Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year

Re: Which aircraft will the meat pilot use?

>But needs air cover for protection.

Not if you are shooting goat herders

Re: How?

>Leaving the pilot on the ground gives a few advantages:

But one big disadvantage, it's hard to make a patriotic recruitment movie about comic book guy sitting in a trailer playing video games

Re: Which aircraft will the meat pilot use?

But surely the A10 is more vulnerable to the fighters flown by ISIS ace fighter pilots.

Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

>The world's crookedest bank.

Typical British anti-German rhetoric.

Deutsche Bank is the Mercedes of crooked banks. HSBC is the Robin Reliant

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

But surely the 6 British marines on guard at the governor's mansion could have held back the Chinese army if they had decided on a rematch ?

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

> but suggesting that the changes were made purely to disadvantage Hongkongers is inaccurate.

It gave UK residency to people whose grandparents were born in Britain - and that wasn't targeted by race ?

Re: Swings and roundabouts

On a personal level would you rather the local police / council /neighbourhood watch having a copy of all your emails/website visits/phone calls or China's military intelligence having them ?

Re: Enough of these rational arguments!

>Trump/Cisco/NSA deal as ra-ra-British

For certain Brexiters the only true Brexit is to become America

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

>we also have a one party system in the West

Ridiculous there is a huge difference between the Democrats and Republicans.

With one you get a right wing capitalist administration run by ex Goldman-Sachs partners with Ashkenazi surnames and with the other you get a right wing capitalist administration run by ex Goldman-Sachs partners with hispanic names.

So in normal (non-Trump) days your choice basically comes down to abortion and gay marriage.

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

Surely Hong Kong is British.

Aren't we "taking back control" sometime soon ?

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

>by buying European telecomms kit.

is that treason now, or do we have to wait for 31 Jan 2021 ?

Developers renew push to get rid of objectionable code terms to make 'the world a tiny bit more welcoming'

Re: @Yet Another - Problem is

>who decides what is good and what is bad

The point is using black/white to mean bad/good as in blacklist or black hat.

If you don't think this is offensive feel free to swap black/white for Jew/Muslim or Catholic/Protestant in your docs

Re: Then, there is Chess...

Except black goes first in chess.

In French chess do you have a guillotine for the king?

Re: master and slave

>When it's a drive that tells another drive exactly what to do then the wording makes sense

Except in IDE sense it doesn't. It's just who is first and who is second.

You might as well call them Gold and Silver

Re: Master changed, really?

What about Master/Pupil to use the original academic meaning?

It's not unreasonable to change black/white where the meaning is white=good, black=bad.

This isn't exactly the Daily-Mail fake frothing about not being able to say blackboard or black coffee

Yet another beefy BSOD spotted lurking within the walls of US patty pusher

Re: Stuffed full of deliciousness

>tap in your order

Then wash your hands - you wouldn't believe what swab tests on these panels showed up

(actually you would if you think about the reason most people visit McDs)

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

Re: Never understood this

There's a big German heavy metal festival where they lay a beer pipeline to keep the bars supplied.

Re: Nothing smart about "smart" white goods

The perfect consumer product - go capitalism

Re: Chill out

Also not clear it applies to "extra" services.

As long as the fridge defaulted to "stay cold" when the whizzy smart features you paid an extra grand for turn off - they could have a claim that it was functional.

Re: All part of the planned obsolesence

Try living over here on the left-pond.

"Threads" is starting to look like a feel-good movie

Re: Yep, this need legislation

>Love to see Samsung go out of business every couple of years...

But you didn't buy from Samsung, you bought from Samsung UK 2020 (holdings) Inc (Grand Cayman)

Re: Never understood this

> people who don't want this dodgy IoT stuff usually come from IT.

Along the lines of "the people most vehemently against e-voting are security researchers"

Re: Never understood this

>Majestic manager who is so impressed at the rate of consumption that they deliver next day,

Has sir considered our new direct pipeline service ?

BoJo looks to jumpstart UK economy with £6k taxpayer-funded incentive for Brits to buy electric cars – report

Re: Still no answer...

>my 3rd floor flat

Our demographics show that anyone living in a 3rd floor flat is unlikely to vote for us.

So we would just like to say "fsck off peasant"

That's what always confused me about Mad Max.

The oil has run out and yet everybody immediately switches to driving V8 muscle cars that run on premium petrol - rather than all riding bicycles and driving VW Polo diesels running on chip fat.

Re: Free parking for electric cars

>Plus, such discounts are generally regressive,

Remind me which party is in power ?

Re: Free parking for electric cars

> the average person

That's rather the point.

No need to help the plebs, what have they ever done for us cabinet members ?

Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope

Re: That's a cheap-ass looking hat he's hawking.

>"Woman told her ‘F*** Boris’ T-shirt is illegal by police"

That's worryingly close to an invitation as far as Boris is concerned

Re: 450 cities protesting racism

4th July was also the date that the French surrendered following Waterloo.

A double reason for it to be a bank holiday

beedeebeedee

Re: 450 cities protesting racism

All the protest footage is faked.

Obviously all of America is faked, when you fly there they just have you circle around and then you land in a studio backlot. That's why it all looks like the movies.

The moon landings were real - the USA is fake. Wake-up sheeple !

Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR

Re: Conspiracy time?

All reasonable points.

Now imagine you are Cummings writing a press notice for the Daily Mail

Conspiracy time?

When countries like Singapore/Korea and Oz/NZ come out of this quickly with effective tracing and testing - the UK govt can blame it's total failure of test/trace on a bunch of Guardian reader social justice types using European GDPR legislation to block vital tracing app.

There's always a coronavirus angle these days: Honor intros new smartphone with built-in temperature sensor

Re: Bad News

The temperature is rectal

As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence

Re: Twitter could pretty easily prevent this...

Yes there was so much less police violence when the news came from NBC and CBS

Re: What bothers me most is this one

>i'm with you on that sort of journalist.

These sort of journalists should be fired and forced to take some less reputable job

Re: What bothers me most is this one

How much video is there of police shooting/beating/arresting other police officers who are committing crimes against protesters ?

Re: He's moving the army in

So far the military have proved rather more disciplined. It's almost as if they had rules and are 40% black

Staff in a huff, personal call with Trump, picking fights with Twitter, upsetting civil-rights groups – a week in the life of Facebook's Zuckerberg

Re: Zuck and Trump

Being Trump's friend can have a very short half-life, ask Mr Bannon.

Zuck facing VP Warren in an investigation hearing in 2021 might be less pleasant

The Edinburgh Fringe festival isn't happening this year, but that won't stop a digital sign doing its own comedy routine

>in Scotland, they reeked of pish. And that, dear reader, is why they're locked.

Preserving a cultural artefact ?

All-electric plane makes first flight – while lugging 2 tons of batteries aloft

>researchers did manage to bag £9m worth of government funding.

So a trip to home depot to buy a LOT of extension cords - no need for batteries

Re: Nice stunt...

Yes I meant more in the lines of = fairly pointless stunt where the plane can only lift the batteries.

At least with the seaplane you have somewhere to land when the red light comes on!

Re: Nice stunt...

Especially since that has already been done in 2019: harbour-air-and-magnix-announce-successful-flight-of-worlds-first-commercial-electric-airplane

Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do

Re: The government "shielding" calls for the vulnerable

>I assure you I am not a scammer"

For classifications of secret and above they have to use the phrase "scouts honour, I'm not a scammer" for data classified as confidential or restricted then a "pinkie swear" is sufficient

'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation

Re: @devTrail - What kind of opt-in was it?

And it will become a requirement for all software. After all you can't compromise 'security', so all corporate standards will require a flush after every function call

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Re: Almost accident free

Then they would have totally missed the ISS

Re: What an achievement

There is an excellent talk by a wonderfully tweedy British history of science guy about this period before Nasa.

The 'Germans of a certain political hue' were ensconced in Huntsville Alabama - whether this was to keep the project secret, to keep them away from bumping into any famous Jewish scientists at major universities or because they would feel at home in Alabama is a discussion point.