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Half of all Windows 10 users thought: BSOD it, let's get the latest build

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Re: They say history repeats itself.

Eventually HP's support admitted that the scanner driver was broken by the Windows 10 Update.

Let me fix that for you...

"Eventually HO's support passed the buck and blamed Microsoft"

you see, there is the right way to code drivers, the wrong way to code drivers and coding drivers that fit within the guidelines for 100% compatibility with windows.

Devs have a habit of taking shortcuts to get a piece of code out the door on time instead of properly. They plan to fix it sometime soon in an update, but quite often they don't get around to fixing it and hope nobody notices that they screwed it up in the first place.

Windows update comes along and it will fix some bit of bad code that some previous MS dev strung together after a hard night of drinking and womanising. playing D&D and binge watching TBBT. and inadvertently breaking a bit of code from some third party who was not following the rules.

This happened a few years ago with I think it was windows 7 service pack 2. when lots of software was using a non standard way of reading from memory. The same loophole was being used by miscreants so Microsoft decided to close the hole. Devs were given months and months to update code so that windows update would not break their code. Some fixed it, but plenty did not and charged companies lots of money to fix software they blamed for Microsoft breaking....

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Doctor, doctor! My NHS Patient Access app has gone TITSUP*

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crap...

the new app is crap of the highest magnitude....

the old app did what was needed, I don't see the point of just changing how it looks, if they added new functionality that's another thing.... but its just new paint and curtains..... and not very nice curtains....

I was trying to log in for about 6 hours after it updated... would not accept my email or user id, and kept telling my my password was wrong....

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Internet engineers tear into United Nations' plan to move us all to IPv6

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hell will freeze over.....

hell will freeze over before government and organisations will take and use the advice of actual engineers who work in said arena...

Lets say for a minute that when IP4 became apparent it would not be fit for use in a few years time that they asked actual network engineers for solutions The people who for years had been maintaining the shire on a piss poor budget... The solution would be a cost effective, simple to implement and workable solution that would be easier to expand on later if need.

but no....

first of all, you have to have meetings with people that the only knowlage of moving packets about are brown ones stuffed with low denomination bank notes. These meetings and brain storming sessions will have to take place in exotic locations and will need at least 6 sessions. Then they will send an obligatory memo to the network engineers outlining the proposed plans, when the network guys tell them what a stupid plan they have, that means they will need a further 6 sessions brainstorming in another exotic location.... Then decide that the network engineers dont know what they are talking about, and the bloke they met in the bar in the hotel they were having the meetings in have a tailor made solution already for them... the company the bloke works for will foot the bill for another 3 long weekend breaks in even more expensive and exotic locations, (including hookers and drugs)... the team then come back from holiday, then tell the network engineers what the plan is and they have the job of implementing some shitty kit that is not going to do what's needed.

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Intel's latest promise: Our first AI ASIC chips will arrive in 2019

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AI ASIC?

I bet as soon as the cryptominers read this, they will be working out how they can use this for mining.

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Great Scott! Bitcoin to consume half a per cent of the world's electricity by end of year

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Re: cost of real money?

So even if every single kWh of electricity in Ireland was used to support the currency / banking network, it would be 8.5x more efficient than Bitcoin.

you are missing the point of how bitcoin works.... the amount of electricity used is not just to support transactions but for mining new coins as well, so in your calculations you need to take into account the cost of not only banking transactions, but the cost of making bank notes and coins, distributing them and replacing them as well as the gold value that sterling is an equivalent to...

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Re: Does not include ...

How much noise does a typical mining rig - one that would be powerful enough to contribute significantly to keeping a room warm - generate?

Quite a lot.... My rigs have to be housed in the basement, they were in the next room, but I could hear the hum of over 40 fans....

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It's true – it really is grim up north, thanks to Virgin Media. ISP fined for Carlisle cable chaos

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time warp?

Has this story been lost in a time warp for 25 years?

I remember telewest or cable and wireless or whatever they were called at the time, having the same issues in Liverpool. They got hit for a massive amount of money and were banned from doing any further pavement digging in Liverpool.

IIRC, they got told time and time again to go and fix the mess and failed to do so. Then Liverpool City Council sent out teams to fix the mess then billed them for it..... at massively inflated prices.

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Brit prosecutors fined £325k after losing unencrypted vids of police interviews

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Boffin

why put it on a DVD for it to be at risk of getting lost lost?

uploading the videos to YouTube and not listing them or marking them as private is probably more secure than putting it unencrypted on a disk and throwing it in a letterbox.....

at least that way they cold at least claim they tried to keep it secure. In even 2016 there is no reason why these videos needed to be on physical media.

Boffin icon out of irony,,,, it really is not that hard....

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And THIS is how you do it, Apple: Huawei shames Cupertino with under-glass sensor

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Re: Acer?

I was having a little poke at the apple fanboi's but no, I didnt misspell Apple. Apple cost a small fortune to buy and have repaired by apple plus the blood of your first born, but Acer are cheap..

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I think the Huawei brand phones are the equivalent of the Acer brand laptops.

High spec, cutting edge tech, but compromised by idiotic design faults and cheap materials in the manufacturing process.

the sort of thing that you don't (or should not) get in the high end price brands.

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Apple MacBook butterfly keyboards 'defective', 'prone to fail' – lawsuit

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Re: It was all downhill from the Apple Extended Keyboard II

Apple used to be good at the design rule that "form follows function"

lo, you are having a laugh..... while St J was the boss then form always proceeded function. it had to look good first, with the exception of the prototype of an apple computer made of wood!, but once it went into manufacture, then it had too look good and the tech had to fit in....

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Re: non-moving keys

Sinclair could sue them if he patented the ZX80 or 81 keyboards.

I doubt Sr Clive has enough money to win..... If apple music could afford it, they would have had apple (computer) back in court over breach of settlement agreement when apple (computer) agreed not to use the name apple in any music industry.

The way the law is, apple music did not have the funds at the time to stop apple when they opened up "apple iTunes". I think that because of the time lapsed since they would not even win if they could afford it now.

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Re: "The company, something of a lawsuit magnet because of its deep pockets,...."

After all unless you are very well heeled yourself going up against an example of "BigCorp" with pockets as deep as Cupertino's would likely be a very painful financial experience if you do not have a very good case.

Its very typical in this day and age that it makes no difference if your case is good or not, its about how much money you have.

Big corp will keep you tied up in court so long that they bleed you of all your finances and the finances of your law team. If you are lucky they will throw you and out of court settlement covering most of your legal expenses... but without accepting liability.

Apple has enough money they can pour into the law fund to drown all but the richest of litigants. It makes no difference at all if you have a case or not that's winnable on merit, Its getting it to that end game and across the finish line.

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Re: Form follows function

Surely a company which claims to be as design-led

they are design led.... but that design is in its form not function.... it has to look pretty first, then shoehorn what they can into it...

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Leaks password, check. Leaks Wi-Fi password, check. Can be spoofed, check. Ding! We have an Internet of S**t winner

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Re: Surveillance cam and Wi-Fi network

sorry, for any precious snowflakes that should be 'special needs'.

I would not give those Social justice TERRORISTS th satisfaction of an apology....

Thats what they want, for you to apologise for everything.... those snowflakes are not worth the steam off your piss

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Re: "beds that look like a smashed meringue"

or a punched lasagne .....

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Glibc 'abortion joke' diff tiff leaves Richard Stallman miffed

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Re: Well done that man!

The cave paintings serve no purpose and could offend. Why keep them?

There is a more modern version of the cave paintings that are being erased.

There is a world famous artist, He had paintings hanging in many prestigious art galleries and one I believe was in Buck House. After a very public criminal trial, he was imprisoned. People disgusted at his conduct who owned his paintings have been taking them down from display. Some have been destroyed.

The the fiscal value of his paintings are now exactly £0.00. Many of the owners of his works have not destroyed the works, but are keeping them in storage in the hope that someday they will be of enough value to recoup some of the money they were previously valued. I have also heard that one or two art dealers are buying them up for a fraction of the previous value to store them so they are not destroyed in a hope to make profit in the future.

He is offensive, which projects onto his works, but it does not make his art offensive. but should it be destroyed?

Satan.... well he is...

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Re: concern about the potential offensiveness of the words

On one side those who consider themselves "liberal" are often showing surprising intolerance of other views.

I read an article written by one of those blue hair, liberal, SJW snowflakes you mentioned in your post, a few days back.... They were claiming that you should ask permission from your baby to change its nappy (dyper for our colonial cousins) so not to upset them.... Its people who publish stuff like that who are part of the problem we have today with kids running feral and the opening of the ministry of jokes ( new speak - MinJO).

But ultimately our own fault in the IT world for making platforms like the internet accessible to the terminally stupid.

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Re: PC gone mad

Cmon winter is over, the snowflakes need to go away.

I am all for a little more burning of fossil fuel to speed up global warming.... its one way to get a reduction in snowflakes.

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Re: Wait, what?

humor isn't universal so some will be offended.

There is a few quotes I can pull out of the bag here....

1) offence is never given, only taken.

but my favourite is from a notorious very non political correct comedian when asked about if he worried about offending people....

2) Every joke will offend somebody somewhere, so consider the jokes YOU find offensive as tax on the ones you find funny.

Beer, well, he owned a very famous northern comedy club named after his favourite brand of smokes.

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Sort your spending habits out, UK Ministry of Defence told over £20bn black hole

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Re: Simple solution

Or us Celts kick out those $^&%ing Angles and Saxons and reclaim our isles. Bloody foreigners coming over here...

Don't forget the Jutes! And the Danes, and the Vikings, (bloody vikings!) and the Normans, and the Huguenots (Farage!)...

well if a few lines in a book written nearly 2000 years ago about a tribe a couple of thousand years before who was promised some lands for them to live on by a mysteriously absent magician, that has a resemblance to Charlton Heston, gave a bunch of displaced people in the late 1940's, that didn't feel safe going home alter some world wide fisty cuffs, the right to occupy some lands in the eastern Med.

Then we have to welcome all invaders right to stay wherever they want......

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Fixing a printer ended with a dozen fire engines in the car park

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Mushroom

Re: Had the fire brigade called to a five star hotel, in Malta....

a vending machine for frozen microwave meals (which to be fair were actually almost edible)

Which bit was edible? the plastic packaging?

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IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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Re: When USB sticks are illegal.....

USB sticks don't kill people, data does...

I think that depends how much force is applied to said USB stick to propel it through the air with enough momentum combined with its mass can cause enough trauma to the body to expel it of necessary bioelectrical activity !!

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NASA boss insists US returning to the Moon after Peanuts to show for past four decades

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Re: PLEEESE go back, just for our sanity.....

A B Ark should be made just as a matter of course..... but lets not forget past mistakes made by others and keep the telephone sanitisers.....

who would you put top of the list for a free passage on the B ark?

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Re: PLEEESE go back, just for our sanity.....

I am sure with the combined brain power of the El Reg readers we can come up with some plan to put a flattard on the moon (money no object of course) that they could not argue with,,,,

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PLEEESE go back, just for our sanity.....

if for no other reason, Go back to the moon and forcibly take a flatard moon landing denier with them...

then bury the fucker up to his neck on the moon facing Earth, with a massive oxygen supply, and intravenous glucose to keep them alive... and an open com link so that everyone who has argued with the retarded twats that are moon hoaxers and flat erthers can ask them what shape is the Earth!!

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Password re-use is dangerous, right? So what about stopping it with password-sharing?

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Dear onefang, it appears that your password on The Register is the same one as used by your account on Yahoo.

i doubt that they would just check the password against a username, They would check it against a username and email combo, just to......

what the fuck am I talking about,,, this is facebook and pals... of course they will just check it against the username then tell you the password matches....

that said, I am almost certain google and facebook know exactly who I am without me even using a usename & password and could just log me in without having to enter a username and password...

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Mystery crapper comes a cropper

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Joke

shitty story..... not the usual standard of crap from El Reg....

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Typical cynical Brits: Broadband speeds up, satisfaction goes down

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I still pine for the days of Be...

I have no clue what customer services were like, I never had to call them. In the 4 years I was with them my connection never dropped, speed was as advertised, latency was very low, no extra cost for 5 static IP addresses.....

If you knew what you were talking about, you could drop tech services a call and ask for particular settings to be tweaked on your line to get additional speed...

I had a sniffle when they were taken over by O2, but cried like a baby when Sky took over....

but to be fair, Except for the shitty skys own router that you cant set to use RADIUS for wifi authentication, and the connection drop once or twice a month, its not that bad... Constant speed. reasonable latency,,,, The only contact I have with customer services is the anual call to sky to complain about the price and tell them I want to leave, getting al the necessary MAC numbers etc.... then letting them talk me it to staying fir another year at a massive discount,

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As for TalkTalk, wouldn't use them if they where the last ISP on the planet !

personally I would not use them while there's an alternative.... but if they were the last, then a shit provider would be better than no provider.

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Blighty: If EU won't let us play at Galileo, we're going home and taking encryption tech with us

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Mushroom

Re: Fucking Brexit

"Indeed, Europe already hates us (as proved by Eurovision every year)"

The thing with Eurovision "song" contest is that its just political bulshit.

For the last 20 plus years, we have had little or no points because of our country's foreign policies.

UK could put together a song written by the worlds best song writer, produced by the worlds best producer, sung by the worlds best singer and we would get nil poi. The same combo could write and produce a song for the next Disney musical and it would get an Oscar...

you get all the eastern European countries voting for each other no matter how shit it was when our neighbours cant even give us an single point....

we should just tell Eurovision to go fuck themselves.....

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DIY device tinkerer iFixit weighs in on 15-month jail term for PC recycler

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Pirate

Re: Just stop buying their shit

This has nothing to do with the hardware, he was using counterfeit Windows recovery disks,

This has nothing to do with counterfeit recovery disks. its about copyright infringement on a logo.

The software on the disks was and still is freely available to download at no cost. the problem was that he made the disks look like the originals that would have been distributed with the hardware. It had the Microsoft and Dell logos on them.

If he just produced a plain disk with restore disk in a permanent marker on it then there would have been nothing to answer to in court.

Microsoft outright lied in court and made out that it was counterfeit software and gave it a value of the software to that of a windows licence instead of a value of £0 for a freely available download. They said that a restore disk and a software licence is the same thing.

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Firefox to feature sponsored content as of next week

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Joke

ugh.... sellouts....

time to switch to edge.....

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Legal tech startup tries to haul 123-Reg to court over 24-hour backup claims

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Re: VPS vs website

I was under the impression that VPS was a virtual server instance and different from their Web hosting offerings.

it is.... but from the web hosting package you have very little control over things like the php.ini or many of the other things that you need control of...

for example, I have an instance of owncloud running, when it comes to upgrading it, the simple way is to run a command line script... you cant do that from web hosting.

beer.... well its tuesday....

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Newsworthy Brit bank TSB is looking for a head of infrastructure

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Re: I'll take it

@James O'shea

"50,000 monthly, after taxes, expenses, fees, and everything else accounting can think up to not pay me, six months in advance, non-refundable, in cash, so that I can deposit it somewhere that they can't get to it.,"

so your gonna do it cheap then.....

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Apple's QWERTY gets dirty, leaving fanbois shirty

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Re: I fscking hate Apple keyboards

leave them upside down in a tray of rice in the airing cupboard for a week.

this is not the way to fix water damaged equipment. As soon as water gets inside it will start to corrode tracks.

the correct way to fix water damaged items is to open it up, take out the electronics, and clean it in a sonic bath... then rinse with isopropyl alcohol leave to dry in a warm moisture free place. reassemble.

If you dont drive out the moisture it will just corrode over time and the damage will be irreparable.

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I was gonna post that video myself.

when its presented the way Louis does, it really makes me wonder why anyone spends money at apple shops.

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Whoops! Google forgot to delete Right To Be Forgotten search result

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Re: Sounds like many sites will publish enough hints

some convictions are never spent.....

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Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed

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Who was it....

come on,,,, fess up.... who works at TSB?

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Re: X25, my Gunship's named X400.

Back in the day,,,,,,,,

men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors to do mighty deeds to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before......

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Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

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Coffee/keyboard

that shit goes over the keybpard....

The worst bribe you can get is terrible coffee, yuk Mellow Birds.

that shit does not count as coffee..... I dont even think a real coffee bean has been within 100 miles of the lab that makes that crap....

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Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient

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Re: How long before forced upgrade ...

"The lock in my front door is 30+ years old"

as far as security of a lock that's been in use for 30 years, I would imagine the tumblers in that lock are quite worn. Someone with the the most basic knowlage on how to pick a lock could open it. When I say basic, has seen how to position a tensioner and wiggle a probe over the tumblers from a kit they bought from ebay for a fiver.

being 30 years old, it would have been made in the mid to late 80's most likely in or around Birmingham and being British made, the tumblers would most likely be made from quality stainless steel, but still would have worn down over 30 years.. from the mid 90's onwards locks were sent overseas to be made as cheap as possible, lighter metals that would weir out within 10 years with just moderate use.....

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Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit

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Re: Batteries in the pocket, eh?

"Products should be fit for idiots to "

the most common underestimation made in the design sector of any product is the ingenuity of idiots.

The first person to make and patent "a genuine foolproof {enter widget name here}" will be a very rich person...

Mines the one thats already been checked for batteries !!

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How 'parasitic' Google's 'We're journalists!' court defence was stamped into oblivion

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Big Brother

arguments from both sides... but...

There are arguments form both sides of the fence, maybe it would be better if the top result for a search for suicide is a list off places to get help, but that opens a whole world of issues.

Search engines would need a list from the ministry of information on what search terms should divert to alternative pages. Then we would need a ministry of truth to tell us that its for our own good.

then there's the other argument that the search engines should just index what its bots find. But the problem with that is when you get a whole bunch of websites publishing fake info then it just gets indexed and vomited up when asked. for example search for aspartame or vaccines. you will get in the top pages all the nonsense on how both are going to kill you or other nonsense. It makes it hard for the great unwashed to find out what's actually true or not. so should webshites drivelling on about hoax moon landings, flat earth and evolution is not real, be blocked? then we are back to the ministry if information and ministry of truth again....

what is actually needed is search results that indicate how it got its page rank.

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Windows 10 Spring Creators Update team explains the hold-up: You little BSOD!

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Re: Windows insider Program

"You can take a stable release of RedHat, Debian, or pretty much any popular Linux OS, install it on any non-exotic hardware (aka anything Dell) and it just works. You can update it and it just works. You can update the kernel and it just works."

tell that to my hp laptop that has a reasonably fast AMD quad core, with a ATI GPU...

yes, it works when I run debian, ubuntu kali or whatever but not if I want to actually make use of the GPU... I need a degree in linux guru and install arch on it if I want to make use of the GPU...

you can blame ATI for withdrawing support, but it still does not change the fact that large numbers of machines will just not run linux.

The solution is easy, buy a laptop from system 76..

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France wants you to put lights and beacons on your drone

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Re: And They'll Enforce It

"But it'll be ignored, like all other laws in France."

unless you get caught in a roadside check area just out side the car ferry terminal, where they pull over every car with an English number plate to see if you have your little red triangle, high vis jacket and wherever else you are required to have in France but not here...

They make quite a lot of money in fines each year from these check points.

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US, UK cyber cops warn Russians are rooting around in your routers

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Re: --->Anyone else see a pattern, or am I getting Old?

"and a Sturmey-Archer dynamo."

and up vote for the Sturmy-Archer and reminding me to rotate my tyres !!!

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Data watchdog fines Brit council £120k for identifying 943 owners of vacant property

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Re: Excel

"assuming basic competence"

and there's the big problem.... council workers and basic competence are mutually exclusive !!

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Having ended America's broadband woes, the FCC now looks to space

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correct me if I am wrong, but this really sounds like how the teamsters used to do business.....

Hand us over brown envelopes stuffed with cash, or you don't do business with the USA... we dont care who you are, or where you are, but if you want to talk to anyone our bit of land, it has to come via our approval?

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Sysadmin’s worst client was … his mother! Until his sister called for help

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Re: Retro computing...

I loved the commodore plus 4...

It should have been the replacement for the 64, but they crippled it at the last minute for marketing reasons.... If it had been released in its full glory then it would have been one of the all time great home computers...

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