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Help your fellow IT pals spruce up their virtual meetings: Design a winning background, win Register-branded gear
Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC
Dude, where's my laser?
Home working is here to stay, says Lenovo boss, and will grow the total addressable PC market by up to 30%
Re: I have to say I'm with Lenovo on this
"It will vary somewhat between companies, those with the sociopathic bosses probably leaning more to office working initially until they see other companies saving lots of money by selling off or renting out office space. ... Office space prices will almost certainlly drop significantly in the short to medium term."
The best gains will be made by those who move fastest so the sociopaths will lose out.
BoJo buckles: UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023' after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam
Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC
Re: Not bad for the year -- but they may not be telling us everything
"There were usable tools around since the late 70s for microprocessor development but they were insanely expensive -- an Intel MDS, for example, cost about 50,000 pounds"
You were shopping in the wrong place. The S-100 systems were around since the mid '70s and much cheaper than that.
HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan
Back to the future.
Working at home has made businesses re-evaluate their expensive HQs but the answer isn't necessarily to have everyone working in their own home. In the longer term insurance, business rates and H&S issues might crop up.
The other week the CEO of Barclays was interviewed about this and suggested some employees from the big offices could work from branches instead (serves those banks right who've cut themselves off from this option). At last big businesses are realising that it doesn't make sense to set up big offices in big cities that require staff to drag themselves in from the surrounding towns where they live. Smaller hubs in and around those those towns could provide work-spaces for the employees who live there. A sort of WeWork 2.0 could be the provision of such hubs in larger buildings.
In my own locality in the 1950s most people commuted no more than a few hundred yards. There were mills every half mile or less and most people were employed in them. In some cases they would have a mill closer than the nearest bus-stop. Some of those mills still exist, some leased out to small businesses, at least one standing empty for some years. Even if their premises are unsuitable for conversion their sites could be re-built. It would mean employment could move back to where people live.
Mind your language: Microsoft set to swing the axe on 27 languages in iOS Outlook
Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig
Linux desktop org GNOME Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll
Re: And thank the Imaginary Sky Fairy...
My understanding of the way OIN works is that they have a pool of patents which are licensed on non-aggression terms. A troll is unlikely to be using any of these in its own operations so OIN wouldn't be able to nuke them. They might, however, have the expertise to review the patents to invalidate them.
Re: And thank the Imaginary Sky Fairy...
There'll be an NDA around this but the lawyers will have acquired detailed knowledge about the case and the patents. Next time the trolls go after a commercial entity they'd be the best lawyers to call on to defend. The bill would be along the lines of "£1 for hitting it, £999 for knowing where to hit" Multiplied up an appropriate number of times, of course.
Das reboot: That's the only thing to do when the screenshot, er, freezes
Re: ID10T error
"showing a way around the problem would probably have been quicker than trying to explain"
Until next time. And the time after that. And the time after the time after that.
It's lack of understanding that produces these errors and the way to engender understanding is through explanation.
Campaign groups warn GCHQ can re-identify UK's phones from COVID-19 contact-tracing app data
One of the downsides of a tracing approach is the balance between the number of false positives and false negatives - set the threshold too low and people are being sent to self-isolate needlessly which will quickly bring it into disrepute but set it too high and people who weren't alerted go down with the virus which will also quickly bring it into disrepute.
I see that they're now trialling something more akin to a spot test which, if it's available on a large enough scale, be able to screen out the false positives. That could be a game changer for the whole scheme. But it still doesn't overcome the problem with being asked to trust our privacy to people who have repeatedly shown themselves to be untrustworthy.
Re: Thank you
The apps (this and those based on the Apple/Google API) record the length of contact and the response is based on that so the contact length could be set for, say 2 minutes. That's been said a number of times.
What's not been said is how it deals with multiple short contacts. There's no particular duration at which you suddenly become infected if you're in contact a second longer; it's a matter of increasing probability. On that basis multiple short contacts should eventually raise the probability over whatever threshold is set for the long contact. But does the tracing add up all your 2 second contacts so that 60 of those are equivalent to a 2 minute contact?
UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm
Re: Quelle Surprise!
"Then obviously you don’t have to be concerned about sharing email addresses."
It depends on circumstances.
A direct mail to a single person with CC to a small team or even a single individual known to the intended recipient wouldn't be a problem. Sending a BCC might be considered sneaky if the main recipient got to know about it.
An email CCed to members of a group coordinated mostly be email (e.g. my local history group to the rest of the group) is also fine - it's the only way a new member of my history group can find out the others' addresses.
A bulk email CCed to a lot of strangers is not fine. If the A/C only does bulk emails of that nature that once a year or so then there's nothing wrong with only using BCC so infrequently. But someone in an office job who needs to send out such emails (a) should know to use BCC, having been trained to to that, and (b) shouldn't be given an emailer that makes it too easy to get it wrong or too hard to get it right.
Re: Quelle Surprise!
"It's also emerged today that contacts, assuming they're identified, will likely not be tested but merely asked to quarantine regardless."
They were saying that at the start, then there was a sort of vague mention of testing but the testing regime isn't going to be enough to keep up with it. If they have 18,000 tracers they each only need to trace 10 contacts plus false positives a day to eat up most of BoJo's 200,000 tests a day and leave an inadequate 20,000 for everything else.
"wrote the National Cyber Security Centre’s technical gros fromage Ian Levy"
That's the blog that's completely unreadable unless you allow a stack of javascript.
So if I want to read what they have to say about security I have to disable my browser's security. It might simply be laziness or ineptitude but it's not reassuring. Under those circumstances I wouldn't trust their site so I wouldn't trust the content so I won't bother to read it.
There seems to be absolutely nothing about this whole track and trace stuff that doesn't have a red flag waving over it.
"data from the third party COVID-19 apps"
What third parties? Do their users know HMG is syphoning off their data? Even if it really is anonymised before it goes to NHSX are non-anonymised copes kept? And what about third party non-COVID-19 apps? This announcement seems to be taking the lid off a huge can of worms.
Tech's Volkswagen moment? Trend Micro accused of cheating Microsoft driver QA by detecting test suite
Honor launches new UK store, laptop, kettle, er... toothbrush?
ITAM Forum opens: 'People just want to talk to other managers about how to defend against software audits'
Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman calls on UK govt to legally protect data from contact-tracing apps
Re: Oh what a tangled web we weave!
"The only salvation for past wrongs is in doing right, and that should wholeheartedly be encouraged, not condemned."
Yes, but to gain credibility there needs to be an acknowledgement of those past wrongs. Firstly it reassures us that they do realise they were wrong and secondly it makes it a good bit harder to go back there.
You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America's browsing history without a warrant?
Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?
Re: It's just so backwards...
"If I could run the MS office suite entirely on Linux with 100% feature parity"
Step back and ask yourself a simple question: "Why should I want to use MS Office on Linux when there are Linux-native alternatives?".
You use office suites to do a job, you don't do a job so you can use a particular office suite.
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo
Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed
Huge if true... Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban
Crooks set up stall on UK govt's IT marketplace to peddle email fraud services targeting 'gullible' punters
Doors closed by COVID-19, Brit retro tech museums need your help
Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War
Mirror mirror on the wall, why will my mouse not work at all?
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