23rd December 2012 Archive
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El Reg man: Too bad, China - I was RIGHT about hoarding rare earths
A monopoly isn't enough, you have to be able to use it
So this is where El Reg's rare earths spiv gets to do the victory dance. That would be me then, bopping around the dance floor as only a middle aged white man can. For I've been saying for years now that this "China will control all the rare earths" thing is nonsense and so it has turned out to be: nonsense. Not that it hasn't …
Financial News 23 Dec 11:03
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Forget value-added broker jokes: Could YOU shift nuclear plant scrap?
The stock doctors: What they actually DO (besides talk)
Why do brokers exist? All we ever do is just sit around and talk to people, so what value do we add to the economy? Or what value do “asset managers” like the late Howard Strowman add? And will the existence of such be a permanent feature of the tech distribution landscape? Regular readers will know that I spent the 1990s …
The Channel 23 Dec 14:06
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Google to scan Chrome extensions, bans auto-install
Google-as-curator is upon us
Google has taken two steps to prevent its Chrome browser becoming an attack vector for malware that runs as extensions to the browser. Like many other browsers, Chrome allows users to install “extensions”, apps that add functionality. Google even runs the “Chrome Web Store” to promote extensions. Security outfit Webroot …
Security 23 Dec 22:43
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Australia’s biggest IT moments of 2012
Vulture South remembers the antipodean happenings the rest of the world noticed
2012 will end for Vulture South, The Reg’s antipodean outpost, before it does so in our other bureaux. We’re therefore in retrospective-writing mode before our colleagues have even begun to contemplate whether the boss thinks leaving the office at 2:00PM on Christmas Eve is taking the piss. That gives us some time to explain …
Business 23 Dec 23:55
