* Posts by BebopWeBop

2862 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

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Cynic, moi?

Dare I suggest that this was a paper grant, never expected or intended to achieve it's goals and constructed to be cancelled quiely?

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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Treaties

So the PFY is on a protracted holiday in a part of the world with more favorable (to him) climes

One assume that is a part of the world without extradition treaties?

Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

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Re: Sweating assets

Maybe, but they worked and our 5L, still does years later.

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“Despite pockets of softness in Q1, we saw signs of improvement overall,” said Lores in summary. He added that HP expects the “pace of recovery to be uneven across different segments.”

Those pockets did not include printing quality or customer sattisfaction.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

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Devil

Revenge

Best served cold with a side helping of hot cash

Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier

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That depends on the quality of their filtering. If it savs money, and they can get away with it, I would not be too sure.

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

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Happy

Did the BA

admire the fenestration on the way down?

UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

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I can be confident

That any recommendations will be ignored but police forces in England and the government. Other findings of unlawful behaviour in this area have been.

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs

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Re: Our three weapons are…

Shhh - next you will be suggesting that private companies benefit from public investment but should not have to contribute....

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And day two

"From Day One, our [7 million joint] customers will enjoy faster, more reliable coverage over more of the country – and without paying a penny extra. We are confident that this transaction will deliver significant benefits to our customers, the country and competition, and we look forward to working closely with the CMA as they review our notification."

Our 7 million locked in customers will find their levels of service quality go down (yes, it is possible, even from a low start) and their bills go up.

UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims

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Re: Hot air

And tainted blood products.. a strategy based on making sure claimants have died before anything is done.

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Re: No Justice

A mail lion signatures? They have ignored physical protests of the same order of magnitude. But Vennals is disposable, so….

Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight

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Re: 16000ft iPhone drop test

One suspects it was a pretty standard terminal velocity :-)

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Units of worry

The passengers had a right to be concerned.

No shit Sherlock!

NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

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Re: Doubt the UK voter gives a shit...

The priotities of Scotland are rather broader than that. You are just repeating what Westminster and the MSM claim the priorities are.

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Re: Threats to the UK NHS

The demise of the UK as a single entity is something to be looked forward to.

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Re: Transparency

It might have done but the NHS is meant to be accountable to those who own and fund it. And by that, I don't mean just those who leach and reuse the data for purposes that are not transparent.

Virgin Atlantic flies 'world's first fossil-fuel free' transatlantic commercial flight

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Geography

has a problem when it comes to moving it around at someone's whim.

Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears

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Re: "despite privacy fears"

I live in hope. It remains to be seen if that is an inconvenient truth.

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Follow the money

The winning bid was supported by consultancies Accenture and PwC

That will go well then (for the NHS (England) and the tax payer).

Tesla Cybertruck no-resale clause vanishes faster than a Model S in Ludicrous Mode

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Maybe he is worried that people will resell before the market realises what a pile of crap they have been sold and they become impossible to resell. But then you might equally blame the original purchaser.

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

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What did they expect from Musk?

It would be quicker, easier, and probably more cost-effective to just ban their adverts appearing there.

From The Grauaniad - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-tweet-adl

Elon Musk tweeted his fervent agreement with an antisemitic statement on Wednesday night.

By affirming an antisemitic trope, Elon Musk sinks to a dangerous new low

A tweet posted by @breakingbaht on Wednesday night read: “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

The billionaire owner and CTO of X, formerly Twitter, responded the same evening: “You have said the actual truth.” In another reply, he wrote: “I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.” Musk has feuded with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) before, threatening to sue over its accounting of hate speech on his social media network.

Microsoft: Iran's cybercrews got stuck into Israel days after Hamas attacked – not in tandem

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Re: they didn't appear to be acting with prior knowledge of Hamas's actions

It's always a 'wise' choice to get others to die for your cause. Politicians have been doing it for years.

Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

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I had to giggle with their announcement

This precarious situation has exposed our users' data to potential risks, leading us to contemplate the possibility of pursuing legal measures against JOTFORM. This heavy-handed approach by JOTFORM also has the potential to endanger additional lives.

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

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Rearranging Deckchairs

on the Titanic as they say. At least it will give them time to polish their CVs and go job hunting before the inevitable.

Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process

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Hah

Mine (still have it) was a Science of Cambridge MK14 - with 128 Bytes of ram....

UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech

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Re: How to use statistics

Experiments using images from the Senate and the House of Representatives were very amusingly reported on in this very organ I believe.

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Re: "a bias against the Black males and females combined"

The last couple of Labour Home Secretaries I remember, Blunkett and Straw were lock step with most Tories on this

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We can expect

DVLA and Passport Office images to be added to the core data set. Learning from the best - China.

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

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Joke

I thought he had a new partner?

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But

They have such a nice advert on terrestrial (at least) television explain how cuddly they are. Can't be wrong can it?

Element users are asking for protection against government encryption busting

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Re: If the UK government wants to torpedo all high tech in the UK

He appears to be - but that does not mean he has not rights.

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Re: If the UK government wants to torpedo all high tech in the UK

It does in England - different counties you know.

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Mushroom

Re: Ah, sweet hypocrisy

Apparently he, and other politicians really did *think* of the children.

CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon

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Holmes

Re: Imagine an HP phone, or a IBM phone

Like many of the equally sad :-) individuals who occasionally comment here, I have a collection of old devices - one of which is an OPD - complete with working! 'stringy floppy' and monitor. Recued from a skip outside Manchester University many years ago.

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

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Thumb Up

Re: Apple TV+... anyone? anyone?

A 'free sub\ and 'Slow Horses' and 'Bad Sisters' were both a treat.

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

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Re: 5 metres clearance?

That is the reason for the optional Bazooka mounted on the drone. 'We called, but you were out, so....'

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Flame

As good

A reason for a shotgun license in the UK as any I have come across.

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

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Holmes

Re: If/when no more X in the EU ... how should Thierry Breton ... "tweet" / communicate?

Who is Thierry Breton?

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Devil

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

That would spoil Twatter/X for many

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Pint

A little

good news in these days of gloom, doom and destruction.

$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list

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Re: No doubt

Actually you would buy a vintage mechanical watch.

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Devil

Those vintage

mechanical watches are looking rather good after this...

Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten

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Re: The aforementioned IPAs

Clearly people on both sides are bitter, but ales well that ends well.

Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs

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I have no intention of funding comfy sofas for the bar stewards.

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Keep it English given their majority. Cricket bats will work as well.

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement

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Re: Bit of a mistake, that

It would be nice but they appear determined to drag those of us in 'the Celtic provinces' down with them. Although that nice Mr Sunak was very positive about the great deal that NI has.

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Re: Has it happened yet?

Clearly seen by many, Blair onwards as a bad decision.

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Re: Has it happened yet?

I think the UK said NO - and then very quietly, 'when would you like us to do it?'

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Re: Sharing.....but then there's what get shared!

Why should we be concerned about Tory Ministers?