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UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill

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Re: Easy or Expensive?

Many charities will take second hand electrical goods, but many also don't. Easy way to check is to see if they are selling any. This is because smaller ones tend to need someone in house to do it, larger ones often get sent to sorting warehouses.

None will take furniture without fire safety labels.

Many think charity shops are a place to dump broken and useless items. My mum used to work in a charity shop for the local hospital and you'd get soiled clothes, including underwear, smashed crockery, toys with parts missing and other useless junk, all because people think they can somehow sell it, or can't be bothered to go to the tip and like to pretend they are doing good.

Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

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Two Words to sum this up.

They are

Fuck

& Off

Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset

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If any of the servers are in the UK...

An offence is being commited.

If they take an image and copy it to their systems, technically that could come under making an indecent image (downloading or saving in anyway is classed as making).

If they then create a new image, that is production of an indecent image.

If that is then passed onto a third party, then that becomes distribution.

The UK law is very clear, these images DO NOT have to be real, it's covered under pseudo-imagery, even hand drawn cartoons fall under this

The big question is, who is ultimately responsible?

Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations

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Re: Now would be the perfect time ....

@ac.

Or they'll "pull out" of the EU to avoid the stupid unworkable regulations. What a great time to not be an EU member state!"

Yeah, they said the same about the cookie law (that was genuinely stupid one).

They said the same about GDPR and most complied.

You see, loosing 10s, if not 100s of millions of $s makes them cave in. Sure they kick and scream like a 2 year old, but they soon stop when they get no more sweeties until they behave

This could still wing its way to you, if you have the dosh: One Concorde engine seeks new home

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Re: Umm...

Wouldn't that be off the infamous Concordski now probably being run by Areoflot after running out of parts for other aircraft?

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years

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Re: The Tories just did this

I doubt it. My licence looks that 8 years old looks nothing like I do now.

Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last)

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Happy

Well at 52...

...I'm longboarding, playing volleyball and rediscovering the adrenaline rush of the mosh pit and all night raves.

I think I have a good clue how I'm going to die, but it will be with a big fat cheesy grin on my face.

Icon because I'm that generation.

UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday

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Re: NR71

And just replace a zillion TV sets?

Before you go away for Xmas: You've patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right?

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Re: Just imagine

Nope just bored of the same tired old shit from holier than thou commentators.

All major software has security issues, and MS has one of the largest range of software going. Add all the Linux and combine equivalent software packages out there and I doubt you'll see much difference.

Maybe Google and MS should stop looking at other people's code (despite probably them being the best placed to spot issues, due to the massive amounts of data they see (for better or worse) and let people like you live in blissful ignorance.

I've been using computers since the late 70s and see the same crap posted year in year out.

Grow up and accept their help.

California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling

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Actually I sort of makes sense

You have these huge data centres "using" all this clean water, that most likely is little different to how it went in, but it's still classed as waste water.

Either that or kill all the sandal wearing almond "milk" drinking hipsters.

Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck

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I come up with every time I go out on a bender, the difference is I don't have a few £billion to chuck around and see what sticks.

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Re: 7,000 lbs?

It's roughly 55 Taylor Swifts.

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And how many times did they sink?

Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech

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Hey stop picking on the US companies...

just block the commies ..

Oh and Samsung, the look like commies. What your not blocking Gmail and Outlook? Look over there, commies.

Oh btw were still putting barriers up to the stuff you make better than us; cars, steel, meat,..but hey commies.

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Re: Don't know whether to laugh or cry

And they get punished as well

Qakbot's backbot: FBI-led takedown keeps crims at bay for just 3 months

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Fancy a trip to North Korea or Russia to go arrest them?

ValueLicensing tries to smack down Microsoft defenses in license reselling spat

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Re: Mugs

"Everything you need is already available, for no cost; "

That has to be the most stupid, I'll informed, and frankly absurd statement I've read on the internet, well, at least this week.

Have you EVER used a software that isn't based around work you can do from Starbucks?

Seriously go into any large industrial, medical or even a large tech company, and name the free version of every single bit of software they use.

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

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Sure...

Here I am writing this on a device in a Gregs, that has more power them most back then could dream of. Then I'll upload a photo of a quality that only pros could take after spending hours setting up, that then can be viewed by billions of people anywhere in the world in fractions of a second.

Then at the weekend I'll travel somewhere I've never been before using the same device to navigate me with in a few metres of my destination. There, I'll film a video that would of cost 20s of thousands of Pounds of equipment previously, on the same handheld device. I might do a 30 second edit that wouldve taken hours, throw in a few effects that would of cost a year's salary to do.

Then later in the evening I'll choose something to watch or listen to from millions of instantly obtainable choices, transmitted from the same handheld device to my home hifi.

TLDR,?

You don't notice the groundbreaking innovations, because they are everywhere around you and are taken for granted.

Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning

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Think rather than single out...

USA, EU and UK.

It would've been more beneficial to list countries NOT wanting this....Not many I should think.

Apple pulls Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 from shelves in US after Masimo patent brawl

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Re: Such a stupid system

Yes and no.

The problem with your solution is that companies with the financial clout of Apple could drag this out for a decade or more and potentially bankrupt companies doing so, with no real penalties for them.

Stopping imports is a way to force them to licence, negotiate or failing that, have a real world financial cost.

Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees

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That's already in progress. You know must make opt-out as easy as opt-in.

Hopefully the BBC will be the first to be hit, the news site is pretty much impossible to do this.

Microsoft seizes websites used to sell phony email accounts to Scattered Spider and other crims

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Re: 750 million accounts

I think the outright lies, xenophobia (mainly in the older generations) and the right leaning press (again look at demographics) were a bigger influence on Brexit than any bots.

Four more months of Section 702 snooping slipped into $890B US defense budget bill

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I love how the US government works...

Every year it lurches from one financial crisis to another, the people throw in some shitty policies that would never pass otherwise, and it's good to go ....until next year.

Suffering from tab overload? Vivaldi unveils Session Panels

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Re: Now if only 2

Bookmarks?

If mobile, you click on the menu and click "Bookmarks".

However, it seem at one point to file them sometimes under "Mobile Bookmarks", which you find as above, but then you have to click the arrow next to the "Bookmarks" text and there it is.

I spent a fair while sorting that quirk out.

Final Patch Tuesday of 2023 goes out with a bang

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Okaaaayyyy

..... that could be exploited by sending a malicious link over email and tricking the victim into clicking the link. ....... which triggers automatically when it is retrieved and processed by the Outlook client. This could lead to exploitation BEFORE the email is viewed in the Preview Pane."

Okay am I being a bit thick here (lousy connection so can't open up the actual link) but....How do you click on a link BEFORE you view it?

Cloudflare dishes up the stats on internet traffic in 2023

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Re: IPv6

The Reg sits behind Cloudflare that does IPv6 translation, so there is no excuse really.

China's SpaceX wannabe recycles a rocket after just 38 days

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Re: "I" stuff

Yeah, they like to pretend the iPaq came later.

Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack

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Apart from Android was, and still largely is, a piece of shit when it came to updates.

Windows Phone (RIP) could take updates from the manufacturer (recommended) OR, and this is the key bit, direct from MS.

You didn't need to rely on Nokia or whoever to push out an update.

Branson's wallet snaps shut for Virgin Galactic

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And....

how much will they have to pay to keep using the Virgin branding?

One reason the government, quite rightly to him to fuck off when he put out the begging bowl for Virgin airlines, which is also 49% owned by Delta

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

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From the inside...

EV is rising massively.

I work in prototype both ICE and EV "engines" for nearly every high end manufacturer in Europe and the US (and the odd Chinese), think cars that cost over £70,000.

The shift over the last 12 months has been dramatic (remember this is prototype, so think on the road in 12 months).

The new ICE engines are tiny in comparison as they are designed as hybrid powertrains, the legacy 8 & 12 cylinders are running out their order books, the Motorsport parts are completely changing and the EV prototyping has increased 100x.

The EV part is interesting as they are created using rapid prototyping techniques, so, as an example, one major high end customer is on the 13th redesign of the motor housing alone, something would never happened with ICE as the investment required would be crippling.

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Re: And then there is reality.

"It would seem that people who buy one don't want another, and in fact many are trading them in on ICE vehicles."

Citation Required

Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab

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I just don't get ..

Why people get these sorts of cards.

They usually have higher interest rates, worst "bonuses" (unless very specific) and worst penalty clauses, such as late payments.

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

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Legitimate use.

Many years ago we had a 24 bank SIM "farm" and it was a bloody lifesaver.

It was used as a back up device when some numpty would decide to put a digger through one of the trunk lines to the exchange. The main 0845's would fail back to the relevant number for a department and out going would choose the first SIM for out going. It was basic but it worked.

It was later mothballed but then bought back with another 48port one when a site HAD to move offices without fail, but there would be no land line or data for another two weeks.

We installed them both with external antennas, the 24 bank handled voice and the 48 port handled data over 3g. Again, it was a kludge, but it worked.

Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday

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Well unless you've disabled every Google service on the phone, your most likely ok.

(As it says, Google play is a listed metric for usage)

No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

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Wrong way to study...

Nope it may not be bad for the general population but...

Gambling is ok for most people

Drinking us ok for most people

Taking recreational drugs,

Looking at "beauty" magazines / blogs

Looking at historic nazi articles

Reading about ancient aliens

Reading about government cover ups....

But...

If you are susceptible, in a weakened mindset, or are teetering on the brink, , then it IS bad.

Take a girl worried about her "puppy" fat.

In the old days, she'd buy a single copy of cosmopolitan and that's it.

Now she can scroll endlessly looking at images, join pro anorexia groups, get thousands of people telling her she looks great now she ways 40kg.

So yes, this study is "technically" correct, but employed poor methodology to get the results.

Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament

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" I mean, getting work done on a tablet is pretty much impossible."

Thousands of musicians and digital artists will disagree.

Oh you mean sat on a chair in sterile, soul destroying office environment type work.

Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI

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Re: AI numbers are vague

Yes, they are busy stuffing social media and forums with extremely divisive posts vaguely disguised as facts, news and information.

'Serial cybercriminal and scammer' jailed for 8 years, told to pay back $1.2M

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Re: Impersonating Apple support… Bootnote.

Well it was clearly a scam as Virgin Media would NEVER go out of their way to help you fix an issue, real or not.

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

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Re: Joke's on them

Jokes on you, several hundred advertising companies are your best buddies, although it's quite an abusive relationship.

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

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What a pathetic excuse of a "man"

"The amount of hate and lynching I keep receiving is as if I would have scammed or killed someone"

That is EXACTLY what you have done. If you are taking a fair chunk if money for a "conference", where you are advertising the event using speakers that don't exist, that is a SCAM.

As for some pathetic excuse that you can't find women speakers, maybe, you know, try actually looking for some?

Beijing fosters foreign influencers to spread its propaganda

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I know of one huge place this is evident...

....it's called Hollywood.

It's a dirty "secret" that most studios in the US now are if not actively promoting China's world view, but are complicit in it. It's one of the largest markets and, now as such, they choice to tow the party line, rather than lose the money.

If you think this is just hyperbolic rhetoric, just spend 10 minutes looking into it.

Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?

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Re: One cheap, simple solution for reducing the impact of this sort of thing.

Once again to this argument.Look up the Windrush scandal where the sort of documents you are on about were not digitised, and just stuffed in a bunch of filing cabinets.

Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump

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Really?

"Cerebras CEO put Nvidia on blast calling these efforts 'un-American" "

I'm not sure what bit of America he is referring to, but it's not the USMmA, where it's actively encouraged to make money no matter what, so long as it's it's kind of legal, morals mean nothing.

Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial

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Don't worry Tata...

....just add it to any UK government contract, they love paying criminals and thieves for goods and services.

How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop

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Re: No system is 100% secure

If you know someone's iCloud details (usual password compromise) it's easy to get iPhone data

Attach to pc / Mac running iTunes

Factory reset phone

Restore.

Done.

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So just to clarify...

This is really a hardware issue or a software issue or both?

They have targeted Windows Hello, but could this be used, for example, a Chromebook with the same chips, or say Mac if it used the same readers?

India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years

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Re: Grab-Bag of Projects, Each Run by Complex Bureaucracy

How to say "I know nothing about logistics" without say "I know nothing about logistics".

You do know a huge amount of commercial vehicle in Europe and USA have gos tracking....no? Thought not.

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

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Easy Government.

Current lot.

Input:

Daily Mail articles

Decision:

Is it near election time?

No: Raise Taxes

Yes: Cut taxes.

Output: Government Policy

(For labour swap Daily Mail for Daily Mirror)

Rhysida ransomware gang: We attacked the British Library

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'where I work it's similar rules, but they make a black and white photocopy and store it in a folder in a locked filing cabinet in a locked office"

You may want to look into the Windrush scandal and how that happened.

Hint: it involved paperwork in filing cabinets that were taking up to much space.

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Re: We've engaged in illegal acts to obtain this data

The best way to stop ransomware, or at least curtail it, would be for as many countries as possible to work together and make it a criminal offence to pay them, fine any companies that do say double the amount they pay), and equally an offence to offer insurance to cover said payments.

If there is no money for them, this form of computer crime at least, would all but dry up.