* Posts by Claire Sweet

9 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2015

BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation

Claire Sweet

Should read - Tax dodger awards contract to another tax dodger.

Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10

Claire Sweet

Re: Two possibilities

Call me a luddite, but I agree, I used Windows 2000 Advanced Server as my daily PC for many years. Only when the motherboard died did I forcibly migrate to Vista for driver compatibility.. Win 7 is still where it's at if you want to know what the PC is actually up to and for the broadest driver support.

McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law

Claire Sweet

Hope it's better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKmhJFwwiSM

UK's competition watchdog gives £31bn Virgin Media and O2 merger the seal of approval

Claire Sweet

Re: Too confusing

They pay Branson for the Virgin Trademark - I think that's the only connection to Virgin that there is.

UK Supreme Court considers whether spy court should be immune to legal probes

Claire Sweet

AS with ANPR - They're only seeking to legalise something that they are doing already.

Scrapping UK visa cap on nurses, doctors opened Britain's doors to IT workers

Claire Sweet

Re: "If industry is running out of trained staff"

Except it isnt':

"However, tax relief will be given if an employee needs the training to do their job – if it is 'wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred'. So the costs will not be deductible, unless the training is necessary – e.g. training for an employee to carry out a new job would not be deductible"

https://www.nelsonslaw.co.uk/training-costs-tax-deductible/

They've no excuse really - they just couldn't be bothered to train. Cheaper to get someone who 'says' they can do it from abroad.

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

Claire Sweet

Not sure of the point of an ad-blocker on a browser, when we can use a hostfile to do te same thing?

Increased gov spy powers are NOT the way to stay safe against terrorism

Claire Sweet

Tory Voters

Lets hope the kind of people who vote Tory see some sense before the next general election.

Brits need chutzpah to copy Israeli cyberspies' tech creche – ex-spooks

Claire Sweet

Quinetiq

Didn't the UK already have this in the form of Qinetiq - UKs Q Branch ??

Then they sold the lot.

https://www.qinetiq.com