* Posts by JohnMurray

819 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2011

Trump blinks again in trade war bluff-fest with China: Huawei gets another 90-day stay of US import execution

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Please do not slam the [Register] door on your way out [screaming America First], I have a headache.

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/the-nhs-is-embracing-big-data-but-whos-really-benefiting/

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs

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Re: The end of biometrics

They could use a rectal ultrasound probe to scan the shape of you spine etc....although how that could be accommodated at an airline check-in desk is another story..

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away

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Re: Massive own goal ?

"China sold the most Treasuries in more than two years in March, magnifying concerns that the country might weaponise its position as the US government’s largest foreign creditor in the trade dispute between the two countries"

https://www.ft.com/content/0933cdfa-7766-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab

Airbnb host thrown in the clink after guest finds hidden camera inside Wi-Fi router

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20 days....in Blighty it would have started at 6 months....

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Re: Airbnb....

No points.

£100 FPT.

No Incentive.

Cheapskate Brits appear to love their Poundland MVNOs as UK's big four snubbed in survey again

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Plusnet: Sim only. 6GB data. Unlimited free calls. Unlimited free texts. £13/month.

#sorted

Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age

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Next they'll designate the Labour party as a porn site....

Wondering why 'Devin Nunes herp-face' was trending online? Here's the 411: House rep sues Twitter for all the rude stuff tweeted about him

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Re: Round 1?

"But it does not seem to be a well run or ethically run operation"

It should get-on very well with practically all of the global political organisations then

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

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Well, it'll give something for antibodies to stick to...

NHS needs to pull its finger out and prep staff for future robotics, genomics, data-led healthcare

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It's not that long ago that £10 billion+ was spaffed on an NHS IT system that was lacking the "I" and the "T" part...

UK.gov told: If you want public to trust surveillance cam strategy, throw money and manpower at it

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Home Office refuses to enforce privacy code on NHS staff using video

Surveillance camera commissioner’s advice that trusts be required to comply with code to protect patients is rejected

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/18/home-office-refuses-to-enforce-privacy-code-on-nhs-staff-using-video

More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans

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Re: More fuel if any is required...

Doubt it, she's called Jane at mine......although she used to be John a few years ago...

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Re: Is this the stupidest idea ever?

Brexit !

Sorted !

Who's watching you from an unmarked van while you shop in London? Cops with facial recog tech

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Re: 650 willing crowd subjects

So that would be a 100% success rate then!!

Wow, what a lovely early Christmas present for Australians: A crypto-busting super-snoop law passes just in time

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Just call it the "Canute" bill....

US told to quit sharing data with human rights-violating surveillance regime. Which one, you ask? That'd be the UK

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Re: People in glass houses ...

That'll happen: Not

Another Hancock-up? UK health secretary appears in piece about controversial GP app

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Seriously...is anyone asking what these outside resource organisations are doing with the NHS data they now have access to?

After all: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/14/google_swallows_up_deepmind_health_and_abolishes_independent_board/

UK.gov to press ahead with online smut checks (but expects £10m in legals in year 1)

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My Grandchildren (12/9/8yrs) know how to use the schools computers/ipads better than the teachers....this is not going to end well

(sexually-frustrated adults being shown the way to access porn by their kids)

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Re: "So sex is almost three times more popular than good food, apparently."

Because good food costs....and we're British

Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot

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My iphone 4S is still working......so that's 4 years now.....a bit slow to load twatter...but that's ok..

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Re: "a 10% rise in food prices due to the weather"

I have to buy more food, not because I'm more hungry, but because the sizes of the foodstuffs keep decreasing...while the packing stays the same...except milk...

Muslim American woman sues US border cops: Gimme back my seized iPhone's data!

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Re: When Booking-Travel now the first thing I usually do is:

#Fake_News

Database ballsup: NHS under pressure over fresh patient record error

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Re: may not have been invited to ... child immunisation, bowel cancer screening

Who knows?

The bowel cancer screening results *letter* tells you you probably don't have it. Also that just because the results did not detect any, it doesn't mean you have none....

As for child immunisation...parents opting for the "fuck-off I don't want my child immunised" option are increasing every time a newspaper prints a "immunisation leads to autism" story...

I predict a riot: Amazon UK chief foresees 'civil unrest' for no-deal Brexit

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Re: @AC ... eh?

Because we have a reduced refinery capacity now....we import over 10 million tonnes of oil products into the UK each year, and it's increasing.

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Re: eh?

Has anyone though of how the trucks stacked waiting are going to be fed/fuelled/ and how the drivers hygiene needs are going to be met?

It's going to be one smelly motorway, quite soon...

Capita strikes again: Bug in UK-wide school info management system risks huge data breach

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The SIMS software was what started Capita, as SIMS systems....years ago...you'd have thought they would have got it right by now...

Galileo, here we go again. My my, the Brits are gonna miss EU

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Re: Fgs

Pretty sure that if the "red button" is pressed, without approval of the yanks, a little sign will pop-up: "please speak nicely to POTUS"

I see a satellite of a man ... Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, that's now 4 sats fit to go

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Re: Oh, The Magic of Clockwork Theory Strikes Again

It's about red buses with imaginary gifts to the NHS on the side?

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Not aircraftless...got two now...they flew over a week ago...

Slurp up patient data for algos that will detect cancer early, says UK PM

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Re: Proof

Plenty of proof mate...just look at parliament...loads of artificial intelligences there

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Re: Machines instead of GPs

Speaking personally....from the GP consultation of lower abdominal pain, to the blood test of raised PSA, then MRI and onto biopsy, took 3 weeks. MRI performed at 1830z on a Saturday evening (the MRI suite is run 24/7)...pre-op assessment at 1745z, Friday. Biopsy a week later. It would have been a few days faster, but I dithered a bit over having biopsy probes inserted into me via the area between my legs. The other route is through the wall of the rectum...

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Re: It's just a BS "reason" to allow patient data to be sold off

Then use MRI for the scans...

Current detection for prostate cancer starts with basic (PSA/DRE) then onto an MRI scan lower abdomen/pelvis...if anything suspicious is detected then a prostate biopsy is arranged using the MRI scan overlaid with an ultrasound image to sample the area of interest.. Quite frankly, modern xray machines use much lower doses...and even CT scanners use less now, than xray machines did 20 years ago.

It's Galileo Groundhog Day! You can keep asking the same question, but it won't change the answer

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There aren't any nice people there....unless you back it up with cash...then they're all nice.

Zombie Cambridge Analytica told 'death' can't save it from the law

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And the ICO would also like the CA servers passwords...which they have been refused...

Typical cynical Brits: Broadband speeds up, satisfaction goes down

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I was with SKY, then they upped the subscription to £30/month, for 3.5Mbps.

So went to NOWTV (SKY!) for £20/month and 37Mbps...using the same copper line....hmmmm

Blighty stuffs itself in Galileo airlock and dares Europe to pull the lever

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Re: EU friends apparantly

24, plus extras. But we will have to purchase licences for core technology as well..if they will allow their use. Maybe better to just give-up on the idea of everyone not-driving autonomous vehicles..

An easy-breezy attitude to sharing personal data is the only thing keeping the app economy alive

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Re: And that's exactly why...

Not so much Facebook, but everything...cleaner-apps...navigation-apps...find-the-wifi-apps...every single app for every single thing contains a long list of permissions attached...

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

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Re: From the department of bleeding obvious

Sure...just so you know, we will be reliant upon the "public" facing GPS, which can be switched-off as the controllers want, or made inaccurate as they want.

Also, Galileo is better (theoretically) than either the USA/Russian?Chinese systems...

Presumably, SSTL will be departing for EU pastures new soon then...

F-35B Block 4 software upgrades will cost Britain £345m

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Re: and Pigs might fly a.k.a F-35

Russia has plenty of low frequency radar...so the stealth aircraft will also stick out like a sore thumb...

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Re: It's not RAF nor UK It's Nato ...

Not so... Massive re-arming, design and planing have been performed on Ru forces since 2008... http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/05/03/assessing-russia-s-reorganized-and-rearmed-military-pub-69853

Plenty of sources quoted..

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Except their "stealth" capability doesn't work if a low-frequency radar is in use....

NHS Digital heads accused of being 'suppliers', not 'custodians' of UK patient data

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And if it disappears, I've saved it!! (no confidence in any govt documents getting frequent hits staying available for long!)

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funny.

The NHS data, even the highly personal data, has been available to the DWP for years, and is shared with various departments of local councils.

That's without the Digital economy Act...which authorised data sharing between all govt departments.

Here is the NHS confidentiality policy...

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/confidentiality-policy-v3-1.pdf#page=4&zoom=auto,-70,707

Europe plans special tax for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

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Re: I wonder....

If you're a VAT registered company, you claim it back...

UK peers: Is this what you call governance of facial recog tech? A 'few scattered papers'!

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It's cold = wear a face mask

It's summer = wear a face mask to filter the traffic pollution

Full shift to electric vans would melt Royal Mail's London hub, MPs told

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All very interesting.

Now, about the road outside.

Terraced houses, with around 1.5 cars per house. No off-road parking. I'm sure the picture is familiar.

Try charging your car with a footpath in-between the house and car. Try charging it from the on-road charger, which won't get installed anytime soon, because the local substation cannot handle the extra load. Never mind balancing the load...

4G found on Moon

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Re: And if there are any problems just call our hotline

Virgin media have customer services?

I suppose that's called progress....when does it start?

Oh dear, Capita: MPs put future UK.gov outsourcing in the spotlight

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I just wonder when/if Crapita goes-down, what happens to all this sensitive data they have been amassing?

https://www.capita-one.co.uk/resources

http://www.capita.com/health

Apple agrees to pay £136m in back idiot taxes to UK taxman

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VAT and payroll taxes are paid by consumers and employees.......

But good idea...we'll set VAT on apple products at 100%....