Posts by JohnMurray

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

clear memory of what actually occured

Seek help - you have bad memory problems.

The UK vaccinated only those who were expected to be most affected, who were also those who would benefit less from vaccination [they still are] by dint of reduced immune response from either age or illness.

It also sent infected old people out from hospital into care homes housing uninfected old people, with totally predictable results.

If the UK govt had tried to maximise deaths, in groups regarded as socially expensive to maintain, they could have not done much better than they did!!

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Re: Security Theatre at best

RIPA allows for that

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Simple

he's a sociopath. Like Musk/Thiel/Trump

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Well...

How freeports undermine local [and national] democracy [intentionally] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-technopopulist-rendezvous-how-freeports-undermine-local-democracy/

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

Oh good

sp govts whatapp messages will also be readable, hopefully historically

except

that law was introduced by the conservatives....

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

Hmmm,,,,,

At a White House dinner in February of 2011, President Obama asked former Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs what it would take to build iPhones in the United States.

The answer was not what Obama wanted to hear. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” Jobs said.

https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/news/articles/bringing-macs-back-to-the-u.s

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'

Re: Stupid proposal

This proposal is just another govt scare tactic to stop people claiming benefits.

Since most of the 'honorable' members are rich and dodging tax anyway.....

Most people are unaware that the state pension is regarded by the govt as a benefit.

So that is another £125 billion to add.

Given the sharing of data between govt depts, every dept will have access.

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

ooopppssss

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1831834796676542861

Rocket Factory Augsburg engine test ends in explosion at SaxaVord spaceport

Didn't light the blue paper right

NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

Re: Boeing should provide Test Pilots

Like the CEO and his stand-in

Re: Yay ... I won the Internet !!! :)

Every other house around - like normally

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

Re: How?

https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/help_committee_amazon_interim_report.pdf

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

Not so simple -

More like a GDPR problem -

Have a listen

https://x.com/vanmellaerts/status/1807033327997591917

Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down

Does it cover the UK or not?

Probably not.

Even if it does, meta will ignore it until they are dragged sc reaming to court, and even then they'll ignore it [out govt/s are pussies]

Lawsuit accuses Grindr of illegally sharing users' HIV status

Why..

..does anyone trust any commercial organisation with extremely sensitive data?

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

Well..

...it probably won't apply here in the Non-EU-UK

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

Yet..

..I drop mine 1 metre and break the screen..

NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

Re: Corruption

I personally see a lot of behaviour in *NHSEngland* that smells of corruption.

NHSE is a political organisation.

We're getting that fry-day feeling... US Army gets hold of drone-cooking microwave rig

Hmmmm..

Inverse square law.... ?

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Faraday cage

around the meter !

Re: No corruption here.

You jest?

Nobody ever read the meter, they just sent an estimated bill and never told you it was estimated!

I got a bill for over £500 once, when the real bill was only £40!

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Re: Just switch it off .... no one will notice .... :)

And customer services is crap anyway

Re: Drat - I will need a new 'phone

Same in Norfolk....lots of trees = not lots of 4G

Apple's iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands weigh in

Re: "The timing is also unfortunate for the company ..."

13.6 per million cases of thrombosis in vaccinated persons compared to 35.3 per million cases of thrombosis in persons infected with sars-cov-1 virus

Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'

Another..

EreXtile dysfunction from the musky one

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

Re: becoming a global science superpower

Wanting to become a global science superpower and then leaving the European Union is a bit like wanting to become a global military superpower and then abolishing the Navy and the Air Force. It's not the most helpful of steps"

But fully in keeping with having a bunch of untalented morons in charge of the country [whichever party, ditto]

Re: No measurable outcomes, no delivery plan, a short-termist outlook and frequent policy changes

Department of indecision, nonscience and time-wasters

Re: Good old Brexit

He can't decide whether to please the remainers or piss-off the brexiters.

He's really hopeless at making difficult decisions, good job he's only running a country and not a business.

'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network

Re: Hey Mickey

The UK govt are, allegedly, paid by foreign spies

Well....

Have they thought of taking-out a group contract with, say, BT, and just using mobile handsets.....after all, most emergency workers do anyway...

Funnily enough, AI models must follow privacy law – including right to be forgotten

Re: 7 Data Protection Principles

Maybe, just maybe, that 'hard-to-forget' is a design feature......after all, nothing I have seen makes me optimistic that big-tech really wants to comply with data protection - voluntarily.

Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion

Re: How would I go about having my confidential records removed from NHS computers?

You can't.

And 'they' don't care anyway.

Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law

Re: Simple.

Parliament is a breeding ground for cunts

Re: Proof of the UKs diminishing political structure ...

Politicians are towering intellects, compared to technologists surely?

At least, in the politicians minds.

As someone who has actually talked to one for a while [Dorries], I quickly realised it was a case of "the doors open but nobody is home"

Re: So, we're back to square one again

They're all mentally low-age politicians backed by mentally low-age police/security.

"if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, again"

Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum

Hopefully...

...AI will advance to render places like the WEF redundant.....

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

Everybody

dies eventually.

The idea [of most people] is to have a good life, not necessarily a long one!

Consider: Your life expectancy is ruled by your immune system, which starts failing at puberty!

Life expectancy and healthy-life-expectancy are separated by a few decades.

Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse'

Re: Power strategy first ...

You jest.

Just look at the planning behind the pandemic troughing

Re: DCMS?

Sensible govt department?

That's gotta be an oxymoron

Sunak is rooted in his personal bank balance...

And blue/black passports (although with my new implanted lenses in my eyes, they look dark purple!)

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

"If Signal withdraws its services from the UK, it will particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on end-to-end encryption to communicate safely."

I think....that is the whole point anyway.....to harm journalists/activists, and other irritating people who believe in 'freedom'

errrmmm

"If Signal withdraws its services from the UK, it will particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on end-to-end encryption to communicate safely."

I think....that is the whole point anyway.....to harm journalists/activists, and other irritating people who believe in 'freedom'

EU lawmakers argue against signing US data-transfer pact

Re: Do as you are told, slaves

Blow up a few more oil/gas pipelines?

Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours

Well..

Like the time they switched location of crisps and cereal around......and sales of both increased.

Or when they put own-brand products on the bottom shelves and famous-name products on eye-level shelves, and famous-name products increase sales?

Big-name stores employ companies to plan those changes, not to make your life easier but to increase sales.

Or maybe you though big-names had higher prices because they are better, or maybe because they pay to have their products placed better?

it...

makes you wonder how, with such garbage IT, they can still give the data away to Palantir et-al...

Re: What about missing patients?

Rest assured, paper records are still used.

They follow you around the country like a bad smell..

How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?

Well...

My accèss has been dumped. The text verification has failed totally, and twitter admin is just not replying to requests to just let me log-in without the 2FA (sweet FA) route.

Oh well..