Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

EU boss Breton: There's no Huawei that Chinese comms kit is safe to use in Europe

Re: So, the Commission is looking to ban Huawei on security grounds

So the USA will now be reliant on a couple of Scandinavian countries for all their telecoms ?

Not just backdoors

What about all the phones made in China by European and American companies or with Chinese components?

We need to open up the strategic Nokia 3310 reserve

Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry

Re: Tennessee

>She will be allowed to bleed out in the parking lot of the Tennessee health care facility of her choice.

No of course not.

Only at health care facilities in her provider network and covered by her insurance

Re: How many wasps does it take to change a light bulb?

How many Wasps to screw in a lightbulb ?

3 - two to screw in the lightbulb and another to wonder how they managed to get in there

Re: Women in Jobs?

>Also, there has been this new invention, the day-care center.

If it costs less than the total income of the working partner then it's communism

Re: Women in Jobs?

>We (Britain) didn't exile our religious nutjobs to the colonies. They self-selected to leave because Britain was too tolerant

A cunning plan worthy of Mr S.O. Baldrick himself

Re: Mixed Feelings

Look the Nazis are only killing Jews and gays and commies and gypsies and I'm none of those so why should I care ?

Re: Women in Jobs?

Makes you wonder if creating a nation by exiling all your religious nutjobs there might not have been such a great plan.

Strangley, populating a country with convicts turned out to be a bonza idea

the nonprofit returned to Plan A.

Plan B being illegal there presumably?

Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier

Amazing

It's almost as if Microsoft's entire business model didn't depend on people buying the new shiny every year

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Re: The best POTUS of the modern times

Apparently all their good shit-posters got conscripted

Re: If the only antidote for anti-democracy is truth and democracy

>Conversely, if Trump is banned from running for election, it is an indication that democracy is not to be trusted

I believe convicted felons are only banned from voting, they are perfectly entitled to run.

Re: Protection of Classified "information" vs. documents OWNED by the President

But the government would just lock the documents away somewhere at tax player's expense, while an enterproneurial former president can turn them into valuable foreign currency reserves

Re: President And Classified Information

>That means they don't get kept in a gold club toilet

I'm sure they were brought out onto more suitable surroundings for the sale

This is America, it's cheaper to put them in a government run home than a hospital

Re: Protection of Classified "information" vs. documents OWNED by the President

But he isn't just President he is the Messiah (and a very naughty boy)

Re: They Have You For A Ride

If you started imprisoning politicians for lying to Congress you'd never get anything done

Re: President And Classified Information

> A former president does not need access to secret papers because they're no longer in office.

That's not true, the documents are just as valuable once you are out of office.

>Nobody should store secret, sensitive national security documents in a toilet or stack boxes of them in ballroom

At least not in a world with scanners, digital cameras and online secure storage.

Even Smiley had microfilm, old George didn't have to struggle down the stairs of Cambridge circus with boxes of foolscap.

Re: They Have You For A Ride

>I mean, if I had had a ... and ballroom full of Top Secret documents

I think if you have your own ballroom the police don't like to bother you

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

Re: Limits to size

But if we are going to land airliners on ships - an obvious solution to building more runways - then folding wings along with catapults will be necessary

Re: Limits to size

Following on from the Swordfish example we could add folding wings

And the Italian fleet at Taranto

Re: Another carcass for Mojave desert?

Ideally the altitude gauge should remain positive

(some exceptions in the middle east)

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Re: COP/EOD

>As to being hit by a vehicle:

You mean a nonconsenting momentum transfer interaction?

Re: COP/EOD

>it's a sporting reference I think from cricket

I thought it was Explosive Ordnance Disposal ? Perhaps for the more extreme forms of the sport?

COP/EOD

Blowing up the police ?

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

Re: Search engines are pure torture right now

But then how could it be used for porn ?

Re: Isn't this just...

And similarly, users aren't obliged to keep creating content for free and moderators aren't obliged to keep the content high quality for free - oh well it was nice while it lasted

Re: Why not make it better?

>then make your app as good as the others, don't lock them out

The 3rd party apps are the ones that block ads and pop-ups telling you to download the official app.

Not really a lesson the investors can take on board

Re: Reddit is nothing without its users

old.reddit.com is the only way to read it on mobile. The normal site is nothing but popups telling you to download the app so they can track you more efficiently.

Naturally removing old.reddit.com is also part of the plan

Re: Reddit is nothing without its users

>it has to be the worst UI ever..

Hence all the 3rd party apps that they are blocking

Re: Meh

And /r/britishradio is the best way of finding out when the BBC sneak out a new series of Mark Steel / Unbelievable truth / museum of curiosity / Alexei Sayle /etc by hiding it in a 14th level menu below 'sounds'

/r/politicalhumor is a good way of keeping up with the politics over here without having to get too close

Re: Search engines are pure torture right now

What we need is a decentralized text based set of forums. A network for users, a usernet if you will

Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again

Re: "it's AI that'll make Britain great again"

He just misread it. Al will Britain great again, he listened to the pub landlord and that Al bloke really appealed to voters

Foundation Model Taskforce

If you can rearrange the words of the grand plan and it makes equally little sense - it's probably not all that grand a plan

Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out

Re: Old school here

And reach over the top of your head with your other hand, pull your ear inside out and shove it further down than you would think

Re: Old school here

Nobody puts the disposable ones in properly.

The correct procedure is weird enough that you think they are taking the piss - but if you ever have to do a safety course they teach you.

Re: I can't wear buds/in-ear headphones for long.

How old are you?

Many genX-ers built in the 70s aren't compatible with modern metric iems

Re: I'm curious

A gentleman always takes a sting quartet with them on public transport

Re: I'm curious

Named after the Italian for foundry perhaps ?

So wireless earbuds with a string to keep them.together and connect them.to the phone so you don't lose them?

It could catch on - you could even use it to charge them continually

A toast to being in the right place at the right time

Re: He's toast

>Why would a Scottish kitchen have a need for any sort of salad?

Precisely why you need to detect anybody smuggling any in

Re: What to do in case of a real fire...or other alarm

Presumably there is an annulus were you receive sufficient dose to gain superpowers but not enough to die

Or back in the days of Sun, DisplayPostscript(tm) and every manufacturer having their own good ideas.

prof: I sent a paper to the printer and it crashed the printer.

me mere student: have you tried turning it ...

prof: yes I tried sending it to every other printer in the dept and it did the same thing

Naturally this was after 5:00pm on a friday afternoon and we didn't have anything like 24/7 support. We had the full, paper form to IT, have request lost, queried,lost,recycled as firelighters etc etc support

Re: Who are these people...

No one expects the vital network equipment....

Re: Or ISPs...

"Check our status page for known issues"

That works - if you can see the status page there is a known issue

Along the lines of "if you can't see this sign, the road is flooded"

Re: Did it talk?

Since not sure if links to BBC youtube will work in the benighted lands beyond the western ocean

Red Dwarf - Talkie Toaster

Re: He's toast

>the current law in Scotland is to have heat detectors in kitchen areas

Presumably to discover Englishmen eating salad

Is it a drone? Is it a balloon? Whatever it is the US warns locals not to let them fly in Iran

Re: Unlike you lot,

But DJI drones are all controlled by Chinese spy agencies that's why our city council isn't allowed to buy them for inspecting work sites.

If China is on Russia's aide why is Ukraine allowed to use them ?

Re: British universities were recently accused of developing such technology for Iran

That's why UK universities shouldn't be publishing this stuff to foreigners.

If we had kept the invention of gravity a secret nobody else would have been able to throw a cricket ball accurately and we would be world champions