* Posts by katrinab

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Microsoft's latest cloud innovation: Printing

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Re: Right, so send a document up to a server on the internet

Can't they licence or reverse-engineer Apple's airprint?

Unbox printer

Remove about half a bin bag of proctective packaging stuff from it

Plug it into the mains

Plut it into the network switch

You have a working printer that you can print to.

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Re: Café au nuage

Deliveroo have beaten you to it.

For £5.83, I can get a Costa Coffee coffee delivered to my door.

Other takeaway delivery services also exist.

Electro-smog, govt snooping be damned. Two thirds of folks polled worldwide would trade in their mobes for 5G kit

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Re: So...

I read it as mostly, people will replace their phone with a 5G model when the time comes to replace it anyway. For the most part, I don't think they will be throwing away a working phone to get 5G.

UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own

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Re: 1% mortality

We have some more numbers to work with. 80% of the population could catch it in total. 0.8% of the UK population is 532m, so in a worst case scenario the death rate this year could be about double the normal rate. Of course some of them will be people who were going to die anyway. I haven’t considered that in my calculation.

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Re: No thanks, I'll go live on my boat...

Except that a single boat has more infections than all but three countries.

Microsoft's Cortana turns its back on consumers as skills are stripped from Windows 10

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Re: Productivity

I’ve never had that problem. Probably your installation is broken and you are running with a temporary profile.

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Re: Productivity

You can remove all the tiles from the start menu without using third party software.

We regret to inform you there are severe delays on the token ring due to IT nerds blasting each other to bloody chunks

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IT nerds?

Surely any self-respecting IT geek would get two lengths of cable, one to bypass their computers from the company network, and another to close the loop on their own isolated network; then they could blast away without getting in the way of the accounts dept.

Review of IR35 is in: Quelle surprise, UK.gov will forge ahead with controversial tax reforms in the private sector

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Re: HMRC : Singlehanded incompetent.

The problem that IR35 was designed to solve was that Gordon Brown thougt that small limited companies weren't paying enough tax. "Enough" being of course an entirely subjective unit of measure.

Your phone wakes up. Its assistant starts reading out your text messages. To everyone around. You panic. How? Ultrasonic waves

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Re: Stupid millennial pranks

'we'll end up with Maps on our doorstep pledging to "do something about it"'

Maps as in Minor Attracted Person(S) aka paedophile?

Sophos was gearing up for a private life – then someone remembered the bike scheme

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And also Server 2019. Possibly also 2016, but I've never used it.

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Microsoft Windows Defender?

I expect some flamethrowers will come my way for suggesting it.

Other AV programs seem to bog down the system. Microsoft's doesn't, and it does pick up viruses.

Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute

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Re: Bankruptcy next?

The warehouse appears to be owned by Aria Land Limited, another related company.

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Re: Bankruptcy next?

It looks like that already happened many years ago.

Velo Systems is a related company, it's balance sheet has some actual substance to it, with things like stock and money in the bank. Aria has basically nothing in it.

In-depth: Deloitte and accounts expert both cleared what HPE described as 'contrived' Autonomy sales

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Re: Is this the best HP have?

Short answer: you would have to declare it as a related party transaction

Long answer: Ask the directors at Enron and the auditors at Arthur Andersen

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Re: Is this the best HP have?

It is only a key point in an alternate universe where Kraft didn't buy it, or where at the time of preparing the year end accounts, Kraft had not yet bought it.

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The problem is not the particular chemical used to wash the chicken. The problem is the fact that they are relying on chemical washes to remove bacteria from the chicken rather than preventing them from being there in the first place, as chemical washes only remove bacteria on the outside of the chicken.

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Re: "what was the agreement if Kraft didn't buy it?" - but they did.

Or the accounts are completely fraudulent because we think that in the hypothetical event that a sale which did go through hadn't gone through, they might have reported it as going through anyway.

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The requirements for a trade deal with the US appear to be:

1. There must be no hard border between Nothern Ireland and the Republic. This means no chlorinated chicken in NI

2. There must be no hard border between NI and Scotland, England or Wales. This means no chlorinated chicken in any part of the UK.

3. We must allow chlorinated chicken into the UK.

Rotherwood Healthcare AWS bucket security fail left elderly patients' DNR choices freely readable online

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Rotherwood Healthcare Ltd will go bust, fail to pay the fine, and Rotherwood Healthcare (Hereford) Ltd will take over.

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Their privacy policy still translates as follows:

Antioxidants such as at football. In addition, important long-start. Present sterilized chocolate policies. But the developer microwave bananas gravida carrots does not trigger the borders of. Or they may present clinical sapien innovative vehicles. No bananas biggest casino. It is just as easy, carrots orange lion. Mid need of peanut. A smile to sit enforcement does not always need a wireless network. The latest football peanut zero.

According to google anyway. I'm not sure it is the most accurate translation it's ever done.

Famed Apple analyst chances his Arm-based Macs that Apple kit will land next year

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They've transitioned from mk6800 to ppc to ia32 to amd64. Not sure what bit of their track record gives you concern.

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Re: Where are the benchmarks?

Geekbench score for the A13X, in the latest iPad Pro is a little faster than the i7-8700U.

Power draw is way lower and it fits in a much smaller space.

Add more cores, up the clock speed and add the extra cooling this requires, such that it matches the Intel U-Series space and power budget, and you may well have something that is way faster than Intel.

How many times do we have to tell you? A Tesla isn't a self-driving car, say investigators after Apple man's fatal crash

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Re: Heretic!

I too would like my car to drive me to work while I sleep in the back, drop me off at work, go off and find a parking space somewhere, then come back to pick me up and take me home. I just don't expect it to happen any time soon, unless we redesign our roads to be more like railway lines.

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Re: But how about those batteries?

100kWh, 360MJ. Enough to power a 3kW heater for maybe 2-3 days depending on how long it is actually on for. 33 hours if there is no thermostat on it.

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Re: Tesla never said it's driverless

"Put your hand on the wheel"

*Whack

"Put your hand on the wheel"

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"Put your hand on the wheel"

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"Put your hand on the wheel"

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"Put your hand on the wheel"

*Whack

Is that going to keep you alert? I don't think so.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save data from a computer that should have died aeons ago

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Re: Those were the days

Something like 90-95% of all software?

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Re: Those were the days

It is difficult to have a subscription model when your sales channel is selling boxes in a retail store.

Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive

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Re: Doubling the price?

"No more than" means you round down to the nearest cent, not up, but other than that, yes you maths is correct.

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115% increase over 8 years, plus unlimited increases after that.

Huawei claims its Google Play replacement is in 'top 3' app stores after Trump turns off tap to the Chocolate Factory

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Re: Individual developers not allowed

You can be a sole trader. Outside of the UK, that’s how most small businesses are set up.

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The more important things are things like local transport apps, banks and so on. Most people have them installed, but the same ones so they don’t make the top downloads lists.

Don't worry, IT contractors. New UK chancellor says HMRC will be gentle pushing IR35 rules

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"Go soft" means they won't charge penalties, but they will still want the tax.

Yes, I do believe they will be like that for the first year. They usually are when new things come out.

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If your "customer" shoves a contract under your nose and tells you to sign it or there's no deal, that is one of the indicators that your "customer" is actually an employer, and therefore you are subject to IR35; as normally the supplier shoves the contract under the customer's nose.

Therefore, your comments about people being daft enough to sign it are not really appropraite.

Flat Earther and wannabe astronaut killed in homemade rocket

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Re: Stupid is as Stupid does

Powered using a steam engine. Not sure that counts as a rocket.

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No you have in fact flown in a very large circle around the Antarctic Ice Wall, or something like that.

The UN flag shows it that way, so it must be, or something.

I don't know. See icon, I don't have the necessary skills to understand it.

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"you could walk up a taller mountain and get a better view"

Ben Nevis is 1345m. A little shorter than the target, but you can drive up to the top of it.

The Wristwatch of the Long Now: When your MTBF is two centuries

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Re: Beware survival bias

If I buy a watch, I will still need a smartphone for all the other stuff it does, including reminding me what I'm supposed to do at particular times, so given that my phone will tell me the time very accurately, I don't need a watch, even if the watch would last 200 years.

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Re: Beware survival bias

I did a search. It returned some examples of smart mixers. This revelation did not surprise me.

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Re: Instilling new timeframes of thought in a world beset by faster/shorter.

And a year will be about 100 seconds longer than it is now.

Google gets woke on gender in Vision API, Amazon happy to sell its facial recognition code to foreigners, and more

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Re: Eh?

Could you identify the correct gender, every time, just from one photograph, even if all the trans people were taken out of the sample?

If for example, you usually choose to date women, there's probably some women you have seen that you don't like the look of because they look too masculine.

Also, some of the factors that determine the difference in appearance between people of different genders are also factors that determine the difference in appearance between people of different races. The brow ridge is one such example.

Duped into running bogus virus scans at Office Depot? Dry your eyes with a small check from $35m settlement

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Re: And what about the others?

Yes. Jim Browning has an entire YouTube channel about it.

Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

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Re: Dangerous levels of EMF

Lysergic acid diethylamide - a drug that causes hallucinations, normally referred to as LSD.

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Re: 5G is 5 times more dangerous

Spoiler alert:

It is one of Vodafone's masts and it hasn't been switched on.

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Re: Dangerous levels of EMF

CEO => Chief Executive Officer => AKA top dog

CEO => Civil Enforcement Officer => AKA Traffic Warden and definitely not top dog.

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

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Re: I understand

"Stripe Inc Limited" formerly located at Ground Floor Flat, 120 West Green Road, London, N15 5AA, has been disolved because they didn't file any accounts or annual returns.

Someone else could register it now, and use it for all sorts of purposes. Having a company registered in one jurisdiction doesn't prevent someone else registering a company with the same name elsewhere, and both companies are equally valid.

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Re: I understand

I have it working, using OVH as my DNS provider, everywhere except for ADFS/WAP because there I have to same private key on two different servers.

Researchers trick Tesla into massively breaking the speed limit by sticking a 2-inch piece of electrical tape on a sign

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Re: Sigh.

If you are stuck behind another slow moving vehicle, that is a good reason for only doing 30mph. Most motorways are like that. The A74(M) is a notable exception.

What do a Lenovo touch pad, an HP camera and Dell Wi-Fi have in common? They'll swallow any old firmware, legit or saddled with malware

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Re: Oxymoronic

Don't install firmware updates unless you have a specific problem that the update will fix.

Don't use natwest.co.uk for online banking, Natwest bank tells baffled customer

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Re: The interns are early this year

Compared to their first attempt at a web banking service about 20 years ago, that isn't actually too bad.

Back then, the entire thing was written in Java. It caused Netscape to crash. It loaded in a pop-up window with no title bar "for security reasons".