Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

As Russia wages disinfo war, Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight

In the 1930a you could also find fascist groups in Britain, Frame and the USA, but I think Hitler's claim to be invading France to defend against Nazi aggression might be disingenuous

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

Re: Corrections

For the correctionalizationing process ?

There is a separate plugin that removes all traces of sarcasm and irony for our cousins in the former colonies

How can you say that when an el'reg staffer won a debate in the Liz Truss thread with the brilliant comeback - 'so ner'

>I am mid-Atlantic and I strongly suspect we all will be eventually.

Global warming ?

Re: The King's English

>Isn't the King of Bastard Viking Descent?

Bring back the Danelaw. Northern independence under Cnut's descendants and allied to Denmark

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: Please help me here

Definitely part of the "care in the ...."

Re: Got the popcorn ready for Question Time

>Her timing did screw up the last ever Mock the Week though...

Was it going to be her and Frankie as an all-stars team ?

Re: seeing how things work (or don't) over there...

Wasn't that an attempt to keep an de-elected leader rather than defenestration an elected one?

Unless you think the purpose was to decapitate Pence

Re: ... the constituents can remove their MP. if that MP happens to be the PM...well :-)

>You can't lead the Parliementary Party (of any party) if you don't have a seat in parliament.

Is that necessarily true? Pretty sure we have had Green Party leaders who weren't MPs

And with Alec Douglas-Home we nearly had a PM who wasn't an MP

Re: Hahahaha

> The notion that if you give all the money to the rich things will work out OK is a logical fallacy.

I think that rather depends on one's personal circumstances rich-wise

With those beliefs, it's a pity he didn't have more hair, a beard and a cigar = he would have made a great student T-shirt

Re: Free speech, duh

So Devon had better watch out ?

Re: If a mistake is bad enough ...

The first of the last the three they didn't actually pick - the committee managed to arrange that there wouldn't be a divisive Brexit themed vote around Theresa May

Re: This article

But if persuaded by ones colleagues that one could best serve the country....

Re: John Cleese? Cancelled?

>Who really runs the country, would that be the civil service?

I always assumed it was the cast of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"

Re: Point of order Madam Author

>She is still Prime Minister

what's latin for "last among equals" ?

Re: We can only hope for beheading, just the other way around

I was thinking Charles III beheading the parliamentarian leader this time.

Re: Please help me here

>‘Liz Truss’ is a failed AI experiment. Hence that strange way of talking

Stepford wives by Lucas Electronics ?

>made my day, if not the week, month or even the whole year.

So we're friends now ?

Re: Please help me here

>if it gasses it's own people.

They were Kurds, everybody gasses the Kurds

Re: Please help me here

>Stock, Aitkin & Waterman would do a better job than Lettuce Truss

So a PM who is never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie, and hurt you ?

Re: This makes me so happy

>It's like a return to the Glory Days of El Reg,

You're suggesting Dabbsy for PM?

Re: Obvious solution

Wouldn't we then end up with a chamber full of experts with long experience and the time for careful debate unconcerned with sound bites and political manoeuvring?

Plus some Russian oligarchs who bunged the party a few Roubles

Re: The 1922 committee

We can only hope for beheading, just the other way around

>William Hague?

Is it just recent history bias but does Hague suddenly look like a towering intellect and a bastion of moral probity?

So he was a communist ?

>We failed the "best hair" category badly in 2016.

Really? The shop said it was the bestest hair

I thought the complaint was that the PM was ultimately chosen by 100,000 ancient golf-club party members and it would be more democratic if they were chosen directly by MPs (guided by the whips)

Re: The 1922 committee

I think we all yearn for the king dissolving parliament, putting in place half a century of civil war and leading to parliamentary lord protector (offer not valid in Ireland)

Re: Serious point amongst all this humour !!!

Have you considered the Brussels solution ?

No government for 2 years - but you still have beer, chocolate, waffles and chips (with mayonnaise)

Re: Someone will be along shortly ...

It's never the Eu, they are totally powerless bureaucratic foreigners, impotent against the might of Global Britain

It's the internal threat of the 5th columnist Remainer anti-growth coalition of experts and civil-servants

"Make America Great Again" by not just electing the tallest candidate with the best hair?

Re: across the Irish sea

I thought all Irish politicians were basically St Patric crossed with Seamus Heaney ?

According to Fintan O'Toole

Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

> serial port on an 8048 family chip to work

Somehow I'm picturing a farmer taking his son out to the barn, pulling this dust sheets off a 8048 and saying- here son, you can take the family chip out for a spin

Re: More like a modem...

That's the tricky bit. Getting an electrician who can tell the difference between the 532.0nm and 532.001nm green wires

IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees

Sure all that expensive military tech may have totally failed against Toyotas with machine guns in the back and guys in mountain passes with rocks.

But if we ever had to go up against the unimaginable might of the USSR Russian army - we would need those $Bn 6th-generation Quantum AI holographic steal fighters

>And why would you have thought that?

By assuming IBM no longer had the intellectual or organisational ability to manage to be evil anymore.

It's more an Oracle level plan.

Obviously 'Nanas' is the new 'N' word

To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess

Re: Press the button

>Repeat - no networking. Repeat - no aircon

Door? Nobody said you needed a door in the wall

Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason

Re: Why are PC webcams crap?

The chips are cheap, the lenses are crap. There are physical limits to what you can do with a 1mm diameter lens in a 1mm deep package if you aren't allowed to change the wavelength or speed of light.

What they do have is $$$$ worth of very clever AI trickery to fix up the images. This is what you get if you use your fruit based device for instance

>Also because I now have staple marks which take a while to heal.

Don't touch the guy in the basement's red stapler

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

Re: $10B for a unified electronic records database

And how are you going to pay for all the non-executive directorships for the health agency bosses on that budget?

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Re: Delighted ...

>Tory MPs wanted Sunak from day one. Unfortunately he was in charge of the economy going to shit and people weren't going to forgive him for that so Liz got it instead.

So Buffers Buffington at the golf club looked at the 10 year gilts yeild curve against GDP and decided to make the white choice

Re: Prime Minister

>By your measure, we should never have made friends with the Germans after WW2, and should instead drag a conflict out for as longs possible.

Germans? Pah, we should still be at war with the French!

Re: But where's the "Merkel"

Or because he teamed up with UKIP to have "Brexit Party" candidates to split the vote in labour safe seats.

Presumably the proof will be when the strong and stable conservative candidates all keep their northern seats with an increased majority

DisplayPort standards bods school USB standards bods with latest revision

Displayport is cheaper for the PC maker and is generally better for computer graphics stuff.

Displayport input to HDMI out adapters are cheap and reasonably good, unless you want 4K@60hz, or you need long hdmi cable runs, or it's full moon

DVI does have the option for VGA, it's the 4 pins around the flat blade connector. It's just that almost nobody implements it

HDMI to DVI works both ways

Mostly. For computer graphics and no audio HDMI / DVI are equivalent (except you don't have to pay the HDMI licence fee for DVI)

For video HDMI can do more high bit depth modes and of course has sound

California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal

Australian approach

Wasn't this an excuse by a recent Aussie administration?

The CO2 from their forest fires were so much higher than all their industrial emissions that there was no need for any reductions in their man made sources