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Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G

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Re: Chinese law

The issue is not the Huawei is necessarily spying for the state, but that the State can utilise the information it gets from Huawei to spy for itself. As the article points out the US spied on telephone systems in the US and overseas. It didn't get AT&T or other companies to do it, the NSA simply built the tools to do it. We only find out because of Snowden and I am sure that one day the Chinese equivalnet will appear to do the same for Chinese intelligence.

I do not trust the Chinese state in the same way as I trust no government anywhere to protect my privacy. I am old enough to remember BT installing third party software to monitor my web browsing in the early days of broadband, the general rifling and sharing of information between the police and the construction industry to create blacklists and host of other privacy breaking initiatives.

If you think China is an innocent, ask yourself why it feels the need to have foreign companies "share" their intellectual property if they want to do business in China?

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Astronomer slams sexists trying to tear down black hole researcher's rep

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Re: From His Twitter Thread

As he also admitted to being gay and liking musicals, don't think he is worried about the mob at all. My take is that he is a professional, understands the importance of team work and was giving credit to the person who lead a team of individuals to create a unique achievement.

The upside is that it gives most of us a nice warm feeling, the downside is it brings numpties like you out of the cupboard.

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Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos

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Re: Simple solution to Dell's problem

Considering the current impasses in both governments around issues - you wouldn't notice the difference if we swapped representatives they would still be shouting at each other and no legislation would get voted through.

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Re: Simple solution to Dell's problem

The proposal was to tax only the money above the $10 million threshold at 70%. So you still have $10.3 million in the bank. Now tell me what you think you might be missing in your life that you really need now that $700K has gone?

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Super rich don't pay salaries either

Your salary whereever you work is paid by the people who provide the input to the business. That is normally customers or taxpayes. Their cash provides the demand that generates a job. The super rich simply sit there and rake off the bulk of the profit or like Philip Green, borrow a few million and then take a £400 million dividend out of the business.

Now think of this model the other way around - ordinary people are given more cash which they then spend to create demand thus increasing the number of jobs. Therefore providing more money at the bottom is a far better for growth than having lots of super rich people.

Super rich people provide some of the capital to create businesses but there are other sources of that capital, Governments can provide it, co-operatives can provide it, senior managers can do the same or even a bank. You do not need super rich people they are often just people who look to cream off much more than they ever input.

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Six Flags fingerprinted my son without consent, says mom. Y'know, this biometric case has teeth, say state supremes...

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had not alleged any actual harm,

So I would love to see how the head of SixFlags reacted if I entered his house without damaging anything, had a wander round before leaving. Do you think he would go, oh there was no damage so I won't bother shooting the guy?

The law is the law, if you break it you should be prosecuted. As for some of the comments about people should not be preventing SixFlags from protecting their season ticket practice, that is a red herring. At issue here is not that SixFlags finger printed the kid, it is that they provided no information about a)why it was done or b) what they planned to do with the data. They can continue to fingerprint so long as they communicate to individuals or their parents what the purpose of the fingerprinting is, and the details of what they plan to do to make sure that the data is secure (you know put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the data, delete if no later than x months after it has been collected, etc.)

The industry body's position is that their members should not be penalised for breaking the law, that is a stupid argument, they should be saying to their members make sure you comply with the law and you can collect the data you need for your business.

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High Court of England and Wales blocks iPhone Safari privacy suit against Google

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Re: Not suffered damage?

No he said there is no specific financial loss which can be claimed. He also points out that there are other remedies that can be requested such as deletion of the data which would address the loss of privacy.

Privacy is important but unless you as a victim of a breach of privacy incur some sort of financial loss, you are limited only to claiming that one of the other remedies be applied.

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Re: Next steps

No the judge is effectively saying that while Google collected data without the consent of the data subject, there is no clear harm suffered by the data subject as a consequence. As such making an individual claim is worthless as if you cannot show harm you cannot make a claim.

The best that could happen is that the ICO imposes a fine on Google for collecting the data.

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US Congress mulls expanding copyright yet again – to 144 years

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Market forces

remind me again about markets and how the Govt should not interfere in the operation of said markets.

That damned socialist government in the US always stopping the free market from workng.

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IT systems still in limbo as UK.gov departments await Brexit policy – MPs

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The truth is...

In March 2019 when some of the new systems are not in place, the Govt will simply say those IT chappies we employed failed to deliver, it is all their fault.

In December 2020 when I think the period finishes the postion will be those IT chappies we brought in have failed to deliver and ripped us off for (b/m)illions (depends on Mail or Telegraph reporting) and it is all their fault.

In 2021, it will be we are employing some Indian people under our free trade agreement whereby Indians get free movement to come and fix our IT problems, on the cheap, because this is how free trading global players work.

In 2022 replace Indians with Chinese IT people

In 2023 we the electorate realise the country is broke, all the free trade deals were signed by countries that wanted to sell us things (but not buy our things) and the rest of the world has bought whatever Britsh businesses looked like they might have had some real value in the global business world.

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UK 'meltdown' bank TSB's owner: Our IT migration was a 'success'

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Re: Top down or bottom up?

Hang on, October 17 to April 18 = about six months. Or are you saying that they should have been asked prior to April in which case they would have said give it another six months?

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UK.gov demands urgent answers as TSB IT meltdown continues

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Re: Good luck to TSB

You would when you remember that the Bank will have its name as an interested party on your the deeds at Land Registry which would make selling the house or leaving it to the kids a legal nightmare to sort out what with all the missed payments and accruing interest.

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Small UK firms laying fibre put BT's Openreach to shame – report

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Re: FTTP

No selling houses leasehold is the way you make lots of money now from new builds.

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Re: Comparing like with like?

Gigaclear came to our village and I was very keen to sign up for their 50MB synchronous service. Problem was a)they promised a connection pot at the edge of our land but like a number of people I live down a private road and they didn't want the hassle of getting approval and b)probably more important, BT decided that despite refusing to put in FTTC for years and talking about maybe doing in 2019, suddenly decided that putting it in 2017 was not a problem.

The consequences are that a)I had to go with BT (via Plusnet) and b) Gigaclear got very few customers in the village. Personally I would still go for their product (moving to VOIP as part of the process) but they didn't bother to follow up with those of us who had expressed definite interest in their service (I even signed a contract which died when they didn't bother to call and discuss a connection).

So Gigaclear are potentially a good solution for rural users, but watch and see how quickly BT jump in with FTTC to avoid letting competitors in to these areas where are clearly still profitable to them.

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Details of 600,000 foreign visitors to UK go up in smoke thanks to shonky border database

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Re: Problems

When you travel as a holiday maker the chances of you needing to renew your passport are pretty small. If you live in a country you have to get your visa transferred or take the old passport with you.

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Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

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Re: Vermin

I heard that the UK used to produce its passports itself through a taxpayer owned company which the Govt of the day sold off.

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