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Even more warship cuts floated for the Royal Navy

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Re: 1966 and all that

The Royal Navy's job is to defend the MoD

The MoD's job is to defend BAe

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Re: Any war with Russia probably will be a Nuclear War

So they can annex Chelsea - would we care?

Humble civil servant: Name public electric car chargers after me

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Couldn't we supply electricity directly to the cars and avoid the deficiencies of battery technology?

A slot down the middle of each lane could be lined with metal strips and have a small metal brush on the front of a car. The cars could be made autonomous by a series of small boys alongside the road with triggers.

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Re: Belisha Beacons

Presumably large flashing lamps on street corners allowing drivers to easily locate "hores" were considered?

Google India must pay back-taxes on $225m after cheekily funneling cash through Ireland

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Re: Witholding tax

But Google India didn't make any money, because of the cost of buying licences from Google Ireland.

What you should have done is have your dad charge you a fee for using his surname, you could knock this off your Indian wages

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India is basically one large labor cost dodge for multi nationals

Do you earn less than a Google employee in San Francisco ? If so you are part of a global labour cost dodge

Fappening celeb nudes hacking outrage: Third scumbag cops to charge

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Criminal sentences following

For z-list 'celebs' whose PR leak sex tapes onto the web ?

UK.gov not quite done with e-cigs, announces launch of new inquiry

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You might be onto something here. By talking advertising for Heroin / Fentanol / Crack off the web we could also stop youthful drug abuse

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Public Health England provides evidence-based guidance

And fires the cheif medical officer if he comes up with the wrong evidence about MDMA vs say horse riding

NSA bloke used backdoored MS Office key-gen, exposed secret exploits – Kaspersky

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Re: Wait a minute

The only defence against totalitarianism is the basic incompetence of the security services (on all sides)

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Re: Oooooh, really?!?!?

. You have to wonder how someone can take *all of your hacking tools* home with them and drops them on their personal computer.

An NSA contractor walking out of the building with unlimited amounts of secret information - inconceivable

Canucks have beef with Soylent as to whether or not it's a real meal deal

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Re: Canadian Smuggling Time

The 3 legged wild Haggis evolved with one leg shorter than the other 2 to allow it to roam on steep mountain slopes. If you release it on the relatively flat plains of the 49th parallel it will simply wander around in circles

There's a battle on over two US spying laws: One allows snooping on citizens – one bans it

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Re: truly Orwellian

As a rough guide the more patriotic sounding the bill - the more evil it is

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No problem

The question is resolved in a 3rd secret law that you don't know about.

Fake-news-monetizing machine Facebook lectures hacks on how not to write fake news that made it millions

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Sounds like el'reg is screwed

Don't withhold information in a headline.

Don't exaggerate or sensationalize content in a headline and mislead readers.

Don't feature sexually suggestive or shocking content on your landing page.

Sick burn, yo: Google's latest Pixel 2 XL suffers old-skool screen singe

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>QC isn’t just a catch phrase...

We need you to meet these impossible specs by this impossible deadline

= make something that just about works and then ope to fix it "optomise production parameters" later

Brit cities overrun with middle-aged dronies, reckons survey

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Same as motorbikes

So same solution - make licenses harder for 18 year olds

What's HPE Next? Now it's unemployment for 'thousands' of staff

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Futures contracts on employee redundancies - sounds like a good idea.

We can roll up contracts from different employers into a single collateralized peon package and then securitze that against ...

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Simple- you just do it again.

If you fire 5000 people and save $1.5 Bn then you just need to keep doing that every year and after 11 years you will be profitable (*)

(*) assuming income is unaffected by having no staff

Security pros' advice to consumers: 'We dunno, try 152 things'

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Re: Don't open unexpected attachments

It's more like saying that someone on the street asked you to take a parcel and leave it in the CEOs office

Except with email we expect each employee to accept random packages from strangers at their desks all day to do their job.

If you were on an assembly line for a car and all the parts arrived by different courier dozens of times a day directly to you by-passing security. And it is your responsibility to check that piston rods were ok if sent by "safe-courier" while "safe-courrier" are crooks and then to check that the person in fedex uniform isn't a North Korean spy.

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Re: Don't open unexpected attachments

I see - so instead of the computer thinking "why is a pdf attachment to an email fetching an exe from the internet and then rewriting all the user's files.

It's safer for the user to think. Mmm Jones does work in accounts and has sent me an email asking me to check this invoice but perhaps I will call him first on a secure phone line (after checking it really is him by asking him what we did at the office party I will then consider reading the email.

Unless of course that's what he want's me to do - in which case I must drink from the goblet in front of me, but he already knows that so .... (sorry might have gone off-track)

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Don't open unexpected attachments

Seriously - why should it ever be a user's job to protect the company from this?

It's like saying we delivered some coffee in the break room - some of it contains anthrax, users should exercise caution.

If your system allows harmful attachments in or allows damage when they are opened - it isn't the users fault. Especially if you constantly email company documents that demand permission to run macros when they are opened.

'We've nothing to hide': Kaspersky Lab offers to open up source code

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Re: One word:

Or NSA contractor copied NSA malware onto an unauthorised computer, said computer was running Kspersky AV which uploaded the malware signature. Depends if you believe in NSA contractor incompetence or elite Russian cyber whatsit

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Re: Assertions about comms and FSB

The same applies to US and UK companies except with the extra bit about the law being secret.

The question you have to ask yourself is, who do you need protecting against - the USA/UK government or the FSB?

If you are anti-governmental organisation eg. Greenpeace, black-lives-matter, Boris's election campaign, etc then use the one owned by the FSB. If you are a Russian target eg. Boeing/Lockheed - use the one owned by the NSA. If you are BAe you are out of luck

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Suddenly Israel find Russian spies ARE using Kaspersky to hack into western/USA computers

IIRC Israeli spies hacked into Kaspersky and found that they (kaspersky) had detected USA malware.

Let's make the coppers wear cameras! That'll make the ba... Oh. No sodding difference

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At least in the US the police could turn on/off the cameras at their discretion - for reasons of public privacy.

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Re: Suprised

Or you just take the suspect around the corner out of view before they accidentally fall over and die.

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Or simply

Police know that if they video evidence of them doing something naughty it will be lost or they can rely on a carefully picked jury to ignore it.

Jeff Bezos fires off a blue dart, singes Elon Musk and SpaceX

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You are right, without competition they would make massive really really fat profits.

So far neither ULA nor Arianespace have managed to make much in the way of profits.

With no competition you can ask for big government subsidies, so prices stay high, so there is no demand, so you need to ask for big government subsidies ....

If you drop the price of getting to orbit by a factor of 10 the increased market means you make more money than a handful of government contracts for your monopoly service - even with competitors.

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Re: Building a factory in 'bama will also have helped no end.

IIRC wasn't 'bama chosen because nobody would notice a bunch of Nazis turning up there - or at least nobody would care.

'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'

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Re: Spitting Image

I thought they were the new spitting image?

I remember watching the campaign thinking 'these puppets have got really lifelike'

Wowee. Look at this server. Definitely keep critical data in there. Yup

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Decoy targets that have no user function

I think we just found HPE's business model

Big Blue's former CIO tried to join AWS, ends up at energy company

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Re: Huh?

How did you get hold of IBM's secret strategy?

Phone crypto shut FBI out of 7,000 devices, complains chief g-man

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Knowing that the Chinese communciated with their embassy 10 years ago isn't very useful

Knowing that your political opponent in the primaries sent a dick pick to his girlfriend in college or made a joke about smoking pot 20 years ago is very useful - that's why you save everything.

Boffins trapped antiprotons for days, still can't say why they survived the Big Bang

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Re: The future...

Because there would be lots of place where they would meet = lots of x-ray emissions we would see

National Audit Office: We'll be in a world of pain with '90s border tech post-Brexit

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So we would need to buy the system from an English-speaking country whose immigration rule is simply no-foreigners?

Should be able to get 3 bids - no problem

Boss visited the night shift and found a car in the data centre

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Re: Things that don't belong in a working data center ...

Little girls called Molly

HPE quits cloud servers, two weeks after telling El Reg it wouldn't do that

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Were they ever clear about which one was the low margin business ?

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Re: Vaxen

They switched to the much better long term solution of Itanium

DXC slashes meal allowances for travelling troops: Please sir, may I have some more?

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Re: No health based exception to per-diem, well sorry no deal.

Type 2 diabetes means you have to avoid leather shoes

They are ok in moderation, but you can't have any rich sauce on them

Legends of the scrawl: Ordnance Survey launches augmented reality tool for maps

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Well it does take the guess work out of JCB drivers hunting for fiber cables

Tell the public how much our tram tickets cost? Are you mad?

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Sometimes stupidity helps.

We went from a simple "drop paper ticket into box by driver" to a super-cyber electronic transit system.

It would save $3M/year on fare dodging and be outsourced to a private company, and only ended up costing $50M more to install than they claimed and about $20M/year more to operate.

It also required a GPS signal and data link when you tapped in or out at the start/end of the journey. - to work out the fare. Which in the underground bus station only took a minute or so - for each passenger on a 100seat bendy bus.

The solution was to make the entire system a single zone, priced at the old rate for the shortest journey. The rationale = the loss in revenue was less than the cost of operating the new system, - so a saving !

IBM broke its cloud by letting three domain names expire

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Re: RotM

So if IBM build the terminators they will be made redundant before they reach you

HP terminators will fall apart as the left and right legs are split into different companies

MSFT terminators will suddenly get converted into fluffy 3d bunnies by the fall creative update

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Not their fault

The intern that knew how to do the web stuff went back to school and doesn't seem to have a left a fax number to contact

Google faces $10k-a-day fines if it defies court order to hand over folks' private overseas email

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Re: Maybe the company should relocate

Because there are lots of jurisdictions that would tell a US warrant to go fsck itself especially if it meant they became a global cloud data center - center.

Or I could have the data hop around different foreign sites every night, or I could split archived data across different countries to make it almost impossible to work out what warrants where needed

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Re: The Law

They can be guilty of contempt if they did it deliberately.

If I copy all my failed clinical trial data to Borat-istan and then claim I can't say how many patients died because that would be against Borat-istan data privacy laws - you can bet the FDA is going to take a dim view.

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Or zero since they can presumably write this off as a business expense against tax?

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Re: Maybe the company should relocate

No Microsoft deliberately made their Eu subsidiaries separate to meet Eu law.

This is data held by Google for a US customer but it happens to be sitting on a foreign server.

Much as I hate to side with the DOJ in this case (unlike MSFT) they have a point.

If a US company eg. Enron / Bernie Madoff / Lehman Bros was allowed to work only with cloud data held remotely then they could tell any US agency with a US warrant or a freedom of information to get lost.

Any large US company would be totally above the law.

GE goes with Apple: Not the Transformation you were looking for, Satya?

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Such as? Worth investigating, as that's an area we haven't looked at yet.

Solidworks, CATIA, whatever-ProE-is-called-today, Arcgis - the sort of things a General Engineering company might need

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