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1090 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2014

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Exclusive: Windows for Workgroups terror the Tartan Bandit confesses all to The Register

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Re: Changing Wallpaper can have career enhancing effects

a favourite way of "reserving" a computer at various educational establishments in the 80s.

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is it a sikh family that owns all the kilt shops in Edinburgh? heard a tale along those lines anyway.

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Swedish prosecutors request Assange detention: First step to European arrest warrant

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which rape charges were those again?

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Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam

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Re: What the heck

you don't shoot anyone except school kids and blacks.

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Nest tosses £1.5bn pension admin service agreement out there for outsourcers to fight over

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got auto enrolled with rhese shysters. iirc they reckon they can get a real rate of return of 5% or so, definitely not widows and orphans territory these days. got out pronto.

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Google jumps the shark from search results to your camera: Nest Hub, Pixels, and more from ad giant's coder confab

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Re: make car reservations and buy movie tickets on behalf of users...

sadly increasingly difficult to get a human on the phone as they're all dealing with exceptionally high call volumes. if you do get through they're probably clueless and located in India.

[old gimmer wanders off mumbling to himself]

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'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco

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via Bruce Schneier (sp?)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

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The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows

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linux with spyware.

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NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...

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"... every component made by the lowest bidder" - an astronaut, soz cba to Google it.

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Not another pro-Brexit demo... though easy to confuse: Each Union Jack marks a pile of poo

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put it on the roses if you can get to it before hells grannies.

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Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out

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Re: Just a thought

testing doesn't show absence of errors:

https://abnormaldistribution.org/index.php/2009/06/22/formal-methods-in-modern-critical-software-development/

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User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?

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magnetic media, can't see the problem myself.

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Sick of being the bad guy, UK taxman needs YOU(?) to help it be more 'customer-centric'

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Re: MORE STAFF, FEWER ONLINE SCREWUPS, FIX THE ROBOT ANSWERING MACHINE

sorry to hear of your distress, I'm no longer crying myself to sleep over the downvotes.

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Re: MORE STAFF, FEWER ONLINE SCREWUPS, FIX THE ROBOT ANSWERING MACHINE

oops, perhaps the joke icon would have been more appropriate?

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Re: MORE STAFF, FEWER ONLINE SCREWUPS, FIX THE ROBOT ANSWERING MACHINE

have you thought of visiting their website?

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Frontline workers urged to help stop UK.gov automating data slurps for immigration checks

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a lot of frontline workers are racist quislings (including but not limited to uk home office) and would delight in being part of a totalitarian regime.

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Campaigners cry foul over NHS Digital plans to grant policy wonks and researchers access to patient-level data

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Re: Sod off.

a caring sharing labour govt (prop t blair) dictated that our medical records are "owned" by the secretary of state for health. the pass was sold a long time ago.

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'Sharing of user data is routine, yet far from transparent' is not what you want to hear about medical apps. But 2019 is gonna 2019

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why worry about an when your GPs software is ratting on you, eg emis?

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Remember the OpenAI text spewer that was too dangerous to release? Fear not, boffins have built a BS detector for it

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someone's invented a bullshitter!

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UK libraries dumped 11% of computers since 2010-11... everybody has one anyway, right?

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computers. just say no.

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Is this the way the cookie wall crumbles? Dutch data watchdog says nee to take-it-or-leave-it consent

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Re: There is no free lunch

operating my website costs next to nothing. perhaps it's just broucherware :-(

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ReactOS 0.4.11 makes great strides towards running Windows apps without the Windows

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I'm desperately needing a win 7 replacement im the next few years..

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US Supremes urged by pretty much everyone in software dev to probe Oracle's 'disastrous' Java API copyright win

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There is no settling the point of precedence between a louse and a flea

- Samuel Johnson

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Data breach rumours abound as UK Labour Party locks down access to member databases

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had a guy from a political party turn up on my doorstep addressing me by name. he got a very shirty reply.

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Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation

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Re: Mountains.

life is just so cruel.

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Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions

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as my learned friend noted above

from https://www.igpr.co.uk/insurers/

iGPR is trusted and used by over 80% of the UK life insurance market to send insurance report requests to General Practices

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Re: Consent?

now try and make that stick.

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One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

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Flame

sodium chlorate and sugar

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you're all nicked.

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British cops told to scrap 'discriminatory' algorithms in policing

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lots of police on patrol hereabouts.

mind how you go.

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I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA boss after being caught giving folks' DNA data to FBI

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wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to find the NHS in league with the plods.

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Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

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Re: OTT

just turn it upside down.

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Germany has a problem with the entire point of Amazon's daft Dash buttons – and bans them

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amazon are abusive, do not use.

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No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper

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kidnapping pretty despicable imo, especially when practiced by a hospital.

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You were told to clean up our systems, not delete 8,000 crucial files

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Re: xfer

complete with .com files doomed never to run again.

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NHS England claims it will be all-digital within the decade

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went to see a doctor the other day, he was more interested in tapping away in the computer than dealing with me.

digitisation is nothing to do with patient care.

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Staff sacked after security sees 'suspect surfer' script of shame

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Re: Access Denied

powergen Italia was my favourite.

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London Gatwick Airport reopens but drone chaos perps still not found

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pictures or it didn't happen.

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Waymo presents ChauffeurNet, a neural net designed to copy human driving

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short story: artificial intelligence is stupid.

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Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits

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giff gaff a lousy advert for a network run by me. luckily gg tell me some of my colleagues are engineers and they're all over it.

Ericsson not a good advert for Erlang it seems.

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Re: Awkward

so the finger points at the n00b?

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Re: Backup?

but is it open source?

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The British Home Office was warned about its crappy data management – then Windrush happened

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the home office is staffed by proto totalitarian racists and needs cleaning out.

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GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps – the ability to silently slip into private encrypted comms

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next up, gchq issue tender notice for 60000000 pairs of virtual crocodile clips.

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"The service provider usually controls the identity system" - this is a problem, yes.

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Facebook spooked after MPs seize documents for privacy breach probe

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paging nick clegg

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Excuses, excuses: Furious MPs probe banking TITSUPs*

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politicians grandstanding and emitting hot air, signifying nothing.

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Civil rights group says Oracles, Tapads and Experians get let off for wanton info-sucking

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this is going nowhere. uk gov use all these sources as part of their program of spying on the entire population.

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DXC: Everything is going to plan, too well in fact... we've chopped so many staff, our IT projects are now behind

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Re: Hmm...

have you thought of going into management?

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Dutch cops hope to cuff 'hundreds' of suspects after snatching server, snooping on 250,000+ encrypted chat texts

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"a custom implementation" - red flag right there. I'm reliably informed that crypto is hard.

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Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

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el reg biting the hand...

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