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Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay

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Brown Envelopes?

Europe wants more chip manufacturing in Europe.

Europe throws out case against chip manufacturing company.

China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet

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Re: playbook

No, the Home Office never leads, only follows.

Google dumps interest-based ad system for another interest-based ad system

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And what about...

... browser makers that decide not to implement this? No ads? Or broken sites?

22-year-old Brit avoids US extradition over SIM-swapping conspiracy after judge deems him to be high suicide risk

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Re: Oh FFS

Maybe if the USA's judicial and penal system was slightly better than some shit hole dictatorships, then judges in the civilised world wouldnt be so reluctant to send people to it.

Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up

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Re: At Tromos...

They are there, but it shouldn't require 99.999 % of the user base to Google what they mean and how to set it.

European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns

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Re: @W.S.Gossett on "Gas"

"which in turn means those weirdo "organic" farmers suddenly become a whole lot more important. "

The same ones that rely on manue from farms for fertiliser. Thank goodness there isn't a huge drive for everyone to become veggie.

Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment

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Re: 40 years in the making

So it's true, when we finally achieve fusion 03:14:08 a tear will occur in the time space continuum and well all be sent back to 1970 where Nuclear fusion will be just 10 years away.

EC president promises European Chips Act to quadruple homegrown production by 2030

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What?

"with shipping and fuel adding to the cost of semiconductors"

You are talking a few pence per chip if buying in bulk. A rounding off mot even worth considering when compared to the EU's higher cost base.

Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma

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Bullshit detectors at max.

"Or so says research from the ESCP Business School... associate professor of Management and Almudena Cañibano, an associate professor in Human Resources Management.

So someone wth a vested interested in HR, picks a carefully selected group and gets results HR and bosses like to hear.

Having had a breakdown due to excessive hours and endless on call callouts I say FUCK YOU.

Now in a poorly paid job, doing over time when I and only I, decide I want to, in an interesting role with very little stress. I could not be more content with life.

If you hate your job, quit. Give up the stuff you don't need (I cope on a 1/3 of my old salary) and enjoy the one life you have.

Vulnerabilities and censorship tools among hot new features in Beijing's Olympics app

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The scoundrels

... if it was a UK government app you wouldn't have to worry about this kind of behaviour.

Mainly because it wouldn't be ready until 2024, it won't initially work on Apple devices and when finally fully rolled out, wouldn't actually be able to log the data required.

Umbrella company Parasol Group confirms cyber attack as 'root cause' of prolonged network outage

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Re: All missing the point: They got hacked

Going by the statement, it says activity malicious activity on the network.

It may be on a internal server that orders the pencils. As a precaution they gave taken everything offline until they can see what is wrong.

A sensible approach.

Heck it's exactly what I did when Nachi and Blaster hit all those years ago.

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

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Re: Sanctions

"Chinese engineers are every bit a match for their American counterparts.

Yeah. Maybe when it comes to microwave ovens or dishwashers. Otherwise, they're really not."

NASCAR engines are still made from cast iron, that's high tech USA engineering..... Oh and just to rub it in, many made in the UK. I know, we make them in the same foundry as diesel train engines.

Now the F1 engines, now they are something else.

5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say

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So according to the good ol' USofA

The way to stop an invasion of your country is to roll out 5g.

Thats explains why China is a world leader.

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Re: Told to turn off?

It's transmitters, not recievers.

Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight

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"My old wargaming club's annual competition & trade show ditched the GW presence entirely long, long ago - when they insisted the show be GW, or not at all."

My guess is you were using their branding or trademarks and they have every right to enforce their terms on this.

If you don't use their registered trademarks or branding there is absolutely nothing they can do.

In short, come to our wargaming club and play is OK. Come to our wargaming and play Warhammer 40,000 will be a trademark infringement.

It's stupid, but that's the way it goes.

North Korea says it's launched a third hypersonic missile, this time reaching Mach 10

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Re: Why?

I'm pretty sure it was monitored and those that need to know, know.

The issue wasn't the missile, it was the intergalactic planet destroyer it bounced off that they are really trying to cover up.

It takes more clicks to reject their cookies than accept them, so France fines Facebook and Google over €200m

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Re: Reject all

Anyone got any worse examples?

Pretty much every "news" site.

Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable

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Re Smart Thermostats / Timers

I know a few people who love them.

Oddly they are the people that work really random shift patterns (think NHS staff) so a 7 day timer is just a waste of time as the have to be reprogramed constantly.

Now they just turn it on before leaving work, saving money and energy on heating an empty house.

Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server

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Don't worry

there still plenty for your <insert device> to fail at the next summer time change... And then in two years we have another leap year.

Oh and the leap second is due in June....

Going round in circles with Windows in Singapore

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Re: The dialog is censored...

No it hit the buffers.

Electric fastback fun: Now you can surf the web from the driving seat of your Polestar 2

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"Why the hell don't we have a basic web browser?" asked one driver.

Because it's a fucking car.

Who you gonna call? Premium numbers, but a not-so-premium service

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I thought I knew who this was...

Then noticed the London part.

One of our branches had an almost identical number to an adult film company (last two digits flipped).

Never noticed until marketing published it in a load of glossy brochures...

Still not as bad as the time the really screwed up and sent out 10,000 brochures with another similar number to one of ours, Barclaycards lost card number.

The marketing droids genius response "Do you think we can get them to divert their number to us?"

Not the kind of note you want to see fluttering from an ATM

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Re: They have form ..

"Password must be entered twice but cannot copy and paste. MORONS"

Yeah, because MORONS copy the first entry, complete with typos and all.

It's the day before the grand opening but we need a firmware update. It'll be fine

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Firmware update in the 80s

They were lucky.

It usually had one of two results

Working.

Doorstop.

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Re: Commodora Amiga?

Nah, intelligent people had Ataris.

Still luckily we've moved on from those petty squabbling days.

Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going

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Re: Who got out of bed on the wrong side today?

Between £3 and £5 all day in my town.

Guess we appreciate our tourists more than London-On-Sea.

Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion

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Re: Removing distraction = good

nut behind the wheel...

Don't do that, you'll find it really hard to steer.

TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings

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Re: Tik Tok tops

Sorry, I got distracted... What was the last bit again?

Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

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Re: Fork it and wave goodbye

The Chromium forks will also have this.

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Re: deal breaker

To what?

90% are based on Chrome. That's why it's such a big issue.

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

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Re: Is America getting a lot, lot more corrupt and venal...

Competent people are getting big bucks to run corporations.

You do know who this article is about don't you?

China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future

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Re: Question is

15 years ago my ex graduated from Warwick Uni.

At the graduation ceremony about 90% of the Maths & Physics phds went to Chinese students.

And you think they stole the designs?

Microsoft gives Notepad a minimalist makeover to match Windows 11 style

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Remember Win95?

You know, the one where you could change the colours of borders, boxes, menus, buttons, highlighted parts, clicked items, shadows, in fact everything possible in the GUI.

Now you get back or white

Progress.

Desktop bust and custom iPhone 13 Pro made from melted-down Tesla car for the Elon Musk dork in your life

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This worth a listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xdxb

Alleged Brit SIM-swapper will kill himself if extradited to US for trial, London court told

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Re: Internet Police

"Corey De Rose, 22, is accused by US prosecutors of using SIM-swapping attacks to steal the identities and cryptocurrency wallets of American citizens, legal newswire CourtNewsUK reported."

Feel free to read the article next time.

There's no Huawei back now: Biden signs law that forbids US buyers acquiring kit on naughty list

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Re: Hope I'm not being a grammar pedant.

I suggest to anyone this Podcast if you want to know why the English language is such a mess.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/corpse-corps-horse-and-worse/

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

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The problem is simple.

Microsoft got slapped down.

Since the Apple and Google have been allowed to pick off and go far further than MS did.

The problem you now have is how are the competition regulators going to deal with MS when the other two are equally as bad, if not more so.

They ALL need huge fines (think multi-billion) and default browsers removed. They should also be banned from shoving " This page would be better in...." on their own sites.

Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it

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Fun fact

Johnny Mnemonic is set in 2021.

Its where people almost live in a virtual internet, controlled by mega corps who are after info in the main characters brain.

Welcome to the Meta verse.

Swiss lab's rooftop demo shows sunlight and air can make fuel

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Hmmmm

"making it suitable for desert locations, thus avoiding impact on agriculture, human population or areas rich in wildlife."

Of course the better option is to get desert areas back to being green areas.

Stor-a-File hit by ransomware after crooks target SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software

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Whataboutism.

"The millions of company and organisation records, held physically in boxes on shelves in our warehouses were unaffected."

Yeah, so we ran unpatched, insecure software facing the Internet, but hey, look at all these paper records they couldn't nt get to!

Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know

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Re: another wealth transfer under the cover of good intensions

How does rat taste?

Just asking as that's about the most abundant food grown in cities these days.

Rolls-Royce set for funding fillip to build nuclear power stations based on small modular reactor technology

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Re: This is good

"by then we could have far more renewables than we need for similar build price.

Tell me what this magic solution is that works on a cold winters night.

No wind.

No sun.

Oh before you mention tidal. Look at the costs and environmental impacts of this.

Hydroelectric. Again look at environmental impact.

Another 100 space tourists buy a ride from Virgin Galactic: $25k of that ticket deposit is 'non-refundable'

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Re: Don't you have to go into space in order to be an astronaut?

Joyride for the 1%ers.

Muskism at its best.

Now that's a splash down: Astronauts spend 8-hour trip to Earth in diapers after SpaceX capsule toilet breaks

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The trip to Mars...

... just got a whole lot smellier.

Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774

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Re: Advantage

This is a tax avoidance scheme.

Amazon Inc.

Registered office. Space.

Beijing fingers foreign spies for data mischief, with help from consulting firm

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It doesn't surprise me...

We do hear about this that and other hacked in the west, but it no doubt happens everywhere.

Take Wannacry, Russia was far worse hit than any other country and their banks are constantly hit.

Pretty sure NK with its tiny Internet presence is hit all the time as well.

In short, everyone is hacking everyone else

SAP expects to rid car fleet of fossil fuel engines by 2030 – but still more than happy to take money from oil industry

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Re: Greenwashing

How many of those coal fired power stations are in the city centres where pollution is at the highest levels?

It's not all about output, you gave to include location.

Feeling the pinch? How about a 160% hike in your data centre fees

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Re: Costs are rising everywhere

That makes bugger all sense.

The UK standards are pretty much identical to EU ones. If you meet the tougher one, you meet both.

Locked up: UK's Labour Party data 'rendered inaccessible' on third-party systems after cyber attack

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Re: "Cyber"

We need to keep the word.

It's a way of distinguishing PR mouthpieces from the ones that know what they are on about.

Whenever automakers get their hands on chip supplies, the more expensive vehicles are first in line – NXP

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Re: "[integrated combustible engine] "

Or it can stand for

InCar Entertainment.

Don't you love acronyms.