The issue of Horizon having bugs isn't the central issue. It's why Post Office investigations didn't question that so many Post Masters were suddenly committing fraud after a new system was introduced and just ran with the assumption the company was being defrauded and launched persecution after prosecution (not a typo, since PO mangers have been heard describing at least one former Post Master as a nasty person, despite being exonerated).
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The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response
Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers
UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim
12-year-old revives Unity desktop, develops software repo client, builds gaming environment for Ubuntu...
Re: What is there to say?
No. What the poster said was not assuming his/her ways were right and everyone elses wrong.
Merely that the right now view basic morality as 'indoctrination by liberals'
The worst atrocities were always perpetrated by those that assumed they were right and everyone else was evil. And that mindset is firmly with the right at the moment.
Fortnite banana can appear in court naked says judge in Epic vs Apple legal footnote
84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement
Re: Most Brits have a fair idea of Germany before, during and after WW2.
Yep.
My recollection from the GCSE from the late 1980's (1988 - first GCSE year) was that what you learnt was very dependant on what modules the school/teacher decided to study.
History, in my region, the two modules were German History 1918 to 1939 and the History of Energy (History of Medicine was another option). Similar to in English lit. we were started out on Animal Farm as one of the texts, but we got switched to something 'easier' as the class as a whole struggled.
UK data watchdog sees its approach to government health tech during COVID-19 outbreak as 'pragmatic'
Windows 11: What we like and don't like about Microsoft's operating system so far
Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features
UK gains 'adequacy' status on data sharing with EU, but making that stick all depends on how much post-Brexit law diverges
UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning
Danger precedent for Britain to be encouraging right now
"Any decision to resort to countermeasures without prior notice must be necessary and proportionate to the purpose of inducing compliance in the circumstances,"
If that mindset gets adopted globally over breaches in trade deals or other agreements...
Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America
How much would you pay me to develop a COVID tracking app that actually works? Ah, thought so: nothing
Re: Tea....
Was that an actual "influencer" doing that video? Because I found her annoying to listen to for more than a few seconds.
'influencer' is still an 'influencer' even if the only influence they might have is to not watch anything else by them.
Still an overrated label, but I think the only people that get excited about it is advertisers.
Man paralyzed from neck down uses AI brain implants to write out text messages
Re: The future
"Ono-Sendai corp"...sounds exciting and cyber-punky, can't wait.
But, in reality, if it's Google, they'll drop the project and leave you with useless junk in your head, Facebook, and they'll spam you and everyone you've ever known, Microsoft and an update one day will turn you into a vegetable or wipe half your memories.
File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Re: Very Interesting
yet does everything it can to block free trade with a democratic ex-partner
It's only a wonder the Vietnamese weren't battering on the UKs door for a trade agreement, seeing how world beating we are...
The EU is doing nothing to block trade with the UK other than apply 3rd Country rules (which we voted for in leaving the EU and Customs Union). Doesn't seem that much of a slowdown on EU imports to UK, so they are trading with us.
How to ensure your tech predictions catch on in a flash? Do the mash
You may remember...
....the scary (and sexy) TV series U.F.O. with awe; the theme music less so.
I didn't catch the first run (born early 70's), but I recall catching one episode on rerun and the intro music when I was small, and the music made an impression much more than the episode (I think it might have been 'the Dalotec affair'). It wasn't until the release of Power Themes '90 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjaAiwro-og) that it came to my attention again. UFO never got as much exposure as Space 1999. Which apparently annoyed Gerry Anderson, as he lost the rights to Space 1999 to Sylvia in the divorce.
Twitter nukes AI-generated twits who backed Amazon and pushed anti-union rhetoric
IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86
Re: COBOL
Yep, could do with a make-over to modernise it a little, just for presentation.
not all in caps (all in caps looks so retro, and not in a good way).
separate the Divisions into separate files (would look better, maybe a little more awkward to edit, maybe though)
Still nothing quite so logical and readable as COBOL.
Shedding the 'bleeding edge' label: If Fedora is only going to be for personal use, that doesn't work for Red Hat
Being asked to rate fake news may help stop social media users sharing it, study finds
The stench of progress: Sweat may power your personal tech in the not-so-distant future
Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it
Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death
What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon
Re: I guess sometimes you just can't win.
While not entirely in disagreement with your sentiment.
Corporations generally pay a lot for logo designs, in the hope that it gives a positive message and not a negative one.
A logo that looks, however vaguely like a possible Hitler emoji would very definitely fall in the latter category.
I'm not surprised they quickly changed it. Clearly they didn't check how it would be perceived by the public.
Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts
Re: Home Office's dream of a State ID Card would be a reality
In N.I. you have to present an I.D. at the Ballot station.
Been that way as long as I've been a voter. Quite used to it, seemed odd that it's never been asked for since i moved island, still carry my drivers in every time I go to vote now out of habit.
The laptop you bought in 2020 may stop you buying a car in 2021: Chips are going short
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up
Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours
Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience
Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union
Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?
OpenAI touts a new flavour of GPT-3 that can automatically create made-up images to go along with any text description
Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early
Re: Forget the bugs for a second...
Its based on a 1980's pen and paper RPG. That's the aesthetic they were going for. Which they seemed to do quite well,
I remember those, they played as well as the most unstable member of the group allowed.
Sounds like they've attempted to catch the feel by including bugs and general jankiness.
PSA: The 2020 monolith is a dead meme. You can stop putting them up now. Please
Re: Three weeks of madness left
I wonder what the final count of monoliths will be at the end of 2020? Double digits?
I was kind of hoping monoliths would stick around 'til 2024 and stand for President.
It'll be a heck of a lot easier to un-install from the Whitehouse in 2028 or 2032 than the recent incumbent.
'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash
GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA
Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use
Return of the flying car, just when we all need to escape
AMD claims high-end Big Navi Radeon GPUs leave Nvidia's ray-tracing cards in the dust
That's not a very high bar...
Got to be better than my Desktop experience with Nvidia.
After several years, Wayland is still unreachable, the Plasma desktop is flitchy as hell.
Really a step back from my last build, despite a discrete graphics card this build vs. an onboard chip on last (AMD), and it was pre-amdgpu driver.
Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'
'This was bigger than GNOME and bigger than just this case.' GNOME Foundation exec director talks patent trolls and much, much more
Congrats, Meg Whitman, another multi-billion-dollar write-off for the CV: Her web vid upstart Quibi implodes
GSM gateways: Parliament obviously cocked up, so let minister issue 'ignore the law' decree, UK.gov barrister urges court
It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead
Re: Yawn, same as the all the others but faster
Apple might end up having to support the system or else face backlash for leaving users with an obsekeye big dumb screen.
Well, it'd be like apple to insist on selling it's users a big dumb screen that only connects with apple products they've ordained for the purpose.
Ideally, a big dumb screen should outlive a fair bit of more transient kit, provided the connectors are still in use.
I've often thought, even though we have lots more screens around us than a couple of years ago, mostly they're not helpful. Sitting on the sofa in front of a 'smart' telly with a 'smart' phone in hand, it's not smart enough to allow you to cast what you are doing on the phone onto the nice convenient big screen, or when at a desk or table with a laptop or desktop, utilise the smartphone as an additional control, input device or monitor.
Don't forget to brush your teeth, WFH staff told as Dropbox drops the office, declares itself 'virtual first'
Re: Productivity
But if you define it the way manglement does in "employee X isn't grinding away at their workstation non-stop from clock in to clock out, that's LOST PRODUCTIVITY" then of course you lose "productivity".
I think, in some management schools of thought, working smarter is an executive area, best results are gained from the drones in some sort of Metropolis-like working environment.
Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'
Someone not only created a comment-spewing Reddit bot powered by OpenAI's GPT-3, it offered bizarre life advice
AManFromMars
First sentence or three quarters of the sentence usually totally make sense, only then, when the reader has mentally settled in to read does the hallway of composition begin to twist like an M.C. Escher.
I've taken to first scanning the poster name first at all times, some of those twists are downright nasty, if you don't pull out fast enough you can end up with a badly sprained comprehension.