* Posts by gforce

16 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2020

Huawei's UK tech eviction reportedly caused Sky to fall on mobile customers

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Those that are not or in the process of going bankrupt. Uk governance, now there's the joke.

Germany clocks that ripping out Huawei, ZTE network kit won't be cheap or easy

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Re: Is there any proof?

But the Americans revel in Trumped up charges & falsehoods.

Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal

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Remember ... keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still.

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

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Finally, as a 69-year-old female techie I feel that my life is suddenly fulfilled.

AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m

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Re: If it steers boots on the ground to double check

Just more state intrusive snooping.

First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

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Re: Pffft

In relation to the UK favourite size silliness .... the football pitch, how many decimalised football pitches does that run to.

French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license

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Re: Time to turn the tablet off

More like time to turn the French off.

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Re: French court freezes out non-French competition

Pitchforks & flaming torches ... yup the village bumpkin attitude of the backward facing French strikes again.

EU law threatening 'commercially painful changes' for tech out tonight

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Re: I assume

Democracy .... in the UK. Next joke

UK starts to ponder how Huawei ban would work

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Re: Why do you keep tip-toeing around the bush ?

Remember "a Xi in the hand is worth two Bidens in the bush"

Brits open doors for tech-enabled fraudsters because they 'don't want to seem rude'

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From what I have seen when I am doing remote support, the average Brit makes a railway sleeper look highly intelligent when it comes to matter IT

Microsoft's axeman cometh for OneDrive sync app on older versions of macOS

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Re: I can understand no updates

Plenty of options out there .... Mountain Duck for example

Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security

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Apple's product ... do it their way which is consderably safer than sideloading .... or go and buy another product with appropriate virus & malware pre loaded. If you do not like the product & system - leave it alone.

Arriving in 2021, the UK's Digital Markets Unit 'could' start to do something about the power of online ad giants

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UK & IT

With their track record this will just end up as another F U failure .... but this is the UK, patron country of screwing things up.

Telcos face £100k-a-day fines unless they obey new UK.gov rules on how to deploy Huawei 5G gear in their networks

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Have to say that I would trust Huawei far more than I would trust either British or US governments.

Whoa, no Huawei wares, Hua-wei, livin' on a prayer: US government says we've got to hold on to what we've got

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Re: Stupid US

The old saying 'keep your friends close BUT keep your enemies closer' is very apt & one that is totally ignored by Humpty Dumpty Trumpy. This will come back & bite the US & the rest of the world as China very quickly develops the necessary technologies & them swamp's other producers.