Thursday 8th February 2018 09:44 GMT
Is it Legit?
Quote
Fun thing about the DMCA: it required Apple to state, under penalty of perjury, that the iBoot source code was legit:
All it needs is for the code to have been written by Apple. The Copyright statements are enough to get it taken down. It does not have to be the real boot code... but probably is.
We may never know. Apple is probably changing the boot code as we comment (or may have done already) and as the majority of Fanbois update their Apple toys I would not expect their to be much of a risk of mass hacking but it is interesting none the less.
Wileyfox goes TITSUP*: Smartmobe maker calls in the administrators
Wednesday 7th February 2018 15:28 GMT
Re: Android Updates
My first Android was an HTC. Apart from one carrier update that was it. Then I had a Samsung. 6 months and the updates stopped. Got another Samsung and this time it was around a year and then it was carrier updates only.
I know that this is not totally represntative but that's my experience. Moved to recon'd iPhones. My iPhone 6 is still getting full OS updates and not had any battery issues. (don't speak too soon eh?)
Until Google puts their foot down OS updates on Android will still be hit and miss. They have the stance taken by Apple to work towards and they should. The whole phone market will be a better place if they did get tough. Less for Apple Fanbois to crow about for one thing.
MPs: Lack of technical skills for Brexit could create 'damaging, unmanageable muddle'
Wednesday 7th February 2018 10:34 GMT
Well Duh!
How about these for starters...
- Not giving the contract to the likes of Crapita, Steria, IBM and especially not to TATA and friends.
- Not changing the spec every week/day/hour.
There is no incentive for UK Techices to get involved with projects like this so they run for the hills when asked to do them.
Fix the above and you might, just might get somewhere by 2021.
The many-faced god of operational excellence, DevOps and now 'site reliability engineering'
Long haul flights on a one-aisle plane? Airbus thinks you’re up for it
Monday 5th February 2018 08:18 GMT
Re: 9h with ScumBag Air seat spacing
A380 in Luton or Leeds
Well, Emirates operates A380's out of Gatwick with the same runway length that early 747's had problems with due to lack of oommpphh from the engines. One Pilot that I knew at the time hated it if they had to take off to the NE as it was rare that they could get a bit of speed up before they got onto the runway. In that case they'd rev the engines up really high and hope that the brakes held.
modern Jets don't have that problem.
As for the A321, I've travelled back and forth to Jordan many times on on (Brit Midland and then BA) and found them ok but with BA adding another row to Cattle Class I'm glad that I don't travel much these days and when I do, it is at the front of the plane. I have to use those AirMiles up somehow...
You can find me in da club, database full of faces… but this ain't privacy watchers' jam
Openreach ups investment plans: Will shoot out full fibre to 3 million premises
$14bn tax hit, Surface Pro screens keep dying – but it's not all good news at Microsoft
Thursday 1st February 2018 06:56 GMT
But...
Where are all the class action lawsuits from all those disgruntled customers who's screens have gone 'phut'?
We all know that if this was Apple, this would be headline news all over the world.
Perhaps it is a sign that MS is slowly fading into insignificance (in the public eye) now that they have given up on mobile?
1,900 rotten apps bounced out of Google Play every day in 2017
F-35 flight tests are being delayed by onboard software snafus
Well done, UK.gov. You hit superfast broadband target (by handing almost the entire project to BT)
Deep sigh... Servers get teaser trailers now
Lenovo's craptastic fingerprint scanner has a hardcoded password
Driverless cars will lead to data-sharing – of the electrical kind
Friday 26th January 2018 17:52 GMT
Local Councils and CP's
What a great idea. Waverly (yes you lot of useless twats) won't do it despite Farnham Town Council wanting to put them in (An Ex Mayor drives a Zoe and wants to promote Green Driving)
Then there are the CP's at Hospitals 'reserved for staff', which in reality means just the Chief Exec in his Tesla Model X. Bah Humbug.
GitHub shrugs off drone maker DJI's crypto key DMCA takedown effort
Friday 26th January 2018 07:53 GMT
Re: It took 10 minutes to spin up an Azure VM
and it took 30 seconds to shut it down and wipe it because your mega corp forgot to pay the bill.
There are risks in life. I guess that 3 years to secure your companies IP is not very important then? Didn't you talk to the legal dept? or Information Security?
Biker nerfed by robo Chevy in San Francisco now lobs sueball at GM
Thursday 25th January 2018 09:21 GMT
Re: I think the cyclist is at fault#2
Yep. Long term biker here (since '69 ) and rode around 13K miles last year on a big bike.
I was taught defensive riding by an ex Police Instructor in the mid 1970's. In traffic I still ride as he taught me. That skill has saved my life on many an occassion.
Ride as if you expect Tin Cans (driven or driverless) to do stupid things and you will survive.
H-1B visa hopefuls, green card holders are feeling the wrath of 'America first' Trump
Electric cars to create new peak hour when they all need a charge
Wednesday 24th January 2018 11:06 GMT
Re: Cost of Electricity
How will the Taxman work out when I'm charging my EV (in the future) or running the washing machine?
Raising the taxation level(i.e. VAT) on Leccy will be a sure fire vote loser. It was tried once and quickly reduced to 5%.
You raise an interesting point. We'll probably all move to a 'pay per mile' model based upon the data all our permanetly connected cars send to HMG/GCHQ. It will also help Big Brother keep tabs on us 24/7.
Elon Musk offered no salary, $55bn bonus to run Tesla for a decade
I thought there'd be more Instagram: ICT apprenticeships down 20% in five years
UK competition watchdog: Fox's takeover of Sky 'not in public interest'
Tuesday 23rd January 2018 11:07 GMT
Re: A good decision
But what does the wrinkly one have on the current 'Culture Media and whatever' Minister? Well he have the balls to tell Old Wrinkly to go back to get stuffed?
Somehow I doubt it.
As for heads in a Jar, you have forgotten public enemy no 1 (according to the Trumpster), Hillary with her side kick Obama... They'd love to have them stuffed and used for target practice. {joking}
President Trump turns out the lights on solar panel imports into US
Playboy is suing Boing Boing over Imgur centrefold link
Nominations open for comp restoration gong, the Tony Sale Award
Monday 22nd January 2018 18:03 GMT
Re: 30yr old machines
I agree.
The TMoC is a great place to visit. I've been a member for several years. The people there know a thing or two about computers from before Intel.
When you start to understand some of the things they did in those buildings on WW2, you can't help but shake your head in amazement. Some of the stuff they did especially w.r.t breaking the Lorenz code without ever seeing a machine was stunning. Some of their work is still classified (really).
I'm sure that if you have some interesting bits of old kit, they'd be happy to receive it.
PS
If you have the source kit for RSX-11M/Plus then I know that they'd welcome it with open arms.
Take a former NSA head hacker, a Raspberry Pi, weird Kiwi radios and what do you get?
NHS OKs offshoring patient data to cloud providers stateside
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