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We(don't)Work: Rent-a-desk outfit cuts 2,400 staff in bid to be a functioning business

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Re: Another one bites the dust

Apart from the fact SoftBank seem to be trying to a company hemorrhaging money to one that makes a profit.

Crazy in these times I know, trying you know, not rely on handouts by rich dumb "investors".

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

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Come the revolution...

We're going to need a big wall.....

Social media exec's, advertising exec's, lawyers, patent trolls.....

You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots

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Every IKEA store is laid out in exactly the same format, Showrooms for each room in the house, then the restaurant, then the marketplace (small items, eg glasses, cutlery etc), then you go either down or up to the warehouse, then the tills.

Sorry, that's wrong. For starters Wendesbury one has the Restaurant joint first on your right or the showrooms to the left or slightly right to kids section. Then downstairs to marketplace, warehouse and tills.

Been a while but pretty sure Coventry is different to how you describe as well.

We're so, so, sorry you're not able to get PC chips, says Intel to everyone who hasn't gone with AMD yet

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PC World...

I literally nearly passed out* when I saw cpcw advertising Ryzen laptops on the TV the other day.

* This apparently is how you are supposed to say "slightly surprised" on social media these days.

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Yeah, that way you can get the best out of USB3 and SSDs....oh wait.

The lure of Brexit Britain proves too great for DevOps pipeline wrangler CircleCI

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Re: Alternatively...

I agree. Brexit most won't make a huge difference to them. It's not as if they are exporting physical goods and the chances are all sales will go through some back channel and they will only be licensing IP at 110% of turnover.

Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

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Re: ?

Is this the same US "conduct of interest" where the over seer of Comms is a ship and the President has the military stay at his Golf courses?

Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket

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The stupid thing..

Is there are a stack of quality, easy to use, free editing tool avaibke on most platforms.

Pack your bags, you're going to America, Lord Chief Justice tells accused Brit hacker

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Re: Sentences

You also forget that solitary confinement is often nothing to do with a crime, but for the protection of the prisoner.

Vulnerable prisoners, or those deemed at risk of attack from others are often place in solitary.

Something tells me, it could well be the later with him.

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Re: He's screwed

The other fucked up part of the US system is it's Cash bail system. The better off get to go home, the poor sit in cess pit prisons, regardless of how petty the crime they may or may not of commited.

Don't even start me on poor man drugs Vs rich man drugs sentencing laws.

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Re: Odd thought

Remove the death penalty and you may get some more sent to the US.

'Big Bang': Great for creating the universe, but not as an approach to IT migration, TSB told

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I got sick and tired of telling managers and directors that the timescale isn't long enough and there will be problems.

Usual response is, "we've agreed it with our clients" or "our 3rd party support says it's ok".

Then when the go live is a complete cluster fuck, it's everyone else's fault.

Oh they really don't like the "told you so" statement.

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

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Looking at that job title...

Couldn't they have shortened it to Chief Creative Accounting Officer?

American telcos get 90 days to wrap up deals with, er, dangerous Chinese supplier – that's Huawei the news goes

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Re: "to be ignored on this point by actually democratic countries"

Not sure where you heard that l, but it's Germany that's been pressing for sanctions against Hungary and Poland.

"BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday the European Union should cut funding and impose sanctions on members which pass laws that contravene core EU principles.....countries like Romania, Hungary and Poland received more EU funding than they provided, so curtailing that could provide important leverage. "

Source

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-europe-sanctions/german-minister-urges-sanctions-on-eu-members-flouting-principles-idUSKCN1R22PV

London has decent 5G availability but speeds lag behind Birmingham and Cardiff – research

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Because as far as I can see,vyou need 5g for self driving cars (they still won't work in fig, rain or roads with poor markings), turning a light at home on, world peace and flying rainbow coloured unicorns.

Physicists are rather giddy after creating a rare type of laser using laughing gas

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Meanwhile...

There is no way I could be doing 185mph in my car, it's only a 1ltr. What....yeah these massive Nitro cylinders in my car? They are for a laser officer,honest.

Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors

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Re: Meanwhile, ten days ago on Schneier on Security

To me that just looks like the standard permission requirements for 99.99% of apps on Google Play.

Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware

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Re McLaren

You may want to check the dates in the articles. 2016 and 2017 are hardly breaking news.

Denial of service kingpin hit with 13 months denial of freedom and a massive bill to pay

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Re: Catholic Diocese DDoS?

Doesn't that make it a DoDS?

Huawei's first Google-free phone stripped and searched: Repair not too painful... once you're in

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Maybe because Linux phones have been a complete flop. People still want apps they can use.

This November, give thanks for only having one exploited Microsoft flaw for Patch Tues. And four Hyper-V escapes

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Just in time to buy Intel's latest processor.

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Re: WTF Intel?

It's a catch 22. You either patch at one time and hope you don't have to play guess the culprit or, you spend most of the month constantly patching.

Whichever you pick, at some point, you will lose.

Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked

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Re: *sigh*

@cybergibbons.

A rooted phone is not necessarily more secure. However given Android's shonky method of updating combined with many manufacturers apathy, it is almost a given that at some point your phone will no longer receive patches.

With a rooted phone, most are running custom ROMs that are maintained and updated regularly.

Icahn smell money! Corporate raider grabs $1.2bn of HP stock to push for Xerox merger

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Re: Icahn is a D!ck

You've just summed up most of the US car industry.

It's why they fail so badly outside the US. Yes they are cheap, but they are utter crap. Why buy a US car, when you can buy, say, Korean for the same price, but with much better build quality, reliability and warranties.

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

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Re: No, the UK was never in the running

Germany is the centre of manufacturing in Europe.

Yeah, if you exclude companies such as VW, BMW and Porsche who use parts from outside Germany.

They terrrk err jerrrbs! Vodafone replaces 2,600 roles with '600 bots' in bid to shrink €48bn debt

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Re: 2600 people to 600 bots

You clearly have no idea on the costs of licensing.

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Re: €48.1bn??

It....is.

Judge shoots down Trump admin's efforts to allow folks to post shoddy 3D printer gun blueprints online

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Re: Why a 3D printed gun?

Maybe something to do with those not allowed to purchase a gun? I know it's a small minority in some states, but there you go.

Bloodhound rocket car target of 550mph put on ice after engine overheat

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Re: Dear AC

Just like doing 100mph was once also a crazy and dangerous thing to do not that long ago.

And an arbitrary number??? Maybe 962.54 is better?

Surveillance kit slinger accused of slapping 'Made in America' on Chinese gear, selling it to the US government

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Made In

Yeah, we mark engine components with Made In Germany and Made in USA on them.

They just add some tiny detail and there you go made in XYZ...

This may shock you but Adobe is shipping insecure software. No, it's not Flash this time. Nope, not Acrobat, either

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Finally the proof!

After all these years, we have the proof....that their engineering teams have simply user Best Practice as written in the Adobe Manuals.

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

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Re: Ring mains surely?

To put London Vs Birmingham (sorry Solihull)... prices in context.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73790749.html#_full-description

GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security'

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Megaphone

Why not just get it done with.

Start a war with Vietnam and Korea, make "Negro's" sit at the back of the buses, show reruns of Duck and Cover and Trump change his surname to McCarthy and then finally he will of Made AMERICA* Great Again!

*There is only one America and that's the USA, the rest are just commie murdering rapists.

Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget

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Re: How is the device added...?

Not sure why you have received down votes for asking a simple question HOW?

Now for all we know there may some leakage going on that exposes user name and password, maybe a buggy app (anyone using PrimeMusic offline will know what a piss poor excuse of an app that is), someone on the inside addinh the accounts, some shit dev living it all exposed on a cloud server somewhere, or even some dodgy JavaScript that is ripping info.

Until they trace, it could well be compromised user info.

The .amazon argy-bargy is STILL going on – and Uncle Sam has had enough with ICANN

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Mushroom

Here's a crazy bat shit idea...

Neither of them can have it.

Solved.

Now fuck off and do some real work.

Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)

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Google won't sell your data...

We'll leave that to Alphabet....

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Re: Google promises...

Is an Apple watch really any better for privacy?

Ask yourself this....which one is an advertising company disguised as a tech company?

Apple don't sell your info, there is nothing in it for them.

So think, which is the lesser of two evils?

From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap

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Really

by the world's greatest privacy violator in the history of mankind, AKA Facebook," ..

....

Whilst posting on LinkedIn, the 2nd largest...

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

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Joke

Now we know....

What happened to all of Bill Clinton's Whitehouse staff...

Europe's digital identity system needs patching after can_we_trust_this function call ignored

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Re: "All a bit complicated"

No the UK system is so much less complicated.

Just get the form from the Post Office (if you can find one), fill it out in Black ink...post it, wait 6 weeks, phone up (9am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday, excluding lunch times) to see where the document is, be told they have sent it, wait another 6 weeks, phone back up, be told they never received it after all. Get another form, repeat. Now once you finally receive the documents, you can apply for part two.

Up in the heir: Inheritors enduring huge delays after botched migration at UK probate service

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Missing but. from quote

"HMCTS to reduce the backlogs and create a probate service fit for the 21st century....We hope to complete this by the time Buck Rogers passes away"

Q3, phone home: Guess who's run Huawei with China's domestic smartphone market?

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Eh?

"...citizens to buy Chinese goods, but judging by the smartphone numbers at least, that isn't the case"

That doesn't make sense.

The main players including Apple have ALL fallen, but Huawei have increased. The last time I checked, Huawei ARE a Chinese company.

What a bunch of dopes! Fancy Bear hackers take aim at drug-testing orgs

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Kudos for that mention. Happy days in sweaty venues to that pair

TV USA was my anthem at a former workplace.

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Re: Not surprised that these crackers are aligned with those cheaters

I didn't know Lance Armstrong was Russian....

Doping in sports has been going on for centuries, but all nations and individuals alike. It's no worse now under Putin than any other president.

Aw, bad day at your air-conditioned, somewhat clean desk? Try shifting a 40-tonne fatberg

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Re: Other places...

No they happen in the US as well. You also have to remember, many of the sewers, especially in London were built with populations far smaller in mind that now.

Many issues could be easily solved by banning wipes that don't degrade in a typical flush.

As I told a soon to be dad, if it's made by Johnson and Johnson, you probably don't need it.

Come on, you can't be serious: Now Australia mulls face-recog tech for p0rno site age checks

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Soooo...

.....does this mean we SHOULD be buying Chinese made Huawei hardware now?

I'm so confused now.

Remember the big IBM 360 mainframe rescue job? For now, Brexit has ballsed it up – big iron restorers

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MAN Trucks have a plant in Nuremberg..m

...maybe they know someone that can help?

Huawei with you! FCC's American Pai proposes rip-and-replace of scary Chinese comms kit

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Easy, they will create another security scare to block any other competitors hardware as well.

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Re: Shop Local

Odd, could swear blind I'm working on sio called USA engines right now here in the heart of rural England.

We're also about to start making V8's for another all American company.

Got to love marketing to the masses.

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

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Maybe you should invest in some heating then.