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Who the hell throws away a household brand name and comes up with a brand new one?

Lots of people! And it's usually stupid.

Nokia for example. They (at the time) had one of the most well recognised brands in the world, up there with Coca-Cola. For some reason they decided to rebrand a bunch of my stuff as "Ovi" like "Ovi maps". Guess how effective that was...

Oh and then there was Consignia. Remember them if you're British? No of course not. It was an abortive attempt to rebrand the most high profile brand in the entire UK: the post office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/bus...

So, lots of people since you asked :)

Global political attacks on cash (India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl..., Pakistan http://www.financialexpress.co..., Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/wo..., Euro http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...) and gold (India gold ownership limits http://www.indianjobs4u.com/go...) and Euro currency (Italian bank bailout worries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...), US (geopolitical uncertainty from Trump, interest rate hikes http://abcnews.go.com/Business...), brexit (UK in or out of Europe http://www.express.co.uk/news/...) are all bullish for Bitcoin into 2017.

Global political attacks on cash (India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl..., Pakistan http://www.financialexpress.co..., Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/wo..., Euro http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...) and gold (India gold ownership limits http://www.indianjobs4u.com/go...) and Euro currency (Italian bank bailout worries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...), US (geopolitical uncertainty from Trump, interest rate hikes http://abcnews.go.com/Business...), brexit (UK in or out of Europe http://www.express.co.uk/news/...) are all bullish for Bitcoin into 2017.

Global political attacks on cash (India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl..., Pakistan http://www.financialexpress.co..., Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/wo..., Euro http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...) and gold (India gold ownership limits http://www.indianjobs4u.com/go...) and Euro currency (Italian bank bailout worries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...), US (geopolitical uncertainty from Trump, interest rate hikes http://abcnews.go.com/Business...), brexit (UK in or out of Europe http://www.express.co.uk/news/...) are all bullish for Bitcoin into 2017.

You're foolish if you think the government doesn't control the media: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ada...

The actual complaint to the BBC is quite insightful:

Complaint
A reader complained that the headline of this article was misleading, that the study on which it was based was so flawed as not to merit reporting, and that the terms of the report were not duly impartial in relation to the question of the benefits or otherwise of workforce diversity in particular fields of employment.

Much of it is a standard anti-feminist argument, but the bit about the headline was found to have merit:

Outcome
Whether the study should have been reported was a matter of legitimate editorial discretion and, in the ECUâ(TM)s view, the article did not deal with matters which were controversial in the sense which would require a balance of views. However, there were no grounds for believing that the women among the cohort selected by the study were representative of women in general, and thus no basis for generalising about womenâ(TM)s relative ability. To that extent, the headline was inaccurate.
Partly upheld

Note that they are saying the research itself and the idea that there might be gender bias is not wrong or controversial, just that you can't infer from the study, which only looked at women on Github, that all women experience this bias.

The Slashdot summary is actually worse than the BBC article. It inaccurately summarises both the original article, the correction and the study.

Don't worry helium's easy to find if you actually look for it

I'm still giggling over Trumps letters regarding that wind farm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38397644

The guy is absolutely bad-shit insane! lol!!

So, the BBC is an opponent of AGW? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/713...

And what idiot entrusts a computer store with sensitive data?

Garry Glitter

The Swiss already do this for speeding tickets - a millionaire was fined £180,000.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/eur...

It's not fake news when it's the CIA releases a report concluding that the Russians tried to help Trump. It's not fake news to report that the White House thinks they, to some extent greater than zero, did manage to influence the vote.

The GP might have worded it slightly better, adding "may have", but it's still not fake news.

Fake news is shit that is deliberately made up with absolutely no basis in reality, like Pizzagate.

It's easy to take cheap shots at the UK over Brexit,

I'm British! Who's taking cheap shots? In the aftermath of the Brexit Vote there was a very large surge in racist and racially motivated attacks and abuse with the EDL having a field day. The problems that bad that for the first time since WWII the British Government has had to ban a white supremacist group. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...

> Only in places where hypocritical NIMBY "wind turbines will disturb my pristine ocean view" left-wingers live.

HAH.

Nice pic of The Dahnald. I can imagine John Daly looking at it & saying "look at that fat fuck swing"!

> Only in places where hypocritical NIMBY "wind turbines will disturb my pristine ocean view" left-wingers live.

HAH.

hey Muslims are just like us, enjoying parties and so on.

Yes. People who work excessive hours become dangerous to the rest of society. They might make a mistake in their job that could kill someone. For example here is a pharmacist that killed someone by working 60 hours a week, which is down right illegal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n...

You say someone working in a warehouse is unlikely to kill someone from being over worked. Maybe, but what about say when they are commuting to and from work in a car on public roads. This is what can happen when you fall asleep at the wheel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's 10 people dead, 82 seriously injured and serious disruption to the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Yeah people who work over long hours are in effect sociopaths, who put a potential gain for themselves ahead of potential serious outcomes, and I have no problem of denying them that right. I would also vastly increase the penalties from causing death when overwork was a contributory factor. Minimum 10 years in jail seems appropriate.

Dude, you are just a guitarist who is full of shit himself.
Here, at least Polacks were unusually honest about their goals, unlike your very own government (and judging from your comments you'd suck Dubya's dick at the first opportunity). Next time use your brain before accusing everyone you disagree with being useful idiots. And before some dumbass like you throws a hissy fit about USA not using any foreign oil and hence the war could not possibly have been about it: oil market is a global market. If oil prices rise, they generally rise even in oil producing countries. It doesn't matter where oil is produced because it can be sold everywhere for the market price. The only discount the citizens of oil producing countries normally see is the lower shipping cost, unless the government specifically subsidises oil for the citizens. You also are mistaken in your very peculiar notion that everything your beloved Dubya government did was for the citizens instead of his very own PNAC buddies and, obviously, their buddies. This is crony capitalism 101.

I don't know.

Which?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

50000 jobs constructing the factory for a couple of years at which time it goes away.
And foxcon is not paying market prices for robots, for the simple reason that it makes sense to build them themselves - if they're going to end up replacing pretty much every worker. Even if they weren't, if you bought 10000 of them, the price would come down very considerably.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech... was the initial 'robots replace workers' story I was quoting earlier.

Hey, wank-stain, that's not the UK site.

UK site version. Thanks for playing.

Perhaps if you weren't so far up your own shitter, you'd know the difference.

Both sites have the exact same article. So what is supposed to be the difference?

Furthermore, fcuktard, it's also hidden deep in the "tech" section, where no one but dweebs would look - not on the front page where the nation would find it, twat. Add to that you had to find it, you knew about it first, smeg for breath.

Those goalposts sure are flying down the pitch. Keep flailing though.

But you're bringing facts into this. The BBC is clearly trying to hide this story. Oh wait...

'Snoopers' charter' petition hits signatures target
'Snoopers law creates security nightmare'

But you're bringing facts into this. The BBC is clearly trying to hide this story. Oh wait...

'Snoopers' charter' petition hits signatures target
'Snoopers law creates security nightmare'

Best comment in the thread.

Even the association between activity and body weight is not conclusive. Are people active because they are slim or slim because they are active? On a population level it is difficult to determine.

This Horizon program from the BBC is excellent viewing for those interested in such things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cywtq

Don't worry. It doesn't matter, when you have the CEO of a company -- in this case reddit turning around and changing posts because he threw a hissy fit. I'm now waiting for the same to happen with Facebook. Twitter is already burning themselves out, so no need to worry on that front.

Update http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

be allowed to talk about this in the Canadian parliament, given the fuss the last time fart was said in parliament?

The good news is some of us will still be alive to see if he was correct or not: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/...

Has it actually been passed?

I saw this story on Slashdot yesterday (Thursday) and it's now Friday morning (10am in England) and there is nothing on the BBC and no update to the parliament.uk page regarding the bill.

Is there a chance this hasn't actually been passed which is why it's not being reported? The BBC has no recent (within last week) news on this.

OK, so searching with Google News I can now see a few UK papers picking this up today: The Independent, Digital Trends, Out-Law, and Press Gazetta but they are not what you'd consider main-stream.

Fuck the main-stream media.

Fuck the UK government.

The Conservative government, during this term, will pass boundary changes which are not blatant gerrymandering but do look like ensuring a multiple term Conservative government regardless of anything else that happens. The graph in the article nicely illustrates how irrelevant the Scotland, Wales and NI vote actually is despite what some (invariably Conservative supporting) people in England think.

I think you forgot the Falklands. As much as I dislike wikipedia for poor quality it has a decent breakdown of the weapons used. French Exocet stockpiles were used by Argentina but there were not resupplied by France during the war so had limited use. British Sea Skua were also fired from helicopters disabling Argentinian warships and destroying cargo. Brexit prevents most EU military cooperation so this supply failure seriously weakens British power.

When we're talking about spear-phishing then it's wise to look at the targets: who would benefit from hacking "Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, the Atlantic Council, the RAND Corporation, and the State Department"? This "Russian Business Network"? There is a widespread and long-standing series of attacks which points to the Russian state being the culprit. I'll post this again because it was unaccountably modded to zero before.

BBC News summarized the evidence for the Russian state being behind a whole host of cyber-attacks since 2007, via the Fancy Bears hacking group. There is no smoking gun but the article and those linked within it (well worth reading) suggest evidence of Russian involvement in the language and timestamps of the malware as well as the list of targets: the Georgian, German, Romainian and Polish governments, Ukraine, Russian dissidents, NATO, the MH17 investigation team, as well as the US Democratic Party, US media and US athletes' drug testing records and more generally targets of interest to governments rather than those after money. The same hackers also shut down a French TV station and a Ukrainian power station, probably just to see if they could.

The article is based on Microsoft's accusation that the group was exploiting an unpatched flaw in Windows but it's probably no co-incidence that it was published just after the head of MI5 warned about Russia's increased aggression.

BBC News summarized the evidence for the Russian state being behind a whole host of cyber-attacks since 2007, via the Fancy Bears hacking group. There is no smoking gun but the article and those linked within it (well worth reading) suggest evidence of Russian involvement in the language and timestamps of the malware as well as the list of targets: the Georgian, German, Romainian and Polish governments, Ukraine, Russian dissidents, NATO, the MH17 investigation team, as well as the US Democratic Party, US media and US athletes' drug testing records and more generally targets of interest to governments rather than those after money. The same hackers also shut down a French TV station and a Ukrainian power station, probably just to see if they could.

The article is based on Microsoft's accusation that the group was exploiting an unpatched flaw in Windows but it's probably no co-incidence that it was published just after the head of MI5 warned about Russia's increased aggression.

You suddenly find £2,000 gone from your bank account and the bank blames you (as not in this Tesco case). You audit; you are up to date with all virus bashing software, etc, ... how else could your data have gone ? You then find that 'telemetry' is being sucked from your machine, Nvidia/Microsoft/... refuse to disclose what they have taken from your machine; they will not say how they protect what they have taken or who they share it with. Can you go after them ?

Cash doesn't give you quite as much anonymity as you might expect. There was a famous case of an art thief who paid cash for a cell phone and was caught. The cell phone was used to make ransom demands, but the police were able to determine the serial number of the phone and trace it back to the store where it was purchased. In-store security cameras showed the thief buying the phone (with cash). With those surveillance photos, they were able to catch the thief. (He turned himself in after he was identified in the photo by friends.)

Jehovah's Witnesses have done this, as have other cults...
1 predict the end of the world...
2 screw up badly on prediction...
3 revise date of end of world...
4 GOTO 1

Replace "end of world" with "end of Arctice icecap", and you get the idea...

Sunday 21 August 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
'Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice'

Saturday 4 June 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see 'an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year'

Monday 17 September 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.

Wednesday, 12 December 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/713... Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'

Rinse... lather... repeat.

. Two years after article 50 of the Lisbon treaty has been invoked, the UK will be out of the EU anyways, even if no "exit deal" is reached. That's what article 50 says.

That's not what law professors told the House of Lords, or the person responsible for drafting the article think.

This has already been shot down by Facebook

You mean like India just did for $240 million each?

Well, a few miles up the M62 from me, Ferrybridge power station closed earlier this year. The UK hasn't been building new coal fired power stations, and the latest nuclear power plant at Hinckley Point won't be producing power any time soon.

Also according to Wikipedia the following fossil-fuel power stations have closed since 2010:-
Ferrybridge C, Littlebrook D, Ironbridge, Teesside, Fawley, Didcot A, Tilbury B, Roosecote B, Grain, Kingsnorth A and one ( a small gas turbine) has opened.
The power stations that closed produced 13.7 Gigawatts. Wind power in the UK now has a total installed capacity of 14 Gigawatts - peak production obviously, but it's pretty windy here.

There's also just under 10 Gigawatt of installed solar power and it's not always foggy here.

Well, a few miles up the M62 from me, Ferrybridge power station closed earlier this year. The UK hasn't been building new coal fired power stations, and the latest nuclear power plant at Hinckley Point won't be producing power any time soon.

Also according to Wikipedia the following fossil-fuel power stations have closed since 2010:-
Ferrybridge C, Littlebrook D, Ironbridge, Teesside, Fawley, Didcot A, Tilbury B, Roosecote B, Grain, Kingsnorth A and one ( a small gas turbine) has opened.
The power stations that closed produced 13.7 Gigawatts. Wind power in the UK now has a total installed capacity of 14 Gigawatts - peak production obviously, but it's pretty windy here.

There's also just under 10 Gigawatt of installed solar power and it's not always foggy here.

They were deleted by Daniel Domscheit-Berg:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

Demonstrably bullshit, and exactly the kind of falsehood that the Leave campaign was spouting during the UK's referendum - at least in the way that you are positing. Check out the latest news on the ongoing negotiations over the EU-Canada trade deal that is currently on the rocks because *three* regions of one EU member state (Belgium) are objecting to the deal. Everyone else - all the other 27 members of the EU and Canada want to go ahead, but can't because of those three provinces, and the terms of the deal (5MB PDF) are entirely public knowledge - unlike things like TPP and TTIP where the US is involved and insists on secrecy.

The real irony of the situation (and the reason for my caveat); the three regions that are blocking the deal are Wallonia, the French speaking region of Flanders... and Brussels itself (albeit as a province of Belgium rather than as the EU).

Spies know that spies have always been morons, which is why things like "For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else.

Later in my fiction, I invented one.

But alas the reality was the mediocrity. Ex-colonial policemen mingling with failed academics, failed lawyers, failed missionaries and failed debutantes gave our canteen the amorphous quality of an Old School outing on the Orient express. Everyone seemed to smell of failure.." was said. I understand their decisions, but they are bad decisions. FBI director Comey admitted as much, until public pressure led to him taking back. And I have autism, so I have done quite a bit of research on theory of mind. It doesn't change the fact that they are morons.

And as for averages, they are worse than average because they operate in the shadows, allowing idiocy to go longer without getting checked.

Syria was a civil war incited by the Arab Spring and a dictator butting heads that we were keeping our collective noses out of for a decade.

Bullshit! https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Classified U.S. diplomatic cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million to the group since 2006 to operate the satellite channel and finance other activities inside Syria.

Once the fire finally ignited you added more fuel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06...

Same sort of thing for Libya, Iraq[1] etc. The US has been helping to start fires and keep them ablaze for decades.

As for 9/11 guess who helped Osama bin Laden and gang grow in power: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sou...
http://archive.is/1wddN

Open your eyes. These are all mainstream articles not conspiracy nut sites. You bunch are far from the good guys. Heck even the Russians have more legal justification for messing with Syria (the Syrian government asked them to help).

If you think a country having a corrupt evil government doing really bad stuff gives other countries the right to help overthrow it perhaps you should look at the USA sometime. Corrupt? Evil? Actively doing really bad stuff? All checked.

[1] Yeah Saddam was an evil dictator, guess who helped him get in power and kept supporting him? http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03...

I've got to give credit to Microsoft and Intel for making it easy to create a PC company. Intel produces a reference PC design, and a large number of chips. So, the design can get minor tweaks, for putting the design into manufacturing. So, you have to manufacture, sell, and provide warranty support for the PC. Today, manufacturing can be outsourced .....

I missed where Microsoft came in.

It was IBM who made it easy to create a PC company. When they introduced the PC they did not think it important enough (a passing fad, they preferred mainframes) to make most of the stuff themselves so they contracted it out. Intel and Microsoft were just two of those contractors. And IBM did not stop those contractors from selling the same stuff to third parties - other computer makers. So a cottage industry of PC clone makers sprang up using Intel chips and of course MSDos, among other things.

In fact Microsoft made things hard for those other PC makers - and still do - like charging silly prices and stopping them from pre-installing OS/2, Beos or Linux. Alan Sugar (of Amstrad) said of the price of Microsoft's software : "... as a computer manufacturer we are really a servant of Microsoft ... the bill of material content of our computers, the highest price ticket item in there, is the royalty we pay them [Microsoft] to put Windows in the box"

Because Assange and Wikileaks have been shown to be effective at vetting information. Probably because they hire people that are talented instead of well connected morons. And yes, Russia is incompetent. The CIA is incompetent. Spies have always been incompetent.

...Britain's sheep grow spandex instead of wool.

Close... fallout from Chenobyl ended raining down on the Welsh highlands (West side of UK island) causing a ban on the sale of farm animals in affected areas (mainly sheep): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-w...

In total, 344 Welsh farms were put under restrictions, with animals' radiation levels monitored before they were allowed to be sold at market. The number of failing animals peaked in 1992, but some still recorded higher levels of caesium as recently as 2011.

There are ni laws against discrimination of women like those that many feminists are pushing for. There are laws against discrimination. Not exclusively against discrimination of woman.

Hmm. It's too easy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

Of course, there's also the horrendous discrepancy between the law, and the law as it's applied.

It took a while to figure out where you'd gotten to, but the TFA you found yourself on is not the TFA.

Your TFA is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... - It's a podcast linked to from the first actual TFA at http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi....

On the page for that podcast, one of the guest speakers is

> Nemone Metaxas is the presenter of BBC 6 Music's ‘Nemone's Electric Ladyland’

Not the engineer on the original recording.