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IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say

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Re: Outsource Email to Kyndryl

Free advice to global businesses intending to mostly do business with other serious global businesses and governments.

Don't rename yourself like a god from the Cthullu mythos that nobody can spell - it isn't big and it isn't clever.

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Re: "laid the blame on IBM CFO James Kavanaugh"

>IBM does have a CTO, right

No, it turns out he was over 50 so they made him redundant and outsourced the job

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Re: Bean counters?

More to the point if IBM can't use Notes because it would be insecure having their data on another companies servers - why would anyone else run Notes ?

Data collected to promote public health must never be surrendered to police

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I won't scan a QR code to go into a pub

If the police want to know where I go 24x7 they can use the mobile phone cell location data like any other spooks.

Fortunately since the level of government technical ability here means they are thinking of getting one of those fax machines one day - the pub just has a sheet of paper to write down your first name and phone number if you want.

Micron announces EUV fabs by 2024 as it flogs Utah facility to Texas Instruments

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Re: "Designed to keep Moore's Law alive...."

Specifically he was talking about the most cost effective chips being a shrinking in size, because the cost of processing was pretty much constant per area of wafer.

That hasn't been true for the past few iterations because the cost of euv fabs and the time taken to multiple pass layering

The justification for euv scale is speed, power consumption and the need to pack a super computer into a phone rather than Moore's law making smaller chips cheaper

This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

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Re: Maximum weekly working hours

My partner does on-call weekends, fortunately its a union job so gets paid, but it does mean they have to be by their phone and computer all weekend - so can't go out anywhere unless you are sure the cell reception is good

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Re: Maximum weekly working hours

Does it also mean that you can never have a drink because you might need to drive into the office/data-center, that you need to have child/pet care available 24x7 at no notice, that you can never travel more than 1 hour from the office/datacenter etc etc

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Re: Maximum weekly working hours

Because it has so many loopholes

Doesn't apply "where working time is not measured " so if you don't physically clock in and out then it doesn't apply to you

Does reading an email at midnight count 1min toward your 48hours ?

What if you get a quick 1min email every hour ?

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Re: This is unnecessary

> This proposal is to set limits on what an employee can agree to, even if they want to.

Because otherwise the first page of all contracts would be waiving any limits on working hours, or health and safety or any other law.

Watch the moment China's Zhurong rover lands on Mars, hear it truckin' for the first time

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Re: That looks remarkably like a human shadow...

But they also have much better technology for making them disappear from online images

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Re: New conspiracy!

If it was faked on a film stage in China there would be more wire work fight scenes

Revealed: Why Windows Task Manager took a cuddlier approach to (process) death and destruction

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gdb --begbie

Right, some &*%$ locked a resource and no &*%$ gets released till we find out which &*%$ locked it.

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No feelings were hurt

That's what I like about the left pondians, so careful about causing offence.

We renamed the 'release' button to 'deploy' because some people may have abandonment issues and 'release' may be traumatic.

What does it do?

It 'deploys' the new Kill Ninja 9000, automatic laser guided child seeking cluster missiles

UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack

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Re: Tough one

>churches and religious bodies .... are struggling to work out the issues round diversity

And D-Day was multiple officer-involved-shootings at an ANTIFA protest

UK's competition watchdog preps to shoulder post-Brexit workload from European Commission

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Re: Oh, right.

> what does that tell you?

That the deal is for cheap Australian food to be imported making Oz farmers happy and UK farmers sad.

If you also questioned people involved in the major trade going the other way, eg. manufacturers of replicas of the Ashes you would find the millions of British exporters happy and the native Australian manufacturers of Replicas of the Ashes to be despondent

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Re: Oh, right.

The whole point of the Eu was to prop up French farmers.

Farmers voting for Brexit to avoid all the forms they have to fill in to get Eu subsidy was a classic Creme Eggs voting for Easter

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Re: Oh, right.

And what's more by negotiating our own deals we have the power to tell American, Chinese and Indian companies exactly what they have to do if they want a trade deal

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Re: We're going to hit you with a massive fine.....

If you can no longer count all UK sales in Ireland is it as desirable as an HQ for USA?

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Ye trillion $ global monopolies

Feel the wrath of our mighty sovereignty and tremble

We hope this hotel has a nice spa because Windows sure looks like it needs some R&R

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That's because of security. the windows machine can connect to Microsoft everyday to download new antivirus updates -while the Pi would only be accessible over ssh, only from your machine only to supply new content.

Five words everyone wants to hear: Microsoft has 'visually refreshed' Office

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Re: Custom ribbon?

But now it as muted pastel colours and rounded corners

UK artists seek 'luvvie levy' on new gadgets to make up for all the media that consumers access online

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Re: Okay.

But the concept of "happy" is now property of the Disney corporation

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>What we need is lions. Fierce, hungry lions

At least that would provide entertainment, Luvvies vs Lions at Wembley

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Re: Blank media tax V2.0

In theory yes, in practice it never covered the costs of the industry body administering the scheme so the money just went to paying executives

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Re: Blank media tax V2.0

There is still a 25c/each tax on blank CDs here to pay for piracy. The money goes to the equivalent of the RIAA but somehow never made it to any artists, meanwhile small bands selling CDs at their gigs had to pay the tax.

There was a proposal to put a $50 tax on iPods but the iPod died out before it got passed

Developing for Windows 11: Like developing for Windows 10, but with rounded corners?

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Re: The new slogan

"Windows, let your ideas fly through it"

Like a bird

The world has a plastics shortage, and PC makers may be responding with a little greenwashing

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Re: The world has plenty of plastic

Is large plastics the problem?

After every storm there are large (metre size) lumps of styrofoam floats, + fishing gear on the beaches, it looks bad but is easily picked up,

How much damage does it do to the ecosystem?

You don't see the microscopic bits of plastic inside the organisms.

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Re: There something wrong with plastic

>stop making plastic jars and caps and replace them with glass and metal one

Fossil fuel required to make 1 ton of plastic milk bags = a little bit more than 1 ton

Fossil fuel required to make 100 tons of glass bottles (to hold same amount of milk) +

fuel required to truck heavy bottles to store, and to consumers + fuel required for consumers to wash glass bottles + fuel required to drive bottles back to store and then to factory+ fuel required to wash and sanitise bottles.

Our local store sells the organic milk in glass bottles and regular milk in plastic pouches, i'm guessing the glass bottles use 1000x the fossil fuel than the evil plastic.

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Re: The world has plenty of plastic

>majority of large plastic pollution

Note careful wording.

So 10tons of large lumps of plastic, 6 of it is fishing gear, a million tons of micro-plastic injection mould feedstock isn't included. Headline = "problem is fishing gear"

London Greenwich station: A reminder of former glories. Like Windows XP

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Re: How much longer will we have to endure this ?

Are we sure that this isn't an art installation ?

Following the success of the "poems on the tube", whatever Network-South-East-Is-Called-Today asked artists to come up with something which embodied the spirit of transport in the suburbs of the Capital

Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack

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Re: Is it a real opt-out?

Patient election to not rescind the opposite action of declining the reverse inclination to not discontinue opt-opt with the NHS data collection, does not apply to NHSdirectX (or NHSOpenGL)

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>Most people are O blood type, this unconcious A&E patient must be too?

All people can accept blood type O-, if you are in the ER they can very quickly type you.

If you are a 20 something RTA casualty who last went to your GP for a child hood vaccination, at your parents address that you lived at 10years ago - what's the chance they have your blood type on file?

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And so that the A&E know who you are it will be necessary to tattoo a QR code of your NHS number on your forehead. Or they could just chip you like a pet.

UK urged to choo-choo-choose hydrogen-powered trains in pursuit of carbon-neutral economic growth

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Re: 150 5 6 8

>Tube trains are pretty small.

But even DLR or the automatic elevated metro trains here are still much heavier built than a National Express coach.

> Have to withstand some pretty high forces in csae of accidents.

Is that just historical though?

A car accident is obviously much more common. With modern signalling systems a commuter train really shouldn't run into a 225kmh inter city or a 10,000 ton coal train and wouldn't survive the collision anyway. So do they need to be built like tanks ?

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Re: 150 5 6 8

Serious question.

Why are trains all built like a Victorian Dreadnought ?

It starts with big heavy wheels, which then need huge bogies and massive suspension and so bigger engines etc.

Obviously the miles long ore trains here with 6 locomotives need to be a bit 'chunky', but a local commuter train that is basically a bus body is still on a train chassis that was designed by Brunel.

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Re: My thoughts

>you can't have new installations with exposed third rails where anyone can walk/sleep/piss on them

Is that an 'Unelected Eurocrat Rule" or can we wave it away with the sovereignty wand?

I'm sure Scottish sheep can be trained not to lick the 3rd rail.

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Re: I wondered the same thing

>With costs like that, hydrogen might actually save money.

Yes because while massive costs overruns on extending existing technology a few miles are inevitable - projects to install entirely new technology on a national scale always come in well under budget

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Nuclear powered trains are easy - just put the spicy rocks in the firebox instead of coal and use the same Great British steam train technology.

>Oddly the Thunderbirds themselves appeared to be decidedly carbon un-neutral.

That's why they had to operate from Tracy island - outside the IPCC control

BOFH: Oh for Pete’s sake. Don’t make a spectacle of yourself

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Re: huh

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses (*)

* do not wear while driving

British minister claims technology makes maritime cannibalism obsolete

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Re: Dear Sir

I did once put "reduce incidences of cannibalism by 15%" in my teams goals for a performance review.

Nobody said anything, leading me to think that either nobody reads these things, or they thought that was an acceptable target

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Re: Ohhh The Drama

He played the jury foreman and doubled up as the courtroom?

A range even Alec Guinness would be proud of

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>Rum, Sodomy and the Lash?

Still proud traditions of the Tory party

Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown

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Re: Just a FYI

Calais is a vital English base in our wars against the French, you can't expect us to give it up.

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Whereas the alternative is; I'm going to ignore that bulk carrier heading toward me because I don't trust the Liberian agency that signed its authentication key

Lego bricks, upcycled iPhone lenses used in new low-cost, high-res microscope

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we remove all the fancy electronics, but we only need the lens

Bah in my day century we just needed a blowtorch and a glass rod .

Actually it's difficult to melt the glass rod and get a nice round blob of glass - there's a very nice introduction

Campaigners warn of an 'algorithm-driven censorship' future if UK Online Safety Bill gets through Parliament

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Re: An old joke

>More sinister is your claim.

It's a line from a Bond movie villain (Tomorrow Never Dies)

Chromebook boom won’t outlive COVID-19 pandemic, says IDC

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>The elderly, some of whom get very confused with operating system updates, viruses, etc.

Or young people that seem to need some sort of gui to operate their computers and have no idea how to toggle a bootloader on a front panel, edit a config.sys put a VAX cluster together

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