28/01/16

[Maik]

Migrant crisis: EU threatens Greece over border controls

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35416741

[Maik]

What's Behind Greece's Declining Population Rate?
High unemployment leads to fewer births, but there might be a reason it's worse in Greece.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-unemployment-in-greece_us_56a8ea6ee4b0f6b7d544688b

[Maik]

Google's machine beats master at ancient game of Go in historic AI breakthrough

A computer program developed by Google has beaten a professional player at the ancient strategy game of Go, a potentially-historic breakthrough in the quest to develop artificial intelligence capable of matching humans.

DeepMind, a British AI company owned by the internet giant, has developed software that repeatedly beat the European champion of the fiendishly-difficult board game, an advance that has evaded researchers for years and was believed to be a decade away.

Go, a Chinese pastime that dates back 2,500 years, is one of the last games in which humans have maintained their superiority over machines.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/01/27/googles-machine-beats-master-at-strategy-game-go-in-historic-ai/

[Bluenose]

Migrant crisis: EU threatens Greece over border controls

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35416741

The hypocrisy here is stunning. By the very nature of her geographical position Greece is unwillingly on the front line. The Greek authorities have said for some time they fear being overwhelmed by the crisis and asked for help and support. Europe will put up its fences again and keep all  the nasties safely in Greece and elsewhere. While telling the Greeks to sort this lot out they are still quite happy to smash her into submission to stay in the poxy euro and keep her population in poverty for the sake of a failed experiment that we once called the common market. Rant over.

[Bluenose]

Pulling a very difficult night shift considering I'm an Everton supporter but I've just seen the latest from Sweden.  Up to 80,000 migrants to be deported back to... er somewhere else. Greece maybe ?

[Aristarches]

There are plenty of uninhabited islands in Greece.  All the illegals should be transported to those islands and left there.  Then the so-called charities could take all their aid to them.

[Maik]

Argostoli police arrested a 43 year old resident on Tuesday for possession of  77 grams of cannabis he'd had delivered by courier. Another resident wanted for questioning.

[Maik]

It won't be her! Woman claiming £33m lottery prize 'ruled out' from prize

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12126031/It-wont-be-her-Woman-claiming-33m-lottery-prize-ruled-out-from-prize.html

Sounds like she's well dodgy.

[Maik]

Local farmers staged 'symbolic' road blocks in Argostoli and Lixouri yesterday and are threatening more around the island.

[Maik]

Grieving family's horror as pornographic video played at funeral for father and baby son
Cardiff council, which runs the crematorium, has launched an urgent investigation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/wales/12126594/Grieving-familys-horror-as-pornographic-video-played-at-funeral-for-father-and-baby-son.html

[Maik]

TalkTalk cyber attack: Call centre workers arrested in India as part of hacking probe

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/talktalk-call-centre-workers-arrested-in-india-in-cyber-hacking-probe-a6838381.html

[Maik]

Malwarebytes, well respected for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit, have recently released a beta version of Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware.

A ransomware infection can be a nightmare so this *might* be a useful addition to Windows PCs when it's been fully tested and released as a final version.

[Colleywobble]

Words fail me!!Daily we watch the news (half an hour ago)and see these terrible pictures of these desperate people bringing tiny children and babies over from Turkey. All we see is the sheer kindness and generosity of the people of Greece in trying to do their best under appalling circumstances to help these people. I would say that some of the migrants must be totally mad to venture in these dilapidated boats risking everything, but then we don't know what we might be tempted to do if we were a GENUINE refugee. I say nothing about economic migrants they want kicking out to where they have come from. To blame Greece for all these ills is beyond reproach as they have been willing to do everything to help when they have next to nothing to give themselves. About time someone started to seriously take Turkey to task IMHO. They have just stood by whilst local shops have sold all this crap equipment(boats and life belts) to the migrants and people smugglers have had an open invitation to rip them all off. Of course it doesn't suit to criticize Turkey as  at the moment they are flavour of the month and have had a nice slice of the EU migrant budget. What for??Wouldn't trust that lot further than I could kick them. Merkel wants kicking into touch as well. If she hadn't opened her big GOB as we say in Yorkshire a lot of this wouldn't have happened. Sorry for the rant but have just watched another load of unfortunate babies fail to make it off Samos !!! 

[Maik]

Camelot says it has received valid claim on £33m jackpot

Winning ticket was bought in Worcester and ticket holder wants to remain anonymous, Camelot says

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/28/camelot-says-it-has-received-valid-claim-on-33m-jackpot

[Maik]

UK 'laughing stock' of Europe after Italy claims €227m in unpaid tax from Google
Google is paying back 3 per cent in tax, or £130 million, to the UK tax authority

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/google-to-pay-over-200-million-in-unpaid-tax-to-italy-a6838586.html

[TonyKath]

Words fail me!!Daily we watch the news (half an hour ago)and see these terrible pictures of these desperate people bringing tiny children and babies over from Turkey. All we see is the sheer kindness and generosity of the people of Greece in trying to do their best under appalling circumstances to help these people. I would say that some of the migrants must be totally mad to venture in these dilapidated boats risking everything, but then we don't know what we might be tempted to do if we were a GENUINE refugee. I say nothing about economic migrants they want kicking out to where they have come from. To blame Greece for all these ills is beyond reproach as they have been willing to do everything to help when they have next to nothing to give themselves. About time someone started to seriously take Turkey to task IMHO. They have just stood by whilst local shops have sold all this crap equipment(boats and life belts) to the migrants and people smugglers have had an open invitation to rip them all off. Of course it doesn't suit to criticize Turkey as  at the moment they are flavour of the month and have had a nice slice of the EU migrant budget. What for??Wouldn't trust that lot further than I could kick them. Merkel wants kicking into touch as well. If she hadn't opened her big GOB as we say in Yorkshire a lot of this wouldn't have happened. Sorry for the rant but have just watched another load of unfortunate babies fail to make it off Samos !!!

Could have just clicked Like for this but thought it deserved the full triple  .
On Turkey:

Turkey is now the largest refugee-hosting country in the world with more than 2 million refugees on its soil. It has built a network of 24 camps to house more than a quarter of million refugees.

UNHCR

Tony