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  1. Nokia is Finnish, the Nokia name have been licensed to HMD for phones only as far as i know. this story makes sense for why Trump do not want the Uk to use Huawie for 5G, he wants to get some control over it, nothing to do with security at all. but then we knew this all along, it is about getting U.S companies into our network, the thing is why should we trust them any more than Chinese?
    3 points
  2. What in the hell are you talking about?
    3 points
  3. Nvidia backs out of MWC 2020 over coronavirus fears

    They might as well just cancel MWC at this point, all, or pretty much all, the big names aren't going to be there.
    2 points
  4. It's always the same parties that cry against "Socialism"", call their opponents Communists, yet want their governments to own more assets in the public's name (here in Australia, some far right nutters in our government want us to build or buy coal fired power plants). What about this "free market" stuff I keep hearing about. Maybe the free market doesn't work after all.
    2 points
  5. Whish is why it is "hypocritical" as stated in the article. That said, are Finland and Sweden not allies? They are, but do you want the NSA that bit more wrapped up in the wires you talk over If you don't want the NSA wrapped up are you ok with China then? I mean if the idea of state owned tech not being secure is the issue then why are some people so quick to give Huawei a pass when it's clearly in part owned by the Chinese gov itself? I would much rather be on China's side then the US if those were the only options! Right, because China is way better than the US? lol.
    2 points
  6. Yeah, don't really feel like it...
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  7. French regulator fines Apple €25 million for slowing down older iPhones

    Damn there's 45 mins profit gone.
    2 points
  8. Having replaceable batteries would have prevented the problems arising from battery degradation. With Apple's pricing points, their phones can hardly be considered as disposable when the battery dies. At least Europe has gotten a long lead on punishing companies for bad behavior. Pity, the US refuses to do the same.
    2 points
  9. Take that number and multiply by 2. It still may less than the real number of death or infected people.
    2 points
  10. Its going to be interesting watching the ripple effect over the next year, well, if we are still around to watch it!
    2 points
  11. Vaio announces a Comet Lake laptop that weighs under two pounds

    it appears to be aimed at business people, you wont believe how many projectors in meeting rooms still have VGA in and no HDMI or DP.......
    2 points
  12. Nokia is Finnish, the Nokia name have been licensed to HMD for phones only as far as i know. this story makes sense for why Trump do not want the Uk to use Huawie for 5G, he wants to get some control over it, nothing to do with security at all. but then we knew this all along, it is about getting U.S companies into our network, the thing is why should we trust them any more than Chinese? There are two Nokia's here. There is the network side (which is Finnish) and the phone side (HMD Global) which is PRC-owned. There is also a PRC phone-network company that also owns HMD Global; that is the lashup that is causing the concerns. ad47uk - are you are you NOT arguing in favor of the latter due to cost/price issues?
    1 point
  13. You quoted Miskkie ... and then proceeded to go "you", "you", "you" .. so yes you were falsely implying that he/she said those things.
    1 point
  14. The one IT person in the basement asked for more staff...….. Managers - "we don't have the budget for that" This is what you get feckers, get some young people in, learn from the old... etc. Its not that hard ffs.
    1 point
  15. Vaio announces a Comet Lake laptop that weighs under two pounds

    Give me a single reason why not include one? Especially for businesses. Give me an excuse for not putting a DVD-drive in then. you dont go to a business meeting to burn a dvd... you go to a business meeting to do a presentation and you need video, and you probably will run into someone with a VGA only projector at some point...
    1 point
  16. In case you haven't read the post, Trump wants NO PART of the idea! I don't blame him one bit, as the idea itself goes against the structure of American business operations (I hate the idea for exactly that reason). Still (and this is something I have brought up in the original post in which the idea was exposed) the issue of competing with nationalized (read - PRC-owned) businesses with technically infinite resources in the marketplace still stands. (My first exposure to the ugly idea merely as FICTION ("Logic of Empire") didn't deal with it at all - and - so far - neither has anything else; in fact, I have seen a rather disturbing trend in a lot of nations - including the United States - when confronted with it - and it showed up in "Logic of Empire" as well - if you can't beat it, surrender to it.
    1 point
  17. Router gone bad?

    Why would anyone waste time doing this? Are you wanting to have a museum piece or something? What could you possible be using that connects at G speeds? Is your time and effort not worth a hundred times more than the $20 it would cost to get even the cheapest of current wifi routers that can do atleast modern wifi, N, AC..
    1 point
  18. Hello, I find myself in agreeance with @ZipZapRap. These seems a bit like socialism to me. Shouldn't telecom companies be allowed to decide through the free market what sort of telecom infrastructure they want? Governments can then decide whether or not they want to use those companies' services. And if they don't, no doubt a robust competition will appear with competing telecom infrastructure to carry the bits through non-Huawei gear. All through the magic of free enterprise! Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  19. Whish is why it is "hypocritical" as stated in the article. That said, are Finland and Sweden not allies? They are, but do you want the NSA that bit more wrapped up in the wires you talk over If you don't want the NSA wrapped up are you ok with China then? I mean if the idea of state owned tech not being secure is the issue then why are some people so quick to give Huawei a pass when it's clearly in part owned by the Chinese gov itself? I would much rather be on China's side then the US if those were the only options! Let's see, in the last year, China's openly detained their own people to "re-educate" them in mass numbers. They utilize facial recognition and a multitude of other tools to find and detain them, along with anyone they deem an enemy of the state. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/res...s/idt-sh/China_hidden_camps https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48130048 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50587098 They've aimed to extradite citizens of Hong Kong they name as "criminal" to mainland China, where you can imagine any sort of fair trial to go out the window, leading to massive protests of 800,000+ citizens. Many corrupt police figures and abuse that's been mentioned globally. https://www.hongkongfp.com/201...cracy-march-say-organisers/ Censorship recently of the coronavirus plaguing China, with massive open criticism by their citizens. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/0...leblower-doctors-death.html Take your pick man, there's no source on the left or right that's going to assume spying by China is ideal. In fact, there's a reason why the Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc. aren't very fond of the Chinese government, and it has zero to do with US propaganda. China has made a name for themselves and continues to do so. None of that is in any sort of way to condone abuses of power by the US, UK, Germany, and so on, but it's important to remember that these countries allow you much more freedom than the other.
    1 point
  20. How the coronavirus outbreak has affected Wuhan: a bird's eye view

    Thanks for posting the news on this; I somehow missed seeing it posted, but I've been following a lot of this closely. I also appreciate the other news centered around this as well! ♥
    1 point
  21. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    unloaded chunks save the items to the chunk, they don't remain in memory once the chunk is unloaded, thats why when you die you have infinite time to collect your items if you respawn far away. only when you reload the chunk does the 5 min despawn timer continue. The server works lag free internationally too, from the US to Europe. those in Australia will always get some lag due to their location, its not based on the items on the ground trust me. me and crisp used to have fun in the deserts and the server still ran fine after 80,000 tnt leaves sand everywhere The only problem the server has issues with, is when everybody goes off generating chunks at he same time every time those in us/uk complain of lag is usually after patch Tuesday and that became more of an issue recently because the OS drive was full causing it to fail installing a few times and thats what took it down and Timan had to rescue it. (I cleared out the downloads folder so it shouldn't fail anytime soon)
    1 point
  22. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    Sorry, by 'this server' I really meant this world. I know previous worlds had bukkit.
    1 point
  23. Google Chrome will begin blocking insecure downloads on HTTPS sites

    It's more about maintaining the integrity of the file during transit. A person, organization, or government that controls (or has compromised) any link in the network through which a file travels can change said file at will. Such attacks can be done by scammers looking to infect as many machines as possible. But they can also be done in a more targeted fashion (based on the file or the destination address) by rival governments or corporations.
    1 point
  24. Router gone bad?

    UPDATE: on my ASUS WL-520gU router I just noticed that FreshTomato 2020.1 reset the uptime after about 6 days. I am currently running a recent build of DD-WRT (r41686(Dec 10th 2019)) and I am going to see if that works better as I figure if I can get a couple of weeks (maybe a month tops) out of it, chances are DD-WRT is fine. if not, ill see if the Linksys WRT54GS v1.1 fairs any better once I replace the capacitors in it soon which ill likely be doing sometime next week.
    1 point
  25. Microsoft's Edge browser now supports ARM64 in the stable channel

    I'd like to see a re-review of the Surface X, now that it's been out for a little while and the software seems to be more fully "baked".
    1 point
  26. Different satellites and cameras- not all are color. What you are supposed to notice are the subtle details and not the overall image as a whole. Look at the number of cars in parking lots, etc.
    1 point
  27. They see it as a good way to get you to buy a new phone till the whole battery-gate thing hit the fan. Now that they've been outed they'll replace your battery for a nice little fee. They’ve always offered a battery replacement service.
    1 point
  28. Microsoft's Surface Duo spotted in the wild

    What MS apps do you use that haven't been optimized in an Android form?
    1 point
  29. Microsoft's Surface Duo spotted in the wild

    They could. They just probably won't.
    1 point
  30. How the coronavirus outbreak has affected Wuhan: a bird's eye view

    The Wuhan Clan ain't nutin' to fuk wit!
    1 point
  31. I have a Spotify sub for around 4 or so years now, happy with it and have no reason to move to some other service. I've also stopped downloading and keeping local music on my phone, I have no reason to, just stream my playlists and stuff I've "added" to my library.
    1 point
  32. It was one way, the 2nd part of his statement said you get a group of private companies to do it, either way if you're looking to help EU telco companies to compete, it's a valid argument when on the other side China pumps loads of gov money into it's own local companies. Personally you could just give them big gov contracts and pay them well for the equipment to, that's always a option.
    1 point
  33. Whish is why it is "hypocritical" as stated in the article. That said, are Finland and Sweden not allies? They are, but do you want the NSA that bit more wrapped up in the wires you talk over If you don't want the NSA wrapped up are you ok with China then? I mean if the idea of state owned tech not being secure is the issue then why are some people so quick to give Huawei a pass when it's clearly in part owned by the Chinese gov itself?
    1 point
  34. Wouldn't this then make said companies "too close" to the US govt and military?
    1 point
  35. I can see it now... MPAA "forces" YouTube Music to flag media assets based on known fingerprints, and then YouTube Music invasively removes files from your local music library.
    1 point
  36. Vaio announces a Comet Lake laptop that weighs under two pounds

    Same here... Isn't it now a company in it's own right? Correct, Sony sold its line and it was spun off into its own company
    1 point
  37. Same here... Isn't it now a company in it's own right?
    1 point
  38. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    ...............and im the one that complains all the time cause its not working
    1 point
  39. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2020

    I use XFCE on my ArcoLinux (ArchLinux fork) install, too. Used to like MATE, but I've had so many issues with it. I was always with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, but needed a change..
    1 point
  40. Very... intersting advertising - NSFW

    Um...hate to say this but...aren't ads usually targeted based on your browsing habits?
    1 point