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HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

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track, verify cartridges from our factories through our multi-tier distribution channel and to our end customer

how does that work then? the printer phones home?

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Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash

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other SIMs are available. as are email addresses, birthdays etc etc

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Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

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https://f-droid.org/

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Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

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that went down like a lead balloon.

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Mushroom

turning the lights out over an entire country would take a pretty big neutron bomb.

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Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

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radar or it didn't happen.

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TalkTalk still struggles to shut down legacy email addresses on request

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too easy!

my response to people asking for id: no, you haven't issued me with any.

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Now Uncle Sam would like a word with Brit teen TalkTalk hacker about a huge crypto-coin heist

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a teenager can carry out massive heists on tne internet. what this tells me is that the internet is fcuked.

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Rolling in DoH: Chrome 78 to experiment with DNS-over-HTTPS – hot on the heels of Firefox

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Re: first DoH servers hosted by?

as things stand, my isp is the greater evil. times can and do change however.

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Mozilla Firefox to begin slow rollout of DNS-over-HTTPS by default at the end of the month

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this works against isp snooping.

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UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

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Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

a written constitution doesn't seem to help the USA all that much.

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FedEx execs: We had no idea cyberattack would be so bad. Investors: Is that why you sold $40m+ of your own shares?

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Re: And Experian will offer 1 year of "free" monitoring to FedEx and all its customers

succinct summary of how the internet has improved customer service.

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Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

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stallman was right about FOSS then?

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The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

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this has to be peak register!

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UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

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bingo

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Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?

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it's Usenet all over again.

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Phone home: Indie Chromium browser Vivaldi goes mobile

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Re: Might not be visible in Play App

Google have managed to insert themselves then.

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Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

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don't use google to search. or am I missing something?

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Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

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the police lied. again.

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Brave accuses Google of trampling Europe's GDPR with stealthy netizen-stalking adverts

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"It is a parameter for measuring end-to-end latency."

these people think we're cnuts.

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SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

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[citation needed]

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Want an ethical smartphone? Fairphone 3 is on the way – but tiny market share suggests few care

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so it hasn't got Google in it?

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may well be ethical but its still got google in it

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

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Re: So, to sum up. . .

bercow, bercow? ah yes that's the chap.

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Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it

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defence of thesis failed.

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Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

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Re: Soup

* an s

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Bomb-hoaxing DoSer who targeted police in revenge was caught after Twitter taunts

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hooray for social media, the greatest aid to detection ever invented

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An Army Watchkeeper drone tried to land. Then meatbags took over from the computers

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heartening to hear of AI getting something right.

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There's fraud, and then there's backdoor routers, fenced logins, malware, and bribing AT&T staff seven figures to unlock 2m phones

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not sure unlocking phones is much of a crime really.

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Fantastic Mr Fox? Not when he sh*ts on your lawn, kids' trampoline and your soul

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Re: RTFM

tell that to the sparrowhawk dismantling a sparrow in my back garden.

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UK.gov drives ever further into Nocluesville, crowdsources how to solve digital identity

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not using id cards = making passports compulsory.

how did we ever manage 30 years ago?

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The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL

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There are almost more Raspberry Pis on display than in the average middle-aged programmer's attic.

vicious!

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Ofcom head Sharon White pocketed nearly £500k last year

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Very generous of the john lewis partners to splash out like that

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Ofcom snaps on fresh pair of rubber gloves for deeper rummage around in Giffgaff billing faff

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direct debits = letting someone take whatever they want, whenever they want. why would anyone do that?

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GDS, what is it good for? According to a UK parliamentary committee: 'Increasingly unclear'

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the point of digitisation is to save money by degrading the service, a bit like self service checkouts. get the mug punter to faff about doing something in twice the time (at least) it takes a knowledgeable insider in order to sack the people doing customer service. this is also why you can't sort out utility problems at the electric / gas / water shop, younger readers will wonder what I'm on about here...

old gimmer gets coat, wanders off mumbling.

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Two pentesters, one glitch: Firefox browser menaced by ancient file-snaffling bug, er, feature

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sounds as though ff is going to be even less usable.

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King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops

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strange that a university employs barely literate spokesdroids.

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NPM Inc settles union-busting complaints on third try – after CEO trolled for ordering internal mole hunt

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JavaScript. just say no.

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Drone fliers are either 'clueless, careless or criminal' says air traffic gros fromage

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Re: 1 out of 3

the police managed to evade arrest it's true.

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Cyber-IOU notes. Voucher hell on wheels. However you want to define Facebook's Libra, the most ridiculous part is its privacy promise

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Re: and yet

revolut: Take control over your account and turn off things like contactless, swipe payments, online payments and ATM withdrawals all from within the app.

all good stuff, but I don't do banking apps :-(

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Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none

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real time you say? handy for ministry of justice video links from prison.

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Alexa, are you profiting from the illegal storage and analysis of kids' voice commands?

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increased profits = better service obv.

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Like using the latest version of Microsoft Office? Love Offline Files? Not for long!

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seem to have lost the audience there.

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import CGIHTTPServer

import BaseHTTPServer

class Handler(CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):

cgi_directories = ["/htbin"]

PORT = 80

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

print "serving at port", PORT

httpd.serve_forever()

and you're online?

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Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar

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Re: Time

I've never been able to find one either, so I just give up and have a pint in the nearest pub.

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TSB appoints new tech transformation chief cuz last tech transformation went really, really well

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he can't lose. if he got sacked tomorrow the pay off would set him up for life.

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Zorin OS 15 nods at Ubuntu and welcomes Windows escapees

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systemd? will have a look anyway but Ubuntu was awful last time I tried it...

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Facebook ordered to open internal docs for investors livid about losing cash following data slurp scandal

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you aint seen nothing yet

https://mobile.twitter.com/tanthonyhowell/status/1134203108307996692

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Senator: US govt staff may be sending their smartphone web traffic 'wrapped in a bow' to Russia, China via VPNs

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ditto opera browser?

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War is over, if you want it: W3C, WHATWG agree to work towards single spec for HTML and DOM

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Re: Why not save the planet at the same time?

use xml and get a free parser for your dtd. always found xslt a real grind personally though.

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