* Posts by chivo243

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Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

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Re: Forex, speed of connection etc

Yes, lax financial laws leaves plenty of room for the "money makers" to make it worth the ISPs while too, I wonder what the average speed is in the Cayman Islands? Follow the money!

Unexpected victory in bagging area: Apple must pay shop workers for time they spend waiting to get frisked

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This is all for nothing

phones stolen during looting were easily tracked by Apple. Now if you talking about the $ .50 cables that they charge 30 bucks for, all companies budget for incidental loss through theft(employee or self-employed freelance thief) damage and subsequent replacement, showroom demos etc.

Did this strip search at the end of each shift catch anyone trying to boost any goods? And if so, did they save more money than they spent on security?

As Amazon pulls union-buster job ads, workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere – unsafe, bullying, abusive

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Put Jeff on the warehouse floor for a week

And let him live in a studio apartment and do all his own cooking etc... Then put him there for a month!

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

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I actually saw it twice, once in the morning, on the way to a Gaelic village, yes Gaelic, I would hate to sound crazy twice in one thread, https://www.village-gaulois.org/en/p110-getting-to-the-gallic-village.html and then on the way back in the late afternoon, both times I got really Tabloid looking photos!

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I will tell you from experience, snapping that pic from your phone through glass is not easy! I tried to snap a pic of a Beluga flying near Toulouse while riding in a car on the highway.

Are you asking about the jet pack for a friend? Mr. Stark perhaps?

Google, Amazon pass on UK Digital Services Tax by hiking ad prices, fees at same rate the government takes

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The Customer is King

He can afford it!

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

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Correct on all points! I have but only one upvote to give!

We need a new philosophy: Don't be a dick! yeah, that should do it!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a 56-year-old satellite burning up in the sky spotted by sharp school kids

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Re: "retired in 1971"

Calling Quark! No, not that one...

This one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series)

Party like it's 2004: Almost a quarter of Windows 10 PCs living with the latest update

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Re: But it bricks dell computers!

I made my first "Not-At-Work" Windows 10 support call a couple of weeks ago. One of my colleagues was at his SOs house, and her Win10 had lost networking. Naturally, I asked him to check the version, sure enough, it was 2004. Naturally, I asked when did networking stop? Right after the last WU! WoooHooo!. As he is not a Windows guy, I had to step him through finding the device manager, and tossing the network card, scanning for hardware changes...

Had it been anybody else (sorry Mom!), I would have said sorry, I don't do Windows...

Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report

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I'll flip burgers

before I work for Amazon... At least there is some free food involved!

Smash-and-grabbed: Chinese AI academic cuffed by Feds after 'binning hard drive' amid software leak probe

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that is not destroying

If I should ever need to *conceal* my tracks, I would not be using a spinning rust platter. SSD, and a very big hammer would turn those 1s and 0s into dust, just hoover it up and job done!

Facebook rejects Australia's pay-for-news plan, proposes its own idea: How about no more articles at all, sunshine?

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Re: Get on with it, we'd be better without you

One step further... I hate clicking on a news story(from any outlet) only to be taken to Youtube... I don't want to watch the stories... If I'm at work, the story can sit on another tab until coffee time or lunch when I can READ it!

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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More of a social experiment

than a social network. Now it appears to be coming apart at the seams. Maybe it's time to end the experiment?

Flame because death by fire is the only way is the only way for FB!

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Re: Endless Cycle

This one always catches my eye:

is going to try hard not to let this happen again. And again. And again.

And then I say *Bullshit* under a cough

You Musk be joking: A mind-reading Neuralink chip in a pig's brain? Downloadable memories? Telepathy? Watch and judge for yourself

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Re: Oink!

MK-Ultra would be the program you're speaking of:

The basic idea for this tech goes back to the cold war days when both the Russians and the US and probably others played with the idea of mind reading/ control.

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

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Run away train

Google is one step ahead of the rulz and regs, and spends a nice coin in DC to make sure they stay there. Heads of BigTech being called in front of congress? What a dog and pony show! A politician asking technical questions? Will they understand the answer? Will they know the truth even if it is told?

Are the American founding fathers spinning in their graves, or enjoying the view?

Now where is that middle finger icon?

IBM ordered to pay £22k to whistleblower and told by judges: Teach your managers what discrimination means

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Re: £22K? Is that all?

I'm going down the road less traveled on this one. Maybe, just maybe this woman is a total Karen? We feel bad for her because she got screwed by BigCorp, that is expected. Her work may have been impeccable, but she may be a total nutter. Maybe she's looking forward to returning to make an even bigger show? I've met a few who thrive on the drama!

I would never find myself working for one of those BigCorps, but in her situation, I would resign quietly now and never look back.

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IBM

I B Moving on... But if you swim with the sharks, you may be bitten, and bleed a bit... calling all sharks!

Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy

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crying a river of tears

of joy! I use apple gear, but not a fan of their "ways" of doing other things...

Teen charged after allegedly taking food delivery biz for a ride: $10k of 'fraudulent refunds for stuff not delivered'

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I'll wager

Foodpanda makes a decent coin, and has many, many refund requests that total in the 100,000 quatloos if not more, and this is only a drop in the ocean.

Two arrested in Congo after Google Loon mobe balloon meets terra firma more than 1,000km from operating area

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Re: Apparently not arrested

Seemed the story omitted why they were arrested too? Maybe my skimming skills or too good?

US election 2020: The disinfo operations have evolved, but so have state governments

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Re: Oh DemocraSSy, so much money wasted in your name!

Tell me more! I might be a citizen of France in the future! Two parties is no choice!

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Let's back up a bit

The real problem is anyone who wants to be in politics shouldn't be allowed any where near it.

Google wants to listen in to whatever you get up to in hotel rooms

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I already have a place for it...

I have an aluminum flight case with nice insulation for my computing needs, should I ever visit hotel with this kit, it will go into the flight case until my stay is completed.

Conflict of interest? We've heard of it. Amazon on selection panel to choose UK.gov's chief digi officer

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Re: "“... overhaul Government’s legacy IT systems ..."

I look forward to scrapping legacy systems!

Not so hard, I'm going...

Adobe yanks freebie Creative Cloud offer – now universities and colleges have to put up or shut up

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Re: Just perhaps

Spot on, we are also an institution stuck with Adobe. There are plenty of perfectly good substitutes, just teach the skills, not learning which menu contains your desired command...

Be very afraid! British Army might scrap battle tanks for keyboard warriors – report

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Re: I want one.

Look no further my friend, special price for you!

https://tanks-alot.co.uk/military-vehicles-for-sale/

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Re: ACHTUNG!

I have that on paper, but it referred to a printer, it used to hang above the copier(about the size of a VW bus) where I worked in the 80s.

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the changing character of warfare

Has it turned over a new leaf? Not so aggressive? Is it a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand?

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Re: Think of the savings...

I'm thinking BattleZone blip blip blip woo woo woo bushggga

https://my.ign.com/atari/battlezone

requires Flash! Hope they find a way to ditch it...

So... just 'Good' then? KFC pulls Finger Lickin' slogan while pandemic rumbles on

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Re: Different countries, different flavours

Brilliant observation! Can't upvote you enough. Searing hot oil makes all the difference. I once worked in a kitchen that specialized in deep fried pizza dough.

I've seen the inside of couple of the US KFC kitchens, and they have plenty of fryers, (I don't think they could flash fry a buffalo) maybe franchises overseas have a lesser requirement?

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Toxic Correctness

We are entering into an epoch when correct is not enough...

The Viking Snowden: Denmark spy chief 'relieved of duty' after whistleblower reveals illegal snooping on citizens

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Re: Corruption,... again

Humans, meh. Greedy and aggressive. No wonder they are still alone in the galaxy...

Epic move: Judge says Apple can't revoke Unreal Engine dev tools, asks 'Where does the 30% come from?'

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Big Bowl

Popcorn, waiting... Interesting times!

North Korean hackers pwned cryptocurrency sysadmin with GDPR-themed LinkedIn lure, says F-Secure

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macros?

in a document that could have\should have been in plain text? Wait, what am I saying, plain text looks like shit... Thanks MS for showing us the error in our ways!

IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Microsoft Teams deployment – memo

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couldn't have happened to a nicer company

My brief interaction with *ahem* auditors if they can be called that, was a dimming experience.

A bridge too far: Passengers on Sydney's new ferries would get 'their heads knocked off' on upper deck, say politicos

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Dam they've totally locked up their thinking on this channel...

Oh dear, what a pity! It seems you can't join the directors at the Zoom meeting today

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Interwebs just like California

Rolling "internet service" blackouts?

This PDP-11/70 was due to predict an election outcome – but no one could predict it falling over

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Re: Performance Upgrade

Back in the late 90s I remember a service shop that would snip the little system speaker wire, when they couldn't fix a driver problem... internal speaker would chirp ever two seconds... I couldn't believe my eyes when a friend showed me.

So long, Top Gun... AI software waxes US F-16 pilot's tail 5-0 during virtual dogfight drills

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How long until Ender's Game?

Virtual war now, how long until the soldier's don't know their part of it?

FYI: Chromium's network probing accounts for about half DNS root server traffic, says APNIC

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Chromium again?

No Chromium for my friends at the bar

I got a bad feeling about this one, keys to the kingdom anyone?

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/08/22/chromium_devs_raw_sockets/

Is this Google's way of saying we will re-invent the intertubes??

Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly via TCP, UDP. Obviously, nothing can go wrong

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No Chromium for my friends at the bar

I got a bad feeling about this one, keys to the kingdom anyone?

Trucking hell: Kid leaves dad in monster debt after buying oversized vehicle on eBay

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That will leave a mark

Ouch, feel sorry for the guy to a degree. Sorry I have to leave you with the Forrest Gump "Stupid is as stupid does."

I hope he has learned something...

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Re: Flashback

Must have been a spinoff of one of my favs, Midtown Madness.

You *bang* will never *smash* humiliate me *whack* in front of *clang* the teen computer whizz *crunch* EVER AGAIN

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Terry O'Quinn?

took his hammer and smashed it to very tiny pieces

"The Stepfather" Anyone?

Bunch of mugs keep risking life and limb to 'crockery bomb' sad little roundabout

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Re: I want to start a kickstarter!

I have a few taking up space better used for beer glasses!

Worldwide Google services – from GCP to G Suite – hit with the outage stick

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Fun times!

No, it's not us... no problem here. It's on google's end. User: "Can you call google and find out how long?!"

It's almost pub:30 getting my coat now!

While the world pushes back against COVID-19, Facebook has a pandemic of a different sort – medical misinformation

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TSDR

Too stupid, didn't read. If you get your medical advice from Facebook, keep up the good work!

Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message

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email is unreliable. Many moons ago, I read an article(maybe here?) where a guy did a study, emailing thousands of people regularly, people who were part of the study, and knew to reply, and I seem to remember a number like 89% success...

Ex-Apple engineer lifts lid on Uncle Sam's top-secret plan to turn customized iPod into 'Geiger counter'

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We are through the looking glass

Spooks can imagine it, geeks can make it work?