Re: I have some questions.....
Private sector efficiency! Private contractors are cheaper, faster, better because, uh... because! It must be true, they all said so themselves!
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£8 BILLION is locked into UK.gov's failing IT schemes, El Reg analysis reveals
Scientists want you to know how to have sex with a hyper-long dong
Thursday 7th July 2016 11:30 GMT
Re: #1 proof that penis enlargement pills do not work:
What if there was no internet, and all the spammers and scammers were like salesmen, calling at your house? There's a knock on the door - and it's the penis elongator. Or a Nigerian prince. Or the guy who knows all those weird tricks to do this or that.
And how would spam filters look like, and how would you install them?
Replacement IT at 'high risk'. Squeaky bum time for UK tax folk
Thursday 7th July 2016 11:25 GMT
Re: Am i the only one thinking....
It's a nice colour, isn't it? Goes well with black or grey.
"...meaning there is a chance the programmes will be delivered at some point..."
Well, there is always hope for delivery. Or deliverance. I'm not a native speaker, so sometimes the subtleties of the English language confuse me.
DevOps: The spotty faced yoof waiting to blossom
Just the facts, STT-MRAM: Your DRAM replacement's on its way
‘Peak Samsung’ isn't
3 'nauts blasted into space
Microsoft's cringey 'Hey bae <3' recruiter email translated by El Reg
Sysadmins: Use these scripts to fully check out of your conference calls
Remember those stupid hoverboards? 500,000+ recalled in the US after they started exploding
Thursday 7th July 2016 05:36 GMT
It's sort of built in because deep down inside every board knows it's both a phony (not really hovering, is it) and an overpriced crappy novelty without any real world use. Most of them somehow manage to cope with that and function. But if they have that type of rider ... well, you see what happens.
NASA curious about Curiosity's fourth 'safe mode' event
Huawei sues T-Mobile US: Why can't we be FRANDS with benefits?
UK.gov rolls out 10 years' chokey for industrial scale copyright pirates
FTC wants a date with Ashley Madison's fembots
US constitution vs PRISM
Sociology student gets a First for dissertation on Kardashians
Wednesday 6th July 2016 15:50 GMT
“I used to watch it and be like 'Omg this is so great' and now I watch it while shouting, 'Crush the patriarchy!' It’s not ideal.”
This reminds me of a short story by Heinrich Böll, called Murke's Collected Silences (Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen), first published in 1955.
Dr Murke is a psychology graduate whose first job is as editor for the Cultural Department at Broadcasting House. In this job he has started collecting discarded tape – tape containing silence, where the speaker has paused – which he splices together and takes home to listen to in the evening.
The story centres on Murke's editing of two radio lectures on The Nature of Art by the powerful cultural critic Professor Bur-Malottke. The tapes contain the word "God" 27 times, and Bur-Malottke wants them changed to "that higher Being Whom we revere". He asks that the technicians record the new words, then splice them in instead of "God," rather than have him re-record the talk. The whole affair is a giant PITA, but in the end it's done.
Murke's boss later congratulates him for having been able to sit through Bur-Malottke's lectures. The boss once had to listen three times to a four-hour Hitler speech in order to edit the recording. When he began the editing he was still a Nazi and by the time he had finished he wasn't – "a drastic cure ... but very effective."
Mike Lynch's cybersec biz Darktrace hoovers up $65m in VC dosh
UK patients should have greater data slurp opt-out powers – report
UK.gov's hated Care.data project binned
Wednesday 6th July 2016 15:09 GMT
Re: Another gubmint IT fiasco?
Not even close, sorry.
The quote is usually attributed to Albert Einstein - but there is some reasonable doubt about it.
And Hitler was an Austrian.
Behold the ROBOT RECTUM... medics' relief
Australia's ABC suspends presenter over 'Wi-Fi is dangerous' claims
Paper wasps that lie to their mates get a right kicking, research finds
'Digital influencers' must disclose paid-for content, says new guidance
'Double speak' squawk users as Silent Circle kills warrant canary
Wednesday 6th July 2016 10:08 GMT
Re: putting it back for a day
Mr. Praline: "Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there."
Anyway - did Silent Circle receive a NSL making them drop the warrant canary or not?
Space prang of cosmic proportions blamed for giving Mars its moons
Outed China ad firm infects 10m Androids, makes $300k a month
Maybe China's on to something: Clickbait articles now need to be 'verified' by officials
Dolphin fans freak, blast browser's bumbling bundles of bloatware
Obi Worldphone MV1: It's striking, it's solid. Aaaand... we've run out of nice things to say
Tuesday 5th July 2016 22:33 GMT
Confused by the name at first. Thought it was from the other OBI.
FBI won't jail future US president over private email server
Huawei: Our fake phone camera pic shame
Apple wants your organs
This week I have reading...
Wealthy youngsters more likely to be freetards than anyone else – study
Tuesday 5th July 2016 16:51 GMT
"So the message is: get legal services and affordable services out there, and the money should follow."
Basically the same advice writer Kurt Tucholsky gave to publishers almost a hundred years ago. They just don't listen ...
UK.gov wants to fine websites £250,000 if teens watch porn vids
Germans politicos woo London startups
Celebrated eye hospital Moorfields lets Google eyeball 1 million scans
Tuesday 5th July 2016 13:10 GMT
Re: Retinal identification as a consequence?
‘Did you know, young lady,’ said Watkin to her, ‘that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By Saint John the Divine, as you know. To me it shows very clear signs of having been written while waiting for a ferry. Oh, yes, I think so. It starts off, doesn’t it, with that kind of dreaminess you get when you’re killing time, getting bored, you know, just making things up, and then gradually grows to a sort of climax of hallucinatory despair. I find that very suggestive. Perhaps you should write a paper on it.’ He nodded at her.
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Theft of twenty-somethings' IDs surges
Not your Imagination: Britain’s other chip giant posts biggest ever loss
Tuesday 5th July 2016 12:40 GMT
Re: DAB
Has anyone ever bought a DAB radio? But I digress.
"However a fall in the overvalued pound after the Brexit referendum could provide a boost for Imagination, as most of its revenues are in dollars."
That doesn't save you in the long run if you've got a structural deficit. The bleeding slows down, but it doesn't stop.
Huawei promo photo goof
Juno enters Jovian orbit
Mind the GaaP: UK.gov needs to get a grip on digital
Get ready for mandatory porn site age checks, Brits. You read that right
Tuesday 5th July 2016 12:24 GMT
The Digital Economy Bill was first announced in the Queen's Speech earlier this year. It has the lofty aim of "mak[ing] the United Kingdom a world leader in the digital economy" via legislation.
Coming up next: legislation to enforce better wether. Britain needs to become world leader in beach resorts too!
By Jove! NASA's Juno prepares to slip into orbit around Jupiter
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