Hello, European Patent Office, anybody in today ?
Can somebody please inform the European Patent office that patent EP2724461 is complete utter bullshit, as 1954 TR-1 constitutes prior art. Thanks!
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Siri, how do you wipe that smug smile from Qualcomm's face? Apple wins patent skirmish with chip nemesis
OK, it's early 2019. Has Leeds Hospital finally managed to 'axe the fax'? Um, yes and no
Intel to finally scatter remaining ashes of Itanium to the wind in 2021: Final call for doomed server CPU line
Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs
Post-Brexit plan for .EU tweaked: No dot-EU web domains for Europeans in UK, no appeals, etc
Fine, we'll do it the Huawei, says Uncle Sam: CFO charged with fraud, faces extradition to US over Iran trade claims
You're an admin! You're an admin! You're all admins, thanks to this Microsoft Exchange zero-day and exploit
Open sourcerers drop sick Fedora Remix to get Windows Subsystem for Linux pumping
We did Nazi see this coming... Internet will welcome Earth's newest nation with, sigh, a brand new .SS TLD
Friday 25th January 2019 09:26 GMT 
Fake ?
Except the US government managed to supply a one-paragraph letter signed by Mr Razeeq several months after he had disappeared authorizing the handover. He then promptly disappeared again and has not been heard from since. You can still view the letter [PDF] because it makes up a part of the formal redelegation documents.
You are not meaning to say that the US produced a faked document to ICANN, do you ... because that would be felony, would it not ?
Office 365 enjoys good old-fashioned Thursday wobble as email teeters over in Europe
Brexit? Now that it's raining more than ever, know we're OK at Computacenter
You heard the latest Chinese CRISPRs? They are real: Renegade bio-boffin did genetically modify baby twins
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 12:09 GMT
Re: Monsanto are evil.
Yeah, Monsanto are evil, but braindead Germans (quite rare find) in Bayer bought them up and, with Glyphosate liability, they are already bankrupt ... can you imagine, two with one blow ? I could not either, until Bayer showed how moronic they were!
These things take time ... then we will go after BASF and the rest. Step-by-step, ohh baby!
Heads up: Debian's package manager is APT for root-level malware injection... Fix out now to thwart MITM hijacks
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 11:21 GMT 
?
So, the guy needs to MIM you, redirect your apt-get requests to his site, ok, but ... how does he sign packages ? I mean, those are signed by the distribution ? Has he got a copy of the private key of our distribution ? Wow, then we have other problems, because he no longer needs to MIM us ... he has access to the build servers ...
EU will have agreed a tech tax by March, says French finance minister
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 11:11 GMT
Re: That could plug the EU's brexit budget gap.
If you look at the UK budget, it is rather small, not insignificant, by any means, but small. When you then think of this:
just in time manufacturing
passporting (banking)
farming (e.g. Poles etc coming to pick, subsidies)
500 million market at our fingertips
You go: that is cheap. Well, maybe just me ... but all that will be gone pretty soon, good luck!
Ginni, you may have to get out and push: IBM sales, profit stuck in the mud. $13bn is $13bn, tho
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 11:02 GMT 
Growth, growth, growth, layoff, layoff, layoff ... all that matters, crush your competitors and grow over them, when they get bankrupt, buy them up and milk their customers until they switch to your real stuff, then dispose of the remains, growth, growth, growth, layoff, layoff, layoff ... market saturation ? what does that mean ... growth, growth, growth, layoff, layoff, layoff
White-listing Azure cloud connections to grease your Office 365 wheels? About that...
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 10:47 GMT
Do the official Office 321 and Azure sites not already leak information to Microsoft on your every move, safely stored along with your Microsoft account (user-identifiable for GDPR non-compliance) ?
BTW: I finally managed to install 1809, apparently, it did not like Developer mode. To get an error that made sense, I had to download SetupDiag.exe... just sayin'
Core blimey... When is an AMD CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide
Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 14:37 GMT
Re: ' by 1998 there was no actual need to buy a mac for DTP. NT4 was excellent'
Windows was not a viable replacement till 2000
Windows has never been and never will be a replacement for graphical design, computer music, or type setting... as for Office software, it is NOT GDPR compliant, and as such, unfit for the office and any other use.
Clone your own Prince Phil, says eBay seller hawking debris left over from royal car crash
Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 10:57 GMT
I expect it will be hard to rival that
Yes, it will be hard ... somehow, MS software keeps needing patches, and patches, and yet more patches ... every other month Edge has a remote exec bug, as does IE, the only other company that I know of that comes close is Adobe.
All software needs patches, sure, just MS software simply tends to need monthly patches ... come on, even their Windows 10 semester updater gets patched every month ... and still fails on one of my boxes. I followed instructions from every MVP I could find in the forums, no luck ... the mediatool creation thingy failed with "We're not sure what happened" <---- sign of bad coding!
Cortana and Search to innovate separately in an amicable Windows 10 Insider split
Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?
Friday 18th January 2019 16:11 GMT
Re: @JohnFen Look it's really quite simple.
The real question is not why do you use an outdated OS, it is more why do you use XP merely to do spotify ? runs perfectly well on Linux and bonus, you get an updatable OS ... one day spotify will update its API and then spotify for Windows XP will cease to work ... will happen sooner or later, you never know ...
Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today
Friday 18th January 2019 15:19 GMT
Re: Such a thing doesn’t appear to have happened before
I personally think the worst was the 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1901 Windows updates failing to install ... to try and hide their incompetence and confuse the feeble-minded, Microsoft stuck to keeping the 1809 name for the patches ... 4 successive patches to the patch and still fails ... I dunno ... Ubuntu, that gets nowhere as "privileged" vendor support, has not missed a single semestrial patch iteration over the course of a decade, and MS has only just started with this release cycle.
It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Friday 18th January 2019 12:23 GMT
I am stuck with 1803, and 1901 failed to install ... I have high hopes for 1903 or 1904, sure they will have it fixed by then!
Factual: Yes, when Windows Update failed, I did try MediaCreationTool1809.exe and that had to roll back as well ... I also downloaded all the latest drivers from HP's website earlier this month, to be on the safe side ...
A billion-dollar question: What was really behind Qualcomm's surprise ten-digit gift to Apple?
Wednesday 16th January 2019 08:34 GMT
Re: simply too expensive...
You, sir, do not know how companies work.
Whatever a company produces, it must keep the costs low, regardless of the price they get for their products. A company always has to maintain its margin and their profits or the investors will leave, worse, a lot even leave when your profit does not grow year on year according to their unrealistic "predictions". So, Apple must continue to grow or it will fall, it is falling right now, simply because the market is saturated, despite the price hikes, people keep their phones longer, Apple tried to get old iPhones to calculate pi or whatever to drain the battery and force them to buy newer models, but that did not work too well, so ... when a company starts falling, they tend to fall much faster than they grew ...
PS: I am just explaining how this shit works, not giving my opinion ..
While Windows 7 wobbled, AI continued its relentless march at Microsoft
Tuesday 15th January 2019 16:14 GMT
You need a microsoft store account, which is normal if it were merely used for EXACTLY that.
However, when you search or ask Cortana something or you use Word, Excel, or Bohr knows what, this info is gathered and sent to Microsoft servers, now, they would love to attach that to an account. Now, as long as the password is incorrect, Microsoft cannot be sure the username you have is exactly yours, so they cannot map that data to you. I tested this, I used an account months ago to download WSL from the store, the changed the password ... then months later, I downloaded something else from the store and worked along, forgetting for a day or two to reset my password ...I then went to mocrosoft site to change my password and then into my account ... there I could see the slurping had started again ...I delete data all is good ...
Tuesday 15th January 2019 11:14 GMT 
The news comes hot on the heels of Python 3.7 making an appearance in the Microsoft Store, courtesy of the Python Software Foundation. Free, of course, the interpreter is rated for ages 3 and up and allows Windows 10 users to run applications and scripts written in the language.
To use that, you need a microsoft account which, when Windows knows the password, is used to identify the system you are on for slurping purposes ... so no, never ... or, enter your credentials, use the store to download what you need, when done, on the microsoft website, change your password again ... Windows will moan every now and then that the password is incorrect ("Account problem") but you can safely ignore that ...
Goddamn the Pusher man: Nominet kicks out domain name hijack bid
Serverless is awesome (if you overlook inflated costs, dislike distributed computing, love vendor lock-in), say boffins
Dozens of .gov HTTPS certs expire, webpages offline, FBI on ice, IT security slows... Yup, it's day 20 of Trump's govt shutdown
US Department of Defense to fling $1.76bn at Microsoft
Monday 14th January 2019 15:50 GMT
https://www.berlin-mauer.de/videos/walter-ulbricht-zum-mauerbau-530/
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Berlin, 1961, GDR dictator in person: Nobody intends to erect a wall.
That became the lie of 60's and 70's, will Trump's "Mexico will pay for the wall" become the lie of decades to come or will this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdIHzLsELyA it is either, it is as simple as that ...
Fun times in times of dire straights for the minions running the US state, my thoughts with you! Can we not crowd-fund something ? I'm pretty sure at least 35% of the free world would happily pay into it ...
Talk about beating heads against brick walls... Hard disk drive unit shipments slowly spinning down
Just updated Windows 7? Can't access network shares? It isn't just you
Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10
Wednesday 9th January 2019 10:51 GMT
Ever heard of junctions ?
mklink /?
I use that a lot ... c:\Program Files AND c:\Program Files (x86) link to a folders on a secondary drive ...
> mklink /j "c:\Program Files1" "d:\Program Files"
> mklink /j "c:\Program Files (x86)1" "d:\Program Files (x86)"
Then reboot from a linux usb drive and move the data over, remove c:\Program Files and rename c:\Program Files1, same for sibling ... done ;-)
Skip all that and install Devuan or FreeBSD!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
