October 2004

October 3, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

Swivel-eyed loons: Britain in Europe gets its act together

The Britain in Europe campaign has published a very good list of 25 reasons not to vote UKIP, here. Some of it is stuff previously covered here, but this was news to me: “John Brayshaw was exposed on 5 February 2004 as being simultaneously Chairman of UKIP’s Vale of York branch (since October 2003) and…

October 1, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

CORRECTION: FRANK BARNABY

It’s been brought to my attention that Dr. Frank Barnaby certainly doesn’t believe in the “red mercury dirty bomb” story, as suggested below. See here By the way, I hope the DESC employee who has been reading this blog enjoys it.

Natalie Elphicke ‘lobbied’ lord chancellor to help her sex offender husband
“I thought ‘is that possible? Would she do that?’ And I thought, ‘Yes, she would actually.’ She may well have a plan like that, that would benefit Natalie, she’s that sort of person, she’s interested in herself.”
Hallmark reveal's how many of its staff will leave Bradford | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Earlier this week, it emerged that the business, based off Dawson Lane, would be “consolidating” its warehouse and distribution operations and selling off its South Bradford base. It would mean that staff in these departments would be moving across the border to Hallmark’s Brighouse site, or leaving the company // across the border!
Old gold - by Tom Hamilton - Dividing Lines
My other student job musical memory is from when I worked in a jobcentre where they played an 80s compilation tape on a loop, which meant that every hour or so the unemployed people of Leeds queued to sign on to the accompaniment of Ghost Town by The Specials // anyway the best reason to […]
british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf
DON'T put the security project off for a decade, and if there's one thing that MUST be protected by MFA it's the central remote-desktop server.
Russia hoped to use 19th-century castle as its spying base
Individuals believed to have been targeted as potential agents by the GRU, including British and other non-Russian members of criminal gangs, were seen entering and leaving the property. Security sources said they believed the GRU was aiming to build a sophisticated spying base from Seacox Heath, near Ticehurst, East Sussex.
Police told in 2016 that Post Office prosecutor withheld evidence of Horizon errors from court | Computer Weekly
In its 2015 report, Second Sight said it was “of potential significance” that it was not just an internal document made available to a small number of Fujitsu employees, but that the copy Second Sight was provided with was printed out by the head of the Post Office’s legal prosecution team in October 2010 – […]
Sir Keir Starmer has 'no doubt' Rwanda flights will get off ground - but Labour would cancel scheme 'straight away' | Politics News | Sky News
"We will cancel the scheme - of course that means we won't operate the scheme at all, it's a gimmick, I won't flog a dead horse. "We're going to get rid of the policy straight away."
Tech titans bet big: billion-dollar investment wave into AI infrastructure raises concerns
In Microsoft's third quarter of fiscal year 2024 (3QFY24, ending March 31, 2024), capital expenditures surged by 79% to US$14 billion..Amazon's CFO, Brian Olsavsky, forecasts a "meaningful" increase in overall capital expenditures for 2024, surpassing the US$48.5 billion spent in 2023...Alphabet reported a 91% year-on-year increase in capital expenditures to US$12 billion in the first […]
Is Apple's M4 chip small upgrade or major leap?
Apple often uses M2 as the baseline for comparisons to M4. For one, there is no corresponding iPad product for the M3. Secondly, it appears to show more improvement.
Speculation arises about Huawei developing Kirin PC chips
Supply chain sources revealed that Huawei will release a new PC product, the Qingyun W515x, in May 2024. The PC will launch with an 8-core 12-thread Kirin 9000C processor and support LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6, and Huawei universal flash storage (UFS) hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD).