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Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

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Re: State Aid? Trump??!

Up there with "Hate Pakistanis? Then vote to leave the Eu"

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Re: But there is one.

It has a Japanese owned factory assemble a simple circuit board around an advanced American chip made in Taiwan - rather like claiming a typical premier league side is a symbol of British sporting prowess

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Re: Can't wait to see...

But £350M / week ......

Anyway it should be easy for Britain to produce another Apple.

You need a twat poser full of his own importance with no technical knowledge

An under-appreciated genius engineer for him to rip off

An art-school type, and Marillon front man impersonator, to make it look think(*) and sexy

Also need a few 100,000 engineers, but I hear these are available cheap in the colonies these days

* apologies for the typo - butterfly keyboard

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>you are the only person who has ever got the Dr Strangelove reference!

The TSA definitely do

Entering the USA from Canada they ask if you have ever partaken of the Devilish Weed (which is legal in Canada) if you say yes they can deny you entry on moral grounds

If you tell that no because it pollutes your precious bodily fluids and destroys the purity of your essence they let you in with no further questions.

Or perhaps they thought I was being serious ....

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Re: Not State Aid but Offshoring and Money Laundering

Tories don't do state aid for UK industry for pretty much the same reason that Holland doesn't subsidise its downhill skiing businesses

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Re: Well it's kind of a good idea but...

>Even paying £100,000 to a pole dancer every day

So if Scargill wanted the pits to stay open all he needed to do is put on a pair of tassles and turn up at Number 10 ?

Huawei set to exit server, storage, networking business in the UK

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Re: Untied Estate

>become the fifty-first state of Trumpland

That's a ridiculous notion.

Somewhere like Puerto-Rico might get statehood but Britain is at best a territory

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Re: Not so fast

So what's the excuse fro crushing Bombardier in Belfast - those evil Canadians?

Still "sovereignty yeah"

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Re: So, how was it that

>Just wondering how one empire might steal IP from another...

But if Huawei gained access to our Tea growing secrets the whole of British civilisation would be at risk

Upside down, you turn me, you're giving bork instinctively: Firefox flips as a train connection is missed

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Re: Rotate 180

Or the connectors were at the bottom of the screen and it attaches to the roof.

What price security? Well, for the US ban on Huawei/ZTE kit it's around $1.8bn, and you're going to pay most of it

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Re: Chinaware Infestation

Well all the US tech companies were infiltrated by the US govt according to the Snowden leaks so you have to assume that the Chinese ones are

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Re: Evidence? Anywhere?

No it's only fsck China if the name sounds Chinese to redneck voters.

Lenovo and Motorola are still allowed

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

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I suspect the person in charge either knew nothing about computers or knew a great deal

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But isn't your first question at the bid, " ever built one of these before?" if the answer is yes, then the next question is "did it work and can we have an exact copy?"

A city near here famously did this for property tax. They bought the software that another city ran and refused to change a line. They changed some bylaws to match the other city and put a PC in the line to the printer to replace the name of the town

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Re: The problem with public tenders...

The same system of <cough>"directorships" and <cough>"consultancy fees" that led to the current system also led to legislation saying that the government isn't allowed to take previous failures into account

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>Pensions legislation is some of the most complex there is. Good luck to anybody taking it on.

But is the same for everyone.

So unless there is something special about Scottish pensions that required some new breakthrough in hyper-mathematics, you just copy and paste the same system as every other council/company in the country

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Re: So...

>sounds like Capita could have literally put zero people on the contract, defaulted on it and still come out of this with a large wodge of pure profit

Any evidence that they didn't ?

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Re: So...

I think that's crapita's business model.

1, Win bid

2, Fail to deliver

3, Profit

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

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Re: Beta run

My understanding from the Dear Leader is that states like California and Washington (the ones with the GDP of a major country) are basically North Korea?

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Re: Beta run

I recommend building some sort of wall between the elite, enlightened, educated, wealthy and socialist states and the money-sucking failures

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Re: World leading

>Britain is the first country to ever impose economic sanctions on itself.

We have to teach them a lesson, being tough is the only language they understand

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Re: @wolfetone

There will be no extension.

However we reckon we could get a lean-to built by the end of 2021 if there are any old doors going spare on the allotment

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Re: Err...

Fortunately we will know by at least 11:45 on Dec31 if he is even allowed to do that.

At the moment we don't know what the rules will be for Eu drivers in the UK.

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>Dipshits, both.

Personally I blame Barnier. He is a professional politician, he should have forseen that the UK government's response would have been a complete cluster fuck and so arranged a deal with himself and implemented the software for the UK.

Snowden was right: US court deems NSA bulk phone-call snooping illegal, possibly unconstitutional, and probably pointless anyway

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Re: Great, so NSA slurping back in Snowden's day was illegal

Question is can you extradite and prosecute somebody for revealing an illegal operation, while not dealing with those doing the illegal stuff - and still be a legitimate government ?

What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan

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Re: An alternative explanation?

>Maybe they're primarily needed because the traditional extended family support has ceased to operate, as it mostly has in the "west".

Or because their decades of falling birthrates (*) means that 70 year olds are left caring for their 90 year old parents.

* - probably due to all Japanese peoples baby-making parts being replaced by blocks of pixels ?

Here comes an AI that can predict hurricane strength. Don't worry, NASA made it so it probably actually works

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Re: Predictions are useful

It's your own fault for not going metric - then you would only have around 1.2M

Borking all over the world: At home or abroad, you're never more than 6ft from a BSOD

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Re: its amazing how many embedded systems use Windows.

>when some type of unix could be had for free.

Given the capabilities of BIOS these days - are there any which will display contents of a webpage ?

Infosys to hire 12,000 more Americans – especially the cheapest ones it can find

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Or this "promise" will get them a favorable nod from the current administration, a free pass from the next one who don't want bad headlines, and somehow the jobs will never actually materialise

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a pair of black holes coalesced resulting in largest gravitational wave we've seen

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Re: Gravitational waves?

>measuring is 1/10,000 the width of a proton.

Metric or Imperial protons ?

What's that in linguine ?

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Re: Is God a programmer?

>Every geek knows that black holes themselves are essentially divide-by-zero errors.

The singularity at the center of the BH is the divide by zero

The black hole is the try/catch block around the singularity to stop you hitting the error

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Re: Not a "Fwoop"

> Does the 9 solar masses' worth of energy mostly depart in the form of EM radiation

Yep mostly gamma rays, lots and lots of gamma rays

You're stuck inside, gaming's getting you through, and you've $1,500 to burn. Check out Nvidia's latest GPUs

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Re: Mouth-watering specifications and possibilities

>I could add weird tile things but I don't have to and didn't.

Depending on your version of windows10 you had to spend time removing them, and then removing them again when it does an update - or on some versions you can't

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Re: "neither side was short of a few shekels"

I think the leather jacket has become an Nvidia keynote brand

Fortunately they are now able to render the leather jacket onto the video in real time so he doesn't have to wear it

In the frame with the Great MS Bakeoff: Microsoft sets out plans for Windows windows

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Re: re: company seeks one true way

Yes if only they didn't keep abandoning the new way before it was able to do what the old way did

What's 2 + 2? Personal info, sniffs Twitter: Anti-doxxing AI goes off the rails, bans tweets with numbers in them

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When it comes to things like detecting abnormal cells in a smear test I'll take 'massive dumb statistics' over a bored technician giving it a quick glance

Critical vuln that lets miscreants hijack computers via Slack? *Sucks in air* We'll give you $1,750 for it

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Re: Slack is gonna look so secure...

And think of all the free publicity they will get when large organisations are hacked because of a slack bug.

Soon CTOs will all be discussing slack

When Irish screens are borking: Ticketing trip-up for Dublin-based Windows 10 IoT terminal, but at least it's not XP

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Re: Irish Gauge

Or it was to allow taller heroines to be tied to the tracks by Irish mustache twirling villians

Sounds like the black helicopters have come for us. Oh, just another swarm of FAA-approved Amazon delivery drones

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Re: "And it carried out a fully automated remote landing on an even larger plane, "

And smaller and smaller drones and so on to infinitum...

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

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Re: USA's Clean Network

But this is like having the tunnel exit in Belgium to stop the French invading!

Unless they don't plan to connect the American end you can still get to America's internet

While you lounged about all weekend Samsung fired up its biggest-ever chip factory and started cranking out 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM

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Re: You say 16 Gb, the picture shows 16 GB

Marketing hat=ON

What's the difference

Worried about the Andromeda galaxy crashing into our Milky Way in four billion years? Too bad, it's quite possibly already happening

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Re: Humanity in 100 years

> Once machines are smarter than us why would they want us around?

Don't you read on-call ?

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

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Re: "Was the militia pro police or pro protest?"

>It was very much pro-police and the police were OK with the militia.

That's why we need some official government agency to decide which posts are approved - to stop all these pro-government groups posting such sentiment

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Re: If there were no Facebook?

Simply re-introduce the Lord Chamberlain's office and have it review all material for publication.

That would soon solve this problem of el'reg comments.

Then we could have all tiktok videos certified by the BBFC.

Dell: 60% of our people won't be going back into an office regularly after COVID-19

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> All of the work-from-homers who want an actual OFFICE to go to could actually RENT an office room,

Sounds like a business model

What could WE call this place to WORK ?

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Re: I would hate to own commercial real estate

> they've bought or refinanced a building in the past 25 years they are still going to be in trouble.

Cost of being a commercial landlord is the cost of interest = bugger_all% for the next few years

Here's some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise

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Re: It has nothing to do with entertainment.

All of who are going to switch to the next app when US Spyware TikTok is banned everywhere else and in the USA requires you to view an ad for presidential candidate Larry every time you log in

Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts

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Re: This Is A Job For An American

But this was a cyber-crime. It is increasingly difficult to hire white collar criminals in the USA, the market is so tight and so many of the best have secure government jobs.

If it was possible to bring down the CISCO WebEx by shooting at it, then an American would be perfectly qualified

Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles

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Re: Enough

Interesting fact, Welsh was written with K for the C sound but when a Bible was published in Welsh in C16 the printer didn't have enough Ks so suggested using C

One of China’s flagship 7nm foundries falls in a hole as funding flees

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Re: Add in the corruption factor

If only China had a strong leader who could ban foreign competitors and funnel unlimited public money to favorite projects

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