* Posts by Youngone

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Supreme Court says secret UK spy court's judgments can be overruled after all

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Re: Judges

I upvoted it because of the Brexit mention.

It seems to me that the key idea behind Brexit is for the born to rule crowd to have total control over the levers of power in the UK, and getting shot of pesky meddling foreigners with their European Court of Human Rights for example is one of their goals.

Taking back control anyone?

Two Capita staffers to double up as non-exec directors, get keys to corporate biscuit barrel

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I had similar thoughts. Or, they sound ambitious. Not likely to rock the boat in their attempts to scramble up the corporate ladder.

FCC promises, yet again, to tackle robocalls. Translation: Expect six more months of waiting

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Doctor Syntax, you may have misunderstood who runs the US, and why.

Congress are involved somewhere in the process, but only to rubber stamp the decisions made by the people who hold the purse strings.

Crap band sues crap beer maker: Hair-metal rockers have an Axl to grind over Guns N' Rosé

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Re: Decent enough?

A band with the best selling debut album of all time as a support act? I don't think so.

Rating music by the number of copies sold pretty quickly has you trying to defend Katy Perry or even Kiss.

I can't say Mike Lynch knew about Autonomy dodginess, star witness tells High Court

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Re: Oh dear

$10 billion here, $10 billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

US government internet and spectrum overseer resigns, along with legislative director

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Do something about it then

it is increasingly impossible for anyone who wishes to put reasoned and evidence-based policymaking ahead of presidential whim to remain within the current administration.

So what? Why would the Trump regime care? It's not like there are any consequences for their bad behaviour.

US minister invokes Maggie Thatcher, says she would have halted Huawei 5G rollout

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Re: Bit of a blunt argument Sir!

I think when Mr. Pompeo invokes Mrs. Thatcher, he is well aware that the Tories have deified her, and she is above criticism, at least in Tory circles.

Oracle co-honcho Mark Hurd can't wait to turn your $1 of IT support spend into $4 of pay-as-you-go cloud revenue

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Re: SaaS will eat the world....including Oracle

Oracle tried the licensing strong arm tactics with the company I work for.

We currently must be one of their biggest customers, as a result in a couple of years they will do no business at all with us.

Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again

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Re: Keys

...which has unfortunately been written in to countless films, books and so on years later as well.

That's because the US has the best propaganda humanity has ever devised.

Daddy, are we there yet? How Mrs Gates got Bill to drive the kids to school

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Sounds like money and privilege have skewed her view of the world

She has never had any other view of the world, being a child of privilege who married into a world of even more privilege.

Why anyone would accept the advice of someone like Melinda Gates is beyond me, I am sure she's a nice enough person, but to pretend she has any idea about how 99% of the world live is silly.

Double trouble for Lyft after share price drop sparks class action lawsuits claiming hype

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Re: Has someone external run the numbers

65+39=104

That doesn't look right to me, but I don't really know enough about investing to be sure, so I'll play it safe and not invest in either of those pyramid schemes inverted funnel schemes.

NASA's astroboffins spot the largest ever Tatooine planet

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If only we could travel out into it.

Yes, if only. Stupid physics.

Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch

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Re: as the saying goes – space is hard.

I'm OK with failures like these. Someone will learn something valuable and not make the same mistakes.

That's how thing improve.

They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America!

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You say you want a revolution?

Have you ever wondered how some issues become so entrenched in American society that they become impossible to resolve despite widespread frustration from both the public and the majority of lawmakers

Weirdly, this doesn't happen in proper democracies.

So let's celebrate America. Because the Democrats have found their version of Obamacare to obsess about while refusing to acknowledge or even discuss to underlying problems that have led to such a split in opinion in the first place.

That may well be because the problems are systemic. As TFA noted, After all, you still get your paycheck and top-notch healthcare to boot.

so until the Democrats stop profiting from gerrymandering and all the campaign finance nonsense that goes on why would they fix the real problems?

I keep saying it, but I think all that is a weird way to run a country.

Prince Harry takes a stand against poverty, injustice, inequality? Er, no, Fortnite

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Thanks Harry

We should listen to what he says, because of his extensive life experience, and all the great things he's achieved.

Former HP CEO Léo Apotheker tells court he didn't read Autonomy's latest accounts before fated $11bn buyout

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Re: crap CEO- It's not unusual

The company in question is neither UK nor US, and the CEO also sat on the board. He is being sued too.

"Good corporate governance" is of course easy to spoof.

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Re: crap CEO- It's not unusual

When a former employer of mine went belly up, the chair of the board was quoted in the press as saying "I did not see that coming".

She had been the chair for 12 years. She did not see that coming. She is being sued.

Quadsys exec who hacked rival firm's database in 2016 convicted of assault

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Re: Reported in the Oxford Mail

Who would have thought the Oxford Magistrates' Court would be such a dump?

I had visions of some beautiful medieval castle, but no.

Nice People Matter? NPM may stand for Not Politely Managed – job cuts leave staff sore

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Re: Stupid buzzwords

Every company needs more management and marketing. You can never have too many HR bods either.

Not quite the Bake Off they were expecting: Canadian seniors served weed-infused brownies

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Re: Re. Space Cakes

Have you ever stopped to consider that Oxygen might be toxic at any dose, and that it just takes 70-80 years for it to kill you?

Wooo, Stumpy man, no way!!

Hey, hey hey...

Hey, did you ever notice how weird my hands look? They look sort of like a bunch of bananas but they can moooove man!!

Weird.

Mobes 'n' mattresses flinger Xiaomi growing like the clappers – outside China, at least

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Who are they?

Xiaomi have a "Mi Store" in a mall near me where they showcase a bunch of their products, but in a really amateurish fashion.

It's almost like they don't really understand the market they're trying to sell into. Either that, or the staff are not paid to care. It might be that.

Oracle's long-running pension plan class action case: C'mon, judge, reject a jury trial – Big Red

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Re: seems reasonable ...

Goodness, three people think you're wrong. That seems like a lot, but I suppose you guys did vote for Brexit.

Welcome. You're now in a timeline in which US presidential hopeful Beto was a member of a legendary hacker crew

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Re: Nice

Do you know any politician who straight away implements their campaign promises without any nuances?

Yes, just not any American ones.

Tired of smashing your face into the brick wall that is US net neutrality? Too bad. There's a long way to go yet, friends

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Republicans v Democrats

I may have spotted the problem.

Only two parties. Neither of them seem to want to do what the electorate wants.

Adi Shamir visa snub: US govt slammed after the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf

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Johnny Foreigner

His name leads me to believe he might be a foreign gentleman.

It sounds like this software whatsit he's invented might be used by miscreants to prevent hard working policemen from listening in on phone calls, or from reading email when they see the need.

I say we ban him from any travel. Can't be too careful you know.

Johnny Foreigner can be a slippery devil.

Prodigy dancer and vocalist Keith Flint found dead aged 49

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Re: Definitely a shock

Medieval rock? Sounds awesome. Very loud lutes I expect. Now I will need to check that out. Thanks.

IBM hunkers down for no-deal Brexit, warns of disruption to supply chain, data transfers

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Re: It'll be worth it

The person has a mental age of 13.

No I don't, you do!

I mean no he doesn't! You do!

Up up and Huawei in my beautiful buffoon: Trump sparks panic by tying tech kit ban, charges to China trade negotiations

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Re: "Criminal charges" ?

I suppose that's what is supposed to happen, but then the article did say:

Others warned that it could send the message that the US justice system is for sale.

Which is an excellent wind-up indeed.

What's in a name? Quite a bit when it's the most hated abbreviation of 2018 (GDPR, of course)

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Workers of the World!

I always think of GDPR as something to do with East Germany. I checked and they were actually the DDR, so now I'm not sure what's going on in my head.

Former DXC Technology veep accuses 'toxic' CEO Lawrie of bullying staff in lawsuit

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Re: Welcome to the world of Corporate Exec bastards

HR appears to disagree.

Well, they would wouldn't they?

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Re: Welcome to the world of Corporate Exec bastards

The big clue to me is the charge of " insubordination " which is not a thing outside of the armed forces.

I was told many years ago that I was being insubordinate, which caused me to call that particular boss Captain Mainwaring to his face for the next few weeks until I found a new job. (It was pretty much the last straw).

Good times.

Redditors start flinging Pooh after mega-forum takes cash from Chinese behemoth Tencent

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Re: Who cares?...

That's not entirely true. The default subs are mostly full of idiots doing what they tend to do on the Internet, but I subscribe to a couple of special interest subs that are quite well run and interesting.

National Enquirer's big Pecker tried to shaft me – and I wouldn't give him an inch, says Jeff Bezos after dick pic leak threat

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I have some questions

Isn't blackmail against the law in the US?

Wouldn't the New York bar (or whichever state he's registered in) have something to say to one of their members caught sending emails making those sorts of threats?

Is the National Enquirer and AMI in big trouble here?

Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs

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Re: What about profit?

The margins in the printing business, at least where I Iive, are more like 3%.

In fact after working for a printing supplies company, I found that about a third of my customers were probably trading while insolvent.

I can't imagine it's that much different in the UK as it is easy to get into printing. Hard to make money though.

Grumble Pai: FCC boss told by House Dems to try the novel concept of putting US folks first, big biz second

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Re: Big biz first, surely...

Invasion to control banana supplies happened several times during the 20th century. Ask the Hondurans.

The outfit where the NHS England Digital boss is headed? Turns out their code is 'not technically suitable' for the £6.4m NHS App

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Based on the limited information I have, Juliet Bauer seems to be a woman of negotiable virtue.

Just because she is the NHS England chief digital officer doesn't mean she actually knows anything useful. That title sounds like a PHB to me.

Oracle's priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration!

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Re: Why bother to report this?

The massive multinational I work for has begun the process of pushing Oracle out the door. I have heard we spend something like $25 million per year in my region alone, which sounds about right.

It was their licensing practices that lead us to ditch them, and Apps won't make us come back.

Huawei’s elusive Mr Ren: We’re just a 'sesame seed' in a superpower spat

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Re: Luddites = Non Sequitur

DerekCurrie could have substituted Cisco or The United States of America for each of his points and it would still have been correct.

The area where China needs to pick up it's game is propaganda. No-one does that quite as well as our American friends.

Making primary school children stand up every morning to swear an oath of allegiance makes my skin crawl.

You can blame laziness as much as greed for Apple's New Year shock

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I disagree

It isn't clear if a beancounter can deliver that.

Yes, it is clear. No, he can't.

Beancounters never can. It's one of the first questions I ask about the background of the boss at any interview I go to. If the answer is "Finance" or similar, I decline the job.

Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people's location data yet again

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Re: Oh the Irony!

I do take your point FozzyBear but where I come from, lying to Parliament (or in a select committee is an imprisonable offence.

It is not clear from the article that the AT&T stooge made the promises under oath, but I am assuming it would have made no difference.

There are no consequences for the wealthy in the US anyway.

wakka wakka wakka

German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have any evidence of Huawei naughtiness?

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Re: Maybe banned because there are no back-doors

I feel a bit sorry for my government (New Zealand) as our mobile network gear has been supplied by Huawei since at least 2006 (that I know of, maybe longer) without any problems but the policy changed recently so I'm assuming the US leaned on someone and nobody will ever find out, because "National Security".

The problem being that China is our biggest trading partner, and will not be happy.

The Chinese spy currently sitting in our Parliament will no doubt be reporting back too.

Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

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I wasn't even around 50 years ago.

I was cbars, and it wasn't that great really. I mean it was OK, but my Mum would hardly let me out of her sight which was a drag, and the tie my Dad wore to work was a huge embarrassment.

On the other hand Cream were amazing at the time, and the joys of progressive rock were still to come.

UK Supreme Court considers whether spy court should be immune to legal probes

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Re: For Systems Going Critical Pre Melt Down

Meh.

It's an OK amanfrommars1 comment, but not great.

The spelling and grammar in the first two sections are correct, and understandable. (more or less).

The third section is a much better return to form.

6/10

Huawei CFO poutine cuffs by Canadian cops after allegedly busting sanctions on Iran

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Should we be worried?

It sounds like the gloves are coming off.

HP's Neon Dion says if anything goes wrong, it's totally Intel's fault: CPU shortage may hit PC maker's financials

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Re: Printers

Thanks Michael. Comments like that are the only reason I come to The Reg.

Come buy our kick-aaS products! Pretty please, says HPE boss man Neri

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Customers

"Customers really like consumption-based pricing," he said. "You can have a cloud experience in private cloud, public cloud. What our customers want is that cloud-like experience with consumption-based pricing, with security, with financial visibility and transparency.

I'm not sure they do, but then I wouldn't expect anyone from HPO to really know what their customers want.

IBM's Ginni Rometty snipes, er, someone for being irresponsible with data, haven't a clue who

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Re: Interesting omission

The most interesting omission to me is the one where she says "We're annoyed we never thought of doing all that".

Seeing as Bitcoin is going so, so well, Ohio becomes first US state to take biz taxes in BTC

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Re: Stupid, or dishonest?

Based on a quick read of Mr. Mandel's Wikipedia bio, I would say it's a little from column A and a little from column B.

I don't think anyone could be quite as much of a by-the-book Republican as Josh Mandel:

High School quarterback

Marine corps

Biblical literalist

Stridently anti-gay (also looks to me like he's in the closet, but you know: Judge not lest you be judged)

Several (minor) corruption issues

Anti-Iran

It's like he's straight out of central casting.

Laptop search unravels scheme to fake death for insurance cash

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A bit torn

On the one hand he had a Sony laptop, so probably getting what he deserves, but on the other he was using a very nice prosumer Canon camera.

I'm not sure what to think.

Japanese cyber security minister 'doesn't know what a USB stick is'

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No, it's not just the UK.

My local MP left school for 7 years in a seminary but never took his vows, then did a law degree so he could work in his parties' policy unit until a safe seat came up.

As far as I'm concerned the bloke has never actually worked a day in his life.