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UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control

Australian style deal means shipping all the criminals to the costa-del-sol ?

Has Chris Grayling been put in charge yet?

>Just assume no deal

A proper no-deal 'à la Farage' ? With no filthy foreign goods or people allowed in and a similar response from Europe? I think I could code that for 115M quid in 6 months.

Perhaps the project could called "computer says no..." ?

Re: The positives

Do we even know the rules for visiting the eu next year?

I know exactly what I had to say when visiting the USA for a business trip under visa waiver. Is there a visa waiver scheme for the eu, is there a visa for all these lorry drivers or do they need to stop walf way across and hand the keys to an eu driver?

Typical remoaner whining.

What about our wonderful new deal with Tristan da Cunha?

As soon as we find it on the ma we can work out where to park the lorries and then make preparations for a border post

Only tricky part is that you don't find out the rules for trade with the Eu until 30Dec - then you have all night to implement the business logic

Re: Brexit is coming

>why didn't this investment happen before Brexit?

Because of evil Brussels burocrats of course.

Don't you remember a tearful Margaret Thatcher pleading with the Germans to be allowed to help the industrial north, but being told Nein?

Cornish drinkers catch a different kind of buzz as pub installs electric fence at bar

Re: Can't abide the stuff.

Over here on the left pond I think you should get an insurance discount for manual

Only enthusiast drivers (and ex-pats) have it. So it filters out idiots driving their SUV's while drinking their starbucks, checking their phones and belting their kids.

It's impossible for the average local to steal.

Trump reveals US cyber-attack on Russian election-misdirection troll farms

Both of them know the other isn't its friend.

But both of them also know that geo-politics lasts longer than tonight's Fox news viewer figures

Re: Detracts from journo standards

>Or more likely *Bolton* authorized it

Yes, but Trump coloured in the circles in the 'o's

Re: Fake News

"Milk Marketing Board"

Why do you think milk needs marketing?

You buy it, you drink it, we've been doing it for 10,000 years.

What does the MMB really do all day?

Wake up sheeple(*)

* - you can also get milk from sheep! That's proof, that is.......

Re: Fake News

No, that's what the deep-state Girl Scouts of Amerika want you to think!

Only the MMB now the real facts

Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale

Re: Just a thought

The monopolies people would have a heart attack

Generally IP deals for something like ARM already have clauses for this. So if Apple buys ARM, Samsung get to keep their current licenses for ever - for free. Otherwise nobody would ever buy into any platform with the risk that it could be bought by a competitor

Everyone benefits from ARM being something of an industry standard, you get cheaper tools and cheaper more experienced people than if ARM was an internal product of company X.

Ironically no. One of the problems with ARM's business model is that you have to keep the IP license cost at 0.00001$ below what it would cost customers to just invent their own instruction set or switch to something like RISC-V. Most of Apple's secret sauce is in making the SOC and it's own based-on-ARM cores. Buying ARM (even if it could) to save on the license fee wouldn't be worth it.

Just a simple off by 1000 error

UK's University of Manchester has its head in all the clouds as it rains £50m on integrators

Integrate cloud services?

Ok so I'm old enough to remember VAX and I still know the ESC codes for an RM380Z

But isn't the whole point of a cloud service that it's all done for you?

You pay Microsoft $$$$ and office365 does everything, the only extra cost being the alcohol and pyschotherapy if you have to use Sharepoint

Why do you have to $$$M for somebody to organise using cloud services ?

South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club

Re: Everyone want to be a self-sufficient exporter?

It's just like brexit, we will sign trade deals that give us access to a global market while not allowing any imports that threaten British farmers or manufacturing

Re: Every country cannot be self-sufficient in everything

>prices will fall

Except that in response to Japan will tariff Korean products so Korea will respond by blocking Japanese products and so you'll have less choice and higher prices in each country

But this is totally Trump style electioneering. S Korea has been stirring up anti-japan rhetoric for a while to boost nationalist politicians

GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks

Re: No doubt

Which scientist was it that was being interviewed by the Fail and was asked "does this cure cancer or cause cancer?" and when he/she hesitated was told "it must be one or the other!"

Re: Can't identify the smell

Quite surprised that any superpower would consider that the UK's foreign policy was significant enough to be worth influencing

Re: WTF ....... Is the service demented and infiltrated?

You can't just make things up in an intelligence dossier - that sounds dodgy

FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?

Re: This is not a real controversy

Yes all technology ends up being military.

The OPs point was that we need the military for defence -> therefore any requirement is justified.

I'm saying that it isn't hypocritical for developers being OK with Microsoft's "Windows for Warships" while at the same time not wanting Windows to be used to run concentration camps.

Re: This is not a real controversy

>Defence is necessary.

Defence against foreign aggressors = ok

And internal terrorists (until you have a peace deal and then they become part of your support agreement)

What about environmental protesters ?

Or police brutality protesters?

What about people who might just be voting for the opposition?

What about politicians in your own party who might be after your job - are they a legitimate target for your security agency, with the support of the tech companies ?

I might support work on an ICBM or nuclear weapon that I know is only going to be used against a real threat, but not on bit of software which is intended to target pro-abortion voters from their Netflix habbits

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Re: the former World's Favourite Airline

Whoever invented that slogan must have been well versed in British satire.

I suppose there could be a market for BA in an ironic sense; a 70s British customer-service themed experience. Like those places in East Europe where you can see Soviet era statues and visit a gulag.

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

Re: About those "weak" private ciphers......

The UK simply made it a crime not to decrypt the message on demand.

The wording actually said you had to provide the meaning of any message in your possession, so hopefully you don't have a copy of Finegans Wake or Paradise Lost around the house.

Re: once the encryption is broken...

Remember this law doesn't just ban encryption - it makes the tech giants subject to state laws as well as the feds.

Some jury in East Texas rules that Amazon can't show Chinese goods or California votes that Google can't show results for guns or an Alabama church sues Microsoft because their kid saw porn on a windows machine

But we need this law to fight (checks list) the British, Nazis, communists, Hippies, Terrorists, child porn

Re: once the encryption is broken...

Or the first state to require this gets targetted.

No Google, no Facebook, no Netflix, no Amazon, no iTunes, no Gmail - Arizona goes back to the 1970s

See how long it lasts before its voters revolt.

Re: Pssst... wanna buy some strong crypto?

There is a campaign to reclassify encryption as a munition - then the 2nd amendment would guarantee people's right to it and make it impossible for any republican to object

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Re: magaaaa - maaagaaaa!

>Voting in a two party system... hmm

But if you don't vote for the lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in

Harvard will have a single in-person class, social distancing 101, and skip the requirement.

Nobody from India/China is paying $50Kyear to do youtube lectures without the opportunity to earn immigration resident years

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

But they are the same continent.

Japan and Israel are both in Asia, as are Siberia and Sri Lanka

Re: Too many Americans

Although if you're Facebook it should also be 98% twatish

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

Re: An off-the-shelf buy for this autonomous submarine capability requirement?

>it makes sense to consider an existing, nearly-developed technical solution for this autonomous submarine requirement

Presumably not manufactured by Huawei

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Re: 10 times

No those are the very people you call back - it increases your call response metric on your quality goals toward achieving bonus levels

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

Re: No problem with most of it, but...

>A vessel having masts, esp. one with a specified number of masts, as in five-master,

Interesting, I've never come across that useage. Have an upvote

Re: I'll just leave this here

The difference in the southern USA isn't that there are statues of people who did bad things by the morals of today. It isn't a question of Guardian pulling down statues of Ghandi or Simon De'Montfort because they didn't support #metoo.

In these southern cities these statues were deliberately put up to mark neighborhoods as white. They are the equivalent of a ring of burning crosses not a question of renaming Waterloo station because it is offensive to Napoleoists

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Re: Thin end of the wedge?

>Do you really think a black person sering the word "slave" in a technical context will feel insulted that you're mocking all his murdered brothers?

Possibly not, but if every wrong answer in a math textbook was historically labelled "Jewish" answer and every correct one "Christian" answer - my math department might have a different ethnic makeup.

Re: Thin end of the wedge?

Yes if you go down the rabbit hole of being offended by daemons.

But I think it's reasonable to remove some examples such as where "white " is a synonym for good and "black" for bad

Re: No problem with most of it, but...

I think those were five "masted" sailing ships. A sailing ship with 5 masters would be about as effective as a software project led by 5 different stakeholders.

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Re: QZSS

There are lots of ways of doing navigation at home - ultimately just use kinematic or ground reference GPS/Gallileo/Glonas etc without the 2 nd secure frequency.

The reason the UK 'needs' its own and Japan doesn't is that the Japanese army doesn't need to invade anywhere

Re: Not the solution

Obviously they won't orbit the whole world - just Britain

Re: It Could Be Made to Work ???

That's the brilliant part of the plan, made possible by ignoring experts, we don't launch them into orbit

The satellites will be placed at strategic points around the coast on top of tall buildings previously holding lights, from which they will broadcast a radio beam. By intersecting two of these beams one will be able to perform long range navigation

Re: For something one must have.... or for something some think no one should really have?

With the previous incumbent you coudl get twice that for putting on a bowler hat and shouting NO

The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry

Re: News flash!

>I think you might be overestimating their logical reasoning

I think you might be overestimating their ability to make fire

Re: Educate me please?

Laying fibre is expensive, the backhaul is by utilising existing infrastructure with these perfectly good 56k modems we got cheap

UN warns of global e-waste wave as amount of gadgets dumped jumps 21% in 5 years

Re: Require a 5 year guarantee

No they would simply up the price. Instead of a $100 land fill android that lasted 2 years you would pay $200 for the same phone, they would invest the extra 100e and give you a new phone when the first one broke.

Re: You want to sort

The eu did propose this for bikes.

Apparently millions of people were being killed by riders fitting go-faster parts and or somebody needed to protect BMW's margins