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Government to sling extra £4.7bn at R&D in bid to Brexit-proof Britain

Re: NEB

This will be totally different.

It will be throwing money at existing large companies that say the right buzz words.

I wonder how much of the $Bn for 5G and digital whatsit will just be given to BT

Welcome to the Wipe House: President Trump shreds climate change, privacy, LGBT policies on WhiteHouse.gov

Re: The *people*

>A system used by the USA for electing Presidents since Washington.

And yet ironically people in Washington can't vote.

If any of them would like to do something about their "taxation without representation" I understand that throwing Starbucks in the harbour is a first step.

Re: President Trump

Unless we can rely on the CIA.

Does he have any visits to any Texan cities planned ?

Re: "largest audience to ever see an inauguration"

There you are with your elitist "counting math", we've had enough of experts.

From now on it's "one, two, threesome, 6pack, lots....."

Snopes is a front for the CIA, it was on snopes.com

Re: From http://www.track-trump.com/

I'm not sure that BAe is a front for the UK govt so much as the UK govt is a front for BAe

Re: From http://www.track-trump.com/

>Propose a constitutional amendment that imposes term limits on all members of Congress.

So reformers (trouble makers) can be just ignored and will go away. The others won't have time to learn the ins-outs and so will be dependent on "special advisers"

>A five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.

I'm not a lobbyist I just have occasional lunches with people. Or I am a consultant

>A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.

So would they be allowed to lobby on behalf of BRITISH Petroleum? What about Gasprom? What's the difference between Gasprom lobbying against sanctions and Putin doing it?

>A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

Including foreign companies? what about US companies with any foreign owners? So no public companies can donate money

>Personally I actually think these would improve the USG. Let's see which (if any) get implemented.

I think they would all make lots of money for compliance lawyers, consultants and advisers

Re: "sad depletion of US military"

US military spending is vital.

Think how fscked the rest of the world would be if the US spent all that money on education, research or infrastructure. It's like finding out your main competitor has just spent $Bn on art for it's corporate HQ.

Trump's 'cyber tsar' Giuliani among creds leaked in mass hacks

Re: Enquiring minds...

Depends what size screen you have

Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures

Re: NSA Plant

I think Dan Brown did it

Re: ESA breaking news

I blame the new Toblerone

Re: EU?

Why not just swap the populations ?

50% of Brits wanted to leave Europe, that's roughly the population of Canada - they could just do a house-swap

Re: HARRY LIME

>If only there was an English phrase for a person being well rounded in many disciplines especially concerning this time period.

Management consultant ?

Re: Why not just leave the satellites on the ground, where you can go and fix them in a van...

>The UK's OS maps are (or were, in '84 when I last bought one) elegant and eminently fit-for-purpose. Wish we had the same kind of maps in the USA.

Well it's your own fault, if you insist on having a tantrum and storming out then you don't get to have nice things.

If you wish to invite the Ordnance Survey to tramp over your land armed with theodolites, marmite sandwiches and maps in little plastic cases around their necks then I'm sure they will be happy to do so.

The US GPS system also carries 4 clocks per satelite, it's for redundancy and self-checking.

All the various systems are re-synced regularly - normally once a day as they pass over their owner's main ground station.

Uncle Sam sues Oracle for 'screwing over Asian, black and women staff'

Re: Oracle's response:

However the same allegations could count as a quality standard to the new administration

Re: Diversity? Yes, we've heard of it.

They should have hired a black women as director of diversity and made sure that the corporate report had lots of ethnic stock photos - that's the proper company response.

Even the candidates are cyclical.

New programmers we hired in the late 90s were real computer nerds - they had started CS degrees in the early 90s when it wasn't cool. The candidates available in 2005 had all jumped into "Java Schools" when the dot com boom started and were much lower quality.

Why Theresa May’s hard Brexit might be softer than you think

Re: The fly in the ointment?

>But it'll be a sweet sweet day when Ireland is a country of 32 counties again

If history is any guide it will be a 32 separate countries all at war with each other

Re: Effects already happening

> Hell, even US organizations can get EU certifications

That's not the point, we have certification.

But it is certified by a Notified Body in the Eu, currently our NB is in the UK which soon won't be in the Eu so can't be our notified body. Probably they will just move their office to Luxemburg and change their name.

But there is an uncertainty which is costing us time and money. So any company outside Europe that trades in Europe and uses a UK bank, accountant, lawyer, test lab, certification authority, notified body etc etc has to think about changing them now. And since nobody is going to sign up with any UK firm for these services in the next 2 years we have to worry about which of these will go bust before article 50 is finished.

Because a large number of Ms May's loyal Daily Mail readers voted out so they wouldn't have to have Eu rules on bendy bananas and feeble kettles. Demanding that the UK stick to Eu rules to export there isn't going to go down well with them.

Re: The fly in the ointment?

Or a Wall and make Mexico pay for it (sorry may have got a bit confused there....)

Effects already happening

We sell our US made product in the Eu, mostly in DACH (Germany Austria Switzerland) but like most English speaking companies our CE certification authority is in the UK.

Currently they can't say if they will be able to provide Eu certification in 2 years time.

2 years isn't very long in product lifecycle - especially in medical devices.

We are looking at either dumping them now for a German firm in the hope of transferring our existing design or risking suddenly having to recertify all our gear at some point in the near future.

Fortunately the UK market isn't rich enough for us to have to bother making a separate British approved model.

UK, you Cray. Boffins flex ARM in 'first-of-its-kind' bonkers HPC rig

Wow £3m

A major British investment - Japan's new supercomputer is $175M, God knows what the US spends on secret systems.

Looks like Britain will once more straddle the globe as an international research colossus.

Stanford boffins find 'correlation between caffeine consumption and longevity'

Only if you are a mouse

AI and robots? Will someone think of the jobs, says HPE CEO Whitman

Re: Do we though?

> we need paying jobs for people to do ....

I bet when AI is replacing doctors and lawyers rather than call center workers we will see some government reaction

Smart guns are a neat idea on paper. They'll never survive reality

Dissapointed

Was hoping for the things from Aliens

ob IT angle - with their GRID laptop contoller

Re: @AC ... A really smart gun...

>Its called a ballistic knife. And they are pretty much outlawed.

No it isn't and they aren't - knife missiles are 1.0 culture citizens and have the same rights you do

Just give up: 123456 is still the world's most popular password

Re: Don't Just Blame Users

Then they could just as easily get spammed by fake accounts

Re: Don't Just Blame Users

12345 for this forum is fine, and it means I'm not leaking any information about my secure password system

FCC's Wheeler gives passionate defense of net neutrality rules

Re: "going forward"... over a cliff!

We don't need an FCC at all. The market will compete and decide a winner.

If I want to broadcast a 3G signal I can just buy a transmitter, if somebody else wants to use the same bit of spectrum they can compete by buying a bigger transmitter - not have to pay $Bn to some gubermint for the right to use.

Oh ALIS, don't keep us waiting: F-35 jet's software 'delayed'

Re: " whoever finds it can probably look back and KNOW where the aircraft has been"

The password is very closely guarded by every technician at every US and foreign customer airbase, everyone at Lockheed Martin and by everyone in the DoD - with so many people guarding the password it is very safe.

It might be useful if it was possible to change it from the default - but that would make the system more complicated

Re: >Germans tanks were 5 times better

So the war could have been shortened by dropping battalions of management consultants and marketing executives to persuade the Germans to take a customer focussed agile manufacturing process - where the military changes their mind all the time and the kit is delivered late, obsolete and in much smaller numbers?

Re: old military wisdom has it ...

Most of Germany's last road trip to Russia also springs to mind

Re: " whoever finds it can probably look back and KNOW where the aircraft has been"

>Any notion that dullards future insurgents could get into the system, let alone ready that data is quite absurd.

Any notion that Chinese/Russian/Etc computer security experts could get into the system .....

Mr Angry pays taxman with five wheelbarrows worth of loose change

It's a highly un-American activity.

The true patriotic way of dealing with idiot bureaucracy is with an automatic weapon

Re: He'd be shit out of luck in the UK

Amateur - you write out 50 cheques but for random amounts stated in terms of definite integrals.

Then ask the university to show you where in their rules it is written that payments must be in rational numbers

Re: Weigh the coins

There was a hedge fund manager after the 2008 crash who ordered $MM of copper cents, a warehouse full, waiting for demand and the price of copper to go back up so that a penny was worth more than a penny. He is still waiting

Thanks, Obama: NSA to stream raw intelligence into FBI, DEA and pals

Re: Does not apply to Israel

Although possibly only for the humor value.

Hey Moshe - the Americans have just "discovered" that Iraq has WMDs!

Re: Yes we can. Yes we did.

With this administration that might change.

I can see daily presidential security briefings on the secrets of his republican "colleagues" in the house

Dieselgate: VW pleads guilty, will cough up $4.3bn, throws 6 staff under its cheatware bus

Re: Urrm:

But Ford's little problem only killed a hundred people - it didn't try and cheat the federal government.

That's why it got away with a a few $M fine

US Navy runs into snags with aircraft carrier's electric plane-slingshot

Re: We all need less stress...

Thank you - it's so difficult to keep track of the mental deficiencies of US presidents

Re: We all need less stress...

He was famously described as having "played too much football without a helmet"

UK can be a 'world leader in 5G', you say? Er, our 4G still takes a beating from Peru

Re: Lets hope

5G contains incredible compression technology which maximises use of the radio spectrum

It allows for upto 5 different messages. Including LOL, OMH, WTF, smiley face, and [CENSORED] - that's one more than 4G !

Then we will become a world leader in 6G.

NASA taps ESA satellite Swarm for salty ocean temperature tales

Re: Tweety Twump has promised to prevent NASA doing this kind of research.

Although possibly more concerning is appointing a General Relativity denier to head the FAA

You have the right to be informed: Write to UK.gov, save El Reg

>but what's wrong with just making the loser of a case pay?

Because giant companies could spin their legal bills to astronomical numbers so if you lost they could claim you owed them $MM. They could demand that you paid some sort of bond upfront to cover their costs if you lost - since you can't afford this you can't sue any company that has in-house lawyers