well, 'crap' is not an argument for advertising industry. Even a threat of their mass execution wouldn't be an argument, they'd already start with 'well, is the bullet OUR brand?!' They're worse than roaches, will beat them to the surface in the post-nuke world :/
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Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins
Logitech Pop: Stylish, portable, but far from the best typing experience
Finnish govt websites knocked down as Ukraine President addresses MPs
UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy
shape a new world order for data sharing across borders
as a meanigless pleb I would MUCH RATHER there was a free-trade agreement across borders than... this. The amount of hassle to send a simple (...) parcel to our friends in the EU is insane. Oh, and you can't send them chocolate either. Or perfume (Evil, evil eu ;) Well, brexit means...
Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server
International law enforcement op nukes Russian-language DoubleVPN service allegedly favoured by cybercriminals
The operation began in October last year,
it would be funny if it was actually a sting related to that major sting, i.e. when they busted that 'secure' comms channel a month or so ago. So, those that managed to evade desperately seek a new new to resume business and here's that cool, vpn service that's like, totally secure, man! :)
UK competition watchdog launches investigation into fake review epidemic across Google and Amazon
UK competition watchdog launches investigation
3035: a report has been issued by the UK competition watchdog that confirms what many have suspected for years, which others dismissed as fake news: fake review epidemic across Google and Amazon DOES exist! The watchdog has written to both companies requesting them to take decisive action. Both companies responded by issuing a statement that they already offer a robust mechanism to combat the relatively minor issue, which has resulted in 3.5M fake reviews removed; they have also promised to redouble their efforts to implement cutting-edge technology to continue their relentless fight against what they both claim is an "issue that, while affecting only a tiny percentage of our customers, does undermine their confidence in otherwise robust and effective vetting process". The UK watchdog has issued further statement in response to their statement that said it will monitor further developments in this field, while also issuing a further-further statement, that 'consumers must have confidence that online reviews are genuine and unbiased'.
Treaty of Roam finally in ashes: O2 cracks, joins rivals, adds data roaming charges for heavy users in EU
What job title would YOU want carved on your gravestone? 'Beloved father, Slayer of Dragons, Register of Domains'
Japan assembles superteam of aircraft component manufacturers to build supersonic passenger plane
Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive
fakespot
I must say, for the last couple of years, I put my faith in fakespot. Not 100% faith, but i'ts become my the main tool to weed out the usual culprits. Unfortunately, their business model has evolved to the point that they make their profit by - presumably - selling your shopping / browsing habits, i.e. no free checks for you, only a browser 'plug-in'. Which tells me exactly what I need to know about how they make their money. That said, it's hard to blame them, it's not like they're a rich Bezos-man giving away his fortune for free...
But I must say, without that tool, I've become quite hopeless against 4/5 and 5-star amazon reviews. I mean, sure, one way is to read the negatives, to spot a pattern (it's shite, stay away!), but - as with all things in life - valuable knowledge comes with effort and time. It's ok for higher value products, but not worth spending hours for cheap tat that is occasionally useful (bike lights, etc, etc.). I have taken to aliexpress instead, even with VAT added, cheap crap from China-land is still (up to) half-price cheaper than amazon. Although, recently, I got bike light packed mega-matroshka-style: FIVE grey bags in total...
G7 nations aim for global 15 per cent tax on big tech and bin digital services taxes
already hard at work on new schemes that get around the G7 proposal
Something tells me they're already several steps ahead, with plans B, C, D, and all the way down. Not that they have to hurry, given how long it's taken the G7 to come up with this plan (PLAN!). Before they implement it, before they realize they missed the new clever idea that's also, but of course, perfectly legit, before they decide to consider thinking about countermeasures...
Vote to turf out remainder of Nominet board looks inevitable after .uk registry ignores reform demands
Nigerian email scammer sent down for 40 months in the US, ordered to pay back $2.7m to victims
He is also likely to be deported since he came to America from Nigeria
I think by that time he'll have had time to reflect his chosen profession should be a Nigerian Prince aka US Soldier, based locally, i.e. away from the US justice. Unless the US start delivering US court orders on predator pylons ;)
Privacy purists prickle at T-Mobile US plan to proffer people's personal web, app pursuits to ad promoters
AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Verizon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
and when they do, it will go like this: AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Verizon take privacy of their customers extremely seriously to ensure their anonymity is protected. Next!
by the way, I assume that, by now, all the spokesperson functions have been outsourced to script-operated bots, and in that context they would fire 'irrelevant non-reply No 1" (No 1, cause it can be used in reply to majority of 'issues', ranging from 'hackers' customer data hack, to telcos' customer data hack. One answer to rule them all).
Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts
Re: Home Office's dream of a State ID Card would be a reality
it will become a reality. Have you heard about the latest and greatest idea of a photo-ID for elections, as per 2023? Despite having negligible proof of election fraud, this is being pushed as, wait for this:
“a reasonable way to combat the inexcusable potential for voter fraud in our current system and strengthen its integrity”, and that the “overwhelming majority”
This says everything about the mindset of our Glorious Leadership, i.e. INEXCUSABLE POTENTIAL. I mean, think of all them Russian trolls potentially turning up IN PERSON, and trying to pass for thousands, millions of law-abiding citizens and derail our world-class democratic system. You wouldn't want that, would you, sir, madam?! No, what am I thinking! - it's the age of digital, they can't turn up in person, sillybilly, they will - potentially - pay each of those thousands of desperate Brits so much (each) that they they will risk committing that fraud, again, and again, and again (after all, how many times can you turn up in one day to vote for somebody else?). The danger is REAL, comrades, the threat is HERE!!!!
FortressIQ just comes out and says it: To really understand business processes, feed your staff's screen activity to an AI
Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 8: No boundaries were pushed in the making of this laptop – and that's OK
Support for SD and MicroSD would have also been nice
sd/micro sd slot has been, in my view, one of the most useful laptop add-ons, and while I don't use it as much as keyboard, and screen, I use it regularly. Which means, this machine is useless to me. Yeah, I can use a usb port for a card reader, sure, but that' not the f... polint. So, what next, remove line-in jack?
UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court
Now countries have to figure out what to do
follow Russia's examples, with a cherry on top, i.e. some mumble-mumble upon how we will study the ruling in detail and 5 sec later the great (British) public will have forgotten about the whole issue, and what can the little fuckers do about it anyway. Rant on the reg, let them, proves democracy works!
Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs
Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea
5 violent burglars on a BBC one programme yesterday and they all had "the look@
I share the view that there are people you meet first time, passing, etc, and your internal bell just rings for no apparent reason (sometimes quiet, but persistent, background noise to be weary). On one hand, I'd love to see research into this and intuition as well, on the other hand, re. research results, I hear this quiet, but persistent, background noise that tells me the outcome won't be used for anything good.
As to mugshots shown on media though, I'd be VERY careful. Whoever is paraded for a mugshot opportunity, they won't be in a good mood, and our own bias tells us that they must be bad, bad people. And even if they grin stupidly (because one moment they were having a good night's sleep, the next they found themselves in a police cell and what the f... just happened?!) to us they're not just bad, they're evil monster with an evil grin, etc. Media illustrate text with a shot that is put there to reinforce the message, which is manipulation, but there's hardly any news that isn't.
Scottish biz raided, fined £500k for making 193 million automated calls
Your ugly mug may be scanned yet again – but at least you'll be able to board faster at Gatwick
Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs
One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
re. SAS Survival Handbook, this was one of the first books I bought when I came to the land of the free (as it was). To paraphrase, no one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that a book bought off a high street would land me in jail, in the same country, 25 years later. And then, when I think of all the stuff we used to hover off the internets... those manuals to fly passanger jets, terrorists cookbooks and "how to make a better M-coctail", and what not... With proper incentive, I could be locked away for life...
The only hope is that, by the time the law becomes law, there won't be any plods left to actually round people up. Anyway, what I was going to say was:
Long live democracy! Long live freedom of speech!! Long live Our Glorious Leader!!!
We did Nazi see this coming... Internet will welcome Earth's newest nation with, sigh, a brand new .SS TLD
I find it puzzling
if not deeply disturbing, that a piece on nazi / ss domain future is drawing more commentardation than the usual suspects, i.e.
- apple / iphone / screen / charger / customer service / is shit / ripoff / apple fanbois suck
- google is evil / shit
- facebook / Zuckerberg is shit
- Windows 10 is shit (likewise, Office, etc.)
followed, by, much less frequently:
- amazon is evil (they exploit people and don't pay taxes and we love them)
- ebay is evil (they exploit bots and don't pay taxes)
- wikipedia masters are evil scumbags sponsored by shady deep pockets (choose from the list above / below),
- mozilla is run by evil lizards intent on destroying our ways
(all true, more or less)
Alternatively, SS goes along nicely with, er... Friday?
...
ok, vaguely on the subject: a "war" movie, Der Hauptmann...
Dutch cops hope to cuff 'hundreds' of suspects after snatching server, snooping on 250,000+ encrypted chat texts
Google logins make JavaScript mandatory, Huawei China spy shock, Mac malware, Iran gets new Stuxnet, and more
UK.gov to press ahead with online smut checks (but expects £10m in legals in year 1)
re. it could cost up to £10m in the first year alone
well, with BREXIT dividend (very soon, hurrah!), it'd take... lemmethink.... 350 million per week that's got to be... no more than a couple of hourse. Yeah, we can afford it! And the benefit is priceless: eternal bliss knowing that our children are safe. Fuck yeah!
UK space comes to an 'understanding' with Australia as Brexit looms
Re: RE: Banging your fist on the table and talking tough
remember the cousin's advice:
"speak softly and carry a big stick
Unfortunately, in this case, it's the EU side that's been implementing this policy (because they can). And it has been painful to watch UK's puffing and huffing when both sides know _exactly_ there's no ace up UK's sleeve. No ace, no stick, nothing. Other than the gentlemanly message from the highest echelons of British establishment: FUCK YOU, WE'RE NOT PAYIN' THAT BILL! And you're no better than Soviets anyway, so yes, fuck you!
But... no stick, so it's easy to guess what the EU side says quietly to that.
Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks
Google risks mega-fine in EU over location 'stalking'
Time to party like it's 2005! Palm is coming BAAAA-ACK
Emma's Diary fined £140k for flogging data on over a million new mums to Labour Party
Game over for Google: Fortnite snubs Play Store, keeps its 30%, sparks security fears
Y'know... Publishing tech specs may be fair use, says appeals court
It walks, it talks, it falls over a bit. Windows 10 is three years old
No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?
re. why are you holding your phone like that?
you might laugh, I might quote the beeb:
"It can be how quickly do you type the keys, are you holding the device in your right or left hand. How an individual uses a device acts as a second layer of identity and a different kind of fingerprint."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44438808
Think BIG (data!) Think all the TERRORISTS we can catch now (which politician's not going to bite this!), because we know that when they hold their phone with their right hand, they tilt it at this unique angle. Think of the CHILDREN too (Crapita certainly does!). Is your dahling really working hard with that pen, or is he / she dicking around, literally? There's an app to verify that (soon, if not yet).
p.s. is the way you're holding your phone covered by the GDPR? Spooks and your local council don't want to know, they already do.
UK privacy watchdog to fine Facebook 18 mins of profit (£500,000) for Cambridge Analytica
Re: fucking useless cunts
but we're toothless sir, we're lame, don't blame us, guv, blame the... ehm... take a guess.
And once you found the oh-so-f-obvious-answer, ask yourself "why"? And once you found the oh-so-f-obvious-answer to "why?", ask yourself "what can I do about it?" And once you found the oh-so-f-obvious answer (democracy, blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah) - don't you even DARE thinking about alternative solutions, cause those you put in the comfy chair, will do _exactly_ the same.
Audi chief exec arrested over Dieselgate car emissions scandal
Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin
BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose
Techies building UK web smut age check tools: You'll get a spec next week
We all hate Word docs and PDFs, but have they ever led you to being hit with 32 indictments?
The Reg visits London Met Police's digital and electronics forensics labs
biometric data? people who have been convicted of crime?!
"If they are not, then the data is not retained."
?!
I was under the impression the current state of affairs is that such data for people NOT convicted of crime SHOULD NOT be retained, but IS RETAINED and it is EXTREMELY HARD to get it removed, and the good old plod DON'T HAVE to remove it, even when there's no conviction?
TalkTalk banbans TeamTeamviewerviewer againagain
apparent scammers pretending to be TalkTalk representatives and trying to fool users
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