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Comment It's cooling anyway (Score -1, Troll) 436

by s390 (#57390490) Attached to: Trump Administration Sees a 7-Degree Rise in Global Temperatures By 2100

We're in a grand solar minimum, so the rest of this century will be much cooler, not warmer. The US is right to ignore alarmist claims that increasing CO2 emissions will heat up the climate. The CO2 level is increasing, but that hasn't warmed the climate for the last 20 years, so it's obvious that the carbon climate hysteria is just a scam.

Submission + - Council dumps Microsoft Windows XP for Google Chromebooks, saves £400,000 (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Google has scored a major win on the back of Microsoft’s Windows XP support cut-off. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has begun moving all its employees over to Samsung Chromebooks and Chromeboxes ahead of the 8 April deadline. The council was previously running 3,500 Windows XP desktops and 800 XP laptops, and is currently in the process of retiring these in favour of around 2,000 Chromebooks and 300 Chromeboxes. It estimates the savings at around £400,000, no small change.

Submission + - RIAA wants 21 sites shut down in piracy axe fall (theinquirer.net) 1

Submitted by souperfly
souperfly writes: The Inquirer.net has a list of 21 sites that the RIAA is looking to get shutdown by ISPs this week. The list includes sites filestube, Bomb-Mp3, Mp3skull, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Torrenthound, Torrentreactor and Monova, and at least one ISP — Virgin Media in the UK — has confirmed the number of targetted sites.

Before it was thought that only six sites were lined up for a chop.

Submission + - Hackers, gamers and tech workers: Your country needs you for a new cyber army (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: The UK government is looking to recruit IT experts for a cyber reserves army, which will help it defend against the threat of cyber warfare. "This is an exciting opportunity for internet experts in industry to put their skills to good use for the nation, protecting our vital computer systems and capabilities," said the Ministry of Defence. The reserve unit will cover a range of military cyber tactics, including a strike capability to augment the UK's military prowess.

Submission + - Government splashing out £6,000 per year per PC to maintain desktops (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: The UK government’s chief operating officer Stephen Kelly offered a frightening insight into the world of government IT spending this week. According to Kelly, the government spends a crazy £6,000 per year per PC just to maintain the devices, and wastes 3 days per year per person due to slow boot-up times. One PC supplier must be rubbing their hands with glee at this cushy deal.

Submission + - UK benefits claimants forced to use Microsoft Windows XP and IE6 (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by carlypage3
carlypage3 writes: Benefits claimants in the UK are being forced to use Microsoft's now obsolete Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 software. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) states that its online forms are not compatible with Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9 and 10, Safari, Google Chrome or Firefox. As if that wasn't unnerving enough, the Gov.UK website says that users cannot submit claims using Mac OS X or Linux operating systems, either.

Submission + - 64-bit x86 computing reaches 10th anniversary (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: 10 years ago AMD released its first Opteron processor, the first 64-bit x86 processor. The firm's 64-bit 'extensions' allowed the chip to run existing 32-bit x86 code in a bid to avoid the problems faced by Intel's Itanium processor. However AMD suffered from a lack of native 64-bit software support, with Microsoft's Windows XP 64-bit edition severely hampering its adoption in the workstation market.

Submission + - Botched security update cripples thousands of computers across the world (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Thousands of PCs have been crippled by a faulty update from security vendor Malwarebytes that marked legitimate system files as malware code. The update definition meant Malwarebytes' software treated essential Windows.dll and .exe files as malware, stopping them running and thus knocking IT systems and PCs offline, leaving lots of unhappy users and one firm with 80% of its servers offline.

Submission + - Google reported to EC for giving 'Trojan Horse' Android away for free (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by DW100
DW100 writes: Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle have taken it upon themselves to moan to the European Commission about Google’s Android dominance, which they say is an underhand bid to control the entire mobile market. The firms are part of the FairSearch group, which has just filed a complaint that Google is using Android as a ‘Trojan Horse’ to take control of the mobile market and all the related advertising revenue. Microsoft would of course know all about this, being at the end of several similar anti-competitive complaints in the past.

Submission + - Film studios send takedown notices about takedown notices (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by another random user
another random user writes: Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy.

Google receives 20 million "takedown" requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, a month. They are all published online.

Recent submissions by Fox and Universal Studios include requests for the removal of previous takedown notices.
Intel

Submission + - Intel's Pentium chip turns 20 today (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Intel's Pentium processor was launched 20 years ago today, a move that led to the firm becoming the dominant supplier of computer chips across the globe. This article has some original iComp benchmark scores, rating the 66MHz Pentium at a heady 565, compared with 297 for the 66MHz 486DX2, which was the fastest chip available prior to the Pentium launch.
IBM

Submission + - Review of IBM's original personal computer dug up (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: V3 managed to dig up the original review of IBM's Personal Computer Model 5150, the machine that popularised personal computing. There's some great comments such as the article's author not being sure if IBM would sell the PC outside the US and the inclusion of a "very high quality 11.5-inch" display. TFA shows that while the PC may have changed a lot on the inside, the way it was reviewed hasn't changed much in 30 years.

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