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Samsung needs to eat itself, not copy Apple's X-rated margins

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s9 lite

What about the s8 as the lite version, I saw dex demoed on an s8 and it looked really good.

Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different

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Devuan Chimaera

Devuan Chimaera aka version 4.0 is on the way, based on debian 11: for those that value init freedom.

Teradata chases hyperscaler, SI partnerships in cloud push

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'which includes software support and consultancy, aside from IBM's assistance"

"Which includes employing teenagers and firing peeps with marketable experience. "

TFTFY

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

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spb

Laser drone killers, sounds like job for EL REG SPECIAL PROJECTS BUREAU. Starting, of course, with a poll for the name and a logo competition :)

Linus Torvalds says new Linux lands next week and he’s sticking to that … for now

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Joke

Re: As for every release @teknopaul

...in vms...

Has the Intel port of OpenVMS got that far already?

Ohhhhh. He meant VMs, didn't he?

Bug-hunter faces jail for vulnerability reports, DuckDuckPwn (almost), family spied on via Nest gizmo, and more

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Re: Firefox 65.0 - and the increased internet googlification

I've started using yandex and bing. Just to diversify.

Its scary when Google flexes its muscles.

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

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Re: And lots of bluescreens

In such times, productive work can still be done "around the watercooler", or as they say in blighty "down the pub".

WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online

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Re: those young whippersnappers... [get off my lawn]

Can we have a rule about use of capitals? With perhaps a subclause about irrelevant brackets and quots.

;)

Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck

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"I do testing so I don't have bugs" has been proven time and again to be a dangerous simplification of the realities of writing code.

Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right

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Re: Even maintenance can be hard

Dude. Changing a battery should not be even considered "repair".

Which part of 69 > 20 > 0 don't you understand?

As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode

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Re: Desktops must be multiplied beyond necessity

If you want to write it in a memory safe language, starting afresh might not be a bad thing.

Driver in Uber's self-driving car death goes on trial, says she feels 'betrayed'

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Re: Software to arbitrate between two soldiers -- haven't they heard of rank?

Sarg? where is the option to tick if there isn't a foxhole?

Fan boy 3: Huawei overhauls Air-a-like MateBooks

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Re: Stop, just stop

Book is a pretty standard suffix for a keyb + monitor clamshell.

E.g. Ultrabooks etc.

Laptop was always a silly name.

Samsung unveils hardened SD card that can last 16 years if you treat it right

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Re: "can sustain 16 years of continual writes."

With SD read is implicitly more than writes. Its writes that knacker your SD cards and SDDs

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

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Re: No surprise here

When you have a monopoly and thus totally inelastic demand. In a free market economy its added to the supply curve as a cost.

Twitter: No big deal, but everyone needs to change their password

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I think its fairly common to send "plaintext" over ssl and hash and compare to stored hash during auth.

What would you recommend?

WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online

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Re: I will not use this

Fyi google web assembly runtime is v8, i.e. the javascript runtime, they are not seperate projects.

Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea

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Re: Body language

"Stop and search" is a term invented to downplay unwaranted arrests.

ar•rest ə-rĕst′►

intransitive verb

To stop; check.

Firefox to adopt Chrome's new approach to extensions – sans the part that threatens ad blockers

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Re: UNclear

They day Google replaced the WWW with a proprietary binary protocol (spdy) was the day Google should have been broken up.

Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions

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Anti trust?

Surely there is anti-trust law to prevent...

"Apple simply bought out the entirety of TSMC's capacity for the year."

'Moore's Revenge' is upon us and will make the world weird

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Re: A chip in everything...

I presume you mean AND can be usable without connectivity.

5 years is nothing like the acceptable lifetime of a TV or fridge, imho.

Transport for London Oyster system pulled offline after credential-stuffing crooks board customers' accounts

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Re: We encourage all customers not to use the same password for multiple sites

It is credential stuffing per wikipedia's definition

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credential_stuffing

Remember those wacky cyberpunk costumes in Hackers? They're on display in London this week

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Gimp

Re: Horrible movie

horrible, implausible plot: no one would believe hackers could shut down an oil pipeline...

wacky costumes indeed: unless you did your job interview at burning man.

US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju

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Re: I've seen/read enough warnings on this

US Mega Corp will be happy to invest in warehouses full of AI hardware to play chess with the enemy

US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry

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Re: Brain Control, Havana Syndrome, Microchips, USA and China

Save your self a click. the video is nonsense rant about Biden and Trump. It explains nothing, just makes accusations.

Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial-rec tech

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Re: Read the article

they have photos, they may lie about deleting them but they do have photos.

Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some

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Re: Naturally...

They already flag nay app that does not use Google play for notifications as "using too much battery".

Eu should step up on this it's clear monopoly abuse.

Apple flings patent lawsuit at HTC (again)

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wot no widgets

here here, Apple is not the market leader in phone tech these days, perhaps they can win a law suit to prove they were.

Google broke its own cloud, again, with dud DB config change

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Re: DevOps

Highly doubt that. DevOps is all about test pipelines. Isn't fool proof but I doubt they have not go change control on prod config.

Now Internet Society told to halt controversial .org sale… by its own advisory council: 'You misread the community mindset around dot-org'

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Getting there

If Ethos Capital cant afford a few flights, maybe they dont have that much capital. Holding them off might work.

Keep up the good work.

EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency

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Re: Weight of passengers

How come planes can't measure tire or shocks pressure to work out what they really have and how well balanced they are?

US is best place to be a software engineer, salary survey finds

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Re: BUT.......

In the US they could make all maple syrup from high fructose corn syrup, sugar, xantha gum and artificial coloring and no one would notice.

US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat

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Re: Ha ha ha

The best way to stop people from spying and stealing is to be open and share.

Russia bans foreign software purchases for critical infrastructure

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Re: What's old is new again

They have to get caught.

It would test a hacker's love of mother Russia and it's oligarchs.

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

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RF jamming got to be worth a try for taking out toy drones.

cheap , easy , probably illegal to try it out in the office.

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

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tasty, presumably targeting has to be more precise than explosives. you're probably only targeting in 2d, explosives would need to know the distance.

We can do this the easy way or the Huawei, US tells Germany with threat to snip intel over 5G fears

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This is Huawei vs Cisco not capitalism vs communism. If it were the US would shut up and let the market decide. Ho ho.

AMD was right about chiplets, Intel's Gelsinger all but says

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Re: RE:chiplets

A mate had a 512kb water-cooled hard drive as a coffee table. That man had clutter issues.

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

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Re: " Still funny, even after all these years"

What do they call the blue screen of cantshutdowndespitegettingonaplane.

I get that pretty much every flight.

I think I prefered bsod.

Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ support to arrive in Linux 5.1

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Re: I would think ...

No point in a sata port, you can connect hd via usb 2 for a nas. The ports are not what limits a rpis performance.

IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'

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Re: Millenials

"I'm not sure if that's an entirley fair comment as all people are different",

True, but I think I agree there is a recognisable trend.

Tired sysadmin plugged cable into wrong port, unleashed a 'virus'

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Re: Beware Manglement with DHCP laptops

What year was this?

I cant imagine working at a place without dhcp where you could not start work until an IT turned up.

Computer Misuse Act: Tell the Home Office infosec needs a public interest defence in law, says CyberUp campaign

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Re: Rather than a defence...

Why should they be permitted to do anything before phoning up and asking permission.

That's all it takes and ahem "security research" is legal.

Europe's largest nuclear plant on fire after Russian attack

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FAIL

Re: Like primitive man putting his hand in fire

I just read something that said Rússia has been to war with out maps in the past and soldiers got lost.

It's 2017 – and your Mac, iPad, iPhone can all be pwned by an e-book

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webkit

youd have thought that bugs in WebKit would need simultaneous patches for chrome chromium opera etc etc, no? Any one know if Apple is late or early?

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

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Re: Did Google implemented it on its servers to test it fully and at scale?

I'm sure they earned their "works on my machine badge of honour".

Data exfiltrators send info over PCs' power supply cables

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Re: Meh

If the nsa can install hardware on route they can pop a wifi chip in there and save themselves from scrabbling around in your fuse box.

What a meth: Woman held for 3 months after cops mistake candy floss for hard drugs

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Re: Why so long??

Simple and cheap ph test should have been done. Love to know what the road side test is that can be so obviously wrong.

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

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Re: It would be fun if the Chinese Govt just turned it off

A lot of haters would take to twitter where Trump's remaining supporters hang out.

Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan

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Re: Very unlikely

isn't this just pattern matching? wouldn't you get similar results with input data that was the person's face while watching the tele?

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