Posts by Peter D

US court responds to Chinese comms giant sueball: There's no Huawei we're lifting ban on federal agencies using your kit

Why

Why why Huawei do you waste your time fighting this?

Samsung will be Putin dreaded Kremlin-approved shovelware on its phones, claims Russia

Russia is a piss poor market

I don't see why the likes of Samsung would pander to Rat faced Putin. Russia isn't a rich country and it's not a key market.

Crypto-upstart subpoenas Glassdoor to unmask ex-staff believed to be behind negative reviews. EFF joins the fray

Re: Kraken

The Streisand Effect in action. Do people never learn.

UK contractors planning 'mass exodus' ahead of IR35 tax clampdown – survey

Re: re: contractors are not prepared to be unfairly treated

In my last contract my gross day rate over a year was about £120,000 with no holiday pay, sick pay pension and I paid employer NI. I went permanent for £85,000 per year, 10% bonus, 5% profit share, 9% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, holiday pay and sick pay. To say contractors get paid double a permie is nonsense. I'm better off permanent with the same company I was at for two years as a contractor.

EU gets a bit STRESSED out about 5G: With great economic benefits come great security risks

Re: My poor kitty

The only thing that matters here is which of these state actors eats or condones the eating of cats.

My poor kitty

European governments are so shortsighted. With no warning the internet of things could come grinding to a halt at the behest of the Chinese. Across the land remotely controlled cat scratchers will cease to function properly and could, in a fully kitted out house, take part in the preparation of a wholly unacceptable meal involving my poor kitty in a tragically central role.

High Court dismisses nameless Google Right To Be Forgotten sueball man... yes, again

Re: If this who

"I think it might be, I am thinking cigarette lighter, 1990's, and Irish booze."

There's no injunction on naming this individual so just provide the full details to allow me to create a Wikipedia page.

Re: ABC v Alphabet

Google is entitled to argue a defence of it being in the public interest to keep the search results. What if the spent conviction was for criminal damage but the detail was arson and ABC wanted to start a property disposal firm?

ABC v Alphabet

How would Google know what to remove from it's search results if ABC won't give his name?

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

Re: Marx would be proud

"Labour literally don't understand that issuing bonds IS printing money"

They also don't realise that a publicly traded company like BT would have no interest in holding tens of billions of pounds in gilts. If even 20% of labour issued commie bonds were converted to useable cash the bond markets would be flooded to devastating effect. Of course, Labour would avoid that horror by nationalising companies with instruments which are not openly tradeable effectively just stealing corporate assets.

Feds indict 14 over alleged scheme to get Apple to replace fake iPhones with real ones

Genius

You have to be quite the genius to fool those Apple Geniuses for 8 years.

Apple blinks on iPhone repairs, touts parts program for independent tech mechanics... sort of

Apple will provide all the resources it provides to Apple Authorized Service Providers

A new insides for more than the cost of the thing.

Front-end dev cops to billing NSA $220,000 for hours he didn't work

Pretty crappy pay

I wouldn't get out of bed for that money. It's no wonder he scammed them.

Google's Fuchsia OS Flutters into view: We're just trying out some new concepts, claims exec

Re: A new OS from Google

They play a long game. Today it's two (3 now) but this time next year we could be looking at something altogether more devastating. 12, 13 or who knows what.

Poetic justice: Mum funnels £100 into claw machine to win single Dumbo teddy for her kid

There's a phrase invented for this woman

Silly cow.

Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info

why aren't expired passports valid proof of ID?

It is to limit the damage done by forgers overcoming security vulnerabilities in passports. As time progresses new printing technologies and RFID technology make newer passports much more difficult to forge. By only allowing unexpired passports you guarantee that proof of ID is accepted only using documents less than 10 years old.

US: We'll pull security co-operation if you lot buy from Huawei

Re: Do as I say...

It's all a pathetic game by the US government. Over twenty years ago I worked for two US equipment and software providers putting intercept equipment in Belgacom's infrastructure on behalf of US and UK authorities. We were collecting metadata before people knew what it was to DLT tape. The Germans were at, too. When Schengen came along the Schengen database people hired the same companies to do the same. Christ GCHQ can't walk by an undersea cable without bugging it. The US knows end to end encryption is the proper response and this ban the Chinese crap is nonsense.

Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth?

Re: Anonymous coward

"You can't be court ordered to lie in the US as that would violate the 1st amendment"

You can be ordered to not tell the truth either directly or indirectly. Surely, sometimes that leaves no option but to lie.

FBI for the Apple guy: Bloke accused of stealing robo-car tech

Re: Jobs is probably spinning in his grave at this...

"How the heck can you walk out with a server?"

Oh, I don't know. I'm told, but I've no way of confirming it, that dastardly fiends have found a way to virtualize them so you can send them on the interests. Damned Chinese.

UK.gov IT projects that are failing: Verify. Border control. 4G for blue-light services. We can go on

Re: £5.1 BILLION ?

The UK system is a much more capable system (well, hopefully) than the system being used in parts of Austria. It requires improvements to the EE infrastructure, bespoke handsets from Samsung and software services from Motorola. On paper it is very advanced and it will have hardly any reliance on drop in temporary infrastructure. The UK system has to operate 12 miles offshore.

DeepMind Health told to explain business model, relationship to Google

Targeted advertising

Who knows where this will end up? All I know is that ever since my eye surgery at the Royal Free I see Booking.com pop-ups every time I glance at a hotel. In itself that isn't so bad but poking my eye to dismiss the ad has given me pink eye.

Maplin shutdown sale prices still HIGHER than rivals

Re: Tandy it ain't

I gave up on Maplin when they stopped selling Ethernet cable by the metre with plugs so you could build the length you needed and were instead forced to buy vastly overpriced ready-made lengths.

"woah woah, slow down, it's not like online distributors dont have any costs. they still have staffing, warehouse, distribution, utilities, packing, support, management, marketing..."

Costs? Try renting a shop on the Strand then come back and talk about costs.