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Posts by BebopWeBop
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Tax working from home, says Deutsche Bank, because the economy needs that lunch money you’re not spending
Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it
Friday 13th November 2020 09:14 GMT
Re: Data Entry
Certainly there is a story that occasionally does the rounds (can't verify it) that the QWEWRTY keyboard was designed to both improve efficiency in typing, but also limit speed as touch typists were more than capable of snarling up an old typewriter once they had practised for a while and were up to speed.
HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink
Wondering what to do over the holiday season? How about aiming a laser at commercial aircraft and then spending years of your life in prison?
Police chopper chasing a crim near an airport? Ideal time to use my laser pointer, says Texas idiot now behind bars
Somebody's Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won't take it lying down
UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing
America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy?
Black Lives Matter protester ID'd from Twitter photo via facial-recog system secretly used by US law enforcement
Feds throw book at eBay execs who deny they had anything to do with cyberstalking of site's critics
Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in
Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed
Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more
Friday 23rd October 2020 08:53 GMT
Re: Life in Russia
With obvious caveats on other aspects, Russia has some stunning landscape and winter sports including climbing and skiing are great - if that is your thing. As someone who lives in Scotland and will be transplanting myself up from my Borders base to the far North in the next two weeks just for that, I can appreciate some of the benefits. Remote working can be wonderful.
IBM: Our AI correctly predicts onset of Alzheimer’s 71% of the time, better than standard clinical tests
Friday 23rd October 2020 08:43 GMT
I take your point on incorrect diagnoses. and a 29% failure rate is probably not one that would cause me do all the paperwork and quietly top myself, but if it is an improvement on current diagnoses and can be used to direct other tests then it is better than what we can do at the moment.
On the sentence construction how would Hemmingway have done:-? Maybe I have misunderstood, but this would appear an appropriate way of monitoring changes in language and therefore part of a continuous monitoring system?
The engineer lurking behind the curtain: Musical monitors on a meagre IT budget
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's US extradition hearing will be in February 2021
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines
We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything
What's that, Lt Lassie? Three terrorists have fallen down a well? Strap on these AR goggles and we'll find 'em
Britain should have binned Huawei 5G kit years ago to cuddle up with Trump, says Parliamentary committee
A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong
Wind and quite a bit of fog shroud Boris Johnson's energy vision for the UK
Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google
Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations
Robot wars! Scandi automation biz AutoStore slings patent sueball, claims it owns Ocado warehouse tech
Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration
Russia and China's 'digital authoritarianism' means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general
Friday 2nd October 2020 09:38 GMT 
Other countries, such as Israel, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia, also supply advanced capabilities to repressive regimes – from location-tracking spyware and hi-resolution video surveillance, to hacking software, and censorship filtering applications."
Too right - where there is money to be made there are sods in most countries who will happily take it from anyone.
Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing
Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it
Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery
British Army develops AI shotgun drone with machine vision for indoor use
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April
Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!
England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data
Thursday 24th September 2020 10:22 GMT
Re: United? Kingdom
More than a point of principle. Scotland relies on much UK enabling legislation (for example on lockdown) and if the UK gov had not screwed up so badly first time round, it might well have used it. But they fucked up and so Scotland reskinned the NI solution. However, using the common framework it should be compatible with whatever England has done (if it works)
Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road
She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off
Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village
UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 09:17 GMT
As I understand it, in Scotland we use the NI sourced app rebadged with minor tweaks, - maybe not world-beating, but at least it is out there, being used and (maybe) helping a little bit. Is anyone holding their breath on England actually releasing one at all that does not involve a significant bung for favoured party donors and hangers-on?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
