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Francis Maude mulls mulligan on muddled merger of UK govt tech services

Re: David Cameron and those sunny coalition years

> I was wondering whether it was crippled by design or accident.

Why can't it be both ?

A third way, between malice and incompetence. A new path for a new Britain !

Re: David Cameron and those sunny coalition years

Odd difference between politics in the old country and here in the colonies

The modern Tories have women and ethnic minority leaders and don't generally care what you do in bed as long as it doesn't scare the share price.

Re: David Cameron and those sunny coalition years

>Almost lost the Scottish independence vote

Did he? The Tory plan use to be for Scottish Independence to get rid of 30 Labour seats, but since Scotland decided to opt-out of Westminster politics who cares.

> Restructured the health service to plans developed by McKinsey, world famous for their expertise in medicine and health

Mission not quite accomplished, but they're working on it.

> Committed future government to ludicrous foreign aid spending targets

If you're running to be the next Labour leader you have to throw a few crumbs to the lefties

Re: Francis Maude

It's the old "classify everything as secret just in case" model of government but then when somebody lost the dept of rural affairs tea rota on a bus there were "Top Secret Govt Docs Lost" headlines.

So now they have a bunch of meaningless classifications so they can refuse to reveal stuff but without the headlines

Britain proposes 'super-complaints' to help keep the internet safe

>NGOs, who (in my view) already have a wildly disproportionate influence on government policy making.

Like ACPO ?

> Activist members of the alphabet brigade can be just as bigoted as religious fundamentalists

Although there are relatively fewer gay bombings of churches / murders of bishops by drag queens

Re: Hyper

But then everyone will get access to super ultimate platinum complaints free with their credit card.

Then we go back to just needing to complain privately

Re: Super?

Double top-secret super complaint

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

Re: What did anyone expect?

>Elon has to keep in (goosestep ) with his dear leader Donald 'the greatest' Trump.

I think you may have a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism

The non-billionaires do what the billionaires tell them to do

Interesting Heisenbug

The ads track what you follow on the web. So IBM's media team are going to see different content around their ad than Racist McRacistFace viewing the same IBM ad

But if the media tracking company's bot scanned "International Holocaust Denial" immediately before "International Business Machines" it's going to see something different than if it came from "International Harvester"

A bit like those Mumsnet complaints: "I used my husband's Facebook account and all I see are ads for porn and call girls",

Amazon bankrolling industry lobbying against Microsoft Azure should surprise no one

In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz

Ha ha

Still remember Microsoft resellers telling customers of our Linux version that they would be sued cos Linux was stolen from Sco

White House hopes to power up American battery factories with $3.5B fund

Re: Not oppossed, but ...

We need to give help to the struggling domestic cotton industry so we aren't dependant on the British Empire.

Re: From the start

Get them the cyber-quadbike

And you get some free time while they're in hospital

Re: From the start

Or at least rechargeable, it's annoying when the kids get a new Tesla for xmas and you are out of AA batteries by lunchtime

Re: Child labour

>How are they going to compete with the rest of the world without using slaves and child labour?

Same way they compete in chip design, software, aerospace and high speed pizza delivery ?

Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA telescope data

SDCard ejector

Never under estimate the bandwidth of a snow storm of micro-SD cards

Re: I'm reminded of early space exploration

>Better to use a wax crayon really.

But then you couldn't have Marine Corp pilot astronauts

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'

Re: Warrant?

Ironic that only two lots of fundamentalists claim it's the literal word of God. The version in C16 English and the one in C6 Arabic

Of course it only really makes sense in the original Klingon

Re: Read it!

Does the constitution actually prohibit drone strikes at traffic stops ?

Re: Warrant?

It's like Dickens or Austen (or Dan Simmons) - you don't actually have to read it, just have it on the shelf.

Re: Warrant?

So in the UK you are automatically a criminal .

While in the land of the free they would at least have to check your preferred version of the Magic Sky God book before they know if you are a dangerous terrorist

>"If we had to ask for permission we wouldn't be allowed!"

With all the 'background information' they have on the people making the decisions about the warrant ?

Right-to-repair fight going national as FTC asked to lay down the law

Re: So whats the balance?

I don't do Apple but I thought one of their claimed reasons for having the fingerprint reader tied to the phone was the security module?

I just buy old Pixels and run GrapheneOS, people steal my phone then hand it back and any change they can spare.

So whats the balance?

Between right to swap the battery on my 5year old iPhone

vs.

I can no longer trust that a lost iPhone is secure cos somebody can replace the magic-security-pixie / fingerprint reader or my iPhone is now more stealable because it can be parted out for $$$$

Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report

US chipmaking equipment ?

It might be US embargoed but it's Dutch and Japanese chip making equipment.

Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

>Always found a Morris Minor Traveler good for that sort of stuff.

The blue wooden ones seem to have an almost unlimited internal capacity

Re: Hm

If corporations are people, then people are corporations and so demand our respect

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

> Some of us actually USE our trucks.

But wouldn't all that get it dirty ?

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

Cos all Americans are really cowboys.

Although if self driving works, we could have country & western songs were his pickup truck ran away

> He doesn't want "scalpers" selling them on at inflated prices and "stealing his profits" LOL

Hence the monthly subscription for the "steering" option

Better than paying $350M for a dead-dinosaur fire = US I-95 collapse

Re: What about the free market?

You generally can't agree to illegal conditions.

Otherwise my African-American-As-A-Service business wouldn't have faced all those regulatory issues

>And it'll never sell in Europe because it can't pass EuroNCAP tests.

That only applies to cars, legally this is an iPhone accessory (*).

Memo: hey boss that isn't going to work unless we charge with USB-C and offer user-replaceable batteries

Re: What about the free market?

If only there was some sort of public court that could first decide sale doctrine like this

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

Philosophically, if a movie is made but nobody watches it ....

Re: Himself as Himself

Actually Mike Myers isn't the worst choice ...

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean AI's not after you

BT announce

Staff to be sent to glue factory.

Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier 'progressive AI protections'

I wonder if they're too late ?

There is a niche for having Carrie Fischer or Peter Cushing cameo in a Star Wars movie, but going forward why would I bother having an actual "star"?

I hire a model as the basis of the 'face', or given how much AI filtering is already added to model head shots, I don't bother with a human at all.

I have their movement captured by a dancer / acrobat / etc - I don't need Andy Serkis for most roles - I can re-render them for different culture markets..

Background 'artistes' I can already render on my desktop.

So the next Milli-Vanilli, I can just get the video stars from Adobe, without having to hire a couple of idiots.

lose having a "star" to do the red carpet - but I have a star that can be interviewed simultaneously in a dozen markets, and doesn't need to fly 1st class.

And I don't have to delete an entire children's TV series when the star gets caught doing children's TV presenter stuff.

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

Re: More poor whataboutism...

According to estimates by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s coal-fired power stations currently generate waste containing around 5,000 tonnes of uranium and 15,000 tonnes of thorium. Collectively, that’s over 100 times more radiation dumped into the environment than that released by nuclear power stations.

Re: WHAT GOES UP...

The new spicy-rocks are pretty safe, they are likely to be moderately enriched so not really an issue (don't use for piercings) if they blow-up on the way up.

It's only once they've been used for a few years do they get that interesting aged flavour that you really don't want to get on you.

So you really need a good deorbit (or ideally a don't deorbit) plan beyond - "aim for the Pacifc and hope"

Re: What could go wrong...

Still leave a bruise though, if it lands on you.

Re: 1st law of thermodynamics

>Just look at what the JWST has to do to keep the telescope cool,

Although JWST is trying to keep the telescope at 30-50K

This just has to keep the cold side of the engine colder than the hot side of the engine - although the bigger the delta-T the more efficient it is.

>even though it's in Earth's shadow,

L2 isn't in Earth's shadow. It needs to be in sunlight, otherwise its solar panels wouldn't work.

Re: Put your money where...

Hate to think what Barnsley council are going to pay to cleanup 250 years of coal mining

Re: Quantum slipstream

>Oh, and don't talk to me about damn tin quantum whiskers.

They what you get on Schrodinger's cat ?

Re: 1st law of thermodynamics

It's cold outside and there's no kind of atmosphere

... and incidentally, no one can hear you scream

Use Canadian Uranium. Worst case, it's recycling and you have returned it to the original manufacturer so you're covered for WEEE

Re: Actually the programme is being held back by....

Even a 3 letter acronym is 26**3 = 17,500 possible acronyms and you have to form a committee to study each of them - what's the public feedback, how will the kerning work on a T-Shirt, is it already used by a secret 3 letter agency?

Re: Quantum slipstream

>"dark matter flux".

You need it to make a good connection when soldering the Flux Capacitor.

Especially if you're using lead-free dark matter

Re: Quantum slipstream

>You need unobtainium. I don’t have several pounds of the stuff.

It's always out of stock. I assume it's used in the Raspberry Pi

Don't worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia's already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya

Re: Old Dog could have told you!

Honda introduce the CBR-598 Fireblade

Process continues until all Japanese motorbikes are 0cc, use 0 fuel, but somehow still do 200mph