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Skyway Robbery

December 10, 2010

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If you pay Sky £34 a month for their content this is what you get:

Nice.

rip off. stealing sky

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Abracadabra Shazam!

I remember encountering Shazam sometime in the early naughties. They’d already been around for a while (I’ve read their setup date as variously 1999 and 2004 in the mainstream media, who still don’t seem able to check a fact but will itherwise provide opinions on anything and everything).
But who cares? The reality is that they are a British company with genuinely bleeding edge technology with little commercial application that has swallowed up tens if not hundreds of millions of funding over 15 years or more and have now exited at a valuation that would make a US startup laugh and which has probably washed out all but the most recent investors.
A British company selling itself for $400m to Apple might seem like a massive result. The reality is that this was a score draw...

GDPR (Gross Diabolical Preposterous Rubbish)

Just as you were thinking that leaving the EU was a bad idea, they come up with GDPR, a new 'data protection' directive that beggars belief. Essentially, it's that cookie warning rubbish taken to the nth degree.

I believe that the idea was to stop US Big Internet from stealing Europeans' data. A commendable objective. The reality is totally different. As usual, when you get a bunch of utter morons with no understanding of technology coming up with consensus dogma, it's an utter mess.

The legislation is aimed at companies using consumer data, giving them the right to 'own' their data (something I have long advocated via the 'mybot' concept), but it has had dreadful consequences which potentially could render the internet in Europe unusable if the law was applied to its letter.

As ever with this type of badly drafted law, there is no clarity on how it should impact unforseen areas like, er... a workplace, or companies offering business to business s…

Is This The Real Y2K ?

Do you remember all the boo ha around Y2K and the 'millennium bug' ? Pretty much nothing happened yet it commanded miles of newsprint and endless headlines.

But now we have a real Y2K scenario and it just doesn't seem to be taken seriously.

The two bugs found in pretty much every computer chip in every mobile phone, PC, Mac and server are a serious issue for a number of reasons:

1) Patches have been issued for the Meltdown bug, but there is none available at present for Spectre according to reports. The trouble with patches is that they often need to be patched themselves: this sounds like a very complex low level problem and I'd suggest that the chances of further issues arising are very high.

2) The patches involve restarting machines - we've been seeing Microsoft automatically restarting many of our cloud machines overnight. (We remain unsure if our inability to deploy new CPUs and VMs over the past few days was related to this). Restarting machines can have un…

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