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Blundering London council emails unredacted version of notorious Gangs Matrix to 44 people. Data ends up on Snapchat

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Re: Hopefully a few of the gangs will now dispose of their enemies

It almost sounds like the way corporate mergers and acquisitions happen; or Murders and Executions as Patrick Bateman would say...

Trend Micro antivirus fails to stop measles carrier rubbing against firm's Ottawa offices

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Re: get your Morissette meter tingling

It's also twenty-five years to the day that Kurt Cobain died...

Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space

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Re: *BEER* shouldn't be 'cold cold'

Cheers -->

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Re: *BEER* shouldn't be 'cold cold'

The best houseshare I had when younger had two fridges, one at 0-5c for meat & milk; the other at 12-14c for ale

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Re: *BEER* shouldn't be 'cold cold'

Where are you Olivier?

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Re: A modern twist

I had to Google to work out how to shut a Windows 8 PC down.

I work in supercomputing...

Prince Harry takes a stand against poverty, injustice, inequality? Er, no, Fortnite

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Re: Eton Fees

Yes, ElReg Eton Messed that up

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Re: Harry is getting a little preachy about this stuff.

Don't forget the fox to "accidentally" chase

Two Arkansas dipsticks nicked after allegedly taking turns to shoot each other while wearing bulletproof vests

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Re: Definite Darwin Award winner in the making

I can't believe they didn't try Thoughts And Prayers?

Hands up who can tell me which pupil details transfer system has glitched. Yes, Capita's

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If this bug happens to be similar to the one in 2017 then won't potentially email a pupil's details to the wrong parents make the school liable to being clobbered by GDPR (for no fault of their own)?

Not so fast AI Doctor, the FDA would like to check how good you really are at healthcare

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Re: Fundamental disconnect

I'm involved on the periphery of clinical trials. We tend to distrust pretty much any readout that relies on human judgement; however often there is no alternative. For example if you're looking at a MS patient's movements and video someone touching their nose (one of the tests in clinical use) it's hard to get two humans to agree on how well a patient does it.

Google UK forks out £65m tax in 2018, a boost of 40% on previous year

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During 2018, all of the piles work had been completed

Didn't they try the cream first?

Just the small matter of the bill for scrapping Blighty's old nuclear submarines: It's £7.5bn

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Re: Plymouth?

The article says

The National Audit Office's (NAO) latest report into British nuclear submarine storage and disposal revealed that nine of the 20 vessels moored at Devonport and Rosyth dockyards still contain spent nuclear fuel.

If they were defueled then the risk would be much lower (as you say) from a radiological point of view. Having decaying ships & subs so near to where people live isn't a good thing, they leak all the time. The non-radioactive materials are also a risk here (PCBs, asbestos etc.)

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Alternatively

We could just sell the subs to the Canadians...

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It's in Plymouth, so probably improve it

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to make things more (nu)clear

If El Reg would have added the word strategic to the sentence then it would have been correct.

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Plymouth?

Having a load of defunct and decaying submarines in the centre of a major city really isn't very clever.

What we hope doesn't happen -->

And here's Intel's Epyc response: Up-to 56-core, 4GHz 14nm second-gen Xeon SP chips, Agilex FPGAs, persistent mem

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Re: dozens of cores and oodles of memory...

The article says Intel are claiming hardware fixes. Although, there are probably more vulnerabilities yet to surface.

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Memory bandwidth

There doesn't appear to be a significant increase in memory bandwidth, it'd be interesting to see if the massive core count translates into good throughput in real applications. There's also a high likelihood that network, storage etc. will just become more of a bottleneck.

Bring on the benchmarks :) -->

No Widevine DRM for you! Developer left with two years of work stymied by Google snub

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DRM alternative

What about a video at the start of every film warning of the consequences of piracy.

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Re: Not a monopoly, honest...

Exactly what I was thinking. Facebook already has "Watch Parties"

NPM clings to its cuddly image – as senior staff vote with their feet: Now longtime product boss quits JS package biz

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Turner said she owed people that she hired honest feedback, open communication, support toward success, and, if necessary, dismissal in a way that's humane. The company's recent actions, she said, have made it impossible for her to carry out those responsibilities.

She sounds like the kind of manager I'd like to work for.

Amazon consumer biz celebrates ridding itself of last Oracle database with tame staff party... and a Big Red piñata

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Very true, MariaDB seems to have quite a small mindshare though.

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I can't imagine the competition authorities around the world would allow this. (Although I'd have said the same about MySQL)

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Re: Sale of the Century

What Libre Office lacks are the collaboration tools that companies need. This is where MS Office, Google Doc etc. are way ahead.

Someone please feel free to leap in if I'm wrong :)

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Re: AWS Postgres Aurora....

Goodbye old vendor lock in, hell new vendor lock in...

Good news, Man City fans: You can watch your team lose the title in on-demand 3D

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But football (both American and soccer)

Heathen.

Don't be an April Fool: Update your Android mobes, gizmos to – hopefully – pick up critical security fixes

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Re: All done

What would actually be newsworthy would be if non-Google Android phones got patched when they're more than a month or two old.

Naming your company 101: Probably best not to have the word 'Oracle' anywhere near branding

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Re: Eh?

The ruling was unopposed, so I guess it was disregarded...

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If such a change isn't made, then the adjudicator, who was in this case Susan Eaves, will determine a new company name.

That sounds like a fun job... A virtual beer for the commentard who suggests the best -->

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Re: Lack of detail?

One could argue that Oracle101 is similar to Oracle 10.1 which is one of their products.

I assume that potential customers of the Oracle database would be able to know the difference between the two though.

It was all Yellow: Mass email about a Coldplay CD breaks the internet

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Re: music-for-people-who-don't-like-music

Can U2 think of another frontman like that?

Citrix mysteriously quiet amid whisperings of senior layoffs: Executives, teams logged out, it is claimed

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Re: Shamed out the door ? Really ?

Exactly, Americans also need to worry about losing their health insurance.

Judge puts the $5bn question to HPE: Who else apart from Lynch and Hussain were in on this alleged fraud?

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Re: What a ridiculous procedure and process.

There has been talk for years of removing the jury from complex fraud trials because most of the arcane accounting concepts are beyond most people. Also, having people taken away from their jobs for six months isn’t really good.

IT meltdown bank TSB: It's as good a week as any to announce we're taking back control

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Re: Closing High Street branches

I opened my current account seven years ago, that remains the only time I've been in the branch...

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Re: Migration

We had a very complex building move (ie robotics and some the kit in the building is bigger than a house). The head of the unit decided to "motivate" them to do it correctly by moving in first...

Leaky Martin will be livin' la vida lockdown: Ex-NSA bod cops to taking home 'up to 50TB' of hush-hush dossiers

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Martin's lawyers, meanwhile, have argued that Martin's actions were the result of mental illness that caused him to become a hoarder, and that the contractor never meant to put classified documents in the hands, or at least in reach, of America's enemies.

It really annoys me that lawyers try to pin things on the mental health of the accused. It just creates stigma for the vast bulk of mentally ill people who are law-abiding .

Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?

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Re: Building dust

Was that a router or a router that died?

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Re: The "stiffy" problem

Did you tell him to use his head?

Cops use bread and riot shields in desperate bid to contain crazed swan running amok in streets

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Re: Bread and riot shields...

I thought most of the pro-brexiteers were swanning off abroad

Brit broadband giants slammed as folk whinge about crap connections, underwhelming speeds

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Re: Recommendation for a cheap, but decent provider

TBH I don't know what the problem is (I'm in a different country). But everything appears to have stopped working properly after Plusnet halved her speed.

As I mentioned she's on disability benefits and doesn't have much spare cash (or else I'd be recommending A&A etc.)

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Recommendation for a cheap, but decent provider

I've been asked to recommend someone a decent ISP in the UK. Plusnet have halved her speed (headline, apparently Netflix and Skype are poor in reality). She's very price sensitive as she's on disability benefits and has been summonsed to an assessment which suggests they might be cut. Any advice gladly received. She earns just enough to not qualify for any help with costs.

SoftIron's strategy to bring Ceph storage to the masses: 'A really, really sh*tty computer'...

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Re: cooling the drives first

I imagine it'd make swapping the discs a lot harder.

100MW bit barn farm in Ireland faces planning appeal from – yep – same guy who helped sink Apple's application

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Echelon?

To me, Echelon makes me think of the Five Eyes organisation; maybe not a name association that the company wants...

FAANGs for the memories: Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when

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In the US at least, here in Switzerland we only have Netflix.

NASA's first all-woman spacewalk outside ISS cancelled – due to lack of spacesuits that fit

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Re: Cue ...

They'd be making tits of themselves

Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress

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Re: Vegans around the world

Criticising vegans? Prepare to meat your maker...

Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y'know

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Re: Not a nuclear scientist here...

You mean Brits wouldn't be able to get to Facebook any more? :-o

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Re: With a big enough laser

Oh yes you do... You need to mutate those sea bass somehow

Techies take turns at shut-down top trumps

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Re: Moving disks caused outage

A true brown out