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Clearview AI fined millions in the UK: No 'lawful reason' to collect Brits' images

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Public images.

No problem.

Let's gets a group follow them taking photos 24/7 when in public, and post saying where they were, who they were with, what they ate, what time they went to the toilet etc.

No problem with that, it's public after all.

The Return of Gopher: Pre-web hypertext service is still around

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Happy

I love the Reg

One article going how great it is to want a bloat free experience.... And another demanding Safari updates so we can have more bloat.

US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025

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Yup...

"but also for discovery of new materials and to drive engineering breakthroughs."

Remind me again how graphine was discovered.?

Repairability champ Framework's modular laptop gets a speed boost

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Hmmm

"I don't WANT my laptop to be the Thinnest Model Yet. I want a battery that will outlast the Sun, a screen big enough to blind the person behind me, more USB slots than there are Apple fanboys in the Bay Area, a fscking disc reader/writer."

I've an old HP zbook that ticks most of those.

Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips

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By reducing AC you are reducing energy consumption.

Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law

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I love the freedom mob in the US.

They want "Freedom of speech"

But throw their toys out of the pram when a mosque tries to open not far from the two towers site

They cry when people choose to take down statues of slave owning "war hero's"

They complain about "woke" people expressing their views.

In other words they like freedom of speech and expression, but only when it suits THEIR agenda.

Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled

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Just a thought....

... he has sold his shares in Tesla to buy Twitter.

If he doesn't buy the shares, does it mean he is on the hook for a huge tax bill?

Venezuelan cardiologist charged with 'designing and selling ransomware'

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Re: Interesting sideline

Probably. It's the same thing in Cuba (great country, great people).

The unsuccessful sanctions only really hurt the normal people. There you have highly skilled doctors and teachers working in tourist hotels as the tips are better than their wages.

When there I tipped a very modest amount (in GBP) and I suddenly became the entire staffs best friend. It turned out my tip was almost weeks salary.

As Clarkson pointed out in one top gear episode. That couple of quid you are haggling over for a suit, makes a massive difference to the persons life, so just don't.

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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Re: The curse of overchoice

It's similar to what I know as the paradox of choice.

You have one or two options, it's THEIR fault if you choose a bad option.

Given a thousand choices its YOUR fault if you choice a bad option.

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

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Re: Cyclists are road users, too

If you seeing the same picture as me, it's most definitely a bike. Frame is too thin for an electric bike.

The cyclist could have been hit from behind and spun round, as is the case in nearly every bike / car collision.

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Re: But you musk ride a bike....

Woooossshhhhh.

That's the sound of the joke flying over their heads.

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Re: Pedestrians?

"Pedestrians walk facing traffic because drivers are terrible"

It's actually how you should walk on country roads, except when the means you are blind to the driver.

It's a two way thing. You can see them, they can see you.

Source: Me.

Microsoft tests ‘Suggested Actions’ in Windows 11. Insiders: Can we turn it off?

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Re: "But we're not finished"?

"... but an entire OS in specific, you had damn-well better make sure it's as bug tested, bug removed, security holes fixed"

Let me know when you find one.

Nothing pisses me more off than one that is released with known bugs.... And that "rare and minor" issue is the one that totally fucks up your set up..

To predict the targets of Chinese malware, look at the target of Chinese laws

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As the old phrase says

Correlation does not imply causation

Ransomware the final nail in coffin for small university

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Re: could I be hearing Queen singing?

Maybe if you didn't have to have a truck load of cash to go to one, they may be a little more successful. But gotta keep the poor people down

Email domain for NPM lib with 6m downloads a week grabbed by expert to make a point

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Re: I'm shocked, shocked!

Wow what a surprise. Someone spots the word Microsoft and the rest of the text becomes a blur.

I guess before they bought it, there were no expired domains or orphaned email address, the security was rock solid and unicorns shit rainbow coloured code.

Asahi Linux project shows progress in graphics drivers on Apple's M1

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Re: Worth the effort?

Landfill Apple devices?

Like my 10 year old ipad mini still going strong?

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

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Re: Designed "universal" standards

Universal standards such a Litres, Pints and US pint?

CDs. Please, which "book" standard are you referring to?

Ever world I the International Standards of telecoms? Have fun getting the standard g711u talk directly to g729a/b with a converter?

Connected many plastic water pipers to copper ones?

The standards are great, but in reality you usually have to bodge something in between.

UK's state-owned bank launches hunt for core systems worth close to $1b

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What's a "Post Office"?

Are they like the high street banks I've heard of?

Qualcomm ‘on track’ for Apple M-level Nuvia chips in late 2023

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I'm curious of the market.

So who is this aimed at?

They keep comparing to Apple, but that's a closed eco system, then saying its Arm but Windows compatible (emulation?).

So are they trying to take on Intel and AMD in the laptop arena or to create some kind of new device?

Airbnb will let staff work from anywhere without a pay cut

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"Conversely, part of the reason that Bay Area jobs pay so highly is that they must in order for staff to be able to live there"

Conversely to your conversely, the corporation can downsize the offices, pay much lower energy costs, not employ so many ancillary workers (cleaners, maintenance etc), so vastly reducing their running cost base.

As the main facilities manger once said to me about the London offices right in the square mile that they were soon leaving, he pointed at a waste paper basket and stated, "That bin costs a over thousand pounds a year"

And that was 10 years ago.

But then how can they have a willy waving contest who has the best organic soy lattes at the earth cafe, bean bag laden meet space.

Elon Musk flogs $8.4bn of Tesla shares amid Twitter offer drama

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Well...

... If he goes ahead with all those plans, twitter will be the next MySpace.

Good luck brat boy.

Meta materials: Facebook using AI to design green concrete

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new formulas for green concrete

Talk about green washing

It's not just the co2 that's the issue, it's also hugely environmentally destructive.

But a "Cement that's not quite as bad" doesn't sound as good in the PR releases.

Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent

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Re: Hang on a mo ...

@ Yet another....

Let me list few teeny companies that tick the boxes.

Google

Amazon

Microsoft

IBM / Redhat

Microsoft Edge's 'Secure Network' sounds a lot like a built-in VPN

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To me..

it's a more integrated of Cloudflare warp, but for the browser rather than device.

Aka Cloudflare 1.1.1.1

Fedora starts to simplify Linux graphics handling

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Re: If these people made cars ...

What a crap analogy.

How's your modern car with its carburettor? Those points still playing up? How is your arm after the crank start kicked back? Still, pretty sure that cast iron sub frame is holding those hand beaten panels well, although they are getting a little rusty these days. Just don't go to fast, those drum brakes without a servo can take a bit of stamping on to get them to work.

Coca-Cola probes pro-Kremlin gang's claims of 161GB data theft

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Re: Jurisdiction

@scrubber

You may want to check international laws regarding wars and conflict.

Its why they try and spin it as an act of self defence as NATO was definitely, without fail, almost certainly going to invade Russia.

Microsoft fixes Point of Sale bug that delayed Windows 11 startup for 40 minutes

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FAIL

Re: Impressively long or depressingly long?

"Note that original Win95 had no USB."

That's probably because it wasn't created until 1996.

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Re: P.O.S.

I doubt it has. Probably vendors reporting the issue.

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So the fix is to remove the start up sound as well as the shut down one?

Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff

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One the good side..

"making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans"

Well, if you want to see nothing but politicians, narcasistsvand "reporters" Left, it's a good start.

Expect the numbers to drop 90%

Crooks steal NFTs worth '$3m' in Bored Ape Yacht Club heist

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Re: Tank Girl

I've had conversations with Martin (the other one of TG) They get seriously pissed off with whack-a-mole of copyright Infringment on so many sites.

Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel

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Greenwashing?

How often do there D/C's fall over?

Do they not have UPS rooms like all the big DC's have?

I guess for extended outages (30mins plus) , they just have to shut the place down

Microsoft plans to drop SMB1 binaries from Windows 11

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I love the comments

People complain about MS being bloated and insecure.

MS try to remove insecure bloat and people complain.

Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible

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Re: Heres a suggestion

No script isn't the answer, it's a bodge.

It like telling everyone to throw a blanket over their cars because they are only available in putrid green

British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles

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Re: Step #1, define your terms

Simple, the car driving until the crash, then it's the human.

Seriously, do you think Musk and Co. will accept any liability?

Growing US chip output an 'expensive exercise in futility', warns TSMC founder

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Re: To paraphrase

This is the US.

Long term investment is not the capaltist standard bearers way.

Short term profit at all costs.

Big Apple Apple Store workers hope to form union

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Re: Ambitious!

Location.

A lot of basic jobs in London pay more than skilled jobs, say in mid Wales.

Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options

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Maybe...

... They shouldn't have just hiked the prices.... Again

IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb

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Just checking.

Yup my lights still work with that funny thing on the wall.

That almost empty bottle of milk in the fridge is still there.

The laundry still required unloading after it finished its cycle which required me to press two buttons.

And my locks still working by turning a small metal device in a hole made especially for it.

Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan

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The problem with "free speech"

Apart there is no such thing, is the proven psychological issue with humans.

It's far easier to believe a lie you agree with, than the truth you don't.

Cybercriminals do their homework for latest banking scam

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Re: be wary of anyone providing personally identifiable information as proof of their legitimacy.

Standard Life keep calling me (it is them), but I utterly refuse to answer any questions "for security purposes"

Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market

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NFT's...

A story to make us smile.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61102759

Google issues third emergency fix for Chrome this year

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Re: Type confusion

That's because companies like to hire fresh talent and sack the old crusties with their crazy stuck in the mud ideas.

Therefore the bright young things make exactly the same mistakes that the old farts learnt to avoid a long time ago.

Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

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Re: Funds?

"Maplin is an example UK readers will be familiar with."

Or pretty much every major sports club owned by million / billionaires.

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

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I gave up reading after...

".... I mean Windows has its own day of the month – Patch Tuesday – just for fixes"

That's because that was requested by large corporations well over a decade ago, so scheduling change controls didn't become a daily event. So much so, multiple other software companies roll theirs on EXACTLY the same day.

I find ALL OS have some great features, but also most have some utterly stupid ones as well.

The is NO single best OS. The one that is the best is the one that works for you.

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Re: Linux "Desktop"

Except my Samsung laser printer on Linux. Just a hard no... And I never found fix... And going by the forums, neither did anyone else.

Microsoft's huge Patch Tuesday includes fix for bug under attack

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Re: Ah, the joy of being (fr)agile.

Have you looked at the huge range of products it covers?

People forget this when mashing the keyboard without looking and waving the (insert OS of choice) flag around.

At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks

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Re: We maintain extensive... DMML

I don't know. It may be they have the data, just spread over 10,000 tapes, with a few mb on each.

Microsoft dogs Strontium domains to stop attacks on Ukraine

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For a tech site...

... I'm surprised that so many people don't know MS have been doing this for years.

https://isssource.com/microsoft-seizes-domain-names/