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'Buyer's remorse' drove HP's legal crusade to go after Lynch, High Court told

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Re: Slightly disappointed

But it's no longer Xmas, so Christmas films are banned until much later in the year...

RISC-V business: SiFive and CEVA join forces to enable the development AI-amenable, edge-oriented processors

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That's a bit sillycon

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There's a RISC of some bad puns here; hopefully no one will chip in...

5G signals won't make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster

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Re: I'm immune to the effects of 5G

That may disappoint your WiFi though

AMD rips covers off 64-core Threadripper desktop monster, plus laptop chips, leaving Intel gesturing vaguely at 2021

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Great post Bazza, one tiny thing though:

>Some POWER CPUs from IBM have 64kB L1.

As do some of Intel's Xeons.

Edit: Intel's new Ice Lake has changed its L1 config which might break quite a lot of optimisations

The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes

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A fully patched and configured Windows Server setup would be more secure than a neglected Linux system, think of some nice vulnerabilities like Heartbleed.

A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

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In my youth computers spoke binary.

Times have moved on, many kids call themselves "non-binary" these days...

Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown

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Overcharging on removable drives? What a CD practice...

IT consultant who deleted every account on UK company Jet2's domain cops 5 months in jail

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Re: Good

Not forgetting the organisations that heavily vet staff; but outsource everything giving some stranger in Elbonia full access to their networks and systems...

There is a Santa! BT prises remnants of InLink from jaws of administration

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Re: Not just street advertising

Is collecting these kind of data with no method of opting out actually legal?

Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader

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Re: My Dad suffered with Y2K

In these IOT days, most of the items on your list could now have some kind of computer in...

BOFH: The case of the Boss's hidden USB inkjet printer

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I’ve just given you the 11th upvote, no one else is allowed to ruin it....

An early one for NYE—>

Amazon Germany faces Christmas strikes from elf stackers, packers and dispatchers

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Re: Barking MP?

I guess the other alternative would have been "MP for Barking" which trivialises her job somewhat...

Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room

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Re: scram button!

>In what situation , in a server room, would the "instantly cut power to everything" button be used?

If there was an electrician with a higher current flowing through them than is normally advised?

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Some former colleagues had the opposite problem; they were setting up the PKI infrastructure in a "secure area" of the datacentre (effectively a large cage); they managed to get locked in there and had to wait for people to unlock the door to escape...

Probably what they looked like once they'd escaped -->

Microsoft's cloud floats over to Qatar and Azure Functions flings doors open to .NET Core 3.1

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New Qatar DC?

Wow, I can only imagine how horrendous their cooling bill* must be...

*not only in cost, but also CO2

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

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Re: I wonder

Great books those

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

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Re: A very short list

Capsa at the University of Cambridge was pretty big at the time. As an end user I used to hate it

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

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Out of interest, what are the data?

GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home

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Re: Killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs

Moving ASAP would be prudent, the rules will be different in many place for people who are already in the EU country when the UK leaves.

Switzerland is also good option for this (they've waived the normal non-EU person employment rules for Brits for a bit for people arriving after Brexit).

You can forget about that Black Friday deal: Brit banks crap out just in time for pay day

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Re: Right... but there's more to it than just the managers

If that sounds glib, the NatWest one affected me: I did a couple of minor transfers betwixt accounts and found whilst the source accounts were debited, the receiving accounts were not credited. After some checks and refreshes I just closed the tab and did other stuff for 6 hours without worrying, then logging back it, found it was all serene.

How many digits would you have had needed to have been worried? That could have been a transfer to buy a car or a house...

RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep's salary details on office printer

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Re: Not the real question!

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/senior-vice-president-salary-SRCH_KO0,21.htm

£119K.

Not exactly amazing.

About four times the UK average salary...

Let's shed a tear -->

Gospel according to HPE: And lo, on the 32,768th hour did thy SSD give up the ghost

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It woz The Reg wot won it! Big Blue iron relics make it back to Blighty

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Pint

Well done Gentlemen!

A nice British flat and warm one for you -->

Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk

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Blown away by the delights of saving to 5 ¼ inch floppy disks (sometimes to both sides)

I remember being staggered at how fast they were to load things having got used to loading from tape.

We need a proper grey beard icon -->

Totally Sardonic Bank: Well, it must be, to have a TITSUP* the same week as THAT report

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>The first guy Alain doesn't look real.

That sounds totally real to me. If you've ever got to know someone living with severe mental health problems then you'd know that sadly this is "normal" for many people.

UK public sector IT chiefs shrug off breach threats: The data we hold isn't that important

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IT Angle

Which is fine until the unpatched PACS system goes down...

(I'm agreeing with you, despite the snarky comment)

The medics' option of IT -->

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

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Re: Units

Wandering Poles? Isn't that why people voted for Brexit?

London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke'

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They didn't have Capita too?

What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over

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Re: The state of education in this country today!

"I was driving along the road and came across a sleeping policeman"

Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

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The almost cut throat competition between broadband rivals has meant faster speeds, improved coverage and lower prices for consumers up and down the country.

That's bollocks, for most of the country speeds are determined by whatever technology BT decides to give them. The competition pretty much decides who send you bills and who you shout at when it doesn't work.

Player three has entered Cray's supercomputing game: First AMD Epyc, now Fujitsu's Arm chips

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Re: Not even a codename

These computers take years to develop. Cray and competitors will have a huge amount of unreleased chips to play with and access to roadmaps and specifications that you and I would never be allowed to see.

They terrrk err jerrrbs! Vodafone replaces 2,600 roles with '600 bots' in bid to shrink €48bn debt

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Re: Divi's still flowing. The market is conned

you're right; it's not going to do much for the bot-tom line

Complete with keyboard and actual, literal, 'physical' escape key: Apple emits new 16" $2.4k+ MacBook Pro

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Re: More importantly...

I'm just off to get my seventeenth sleeve tattoo; I'll 'Gram it later

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

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Re: Sometimes it's fun, though....

I'm pleased you're proud of your work and didn't hide it...

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Re: food, farts, perfume\cologne... whatever

They've done this to Basel Airport too; but the one in Gatwick North is far, far worse.

That and the removal of the quiet area makes me want to fly with the expensive wannabe budget airline BA instead as Heathrow T5 is slightly less uncivilised </rant>

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Re: Eggs on a train?

>There should brie a banon french cheese puns at the least.

FTFY

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Re: Eggs on a train?

>Presumably jokes based on French puns will be banned after breggsixt.

We shell see

Boeing comes clean on parachute borkage as the ISS crew is set to shrink

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Re: UK Spaceports in Cornwall and Scotland?

Hey, don't Diss Norfolk...

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

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Re: Dartford Crossing

It's a very cool bridge, but is a massive bottleneck for trains (single track, low speed limit). Maybe it's time to build an alternative railway crossing and keep the Royal Albert Bridge for pedestrians etc.

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

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Re: It's about time patients got custody of their medical records

Personally, if I'm hit by a bus, I'd like the doctors etc to not have to get my explicit permission to see my records as I may not be in a position to authorise it.

150 infosec bods now know who they're up against thanks to BT Security cc/bcc snafu

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Re: Team size increases...

I CC what you did there

Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

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>Don't two minuses make a plus?

Sum-one will be along soon to say...

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Re: George 2+

Could you fill us in on the difference between the two commands? Are the numbers a job ID or some ICL command?

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Re: SCO Unix

Did everyone else use the new password afterwards?

237 UK police force staff punished for misusing IT systems in last 2 years

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A very good point. If you go here and sort by size then you'll see that Surrey are quite small (<10% of the Met).

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

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Re: Beautiful

In our Linux environment we give the users a pitifully low $HOME quote to encourage them to put data where other people in their team and/or project can get to it.

Dough! Jobs microsite for UK's data watchdog set hundreds of cookies without visitors' consent

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FAIL

Baking

Isn't it D'oh! - unless Homer has started baking his own bread...

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

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Was it the fright of your life?

Leeds IT bloke pleads guilty to hacking Jet2 CEO's email account

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Well that changes the Outlook...