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Buying gov.UK kit via price-comparison digital portal could 'save £10bn'

Re: I admit it.

There are beancounters that will help you.. for a price.

Anyway, it is a bad idea for small shops.. don't deal with the gov.

Eight in ten IBM Global Tech Services roles will be offshore by 2017

Re: Real talk

Not only that, but they saw the very real risk of losing relevance.

If the market is tech driven, the beancounters provide no value. So, declare that the tech has no value, therefore an external company has to deal with it. They simply won.

BBC telly tax drops onto telly-free households. Cough up, iPlayer fans

Re: iPlayer - accounts and international markets

They don't block all VPNs, as I can watch iPlayer while I go on vacation back to Spain.

As for charging that much for content.. really not worth it. I would then DEMAND to have the content available after it is broadcasted.. and I mean the minute it is started to broadcast, and to remain some months.

Tor users are actively discriminated against by website operators

Re: Understandable..

I used to block:

Russia

China

Japan

Korea

Tor

And the hacking attacks diminisshed by more than 50%, no legitimate user was affected.

Had it been possible, I would had blocked the US and UK, and then almost all malicious attacks would have stopped.

Bleeping Computer sued by Enigma Software over moderator's forum post

Ok 5$ to them

Just for the free speech, I prefer to format and restore image.

UK carrier Three in network-wide ad-block shock

Block three

I can understand that users use adblock, as I have used it myself, and these days I just don't have flash and don't go to several websites.

But blocking ads at network level? probably illegal, but most certainly bad idea. I would block all traffic from three.

Fleet of 4.77MHz LCD laptops with 8088 CPUs still alive after 30 years

Re: Just wait...

A TCP IP Stack can be implemented with way less that 512MB KB of RAM.. still, very slow but feasible.

Note:check TCP/IP implementation on pics:

http://www.microchip.com/SWLibraryWeb/product.aspx?product=TCPIPSTACK

16KB are needed.

Network builders: LTE costs will transform the cell tower biz in 2016

Telcos

Most telcos know that they aren't really good at telecommunications, and they have outsourced the works on the network and most of the planning, so why not sell the network.

They are also last on customes retention and satisfaction, having also outsourced these services.

They also no longer bill their customers.

My suggestions is that they should just be a brand that resides in bahamas. And, of course, outsource marketing and the directors.

There, closed shop.

Seagate’s triple whammy: Disk numbers, costs, and flash

Re: The death of the PC

The problem is the same as with the pc: there is almost no money to be made on them.

Re: milking the cow

I don't think they were wrong.. they probably got more money than doing it otherwise..

HDDs will stay in the long term, at least for backups.

Western Digital, IBM enter patently cosy deal

IBM being sold, one juicy part after the other.

And then the directors are still puzzled, how come where sell less each quarter?

If a supermarket stops selling milk as it makes them no money, people will stop buying there.. it is quite simple.

Same with IBM, yes, they will send me a unix box, or a mainframe, but now x86, pcs, and many related technologies are sold by lenovo... etc etc.

Retailers urged to create 'CCTV-like' symbol to inform customers of mobile tracking

Developers should be shot.

Re: "... retailer’s smart phone app. "

I would like them to be shot.

I refused to make a similar system for a banch of the Spanish Police.

Had we all refused, no such system would exist.

Google UK coughs up £130m back taxes. Is it enough?

Re: One answer is to have a flat rate of tax across Europe

In order to kind of fix this you would have to block transfers todirectly or indirectly to tax havens. That includes ireland.

That, of course, creates a new world of problems...

Re: Not just the UK - same problems in Australia

That is why you pay a few pounds/dollars/euros in taxes.

The problem is the uneven playing field, that removes income from the society that generated it and damages those who do pay. Good luck fixing it.

Re: Who Knows Tax Law?

The problem is that you are proposing is a regressive tax system, and those systems tax the poor more than the rich, and the differences in class increase dramatically. Now we have something similar as the rich pay relatively almost no tax, but the middle class do pay.

Re: The Tumbler SJW jibe is silly

Problem is, if no company pays any taxes in the uk, bankruptcy will come.

And we are headed to that with tax avoidance... It is one of the reasons for class inequality: the rich tend not to pay taxes at all.. ask the Scottish government...

Which tech stocks are suffering and – crucially – why?

Re: Atlassian?

Errr, Jira etc?

Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs

Re: I just don't get the Windows 10 hate

Well, the problem is Microsoft knows you like it because windows called home telling them so.

Test burn on recycled SpaceX rocket shows almost all systems are go

Re: Launch Window

They had excellent reasons not to make them reusable.

No escape: Microsoft injects 'Get Windows 10' nagware into biz PCs

Re: Time for the author of "Tiny7" to get back to work

Same here, one w7 pro in Spain and one w8.1 in Scotland, both got the spam.

Competition watchdog to rubberstamp BT gobble of EE

No competition

I guess the idea is to have just three (no pun intended) telcos to set prices an lower service quality, as in Spain. Very profitable for the companies

Skype finally catches Google with group video chat

Crap app

worse still, on my phone it insists on using the noise cancellation mic instead of the regular one.

The only app that does that.

Catalan town hall seriously downsizes monarch

Re: Inventive?

It is not.

The rule of law should be respected.

UK energy minister rejects 'waste of money' smart meters claim

Re: Not smart enough

It is not about efficiency, as in spain for example they have been pushed with different excuses.

In spain they are used to control if the house/flat is in use, and by how many persons. The sw has been available for years, but was extremely unreliable with analog readers.

Apart from the illegal control aspects, if you rent it and don't declare and pay the required taxes you will be caught.

Who will buy our darn DRAM? Micron smacked in wallet again

Re: Simply amazing...

Add tablets and phablets.. and there you have it.

Right now I am writing with a 5.5" phone...

Cisco, HPE and Dell: Let's just say 'it's complicated' for now

Re: EMC's mission in life

Add SAP to the list of "designed to be convoluted/mangled by design".

Bookstore sells some data centre capacity, becomes Microsoft, Oracle's nemesis

Re: But the Emperor has no clothes

Your CIO is spineless, from now on he should cut costs and deliver the same reliability as Office 365.

Re: glaring propaganda of promoting Microsoft article

Microsoft has great technology, but lacks vision.

Just look at windows phone... an unnecessary disgrace. And I tried hard to like windows ce.

Linux is in many ways inferior to windows and in many other ways superior, overall I would say it is inferior to windows server, unless you check the price, then the TCO is inferior, and therefore ppl should use it.

As fo cloud... I see no point in using azure. Why pay more for the same, and, as some commentards point out, have pricing risks?

Western Digital pushing archive data ideas

Backblaze

Backblaze pods are still cheaper.

Just use wharever gives you better bang for buck and use clever resilience (not raid)

Ex-SAP exec sent down for 22 months after bribing govt IT officials

Re: Bribes? No thanks

Get the data and you won't be fired...

And the reasons for buying new IT gear are as follows ...

Re: That photo

I would have bought 2 old computers with ISA slots and configure at least one. Cheaper and nothing goes to waste.

Cisco bitten by Java deserialisation bug, working on patch

Re: Drop Java

The AC is still in Java 1.3.. excecp, bloated? maybe he likes Cobol... and is confused by FEATURES AND LIBRARIES.

Re: Drop Java

Refrain from insulting the source of my income.

Also, there are plenty of ways of pointing out deficiencies in Java without using plain lies.

Java on a server, today, is fast, it isn't harder to maintain than other technologies, and IS cross-platform unless you are a moron or needed something very specific.

How cyber insurance actually works

Unlimited risk vs limited income

Why whould anyone take that risk? 10 million pounds for 70 pounds? Nobody will sign that!

Reg reader achieves bronze badge, goes directly to jail

Pot money

We could put some money and try to contact him to send him a gift, postcard whatever.

He seemed quite angry at his lawyer for putting him on the spam list.. and was affected by the swiss secure web service shutdown.. he lost emails important for his defense.

China decides to cook its own chips – report

India and Brazil

It is expensive to manufacture in India: too much corruption!! Even worse than china.. and when you have to effectively pay "protection money" "pizzo" "lecgal surcharges" or whatever you want to call it, things get expensive very quickly.

As corruption in India seems to be fixed as soon as we have electric Fusion Power, I don't really think India is a serious contender for China. Maybe smaller countries that can be dominated by big corps are a better target for them.

ProtonMail pays ransom to end web tsunami – still gets washed offline

Re: the Danegeld

Nothing!! ;)

Chinese fire up world's 'most powerful' drone brain

Price

Chinese company: they sell in $, converting to pounds makes no sense, as thyou would haave to be correcting the article.

Telcos' revenge is coming as SDN brings a way to build smart pipes

Pipes are fibre

Nobody uses copper for main trunks, it just makes no sense.

As for high speed copper, yes, possible, but only a short distance.

Cops use terror powers to lift BBC man's laptop after ISIS interview

Re: @boltar - So what?

It is not that they think they are spies, it has been proven to be the case, at least some of them were.

So now we have illeterate violent pple thinking these people are spies. Great.

WD revenues hurt by slack PC demand

HDDs

Are declining and will cease to be used for "PCs".. SSDs in maany forms will replace them.

The "PCs" of course might be phones, or tablets, or whatever format me use, but no HDD will be inside, we all know that.

Still, for backup, video recording, etc, I think it makes sense.

Teenage boy bailed until November over TalkTalk incident

Re: this lad

No problem with him burning in hell.

Yes, the victims might have had a low quality door, but if a gang of juneviles thrash your place and steal your tools and ruin you, you would agree that they should go to prison.

Want to slash your phone bill? Go to jail. Go directly to jail

Re: Woa... that's nuts...

Well, in some states, if you steal three cakes, the third time you go to prison for life (three strikes law).

Also, a reallyt big portion of those incarcerated have drug related sentences... you know, "war on drugs" that only benefits the prison owners.

In the uk, if you kill somebody while drunk you might not even go to prison, and that is absurd.

Bosch, you suck! Dyson says VW pal cheated in vacuum cleaner tests

Bad test

The bad test was obviously made to german specs.

Same for Euro X tests.. made for german/french manufacturers,. tests while moving are not difficult today.. yet they resist. Same with NOx.. they refuse to test for them, and I have designed systems that can detect and measure NOx in exhaust for less than 200€.

Microsoft's top lawyer: I have a cunning plan ... to rescue sunk safe harbor agreement

Re: Sounds like common sense....

what he says is "RESPECT THE LAW", as in all laws, not just the local one.

Won't happen, as it means US would have to repel the US unPatriot Act, among others.

Western Digital's hard drive encryption is useless. Totally useless

Re: "Totally useless" ?

If you live in the UK, you better have no encryption, less you forget the passwords.. and get jailed.

NATS climbs into the cloud to fight legacy software snafus

Re: There shouldn't be any windows used

Into the aircraft? no way!!

Apple quietly swaps out MacBook Retina displays to fix skin-peeling stains

Re: the onus on customers

The trick is they won't extend them in countries like Spain...

US Navy robot war-jet refuels in air: But Mav and Iceman are going down fighting

UN rules?

Since when has that been a problem for the us military?

UCAVs are cheaper to run, and can have way more capabilities than piloted planes, for clear reasons.

The only problem is the meatballs run the show and refuse to allow the UCAVs to take their roles.

Shocker: Net anarchist builds sneaky 220v USB stick that fries laptops

Re: Net anarchist?

It isn't very clever.

It is a matter of googling the tech specs of dc-dc boosters, nothing else.