Re: China is not the world
The highest mortality rate is observed not in China, not in Iran, but in Italy - close to 5%. So pollution probably helps.
Posts by Danny Boyd
245 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Feb 2017
Resellers facing 'months' of delays for orders to be fulfilled. IT gathers dust on docks as coronavirus-stricken China goes back to work
Gartner vision quest sees Microsoft, Google and IBM nipping at Amazon Web Services' heels in cloud AI
Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI
Oh good, the FTC has discovered acqui-hires... American watchdog to probe decade of Big Tech takeovers
Is Chrome really secretly stalking you across Google sites using per-install ID numbers? We reveal the truth
The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment
Relying on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mob US to protect you from SIM swapping? You better get used to disappointment
Tuesday 14th January 2020 22:27 GMT
Re: Carriers will not change unless forced to
Somebody should explain to the carriers that the only thing they need to do to solve this problem is to stop accepting SIM switch requests by phone. No additional costs involved, and they are all white and fluffy, and can scream about it in their advertisements. Profit!
Lenovo unfolds time frame for bendy ThinkPad: Pricey Windows PC out in summer '20
Tuesday 14th January 2020 21:42 GMT
Re: re: Folding tablet
X220 was the last known good X series Thinkpad. Still very decent keyboard, built like a tank, fully repairable and upgradeable, i7. Bought it refurbished for $160, spent another $150-160 on upgrades (added SSD, upgraded HDD, added RAM), and voila - best machine for my purposes for under $500. Use it extensively for five years already and expect to use it at least another 10.
Multiply it by 2, as I got two of them - for my wife and for myself.
X230 and after - don't even bother. Keyboard (famous Thinkpad keyboard!) devolved to total crap, to begin with. Also unreliable. Bought new X230 for my wife, and she had a year of pain running to the repair shop now and then, until I ran into those refurbished X220s.
Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency
Monday 13th January 2020 21:48 GMT
A joke I heard 20 years ago
A COBOL programmer got rich in the end of 20th century, fixing the Y2K bugs in various systems. He decided to spend his money on trip to the future, and bought deep-freeze sleep until the year 100000.
He awoke, surrounded by people in white gowns, and asked: "Wow, is it year 100000?" One of the doctors said: "No, actually, we had to wake you up earlier. You see, it's year 9999, and we found your CV, it says you know COBOL...?"
What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal
Hold my Bose, we can do premium: Sennheiser chucks pricey wireless cans at travellers
Monday 23rd December 2019 15:53 GMT 
I have Sennheiser PXC 550
Bought it when we were moved to "open space" setting. Awesome cans!
1. Great noise cancellation, works with or without music input.
2. Good battery life, lasts the whole working day or two.
3. Bluetooth plus audio jack (cable included).
4. Micro USB I use for charging only, and the cable is included, so I frankly see no diff, micro or C.
5. Sound quality is great.
6. EXTREMELY comfortable, you might forget you're wearing the headphones.
7. The price... Well, you don't buy these things every day, and anyway, retaining sanity is worth it.
It's cool for Brit snoops to break the law, says secretive spy court. Just hold on while we pull off some legal jujitsu to let MI5 off the hook...
Alphabet, Apple, Dell, Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries, human-rights warriors claim
Tuesday 17th December 2019 17:48 GMT
Re: Those kids would starve without work
Extreme poverty is too abstract to attack. And besides, attacking extreme poverty you have to be constructive, e.g., propose a solution. It's too difficult and requires significant brain power (which is, alas, ...). Much easier to attack the companies (rich bastards, them!) consuming the end product.
Why not attack the consumers who buy the cobalt-containing stuff? Simple. They're not individually rich and they're NUMEROUS, so if they all tell you to GFYS, it'll resonate.
Stop us if you've heard it before but... Africa's internet management body mired again by corruption allegations
Tuesday 17th December 2019 17:48 GMT
Corruption?
Well, rather a bare necessity. You see, Afrinic execs are constantly ripped off trying to help out some Nigerian prince-in-exile or stranded Nigerian cosmonaut or whatever (the guy is a compatriot, so he wouldn't lie, right?). The salary just doesn't cover that. Blame the government for insufficient wages for execs.
Someone get Greenpeace on the line. Boffins clock carbon 'pollution' cloud 30,000 light-years wide choking galaxies
Deadly 737 Max jets no longer a Boeing concern – for now: Production suspended after biz runs out of parking space
Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired
These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots
Where's our data, Google? Chrome 79 update 'a catastrophe' for Android devs with WebView apps
No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again
Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn't blame US
Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption ...that the Feds and cops can break, say senators
Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads
IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundation link arms to fight patent trolls with 'multimillion' scheme
We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune
What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges
Huawei. It's the patriotic choice: Mobe behemoth predicts 20% sales spike despite US sanctions
GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security'
DoHn't believe the hype! You are being lied to by data-hungry ISPs, Mozilla warns lawmakers
That's not long division, Timmy! China school experimented on pupils with mind-reading tech
Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)
Euro competition chief mulls forcing tech giants to prove their actions aren't harming market
Thursday 31st October 2019 21:31 GMT 
What a great idea!
Excellent idea but rather limited in scope at the moment. But it's a good start - big companies for now, small companies later, and soon private citizens will have to prove to the police they didn't do _something_ illegal _sometime_, or their _intended_ actions won't be illegal _somehow_.
My, that Orwell guy thought he depicted a totalitarian society. Hah!
Senators Wyden and Warren sic trade lapdog on AWS over Capital One hack culpability
Friday 25th October 2019 09:55 GMT 
"...The SSRF technique used in this incident was just one of many subsequent steps the perpetrator followed..."
Right. And if AWS pulled its thumb out and implemented the SSRF protection (in five years, for goodness' sake!), the perpetrator would not make this step and all "subsequent" after it. The lady is accused of 30 more data thefts - all from AWS buckets. Their owners also misconfigured their firewalls, I presume.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
