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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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This. No amount of excuses or lengthy explanations. It’s childish and unprofessional.

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From the article

This would make charging phones, laptops, and even electric cars much more efficient and convenient.

Espionage: In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines (www.wired.com)

The United States Department of Justice is quietly prosecuting a novel Espionage Act case involving a drone, a Chinese national, and classified nuclear submarines....

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We need to come down hard on these bastards. We need to set examples because if it was one of ours doing the same in China or Russia, they’d be in a forced labour camp for 20 years. Jail the bugger, vigorously interrogate him and then trade him in a few years after he’s sampled the delights of the US prison system.

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People would soon complain if they’d used a poncey design studio and coughed up half a million.

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Lock him up!

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My cat knows when it’s time to go to bed. She also has a form of mind control to help her get snacks, or to have her blanket put onto the sofa.

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I don’t believe it!

UK cabinet minister calls shoulder surfer ‘little weirdo’ (www.theregister.com)

In setting the date for the UK’s next general election, prime minister Rishi Sunak this week essentially announced the start of open season for political reporters all hunting for the top scoop of the day by any means necessary. He may need, however, to brief his ministers on basic opsec if he’s going to stop any more...

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Shouldn’t have had his laptop screen visible to anyone else. Knob end.

baggins,
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He’ll be advocating free TV licences next.

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Or they could develop bone spurs.

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When you get past the image of square bashing, room inspections and peeling potatoes, it might not be such a bad idea. Especially as there will be non military options.

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Unfortunately most people only see the military side of it (as per most of the comments on here), but it’s only one of the options. Getting people involved isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn’t mind spending a weekend a month doing cyber defence or learning about logistics, but at 67 am probably a bit old for that. Although I have just completed a 3 month cyber security course ;-)

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How about if her 9 year old daughter or granddaughter got pregnant? That’d be OK would it?

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Thing is, if it’s non toxic, then it’s possibly safe. Maybe not pleasant, but not poisonous. Just as bad as pineapple on pizza.

Wonder how long it’ll be before we get suggestions about eating detergent capsules or drinking bleach to cure covid.

Training your AI on Reddit was never a good idea though, you just have to look at all the crap on there to realise that. Let’s just hope they didn’t use Facebook as well, or worse, Quora!

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It was a joke.

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The rats are certainly jumping ship. I saw one, forget her name, is going because she’s going to UAE or somewhere similar because her husband has picked up a cushy job.

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Oh yes, even better.

At least I have my towel handy.

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Hopefully. Disgusting company selling cheap and nasty tat that helping fuel the disgraceful practice of fast fashion. They should be closed down and the owners jailed and assets stripped.

Gaza: International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders Israel to halt military operations in Rafah following a request by South Africa (news.un.org)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday issued new provisional measures that order Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah in southern Gaza and to open the governate’s border crossing for urgent aid deliveries....

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Will they take notice? Will Hamas stop if Isreal does? Of only there were some sort of international organisation with the guts and willpower to stop these sorts of events.

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I’m surprised that confidence in the tories is still into two figures. They have shown that they have utter contempt for the general population and have been deliberately salting the Earth because they know they’ll not win another election.

When Labour haven’t fixed things within six months they’ll be beating about how terrible they are and we should have given them another chance.

If we vote them back on we deserve every crappy thing that happens to us.

Our children and their descendants will never forgive us.

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Thank you.

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Samsung have Expert RAW for their (high end?) phones. That’s probably Samsung only though.

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Thought so. That was my point.

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I wonder if ‘basic’ Alexa will stay. At home we find it genuinely useful for setting timers and alarms etc. my wife has an obsession with the weather and is always asking for weather info for our area - she doesn’t drive and works in an office so it’s beyond me.

We have Samsung phones so could resort to Bixby.

The only other thing we use Alexa for is playing music although my Sonos system has it’s own voice control for that, although I suspect that may go in a couple of years when they stop supporting my kit, it’s five years old now.

I’d rather not resort to Google.

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Never had any luck with WIne - don’t bother now. Am lucky(?) enough to only have to use Windows at work. Although my browsing habits may change slightly when we upgrade :-)

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