Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory'

Re: Brit MPs ?

Personally I don't need to get a vaccine shot.

If everyone else has the vaccine then nobody can give it to me and I'm safe.

Re: Not "divisive and discriminatory", but essential

Ironically if they lived in that area in the 80s somebody would have checked that they didn't belong to CND or vote for the wrong party

Re: WTF ?

No but will avoid going round to the local Staples and making a photocopy of someone's certificate

Brit MPs ?

I can see how an app may be necessary in Scotland and Wales

But surely an Englishman's word is sacred and so all they have to do is announce that they are free from any viral impurities and that should be sufficient

Next the bureaucrats will be demanding I carry some proof that I can drive or fly a plane

A trip to the dole queue: CEO of $2bn Bay Area tech biz says he was fired for taking LSD before company meeting

Re: Acid - don't do it...

That's not true - even thinking about drugs will immediately kill you.

I know because I went to school in the 80s and the Thatcher/Reagan governments would never lie

First Coinbase, now Basecamp: Should workplaces ban political talk on internal corporate platforms?

Re: So what?

Typical Judean People's Front supporter

Re: Pub rules

Pubs in the Vatican can get really rowdy

Sportswear bans in Scotland

Apparently there is some minor theological disagreement which is evidenced by the local association football teams

I am informed it leads to some less than good-humoured rivalry

UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units

Re: Does anyone care ?

The Koreans and Americans wouldn't dare risk the displeasure of Global Britain

State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system

Re: We released 15 independent contractors.

You need to do it in a Mr Burns voice: "Smithers, Release the consultants"

Re: Being paid to do nothing is not unusual for independent consultants

You don't think the Inland Revenue would regard 'being paid to sit around and do nothing' as prima-face evidence that you were a regular employee ?

Beijing offers tax credits to patent-packing, R&Ding chip outfits great and very small

Re: Typical commie behaviour

>September 2020 executive order that was accompanied by a government announcement of $25Bn in subsidies

But that will be used properly, for share buybacks and executive bonuses, introducing the sordid topic of money into R&D is unAmerican

Typical commie behaviour

Tax credits for Scientific Research and Experimental Development - bunch of communists

Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge

Re: "uniquely Canadian"? Hardly.

>and they will happily renounce their Canadian citizenship

But have you tried taking their hockey sticks away?

Re: "uniquely Canadian"? Hardly.

They may have been Canadian weaponised beavers, along with Canada geese taking out US airliners it's two parts of the Canadian invasion force

> Everything in Canada is Maple Syrup flavoured. Even the beavers.

Only in Quebec

Re: Only one feed into the town?

There is probably only one road into this town. You could run multiple lines along the same roadside but they will all get taken out by a single landslide, river, flood, ice thaw-freeze

Traffic lights, who needs 'em? Lucky Kentucky residents up in arms over first roundabout

Re: Er ...

They can't invade Réunion, it has a letter you can't do on a US keyboard

If you want to be invaded democratized, you have to rename yourself to something, short, easy to pronounce and enterable on an ASCII keypad

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

On behalf of HMG may I apologise.

It's normal policy when abandoning a colony granting independence, to split it into two states, preferably on religous or ethnic lines. This then allows the two halves to wage war on each other and leave the rest of the world in peace.

Due to an administrative oversite and a lack of French cooperation, the USA was forced to implement this plan informally themselves - and naturally made a mess of it.

Re: Boston?

Perhaps this was necessary to reduce the number of casual visitors to the Garden State ?

Re: Boston MA Roundabout rules

Here the rule at 4way stop is: Range Rover driver with the most bling sunglasses goes first

Expecting people to read signs?

This is rural America, reading is for nerds/democrats/liberals/

Re: Do what did you expect?

I blame Apple. Kids today don't know which way is clockwise.

Re: Signs ...

At least the UK has one agency planning the stuff.

Here the motorways are federal, so there are no signs to the motorway on the surface streets because that's not their jurisdiction. The motorway numbers 'junctions' but in the city a junction can be every block, junction numbers get skipped so J32 can be immediately after J20 or you can have J20a,b,c,d,e because some suburb was built.

The local signs are the city responsibility, but the city can change every few miles, the same road can change name. There is no standard road numbering outside motorways.

Then in the city there is the same road east/west or north/south with the same building numbers.

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

Enhanced business opportunity.

Wonder what happens to accident rate when the ambulance company wins the contract for road signage?

Re: Invasion of the roundabouts, thank Gawd

The problem isn't the 4way stop - it's the alternate 2way stops.

So at every junction one set of roads is a stop but the other might be (4way) or not (2way) so you are never entirely sure if the other car is going to stop - unless you can see the back of an octagonal sign on their lane.

That's multiplied by the probability that the other car will stop even if they have a stop sign of course.

Re: Check out Freakonomics episode 454

> there's a fair bit of science supporting them as a good traffic management measure.

That's the problem. We don't your science - 4 way stops are in the Bible and the Constitution so that's all that matters

China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio

Re: Face it, we're lagging

But they can't possibly have invented 6G ahead of us.

How many really first class MBA / PPE graduates do they have running their industry?

Re: @Binraider

“to procure all such machines as are known in any part of EuropeAmerica.”

Eventually we will write a musical about him

Re: How many were actually developed

Yes but it did enable cheap Chinese Blackberry phones allowing Blackberry OS to become the dominate platform today and leaving RIM as the global trillion $ business.

Re: 6G-W

Texas should have it's own separate 6G standards to stop any of that Commie/Yankee/Liberal data getting in.

Re: 6G

If you combine 5G and 6G you get 11G which is obviously better, it's one faster for a start

Transport Scotland has £47m to drag its traffic management systems into the 21st century

Re: For Transport Scotland

But then you will be the manager responsible for a rise in administration costs and waste of taxpayers money.

If you job it out you will have valuable CV worthy experience in negotiating and managing a £47m contract, to take to your new job in big business

OK so what's going with these millions of Pentagon-owned IPv4 addresses lighting up all of a sudden?

Re: Backscratching device?

>Am I terminally cynical, or does that sound like something built specifically to route public money into friendly private hands?

That's the DoD

You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math

>Single core? Or horrendous Americanism?

No single vector, if you want to do operations involving more than one vector you needs the maths upgrade

GCHQ boss warns China can rewrite 'the global operating system' in its own authoritarian image

Re: Russia is affecting the weather

>Ah! So that's why the spring weather in Spain has been so shite this year.

No that's Brexit. All those expats moved to Spain for the nice weather, they return 'home' the weather isn't going to be nice = logical really.

Toyota buys Lyft’s autonomous car group for $550m

Re: What's an ePalette?

aka. Mega-Roomba

Re: Toyota Land Cruiser

There was a suggestion by the USMC that it be given the "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal for the number of US troops it has killed.

Re: Toyota Land Cruiser

That would be an effective US military strategy. Make Toyota pick up trucks as complex, unreliable and unmaintainable as an F35 or Osprey that both sides are now back on equal footing.

Re: When is a city not a city?

The self driving large white spheres worked though

Does the boss want those 2 hours of your free time back? A study says fighting through crowds to office each day hurts productivity

Re: "Maybe a handful of people can work remotely"

No, it becomes a game - we are a startup that got acquired by a global megacorp on the other side of the world. Beating their corporate policies and sabotaging their initiatives is what keeps us sane.

We do have a translation board listing 'corporate speak = English' translation

We also have very very good coffee and excellent games room and amazing home theatre.

Re: Covid 19 and hot desks

>The fundamental philosophy behind hot-desking is that the desk is what's important

But what is a chair or keyboard without its idiot ?

Get a mountain bike and ride over the top those shiny metal humps installed in the no-parking/bus/cycle lane.

Re: Covid 19 and hot desks

> is how are they going to CV19 clean each desk so its safe for a different person ?

BOFH solution = flamethrower. Why do you think it's called 'hot' desking ?

NASA’s getting really good at this flying a helicopter on Mars thing

Re: secondary use

It's why need astronaut cats which will sweep the dust, and any delicate instruments, off the rover.

Re: First step towards human colonisation

>The only useful pizza delivery system is pair of hands

The only useful pizza delivery system is the Deliverator.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. .... The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs.

Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42

Just a note: The story doesn't mention, he died from complications of diabetes

All the tweets were "we are not talking about the cause of death to respect the family" which led to a lot of unfortunate speculation about suicide and then a rash of covid-vax conspiracy.

As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large

Re: Is it still not finished?

Unix ran perfectly well on the PDP-11 ...

Re: Nothing to see

>Today's kernel devs seem to be more inclined

That's the thing with open source, the only way to get stuff you want into the kernel is to become a shareholder

Apple faces another suit over its allegedly misleading water resistance claims

It's only approved for submersion in Apple Water (tm).

Which costs $1000 /litre