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Scottish biz raided, fined £500k for making 193 million automated calls

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Re: it's 2020

The offence was committed 3 years ago. They can now be jailed as well

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Re: Won't stop it.

It is already the case that they can now be jailed, however this offence was committed before those laws were changed.

Hanoi rocks for R&D – just ask Samsung: Chaebol starts work on $220m AI, IoT, 5G facility

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How long....

...before the orange one puts a trade embargo on Vietnam, despite publicly backing it only a few months ago.

I guess he hasn't yet twigged that the US lost that war and it's still a communist regime.

Surprise! Plans for a Brexit version of the EU's Galileo have been delayed

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Joke

Can't we just...

Use a VPN and trick them into thinking we're in the Netherlands or somewhere?

'Developers have lost hope Microsoft will do the right thing'... Redmond urged to make WinUI cross-platform

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Re: "The Register" needs more Microsoft stories / snoozers.

Then why not visit a US site where they do get your sense of humour? I'm sure there is one with GIFs of cats playing piano with a Monty Python soundtrack behind it for you.

Never thought we'd write this headline: Under Siege Steven Seagal is not Above The Law, must fork out $314,000 after boosting crypto-coin biz

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So...

...how many straight to DVD movies does he need to make? I'm sure he can throw about 50 a year out

Pope tells his followers to log off for Lent

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Which God?

Carl Cox or Pete Tong*

After all God IS a DJ.

*Proper DJ's please none of these whipper snapper Instagram pretty boys and girls who just push a button and prance around for 90mins...back in my day etc etc....

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Okey Dokey Popey

Just quick question? Any chance you lot,you Muslims, Jews and Christians can stop bickering between yourselves for 40 days? After all you all believe in the same deity have all.

Google begs for US Entity List exemption to let Huawei use its mobile services – report

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Joke

No problem.

I'm sure Trump is currently in talks with Larry to allow the Oracle phone OS to be rolled out to China.

Hacker swipes customer list from controversial face-recog-for-Feds Clearview. Its reaction? 'A part of life'

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Joke

Server not accessed!

You dumb idiots, like they could access our servers. No, it was all on a laptop we used in Starbucks to update our Facebook account.

Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive

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Re: Doubling the price?

"It's a free market"

I think you don't have fucking clue if the definition of what a free market is.

If it was a free market, I would be free to purchase it from a different supplier.

This is what is known as a monopoly. Look it up.

Admins beware! Microsoft gives heads-up for 'disruptive' changes to authentication in Office 365 email service

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Re: Hmmmm....

In my experience, most native email apps are pretty terrible anyway.

Famed Apple analyst chances his Arm-based Macs that Apple kit will land next year

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It wouldn't surprise me

After all, Apple don't upgrade from year to year anyway. So if they make their own, it becomes harder to work out why they are charging so much for an old set up

MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped

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Agree. This was cancelled because the main players pulled out. 1000's of events are still going on around the world, so this is just smoke and mirrors.

Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet

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Devil's advocate.

The issue is, if there is no Cloudflare, no Akami, then the internet as we know it would collapse.

You can forget any hope of streaming movies, websites would be knocked of line on a daily basis and the amount of malware, spam and suchlike would get to the stage that life on the internet would become a real pain.

So yes indeed look for weakness and resolve it, but at the end of the day, we need these CDN's.

Credit Karma's enriched: Turbo Tax daddy Intuit snaps up personal finance platform for $7bn

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Re: TANSTAAFL

"free services" are never free. The question is who is paying for them, and how, if you aren't?

If only it was in the bleedin article...oh wait.

"Its free services are funded by partnership deals with credit card firms and other financial services."

Just like those price comparison sites, they take commission from any loans, credit cards or insurance you buy through them.

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Re: Don't like this outfit

I got the same emails AND the app told you of the changes.

Also how do you know those are fake names? Both seem legit names to me.

Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI

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Ethics?

The country that says waterboarding is "enhanced interrogation" not torture?

Go fuck yourselves.

Microsoft uses its expertise in malware to help with fileless attack detection on Linux

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Re: detection feature scans the memory of all processes

You control EVERY process running on your system.

Wow, you are talented.

Afilias vanishes from battle to run Colombia's trendy .co after El Reg probes technical docs, allegations of a stitch-up

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Unhappy

Remember when..

...the internet was there for all to give and share.

Now its just another cess pit of corruption, cronyism and feudalism.

Samsung cops to data leak after unsolicited '1/1' Find my Mobile push notification

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WTF?

Missing another bigger issue.

If this app is disabled, but possibly not.

Is this to say ALL Android disabled apps have the potential to work? For example, all of Google's shit I have disabled.

Huawei claims its Google Play replacement is in 'top 3' app stores after Trump turns off tap to the Chocolate Factory

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"Aggressive" push out.

I've an old Huawei it it recently got an update, the store app was part (only part?) of that update.

The Wristwatch of the Long Now: When your MTBF is two centuries

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10,000 years.

There is a debate going on about nuclear waste and underground burial site i.e. the signage.

You can't use language, as it will almost have changed beyond recognition by then and pictures are open to interpretation.

You could say the same about almost anything. You have a iWatch or phone, but in 10,000 years what will it be seen as. A decorative Anke bracelet and hand held tinted mirror? Maybe organic as it was swollen and an acid like blood had come out?

California man served with restraining order for allegedly 'stalking' Apple CEO Tim Cook

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Re: Mental health care

actually I've found UK mental health care to be pretty good.

Managed services slinger Ensono waves goodbye to staff on both sides of the pond

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"We need to think differently, and that includes re-evaluating how we distribute work regionally. "

Translation;

"We need to think the same as everyone else, and that includes re-evaluating how we distribute work to a cheaper location.

Come on baby light me on fire: McDonald's to sell 'Quarter Pounder' scented candles

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Re: bacteria infested

Does it matter how filthy the screens are because I'm sure you wash you hands BEFORE eating?

Thought not

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

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Facepalm

"I'm just letting you know this message appeared on my Norwegian Samsung XCover 4,"....

That wouldn't happen to be the Samsung GALAXY Xcover 4 would it?

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

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FAIL

Re: Okay

Who uses Safari?

Several hundred million people I should think.

Your McDonald's demo has expired. For full functionality, please purchase a licence or try another fast-food joint

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That looks like...

A Win95 / 98 / 2000 dialogue box

XP onwards tended to have rounded bevels.

Either that or it was done in a very early VB.

Life in plastic, with a classic: Polymer £20 notes released into wild sporting Turner art

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Re: Offensive?

If Vegans knew what used tallow in their production, they really would have to live in a hermits cave.

Hint, it's a bloody good lubricant for use on metal work tooling.

And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight

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Mushroom

Re: Road maintenance in Shropshire.

"Hasn't been a road tax for decades."

This one again?

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax

https://www.gov.uk/browse/driving/vehicle-tax-mot-insurance

Tax your vehicle...

Renew or tax your vehicle......

Tax your car, motorcycle or other vehicle using a reference number from:......

You must tax your vehicle even if you do not have to pay anything,.....

Change your car’s tax class to or from ‘disabled

DVLA vehicle tax service..mm

Go to a Post Office that deals with vehicle tax....

You will not need these payment details if your vehicle is exempt from tax.....

You might also need your MOT test certificate (it must be valid when the tax starts).....

so you might not be able to tax your vehicle immediately ......

You do not need to tax your vehicle.

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Mushroom

Road maintenance in Shropshire.

Easy to get potholes filled here. Just become a councilor.

The rest can put up with wheel smashing holes, that may occasionally get repaired in a half arsed manner by a corrupt contactor, who is overseen by a lazy inspector.

Think Boeing type quality control and certification.

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Watering Trees?

I have NEVER seen a tree being watered by the council and see little point in doing so.

We know what you did last summer: MGM's hotel spinoff lost 10.7m guest records and now they're on hacker forums

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Well clearly...

It was far easier to navigate the cloud server than the casino floor.

'An issue of survival': Why Mozilla welcomes EU attempts to regulate the internet giants

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If you want to see this in action.

Use Chrome and do an image search in Google.

Now use a different browser and perform the same.

Notice how the Chrome version gives you a whole load more options to filter and refine?

Researchers trick Tesla into massively breaking the speed limit by sticking a 2-inch piece of electrical tape on a sign

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Re: Sigh.

But to defend the OP it is legal to do 60mph on a single track twist road. If you hit an incoming nxar at that speed, not is it likely to kill someone, the driver doing that speed will almost certainly be the one going to be classed as the cause.

It's a weekly occurace to see some car on its roof / smashed to pieces or lying in a ditch because they were not doing an appropriate speed.

If this car just ramps up speed because the sign has changed, that is a very dangerous precedent.

Don't use natwest.co.uk for online banking, Natwest bank tells baffled customer

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This is nothing

A few years back, RBS made you go to a completely different site while some merger was going on. However if you went directly to that site, it wouldn't let you log in. It was actually 3 separate steps to get to the correct site.

Then the merger collapsed and the whole débâcle started once again.

After that mess (along with extortionate overdraft fees), I left.

Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners

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Re: "bridging designed gaps between...engineering control systems and human interface"

Or point a gun at someone's head.

It bought in 10's of millions for the Somalis after all.

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Re: Nothing new...

"https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/sep/30/modern-day-slavery-fishing-europe"

A ten year old article reporting on 4 year old (at that point) reports.

Among those pardoned by Trump this week: Software maker ex-CEO who admitted hacking into rivals' systems

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meanwhile...

...some poor innocent black guy is left to rot in some shit hole because he can't afford the cash bail.

USA...the best legal system money can buy.

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

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Re: Insta-what?

It's a photo sharing site full of clones with giant eyebrows & fake tans, as well as food that looks pretty but tastes like shit, but they are to fucking clueless to realise.

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Re: Good grief!

Yup, but something tells me she doesn't say "Hey, this lipstick is crap, but I'm paid to promote it, so go by it"

These "influencers" are nothing more than insidious marketing mouthpieces, usually conning the young and impressionable.

Japan would like to offer 5G firms cheap loans – because subsidies are only bad when Huawei gets them

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This outrageous!

Next you be telling us the USA gives huge tax breaks to its own multi billion dollar companies so they can set up new buildings.

Ah forgot, that's not somehow a kickback

Google lives in an Orange submarine: Transatlantic cable will get by with a little help from some friends

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Look on the good side. It saves it having a mysterious "outage" and the equally mysterious "automatic reconnection"

Oracle gets a bit touchy-feely as CEO Catz shares a digital transformation bedtime story

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Mushroom

Quite easy fixm

Allow the company to be guided by software developers, not lawyers and accountants.

That'll take the spring out of your step: Apple warns of iPhone shortages, revenue miss due to coronavirus

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They both use electricity?

Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report

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I do wonder..m

How much is bluster from the freelancers and how much is fact.

If you go by how *say* they are going to quit and how many *actually* do are two very different things. We all do it one way or another.

According to the spokes people, there are going to be a LOT of people with zero income from this change. Principles are all well and good, until you find your house being repossessed.

For some they may see it as an opportunity for a life and career change, many will just have to live with the change and very, few will stick at it on principle.

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

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IKEA is great

Take an item, rip it to pieces and make something useful and interesting.

If you've never seen this, StartPage* IKEA hacks.

* Can we all start using "StartPage it" instead of Google it?

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Re: "Relationship-ending"

Aha...that explains why I often have more items than I need...they just don't like you and pass them to others.

BTW. IKEA goods are often rebranded mainstream items.

I once bought a cooker by an "unknown" brand having found it was the company that supplies IKEA....for a fraction of the cost.

Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?

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Next week's news..

MS lose court case with Amazon over JEDI contact.

Now awarded to Oracle.