* Posts by BebopWeBop

2862 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015

Open wide, very wide: Xerox considers buying HP. Yes, the HP that is more than three times its market cap

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Re: Plus ça change...

I was working t HP when they bought Compaq. I have to say at a technical level we though great - all that lovely Ditial tech and people. Unfortunately, we go the Compaq people as well.

Tech and mobile companies want to monetise your data ... but are scared of GDPR

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Re: GDPR working

Not cheap - replacing those drugs will cost beeeeg

Belgian city slurps mobile data to track visitors

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Re: With enough controls

How quaint - the assumption that the UK government actually relies on real data for decisions.

Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)

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Re: Google promises...

I can assure you that it works (pant pant pant)

Cubans launching sonic attacks on US embassy? Not what we're hearing, say medical boffins

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Re: Tinnitus

Yes, having endured cicadas whose racket make it almost painful to windows in ‘good’ years, I can agree.

Mobile operators to be stung for 10% of annual turnover if coverage falls short, digital sec warns

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Re: Toothless

Yes but Sweden seems to have a government that could give a damn (most of the time)

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UK mobile operators will be fined up to 10 per cent of their annual turnover if they fail to meet the coverage obligations of the £1bn Shared Rural Network plans, digital secretary Nicky Morgan has claimed.

Alternatively, a discount is available for a donation to the right party.

UK ads watchdog slaps Amazon for UX dark arts after folk bought Prime subs they didn't want

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Re: In the interests of balance

Yes - back to the old joke about any conutry with a 'democrat' in the title (GDR etc) not being.

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Re: In the interests of balance

Quite a lot of them in my experience anyway are Welsh and English but live in Scotland

Weird Flex but OK: New Samsung laptop lines haul QLED monitor tech squinting into the sun

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Re: All very well but

We'll say nothing about the voters....

WhatsApp slaps app hacker chaps on the rack for booby-trapped chat: NSO Group accused of illegal hacking by Facebook

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Re: Civil case - no jail time

It would be very surprising if Israeli TLAs did noy only know about this but at least tacitly approved their use overseas. If they didn't then heads will roll I am sure.

Will someone think of the taxpayer? UK.gov needs to stop burning billions on shoddy procurement, says Reform

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Re: Fines ?

With some protections - there may be a mitigating circumstance, but there will be no appropriate penalties while ex-ministers and senior civil servants sit on the boards.

No extra bank holiday for 75th VE Day, but the pub will be open longer

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Doesn’t matter that is a responsibility for Holyrood not Westminster.

Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

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Re: My scripts are not Y2.1K compliant

Creating ‘opportunities’ for their successors.....

One of Blighty's most-loved charities hands £46m to one of Blighty's least-loved outsourcers

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Re: NT

I can the that the NT might fit into the 'loved and hated' category - but does anyone love Crapita? I can't even imagine that its managers let alone its staff have any great love for the bloated corrupt organisation.

UK tech freelancer numbers down for first time in 5 years since IR35 tax reforms hit public sector

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Re: LOSS OF TAX

A wee bit more complicated than that, as it (a) does not account for significant reductions in work through illness/incapacity (b) the significant effects on non-smokers of 'passive smoking' (c) improvements in health care that keep people, expensively, hanging on through pensions and care systems. But if you have all the numbers please do share them, I would be intrigued to know (genuinely)

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Bu bu but - that goes against UK government's stated policy to make people more self reliant (ahhh not that way)

Republican senators shoot down a triple whammy of proposed election security laws

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Re: The slippery slope is in progress.

Good lubricants in them thar banana skins.

Wondering where the strontium in your old CRT monitor came from? Two colliding neutron stars show us

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Nop

I must say I had never really given it much thought - but it's nice to know thanks....

I love the smell of two neutron stars coming together, it smells of new elements

If there were almost a million computer misuse crimes last year, Action Fraud is only passing 2% of cases to cops

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Re: Action Fraud

No, They are not gatekeepers - fraud does not depend on their say ao.

We read the Brexit copyright notices so you don't have to… No more IP freely, ta very much

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Happy

Re: Bonfire

My Irish passport will carry on being burgundy

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Pint

Re: locked basement of your local library

I am going to lay in a supply for the only rational reaction to the mess - Project Beer.

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

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Joke

Re: Amateur "hacker" ?

Plenty of BOLLOCKS in grumbleflicks I suspect.....

Junior minister says gov.UK considering facial recognition to verify age of p0rn-watchers

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Re: If you use facial recognition" doesn't that immediately rule out "privacy" of any kind ?

Or a run on beards from joke shops?

BOFH: The company survived the disaster recovery test. Just. The Director's car, however...

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Pirate

Re: Directors and DR

I know that insurance companies are keen to mitigate risks, but isn’t paying for the hits on senior managers going a little far?

Deus ex hackina: It took just 10 minutes to find data-divulging demons corrupting Pope's Click to Pray eRosary app

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Re: Saint Isidore of Seville

Douglas Adams was hot on his heels

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home

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Unhappy

I don't normally head the warning on El Reg. I did this time - and it seems to have been a good call.

Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

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Re: Huh!

Comes to mind with the BBC Sounds app - a sure-fire way to reduce my radio listening......

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

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Re: Should be a quick court case

Actually, the Scottish lawyers appeared to do a decent job as well. The fact that there is a UK supreme court that is higher than the one in Edinburgh is hopefully a passing fad.

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

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Missed opportunity

From the image caption and title, you have the 1/2 and 2x1/4 the wrong way round in image splits - or have I misunderstood?

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

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Re: technology yet to be available

Hypothesis not theory

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Re: "There are over 200 roads that cross the border."

The border does run through buildings - 'get my passport, I'm going to the dunny'.

Multiple roads, just like your trip to the loo also cross the border repeatedly - https://sites.google.com/site/kennyallenswebsite/home/crossing-the-irish-border-after-partition

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Devil

Politicians keep on insisting that tech is/just about there to solve all the problems cheaply and efficiently. One question I have never had answered (and I did challenge my local MP - a man who claimed to have been a solid supporter of remain (well this is Scotland and he is praying he will hold on to a seat with a very slim majority) is that if this is the case, then the business opportunity is enormous - look at the trade and count the number of individual entities who would love an efficient scalable solution.

So where are the solutions to this problem?

Answer there has come none. I wonder why?

Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices

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Re: "compared the rise of the IoT to the Industrial Revolution"

I don't think that 'uman eight had any place in victorian society. So a similarity right there....

Cosmo Communicator: More phone than the Gemini, more pocket computer than phone

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A happy Gemini users, I will certainly consider upgrading.

GPS cyberstalking of girlfriend brings surveillance and indictment for alleged American mobster

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One good act....

The laws of unintended consequence bite hard. Although being a suspicious bugger I wonder whether this was the excuse that got the law enforcement warrants approved? Not complaining though.

HP polishes the redundancy cannon, prepares to fire 16% of workforce

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Re: In other words

It sucks but given HPs successes, it won’t be many jobs

You only need to click once, fool: Gaming rig sales up as Trump presses continue on trade tariff tussle

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Trollface

Maybe a lot of people have decided to immerse themselves in gams in an attempt to shield themselves from the modern shitfest that various politicians are stirring up?

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Re: Panic buying ?

Since when has common sense been any part of Trump's startegy?

BBC said it'll pull radio streams from TuneIn to slurp more of your data but nobody noticed till Amazon put its foot in it

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Well I can understand the Beeb’s position. Why should the licence payer in the UK provide free content to others?

How to lose a UK contractor in 10 days: Make them commit after upcoming IR35 tax upheaval, apparently

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Joke

IR35 - the gift that keeps on giving.

IT workers: Speaking truth to douchebags since 1977

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Devil

That is where literalism gets you

Hacker House shoved under UK Parliament's spotlight following Boris Johnson funding allegs

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Re: Because of her personal relationship...

Arcuri will probably make more money from that - and won't have to feign 'interest' in the PM.

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Re: took her on trade missions and helped secure a total of £126,000 in public funding

A 'friend' is quoted in The Times as saying that the visits to her digs were innocent - she was teaching him about technology.... - the modern equivalent of French Lessons or Ugandan Dancing?

That said he did make an arse of himself at the UN on 'technology' related futures.

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Re: Not clear if arcum or johnson is a "Friend with benefits"

Well as someone said of Clinton during one of the many scandals 'What's the point of being the most powerful man in the world if you can't screw the odd intern?'.

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Re: "an offshore company"

Well they do appear to have a London telephone number - that forwards - we do as well, but it is clear that it is maintained by a company who provide office space for meetings in the capital (being based some hundreds of miles away)

HMRC chief digital wonk Jacky Wright takes flight back to Microsoft's light

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'I am so proud of all that we have achieved in my two years'

So we can take it that the Microsoft Sales pipeline has been fattened up? It might have been a little more impressive if they had managed to improve things.

Hinkley Point nuclear power station will be late and £2bn over budget

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Re: Deal of the century

It isn't, government revenue will have to come from somewhere and fuel duty is a decent contributor.

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Re: Maybe China should build them instead

"I'd rather go out in the flash than suffer with the lingering pain of the fallout."

A problem with most nuclear power plants (not that I know which design you are talking about) is much more likely to kill you by leaking radioactive waste than finishing you with a quick flash. So your reasoning doesn't add up except as a riposte to the ignorant.

Haskell, Erlang, and Frank walk into a bar – and begin new project to work in Unison

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Happy

You are obviously a lithpel enthusiast