* Posts by Korev

4934 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

MPs would love to hear all about how UK.gov plans to ratchet R&D spend to 3% of GDP

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Re: So what we're saying is...

Yes!

This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur

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Joke

I was thinking the same.

I uploaded one of Iron, it was pretty funny...

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

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Disappointment

Am I the only one to be disappointed by the lack of puns like "the software SAPs the will to live"

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SAP user group

while 30 per cent of users have no confidence in [SAP]"

The interesting thing is that this is a SAP usergroup who presumably have an interest in SAP products and have their career invested in them. I wonder what a survey filled out by people without that bias would say.

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Re: Over complicated

Why SAP cannot output the image of the bar code but instead sends it encoded in the bar code font seems a bit silly to me, it can't be that hard. The unicode font package is around £500 per machine

I think you've answered your own question there!

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

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Re: "automation in retail and banking had led to fewer jobs..."

Or to transfer money without posting a cheque

Your ugly mug may be scanned yet again – but at least you'll be able to board faster at Gatwick

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Re: Why would this be faster?

The biggest benefit I find is having a fair chance to get your hand luggage (a laptop bag in my case) in the overhead locker at least somewhere close to where your seat is.

Or actually in the cabin at all...

I normally buy Speedy Boarding because it means you can take a second smaller bag in the cabin. In my case my camera, lenses and other toys are in the locker and the my much smaller bag is for clothes.

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

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Re: All I want...

I just found out about the HP Tango X which has... Voice Control!

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Re: All I want...

See also “smart” TVs

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I hope you send piles of them

Seriously, this sh!t again? 24m medical records, 700m+ scan pics casually left online

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You poor thing, I guess you have toe ask the right sole to get you data.

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Re: Ratios

A bit poor isn’t it...

Vulns out of the box: 12 in 13 small biz network devices terribly insecure by default – research

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Re: I had to Google

> Seems like a bit of a long shot to be honest especially if you have your own DNS server and Web protection in place.

These devices are usually sold to places that are too small to run DNS servers etc

Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion

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Re: Elf-in-Safety

>In any case, you can't overload a mains socket in the UK, since its got a fuse in its plug to prevent exactly that

Just swap it for a nail, problem solved.

Who's got my Etherkiller?

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

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Re: Walk like an...

Mummy? Is that you?

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Re: A stupid idea

Yeah, I get irritated that I have to empty it. When using Windows I always use shift-del.

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Re: Taking the Trash

Parklife!

Mike drop, DXC-ya later! Lawrie immediately ejects as CEO from IT outsourcing giant

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He's being fired and flames are hot...

Oracle's Mark Hurd hits pause as co-CEO, says he needs time to deal with health issues

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He left Hewlett-Packard following an inquiry into whether he violated the company's code of conduct in the course of interactions with a greeter at HP events and reality TV personality who filed a sexual harassment claim that was later settled privately.

I wonder if Oracle has various diversity schemes, to me, employing him after that sends quite a clear message about how much the company values diversity.

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

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You had to milk that one didn't you...

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> I think they might also have burger flipping machines in some places so they've started on the cooking robots.

I can imagine that most of the operations would be quite easy to sort (think burgers on conveyors etc), but the "salad" would be much less homogeneous. I guess if they could make the chips the same size then that'd help the automation too.

Mystery database left open turns out to be at heart of a huge Groupon ticket fraud ring

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Re: Fake accounts? You sure?

I get "threats" including the (old) password to the address I use for Last.fm which to the uninitiated could look very threatening.

Not so G.fast: Hybrid fibre 'under review' as Openreach remembers it's all about FTTP now

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I can't think of anything a typical residential customer would want 1Gb/s for. Certainly not at the kind of price point that speed would command.

That's probably true for most households, but people trying to download big games etc or a photographer trying to back their photos up . might disagree. However, the same infrastructure would also be used by small-mid size businesses where the connection will be shared by more people and also might have large bandwidth requirements (eg graphic designers).

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I've found that Dropbox downloads seem to be limited at 200Mb/s (over ethernet to a cable 500/50 connection).

It'd be great to have them at near full LAN speeds as you say though.

The gig (economy) is up: New California law upgrades Lyft, Uber, other app serfs to staff

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Re: Its about time....

If you set your rate to $20000/hr for a Chief Coffee machine tester role how many companies do you think would snap you up?

Opal Fruits, Princess Diana and... PowerToys? Microsoft is dragging Windows 10 back to '95

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Re: I miss TweakUI...

He'd have known you were taking the piss..

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

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Single page fault whiskey?

Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery

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>NavyX is the RN's "Autonomy and Lethality Accelerator",

You mean putting technology in the Faslane?

You know what the NHS really needs? Influencers, right guys? #blessed

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Re: Influencers?

If they could "cure" both then that'd be grand...

Until then fire will have to do for the latter -->

The time a Commodore CDTV disc proved its worth as something other than a coaster

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Re: hmm

We have software on our iDevices that automagically tunnel into work with no user input needed for a few intranet sites and applications. It seems to work quite well.

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Re: BAUD

You beat me to that pun, I'm a bit annoyed...

Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses

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Re: My new business venture

My mum once taught a pupil who was so thick that he sold a fiver that he'd found for £1.75...

It turns out that was actually a smart move as the original "owner" of the fiver complain and the teachers made the "purchaser" return it!

GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?

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Re: @Steve Davies 3

I bet there's a Lister guys who think that...

Teletext Holidays a) exists and b) left 200k customer call recordings exposed in S3 bucket

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Windows

My secondary school had one in the 90s, some guys got in a lot of trouble for using it to find horse racing results for betting!

We need a proper grey beard icon -->

Devon knows how they make it so steamy: Phantom squatter of Torquay curls one out on bloke's motor

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Torquay...

...Always was a bit of a dump...

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Re: If anything ...

Lester hope that someone else is up to the challenge

He'd have loved this story -->

Pompey boffin bags €1.3m off EU for dark matter research – shame a no-deal Brexit looks more and more likely

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Re: Really?

Now, Iceland and Turkey are hardly research giants, but Switzerland and Israel are. Has anyone told them how their research funding is about to be cut? I suspect the answer is no :-)

"Switzerland’s exile from EU research is a cautionary tale for the UK" - for a few years Switzerland was booted out of H2020 and Erasmus+.

Developer reconsiders npm command-line ad caper after outcry

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Re: Threat

Oh you gut!

Last one out, hit the lights: UK energy supplier SSE to axe 115 bodies from tech department

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Re: We're happy we don't have an ex-empire...

I'm sure the Americans are very grateful...

Divert the power to the shields. 'I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!'

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The Event

All the talk of "The Event" reminded me of this.

Uber, Lyft and DoorDash put $30m apiece into ballot battle fund to kill gig-economy employee benefits

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Re: wal-mart

I was thinking the same. It makes Gonzalez sound very out of touch.

Clutching at its Perl 6, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

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That’d be good to have as a password too

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Female names

Her preference would be to rename it "the Camelia Programming Language,"

Please don't call it that, searching for female names can be quite "dangerous" from the office.

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Re: In my 25 years in IT I learnt at least one thing.

Too true

I just love your accent – please, have a new password

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It sounds like the Service Desk manager got off pretty much Scot-free

Get your royalty-free soft-core OpenPOWER processor core blueprints here. Extra, extra – read all about it

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Re: Probably a pass for most

Thanks for the interesting link

Capital One 'hacker' hit with fresh charges: She burgled 30 other AWS-hosted orgs, Feds claim

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So, if she’s found guilty will she turn over a new Paige in jail?

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

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Re: Remove the humans from the loop

Ms O'Conner is that you?

Eight-hour comms lags and shock discoveries: 30 years after Voyager 2 visited gas giant Neptune

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Fresh or dried?

Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S

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Re: I bought a tablet in Currys recently

Where's your BOFH spirit? You could have given that to someone you didn't like...