* Posts by Steve Davies 3

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Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz

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Holmes

Shuffling the chairs on the deck

of the Itanic then?

This might improve Intel's bottom line for a few quarters. By then the current 'C Level' execs will be long gone and have cashed in their stock options.

We all know what happens then don't we? The Vulture Capitalists will begin circling the corpse of a once great and innovative company (Once was a long time ago)

Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?

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Oracle ? WTF?

Oracle's track record in this country is not exactly good so why would the BoE willingly go with them?

Something is IMHO screwy.

Again, IMHO, no one should sign up with Oracle unless it is a fixed price deal and THEY take the hit for it being late/not working.

UK's new thinking on AI: Unless it's causing serious bother, you can crack on

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Wow, a gubbermint minister underling who

is not a PPE grad.

Are you sure that her CV is right? After all, the one that the Chancellor gave out is very economical with the truth.

Either way, that degree does not mean that she has any idea about deploying AI on a national scale.

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

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re: US intelligence?

With Tulsi G in charge, anything given to Us Intelligence may well find its way to Russia if the reports of her being a Putin Agent are true.

Five Eyes may well soon become Four Eyes.

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

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Re: widening the A303

this project is like a ping-pong game. One party cancels it when they come into power then later on and usually just before anit election when the incumbents need the votes, a new plan gets approved only for the new government to cancel it.

My prediction....

It will never get built.

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Don't forget his vegan footie team (Forest Green Rovers)... Sorry fans, no meat pies or bacon butties on sale there. :)

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

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Re: Queens

are not allowed in Greater Trumpistan.

Queens == Drag Queens in MAGA speak.

He'll rename it either "Kings" or Donaldton.

Apple warns 'extremely sophisticated attack' may be targeting iThings

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Holmes

Re: Mission Unpossible

Unless the crim uses Android as evidenced by the would-be Trumpo shooter...

Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today

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Remids me of

someone in Westminster back in the 1950's said that (from memory) the UK could be run on FIVE computers. If the number is wrong then it is close to that.

Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

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USAID == Soft Power and Influence

that sort of thing does not show up on balance sheets.

China and Russia are rubbing their hands with glee as Agent OJ destroys the USA from within... something that the old USSR or Mao's CCP failed to do..

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Re: De-classification process

The Orange Jesus didn't follow the rules but thanks to probably having a Federal Judge on the payroll, he got away with it.

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Re: This woman wants justice.

Which is why she is near the top of the MAGA hit list for sending to Gitmo for life.

Other notaries on the list are

Joe Biden

Hunter Biden

Kamelea Harris

Jack Smith

Fanni Willis

Gavin Newscum

Barak Obama

Nancy Pelosi

Any Judge, Federal or State that has ruled against Trump or Musk in any case.

It won't matter if they have a presidential pardon, presidential immunity, there will be 'Trumped' up charges, and put in court before Judge Eileen Canon, in Fort Pierce, FLA, and off got Cuba they will go,

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

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In Europe...

Europe is a different place from the USA.

Most Motorway/AutoStrada/Autobhan etc service areas have at least one DC charger. Many sites are building out with large numbers of chargers. One that I know has 48 150kW+ DC chargers.

More and more supermarkets/malls are getting DC chargers. One near me is about to commission 7 150kW DC Chargers. Even my local Tesco supermarket has a 50kW DC charger. Many, many McD's have a couple of 100kW chargers.

It is a different world over here.

In the USA, there is clearly something fishy going on with this Gov money. Perhaps a lot of it is tied up in projects that are still in planning or early stages of construction?

We know that BP is investing heavily in DC chargers at TA service areas. IF you doubt me then google. https://www.bp.com/en_us/united-states/home/news/features-and-highlights/bp-pulse-opens-first-charging-site-at-a-travelcenters-of-america.html

Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers

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Re: Link to law that says you can't criticise DOGE?

There isn't one BUT

Musk can afford to hire every lawyer in the USA. They will tie you up in bogus law suits from here to eternity if you dare criticise him or DOGE(Y).

Face it people. Musk has learned from Trump how to game the legal system and drag it out for years with motions and appeals that have no merit but they all need to be briefed and ruled on. That costs a whole heap of money which most people don't have.

Rule 1 of Trump 2.0.

Don't slag off Trump or President Felon Musk.

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

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Re: "Flunchy"

Wasn't 'Flunch" a chain of French cheapo restaurants? (Not sure if they still exist or not)

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Re: " Egg white still is, even if it's gloopy."

Farage OTOH will always be HIGHLY Poisonous

There fixed it for you.

Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst

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Re: we won't be even touched with the barge pole by AI gang

Sorry to burst your bubble... You are 10000000% wrong.

There is a planning app in the process of being approved for a massive AI DC near the M25/A1 junction.

I hope it never gets built. IT if is and goes live then we, the mere mortals who live here will suffer brown outs on a regular basis. Widespread blackouts are a possibility.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

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The crims

are using things like Telegtam and for the really serious ones, the Dark Web. Double or even Triple encryption is probably standard these days.

If I encrypt what I hold in iCloud then good luck to them finding filth amongst all the cat pictures that I'll upload to put you off the scent. There is nothing nasty, in my iCloud, it is not my thing.

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

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I agree

especially as being openly LGBT in Uganda will send you to prison in a flash.

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

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What are the odds

That one (or more) of these Musk Interns gets root access to a critical system and does a

cd /

rm -fr .

Either by accident or design?

The implications of these interns getting access to those systems is huge. There are no checks and balances on them and what they are doing...

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

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Re: a fine scurilous rag to a woke mess

If that is your opinion then isn't it time for you to move to a more pro Trumpinan site... line Twatter?

This place is (in)famous for slagging off everyone and anything. Long may that continue.

I'm waiting for (f)elon to sue the site for being a wee bit nasty towards him. After all he sued a group for simply researching him. Thankfully, that was dismissed.

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Re: Tesla was all about PR

Yet, over at the Tesla forums, the cult members are still talking about their 10 year lead in EV tech.

I guess that they also (where allowed) voted for Drumpf.

Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M

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Big Brother

Doh! Don't they know what's about to hit them?

Elon the Musketeer will soon put a stop to that project as long as part of Trump's plan to get rid of the VA and all vet benefits.

The Musk tornado will touch down at the VA very shortly and wreak destruction everywhere.

Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon

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How much is plenty when it comes to bandwidth?

I was satisfied with 76/16 until the bit of copper from the pole over the road decided to fail. BT came and fixed that and at the same time, fitted the box that allowed FTTH. I decided to upgrade.

I went from 76/16 to 500/150 for less than the price of a cheap coffee a month.

The download speeds are just ... oh, it is done already. That makes it worth it.

Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network

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President Musk does not care

about any law he and his interns might break. He knows that the doofus in the White House will give him and anyone doing the dirty work for him pardens immediately he asks for them

We are watching the once great nation, formerly called the United States of America, now called Trumpistan disintegrate before our eyes. Make no mistake people what is happening on the other side of the pond, will hit all of us.

It is not just a case of boycotting Tesla or anything made in the USA (we actually get very little of that because of the crap they put into their food (GMO and Hormone laden meat) but the world financial centre is NYC.

All it needs is for a few major companies to 1) go TITSUP because of debts owed by Uncle Sam not being paid OR 2) deciding NOT to trade with the USA and move their HQ out of NYC for the impact to be felt here. There are lots of other reasons but a lack of coffee (Columbian not American beans) is hampering my brain activity at the moment.

Don't spend any money on non-essential items. Your job/income will probably be at risk once the worldwide depression kicks in. It will take years after Trump leaves the WH (if he ever does) to fix the world economic system.

This is what happens when you give interns access to the US Treasury payments system. We will all feel the effect in 2-3 months.

Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

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Will Loa Alamos survive the Musk Axe?

If they can fire everyone at the CIA (mad fools for doing that) then no Gov funded site is safe from the ravages of the

ELON Musketeers band of pirates

The USA is a laughing stock around the world. That is probably by design. Is Trump a Chinese Agent?

Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page

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Re: MS doing their best to slow down the adoption of Windows 11

We are watching the disintegration of a nation in real time.

The USA is not a place to even visit now. With bands of ICE (warriors) roaming the country demanding 'papers or else'.

As for Gaza. If Trump has his way, it will become "Trumpland" and will be only for the 0.01% richest people in the world.

He has to be stopped.

His dictatorship is empowering more companies to become absolute bastards whereas before, they were just bastards.

Microsoft is right up there with the worst.

Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK

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Space war incoming

Elongated Muskrat won't like this. Who knows, he may already have hunter-killer satellites already in orbit just to shoot down the opposition.

Bezos and Musk are, IMHO turds of the highest pungency.

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

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re: All the while blaming Democrats

Yep.

It won't be long before MTG starts showing files supposedly from Hunter's Laptop and/or Hillary's email server.

WMD's in action folks.

Weapons of Mass Distraction.

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

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Re: UK has has an economic growth problem

It is far worse than that. WE AS A NATION ARE BROKE. The Treasury coffers are empty.

BREXIT will still be a millstone around our grandkids neck even if (God help us) Farage becomes PM and makes us the 52nd State just as his pal Trump wants.

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Re: Tennessee Hooch

Canada is the biggest market for the stuff. Mitch McConnell should standby for a lot of people he represents to lose their jobs very soon.

We need a Footgun Icon.

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Big Brother

Re: Maybe the Democrats control the Senate for decades?

Sorry to burst your bubble but the MAGA controlled House of Repugnants is already trying to pass a bill to limit voting to US born people only. Hawaii's need not apply nor would any Canadian.

This is the next round of voter disenfranchisement. IF it passes, there is little chance of the Dems winning the house or the Senate for 100 years.

MAGA === Big Brother on Steroids.

As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

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Re: We also buy iPhones, Fords and Teslas

The Tesla's that we buy either come from Germany or China. Very few AFAIK come from the USA

Again AFAIK, no Apple kit is made in the USA. It comes from China, India and places like Vietnam.

Ford? They are still 'Fix Or Repair Daily' in my book. The last Ford I had (Capri) went through three alternators in a year. I sold it before a 4th went phut.

By all means boycott McD's, Starbucks, Amazon, MS and Netflix/Disney.

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Childcatcher

Re: It's all in how you look at it

Canada seems to have become far more united than BOJ (Before Orange Jesus). Even the normally right wing Premier of Ontario is in line with their Prime Minister and against Trump. The far right Pierre Poilievre is against Trumpo and his crooks.

Now Trump is saying the the UK is 'Out of Line' and will probably be subject to tariffs (along with the EU).

TBH, I can't think of a thing (other than those apoligies for biscuits called Oreo's that are made with High Fructose Corn Syrup, evil stuff) that I see that is made in USA.

Sure, I see a few Ford Mustang Mach-E's on the road but they come from Mexico and a few Dodge or Ram pickups. We don't take their GMO crops or Hormone laden Meat but what else?

Going the other way?

Cars. Mini's, and a few Bentley's and Rollers and that's it.

Aero Engines and Whisky.

As far as I'm concerned, Trump can go to hell. He is hell bent on making the USA a Fascist state. I wonder how long it will be before he starts to lock up his political opponents in Gitmo? I give it six months at most.

Where is our political leadership? fast asleep as usual.

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

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Re: Once you make Windows 11 look and feel like windows 10...

Doing that still does not get rid of all the spyware. That's baked into the code.

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Re: MS keep acting like it's their computer

You must be new here.

THEY DO OWN YOUR COMPUTER.

You get what they tell you is best for you and to hell with what you want.

Get out of their system while you can.

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

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Re: So “deprecated”

So “deprecated” means nothing more than “don't use this, there's a better way of doing it, and this might vanish someday.”

Bingo. You have just described Windows 11.

Hoping that it vanished entirely at midnight tonight. It really is a POS for an OS and that is thanks to their fiddling with stuff that users were in the main happy with.

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"deprecation" means what we say it means - today

Tomorrow? It will probably be something else entirely.

Much like Oracle Licensing.

FSCK the lot of them.

BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows

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Re: There a starman....

What do you think happens to your connections once it gets to the mobile tower? It goes over.... [drumroll please] cable. The same cables as the rest of us use. you are still at the mercy of the cowboys.

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

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Re: how to make it roll coal.

Stick a steam engine in the truck.

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Re: Car sales, an entirely unscientific survey

How long will those Gov subsidies last now that Trump 2.0 is out to decimate all Gov spending? They tried last week and got stopped... this time. Next time? he'll probably get away with it.

Elon is a master Snake Oil Salesman but the 'Cult of Musk' seem to think that he walks on water.

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Re: often making better designed and better built cars,

Yet the Cult of Musk was right there for us to see... Whooping and Hollering at his every word.

The 3 & Y have largely remained the same for years. Just two mainstream cars.

Other makers have been working hard and have far much more choice of vehicle, finish and especially charging speed with 800v architecture.

Yet the cult still think that Tesla is 10 years ahead of everyone.

It won't be far off a decade since Elon announced FSD and is still not there.

That is the snake oil salesman at its finest.

Robotaxi's? Ok for some but are they the answer for everyone? No way Jose.

Tesla is falling behind a lot of the competition especially BYD and HMG.

Elon needs to choose. Car/Space company CEO or Trump's lackey. He can't do both properly.

Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons

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Mushroom

Coming soon to the USA

Trump, the one person in all of humanity to bankrupt a Casino AND the world's largest economy.

Gotta give those 1%'ers a monster tax cut....

That event will make 1929 seem like a mere blip on the horizon. He'll blame Biden, Hillary, Obama and all those 'Woke' people for his failure despite hiring the best people in the world. Yeah right.

On his tombstone will be the words, 'I did nothing wrong'. and 'I know more about everything than anyone'.

If I had my way, he'd eat this the next time he cheats at golf [see icon]

That said, I'm 3000 miles away from him and have no plans to travel to the USA while he still breathes air.

Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook

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You nearly had an up vote

but then you mentioned GMail.

Google is just as bad as MS for slurping you life away.

White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

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Mushroom

Sounds good

For whom exactly?

Perhaps you own stock in the VC's that will come in, buy stuff, asset strip and leave. All that remains will be a debt ridden shell that is doomed to to TITSUP.

Come on now Beat666 tell us who is going to benefit from this chaos?

If you can't then please go [see icon]

Microsoft signs eviction notice on Dev Home

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Holmes

Re: Standard operating procedure

SOP for Google as well.

Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red

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Keep on shooting yourself in the foot Oracle

You had a nice captive audience and then the quest to monetize everything got in the way.

Now you will see reducing revenues from Java.

Then people will think again about ERP etc.

For a company that started by 'fixing' a feature with an IBM OS it would be sweet justice and that is coming from a former Oracle DBA.

DIE ORACLE and sooner rather than later.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

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You nearly had me

with quotes like this

I see them as spyware.

Then you go and ruin it all by promoting Office online. Doh! Do you think that MS is NOT spying on you there. After all, you make it easy by singing in with yout MS account.

Please go back to the naughty step and learn that any interaction with Microsoft is a chance for them to suck your data without you giving them explicit permission.

The same goes for Google who are probably worse.

You were doing so well with Unix. Yes, I used Ultrix on a VaxStation 2000 back in the day.

Then you ruined it. You failed miserably Mr Nichols.

Microsoft's London 'Experience Center' packs up and goes home

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Location, location, location

Too bad that it was so close to the Apple Store on Regent St. That place is mobbed every day while the MS emporium was a ghost town. There must be a message in that... perhaps they should have started selling Google Pixel phones?

/sic

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

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Re: Councils declaring themselves Bankrupt

Is a way to get around the limits imposed by Westminster on Council Tax Increases. Stay deep in debt and 5% is all you get.

Go broke and the sky is the limit. I read somewhere that one council is proposing a 25% increase next April.

Blairs big push for PFI projects to get them off the Government books is coming home to roost in the next couple of years. I fully expect the UK to go TITSUP and run out of money. It does not look good people.