| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... 10:40 - Jun 20 with 2100 views | theloneranger |
"Apple says it did not know the UK was working on a "hybrid" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google. "
"The tech giant also expressed surprise that the UK was working on a new version of the contact-tracing app which incorporated the Apple-Google software tool."
"We've agreed to join forces with Google and Apple, to bring the best bits of both systems together," Mr Hancock said.
"However, Apple said: "We don't know what they mean by this hybrid model. They haven't spoken to us about it."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53105642 |  |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 13:29 - Jun 20 with 2026 views | jack2jack |
So who's telling porkies! |  | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 15:01 - Jun 20 with 1995 views | legoman |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 13:29 - Jun 20 by jack2jack |
So who's telling porkies! |
Shirley you could take a guess |  |
| "M'sieur, you said your dog did not bite!"
"That's not my dog" |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 15:14 - Jun 20 with 1986 views | sP7qupUf |
The government has continually lied, come out with half truth and misled the public continually so nothing new here. |  | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:13 - Jun 20 with 1907 views | waynekerr55 |
But they gOt BrExIt DuNnE and they'll stop mass migration, or something |  |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:23 - Jun 20 with 1902 views | LeonWasGod |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 15:14 - Jun 20 by sP7qupUf |
The government has continually lied, come out with half truth and misled the public continually so nothing new here. |
Yep, more than once a day frequency too. Wasn’t Cleverly on QT the evening before saying we’re testing hundreds of thousands of people a day? He should drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight. Yet the cultists lap it up, they love being lied to daily. It’s all unhealthily weird. |  | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:25 - Jun 20 with 1896 views | waynekerr55 |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:23 - Jun 20 by LeonWasGod |
Yep, more than once a day frequency too. Wasn’t Cleverly on QT the evening before saying we’re testing hundreds of thousands of people a day? He should drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight. Yet the cultists lap it up, they love being lied to daily. It’s all unhealthily weird. |
And fúck all will change, because people are happy to believe the scroungers are the problem, not these tax -dodging, poundland Trumps...! | |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:40 - Jun 20 with 1887 views | LeonWasGod |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:25 - Jun 20 by waynekerr55 |
And fúck all will change, because people are happy to believe the scroungers are the problem, not these tax -dodging, poundland Trumps...! |
Yep. And 5G, that’s a huge problem too. Causes Covid, even in countries where there is no 5G.
I wonder what this period will be called in the future? The Age of F*ckwittery maybe. | | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 01:34 - Jun 21 with 1840 views | DJack |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:40 - Jun 20 by LeonWasGod |
Yep. And 5G, that’s a huge problem too. Causes Covid, even in countries where there is no 5G.
I wonder what this period will be called in the future? The Age of F*ckwittery maybe. |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 09:40 - Jun 21 with 1802 views | BillyChong |
What’s happening to the millions they were giving to Cummings’ mates to knock up the failed app? | | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 11:10 - Jun 21 with 1781 views | waynekerr55 |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 09:40 - Jun 21 by BillyChong |
What’s happening to the millions they were giving to Cummings’ mates to knock up the failed app? |
Better to give the money to British misfits and weirdos than the EU, or something... | |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 12:11 - Jun 21 with 1765 views | Joe_bradshaw |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 09:40 - Jun 21 by BillyChong |
What’s happening to the millions they were giving to Cummings’ mates to knock up the failed app? |
Cummings is out of favour at number 10 now.
Boris relies on Marcus Rashford to tell him which way the wind is blowing. |  |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 12:12 - Jun 21 with 1762 views | Jackinexile1 |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 12:11 - Jun 21 by Joe_bradshaw |
Cummings is out of favour at number 10 now.
Boris relies on Marcus Rashford to tell him which way the wind is blowing. |
you don't agree with what Rashford said? |  | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 10:19 - Jun 22 with 1709 views | theloneranger |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 11:06 - Jun 22 with 1687 views | WarwickHunt |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 13:29 - Jun 20 by jack2jack |
So who's telling porkies! |
That's a tough one...
Simon Hattenstone in today's Guardian.
In Boris Johnson's long history of lies, the Marcus Rashford one is the strangest
Hearing the PM feign ignorance of the footballer’s campaign was like watching a particularly bad panellist on Call My Bluff
Boris Johnson is probably Britain’s most famous liar. He appears to have lied in every job, at every level. But this week, when discussing his U-turn on Marcus Rashford’s campaign to have England’s free school meal voucher scheme extended, the prime minister’s capacity for deception plumbed new depths. This latest lie suggests that rather than simply enjoying telling fibs, or understanding that fabrication is a useful political tool, Johnson is simply an inescapable, compulsive liar.
There is a medical term for the condition of pathological lying; it is known as mythomania — or as Johnson would doubtless prefer to call it, pseudologia fantastica — but I will avoid amateur diagnosis, and stick to the facts.
The prime minister’s catalogue of deceit is so comprehensive it’s hard to know where to start. He was sacked by the Times newspaper in 1988 for fabricating a quote from his godfather, the historian Colin Lucas, to make an assertion about Edward II and his lover Piers Gaveston. “The trouble was that somewhere in my copy I managed to attribute to Colin the view that Edward II and Piers Gaveston would have been cavorting together in the Rose Palace,” he chuntered by way of an apology. The real trouble was that Gaveston had been killed long before the palace was built.
There were his infamous tall tales in columns for the Telegraph about one-size-fits-all “eurocoffins”, an EU banana police force to monitor the correct bend in the fruit, and many more. Johnson was sacked from his positions as vice-party chairman and shadow arts minister of the Tory party in 2004 after assuring then leader Michael Howard that tabloid reports of his affair with Petronella Wyatt were an “inverted pyramid of piffle”. They were not.
Then there are specific policy deceits — promising to eradicate street homelessness in London by 2012 (it actually doubled in his mayorship), or promising manned ticket offices at all tube stations before agreeing to widespread closures to fund 24-hour stations. Most famous of all, was the lie on the bus during the Johnson-led Brexit campaign claiming that Britain could save £350m a week by leaving the EU, to be spent instead on the NHS.
There are more recent prime ministerial porkies — such as promising to recruit 20,000 police officers when in fact leaked documents revealed that thousands were likely to be recruited away from frontline roles. And there were electioneering lies: in November he told Sky News that Jeremy Corbyn “plans to wreck the economy with a £1.2tn spending plan” — Labour’s general election manifesto hadn’t even been published at the time. And on it goes.
Just this week, after the government announced that the Department for International Development (Dfid) was being absorbed into the Foreign Office, Tory MP Andrew Mitchell said that during the party’s leadership campaign last year, Johnson “looked me in the eye and told me Dfid would be safe”. Of course, it wasn’t to be.
Most of these deceptions appeared to have a clear purpose — lying about Petronella Wyatt to protect his privacy and his job; lying about EU bureaucracy to create ripping yarns; lying about political promises to win support. Ultimately Johnson lies continually to help himself.
But on Tuesday he appeared to have taken his lying to a new, worrying level — he now seemed to be lying just for the hell of it. When commenting on the government’s latest U-turn in agreeing to provide free school meals for vulnerable kids during the summer after the footballer’s impressive campaign, the prime minister said: “I talked to Marcus Rashford today and congratulated him on his campaign which to be honest I only became aware of, recent … erm, today.”
Only the previous day Downing Street had issued a statement confirming that the school-meal voucher scheme would end when the school term ends, despite Rashford’s campaign. The prime minister’s official spokesman praised the Manchester United and England striker for “using his profile in a positive way to highlight some very important issues” before stating: “The PM understands the issues facing families across the UK, which is why last week the government announced an additional £63m for local authorities to benefit families who are struggling to afford food and other basic essentials.”
Allowing for the bizarre possibility that the PM’s official spokesman does not actually speak on his behalf, Johnson’s claim would mean that on Monday, he did not read any newspapers, listen to or watch broadcast news, or pay attention to any internal briefings on the matter. This despite the issue gaining widespread attention.
What was so alarming about this lie was its utter pointlessness. More than that, it was self-destructive. Johnson is showing himself in the worst possible light, dispelling any doubts the public may have about his propensity to lie.
As so often, Johnson’s lie was half-baked — he mumbled “recently”, before saying that he had only heard about Rashford’s campaign “today”. It was like watching a particularly bad panelist on the game show Call My Bluff. Actually, it was reminiscent of the time Johnson was asked about what he did to relax, and uhmed and ahed before eventually suggesting that he liked to turn wooden wine crates into model buses. But again that lie had some vague purpose — any self-respecting political leader needs a hobby, even if you have to dream one up on the spot.
But the Rashford lie was in a different league. What could he gain by pretending he knew nothing about the previous day’s biggest news story — one that he was at the very heart of? It didn’t simply make him look incompetent, it made him look mad.
Perhaps the most benign explanation is that the after-effects of his bout of coronavirus have damaged his short-term memory — in which case he deserves some sympathy, but he should not be leading the country at the moment. Then again, taking into account Johnson’s long track record of lies, this might be the final proof, if ever it were needed, that our prime minister can’t help himself — he lies habitually, continually, compulsively. |  | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 18:48 - Jun 22 with 1601 views | krunchykarrot |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 11:06 - Jun 22 by WarwickHunt |
That's a tough one...
Simon Hattenstone in today's Guardian.
In Boris Johnson's long history of lies, the Marcus Rashford one is the strangest
Hearing the PM feign ignorance of the footballer’s campaign was like watching a particularly bad panellist on Call My Bluff
Boris Johnson is probably Britain’s most famous liar. He appears to have lied in every job, at every level. But this week, when discussing his U-turn on Marcus Rashford’s campaign to have England’s free school meal voucher scheme extended, the prime minister’s capacity for deception plumbed new depths. This latest lie suggests that rather than simply enjoying telling fibs, or understanding that fabrication is a useful political tool, Johnson is simply an inescapable, compulsive liar.
There is a medical term for the condition of pathological lying; it is known as mythomania — or as Johnson would doubtless prefer to call it, pseudologia fantastica — but I will avoid amateur diagnosis, and stick to the facts.
The prime minister’s catalogue of deceit is so comprehensive it’s hard to know where to start. He was sacked by the Times newspaper in 1988 for fabricating a quote from his godfather, the historian Colin Lucas, to make an assertion about Edward II and his lover Piers Gaveston. “The trouble was that somewhere in my copy I managed to attribute to Colin the view that Edward II and Piers Gaveston would have been cavorting together in the Rose Palace,” he chuntered by way of an apology. The real trouble was that Gaveston had been killed long before the palace was built.
There were his infamous tall tales in columns for the Telegraph about one-size-fits-all “eurocoffins”, an EU banana police force to monitor the correct bend in the fruit, and many more. Johnson was sacked from his positions as vice-party chairman and shadow arts minister of the Tory party in 2004 after assuring then leader Michael Howard that tabloid reports of his affair with Petronella Wyatt were an “inverted pyramid of piffle”. They were not.
Then there are specific policy deceits — promising to eradicate street homelessness in London by 2012 (it actually doubled in his mayorship), or promising manned ticket offices at all tube stations before agreeing to widespread closures to fund 24-hour stations. Most famous of all, was the lie on the bus during the Johnson-led Brexit campaign claiming that Britain could save £350m a week by leaving the EU, to be spent instead on the NHS.
There are more recent prime ministerial porkies — such as promising to recruit 20,000 police officers when in fact leaked documents revealed that thousands were likely to be recruited away from frontline roles. And there were electioneering lies: in November he told Sky News that Jeremy Corbyn “plans to wreck the economy with a £1.2tn spending plan” — Labour’s general election manifesto hadn’t even been published at the time. And on it goes.
Just this week, after the government announced that the Department for International Development (Dfid) was being absorbed into the Foreign Office, Tory MP Andrew Mitchell said that during the party’s leadership campaign last year, Johnson “looked me in the eye and told me Dfid would be safe”. Of course, it wasn’t to be.
Most of these deceptions appeared to have a clear purpose — lying about Petronella Wyatt to protect his privacy and his job; lying about EU bureaucracy to create ripping yarns; lying about political promises to win support. Ultimately Johnson lies continually to help himself.
But on Tuesday he appeared to have taken his lying to a new, worrying level — he now seemed to be lying just for the hell of it. When commenting on the government’s latest U-turn in agreeing to provide free school meals for vulnerable kids during the summer after the footballer’s impressive campaign, the prime minister said: “I talked to Marcus Rashford today and congratulated him on his campaign which to be honest I only became aware of, recent … erm, today.”
Only the previous day Downing Street had issued a statement confirming that the school-meal voucher scheme would end when the school term ends, despite Rashford’s campaign. The prime minister’s official spokesman praised the Manchester United and England striker for “using his profile in a positive way to highlight some very important issues” before stating: “The PM understands the issues facing families across the UK, which is why last week the government announced an additional £63m for local authorities to benefit families who are struggling to afford food and other basic essentials.”
Allowing for the bizarre possibility that the PM’s official spokesman does not actually speak on his behalf, Johnson’s claim would mean that on Monday, he did not read any newspapers, listen to or watch broadcast news, or pay attention to any internal briefings on the matter. This despite the issue gaining widespread attention.
What was so alarming about this lie was its utter pointlessness. More than that, it was self-destructive. Johnson is showing himself in the worst possible light, dispelling any doubts the public may have about his propensity to lie.
As so often, Johnson’s lie was half-baked — he mumbled “recently”, before saying that he had only heard about Rashford’s campaign “today”. It was like watching a particularly bad panelist on the game show Call My Bluff. Actually, it was reminiscent of the time Johnson was asked about what he did to relax, and uhmed and ahed before eventually suggesting that he liked to turn wooden wine crates into model buses. But again that lie had some vague purpose — any self-respecting political leader needs a hobby, even if you have to dream one up on the spot.
But the Rashford lie was in a different league. What could he gain by pretending he knew nothing about the previous day’s biggest news story — one that he was at the very heart of? It didn’t simply make him look incompetent, it made him look mad.
Perhaps the most benign explanation is that the after-effects of his bout of coronavirus have damaged his short-term memory — in which case he deserves some sympathy, but he should not be leading the country at the moment. Then again, taking into account Johnson’s long track record of lies, this might be the final proof, if ever it were needed, that our prime minister can’t help himself — he lies habitually, continually, compulsively. |
You really need to get out more. |  | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:16 - Jun 22 with 1588 views | waynekerr55 |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 18:48 - Jun 22 by krunchykarrot |
You really need to get out more. |
Aye, that'll be it... | |
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| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:20 - Jun 22 with 1581 views | WarwickHunt |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 18:48 - Jun 22 by krunchykarrot |
You really need to get out more. |
Took me all of thirty seconds to copy and paste that, dull cûnt.
Stick to the Daily Express, sunshine. | | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 17:35 - Jun 25 with 1471 views | krunchykarrot |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 19:20 - Jun 22 by WarwickHunt |
Took me all of thirty seconds to copy and paste that, dull cûnt.
Stick to the Daily Express, sunshine. |
If you hold Ctrl and C together this copies then Ctrl and V pastes voila. this will save you 20 seconds. And less of the attitude grandpa iv'e never read the Daily Express in my life sorry for the late reply but i have been busy. | | | |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 20:03 - Jun 25 with 1442 views | WarwickHunt |
| Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans ... on 17:35 - Jun 25 by krunchykarrot |
If you hold Ctrl and C together this copies then Ctrl and V pastes voila. this will save you 20 seconds. And less of the attitude grandpa iv'e never read the Daily Express in my life sorry for the late reply but i have been busy. |
Fûck me - Bill Gates has had a shandy. | | | |
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