* Posts by Wolfclaw

631 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2012

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ReactOS 0.4.9 release metes out stability and self-hosting, still looks like a '90s fever dream

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Wonder how it would handle older games that W7/W8/W10 just refuse to look at ?

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Still have USB FDD in it's plastic wrapping, still has that fresh smell to it.

UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? shrugs judge

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I bet if I mentioned a certain agency and a trigger words that go boom, I would soon be target no. 1 regardless that I have not commited or plan to commit any crimes, just a algorithm for a computer to analyse !

Tech team trapped in data centre as hypoxic gas flooded in. Again

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Working inside the computer room and you didn't switch the gas supression system to manual, you all need to be sacked for H&S breach !

$100m sueball smacks Huawei over Facebook HQ infiltration claims

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If true, I expect to see Huawei on the U.S banning list very soon !

Nostalgic social network 'Timehop' loses data from 21 million users

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Going out of business when they get hit with the EU fine, if we ever see the EU do anything !

Welsh firm fined £60k for pummelling phones with 270k pay-day loan texts

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Soon to be wound up and directors disappear around the corner to open up a new dodgy company and no cash paid !

CableLabs' many hands make light work – at four terabits per second

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The big question if it ever implemented and rolled out by Virgin Media, we probably still get buffered video playback?

Bill Clinton's cyber-attack novel: The airport haxploit-blockbuster you knew it would be

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Is their an intern in the book, on her knees smoking ? Can see this being on the bargain basement shelf next to Mein Kampf.

HMRC told AGAIN to toughen up on VAT-dodging online traders

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Never mind going after the little guys, like traders, go after the likes of Amazon, Apple and the rest of the big tax dodgers first !

UK.gov's long-awaited, lightweight biometrics strategy fails to impress

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FAIL

So in other words, another piece of fudged, useless documentation and broken promises from the govenment and the overpaid, braindead mandarins in the civil service who probably wrote this piece of crap !

IBM memo to staff: Our CEO Ginni is visiting so please 'act normally!'

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Anybody would think the Galactic Emperor was visiitng, IBM bosses need to take chill pill and relax !

Happy birthday, you lumbering MS-DOS-based mess: Windows 98 turns 20 today

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There's no patty, like a Vista party ... just bring the morphine !

Facebook sends lowly minions to placate Euro law makers over data-slurp scandal

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So lets round up, US meeting FB says FKU, UK meeting FB says FKU, EU meeting FB syas FKU, do we not just see a pattern were FB is telling the world to go FK themselves, they are too big, powerful, rich and laws to apply to them. Time to for the politicians to go after them big style like Microsoft, Intel and now Google !

Ex-Rolls-Royce engineer nicked on suspicion of giving F-35 info to China

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Re: Really?

Agree, USSR and USA proved it during WW2, T-34 and M4 Sherman was no match to a Tiger or Panther head to head, but get enough of them around it and it was toast. Quantity over quality !

Intel chip flaw: Math unit may spill crypto secrets from apps to malware

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THe number of flaws from the so called world leading chip designers, should make senior bods hear major alarm bells. If this was any other industry, a major recall would have been ordered and due to the chips not being fir for purpose and very costly.

No fandango for you: EU boots UK off Galileo satellite project

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Fine, can we have our money back and what about all the UK technology with, can we not just pull any licence deal or simply refuse to supply parts ?

Cardiff chap chucks challenge at chops*-checking cops

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He better watch out, the cops may decide to do a bit of stop and search, with a small bag of powder suddenly being found !

Audit of DeepMind deal with NHS trust: It checks out, nothing to see here

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Illegal data retention and access, just a complete whitewash, ICO should crack it's knuckles and come in with both fist flying and do the right thing and prosecute Google and the NHS trust !

Trump's ZTE deal challenged by Senate

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Look in the shadows and you will see brown envelopes full of donations/gifts/bribes (make your choice) being passed to senaors from ZTE and Huawei competitors.

Microsoft reveals which Windows bugs it might decide not to fix

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Step 1. Will it cost Microsoft in a big lawsuit, if yes, fix it, if no, hide all evidence, play dumb and ignore the users.

Setp 2. If it will cost us money, can we get away with EOL the product so we can ignore the issues.

Step 3. Can we blame another parties software.

Step 4. Will it bork machines, if yes, rollout a fix anyway.

Woman sues NASA for ownership of vial of space dust

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COPUOUS - 1962/1967

Space is free for all nations to explore, and sovereign claims cannot be made. Space activities must be for the benefit of all nations and humans.

Most major players have signed this.

The Moon Agreement - 1979 - Article 11

The moon and its natural resources are the common heritage of mankind.

The moon is not subject to national appropriation by any claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means

Neither the surface nor the subsurface of the moon, nor any part thereof or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non- governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person

None of the majpr players have signed up, too busy looking at the profit !

Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows 7, 8.1 support forums

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When Microsoft provides support for a product, EOL dtaes mena nothing unless you want to pay !

ICO smites Bible Society, well fines it £100k...

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£100,000 is a vast amount to such a small organisation, now we need to see the same level of fines against Facebook and the other megacorps !

Android users: Are you ready for the great unbundling?

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Good and we need manufacturers to stop preinstalling other bloatware like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp and all the other privacy invading apps.If we want to install them, then the manufacturers can assume consent for data collection. Everybody knows were they then stand !

The hits keep coming for Facebook: Web giant made 14m people's private posts public

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Just in time for GDPR time to hit these **!&$%*&!# !!!!! with a 4% fine !

Oddly enough, when a Tesla accelerates at a barrier, someone dies: Autopilot report lands

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Telsa scared of big law suits and having their autopilot and maybe even the cars themselves deemed dangerous to operate/drive. One big thing for NTSB to look at, is the time and requirements to put out the battery fire twice !

Google freezes Android P: Get your shoes on, tire-kicking devs

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A year to hit the first phones, by the time manufacturers cripple them with unnecessaryUI changes, duplicate apps and general bloatware, if it ever does get pushed out to phones older than 6 months.

UK's first transatlantic F-35 delivery flight delayed by weather

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Re: Alternatives

1917 HMS Fearless, oh how naval aviation has progressed until the F35s

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FAIL

Epic fail, all weather fighter, but only when the sun shines, unlimted visability and when we have the spare parts to keep it flying. F35, should be made in to a Dummies Guide how to sell a POS to gullable governments !

In World Cup Russia, our Wi-Fi networks will log on to you!

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Re: Why would you even let Russia host the world cup ?

"because they gave us the biggest bag of unttracable cash", a FIFA spokesdroid replied !

US govt mulls snatching back full control of the internet's domain name and IP address admin

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WTF if the US of A$$ takes back control then the rest of the world should come up with an alternative and make them use a slow, NSA/CIA controlled, ISP throttled gateway to join the new and secure free system.

Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory

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So explain why time seems to fly when you wake up just become your alarm clock or if you decide to have a snooze while waiting for the second one to go off to get up, yet it crawls when you clock watch during a night of insomnia ?

Google nukes military AI, Amazon happy touting Rekognition to police, and much more

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Given enough encouragement and cash from DOD, I'm sure Google will sign backup under a black project and ensure no mention of it's involvmeent or AI ??

Visa Europe fscks up Friday night with other GDPR: 'God Dammit, Payment Refused'

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Is it me, or does a lot of failures at the moment have IBM in the report ?

From Russia with(out) Zuck: Popular Facebook boss gets another invite to turn down

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Knowing the Russians, they could just ban Facebook if he doesn't turn up !

Arm emits Cortex-A76 – its first 64-bit-only CPU core (in kernel mode)

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1st generation ARM powered Macs since Apple will have a licence and A64 is desirable to them to move users owning A32 devices to upgrade, if they only start issuing A64 updates in the future?

German court snubs ICANN's bid to compel registrar to slurp up data

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beggers belief how incompetent ICANN can be, two years notice and they still scew it up !

Activists hate them! One weird trick Facebook uses to fool people into accepting GDPR terms

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Time to make an example of FB and hit them with 4% fine, Zuck and his butt monkeys will soon back track and stop being a pr!cks.

Dixons to shutter 92 UK Carphone Warehouse shops after profit warning

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So many fancy, long word and catchy power phrases for the markets from Alex Baldock, what he realy means, the profit margins are going down quicker than the Titanic, stores are losing money quicker than Gordon Brown and generally the company is in the shit. So we need to sack staff, close buildings and boost the accounts, so we look cool to the investment markets and me an dthe rest of the board can still get our big fat bonuses and give away a few pennies to shareholders, to keep them quiet and hope we don't do a Carillion !

Ex-staffer of UK.gov dept bags payout after boss blabbed medical info to colleagues

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DWP paid, so in relaity, the tax payer. Should have made the manager cash in his gold pensin pot to pay for it and then sack him, saving his wages !

Sysadmin's PC-scrub script gave machines a virus, not a wash

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The wife too caught a nasty virus from a floppy, doctor gave us a shot of penicillin and I had a lot of explaining to do.;)

MPs slam UK.gov's 'unacceptable' hoarding of custody images

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Re: Um

I bet a Tory minister or Tory financial backer has found the means to get their data deleted !

Can't pay Information Commissioner's fine? No problem! Just liquidate your firm

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Wonder why the government has failed to apply new laws, too many dodogy CEO's also Tory party donaors ? Crawls back under conspiracy theory rock.

Uber jams Arizona robo-car project into reverse gear after deadly smash

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This smells like, we need to start savinging millions, to payoff a unlawful death suit from the victims family and the only way is to sack staff !

EmDrive? More like BS drive: Physics-defying space engine flunks out

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Germans probably forgot to switch off the emmissions cheating software and got false readings.

Zuckerberg gets a night off: Much-hyped Euro grilling was all smoke, absolutely no heat

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Re: Perhaps we need to

Just a day, permantelty, people may actually starting interacting again on a personal level.

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FAIL

MEP's granstabnding and being told wht to do by FB, no wonder the UK want to leave this corrupt and inept organisation.

GDPR for everyone, cries Microsoft: We'll extend Europe's privacy rights worldwide

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Get a router than can block the traffic, like Asus running Merlin Firmware.

What's up with that ZX Spectrum reboot? Still no console

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Company should by wound up, board of directors force to refund those waiting for devices out of their pocket and ban them from ever running a company again.

The way RCL has operate, puts people of investing in small startups !

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