Hmm, before the May elections?
Posts by Elmer Phud
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Trans-Pacific trade treaty close to signoff says USA
Virtual Vulture 2 swoops into Spaceport America
Sleepy Ofcom glances at Internet of Things, rolls over, takes nap
Excitement in boffinry circles as GIGANTIC ALIEN RING BLOTS OUT SUN
Re: Er....
You wouldn't want to get too close to your subject.
It has a high gravitational pull which is howit seems to keep getting bigger and bigger.
The hope is that it will collapse soon and draw in all the fawners, 'journalists', TV intervewers etc.etc. and eventually disappear up its own wormhole.
FUMBLE! NFL app drops privacy ball just before Super Bowl Sunday
Re: <facepalm>
This is exactly the model the hapless current U.K. government beleive in.
Apps are supposed to be the new big thing, schoolkids flooded with the idea that the next 14yr old multi-millionaire will come from apps.
It's bollocks - we've had 'everyone has to have an internet site' and 'everyone has to have a blog' and now 'everyone has to be writing apps'.
Sieve-ware -- never mind the quality, doesn't it look wonderful!
FFS!
Cash'n'Carrion January sale: Get in there while you can
Humanity can defeat SkyNet with BOOKS, says IT think tank
Michael Marshal Smith
toasters that talk, an alarm clock that follows you everywhere, sympathising with 'white goods' as no-one else really recognises thier worth (and thus getting the fridge to rat on other devices)
Smith turns it in to everyday stuff, not 'shock horror' - I guess it's further down the line than a lot of stuff as the chatting between meat and machine is commonplace.
Machines may have differing ethics than meat - but which is more 'human'?
Uber isn't limited by the taxi market: It's limited by the Electronic Thumb market
Sly peers attempt to thrust hated Snoopers' Charter into counter-terror and security bill
ATTACK of the FLYING MOUNTAIN: 2004 BL86 goes by like a BULLET
SURPRISE! Microsoft pops open Windows 10 Preview build early
‘Whatever happened to Vladimir Putin?’ and other crap New Year prophesies
Coughs and Sneezes
". Apparently teachers will get kids to make use of their own smartphones and tablets in the classroom. Oh lordy, as if it’s not bad enough now with the little buggers running out of ink and blunting pencils, in 2015 they’ll be claiming that they need to borrow a recharger every two fucking seconds. "
That will be a minor thing to worry about -- as they turn on their collection of devices (from the latest iWotever to the unbadged slab from eBay), the first thing the server will do is scan for nasties. By the time things have been cured, fixed, archived and some devices just plain blocked, it will be time to go home.
Prez Obama snubs UK PM's tough anti-encryption crusade at White House meet
Encryption?
Why the fuck would Obama be interested in Cameron's proposal?
It's not as if NSA doesn't have plenty of our data to play with already, especially with GCHQ being so accommodating.
Or just maybe the US prez doesn't really see Cameron being around to deliver anyway and can't give a toss until the next supplicant arrives at his feet.
Elon Musk: Wanna see a multimillion-dollar rocket EXPLODE? WATCH THIS
WaterWorld
The idea of floating platforms like this isn't new - sort out the rock'n'roll and tow the thing anywhere.
What with Google and their waterborne server farm (or whatever it is/was) it seems that some people are looking ahead as regards the rise in sea level.
Mr Costner will have to re-do the movie - we will still have sharks with frikkin' lasers!
BMW: ADMEN have asked us for YOUR connected car DATA
'F*** you', exclaims Google Translate app, politely
PlayStation-processor-powered plutonium probe prepares Pluto pics
Speedy Snaps
"NASA estimates it will take at least nine months to download all the data and imagery collected from Pluto."
This sort of info should be repeated until the 'Where's the pictures?' moans have stopped -- the moans that start as soon as we get contact with a craft after years of travel.
( I am surprised that I've yet to see a comment about comparisons of mobile companies and speeds)
Android users are massive wan … er … smut consumers
Hawking and friends: Artificial Intelligence 'must do what we want it to do'
Re: Real Life is Beta in the Movies ...... and coming soon to a theatre near you .....
We have few real benefactors - plenty of faux benefactors who also tend to be somehow involved in the very same Pozi schemes that led to the attempted navigation of a small inlet in a rather familiar suspect vessel with no means of propulsion or control.
"How do you know he's the king? "
My best bud is a billionaire: Peter Thiel jumps into bed with dope upstarts
THREE MILLION Moonpig accounts exposed by flaw
Cheap Android phones? Bah! How about a $29 mobe from Microsoft?
Healthcare: Look anywhere you like for answers, just not the US
Want to shoot FIREBALLS from your wrists, SPIDER-MAN style?
Re: I said, "Get your CAR OUT of the BIKE LANE!"
When I were a lad we could buy 'mini rockets' which came in a pack of 5 or 6 and included a slow match sort of thing.
Place mini-rocket in end of handlebars (no kids bike has end stoppers), ride bike, fire rockets sideways.
Never got round to mounted Roman Candle or 'air bomb' battles', no idea why not.
(Not that I'd recommend any such foolish and dangerous things these days, oh, no.)
In the Year of Our Bong, 2015
Re: Without the internet...
This clearly relates to the God question.
Was there a need for God before God?
Can we therefore agree that God and Porn are both closely linked as they ask the same thing.
(They are also closely linked in the way that Nuns are often found to be nubile and with clothes that fall off)
Minute of Code
" a great opportunity to test my new education startup investments, particularly my "Minute of Code" initiative."
Is this to enhance or replace the 'christianity-based asssemblies'?
Mr Gove -- for it is his hand still firmly on the tiller - and other Cabinet Ministers have extolled the virtues of coding for the under fives and full apps enterprises for KS2, with a total MLF life-stye course at the age of 12. The MLF course will demonstrate how to wring milions out of governments, get an honhour and STILL lose a fortune.
I look forward to being evicted in 2015 by a spotty youth who has made billions while merely being driven to school and now owns my town.
Progress - ever onward.
Bong! Enterprises -- at the heart of enterprise funding (tax deductable and tax exempt - at the same time).
1,000mph ROCKET CAR project dogged by beancounters
UK.gov: Sod SIGINT, let's turn GCHQ into a TECH CRECHE
Fill 'er up: 'Leccy car firm Tesla brings back PUMP SERVICE
European data law: UK.gov TRASHES 'unambiguous consent' plans
Bong Ventures will NEVER bow down to terrorism: Our Tough Stance in FULL
Thank you Bong!
I am so grateful to Bong Ventures for kindly having remotely equipped my computer with the facility to remove offending material on my computer as they see fit.
I had no idea that so much of the products supplied by Bong (and others) are now considered to be unfit for me to have in my posession.
That a company is so reviled I just cannot fathom.
A 'big thumbs' up from me!
Buses? PAH. Begone with your filthy peasant-wagons
Re: Use Broadband, not the bus !
Nice try but they tend to flog off the site on a promise to build 'a substantial proportion of affordable housing' which either doesn't happen or is drastically reduced.
And in London there will be a big poster on the site saying 'Mayor of London' as if the Holy Floppy-Haired Twat even knows about the place.
Careful - your helmet might get squashed by a Volvo
Re: Yellow sash
"That cyclist would be better protected by wearing something bright instead of that road-coloured jumper; "
Ah, unfortunatley it seems that the more protective stuff a cyclist has the closer drivers feel they can pass. Research has been done to prove this - the more reflective, flouro, helmetted, lit-up a bike is then the risk assessment by the driver causes them for feel safer in passing and thus end up closer than is comfortable for the cyclist.
I pass loads and loads of unlit cyclists -- not managed to kill one yet.
I can't understand how they can be 'invisible' yet spotted in 'great numbers'.
American bacon cured with AR-15 assault rifle
30,000 people buy a box of BOVINE EXCREMENT
Branson sinks sub dream: Plan to explore Earth's bottom scrapped
Is there ANOTHER UNIVERSE headed BACKWARDS IN TIME?
But, on the other leg . . .
" In Jingo, Vimes accidentally picks up a pocket organizer that should have gone down another leg of the Trousers of Time, and so can hear the organizer reporting on the deaths that would have occurred had his decision gone otherwise."
It's gonna be all quantum again, isn't it?