* Posts by snowpages

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Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

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Headmaster

Re: Going after federal government tech spending ...

BORDER

Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support

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Re: Barclays

Barclays > Wise > other currency > Wise > Barclays

Other cost effective international payment providers available, but Wise has worked well for me so far..

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

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Re: Oh dear baby Jesus in your sweet manger crib

Easy. Ship all the Palestinians over to all that spare space in the USA and they can express their appreciation in the usual fashion.....

Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK

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Facepalm

At first glance I read this as "bringing fast broadband to undeserved areas of the country."

Harsh.

SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover

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Re: Weird

nearly 50% of the electorate are of below average intelligence...

Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper

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Re: Funny

Hmm, perhaps it was your comment's title that led him down the wrong route? Words are tricky like that!

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

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Re: The reality of Brexit...

"Well done you are understanding math."

So UK English is not your first language then?

Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger

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... and that's exactly when I ditched them...

Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout

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Facepalm

Poster Child

"The poster child of UK outsourcing, Capita"

as in

WANTED for CRIMES AGAINST TAXPAYERS

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

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From the article:

" despite a rise in the prevalence of wireless technology and increased RF-EMF noise around us, there's been no rise in brain cancer rates like one might expect."

There seems to be a "differnce of interpretation" somewhere.

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

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Re: Colour and the PET

Me neither..

Superboard here

'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity

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Unhappy

Pedantry alert

" UK citizens decide on their next leader"..

The UK electorate NEVER decides on their next leader (althought they may think that they do).

Effectively they just elect a political party. The party decides upon the leader (and could change it very soon after an election if they wanted).

All we can do is choose the particular flavour of well-meaning (sometimes) and clueless (often) clowns.

Global EV sales continue to increase, but Plug-in Hybrid momentum is growing

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Re: Plugins are a fudge, changing the drivetrain is key

Top Gear did this back in 2010

https://www.topgear.com/videos/top-gear-tv/hammerhead-eagle-i-thrust-part-13-series-14-episode-2

Enjoy.

COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave

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Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

Two Aunts and one Uncle for sure. Plus another "possible" from early in the pandemic before testing was widespread enough.

They were all old.

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

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Re: Hydrogen is absolute SHIT for energy storage or transfer

https://publications.iafss.org/publications/frn/813/-1/view/frn_813.pdf

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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Re: Have they tried

From the article: "This past weekend the team tried to restart the FDS and return it to the state it was in before the issue began", so YES.

Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off till 2027

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But...

https://stateofeuropeantech.com/chapter-2#C2-2-uk-eroding-lead

and

"UK tech businesses are projected to secure $12.7bn (£10bn) in venture capital this year, the highest in Europe once again despite losing ground to the rest of the continent.

France raised the second-most VC funding at $8bn, followed by Germany at $7.8bn."

8 + 7.8 = 15.8 so MORE than 12.7

(from https://www.uktech.news/news/investment-news/uk-tech-funding-2023-vc-europe-atomico-20231128

Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge

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Re: Stating the obvious

They can't be confused - they're dead.

Washington plans overhaul of wireless spectrum allocation

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Headmaster

"losing"

Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs

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Re: Raspberry Pi Foundation has lost its way

The Foundation https://www.raspberrypi.org/ still focuses on education but the commercial company https://www.raspberrypi.com/ is there to be a business (and thus fund the Foundation).see https://www.raspberrypi.com/about/ for easy to read summary.

One entity is a commercial organisation (with all the good and bad things that suggests), the other is a charitable foundation that tries to do good things.

World checks it's not April 1 as Apple signals support for full US right-to-repair rule

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Re: "They use third-party parts"

The original ones can swell too, not just the copies.

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

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Re: No corruption here.

...and "voluntary" load shedding by switching you off remotely. Check the small print.

Sony, Honda tease EV that aims to be a lounge on wheels

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Joke

I know finding new brand names is difficult but..

.. isn't this some sort of sexual predator??

Musk, Yaccarino contradict each other on status of X's election integrity team

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Headmaster

Recurring, not reOccurring please

Thanks

Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite

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Angel

That would be an ecumenical matter..

Arm's lawyers want to check assembly expert's book for trademark missteps

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I suspect that htese decisions are being made nowhere near the Cambridge HQ of this Japanese-owned company..

The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue

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Headmaster

Re: Lesseee here.

So in each case he will need tightening???

I think you mean "loses". Common mistake

You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak

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Re: Isn't it seeing triple now?

The official EU Region included Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire as well.

I guess we can now define it however we like.

Taking back control (TM)!

One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers

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Re: What about

Raspbian should work - still does 32 bits.

Musk decides to bury dead Twitter accounts, warns users follower counts could sink

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Headmaster

Re: A racket?

or perhaps "lose your account" unless he is planning a paid-for tightening service :)

I've seen things you wouldn't believe, like an atom about to photosynthesize

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From the article

"Scientists could potentially reproduce the chemical reaction to create new fuels that use sunlight to make clean energy. "

Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract to leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365

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WTF?

Patching!

"allowing the IT infrastructure teams to focus on high-value high-complexity tasks, instead of commodity services such as patching"

They were patching Google?

When Google cost cutting goes molecular: Staples, sticky tape, and PC sweating

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Re: Ha ha, Chromebooks

Control-C has worked as expected on any Chromebook I have used.

There is a two-key shortcut for Caps Lock, but it is not intuitive so I just had to look it up..

EU mandated messaging platform love-in is easier said than done: Cambridge boffins

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Re: Someone...

As one of the boffins was female, I would think that they deliberately chose that word (twice).

UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?

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Re: Joshing or not - I couldn't tell

.. and can often run well on that old 32-bit hardware that you can't bring yourself to throw away!

AI may finally cure us of our data fetish

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Headmaster

Re: Prosthetic imagination

Like the ability to choose between loose and lose?? :)

Nice smart device – how long does it get software updates?

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Facepalm

Re: Smart fridge

woosh....

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

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Pet hate

THEIR

That is all

:)

NTT claims it can stop the noise leaking from annoying people's headphones

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Boffin

Science..

"which does somewhat more than optimizing holes in a speaker enclosure. It also pits normal phase and reverse phase sound waves against each other to cancel out at distances."

I suspect that the correct way to describe this is "BY optimizing holes in a speaker enclosure it pits normal phase and reverse phase sound waves against each other to cancel out at distances." No "also".

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

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Re: point of order

Would that be "Petty Pedantry"?

Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson

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Re: Maxwell

I think I had that lecturer too...

Post-Brexit 'science superpower' UK still hasn't appointed a science minister

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Wot - China?

Consolidation looms for UK broadband providers

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Fibre Fibre Fibre Fibre FIBRE!!

At least we can still us the appropriate spelling (UK for an UK story) in the comments!

Anyone else finding that it spoils the reading flow when you crash up against a US-ian spelling in a piece about the UK?

(Definitely getting grumpy in my old age..)

Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI

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Re: Virtual Assistant at National Savings (NS&i)

Having gone through similar experiences twice over the last 2 years, I found that the keyword you need is "bereavement". If you search for that on most organisations' websites you *usually* find a dedicated phone line and downloadable forms etc. These phone lines seem to be staffed by real, caring, humans!!!! Made a difficult process slightly easier.

Sony responds to inflation with $3,700 gold-plated 'Walkman'

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Re: I wish

https://kingdomluxuryplating.co.uk/

Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables

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Re: Not unexpectedly..

Read it again: he did say specifically "a crappy PC and speaker combination" and not "digital in general".

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Re: That vinyl sound

The Neve DSP fully digital mixing desk came out in 1981 but was VERY expensive.

Dell unveils new XPS 13 devices with Alder Lake CPUs

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Can someone explain what "1.8x smaller" actually means? Does it mean just over half the size (ie not quite 2x smaller) or something else?

xx% is generally more useful

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

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Re: So technology works as intended...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48783615

https://www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/smart-motorways

US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens

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Stop

Reboot

BSOD becomes horribly appropriate...

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