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Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

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Re: Best OS Ever

I used to turn on the Win2k[0] on XP and got the best of both worlds :)

[0] I can't recall the proper name for this...

Swiss electronic voting system like... wait for it, wait for it... Swiss cheese: Hole found amid public source code audit

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Better than in the UK...

....Where you turn up with a bit of paper and are then allowed to vote. According to the Guardian, it'd undermine democracy to demand ID whilst voting...

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Re: Swiss Miss

You've just reminded me of the Archer episode...

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Re: Are they going to vote on whether to adopt electronic voting?

Yes, just get everyone in the village square*, don't forget your sword to identify yourself...

*This is how Appenzell didn't allow women to vote until the 90s!!!!

NASA's crap infosec could be 'significant threat' to space ops

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Well Jupiter notebooks can be a PITA to secure...

Small Brit firms beg for 'light touch' as only half are ready for digital tax reforms due next month

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Ah the Enterprise Bus

That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-BILLION-plus?

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Mongo?

I know MongoDB is Webscale, but what benefit does it provide here? The data types don't change much and are easily normalised. Please someone fill me in!

Iranian-backed hackers ransacked Citrix, swiped 6TB+ of emails, docs, secrets, claims cyber-biz

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Re: Remote-desktop giant hacked using remote-desktop software?

Do you think they're trying to Metaframe someone?

Unless you want your wine bar to look like a brothel, purple curtains are a no-no apparently

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Re: Probably the word "bordello" that did it ...

It sounds a bit foreign to most Brits TBH...

'Java 9, it did break some things,' Oracle bod admits to devs still clinging to version 8

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Re: Java, meet Python

Do you have any other PERL6 of wisdom?

TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it's spamming my mates

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Re: Not even surprised

In Britain, most people base their choice of ISP on the basis of cost and not customer service or reliability. I guess the ISPs run on an incredibly tight shoestring, although some are worse than others. The ISPs on here that get recommended often eg Zen or A&A are more expensive for a reason.

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Re: ridiculous advice

I get 5-10 attachments per day in my work email*, oddly enough I don't ring the sender each time.

*This is despite having O365 and being massive SharePoint users

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A friend is a cop, they have encourage victims of harassment on social media to take a screenshot as it takes months and a lot of effort to get the data.

How to make people sit up and use 2-factor auth: Show 'em a vid reusing a toothbrush to scrub a toilet – then compare it to password reuse

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Re: I use the toilet line in my new starter training.....

Maybe the presentation's crap...

USB4: Based on Thunderbolt 3. Two times the data rate, at 40Gbps. One fewer space. Zero confusing versions

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Re: LumpSpeed

I bet that'd cost a packet

Armor Games admits all its users' deets slurped in database mega-hack as site moves to repair chink

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Re: Is that all I'm worth?

A errr Sane point

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Is that all I'm worth?

If $0.000002 is all I'm worth then I'm almost disappointed...

Prodigy dancer and vocalist Keith Flint found dead aged 49

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Re: Yawn.

Music today is really, really bland. We desperately need a “new” Prodigy, Nirvana etc. to shift things.

I’m also slightly afraid that when it comes I’ll be too old (arguably it’d be healthy for the music scene bald, approaching middle age, tubby IT geeks regard it as a terrible racket...)

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My cousin used to ride motorbikes in the same group, he always said that Keith was a lovely guy. Apparently he used to talk about the squirrels in his mum's garden a lot! This would have been at the time when the tabloids were in meltdown about the band :)

When the bits hit the FAN: US military accused of knackering Russian trolls, news org's IT gear amid midterm elections

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Big Brother

If the iPhone pushed some malware with a privilege escalation payload then yes.

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Re: Ban connecting iPhones to their PCs?

>I have seen several low budget Android devices that install unwanted apps and games without user intervention.

My Moto G6 came with LinkedIn and Outlook which you can't remove...

Only half joking though -->

It's not your imagination: Ticket scalper bots are flooding the internet according this 'ere study

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Re: Glastonbury got it right

How would they validate the original photo? There is no way I'd send a scan of my passport, driving licence etc. to a ticketing firm.

UK tech has a month left to bare gender pay gaps, but less than a fifth of firms have ponied up

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Re: This is the "pay gap" that ignores the job title right?

I just checked the Guardian, I was surprised that I didn't see an article about this.

I did however see "Why I backed a gender-fluid writer for a women’s fiction prize" which is pure Guardian.

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The widest disparity is at software and business services provider Agilisys Limited, where its median difference in hourly rate was 39.1 per cent.

If you get a female consultant from Agilisys do you get a 39% discount? Or why would anyone want to have a man from there?

Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it?

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Sold for £50, it probably cost less to make...

Trebles all round for the supplier -->

Danger mouse! Potent rodents 'see' infrared after eyeballs injected with nanoparticles

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I knew a lab where one of the lab members kept sheep and one of them happened to produce antibodies against one of the proteins of interest.

(this was quite a while ago, I have no idea if this would be in line with regulations these days)

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Re: Up to ten weeks

Injections to the eyeball probably aren't fun.

My company has drugs that need to be administered in that way and it make me cringe to think about it.

Sniff the love: Subaru's SUVs overwhelmed by scent of hair shampoo, recalls 2.2 million cars

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Re: the rear brake lights not illuminating.

That's brazen... Most BOFHs around here opt for a roll of carpet and quicklime...

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Another possibility?

Could the source of the silicone be... Bulgarian Airbags?

Silicone or leather? Who knows -->

The biggest uptick in demand for software devs by bosses is for... *rubs eyes* blockchain engineers?!?

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Re: I got interviewed to work as a blockchain engineer,,,

I'm too tired to bitcoin some more puns

I say, that sucks! Crooks are harnessing hoovers to clean out parking meters in Chelsea

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That joke sucked...

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

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Especially if they're a Maverick

Mine's the one with a pair of Aviators in the pocket -->

Hey mate, are you dense? Why, yes. Yes, I am, says the NAND in Micron's new client SATA SSD

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Re: 180TBW

Maybe we need to TRIM back our expectations...

IBM elects pirate-foiling Navy vet to board

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Pirate defeating

They should probably put her in charge of software licensing...

Bun fight breaks out after devs, techie jump ship: Bakery biz Panera sues its former IT crowd

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Oh, I just thought you were pleased to see me

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Re: For maximum profitability

Oh Jesus

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Another British invention that makes lots of money for other places... See also televisions, DNA sequencing, monoclonal antibodies....

After IBM SoftLayer fails to scrub bare-metal box firmware of any lurking spies, alarm raised over cloud server security

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And $CLOUD would also need to verify the open hard/firmware in the documentation is the same as what is delivered...

China's tech giants are a security threat to the UK, says Brit spy bigwig

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Re: Royal Navy Task Force

I wonder if my old Sea Scout group would be able to help out with a dinghy or two?

It all hinges on this: Huawei goes after Samsung with its own foldable hybrid Mate X

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Finally innovation

This looks like a big advance in mobile phones that will benefit people instead of the more RAM/Cores/megapixels that we've seen in decent years. I'm not saying I'd pay 2k+ for one; but I'd be more likely to spend a good chunk of cash on one than any of the current "flagships". Obviously, the tech has to work too :)

Blue Monday: Efforts to inspire teamwork with swears back-fires for n00b team manager

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Re: "Part of the training for new recruits was to muck in with any and all jobs ..."

A friend was on such scheme in finance for a very large drug firm and did exactly that. One day her colleagues found she was earning over twice as much as them for the same job and then pretty much shunned her.

Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2: Pitches AR goggles at suits

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Re: Creepy

Would it be too cynical to suggest that you'd need to buy a rather expensive SDK/whatever to get to "First Class Citizen status"? Certainly the MS of old would; hopefully the "new" one wouldn't be quite that bad.

As you were citizen... -->

Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

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Re: x86 is broken windows

That was Acorny joke...

Not so smart after all: A techie's tale of toilet noise horror

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Re: Musicians too

That doesn't sound the manner in which one should conduct oneself

HPE's cold storage digit: 2% growth better than a kick in the teeth – but it's no Dell EMC

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Those figures look a bit under 3par

Fancy a .dev domain? They were $12,500 a pop from Google. Now, $1,000. Soon, $17.50. And you may want one

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Re: daffyd.gay

Behave you two! It's not a .gaym

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Re: dot gay is for gays?

Takes one to know one ;)

BOFH: Bye desktop, bye desk. Hello tablet and a beanbag on the floor

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Charles Atlas, Gluten Gabber and Marco Polio

Love it!

One for Simon -->

You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly

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Re: will this comment be banned?

Good Godwin!

U wot, m8? OMG SMS is back from dead

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Re: Uptick in SMS messages

Or "We delivered it, please try to get to your dustbin before the dustman comes"