* Posts by All names Taken

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Gates chokes up, WEEPS to Microsoft shareholders amid talk of CEO hunt

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Paris Hilton

It will be an emotional time for all really.

Maybe just part of the human experience rather than MS experience.

Besides which staying with a single organisation for so long can make for lots of emotional investment/baggage.

Were it the Ancient Greeks who thought it profound to weep?

3CX PBX for Windows: Everything you ever wanted from a phone system

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Is it secure?

Has it been risk assessed and where are its weak points?

Patent law? It's all about Apples, Newton and iPads

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Paris Hilton

Pragmatic and/or/nor Theoretical

I suppose that, as with most things technical, there are theoretical considerations and pragmatic considerations.

If so, the dichotomy can blur or give rise to false understandings? For example:

Pragmatic

Suppose I make chips, electronic circuitry stuff and I have a way to put some semiconductors together that might have an appeal to people involved with electronic games (hardware, firmware, software, assembler and customer oriented). It makes their stuff run better, look better and gives their customers a more moving experience and, well, they can charge more than the competition or other not possessing that technology or one similar to it.

So rather than make the extra bit available for free on every chip I make I ensure it is lockable and only people buying the right to use that bit of silicon will get the key. No copyright = no key.

The model makes sense to me because I can charge royalties on top of a general "copyright fee". If you want to buy copyright you can but then I also need a "royalty fee" for every instance of potential (emphasis on potential) use that might be made of that copyrighted, royalty accessed technology hidden behind an electronic and legal lock.

It's how I make my money dood?

Company selling you out? You've been TUPE-ed

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I think you may find that in practice TUPE favourably favours the public sector while the private sector seems a bit dramatic all round?

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Paris Hilton

The trouble is that TUPE tends to be abused by all parties.

For example, when a company loses a contract to supply services. What sometimes happens (and almost all of the time in the public sector) is that the same employees with the same jobs, incomes and priveleges remain in position while a sort of rebranding operation takes place.

In the UK publicly funded sector this usually takes the form of the local council creating an arms length managed organisation (ALMO?) that tranfers stuff while the council retains ownership through it being the single share holder.

Of course, human nature being what human nature is it also means that undue influence and breaches of data exist for most of the time as the entities are not truly separate and distinct (although one may be forgiven for thinking it is so for it is indeed the perception the ALMO and the holding organisation wish to convey).

Basically a case of "Here, look at the new kids on the block doing new things in new ways" when it really is "same old, same old with mega-financed spin factors"?

Barclays Online OFFLINE: UK bank site, mobile app go titsup for the evening

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Paris Hilton

ROI: has anyone costed in the cumulative effect of all of this costly computer costliness?

Deep beneath melting Antartic ice: A huge active volcano

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Paris Hilton

It just shows us that while mankind can truly cock things up bigtime (eg Fukushima) nature will always win when it comes to maximal disruption with equally maximal surprise no?

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Alien

I wonder what that magma might do if the weight of melting ice starts a bit of uplifting around the calder (or anywhere in the vicinity really)?

You earthlings really do need your Doctor no?

(oops I meant the other one - not the James Bond variant)

Getting it right on the second attempt: Sony Xperia Z1

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Hmm - but!

There again:

http://www.idealworld.tv/_295465.aspx

GCHQ tracks diplomats' hotel bookings to plant bugs, say leaked docs

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Re: So true

Life has always been challenging no?

Remember running from the 'saurs?

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Paris Hilton

Tsk! Don't be silly!

Everyone nose that we in the UK don't have spies. We have intelligence operators who gather intelligence AND we have James Bond.

Other nations have spies and you can tell them easily because they do things like wear shoes and when you click the heals together sharp (as in really, really manhood piercingly sharp) metal blades flick out from the toes of the shoes.

We in the UK need to have a first-line, frontline means of defense against such peoples.

The right time to drink coffee

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Happy

Re: @Don Jefe

Ah

<Homer Simpson said it best: "Beer, the source and solution of all my problems">

Why won't Mr Simpson stand for president?

I am sure he would make a great President and help to encourage the rest of humanity to love all things Merikan?

Gov mulls making it easier for ICO to squash marketing pests

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Paris Hilton

Sometime in the future ...

Hello I'm phoning you on behalf of insoolayshun. There is no need to hang up as by picking up the hone you automatically endorsed a £10 (or £X if you wish) payment to Dell-Boyz Dodgy Trading Marketing (Direct) company.

We have to make this charge in order to comply with legal regulations. If you hold on to the end of the call before hanging up it will only cost £5 (or £(X * 0.5) if you wish farther)

Whovians, your Doctor needs you: Take back the Day from One Direction

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Joke

(marketing?)

Whovians at el Reg = WhoRes?

Anti-whovians or a-whovians = hooVers?

'I'm BIG, I'm BALD and I'm LOUD!' Blubbering Ballmer admits HE was Microsoft's problem

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Paris Hilton

Silly sausage?

Sometimes people are great 2nd in commands and never, ever should be 1st in command?

Take, for example, George Brown or John Major?

Schiller: 'Almost everyone' at Apple works on iPhones - not Macs or anything

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Paris Hilton

My take is that pre-2000 the Apple preferred to be elite. Maybe it satisfied that clever + lazy condition someone commented upon earlier? (Great post by the way - a Roman Game Theory?)

About 2000-ish the Apple realised that popularity started to outweigh cold, technical supremacy and started to coin it in with iPod. Realisation that an iPod environment and working methods could be dovetailed into a mobile phone around the time of a burgeoning world economy could conceivably forgive any mistakes developers at the Apple (or any where else) made.

If so the Apple might wish to avoid the now obvious pitfall of a smart and unique device?

Besides the general levels of expendable income have turned against the Apple's marketing strategy rather than consumers?

Build your own WORKING Sonic Screwdriver... for a UNDER A FIVER

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Paris Hilton

Mate, its just a story. It ain't real.

The doctor is an actor.

One of the last doctor's is now advertising stuff for Virgin and I bet if he used his sonic screwdriver or its series X derivative in the ads the BBC would probably sue for some contractual breach or infringement of the commercial (cashcow?) entity that is/was/never will be Doctor Who?

File-NUKING Cryptolocker PC malware MENACES 'TENS of MILLIONS' in UK

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Paris Hilton

Or maybe even ... ?

When will return on investment calculations favour ditching computerised working methods for paper based working methods as the cost of computerised methods is so open to extortion, hacking, widespread leaking?

(face it, wikileaks would have a tougher time if all that stuff were not in digital form stored on digital media)

Return of the Luddites?

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Joke

Is it NSA trying to improve homeland finances?

Backup software for HDD and Cloud

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Paris Hilton

Will The Apple's Time warp hard disk enclosure-thingy wifi doable network making device work with a Windows machine?

Shame? Innit?

KRAKOOM! iPad Air explose in fireball, terrified fanbois flee Apple store

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Happy

Did the bystanders mince or go something like "Wow! Profound dood!"?

Bletchley Park vows to upload secret World War II code-cracking archives

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Paris Hilton

BLMRA?

I have an awful feeling that a suitable epithet for the UK in all of this in centuries past, present and yet to come will always be:

Lions led by donkeys

(I don't mean diodes that emit light but retaining that thought may yield profound insight no?)

Blighty promises £49m to get more British yoof into engineering careers

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Unhappy

Isit a UK thang?

I mean this dissing of "engineers" and "engineering" or maybe even getting your hands mucky kind of "working class thing"?

Seems France and Germany (add Iceland too if you wish) consider Herr Engineer to be as important as Herr Doktor. (Maybe it is something to do with BMW, VW, Audi, Merc, ... Bosch, BASF, .... You know those manufacturing things that the UK used to do but now doesn't). Hmmm, ... Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, ... seems to be a pattern here no?

Maybe another factor is UK supremacy-oia (as in para-noia) along line of: there will always be a hierarchy, get used to it. And so naturally, national growth and development is to hierarchical reinforcement (ask any consultant how important it is to keep the client happy before, during and after receiving contracts and, more important still, the cheque?

Maybe it is a british disease after all: dully managed mid-management aspiring towards sit on one's arse idolatry?

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Paris Hilton

Let me see now ... <reaches for calculator>

45 million you say? Aha...

That will be 40 million for the central procurement operation and national management services division.

So in Year One we will aim for 5, no 4, repeat 4 divisional offices with running costs at a million each leaving one million of the budget in semi-surplus.

That one million in surplus will be used in third quarter of Year One (technically tho still Year Zero) on a 50/50 basis for end user advancement/progression and direct surplus for just-in-case contingencies.

No?

Fury as OS X Mavericks users FORCED to sync contact books with iCloud

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Paris Hilton

Security seems a funny fun kind of thing.

Like here in the UK we have the press phone hacking thang and then there is the NSA thang.

And it seems one strategy supposing your phone is nice and secure is to tap into the details of people you contact and hack their information.

So security seems to be a wider issue than one secure phone - it needs a secure hardware/firmware/software environment and equally secure carrier networks and all of these might just be less secure than the phone in the first place?

UK.gov BANS iPads from Cabinet over foreign eavesdropper fears

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Paris Hilton

Are the MPs still publishing their official and formal signatures online?

Ah! Thought so. Shame innit?

When one gets soft-soaped cuckolded by one's civil service one's paranoia tends to diminish if not disintegrate altogether.

And what's this delusion about governments?

Do ministers mean the UK civil service?

Don't they know that any1 might wish to hack upon them?

IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Google's secretive Omega tech just like LIVING thing

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Paris Hilton

Hmmmph

Q:

Where's the software to run the software?

:Q

That will be the hardware then with firmware stuff from time to time no?

Ohh! The PRECIOUS! Give it to uss. We WANTS it: Shiny iThings coming in 2014

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Holmes

Hmmm - I dunno ...

Remotely controlling home devices by phone over t'internet is doable now.

See, for example, http://www.jsjsdesigns.com/

Whether one wants to or not is a different thing altogether

The Raspberry Pi: Is it REALLY the saviour of British computing?

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Paris Hilton

On one hand: tokenism, just mere tokenism. It looks like a solution but is no solution at all although it really is fantastic at looking like a solution of sorts.

On the other hand: if it were not there what else could be done?

Potential answer: how about meaningful training from the major it sectors even if it is limited in geographic footprint?

Payday loan firms are the WORST. Ugh, my mobe's FILLED with filthy SPAM

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Paris Hilton

Okay - I admit payday loans companies are or at least appear to me to be quite a bit 'orrible.

But shoorli the bigger kwesty-on is: why the surge to use them?

Maybe it has something to do with weekly contracted workers (that is workers employed on a one-week notice period) getting paid monthly in arrears?

Why, just bear with me a moment or two longer, that would mean that a new employee might have to work for about three months after starting the new job to be relatively in tune with their income wouldn't it?

Hence: new term: misanthropic social practice.

Suppose new employees on a one-week notice type contract were actually paid on a weekly basis - imagine that.

Revolutionary isn't it?

Mac OS X Mavericks 'upgrade' ruins iWorks

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Paris Hilton

I do wonder sometimes and try to understand why software people make so many changes and partly concluded that it must mean additional coding hours. So on a short-term contractual basis anything that ups the total hours also ups the total income = very good for the coders?

Sidebar? (I much prefer pallets - remember them? Even better still: dockable pallets - uh-ha baby )

[doo doo doo di-de doo doo]

And the way all things Apple and all things SM are going I think I may just prattle about in android for a while - it also seems cheaper in case they wish to wreck things there too no?

Impending Windows XP doom breathes life into flagging PC sales

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Happy

Wouldn't it be better if MS re-released XP as a new operating system?

SEC review clears Apple of dodgy tax dealings

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Paris Hilton

Why do you think the UK has had tax avoidance stuff in place for years and years and years and ... years and then make changes when the plebs move in and start to use them?

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<Polite applause>

The law is the law

</polite applause>

MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS

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Paris Hilton

East Germany?

East Germany?

How old and up to date is this MI5 geezer?

And isn't it a bit like the burglar saying if you had not caught me I'd have got away with it?

O2, Tesco Mobile go titsup for 220,000+ Brits in 13-HOUR 3G cockup

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That may explain the non-working, frozen screen huddle of hudls at my local tesco no?

BTW: gr8 ad T'co

Exciting MIT droplet discovery could turbocharge power plants, airships and more

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Can I have one for my tumble drier?

In defence of defenestration: Microsoft MUST hurl Gates from the Windows

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Paris Hilton

Merely a time for resilience really - Mr Gates will have to go sometime I suppose but it really should be of his own choosing along with best for the company motives.

These shenanigans just sound like "I wanna sit in the big seat" wailings?

Google: Thanks for the billions in revenue, UK. Here are your taxes, that's ... £11m

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Alien

Haves and HaveNots

Well, you see:

The are the Haves and they like to have and they want the HaveNots to have not?

And there are the HaveNots and they have not but would like to have and hope that the Haves will share some of what they have so the HaveNots might have slightly less of having not?

In another case the socio-politoco-economic system devised by humans seems to support the egotism of the Haves in maintaining what they have and yet avoiding the deaths of too many HaveNots for having not?

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Paris Hilton

Says it all?

Ad on the page linked:

http://info.moneyweek.com/urgent-bulletins/the-end-of-britain/

It seems to make sense (UK wealth dependent upon imperial colonies, lost colonies, lost wealth?)

Perhaps in the next 20 years or so UK will be something like Duchy of Hooton Pagnell in international image but more like a downgraded form of Tower Hamlets in reality?

Google's boffins branded 'unacceptably ineffective' at tackling web piracy

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Paris Hilton

Alternatives?

1 - while we are doing our best to put in place the legal framework so everyone can benefit from the t'net and t'web it would be wonderful if google would support us. We cannot do it on our own and need other partners to help us.

2 - (well anything would be better than what MPs seem to be doing - sounding off sounds so much like sounding off whereas looking for solutions seems a whole lot better?)

British Gas robo home remote gets itself into hot water

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yawn - boring.

And they will still manage to overcharge anyway

Apple blings up new iMac with latest Intel chips, next-gen Wi-Fi

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Alien

I mean, ...

10 of those or one of these?

http://www.kawasaki-cp.khi.co.jp/Z_special/z_sugomi/index_e.html

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Paris Hilton

£2G? 4aPootah?

Sounds a bit daft 2 me.

That's about as much as a Yamaha YBR125 (new) or a decent 4 cylinder Kwak (pre-owned)

Can't fit slab AND mobe in your tight pockets? 10 tablets with built-in 3G/4G

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Paris Hilton

Tee Hee Tesco?

I was going to crib at lack of Tesco-esque under impression that Tesco too has entered the tablet race to iniquity.

Trouble was, tee hee!, I went to tesco .com to put a link here and it looks like tesco .com has also forgotten about tesco's ubiquitous tablet too.

F-16 fighter converted to drone

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Alien

Did anyone wonder ...

... if this technology will save any lives? (Pilot lives and probably navigator lives too?)

And smoke the enemy at the same time?

No?

Well why?

(Foolish earthing things with fleshy wobbly bits)

One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?

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Alien

Something about who subsidises who

Hush now - don't let the english earthlings know this.

They live under a misapprehension that they are free (all are wage slaves), that it is a democracy (they are free to give lumps of their hard earned incomes to non-essential but highly paid civil serventia), the best country in the world (poor fools), ...

I could go on but it is better not to challenge such great and profound national self deceptions, illusions and hallucinations.

You thought slinging Photoshop into the cloud would fail? Look who's laughing NOW

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Xara sweet

Yes - I tried Xara a while ago - it is pretty suite/sweet.

Perhaps the Adobe money men have got it right, I mean what are the pirates going to do now?

(I'd guess that all of the phone home stuff in Adobe applications is really an attempt to authenticate what has been pirated and what has not?)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7

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pondering and wondering

potential Q: what has the Apple done with cover-flow?

potential A: sold it or let others purchase it while retaining IP?