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

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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.

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Re: Did they change the meaning of an acronym again?

You forgot the "+" that has to be tagged on.

Soon the acronym will be so long it may as just have a "-" to say who isn't in the club

Before the flames, I don't give a flying fuck about someone's gender / sexuality.

Actually, can we add FF to it?

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

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Re: The problem I have with M.2 SSD's

Yeah, it's almost as if a really old operating system is unable to run new hardware.

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Re: Why not...

You mean how home computers used to be?

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Though with the cheap price of online storage..... I do not see why we will need in the future any important capacity in local but lets see.

Until the provider decides to close it down. Thensee how much fun it is to migrate a huge amount of data.

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Remember putting as system together then scratching your head when it wouldn't power up.

The reason?

Floppy cable upside down.

Microsoft brings the pane: You'll be looking at Xamarin and React Native to design apps for dual-screen gizmos

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Having had...

A MS band (great device, crap build) and a WinPhone (far superior inte face to Android and IOS).... I say with a hearty voice.

No thanks.... I'll watch it be abandoned by MS without spending a penny this time.

Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe

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Happy

Re: "WD-40 is not a lubricant!"

#Now, that being said, WD-40 IS an excellent product for keeping water out of places it doesn't belong, and that waxy deposit it leaves behind seems to be the reason."

It almost as if it's a Water Displacement which they got right on the 40th attempt

Best buds? Apple must be fuming: Samsung's wireless earphones boast 11 hours of listening on a single charge

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Re: Style Council

"Sound quality is subjective, whether you look a prat is universal"

Depends if you are a Shitditch worker, then looking like a dick is actually cool.... according to other in the bubble.

A dirty dozen of Bluetooth bugs threaten to reboot, freeze, or hack your trendy gizmos from close range

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I'm shocked!

IoT has unpatched security holes.

I'm shocked I tell you!

Deutsche Bank calls in AWS, Microsoft and Google to tout for cloud biz: Come in to tender, deal value unknown

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Re: Don't wait for your Employer to upskill for public cloud they won't!

Or in my case give up the world of working in IT altogether.

Yup I'm permanently broke, but I'm no longer miserable.

Parks and recreation escalate efforts to take back control of field terrorised by thug geese

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Re: Selectively shooting them is the only thing that will work.

Although the shotgun does work you are curing the illness.

Have they bothered to work out why they are so attracted to the area?

It most likely is down to idiots feeding them

See Gull (not Seagull as there is no such beast) issues in UK coastal towns for a great example of this.

Dual screens, fast updates, no registry cruft and security in mind: Microsoft gives devs the lowdown on Windows 10X

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So this will be...

Another WinRT/ Windows on ARM/ WinPhone / UWP then?

Startup Mycroft AI declares it will fight 'patent troll' tooth and nail after its Linux voice-assistant attracts lawsuit

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Unhappy

"Pretty sure that Amazon & Google have a vested interest"

Yes they do. Let the troll bankrupt the competition, knowing full well they won't be touched by the law firm.

You, FCC, tell us again why cities are only allowed to charge rich telcos $270 to attach 5G tech to utility poles?

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No if only there was...

a huge telecoms equipment supplier that could supply the most cutting edge 5g hardware for a fraction of the cost of others, thus lowering capital expenditure for all involved.

Nope can't think of one.

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Well surely...

By the FCC's logic, then the telcos would have no issue whatso ever being legally obliged to either

A) Roll out coverage to less dense areas using the money saved or

B) lower phones charges in in heavily populated areas.

Coronavirus to decimate server supply chain, analysts claim: Sales to fall 10% as factories stay shut

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Megaphone

STOP IT NOW!

"There are now more than 40,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus"

I think you may find there are several billion cases of coronavirus, what with it being a family of viri that most of the planet have had at one time or another.

Voyager 2 gets back to sciencing while 'unstoppable' Iran promises world more 'Great Iranian Satellites'

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"I think the paper clip gang practically jumped into the Americans arms."

Yes I think the line "Come work with us and get US citizenship or hang from the galllows" was only a minor thought in the back of their minds.

Oh good, the FTC has discovered acqui-hires... American watchdog to probe decade of Big Tech takeovers

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Holmes

wow...just wow.

They seem just have discovered why companies by other companies.

Ffs.

Ever wondered how Google-less Android might look? Step right this Huawei: Mate 30 Pro arrives on British shores

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Re: I just bought the Huawei P20 Lite for just over £200

You can disable many of the Google "apps", newstand, music, YouTube etc.

That stops the updates, speeds up your phone and gets some privacy back

US govt accuses four Chinese army soldiers of hacking Equifax and siphoning 145m Americans' personal info

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Megaphone

As you managed to trace the exact people...

That commited this via multiple hops, any chance of arresting those that keep trying to hack my site? I'll supply the US based IP addresses, times and method of attack if it helps.

It may even be those commie bastards, but if you can at least hit those devices with a hammer, it will be most appreciated.

Thanks.

These truly are the end times for TLS 1.0, 1.1: Firefox hopes to 'eradicate' weak HTTPS standard by blocking it

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Just do what I used to do

Use an older portable browser and never let it upgrade. Then when stuck, use that rather than a more secure and up to date version

Jeff Bezos: I will depose King Trump

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Sorry it would take the 52% at least 3 years to even start to get involved...

NASA's Christina Koch returns to Earth as the longest-serving woman astronaut – after spending 328 days in space

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Re: Interesting point

Would be funny if one came back and ""Meh...It was ok. Is the new Bond movie out yet?"

Like other tech giants, Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and impressively, none of them involve Adam Sandler

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Re: How did I know ...

@JimJimmyJohnson

"in 2018, Singapore was ranked 151st out of 180 nations by Reporters Without Borders in the Worldwide Press Freedom Index. Freedom in the World scored Singapore 4 out of 7 for political freedom, and 4 out of 7 for civil liberties (where 1 is the most free)...."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore

Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they'll have to fly the things a lot more if they want to help out around South China Sea

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UK planes can't patrol Chinese seas...

Seems like a win-win situation to me.

Latest battery bruiser Android from budget Moto G range appears ahead of MWC after an Amazon whoopsie

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Re: Still no wireless charging that costs pennies to include?

The same wireless chargers that use the same power supply and connection this requires?

Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tessadora, Wrenlow, Faelina and Graylen

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I dug into the details...

it turns out 99.9% of those parents answered as following to a further question.

"Name your top three TV shows of all time"

The results were.

1. Made in Chelsea

2. Love Island

3. The Kardashians

Atari would love to ship its VCS console but – would ya believe it – there's yet another delay. This time, it's the coronavirus's fault

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I'm still waiting....

to lose my money on a Vectrex reboot that never appears.

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Re: Oh how I used to love Atari...

But can you drop an IPad down a flight of concrete stairs and know it will still work.

You could with a ST. I know speaking from experience.....twice!

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meanwhile

There are dozens of mini VCS, NES, MEGADRIVE and many more makes of Raspberry pi cases out there.

Heck you can even get full size 3D printable files if you so desire.

Then just run an emulator and off you go.

He’s a pain in the ASCII to everybody. Now please acquit my sysadmin client over these CIA Vault 7 leaking charges

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So.lwt me get this right..

...the backdoor is still there?

I

LCD pwn System: How to modulate screen brightness to covertly transmit data from an air-gapped computer... slowly

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Eh?

Many here have mentioned a security camera pointing at the screen.

If you have a camera looking at the screen (or even with the potential to) on a secure computer, you have far bigger security issues to worry about.

Time to patch your lightbulb? Researchers demonstrate Philips Hue exploit

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Joke

Re: I still..

@JakeMS

"As for changing colours of the bomb"

Is this something we should alert the authorities to?

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It's not just Smart bulbs that are at risk

I've recently discovered a flaw in my set up.

By pressing a small device on my walls, I can turn the bulbs on AND off by simply pressing it. No encryption, no authentication, no app required...nothing!

This needs to be sorted before others find this blantent security hole. This has clearly been left in so the Chinese or NORKs can take over our cities!

Facebook mulls tagging pics with 'radioactive' markers to trace the origin of photos used to build image-recog AI

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I'm once again missing something

..is this the same Facebook that tags people in photos without their permission?

Sketchy behavior? Wacom tablet drivers phone home with names, times of every app opened on your computer

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Another one...

for GDPR. If you own one (I have one of the cheaper but equally as good clones) please raise a complaint.

Only big fines will stop the bastards doing this.

Google, YouTube, Twitter tell face-rec upstart Clearview to stop harvesting people's content – that's their job

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Megaphone

Ok...

So how exactly are they scraping and matching the images?

With all this bullshit AI Google et al keep spouting, they seem unable to spot a bot trawling millions of and millions of profiles? I don't buy it at all.

Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap

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Why...

Is an app the answer to everything?

Count, send an email. Get auto response.

Done.

If you want to get flashy.

Create email template. Send email. Pull results from template.

Done.

Fucking idiots.

Who's got the WD-40? Owners of Motorola's rebooted Razr whinge about creaky hinge

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Re: People just want to complain

So if you pay several hundred dollars / pounds for a faulty product, you just put up with it?

Now "we" have social media, the company's can't hide defective products.

What a terrible result from this year's Super Bowl. Can you believe it? Awful. Yes, we're talking about the tech ads

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Re: Microsoft

Anyone else think Bob is actually Donald Trump?

Stuck in the past, incoherent rants and an attitude I'm right and everyone else is wrong, even when the facts are presented to him.

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Re: 5g will connect emergency workers to hospitals?

@redpawn..

I can't work out if you are being serious. You have some reasonable points, but then stick in "5g is much stronger"...which threw me.

Where do you draw the line? Escobar Inc doubles down on cut-price gold phone buying demographic with second pholdable

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Coat

I'm thinking of releasing one....

...under Jaguar cars earlier name.

SS Phones should be ok? Even have designed the winged logos and everything.

I was going for deity branded phone, but apparently ISIS us already trademarked.

AI snatches jobs from DJs and warehouse workers, plus OpenAI and PyTorch sittin' in a tree, AI, AI, AI for you and me

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iHeartRadio

This is a really low bar.

Robot...play the same bland, middle of the road, inoffensive music and talk about uncontroversial subjects all day, every day.

iHeartRadio...the worst thing to happen to radio err....ever?

WannaCry ransomware attack on NHS could have triggered NATO reaction, says German cybergeneral

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So....

Does this mean we're going to bomb Isreal and the US then?

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Mushroom

Is this the same NHS...

...that is proping up the huge military budget, because they can't be arsed to look after ex service personnel...or is that the homeless charities.....I forget.

Maybe some of that crazy NATO budget should be spent on personal AFTER they have been dumped into the wider world, rather than blowing up perpetrators of a random unplanned attack..

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

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Until a major route from a separate carrier knackers, and you find all those independent routes are not as independent as you think.

I've had problems in different countries knock us offline.

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I know it's a crazy idea...

...but could some of these be linked?

SF tech biz forks out $146m in fines, settlements after painkiller makers bribed it to design medical software that pushed opioids to patients

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Athletes foot treatment...

Twice here it's been mentioned

For me one thing fixed it very quickly

Tea tree oil...99p a bottle from that place that CAREs for your BODY. Apply morning and night, mine cleared up in no time.

Good for other skin aliments as well..