Bet it won’t last as long as the Clarendon Dry Pile.

It is about time countries stopped using economic growth as a measure of success. Continual growth is not sustainable and we instead need to look at ways of achieving a stable low debt economy. Economic growth relies on an ever growing population to consume the products and services being sold, but people are having fewer children, something that is good for the planet. We need to accept this and concentrate on finding ways to maintain our standard of living with fewer people.

When was the last time you engaged the services of a ‘professional’ like an accountant or lawyer?

Look at the terms of service and you will notice they explicitly state that they will not be held liable for anything. You have no recourse unless they have acted criminally and can be prosecuted using statutory laws that override the contract terms.

Here in the UK there is a huge scam called conveyance, where you hire a solicitor to handle the buying and selling of your home. The idea is that you have a sense of security that you have someone who is responsible for the transaction that can be held liable if anything goes wrong. The reality is that no liability is accepted by the solicitor in their contract with you and no solicitor has ever been successfully held responsible for mistakes they have made. The whole professional services market is money for old rope.

Looking forward to the new ultra-thin and unusable AI device from Ive.

I have a better idea, how about a binding global treaty to regulate Religion! Like AI, religion presents questionable information as facts and such information can be harmful, even causing wars.

The fact that he has taken a non- executive role, means it is even more likely that there is corruption. It would be one thing to say, I was so impressed with the company that I wanted to join them, quite another to say the company is paying me handsomely for doing next to nothing.

Non executive directors are recruited for the influence they have through their business connections, or as a way to pay for a favour previously given.

Lawmakers showing their ignorance again. While is mostly possible to tape out a basic RISC-V processor using one of the open designs, each manufacturer has their own design, if a company figured out how to implement RISC-5 in a way that left intel and arm in the dust, they would keep that to itself.

However, even if they were openly sharing, it would make no difference. China has no regard for intellectual property, if they want something they will just copy it. At least in an open environment, other countries can benefit from what China contributes.

The problem is many western countries, especially the USA and UK have very high opinions of their own place in the world, they see themselves as intellectually superior and countries like China as backward. While there are many failings and much not to like about the Chinese government, they are fast becoming one of the world’s largest economies, and as a result they are developing a high standard of education, whereas education standards in the US and UK have fallen dramatically due to underinvestment.

While I understand that women are underrepresented in tech jobs for a variety of reasons, There would be outcry if there was a similar recruitment event aimed at men, so why is it acceptable to have one for women?

There is a world of difference between holding an event where women are actively encouraged to consider roles in tech and a recruitment event that try’s to exclude a particular group of people. If anything l think the men that turned up were using their imitative to try and get a job.

The ONLY criteria that recruitment should be based on is ability to do the job, if there are too few women with the required experience or qualifications that is not fixed by excluding men from access to recruiters, it is fixed by getting more girls in school taking appropriate subjects and for career advisers to actively promote tech careers to girls. Once people are adults it is too late to change the balance.

UK Police do not investigate shoplifting, even where clear CCTV evidence is provided no action is taken. So this is not going to make any difference.

Snap is the sound made when Canonical broke the camel’s back by forcing this rubbish on us, all 300+ systems now being migrated to Debian. So long canonical, we are not playing in your proprietary walled garden, because it sucks!

I can’t count the number of times I have missed a call because the switch got knocked into the off position. The switch is a real nuisance and will be glad to see the back of it.

There is a shortage of programmers that know SQL, hence the demand. What is driving this is the use of ORMs, so many people learn to link to a database using an ORM as it is a fast way to get started. Personally I dislike ORMs as they tend to make inefficient SQL queries and I don’t like the black box nature of them. Learning good SQL technique alongside your chosen language does take more effort, so most tutorials use an ORM to avoid having to teach SQL.

Absolutely correct, there has never been a news tab in the Facebook app, possibly one on the web I suppose. But apart from a few groups that are stuck in the Facebook walled garden, I no longer have any use for it.

Anyone that thinks the recent antics pulled by RedHat are bad, wait until you get caught out by Oracle. Don't go near this folks, go with a true community distribution like Debian.

So, being concerned that mapping is dominated by two terrible corporations, three even worse corporations decide to get in on the act? It seems like three of the biggest bully corporations in tech are jealous that a couple of the other tech bullies are stealing some kids lunch money and want in on it.