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Chinese carriers collectively claim to have cracked a billion 5G subs

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Re: I do wonder

Bit of googling: perhaps more in total but 10% power per byte.

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

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Re: Then why ?

Three BSODs recently Micro$oft have good reason to drop their own kernel

NASA's cubesat makes it to the Moon to test orbit for human visitors

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Re: Plan B

I guess no point if solar energy can get you there and back.

Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying

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Re: Pot meet kettle

And the loyalists have it 6 to 3.

Off with his head.

Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)

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Re: Reg

El Reg without comments? I shudder at the thought.

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

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Re: legislation??

Vote Chad Leonard - tough on innocents, weak on security.

ARM servers to gain boost from ARM, Oracle Java partnership

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kill java?

like no one uses android or hadoop or tomcat anyway

ICO 'making enquiries' into bizarre shopper data spill at M&S

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agreed

cache of a response with a set-cookie header seems likely

How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really)

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Re: How can a free operating system...

because zero is a number.

Floyd Mayweather-endorsed cryptocoin startup knocked out by fraud allegations

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Re: Made $32m from thousands from investors

Thats blaming gambling on punters

UK digital network Openreach takes 15 electric vans for a spin

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apples for apples

You dont have a petrol station in your garage.

Linus Torvalds issues early Linux Kernel update to fix swapfile SNAFU

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Re: swap space

perhaps not a good moment to recommend swap files.

Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov

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stupid nanny state saying no is not a problem

when they grow all over the golf course.

China orders immediate shuttering of Bitcoin exchanges

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great thing about crypto currency...

is that governments can't artificially deflate or inflate the value.

oh.

Samba needs two patches, unless you're happy for SMB servers to dance for evildoers

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Dumb statement: What makes you think the developers of samba 1 are young? Original author is 50.

Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club

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18 months?

Linux containers is ten years old this August.

(And starwars 1 was released in 1977 :)

The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

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new reg feature?

Right mouse click > edit > submit pull request -m "that'll be kilo not mega".

The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?

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Wanne be careful about banning Huawei the lads, you might miss out on some good cheap kit.

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

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Re: I just noticed that...

it true, you are safe to ban .uk in your Dns now.

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

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agreed, if you use morse code it is less distracting than Teams. And has more secure cyber.

Boeing will cough up $2.5bn+ to settle US fraud charge over 737 Max safety

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Re: WTF: Boeing must acknowledge and accept the government's criminal fraud charge

Good precident for Trump.

DARPA picks Intel to automate conversion of FPGAs into ASICs for military applications

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Coat

It's a close run race, Intel are just 5 nanometers behind.

I'll get my coat

The latest REvil ransomware victim? Sol Oriens. Oh, a US nuclear weapons contractor

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Good point

It would be interesting to see interview questions by the recruiters for shits n giggles.

EU cuts off key Russian banks from SWIFT system

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$113bn (€101m) exchange rate from € to $ looking a bit off already ;)

Tips and corrections page is down

Elon Musk considering 'drastic action' as Twitter takeover in 'jeopardy'

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Re: Where is the ROI?

That didn't work very well for his existing stock did it.

Ex-Twitter Brits launch legal challenge against dismissal

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Re: Pyrrhic victory ?

It would be quite fun to host a mastodon node at twitter.co.uk.

Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates

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KMods

This sort of stuff in the Linux kernel used to worry me.

Now it's reassuring.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Re: I am enjoying this dispute

Either that, or the world missed out on some amazing sculptures.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

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Re: Holidays

I rekon a few old PC will get replaced by one or more android device.

Ego and CEO are 66 per cent the same

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news?

IMHO what happened on the telly in a soap is not news.

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

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Re: Sour grapes

The Russians are big supporters of the US democratic system.

The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too

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too insecure?

It's a 3D banana renderer.

Where's the attack vector?

Source: IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'

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IBM is bad news for RedHat

Meanwhile Cannonical is hiring at senior levels.

FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges

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Re: Bizzarre

The 300 political donations is just the bribes they know about.

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

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Make America The 50's again.:(

Everyone should watch the film Hidden figures

Anti-privacy unkillable super-cookies spreading around the world – study

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opera mini browser bypasses this

Mind you, opera are doing something very similar Already.

Void Linux gave itself to the void, Korora needs a long siesta – life is hard for small distros

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multibillion

Unless you count Google. Google dont run it but they are very active.

They terrrk err jerrrbs! Vodafone replaces 2,600 roles with '600 bots' in bid to shrink €48bn debt

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If telephone bots work for you, it just indicares you have a useless website.

House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason

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Re: Syntactic whitespace

did you read the title of your comment as you posted?

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

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Re: No print? No buy.

Stick to B&W printers, presuming general office use

Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

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mizilla steps up

Mozilla plan to get node running on their is VM. that should support more options

What's silent but violent and costs $250m? Yes, it's Lockheed Martin's super-quiet, supersonic X-plane for NASA

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Re: Only $247.5m?

I notice the term "at scale" is now used to mean "lots of money "

Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers

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Re: Delete themselves

Word. Facebook is the epitome of a faceless corp that refuses any contact from consumers.

Microsoft Azure Europe embraced the other GDPR: Generally Down, Possibly Recovering

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Re: MTBF vs Blast Radius

Where I work we have never had five hours of down time ever.

We don't usually sugar-coat the news but... Alien sugars found in Earth-bound meteorites

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Re: Best petri dish

As this article shows. Some folk are pretty far advanced in their intelligent guessing.

ServiceNow slammed for 'tone deaf' letter telling customers contracts can't be tweaked as COVID-19 batters businesses

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Re: We use Service Now where I work...

"Nasty stupid" sums up British Politics and Goverment that results.

Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars

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Re: Why

While this is true, nasa missed an opportunity to design the solarsystem's most bling helipad.

Roger Waters tells Facebook CEO to Zuck off after 'huge' song rights request

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Re: Not Now John

He should write Zuck a dedicated version, "Just another prick in the walled garden"

Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate

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Re: I love how the word 'sharing'

Lockdownfm.live is a top radio station and does nothing nefarious.

Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit

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Re: The intentionally incompatible iMessage yet again?

Apple _outsources_ great hardware...

Ftfy

Best not talk about their software.