Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Senator trying to force Uncle Sam to share everything it knows about UFOs

Re: Start drafting the legislation

Unless they come from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

Re: "address concerns of being replaced by AI"

Well in Phantom Menace the background 'artistes' in the pod racing scene were replaced by Q-tips

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

Or you are simply relying on being forgiven later by the same government you are spying for supreme_court_telco_spying_immunity

Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

>writing instrument and paper, discard in a public waste bin, or tear in pieces and discard in several

Nebraska rules Mr Smiley ?

Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

>Peer to peer means the message is sent directly from my phone to your phone

Via apps that you can't inspect, through a phone system you don't control and routed through servers you don't control.

China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

We have a much better system where UnitedLaunchAlliance own the government, rather than the other way round

Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger

Re: Is the judge blind...

>Is the judge blind...

I hope not, US $ bills don't have any features to assist the ocularly challenged.

So I hope they didn't incentivise him with a brown envelope full of single bills

BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months

Re: Praxis

He's just a comrade bringing down the capitalist system from the inside

Praxis

"Jansen won't, however, be remembered for driving shareholder value, with BT's current 122p share price barely half what it was when he joined,

Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones

> Is someone running LineageOS or GrapheneOS safe?

1, You are still running Google code for the lower level drivers so probably still vulnerable

2, You installed an alternate ROM so you are obviously a terrorist / criminal

Re: Selected Targets

>Define journalist.

The set of people that have columns in influential papers and would make a fuss with our voters if they thought it applied to them (Note: it will apply to them)

BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards

When 'financial advisors' became a registered profession the banks began making their salespeople "financial advisers'

Re: Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.

To the Central Unit of New Technology ?

Re: Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.

"Association of Personal Trainers Over the Lifetime of the Trainee"

APTOLT = Am I missing something ?

Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead

Re: Fuck business

>I love the nostalgia value of my 25 yr old Micra now. In another 25 when electric Johnny Cabs roam the streets it will be quite the sight.

In 10 years only poor people will be driving dead-dinosaur powered cars

In 25 years only rich people will be driving dead-dinosaur powered cars

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

School children need to be taught that sieges rarely work out for the attackers - if we are going to retake Normandy.

The French should also learn from Crecy and Agincourt to have a plan beyond a disorganized charge at an enemy well equipped with effective projectile weapons (also known as: don't get into an arse kicking contest with a porcupine)

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

So we're waiting for some foreigners to turn up, build railways, install a functional government administration, create a global tea planting industry and teach us to play cricket ?

Yes they need to be taught programming so that they understand that computers just follow precise instructions, and errors, given by programmers - so when a government proposes some computer system to do XYZ they know to laugh.

And they should be taught where electricity comes from so when idiots say we can replace all powerstations running on XYZ with magic unicorns they also know to laugh.

But you can leave out all that stuff about ox-bow lakes, nobody needs to know that.

Re: Visa-free travel

In case the Tsar tries to send his cosacks through the Kyber pass and threaten her majesty's imperial domain.

Now that the Russ have got over that brief silliness with workers being equal we obviously go back to the great game

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

As well as funding the NHS, that £350 million//week was going to replace the Eu farming subsidies and the Eu grants to poor regions and be invested in infrastructure and pay for tax cuts.

It was going to really work hard that £350 million

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

"contempts of parliament" makes them sound much cooler than "shites of parliament"

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

Well New Labour are just Tories in disguise so therefore Tories are just New Labour in disguise - so it's all Michael Foot Corbyn's fault when the Tories I voted for do anything I don't like

Re: Visa-free travel

>The big mistake the West made was to demand servitude during the Cold War

Basically said, hello little brown guys, having thrown off your tea drinking foreign masters, welcome your new coffee drinking foreign masters.

When they said no, we magnanimously decided to arm Pakistan and support any of Pakistan 'unofficial freedom fighting' until it became obvious that Pakistan is a basket case and India is our only alternative to China for cheap labour on a massive scale to build iPhones and a large middle class market to buy iPhones

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden haired Celts

So I cut their heads off

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

The extension of slavery to anyone who hasn't got a knighthood. Sensible policies for a happier Britain

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

Well Orkney is throwing off centuries of foreign rule from Edinburgh and wants to take their oil and join Norway so I don't see any problem with Northern-exit to dump the Saxons and rejoin the Scandinavian empire

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

Bloody Saxons coming over here killing our lake monsters and talking funny

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

Well I was hoping for a return to Norman rule, if only for the ham, cheese and cider. But I'll settle for a bloody civil war where we get to slaughter Lancasterians

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

A return to serfdom obviously.

Of course that would mean all the land, money and political power being in the hands of a few rich people.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

But you got nearly blue passports so it wasn't all lies

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

So the last 12 years is really Corbyn's fault

Re: Skilled Workers?

It's OK they've worked out a deal with a newly 3rd world country to sub-contract the work to.

But you need somebody here to take the orders from the customers and give them to the remote engineers- someone with people skills, and a red stapler

Re: I want COMPETENT, not cheap workers

Well obviously the competent workers will still be chaps one knows from school, the rest are just cleaners and IT and since they aren't important we just need the cheapest ones possible

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Not sarcasm. British Indian communities voted for Brexit because they were told by conmen conservatives that the Eu made it hard for Indians to come to Britain while letting in all those Poles but once we controlled our own immigration that would change.

Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket

Re: Oops

Although Arianespace is nothing to do with ESA, it was intended to be more like Airbus but the space business is a bit more 'government involved' to be really commercial

Re: Or how that

Should have said "UK government" wasn't involved

Re: Oops

Defense industry procurement.

We want 100 rockets please.

OK that will be €,€€€,€€€

That's rather expensive we better cut it to 75

OK that will cost €€,€€€,€€€

We've run out, can we buy another 25 rockets please

OK that will cost €€€,€€€,€€€

Re: Or how that

It's built by a consortium of European, but not Eu, defence companies to reuse French ICBM motors. It's a miracle that the thing ever flew - probably helped by the UK not being involved

Re: Oops

If only they had known how late it was going to be a decade ago they could have made more Ariane 5

Boss such a tyrant you need a job quitting agent? It works in Japan

Re: Job quitting agent - great idea!

"loud quitting" I think this is rather more common in the USA, especially among postal workers

Mars helicopter phones home after 63 days of silence

The message

Hello, we've been trying to get in touch with you about your helicopters extended warranty

TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade

You can already opt out of most TSA security theater by paying $100 or free with the right credit card. Because the Saudis would never think of signing their terrorists up for Amex World Elite

That's the idea, if Mr Winston Cudoogo, of 55 Mercer Road, is pounced on by Office Savage of the TSA everytime he flies he will eventually make an unfortunate remark at which point he becomes a genuine criminal/terrorist

misidentify women and people with darker skin

Are they still allowed to travel without their master ?

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

Re: Is there a Gartner-Cycle for Gartner-Cycles?

Apple is not a Veblen, those products only value is their price. The $25,000 Apple app that was just a ruby picture for example.

Apple could have made a VR system priced like an Apple watch but it would have been very limited and a disappointment. This way they launch something that people need to have a use for to buy. One of those applications might be massive and Apple can produce a $1000 version in the millions.

This is likely better than something like Occulus that was made more like a kickstarter, build the minimal cheap product and hope for enthusiasts to support it. But it was too clunky for anyone except enthusiasts to use.

Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware

Re: Help Wanted China: New PR Guy for Balloon Launches

It was a cheap Aliexpress dashcam and the card was corrupted

Yes but it is very difficult to shoot down a high altitude balloon and be sure it will land on a high school

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

Re: Paris...

CDG isn't an airport so much as a Paris themed park.

It concentrates the whole 'dealing with Paris and Parisians' into one convenient visit

Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

>internationally, with different languages and therefore different end user needs

For end user machines yes, but for servers / network kit it might make sense to stick to the only language the maker actually tested.