* Posts by BebopWeBop

2862 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015

As UK Parliament heads back to in-person voting, select committees are told they can continue working via Zoom

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You are not the only one fearing from what should become a disunited Kingdom with Scotland and NIO going their own separate ways. Living in Scotland (and with an Irish passport) I would welcome it.

BoJo looks to jumpstart UK economy with £6k taxpayer-funded incentive for Brits to buy electric cars – report

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He might make a good draught excluder?

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Re: Buy more cars - drive them less

Snap - although the other way round on the long trip. We do have an elserly petrol vehicle - a little two seater, it has sone about 4 months to the gallon. Although when its time comes for the next service I iwll not be prepared to spend much money, so its scrappage (as a vanity vehicle) might come sooner than later.

US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year

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Well ego alone won't save them....

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Re: How about a cargo plane

Now that would be a very big dawg....

Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?

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Re: Enough of these rational arguments!

A WTO that is increasingly undermined by the US.

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Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

I think you will find you are incorrect. The 99-year lease was on the 'New Territories'. Hong Kong proper was not included except by choice of the UK government.

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

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Re: Gilfoyle Hacks Jian Yang's Smart Fridge

All it needs to do is keep my fucking beer cold!

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Re: Mammoths!

Big fridge required.

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Re: All part of the planned obsolesence

Hmmm. A beer cooled phone. It reminds me of a meeting I was at. We all had those Nokia 6150s (lovely). One of my colleagues was highly amused at the vibrate function and announced that it was even better when contained in a glass. T our delight he set it to vibrate, asked someone to call it and dripped into the glass in front of him. It was full of water.

How we laughed.

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Re: Never understood this

I might consider such - but it would have to be refilled too often.

Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage

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Re: Here maps is a big success

I use qwant as my default search engine. It is not bad at all for my own interests/concerns in comparison to competitors.

Brit MP demands answers from Fujitsu about Horizon IT system after Post Office staff jailed over accounting errors

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Re: Any chance

herself in this case.

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Re: Any chance

It should not be up to the PO to review them - they have demonstrated that they lie and will probably carry on doing to.

If Daddy doesn't want me to touch the buttons, why did they make them so colourful?

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Re: More of a Who Me? except he got away with it

When HP engineers were actually engineers!

Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages

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Re: A few years ago...

https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/21/atari_interview_in_full/ (the search box is your friend)

Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want

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Re: Totally couldn't get past the fact...

Definitely tears before bedtime - as anyone who has mangled an onion with a breadknife (and yes I have been that man - in the absence of any clean cutlery)

As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA

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Re: I'm not afraid of the police. At all.

Balls. If you are going to post here try and get your facts right. Someone will look up blithely stated non facts in favour of an argument.

Take one year - 2019

Officers killed in the line of duty 131, source 'Officer Down Memorial page' https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2019

Other years are available there

'Civilians' killed by police 2019, 1004, source of data the Washington Post study which collates incomplete FBI records with verified media reports across the US.

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Re: "Yes, Anon activists are back."

If people are dying from your restraint technique then clearly somethings wrong!

That depends on your motivation - maybe the cops has been told to save on ammunition?

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

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Palantir involvement. What could possibly go wrong?

Way to go to persuade an already sceptical public.

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

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Re: GDPR

How do you know my postman has an Aunt Bertha - he keeps that very quiet?

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

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Happy

Pesky stuff - every time it thinks we are looking it goes and hides. But we've caught it unawares this time.

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

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Trollface

Translation: It was a good gig while it lasted, but I've been rumbled. Never mind, I made a tidy sum out of all those 'investors'. Enough to tide me over until people have forgotten anyway.

HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain

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Re: Just thrown out an HP inkjet ...

Thars good recycling on them critters....

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

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Re: You supported a system...

More likely an alliance between East and west in my experience.

Broadcom sends its England-based staff back into office as UK lockdown eases – though Welsh workers get a free pass

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Re: Aaah...

You might hope so, but voting patterns, unfortunately, don't seem to support it . Meanwhile, I hope that in Scotland we can do so.

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That might have something to do with the fact that Wales has different rules on lockdown?

IBM's sacking spree reaches Australia – and as staff wait to exit, they're offered AU$4k to find new workers

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But the Americans seem to lurve selecting elderly men for the presidential post. Oh, they are all rich men, that explains it.

Contact-tracing app may become a permanent fixture in major Chinese city

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Of course, it will be 'welcomed' - more control over what people do and who they see, and all in the name of public health.

Dude, where's my laser?

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Re: Not unbelievable

Where was it implied that it was 'dumb grunts' working on the project?

For the price tag, this iPad Pro keyboard better damn well be Magic: It isn't... but it's not completely useless either

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Similar - but only if you tether a PC to it or the Wacom runs a decent editor surely?

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Re: Because ... it’ll just work : Nope

Yup, I updated our time capsule with an SDD - mainly because the HD gave up the ghost after 9 years and three house moves with much abuse in between. It still works quietly very happily and in the background - although it is not a terribly difficult thing to do.

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I (and my partner and daughter) use 12" (approx) iPad Pros for drawing and photo manipulation with the rather wonderful Affinity Photo. Very portable, very fine control with a pen - but of course eye wateringly expensive. However for the job (and my daughter is a professional in that illustrations and photo editing are part of her day job) they are difficult to beat at the moment. It does other things as well, so I justify it on the basis that I also use Mathcad and Mathematica as well as a decent word processor and spreadsheet - so it is a legitimate business expense :-)

HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan

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Many years go, while I was at HP, just after Fiorina arrived (certainly the beginning of the end), we were asked to take a 10% cut to save posts. As far as I am aware (I was not a manager), takeup in our R&D group was about 80%. It lasted for 3 months, following which they promptly slashed and slashed. At least at that time, they were offering decent redundancy terms (which I left on about 8 years later).

Combined with the explanations and choices made, that action destroyed a lot of goodwill - to the companies detriment. A vicious feedback loop that inevitably did not help.

IBM cuts deep into workforce – even its Watson and AI teams – as it 'pivots' to cloud

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Re: Best of luck

I am told by some that even driving is better after drinking

Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police

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Re: Would never have happened in my day

Bunch of Nasty Pricks

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Re: British Rule of Law

c/o The Daily Thump

https://newsthump.com/2020/05/21/if-you-dont-like-obeying-our-laws-then-you-should-get-out-of-our-country-britain-firsts-paul-golding-told/

Less succinctly but in an amusing way.

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The Daily Mail is hot on the case.

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because he was worried about giving police personal details of Britain First's members.

If he thinks that they don't already know then he is stoopider than he seems.

We really doing this again? Rumour has it that Apple is nearly finished developing augmented-reality glasses

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Re: I really doubt they'd call it "Apple Glass"

Small furry mammals might disagree and sue....

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl

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Re: And this is why I don't do cloud based access.

Roll your own with a Pi - what's what we did.

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Maybe in your somewhat distorted world?

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'Push back'!!! I would neither do it myself (and I do have some security cameras in and around the house - although installed by me and locked down). No camera in any bathroom or bedroom.

I would expect any sane individual not just to push back, but say GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat

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Loose lips cost lives

Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed

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Re: Highly sophisticated

Not to mention apologising for their "robust security measures,"

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

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Re: 86 per cent of the breaches were financially motivated

One might suspect that espionage of one sort or the other would be smeared across the results.

Brit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains – and even Amazon accounts

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Re: Broad terms..

A start for a creative leap maybe in interpretation? Well, governments have a habit of doing that sort of thing.

A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo

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Re: Pure 'Carry on ' gold.

For those a little more (if not necessarily) much more advance, the BBC Radio website can help.

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Re: I wonder if it was here?

Thanks for the link to Abandoned Scotland - we have a couple to add to their collection.

Indonesia imposes 10% digital services tax

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Yous seem to have a distorted view of the definition of fairness, at least as far as the majority of people see it. But lawful != fair.