* Posts by Claverhouse

1756 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2012

Vint Cerf suggests GDPR could hurt coronavirus vaccine development

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Angel

I dunno if one of the Founders of the Wheel has any input as to how wheels are used since.

You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle

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Re: Agreed

As I've said elsewhere:

The British and the French up to the 1930s, America now, and China futurely, could not comprehend that foreign governments were not morally obliged to implement their silly decisions on any matter; nor that their causes were not obviously the divinely approved Causes of Humanity itself.

See also the soviets, but they generally bungled their means as a matter of course.

Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID

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Re: In all honesty

Back when grocers and butchers kept account books they generally kept the contents a secret. Nor did they tell their rivals who was purchasing the good stuff.

As for Facebook, I might be induced to pay not to have it.

Sky Broadband is not the UK's cheapest, growls ad watchdog

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Re: Free Bullshittium

Right. But it didn't have far to leap...

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Re: Disappointingly

Up to a point. But there is great difficulty in delineating which manufacturer has the 'best' quality, even with all those helpful reviews and anecdotes out there; higher price does not always correlate with highest quality of any component; and 'luxury' makers are generally subsumed into vast conglomerates such as, say, LVMH, for a fake mass-market 'exclusivity' rather than being makers of distinction.

People should pay the labourer his hire, but as with government and employers, they prefer to buy estimates, or pay workers, by the cheapest offer, leading to many faults down the line.

Now there's nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant

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Re: Land of the free

Mexicans.

The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs

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Year

Sadly 2020 will not be the year of Linux on the desktop

Never understood why computers hacks, and tired and emotional commentators, triumphantly never fail to drag out this old trope, possibly 150 days out of the year, when linux users really don't care.

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If 90% of consumers scoffed on a mixture of lard and sugar mixed with dead flies, and you ate a sensible diet, then it doesn't affect you so long as your food is still supplied.

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Re: Amazed it took them this long

Mine did, give or take a few years. Bur he did really well there.

Quick Q: Er, why is the Moon emitting carbon? And does this mean it wasn't formed from Theia hitting Earth?

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Re: And this is why it's always a bad idea...

To be fair, since these things are subjective, it is entirely possible that for a certain tranche of people such things are History and are Learning.

We must avoid being supercilious or condescending to people who think differently, and have their own facts.

All God's Chillun and all that...

Keeping up with the Joneses: Cloud hosting biz UKFast's founders sell up

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The Sun. We Love It !

He told The Sun that he "fully co-operated with the police" because he was "determined to ensure that these claims are thoroughly investigated so that my name can be cleared."

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There is no more reputable or notable newspaper than The Sun, the natural paper of record, to confide one's innocence and probity.

As coronavirus catches tech CEOs with their pants down, IBM's Ginni Rometty warns of IT's new role post-pandemic

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Nope, not buying. To me she seems like an utter irrelevance...

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I'm sure the BBC drone interviewing her fawned on her as a successful businesswoman, and considers her a management guru...

'A' is for ad money oddly gone missing: Probe finds middlemen siphon off half of online advertising spend

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Souls to be Saved

Adtech providers, he said, never seem to be happy to their prosperity. "They’ve had a perpetual dissatisfaction with making $XYZ money for doing nothing but connect a pipe to a faucet," he said.

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To quote a noted Victorian painting by Holman Hunt, "The Awakening Conscience".

Even marketeers can get to Heaven.

Senior MP tells UK Defence Committee on 5G security: Russia could become China's cyber-attack dog

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Insights

In response to a question from Conservative MP Alicia Kearns, who was a "guest member" of the panel from the Foreign Affairs Committee, Pienaar said: "It is calculated that the Chinese government have financed the growth of Huawei with some $75bn over the past three years to enable it to achieve the kind of market dominance it currently has in telecommunications equipment."

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If, post our own wicked Empah, they can do all this world-taking stuff, why couldn't we have done it ?

Srsly, we have a vast telecommunications past, factories and workers, what stopped us from trying to dominate sales ?

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She continued:

Do not forget that Huawei is also providing equipment in other markets, such as China.

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Huawei sells to China, eh ? Live and Learn...

Fake crypto-wallet extensions appear in Chrome Web Store once again, siphoning off victims' passwords

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FAIL

Mozilla and Chrome, Sitting in a Tree

I'm sure New Modern Firefox will soon sedulously ape Chrome as ever, and include password-grabbers as well.

GoDaddy hack: Miscreant goes AWOL with 28,000 users' SSH login creds after vandalizing server-side file

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Re: From the U.S. perspective...

I dunno, lots of [ much ] cheaper web hosts than GoDaddy offer a much more superior and more ethical service.

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And to be honest, what's with 'GoDaddy' ? It sounds like the personal nick of a less reputable Porn Baron.

Ex-Microsoft Office chief reflects on early malware and the 'global attack on the new Windows PC infrastructure'

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"The software industry had grown up from the counterculture 1960s. Steve Jobs with no shoes. Bill Gates hacking his high school computer system. Both college dropouts. What the PC industry lacked was any formal notion of what it meant to be a software engineer,"

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Lovechild, maybe; but Billybob never struck me as ever a free-spirited hippy.

We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere

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Even more annoying when the email address is no longer accessible to you.

A lot of email providers end the email if not used after 6 months.

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Re: OK, sp which password manager to plump for?

Just use Enpass.

On your computer. Not entrusted to The Cloud.

They make back-ups to keep on other drives as well.

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Re: In other news....

Thanks.

Surprise surprise! Hostile states are hacking coronavirus vaccine research, warn UK and USA intelligence

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Bad to the Bone

Them furrin varmints are always up to some sort of no good.

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They forgot to include North Korea.

Britain has no idea how close it came to ATMs flooding the streets with free money thanks to some crap code, 1970s style

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Adrian Ashfield invented the basic idea of a card combining the key and user's identity in February 1962. This was granted UK Patent 959,713 for "Access Controller" in June 1964 and assigned to W. S. Atkins & Partners who employed Ashfield. He was paid ten shillings for this, the standard sum for all patents.

A cash machine was put into use by Barclays Bank in its Enfield Town branch in North London, United Kingdom, on 27 June 1967. This machine was inaugurated by English comedy actor Reg Varney. This instance of the invention is credited to the engineering team led by John Shepherd-Barron of printing firm De La Rue, who was awarded an OBE in the 2005 New Year Honours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine

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Since the first cash machine was invented in Britain it seems astounding that they chose an American manufacturer.

Academics demand answers from NHS over potential data timebomb ticking inside new UK contact-tracing app

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Plus British Housing Minister Robert Jenrick ignored the lockdown to visit his parents.

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Put Sir Iain Duncan Smith in charge of it.

You can get a mechanical keyboard for £45. But should you? We pulled an Aukey KM-G6 out of the bargain bin

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Go Cherry or Go Home.

Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink

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Mushroom

Well, HP has argued it spends a billion dollars a year on “ink research and development,” and that the ink “must be formulated to withstand heating to 300 degrees, vaporization, and being squirted at 30 miles per hour, at a rate of 36,000 drops per second, through a nozzle one third the size of a human hair. After all that it must dry almost instantly on the paper.”

Like the money Gillette spends on 'research' for it's razors up in Reading and Boston USA, shouldn't they know most of the basics by now ? [ going past a 5-blade seems redundant... ]. How much billion dollar research is further needed ?

And disregarding that what all those words mean is that it is a computer printer ink: one expects an ink to do all that. The mechanics don't matter to users.

San Francisco trial of Russian bloke extradited and accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring stalls again amid pandemic lockdown

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WTF?

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Don't Yanks always blather on grandiosely about the Right to a Speedy Trial being one of the hallmarks of their stirling legal system ?

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

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Incompetent Also...

By a couple of days ago --- whilst prison-states like Iran and Turkey have released one third of their inmates, about 100,000 each so far, and France is releasing 1000s --- the grand hoopla from the British on their mercy has so far released 33 people in England and Wales; and America and it's states has been equally parsimonious.

The chance of such a dangerous and wicked international criminal as Julian being freed is as likely as was Charles Manson who did great crimes of an equivalent magnitude. Or one of those demonic French serial killers who had an appointment with Madame Guillotine.

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Anglos are vindictive and hate anyone not being punished. Even for dropping a crisp packet.

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/27/only-33-prisoners-in-england-and-wales-released-under-anti-coronavirus-measures

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/world/americas/coronavirus-brazil-prisons.html

Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party

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Mushroom

Bloody puritans... They glut on misery.

IBM Watson GPU cloud cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – because GDPR

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Re: Pointless And Political

Wonder if IBM getting any thick brown envelopes under the table ?

From diehard Remainers ?

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Re: Genuinely...

But they said nothing would change ! It was all Project Fear to insinuate businesses would move away !

Google says no more shady anonymous web ads – if you want your billboard up, you've got to show us some valid ID

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Tweets Included

In 2018, the Chocolate Factory implemented identity verification for political ads, after the extent of 2016 media funded by foreign groups to sway or muddy elections became apparent.

Even had Russiagate not been such an utter crock of shit in the first place, It's very difficult to see how scary foreign political fake advertisements meant to confuddle and bemuse the moronate are in the slightest way more vile and appalling that the ones made by the regular parties and their lobbyist masters.

Move fast and break stuff, Windows Terminal style: Final update before release will nix your carefully crafted settings

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Re: Not the end yet

Some were hoping Windows 10 was the terminal to Windows.

ICE cold: Microsoft's GitHub wrings hands over US prez's Trump immigration ban plan

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Re: It is called playing to the voters

He might. His opponents remain utterly clueless and fall right into his traps.

The old rogue always wins, whatever his unspeakable inadequacies, by being that much better on the spur than whatever they throw up against him.

Web pages a little too style over substance? Behold the Windows 98 CSS file

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Death to Flat Style !

However I despise Microsoft, this is excellent work.

Internet root keymasters must think they're cursed: First, a dodgy safe. Now, coronavirus upends IANA ceremony

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Re: Drilling?

With no experience at all I would have thought the drill could be set up in a cage as a computer-driven tunnel boring machine would be, to work the 20 hours instead of some unfortunate propping it up that length of time.

I only hope he was adequately recompensed. Maybe 1% of the dignitaries annual income.

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Still, it shows one should never build a defence too difficult to be breached in an emergency.

Also: apart from terrorists and advertisers desperate to seize control of the Internet, it is unlikely the average burglar would seek the contents of the safe.

Vivaldi browser to perform a symphony of ad and tracker blocking with version 3.0

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To Protect and Serve

Interesting.

Brilliant example of the American Government Model of the naming of parts --- minus the cutesy acronyms --- Privacy One *, wherein the demonstrated label is the exact opposite of the purpose.

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* Owned by Start1, an advertising gang.

Contact-tracing or contact sport? Defections and accusations emerge among European COVID-chasing app efforts

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No Man Knows My Name

That document says the app collects users’ age, gender, phone number, profession and name. It tracks users with GPS and Bluetooth. And while that information is not uploaded to the government until a positive COVID test, “All personal information collected from you … at the time of registration will be retained for as long as your account remains in existence and for such period thereafter as required under any law for the time being in force.”

I can understand the abhorrence of tracking by both capitalist enterprise and soviet Stasi government well enough --- having more anti-tracking and advertisement-blocking on my devices than you could shake a stick at ( although mostly because I despise advertising ) --- yet I feel the anti-gummint libertarian freedom-lovers miss a point here.

Sometimes I have advocated a government universal database of homes of properties for sale and rent --- to make it easy to find somewhere nice --- and have run into the same objection to government collecting information...

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Won't any government already have this information ?

Talk to me: The new Windows Insider boss speaks as the gang fixes Fast Ring reliability

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Help us name our Win+R project (we call launcher internally) for Power Toys.

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Wanker.

Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters?

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There's nothing like a group letter from academics to put a fire under governments.

This hurts a ton-80: British darts champ knocked out of home tourney by lousy internet connection

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Re: Actually ...

Politicians in London don't get paid enough to afford luxuries.

Europe publishes draft rules for coronavirus contact-tracing app development, on a relaxed schedule

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Re: Apple and google save the world...

Apple, as a manufacturer, is in the position of being able to slash the prices of their phones to, say, 10%, or even donate free iPhones to each one of the huddled masses.

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Re: another nanny state idiocy

Indeed, the average citizen in Britain or America has an awesome amount of power, and can influence government policy in a way undreamt of in totalitarian states.

And of course each and every one is wise and informed enough to know what must be done and instruct their beloved leaders what to do, unanimously.

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Ditto: but being in a less exorbitant country, and which is obsessed with cell-phones, I pay £60 for unlimited calls and texts.

= $75.

I never text.

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Re: I like what I read in this article

Do tell.

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Re: We know what you did ...

I quite dislike having a bad influenza.

Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps

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Mongeese Beware

If they ever pay it.

Oh ... Fudge This Pandemic! Google walks back on decision to switch off FTP in Chrome 81

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I take caveat with the description of Mozilla as a 'rival' to Google

More a wholly owned subsidiary surely ?

As Amazon's stock price soars and Bezos adds to his billions, affiliates face massive cuts in their commissions

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I Would be grateful if You could find a New Photo of the Ineffable Bezos

That beatific smile is unctuous to the Nth Degree.

Oh Hell. Remember the glory days of Demon Internet? Well, now would be a good time to pick a new email address

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BTW, though I have no complaints against Vodafone at the moment, yesterday I finally discovered why I could not comment via Disqus --- which I kinda loathe --- for a long time.

I decided to log in to Disqus account, and looking at the url found Vodafone has Disqus on a blacklist. No idea why.

Switching to Houston on a VPN, I logged in immediately.

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Mushroom

"...the arrangement was always temporary and the license period has now come to an end."

Like Life itself.

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Namesco's take is: "It is important that you make this change as soon as possible and communicate your new email address to important people ahead of time."

Easier just to move to a new email provider. Either oneself via domain [ until ICANN et al decide to charge £100 a year to rent a domain ] or from a proper email outfit