* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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The Pentagon is shockingly bad at managing its employee smartphones

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Re: The entire App model

Because without harvesting your contacts, movements and web traffic they have no data to sell to fund their operations.

Its not like anyone is going to pay for software

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> communication applications that have been exploited by violent extremists

Like the mail, I believe that this may have been used in organising the original colonial treason

UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

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Re: “My Lifetime as a Lettuce”. The memoirs of Liz Truss

>agreement to solve the Northern Ireland Protocol issue

I think there is a workable technical solution.

3d movies were a flop so there are lots of pairs of 3d glasses around, more than enough to give them free to anyone in Northern Ireland/The 6 counties/Ulster/The ancient lands stolen from our ancestors (delete as appropriate). We can simply swap left/right eye lenses so that those that believe that the flat matso ball is the body and blood of the big man's lad and those that believe pipes and drum are music can have totally opposite glasses.

Then we simply put polarizers on the custom posts on top of the old red/green channels.

That way the sons of the Ard Rí can not see a border post across the island, while seeing one at Belfast docks and the fans of Cromwell can see border posts on land but not the ones facing the Irish sea.

Subsidies? All UK chip industry needs is tax, rule tweaks, claims rightwing thinktank

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Re: Low tax, small state

>Singapore is particularly funny... It's an authoritarian technocrary, the very opposite of a small state.

Where everyone lives in a council house

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Re: Incentive

No, facilities for the disabled would be better if we were ruled by Davros

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Re: Tory think tank proposes solution to problem <X> : tax cuts

This is cleverer though it let's them right off all non-R&D stuff as well.

So Mega corp could move their HQ to London and write off everything as R&D and pay no tax. Except they can't because then they can't sell in Europe and a company from any country with a functioning legal system would get hit by their own tax guys.

So the only people I can imagine benefitting would be Lord Snooty hedge fund who would declare that because they had a laptop they were a tech company and pay no tax. Except of course they don't pay tax anyway

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Re: Incentive

But at least you have sovereignty

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Re: "Successive governments have failed here"

Well for the last 12years the Tories have been trying their best to undo the legacy of the Corbyn government

IBM health benefits blackout leaves retirees footing the bill

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Re: Makes me sick it does

But here in Communist Canada, in return for the 70% tax rate, we also get free government donuts

Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in

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Re: Yahoo?

Exclamation mark installation experts

US, UK slap sanctions on Russians linked to Conti, Ryuk, Trickbot malware

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Russian

Aren't they already sanctioned and travel banned cis of being Russian?

Is this secret double probation sanctioned ?

Romance scammers' favorite lies cost victims $1.3B last year

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Re: Young 'uns

But their productivity is much higher. In the old days you had to mount an entire musical to seduce little old ladies out of their money.

Codebreakers decipher Mary, Queen of Scots' secret letters 436 years after her execution

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Re: Modern techniques versus ancient

>So what did Walsingham use when he had Mary's letters deciphered contemporaneously?

They weren't very complex, it was a simple substitution cypher with a few extra symbols meaning 'ignore the last 3 characters' etc

It helped that they were very formal with lots of stock phrases and long-winded titles of people

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They used a GUI !

That's a graphical user interface for any el'reg readers.

Have we started employing CSI scriptwriters?

Not so good morning Vietnam, as government announces, then buries news of Intel investment

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But they're communists

So why are they the ones getting Intel to invest in building factories when the hyper-capitalists in Germany, Japan and the USA are fighting for who can throw the most public money around.

US warns aging air-traffic control code won't be fixed until 2030

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Re: Mission critical components

> National Security is at stake

Surely this puts National Security at risk ?

Dear everyone, the president will be flying along this course at this time, have your 2nd amendment MANPADS ready.

Yes it only gives a 25mi radius but if the 25mi radius path starts and ends at a city you can probably narrow it down to an airport

Americans have the right to livestream police traffic stops … probably

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In next weeks news

A Mr Sharpe was found shot 37 times through the door of his house in N Carolina, police have ruled it a suicide

UK PM splits govt department in 4, creates dedicated 'Science and Tech' bit

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Re: Department of

So basically it's all Corbyn's fault, along with the BBC.

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Re: Department of STI

But most of the students in higher education don't do STEM so it should be under the department of culture, media and sport - and you might as well move science and industry under there as well

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We need to replace him with strong and stable <note to Ed, find me a politician that alliterates with strong and stable >

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Re: Department of STI

>Department for STI

The WRX is fun, but I'm not sure it needs an entire dept

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Re: Davos

Don't forget the people that paid them

5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO

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Re: The death of CISC?

>Mid-range ARMs are more than fast enough for most people's use of a desktop

Yes but (at least until the Pi4) I couldn't go to Bob's Big Box Computer Store and buy a beige box with a latest and greatest 64bit ARM

I can get a bunch of dev-kits with the right promise of building a product and after signing an infinite number of NDAs - but that's not exactly consumer friendly

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Re: The death of CISC?

>Many will say that the demise of CISC was pretty obvious 30 years ago, but what has taken so long?

Because since the Archimedes you couldn't, and still can't, buy a desktop ARM cpu that compares with Intel/AMD.

So I can't develop software on it.

So there is no market for a desktop ARM machine

Because there is no software for it

Warning: Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will be gone in 2 months

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Re: Not the profile picture

>Teams for personal use", whatever that is.

It's teams but you can't connect to anyone else and nobody else can connect to you - personal, right?

Somehow though it will remain insecure

Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info

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Re: As an owner of a Xiaomi

Or too reliant on the Eu or UK.

We need ar own Yorksha fab to mek proper devices reet ere

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Re: As an owner of a Xiaomi

But the phones are made in China and china can hide secret undetectable chips on the motherboard that can contact China, former presidential candidate Mr Bloomberg said so.

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Re: As an owner of a Xiaomi

>with a black mark against you on a travel watch list

So long as it's a Chinese government travel watch list I'm good.

Don't plan on going and if the Chinese suspect I'm a capitalist - fine.

Now Google/Apple reporting to their government that I was sitting next to a democrat, and them adding me to a no-fly list/credit card blacklist/etc kind of fscks me up - and I don't even live in Americaland

Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban

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Re: threatened bans if Wikipedia did not censor content it deemed "sacrilegious"

>one country's idea of sacrilegious is often another country's idea of gospel truth, and vice versa. So which country gets to decide?

Obviously you leave it to God-on-God action to sort it out

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Re: Strangely torn

>While clearly "blasphemy" is a victimless crime,

What about God?

Has anyone considered the harm to his/her/its feelings?

British government torched over lack of chips strategy

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Re: Our strategy

>awarded a multi-billion-£, no-bid contract to our mates for the development of a world-leading chip fab app.

That's just ridiculous. They awarded a multi-billion-£, no-bid contract to their mates for the development of a logo for the project.

Actually developing a world-leading chip fab would involve listening to experts, and possibility even foreigners

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Re: Just wait for the new EU immigration system to be operational

>The one where everyone from the UK going to mainland Europe has to have their photo and fingerprints taken.

That's cos they don't have sovereignty or control of their borders

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Re: You know what we should do?

Now that's just crazy talk, who would organise such a thing ?

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Re: Brexit

British chips are happier

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Re: Perhaps once burned?

>8um is huge

But for hand carved, artisnal, British semiconductors it's pretty good

Google works on Blink-based iOS browser contrary to Apple's WebKit rule

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Apple learned from Microsoft

Microsoft thought that tech could just build stuff without making political contributions. Silicon valley have learned since then, so no multi year investigations and justice dept threats to break up Apple

Prepare to be shocked: Employees hate this One Weird Clause

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Re: Too broad: You can't work in IT for 2 years.

But saying that you've signed it would be breaking it. In fact acknowledging the existence of the OSA would be covered by the OSA

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Re: Mental

The working time directive isn't a right. It was explicitly not a " elf and safety " because it would require agreement of every safety working hours for drivers/medics/pilots/sailors etc all across EU and then clash with worldwide agreements

Oracle, Microsoft barely compete for a quarter of their US Federal contracts

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Re: No Guardians of US Taxpayer's Money?

>The UK has the National Audit Office (NAO), a permanent institution to audit government and public administration for, amongst other things, value for money in government expenditure.

Or more often to issue a report saying "giving the contract to G4S/Serco with no clear deliverables was a bad idea", about 9months after the same conclusion appears in Private Eye

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Excellent

By not having to waste money on advertising and bid preparation they are able to direct more money toward engineering.

That's why the Soviet Union's consumer goods were so well made

Should Google location data be a tool for cops?

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Re: Why Google?

>How would anyone investigating know that the bank robber had an Android phone?

Poor people own Androids, rich people don't rob banks - at least not in the way the police care bout

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Re: Probable Cause

But you don't have to convince a logical el'reg reader but just a jury - These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

And "Dur Computer says he was there" goes a long way to convincing somebody

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Why Google?

That only works if it's an Android phone with location services on.

If they ask the phone company they will have cell location which can't be disabled, assuming you want your phone to be a phone, and the cell phone companies happily hand over location data with no warrant

The wages of sin aren't that great if you're a developer choosing the dark side

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Re: Darkside-adjacent

Although Lehman, Goldman, Deutsche, HSBC, BoA and Wells Fargo have done more to try and destroy capitalism than Brecht ever did

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Re: Even the ethics align

Option 1: The incentive plan involves catered lunches, Aeron chairs and stock options

Option 2: If you don't meet objectives, Dmitri hits you with rubber hose.

(Still, if you went to work for Twitter you knew what to expect.)

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Re: That's pitiful!

I'm assuming it's tax-free.

Plus you don't have to deal with IR35

A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report

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1% failure rate

Anyone stopped to think how amazing that actually is ?

Given the speed these things are spinning at and the precision the heads need to hit a bit of data the fact that only 1% fail each year is incredible (haven't read the report to see if that includes drives that failed so early they should really have been caught by the manufacturer)

Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

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Re: Same

Techies buy new gear for work and "recycle" the old gear for themselves.

Techies buy 3 year old off-lease kit and install Linux

I haven't bought a "new" system for myself since college

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Re: Same

Your old computer used binary with only 1 and 0, Windows 11 will use New Binary (tm) with 1, 0 and peppermint.

UK spy agency violated Snooper's Charter with 'unlawful' data retention

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I don't think they went so far as to tell them not to be naughty again. They were told they had been naughty but were right to keep the sweeties they had stolen

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