Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor

Re: Merry Christmas

So people plan controversial bills for a time when everyone is distracted and they won't get the legislative scrutiny and media attention they would receive in the summer?

Quelle surprise

To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?

Re: Some data from <company>

>101 members at out location. We have 40 assigned desks

So with 3 shifts you can get rid of 6 of those wasted desks

Re: Remote

>There are also security concerns about more staff being remote,

Specifically security concerns for the company

All those little chats over the water cooler about fixing rates or after-work drinkies with a competitor to agree on prices now take place over email/teams/whatsapp and those messages can look a little embarrassing when read out in court.

Remember never send an email that can be a phone call, never make a phone call that can be a private conversation and never say something which can be a wink - especially if you are a democratically elected government.

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Re: NHS withholding numbers

> I cannot see a valid justification for this

Career risk

Somebody brings up 'security' at a meeting and gets a kindly smile from compliance = good

Somebody says it's stupid, get frowny face from compliance = bad

Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off till 2027

Re: transform Britain into a sunny paradise

But we left Europe !

Re: So EVs get a free ride...

A simple alternative - we invade Norway and secure a future supply of oil. Then wait for Gobal warming to transform Britain into a sunny paradise.

Cream teas and choruses of Jerusalem all around

Recession doesn't necessarily mean anything - it's measured by GDP dropping, not anything actually real, especially if your economy is entirely based on banking.

A few €100Bn of inter-bank offset-reversed-hyperbolox-double-pineapple-topping-thincrust derivatives pass through a London bank now officially registered in a pond in Belgium means your GDP goes down 1% - but means bugger all to the man waiting for the Clapham omnibus

Re: Question about import taxes

Down know why the downvotes, it was a genuine question from somebody who doesn't curl up at night with the Eu Tariff and Customs Guidelines (I'm waiting for the audiobook)

Question about import taxes

They are presumably collected where the cars are imported, say Rotterdam or Hamburg. But ultimately paid for by consumers in every other Eu country.

If the tax isn't shared out doesn't this just create an incentive for countries with big ports to vote for increased import duties and to even pay incentive foreign companies to land goods there ?

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec

Re: VMS (at least OpenVMS) on a laptop.

Now where can I find that ASCII art steam train to run across the bottom of the screen for Xmas.

Re: Chromebooks sell to education...

Most corporate don't use Outlook locally anymore.

Our $MegaCorp$ parent has everything on O365, which is nice cos you can do all the email/teams/onenote from a Linux desktop

I'm pretty sure Windows12 will just be a Chromebook running Edge

Re: Chromebooks sell to education...

>Computers are best matched to their users. We have powerful PCs, kids have Chromebooks,

Because most Windows users are switching between training AI large language models and doing protein folding simulations on their laptops

If you made a Chromebook screensaver that flipped between an empty opened PowerPoint and a screenshot of Outlook.office.com 98.7% (*) of Windows users wouldn't notice a difference

* Note 86% of all statistics are made up on the spot, the other 75% are form Gardner

Re: VMS (at least OpenVMS) on a laptop.

Still not the same unless you are logging in from a VT220

>You can get a proper laptop that can run a full OS for the same money

You can run VMS in a laptop now?

Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch

But it's America so they won't be allowed to drink at work

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

Ah the good old days

When BT would only approve 300baud modems and they cost the price of a modern iPhone

When a local call was 4p/min so you connected to usenet, downloaded the thread titles, flagged the threads, reconnected to download those, typed your replies and reconnected to upload them

Imagine if the UK had free local calls like the USA we might have an internet industry like the USA

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Re: Exactly what destroyed the UK car industry

But then you missed the joys of maintenance of those British cars.

I need a wiper blade for a 82 Allegro

Early 82 or late 82 plate ?

Made in Longbridge or Dagenham ?

Was it made during the strike when they swapped in the wipers from the Morris van ?

Was it made by Dave on a friday ?

Re: I'm actually on Musk's side on this

>Global warming deniers in charge of server rooms :-) Now there's a recipe for you!

Saves a fuckton on the AC - you just look at the temperature warnings, put your fingers in your ears and go "Nee Neee Neee"

NASA engineers got their parachute wires crossed for OSIRIS-REx mission

Re: Start at 0 or 1?

We compromised, numbering starts at 0.5

Space cyclists

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiu1uLgwF1E

UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program

Re: You know this immigration policy does work...

I hope you are typing this on a British phone and not taking advantage of cheap foreign workers to get cheap shiny toys

>55 BCE is the real failure.

Really? He came, he saw, he immediately fucked off and they didn't come back for 100 years

The government is on track to achieve this by releasing radio active spiders into secondary schools and murdering the parents of any billionaires

Steve Jobs' $4.01 RadioShack check set to fetch small fortune at auction

Re: Pbbbbt

Although we only have a highly fictionalized biography to prove that. Written by some dodgy journalist

Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was more punchline than science powerhouse?

Some idiot focused on a scratch on a cover rather than the end of a measuring stick.

Seriously, read the investigation - it's insane

You don't need to focus on something light years away in the lab to test it.

A simple knife-edge test you can do with a razor blade would have shown the fault. But it had been carefully made to an extremely precise figure (just wrongly) so there was no need to waste time doing a rough and ready high-school lab test.

Ironically it then sat in storage for 3 years after Challenger disassembled itself, when there would have been lots of time to test it.

Re: Trouble

>Unless the NASA spending is in their district of course....

HST built in California, by NASA in Alabama, project managed by NASA in Maryland and data analysed by NASA in Baltimore

Launched in Florida, mission controlled from Houston on a Shuttle whose explody-rockets were built in Utah and then taken apart to fit on railroad cars (hope that doesn't lead to any problems)

Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam

Re: I imagine gun manufacturers and sellers are watching very closley

>thinks they can take on the same US Army they lionise with granddaddy's Vietnam era rifles.

Presumably if they used whatever Vietnam era rifle the winners were using they would stand a better chance?

Re: Amazon

It would be illegal for them to sell electrical stuff without CE/UKCA but in the USA you are free to kill yourself.

But if course Amazon doesn't sell you anything, it merely recommends the product, takes your money and delivers the goods. They are actually sold by DodgyChineseElectronics Inc and so Amazon can't be held in any way responsible

Re: So, when the time comes to take up arms

>milk is made for baby cows, not humans.

Well if you fall for "big milk" and their claim that the milk they sell comes from cows....

Re: re: The court systems are screwing America.

Smeeeeeg Heeeeeed

Re: So, when the time comes to take up arms

Obviously they are the 3letter agency behind everything.

It's not even a good cover. Why does milk need marketing? It's milk, you drink it, it tastes like milk!

Doesn't Texas ban the sale of almost all lab glassware cos of the WarOnDrugs™

Re: So, when the time comes to take up arms

>I was told they were worse than 9/11!

Well it was Antifa and CIA actors and all setup by the MMB

Re: So, when the time comes to take up arms

>2nd Amendment might have made sense back when it was written

Which is why it needs to be read in a modern context - and people need the right to own thermonuclear weapons

This ridiculous 7 day waiting period for doomsday weapons is unconstitutional

Re: I imagine gun manufacturers and sellers are watching very closley

But what is the critical mass of an American ?

If you ran two examples of Homo Americanis-Walmartian together in their mobility scooters could you create an explosion?

Or at least a small black hole

Re: I imagine gun manufacturers and sellers are watching very closley

If only the perv bathroom spy camera had included a built-in gun it would be allowed

Re: re: The court systems are screwing America.

>By not upholding the 14th?

No member of the Corps should ever report for active duty in a ginger toupee

I fail to see the relevance Mr Lister

Re: Another frivolous case

>The gardening store is selling shovels

But if the gardening store sold packs of shovel+rope+ski mask and advertise it as ideal for dealing with the family at Christmas and showed clips from Goodfellas in the ad...

It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals

Re: From

>french school girls in leather'

Such unpatriotic behavior must be punished. Under Brexit you can only look at British school girls in leather, except for Northern Ireland where the Leather must still be in line with Eu regulations

Are you attempting to apply the sort of logical thought and reasoning expected of a 5year old to a government policy?

québécois is basically swearing with occasional French words inserted

The other Tories will solve it by requiring ID cards

SNP will allow a simple question "Are you over 18?" "Yes/No/Fuck the English"

Plaid Cymru will allow access to porn as long as the sheep is over 18

Sinn Féin will allow access only if you upload a photo of yourself wearing a black balaclava and can be bothered finding the "é" key

Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell

Re: Your order is gestating...

How many kids with a copy of wikipedia can you fit in a 42U ?

The ultimate mechanical Turk

Re: 39 weeks? Meh

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, work twenty-nine hours a day down bit mine, and pay mine owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe

You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing

Re: "My other car is a Porsche"

Boss has a "my other car is electric" sticker on their Tesla.

Sysadmin's favorite collection of infallible utilities failed … foully

Re: Defragging isn't a big deal anymore

I assume that when they are hyperdimensional-mobius-quantum storage devices we will still call them disks

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

Re: Is Duke consistent?

Politician look alike inflatable sex dolls.

Worryingly the 'Maggie' sells well to all sides.