Re: Too late Huawei
I do wonder whether China might be regretting moving so quickly on a number of things - the West will be damaged by boycotts, but if this has all happened in 5 years time it would probably have been far worse.
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Don't make any sudden moves: Huawei urges UK government to wait before declaring it 'unreliable'
CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor
Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law
Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO
Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing
Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike
Tuesday 7th July 2020 07:51 GMT
Re: eBikes
Exactly. I cycle a great deal (about 12k miles a year) on pedal power alone, but frankly, anything that gets people onto bikes, whether they go on to cycle without help or not is a good idea and I do know of a couple of people who have replaced most of their car journeys by e-bike, one of whom I occasionally cycle with as she can keep up a brisk pace.
Three UK: We're sending you this SMS to warn you not to pay attention to unsolicited texts
Your 2.3m Instagram fans won't stop the FBI... Web star accused of plotting to launder millions from cyber-crime
When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan
Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future
UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts
One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway
Tuesday 30th June 2020 16:09 GMT
Re: Could be worse
They are up to three at the moment
* the Garden Bridge (abandoned without a bit of construction being attempted)
* a bridge across the channel (proposed by Johnson, not mich heard since 'we' decided that the French were enemies again)
* a Scotland - NI bridge (soon to be abandoned because of the cost of disposing of all the munitions careless dropped there after the 1st world war)
Leaked benchmarks from developer kit for Apple's home-baked silicon appear to give Microsoft a run for its money
Apple said to be removing charger, headphones from upcoming iPhone 12 series
CompSci student bitten by fox after feeding it McNuggets
Friday 26th June 2020 08:18 GMT
Re: Poxy Greys
Exactly. The pox does kill some greys, but it invariably fatal to reds. In many ways, they are largely complimentary - the reds being lighter tend to stay higher - which may explain in part how my rather fearsome mogs bring in greys, presumably intercepted on the ground, but they never brought in Reds in a different house in a Red population area.
I should say this is a mixed blessing. Few things are worse than confronting the lower half of a squirrel, dismembered ion the hall carpet in the morning. I suffer for their art.
In fact, the score over the last three years is trapped and shooting: 7, Pi and Mu (for they are so named) :3. But for the moment a determined campaign means that we see Reds on the fringes of our woods, and Grey sighting are considerably lower than they were (maybe keeping out of sight :-).
Friday 26th June 2020 06:39 GMT
And equally crazy that their other critters (rats etc) have been allowed to get to numbers where they are considered attractors for the foxes.
Now I like foxes in their proper place - and the British countryside is one such place (preferably without some baying hooray on horseback in pursuit), but Australia is not. Like many non-native species they were introduced (for 'sport' I believe) and have a devastating effect on native fauna. Time for them to go. I should add, so you can see my bias, that living in the Scottish Borders, we trap and shoot Grey Squirrels as well. Cute, yes, a danger to the native Red - very very much so.
Russia returns to space tourism and offers a first citizen spacewalk
Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth
Friday 26th June 2020 10:54 GMT 
'Check all the simple stuff first'."
The old ones are the best ones. Took me a wee while to learn that.
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
Huawei wins approval to plonk £1bn optical comms R&D facility in UK's leafy Cambridgeshire
US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant
After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good
Friday 26th June 2020 07:07 GMT
What a shame. I use (almost daily) an OMD-1 (a successor to the OM1), a lovely bit of kit with great lenses. Of course, phones are ubiquitous as well as being pretty decent. They still don't come close for what I like to do (and I do use my mobile as a pikki capture device as well. Given the cost of high-end mobile phones, I know that I would rather have a cheap and cheerful mobile and spend the cash on a decent SLR. But the paying public are speaking sigh.
We're no longer helping UK Post Office persecute postal workers with our shonky system, says Fujitsu
Taiwan to stay ahead of China as top chip manufacturing titan
Thursday 25th June 2020 11:07 GMT
It will be interesting whether Western countries put their money where their mouths are and start stumping up. Certainly, the costs for a modern fab are eye-watering, but I have seen some indications that Germany and France are beginning to consider it (not the same as really doing it). I suspect that both Blighty and the US will baulk at business that is not as usual. Certainly, despite fine words about Huawei, the UK has bugger all intention of actually doing anything.
You'd think lockdown would be heaven for us layabouts – but half the UK has actually started 'exercising more'
Thursday 25th June 2020 11:00 GMT
Re: Self-selecting survey
Some anyway. Locking down in the Scottish Borders and unwilling to drive (as we normally cycle the 5 miles either way) to get any enormous load, has severely reduced our alcohol intake. At the same time, not having to worry about commuting to Edinburgh a few times a week has made cycling much easier - which combine with the weather has got us up to 40 miles per day for the fun of it*
*Yes another bit of anecdotal data (certainly not evidence of something that can be extrapolated), but in the same vein, I see rather more cyclists coming past every day, some of whom tend to be weekend only riders as their commutes get in the way.
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