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FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024

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What guarantee does FedEx get?

A the last place I was at Azure would either be too slow or you had to wait an age.

Not all the time but enough to be a pain.

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We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world

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Re: BBC Domesday Project

Who selects the members?

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City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all

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Turn around.

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Next major update of Windows 11 prepares for launch

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Re: I'm surprised that it's not appeared on more ordinary people's machines

Erase Winge 11 and install Windows 10.

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Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus

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Something else...

The joy of compilers helps.

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Re: Alternatives

Except they may need better fabrication methods other that they have now.

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Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion'

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Re: Another week another acquisition

As long as it is to their advantage.

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Buying a USB adapter: Pennies. Knowing where to stick it: Priceless

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Re: Seems ok

Cliff had to buy a USB->SATA adapter, the money would cover that and a pint.

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UK suit over reselling surplus Microsoft licenses rolls on

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Where are Microsoft to go after Windows 11?

More adverts in the built in apps?

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The right to repairable broadband befits a supposedly critical utility

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Re: resilience

Satellite internet?

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IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office

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Re: Business as usual

Wise words.

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Users complain of missing data in UK wills search service

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Ah, the government I have known...

Let's just say this isn't a surprise.

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Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK

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Smart meters

How many smart meters use 3G?

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Buy 'em by the punnet: Raspberry Pi offers RP2040 chips in bulk

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Re: Brilliant little devices.

And if the programming voltage was too high above 12V charge got stuck so you couldn't erase the device.

The cure for that was to put the devices on a baking tray in an oven at 200C for an hour.

I had to do this for a few hundred because the 12V in my programmer was

*Cue Monty Python "Aye, we had it hard" sketch*

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Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents

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You have to remember that LIDAR is an active system so what happens when you have a lot of LIDAR scanners active and overlapping others?

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Tesla? Skimp on testing?

Remember Tesla got approval in Arizona - which has the most lax approval for motor vehicles in the US.

The explosion is self explanatory.

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Software guy smashes through the Somebody Else's Problem field to save the day

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Re: Dodgy connection

This is why Displayport has a retention clip.

Of course there are some none compliant cables that don't have the retention clip at either end.

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Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

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Re: Serious question from MS users

From what I can see Windows Defender is only a firewall.

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GCHQ was rebuked for ignoring spy law safeguards as pandemic hit Britain

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I had an interview there once and it is worse than I expected.

My mistake - it was worse. The little people in some areas had their pension contribution stopped 'because of budget issues'.

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The inevitability of the Windows 11 UI: New Notepad enters the beta channel

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I can't beat that!

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Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue

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Re: Why are soldiers being monetised for profit like this?

The correct term is exploited.

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It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine

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Re: Motorola

I can remember cooking EPROMs at 200C on a baking tray in an oven for half an hour because the programmer voltage was a bit too high and charge leaked into other parts of the EPROM.

Oh joy.

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The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom

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Re: Back in the early 90's

Are you sure that it wasn't jealousy that they hadn't thought of it first??

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Real-time crowdsourced fact checking not really that effective, study says

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Does the word...

Mobs mean anything?

Icon is when someone gets burned at the steak.

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Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

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Re: Well apparently the BBC needs to hire "Pro Brexit" staff now

Source?

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Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why

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Re: There goes the brand

IBM on some systems most features were built in but you needed a specially shaped wire to enable the feature.

Some poor engineer ordered the correct item for a few thousand pounds and a sheet of paper with instructions on how to install the wire.

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Renting of licensed instructions

Just hope the payments aren't missed.

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If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002

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XKCD strikes again!

Psychic or precognitive?

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Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

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She is consistent

But so is manure.

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EU Commission may extend antitrust probe into Nvidia's $54bn merger with Arm

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Re: British!

https://www.arm.com/company/offices

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Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers

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Is Dido Harding

involved?

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Nearly 140 nations – from US and UK to EU, China and India – back 15% minimum corporate tax rate

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Re: And who pays those corporate taxes?

It is to try and level the playing field for domestic competitors.

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Fatal Attraction: Lovely collection, really, but it does not belong anywhere near magnetic storage media

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Such as being put on the PC case?

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US road safety watchdog decides against probe into Tesla battery fires

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Tesla and testing

Testing EVs in the USA is more often in Arizona because it is much easier to get approved for the whole USA.

Now where do we think Tesla carry out testing....

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What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened

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Re: The choice of available browsers is lame

Like Edge.

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Texas cops sue Tesla claiming 'systematic fraud' in Autopilot after Model X ploughed into two parked police cars

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Arizona

Is where testing of Tesla is carried out.

It also has the lowest standards in the US for testing and this is not an expectation in safety testing standards for other things.

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Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly

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Pot

Kettle.

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Cops responding to ShotSpotter's AI alerts rarely find evidence of gun crime, says Chicago watchdog

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And how many are people of colour.

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Judge dismisses objections to spaceport in Scotland from billionaire who also wants to build spaceport in Scotland

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It's been done before

See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050910/

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A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped

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Re: Really?

Fireworks will have a slower burn speed which is enough to invalidate the evidence, particularly with multi path sounds.

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Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

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Re: Watchdog 'disappointed'

OK, register as a new user with your real name.

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Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?

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Re: Wire-Wrap Gun?

RSI?

I used to dream about RSI!

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US boffins: We're close to fusion ignition in the lab – as seen in stars and thermonuclear weapons

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Re: Not that green...

Could you provide a few links?

Thanks.

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UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'

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There is light at the end of the tunnel

They will cock it up.

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Green hydrogen 'transitioning from a shed-based industry' says researcher as the UK hedges its H2 strategy

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This isn't about saving the planet

It is so Boris gets lauded for something.

Anything.

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Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount

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Re: the old classic ..

The 747 was created when the board were aircraft people.

The 737 MAX was bodged together when the board were (and are) money people.

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Re: "assumed Boeing knew what it was doing."

Boeing used to be an aircraft company with aircraft people on the board.

Now the board consists of money people and it shows

Old board - created the 747.

New board - how much can we cut?

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Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!

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Re: Thor is popular because

I will have to create a second login to give you a second thumb up!

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Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to

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Re: The Sin of Gluttony

Thank you and kindly leave the planet!

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Giant Tesla battery providing explosion in renewable energy – not as intended

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Elon Mask and safety

Let me put it this way.

Arizona has the most lax certification in the US.

Guess where Tesla carry out road tests.

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