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Comment Re:Answer the phone (Score 1) 497

It is scam, they lie about whom they represent.

I've had calls claiming I own money to Sky, never had it. BT who don't even offer telephone service im my area, Gas & Electric from utilities companies I don't use. I usually call them out their lie and hang up, but they repeatedly call back at irregular intervals.

Holding the line open doesn't cost them much. They use VOIP and break out companies in your locale who they don't pay anyway.

Comment No suprising... (Score 1) 545

Well known in anti-spam lists.

Here is the typical content of the what is know as the sweetie email


Hello sweetie.
My name is (random girls name), I saw your profile today on (random websites) and was moved and become interested in you, I will like you to send me an email so that i can give you my pictures for us to know more better and see how things will go for us.

I believed we will get to be better friends or even more and remember that color or distance does not matter but LOVE matters alot in life). Reply me back with my email address hope to hear from you soon from ...... reply at (XXXXXX@hotmail.com )

I assumed 419 scam, labelling gullible responders as paedophile is grossly irresponsible!

Comment Misdirection and dilution (Score 0) 197

About once a year I send an email to my paranoid friends which includes a few buzz phrases.

Dear Spooks,

It is once again time for me to provide you with an update on nefarious activities on the Wild Wild Web.

While you are clandestinely surveilling me through your prism of delusion, why not take a moment and stand back and ask your self; is what you are really doing protecting liberty or slow chiselling it away.

Have a good.

Submission + - Don't like a patent? Help kIll it.

Camael writes: When Joel Spolsky spotted an undeserving Microsoft patent application, he didn't just let it be granted — He killed a in just a few minutes. In short, he found prior art and submitted it, and the USPTO examiner rejected the patent because of it. From TFA :- "Micah showed me a document from the USPTO confirming that they had rejected the patent application, and the rejection relied very heavily on the document I found. This was, in fact, the first 'confirmed kill' of Ask Patents, and it was really surprisingly easy. I didn't have to do the hard work of studying everything in the patent application and carefully proving that it was all prior art: the examiner did that for me." This is all under the umbrella of Ask Patents'.

Submission + - Android 4.3 Firmware Release on Galaxy S4 Google Edition (fliqolet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Android 4.3 firmware has been pre-released on Google edition of Galaxy S4. A developer at the xda-developers forum mentioned about this leak. He created a file for custom recovery of the system dump. The build number of the OS is JWR66B and its has some updated features such as improved battery performance, wireless charging when the device is off.

Submission + - All pornography in the United Kingdom to be censored by default (bbc.co.uk) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Arguing that pornography is "corroding childhood", British Prime Minister David Cameron is to announce that UK Internet Service Providers must filter all online pornography unless users decide to opt-in to receiving it. In addition, pornography depicting rape will be outlawed, and a database of "banned child porn images" will be constructed to identify anyone viewing these images. Cameron also wants search engines to pop up warning messages when people appear to be searching for prohibited content. He concludes, "This is, quite simply, about how we protect our children and their innocence."

This is not an April Fool.

Submission + - Why agile development failed for Universal Credit (computerweekly.com)

nerdyalien writes: Agile software development is at the heart of the coalition government's plan to reform public sector IT. Universal Credit, the government's £2bn flagship welfare reform programme, was meant to prove it worked on major projects. But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has ceased all agile software development on Universal Credit. Did the DWP ditch agile because it was not up to the job? Or was the DWP not up to agile?

Agile development experts say the problem was with the DWP. Universal Credit failed on agile, they say, because it was never really agile in the first place. A former principal agile consultant on Universal Credit, who asked not to be named, said the programme got off on the wrong foot. "The fundamental problem was procurement," he said. "Our hands were tied because of procurement. If you don't set up the contract properly, you are on a hiding to nothing." Universal Credit could never have been agile, he said, because of the way the DWP let £1.12bn of contracts with the programme's major suppliers, including HP, Accenture, Capgemini and IBM. "We were effectively on a waterfall project, because it was a waterfall contract," he said.

Submission + - After pledging 'spirit of openness,' MIT blocks release of Swartz's Files

v3rgEz writes: MIT, which once pledged “a spirit of openness” when it came to an investigation of the charges against and suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, has now reportedly moved to delay the release of his Secret Service files pending university review.

Courts had just ruled that the files must be processed and released as a result of successful litigation by Wired editor Kevin Poulson. MIT released a statement saying the delays were necessary to protect its employee and its network security.

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