Posts by TheIO

UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs

Actually, what they're short of *is* managers - and secretaries and other admin staff. Admin doesn't go away just because there isn't a dedicated person, it just means the doctors and nurses are having to waste their time filling them in and handling them instead of treating patients.

A boatload of admin people can get hired pretty quickly, a lot faster than new doctors can - get them in now, and you've got doctors doing doctoring and admins doing admining, and you're getting some actual efficiency due to people working on what they're specialised in.

TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments

Re: Due process and equality before the law

So no change there then.

Chinese State media uses new release of local Linux to troll Trump

It's not really Linux

It's Windows CCP. Easy to joke about SlurpOS but Microsoft ain't anywhere near as bad as Xinnie the Pooh.

They're 'clean': SoftBank gets thumbs-up from Uncle Sam for keeping Chinese gear off its Japanese 5G network

Re: I second that motion

Ericsson and Nokia, but yes.

China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US

Re: Come on

We literally used to have one. It was called Vine and for no clear reason whatsoever it closed.

It looks like you want to browse the internet with Chrome. Would you like help? Maybe try Edge? Please?

Re: Ah, that explains why...

Used to be a lot bigger, but then Chrome overtook Explorer; I'd say that having Chrome bundled with Android smartphones was what did it, that and Google having more money than God.

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

Re: A dry run for trumps loss in 2020

Under a system of proportional representation, the SNP wouldn't be the third largest party in parliament - the only reason they have so many seats is because of first past the post, whereby they didn't get the majority of the vote in IIRC *any* seat last year yet won 48 anyway. You'd have seen the Lib Dems in third place, potentially with the Greens or Brexit Party in fourth ahead of the SNP depending on how it's sliced. It'd be fundamentally healthier for politics in that part of the country, because you wouldn't have a monolithic yellow block that ignores the wishes of a majority of its constituents.

UK enters almost-lockdown: Brits urged to keep calm and carry on – as long as it doesn't involve leaving the house

Re: "One form of exercise a day"

There was a UK Pirate Party as it happens, but it never got very far.

Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this

Re: No

Being an Uighur in China these days is a life-threatening issue.

Orange has an elegant solution to Huawei question in France: We'll stick with Nokia and Ericsson for 5G networks

Re: So: neither Huawei nor Cisco

I don't know about you, but I'm fairly certain I have less to fear from the Swedish or Finnish governments than I do from the American or Chinese.