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1962 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2012

UK govt advert encouraging re-skilling for cyber jobs implodes spectacularly

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Re: You mean "faux outrage"?

The "Arch-Tory" wanted a United States of Europe but didn't want the UK to be part of it. Looks like we're almost there.

Britannia should rule the (cyber) waves, minister tells Singapore event in bid to drum up Commonwealth support

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Re: Another Loon Living in the Past. Britain Has Joined the Ranks of the Former Great Nations

This hasn't been true for several decades.

Britain should have binned Huawei 5G kit years ago to cuddle up with Trump, says Parliamentary committee

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But cozying up to the US definitely is.

Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets

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Re: Disappointing

The NHS has not been starved of cash - its budget has increased every year of those 10. The problem is that they spend it on useless administrators and diversity managers rather than where it's actually needed.

UK privacy watchdog confirms probe into NHS England COVID-19 app after complaints of spammy emails, texts

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Re: Mr Cummings and BoJo

Down votes for saying that on the (Woke) Register? You are joking.

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Re: You lot...

"If, indeed, it was sent to all active phones in a cell..."

It wasn't. I received it on my personal phone but not my work phone and they're always kept together.

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Re: I got one...

Not sure about this. I got it on my personal phone (3) but not my work phone (Vodaphone.) They are always together, so unless Voda said no...

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Re: FFS!

"which is becoming a pattern for all governments..."

FIFY.

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

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Re: Good luck with that.

"The new manufacturing plants will be automated and you'll just have a few people monitoring, adjusting, maintaining the equipment."

But stuff has to go in and out of the factory, roads have to be maintained etc. Relocating factories to the US will create jobs. Not always the jobs you would want but a $1Bn fab will bring in employment.

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

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Re: A slight problem

It would be a bit of an issue if they tried to make it compulsory.

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Re: United? Kingdom

Population of England: 56m

Population of Scotland: 5m

But Sturgeon still expects the English to do what she wants.

Top 5 billionaires find that global pandemics are good for business – and their wallets

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Great. Invent a problem and solve it by killing people. Just what we need.

Not content with distorting actual reality, Facebook now wants to build a digital layer for the world

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Are these people so young they don't remember what happened to Google Glass?

UK and Japan agree to free trade deal that excludes data localisation requirements

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Re: The UK is a nation?

The Ireland rugby team is not the Republic of Ireland national team. Membership is open to players from north and south.

Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban

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Re: We don't need to 'defend' China

And Ren Zhengfei?

To quote Wikipedia: "...(he) then joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) research institute to work as a military technologist reportedly in the PLA's Information Technology research unit."

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Re: We don't need to 'defend' China

"Until recently they were all good Global Citizens..." That is so naive it's scary.

What a time to be alive: Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore

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Because it is so close to the equator, Singapore doesn't really suffer from typhoons.

I can 'proceed without you', judge tells Julian Assange after courtroom outburst

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Re: Sod him

He knew right from the start that he was guilty of conspiracy and everything since has been him trying to escape the consequences of that.

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Re: Bully squads

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Re: Justice

I'm betting the 'small and weak' wouldn't like the alternative.

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Re: The inversion of democracy

".. actual mass murder..."

What mass murder was this then?

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Re: Meanwhile when the boot is on the other foot...

He is not accused of publishing the material, he is accused of conspiring to steal the material, and from what I have seen the evidence is pretty strong he did exactly that.

US senators propose yet another problematic Section 230 shakeup: As long as someone says it on the web, you can't hide it away

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Re: Censoring conservative viewpoints

Trying to show big media doesn't discriminate against conservatives buy linking Vox? Pathetic.

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You miss the point completely and, I suspect, deliberately. The original problem was that ISP's could not moderate content and therefore should be protected from lawsuits concerning that content. The current crop of big media companies have proved conclusively that they CAN moderate content and do so to support their business and their political viewpoints, so the protection should be taken away.

As Amazon pulls union-buster job ads, workers describe a 'Mad Max' atmosphere – unsafe, bullying, abusive

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Re: scum

Amazon are not breaking any laws - if they were they would get busted or sued. The issue is that US law allows this. If you don't like it, change the law.

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Re: corporate employee or fulfillment center associate

"The Johnson regime intends to roll these rights back."

Show me some evidence of this.

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Re: There's a simple solution

Absolute bollocks. Do you even have a job?

Google, Amazon pass on UK Digital Services Tax by hiking ad prices, fees at same rate the government takes

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"Costs are irrelevant unless the company has a monopoly."

I take it you work in government, or perhaps an NGO? Companies that actually build stuff are absolutely obsessive about costs. If they weren't, they'd go bust.

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Google and the other giant tech companies are exceptional cases. If you base your tax law on exceptional cases you are going to bork your economy.

Help. The political process is corrupted, full of lies and state-sponsored deep fakes. Now Microsoft's to the rescue

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Re: Muppet politics - Stop it people

The political process is not corrupted. You just keep losing.

Google says Australian pay-for-news code means it can’t quit the country

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Re: 28 days ?

Google are not a utility by any rational definition. I never use them and haven't for years.

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Re: 28 days ?

"... submit it to a court, and for the court to hear the arguments and grant an injunction."

On what grounds? The change would have to be unlawful and no one is suggesting that is happening, or going to happen.

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Re: Murdoch

"To make sure his empire actually reports the news, not just the opinions he favours." Why? It's his business - he can do what he wants with it. If you don't like what they say, go elsewhere.

Australian regulator slams Google ‘misinformation’ in pay-for-news-fight

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If people would rather go to Google for their news rather than bookmark their favourite local news supplier, that is not Googles problem.

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I despise Google and do not use any of their services but they are in the right here. This is simply another attempt by big government to take control of the internet. If these legacy media companies are making their web-pages free access, Google owe them nothing.

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

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Re: Hasn't the CCP already won?

Communism is a subset of Socialism, you cretin. The core principle both conform to is the state owning the means of production.

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Re: Nope.

"The Chinese government is not Communist. Not even close, despite the name."

They are, however, authoritarian in the extreme.

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

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Re: I can't remember...

So you would tax a business on 100 Bn turnover when only 1 Bn was turned over in the UK? You are a cretin.

At historic Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google CEOs hearing, congressmen ramble, congresswomen home in on tech market abuse

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Re: Only Jeff bothered to find an interesting room for the video-chat hearing ...

The party affiliation was noted in every instance a congress-person was named, idiot.

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

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"...with skills in nothing but generating profits." Which is what they are required to do and were hired to do.

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

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Re: Not Good.

"Liberals follow the science.." when it is convenient and ignore it when it isn't. Just like any politician.

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Re: Not Good.

Conveniently ignoring that the bill is strongly supported bu Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), one of Trumps most vociferous opponents.

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

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Re: Thin end of the wedge?

"...vote Labour."

Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha...

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Re: Loaded words replaced by euphemisms

Call me cynical, but this sort of thing IS BEING used to deliberately divide and disrupt an open source community or organization.

FIFY

We're no longer helping UK Post Office persecute postal workers with our shonky system, says Fujitsu

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Re: And hopefully the summary

No, Jo Swinson was never going to be Prime Minister.

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

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Re: What a shit hole

It's not. Population density seems to be a bigger factor.

Iran military manages to keep a straight face while waggling miracle widget that 'can detect coronavirus from 100m away'

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Re: you may laugh

If Trump said 'cancer is bad' you'd start supporting it...

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Re: you may laugh

The BBC's 'fact check' unit tried to answer this one and could only say that it hadn't been proven. The fact is that biological research institutions have accidentally released stuff in to the wild in the past and speculating that this may have happened here is entirely reasonable. Not necessarily true but reasonable.

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Re: Mr Trump getting re-elected come November

"...driven soley by a political calculus." And even if true, this is different to every Democrat politician ever in what way exactly?

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Re: Fools

Obama killed more people than Trump ever will.