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How much does Oracle love you? Thiiiis much: Latest patch bundle has 402 fixes

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Is it a competition..

Between Oracle, Microsoft and Adobe?

Dulux feel lucky, punk? Samsung wades into paint world with interior emulsions designed to 'complement' your, er, TV

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Does this paint..

come with an internet connection to phone home, help create a botnet and render the paint obsolete in a few years?

Run Windows on a Chromebook: All the details. Not so fast, home user...

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Re: Both my adult children have a Chromebook

Swap your Hdd for a ssd and watch your boot time to from minutes to seconds.

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

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Re: Shot while fleeing?

No remember, he had a small bottle of pills, which means he is exactly like Pablo Escobar.

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Re: Shot while fleeing?

It's the US. The police tend to shoot more people in a day than most civilised countries do in a year.

Maybe if they actually prosecuted a few, then they would be less trigger happy.

The hills are alive with the sound of Azure as Microsoft pledges Austrian bit barns

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6 nines?

The way they are going lately, two nines is going to be a push

Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks

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Putting two and two together

Google renews contract with Mozilla.

Mozilla rushes out the appalling Andriod monstrosity that is "New Firefox" that oddly removed all but one adblockers, removed people bookmarks from home page and changed default search back to google (let's ignore all the other problems with it)

So if this is the shit $400 million buys you, may be losing it wouldn't be so bad.

Firefox, you were once good.

Reg...any chance of finding out why Mozilla rolled out the heap of crap?

State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out

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This is endemic in (local) goverments...

The world over.

I know so many cases the the bribe, sorry, community funding, that house builders have to give when chucking up new estates have gone missing into council budget. So much so a charity I worked for and several others, threatened to take them to court.

Amazingly a very well known MP suddenly put pressure on the council to release the funds. Up to that point he had no interest.

Microsoft unleashes production-ready Edge Runtime. WebView2: This time it's Chromium

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Re: Arrgh

Just for balance my Linux box (ok Raspberry Pi, but still Linux) completely borked after an update.

Got to remove the SD card and reconfigure a file.

Not a huge issue, apart from it's a pita to get to the PI.

Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn

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Politicians always a decade behind.

Hands up who here said at the time allowing Google to buy Double Click was a dumb idea?

I know I wasn't the only one.

Transport for London data pilot: We want to keep tabs on dockless bikes and e-bikes

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I think all transport needs looking at.

Cars are very heavily regulated.

I have no issue with cyclists or scooter riders If

A) Helmets are compulsory

B) Insurance is compulsory

C) Registration is compulsory.

D) Better enforcement of existing laws.

If a cyclist or scooter hits my car, why should I pick up the bill?

If a cyclist has an accident, why should the 3rd party, be it another cyclist, scooter or car driver, an insurance company or NHS pay millions because they felt a £20 helmet was to much hassle.

I also believe, that town centres should be made much more friendly to pedestrians, scooter riders and cyclists, even considering putting in special routes, such cut-throughs and bridges for this very use.

Canals and disused railways should be upgraded to allow their use by everyone.

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube

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Re: "Bug"

Apparently they got the info from Facebook after some people filled in an online quiz.

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Re: Shock news as shock news is neither shocking or news

So why bother patching?

That great security hole MAY get used, but I haven't seen anything yet.

And so you have proof they are NOT already using what's in local storage to identify you.

Notpetya, Olympics hacking, Novichok probe meddling... America throws the book at six alleged Kremlin hackers

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Hmmmm.

"No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented damage to pursue small tactical advantages"

Cough...Isreal /US

Oh Mi: Xiaomi shows off 80W wireless charging, claims battery fully fat again in under 20 minutes

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Wtf?

There’s an inevitable environmental cost to producing a USB-C cable: from obtaining the raw materials, to transporting them, to manufacturing the cable, and finally, to shipping the product to retailers""

So wireless chargers don't need any of those?

Wow.

UK test-and-trace coronavirus data may be handed to police to nab those who aren't self-isolating as required

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Re: Tragedy of the commons

Ever thought they may have dietary requirements that require them to check the ingredients.

And I find the self-centred arseholes tend to be all ages, genders and aces; except in pubs where 95% of the dickheads are under25.

China passes Tik for Tok export ban law

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Re: So.... Tik Tok will be banned in the USA then

"People in the USA will either have to use a VPM or use a different AP."

No, it stops the sale or export of the technology behind it, rather than the application itself.

Software billionaire accused of hiding $2bn in income from IRS – potentially the largest tax scam in US history

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Came to write the same thing.

Rich man, pay a token fine, no jail time, free to move on.

Poor person, 2 years on in hell hole prison because you can't afford bail, a plea bargain to admit to a lesser charge rather than risk overworked lawyer failing to prove your innocence (and another 6 months in prison waiting for trial). Then a criminal record that will ruin your life.

Welcome to the US legal system, the best money can buy.

UK's National Audit Office warns full-fibre rollout strategy is leaving rural Britain behind. Again

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Given up waiting.

Once my ADSL contract is up, switching to a wireless solution at the same price as BT fibre.

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

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Re: Is it too much to ask?

November 3rd 3020?

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Re: does this mean

Yes, but 240 characters means stringing a sentence together, a feat beyond the grasp of some of them.

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Re: UTC?

For English speakers it really is CUT.

UK tech supply chain in dark over Brexit preparations months ahead of final heave-ho

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He predicted a hard Brexit will be "chaos".

He predicted Brexit will be "chaos".

Tftfy

AI cleans up sat radar images so scientists can better spot warning signs before volcanoes go all Mount Doom

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Devil

Does it show...

large pools of water being built inside the volcano. Just asking....for a friend.

Sailfish floats v3.4 'Pallas-Yllästunturi', its latest Jolla good reason for itchy-fingered Android and Apple swervers

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Not really it will be pronounced Coyote, much to the Finns annoyance.

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Re: Taxis eat Jollas ?

"what sort of surprised me was that they all belonged to men"

Women tend to have bags, men to have pockets.

Bigger the phone, the easier it falls out.

Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online

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Here's an idea...

...make sure all train stations are wheel chair friendly as you are legally obliged to do, rather than piss around with window dressing.

Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body

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Should be like the financial sector!

Say like Equifax?

We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to

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Actually you'll find Lego is one of the most reused toys out there.

My friend sells lego and he has plenty from the 70's and 80's.

So take you environmental worrrys to bigger issues, to say the computer or mobile phone you are using.

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

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Re: Personal wealth?

Meh Trump, had failures in life and look how he turned out.

Failures and no one to bail them out, no that is more like it.

McAfee rattles tin for $600m+ in fresh IPO filing valuing firm at $3.6bn

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Re: People still buy antivirus?

Probably when it's bundled on some crappy laptop from PC world and it warns the unwary user the PC will catch fire and murder your children if you don't subscribe NOW!

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die

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Re: THIS IS AN EX-PROJECT!

I think we found the single developer still committed to Open Office.

Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison

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Re: More to be told?

I did this with, I think, Axiom, IP cameras way back in the early 2000s. We bought on for work, but you could access them from outside as they had their own little webserver.

You could Google a query string and it would list them all. 90% had no pw protection other that admin / admin.

Gave you full access to pan / tilt and zoom.

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Re: How on earth wasnt this toe rag jailed?

"he should be denied any access to phone or computer or passport. "

See my above post. A computer will have a black box fitted after the router. The phone may be required not to have a camera.

As for posting his image?

That's great until someone petrol bombs his house and kills an innocent person inside.

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Re: How on earth wasnt this toe rag jailed?

When you go to Crown Court where prison is a possibility, you take your clothes with you.

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Re: How on earth wasnt this toe rag jailed?

Does seem lenient, but the sexual harm prevention order (not the same as sex offenders register, which he will also have to be on), can be very strict. They vary from person to person, but...

He may have to inform the police if he enters a relationship, often after a few weeks

He will not be allowed to delete web history and may have to have a device fitted tracking ALL his web traffic.

He may not be allowed to travel without informing the police.

He may not be allowed to visit certain places, without prior consent.

He will be visited a random.times without warning.

And the list goes on and on

Also add in reduced job prospects, higher insurance costs and plenty more.

So although I'm surprised at the lack of jail, he has "gotten off"

'20,000-plus staff' could face the chop in spin-off of IBM's IT outsourcing biz, says Wall Street analyst

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10 more years...

...and IBM will be little more than patent troll.

It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead

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Re: Why ?

Because 99.99% of the population only use the Google play store on Andriod as well.

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Wow...

"Apple says the iPhone 12 is 11 per cent thinner and 16 per cent lighter"

And it will be immediately be put in a case that is 11 per cent thicker and 16 per cent heavier.

Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing

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Repeat after me.

A private company deciding what allowed on it's systems is NOT censorship. It is a business choice. End Of.

BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month

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Re: One question

Such as learning you don't need to rely on your data being sent to 3rd parties in order to do home automation?

Contract to run .eu domain-name registry is up for grabs as Brussels tries to avoid a .co-style debacle

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Reg, you mentioned the UK....

registries are profit-based, so not eligible.

I think you didn't get the note about Brexit.

Even if they were nonprofit, they still wouldn't be allowed to bid.

India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up

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Re: Self-sufficiency in everything, blockchain too?

Have you not noticed they never said it would fix all their problems?

This a tech site, so if the Reg started posting articles about the plans to upgrade their sanitary systems for millions of people, you no doubt would complain it was not IT related.

Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!

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Once again Family Guy nailed it.

https://youtu.be/ERvkZoEgQnU

Google won’t let Australia have shiny new toys unless it picks apart pay-for-news plan

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Keep going Google....

Keep showing what bunch of dicks you are.

Look we WERE going to pay all along, we just didn't tell you...but now we are taking our ball back.

Keep it up Google, you are making those antitrust lawsuits easier and easier everyday.

Beware, drone fliers, of Scotland's black-headed gulls. For they will tear your craft from Mother Nature's skies

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Soo....

...look forward to Gulls vs Amazon. Revenge of the birds.

Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything

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Re: All for one, one for all ....... if you have nothing to hide?

I need more drugs...or less...or I don't know..

But a man from Mars post almost made sense.

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Re: A thought

Well, the US doesn't commit war crimes, remember?

One year after server hackers left NordVPN red-faced, firm's first colocated setup is online

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So....

...rather than create an app that users would

willingly surrender their information to, you go to the effort of creating a fake app to redirect the traffic

Google contractor HCL America accused of retaliating against unionized techies by shifting US jobs to Poland

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Odd that Trump supporters claim he is the amazing one that has bought unemployment down in the US and Obama did nothing.

So here have some facts instead.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1316/us-national-unemployment-rate

As you can see Unemployment was a constant downward trajectory since 2010. In fact if you look at the chart, the rate off fall has slowed slightly in the last few years.

But hey, facts, fake news I guess.