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

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Re: Built to repair?

Smart parents, taught you how to fix TVs and tax eficiency.

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

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Xi just needs to let people out of their flats in Beijing to stimulate demand.

Jobs was 'working on future product day before he died'

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fitting

Apparently lots of foxcomm workers were working on a new Apple product

the day before they died too.

Sorry, Californians, you can't have this: Asus to build WATER COOLED notebook

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Re: Gaming laptops rule !!

Word. If you can put that fat gpu to use compiling code.

gcc -j 2048...

One-third of all HTTPS websites open to DROWN attack

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why the down vote?

Is this not correct? SSLv2 must be enabled or possible via a downgrade attack right?

Oracle's JET flies into open source skies

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I don't trust UPL

Another OS licence specifically designed to let Oracle sell other peoples open source work.

Google's big Spanner in the works for price war against AWS

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scaleable sql

only new if you never noticed mysql and its ndb backend. Facebook running on that I believe.

Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?

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Its not like this is the first death on their books.

www.whosdrivingyou.org has a list of them.

Home users due for a battering with Microsoft 365 subscription stick

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Re: Never guessed...

Subscription Windows will be great. Open shiney new PC no Microsoft tax paid yet. install Linux.

DXC's new boss has quite the cleanup ahead after frankenfirm exits Q2 nursing $2bn loss

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Re: I wish him luck, for the employees' sake

Or find 2 billion per quarter losses unsustainable and collapse.

Security pro's time-travelling Twitter bot suspended after posting download link for Adobe Acrobat for MS-DOS

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Re: Reading old files.

copyright should never be longer than the reasonable working life of an individual human bean.

Suck on this: El Reg forces dog hair, biscuit crumbs, and disconcertingly sticky stains down two mini vacuums

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Re: Able to buff up dried-on stains and stubborn sticky patches

The Wolf 1.0, by Oracle, natch

Evil OpenSSH servers can steal your private login keys to other systems – patch now

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Java

Java libs exists if you are willing to accept the overhead of a Virtual Machine.

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

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makes you sick

that's the literal translation of "marea", I wonder if that was deliberate.

Java-aaaargh! Google faces $9bn copyright bill after Oracle scores 'fair use' court appeal win

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Oracle might sue

Added to ever growing list of reasons to not write code in Java.

It's April 2018, and we've had to sit on this Windows 10 Spring Creators Update headline for days

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Re: Beefed up Cortana

Do you think the author noticed this beef curtains reference? Phnarr phnarr

Airbus drone broke up in-flight because it couldn’t handle Australian weather

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It tells you relative wind speed, one to one with what the thing is capable of.

Rust 2021 edition to arrive in October with 'more consistent panic' and other new features

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Real programmers are polyglots.

"I am a linguist, I only speak English" never heard outside IT.

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

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Facebook will sue

They can find plenty of evidence to prove that they _are_ the wall.

IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

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sudo apt install postfix

Being IBM it might take a while to get sudo privs enabled

Dell creates portable workstation that meets Evo consumer laptop spec

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Photo or it didn't happen

Or do I need to turn my ad blocker off?

Huawei pays $9.65b dividend to its workers

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Sharing the front page with the latest IBM scandal

Huawei has profit related pay done right.

Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

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Re: Motive found.

What's wrong with

script &

script &

script &

wait

Ubuntu, Wikimedia jump ship to the Libera Chat IRC network after Freenode channel confiscations

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heard it said that it's a bit so it might work

Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attacks

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fascists

not your bizniz what plugins I run, they wouldn't laugh if Microsoft's reaction was to ban FireFox

US Copyright Office rules that monkeys CAN'T claim copyright over their selfies

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Better cut the budget for that "cameras on bionic moths" project.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/20/scientists_implant_electrodes_into_moths/

NiceHash diced up by hackers, thousands of Bitcoin pilfered

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Re: As per usual when something is internet facing.

To late for that kind of FUD. You lost ages ago.

Spring is all about new beginnings, but it could already be lights out for Windows' Fluent Design

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Re: Still Not Getting It

Id giv u a vot but the arow is too smal.

Sent from my watch.

What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this gentle introduction

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Re: Heard all these promises before.. about 25 years ago...

How will you know if an app is running wasm?

Huawei claims its Google Play replacement is in 'top 3' app stores after Trump turns off tap to the Chocolate Factory

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Anyone know if Play Store is so deeply embeded in the OS that it cannot be installed by a user?

Raspberry Pi goes 2GB for the price of 1GB in honour of mini-computer's eighth birthday

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Re: Better options

Whats your power usage? ToC should include electricity for a few years. Pis shine in this area.

Gaming hot ticket E3 2020 looks like it's the latest tech event fragged by coronavirus

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Re: NAB also

Any event with over 1000 people in Barcelona is forbidden, for the next 15 days.

Quite scary.

Microsoft announces official Windows package manager. 'Not a package manager' users snap back

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Ooh I didnt know you could do that.

Thats up ther with apt erase netplan

and replacing systemd in Ubuntu.

Cookie consent crumbles under fresh UK data law proposals

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Joke

Re: Will this current government's blatant corruption ever cease?

US didn't invent bribery, but they did legalize it.

Google will vet political ads to ward off Phantom Menace of fake news

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Its a no news day when the only news is about fake news

14 sailors die aboard Russian cable spy, er, ocean research nuke sub after fire breaks out

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Re: Really nuclear powered?

NASA manage to trundle nuclear cars around Mars with no one on board.

UK digital network Openreach takes 15 electric vans for a spin

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When carparks have charging facilities the idea of queueing for petrol seems like a waste of time.

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

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Re: Do...While

Executing a parameter check that is not strictly needed! In a C program! Sacrilege.

Huawei claims its Google Play replacement is in 'top 3' app stores after Trump turns off tap to the Chocolate Factory

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Unless you include the existence of a dialer and a browser as "apps", I beg to differ.

Taiwan to develop military exoskeleton because it's not like these things are open-sourced or one-size-fits-all

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Re: Aren't.....

"Well, I can drive that loader."

Whrrrr buzz buzz.

"Where do you want it?"

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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Re: Linux and more

Best feature of rust, code and tests with asserts in the same file.

Helsinki Syndrome: Ubuntu utterly fails to boot on metro

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Re: Hopefully..

If a reboot is a bork. My windows pc borks every time I install software.

Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban

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Re: Grifter

I love the idea that Twitter is effectively state run, that means Trump deplatformed himself.

8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth

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Re: Tax fiddle

You can tax anything (except salt and polls)

Solar power is taxed in Spain.

Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

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Re: Pronouncing...

qoif Presumably pronounced queef.

Quoting Akwafina : what can you do when your queef goes viral?

Ex-Coinbase manager charged in first-ever crypto insider trading case

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Just few bad actors?

Given that includes mtgox, binance and coinbase you wonder where the good actors.

Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel

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Re: All of that effort

Interop between c and rust is great, far better that other languages

Laser-wielding boffins bend lightning to their will

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Re: What about the other way?

Simple: just put a lightning rod on the big fat laser.

PanWriter: Cross-platform writing tool runs on anything and outputs to anything

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ReText

https://github.com/retext-project/retext

Same idea but uses python and qt

Now there's nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant

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Re: Land of the free

Thats coming. Right after the cure for the common cold.