Posts by ElectricFox

Pokémon Red and Blue-era trading cards just made their owner a load of green: Complete set sells at auction for $107k

I was expecting to Rhydon with more puns with your Mew-sings. I'm going to Slackoth for a beer now.

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee

Re: Home Office

At the polling station

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

It's an enigma how the fanbois keep paying those prices....

Train maker's coder goes loco, choo-choo-chooses to flee to China with top-secret code – allegedly

Just don't transport them on the Underground...

VP Mike Pence: I want Americans back on the Moon by 2024 (or before the Chinese get there)

"American boffins using American rockets to send American people to the American Moon"

As oppposed to German boffins using German rockets to send American people to the Moon...

Deliveroo to bike food to hungry fanbois queuing to buy iPhones

Well....

I guess things have moved on from queing for your essential bread in a great depression to smashed avacado sandwiches delivered to you while you wait in a queue for apples...

What if tech moguls brewed real ale?

640 ml special brew

Should be enough for anyone...

USB-C for Surface owners arrives in form of a massive dongle

Maybe they've taken on an Apple engineer.

Like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZ8ek-6ccc

Boffins: Michael Jackson's tilt was a criminally smooth trick

Some of these dance moves are So Dangerous...

It's Galileo Groundhog Day! You can keep asking the same question, but it won't change the answer

Re: Aerospace Valley

To Quote Tom Lehrer:

He soon became a specialist, specializing in diseases of the rich. He was therefore able to retire at an early age.

ESA's all-seeing space eye captures momentary sunshine over Britain

As man had succumbed to the martians...

so our land now succumbed to the red weed....

US sanctions on Turkey for Russia purchases could ground Brit F-35s

leave increasing numbers of vital British-owned fighters grounded.

Lemons have not been invaluable to British defence since the days of scurvey!

South China waters are red, Brit warships are blue, HMS Sutherland's sailing there

Queen Lizzie:

Fear our helicopters!

Tick-tick... boom: Germany gives social media giants 24 hours to tear down hate speech

*******

<This comment has been witheld pending moderation by Frau Merkel>

US military drone goes AWOL, ends up crashing into tree 623 miles away

Re: The Shadow

It was coming after the squirrel's nuts!

Samsung battery factory bursts into flame in touching Note 7 tribute

Pissup in a brewery?

Sod that, I'm trying to organise a BBQ in a Samsung battery facility...

Chinese bloke cycles 500km to get home... in the wrong direction

That assumes that he travelled that 500 km via a reasonably straight route. Given his navigational abilities, he probably cycled 1000 km in a big wiggle-squiggle to cover the 500 km distance...

Raspberry Pi Foundation releases operating system for PCs, Macs

Re: And it appears to be 3D skeuomorphic!

SIR!

Have a thumbs up from me. I wish I had more to give you...

Non-existent sex robots already burning holes in men’s pockets

Imagine the potential leaks

Pay us not to release the data we hacked from your dirty sexbot...

Men! If you want to win at board games this Christmas, turn off the rock music – scientists

Count me in too!

As long as I can be the battleship!

NASA spunks $127m on SSL-powered robot to refuel satellites in space

EM Drive

Unfortunately, the inventor of the EM Drive appears to have jumped the shark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCAqDA8IfR4

He's shifted focus from "our-current-model-of-physics-violating space propulsion" (which would do away with the need for propellant) to raving about the realms of flying cars. If you put kilowatts of power into the most sensitive measuring equipment available to science, then you're going to measure something.

Icon, because I want to believe.

RAF Club members emailed fake invoices. Has it been hacked?

Re: Spammage crates over the briney!

Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Hack the Army: US military begs white hats to sweep it for bugs

Any white hat worth their salt

Will insist on being being paid in bitcoin for this...

Happy days for second-hand smartphone sales

Re: Upgrade cycle

I paid £170 for a second hand s5 (which, with removable battery and SD card makes it superior to the s6 and s7 imho). I'm not tied to a 2 year contract and saved a fortune on not opting for a new phone. It makes sense to me, but each to their own.

Siri, clone yourself and dive into this Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone

Samsung are heating up smartphone competition

Now you can converse with your phone and try to reason with it to not blow up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29pPZQ77cmI

What should the Red Arrows' new aircraft be?

Tornado?

Shame the RAF got shut of all those F3s. Could have kitted out a 30-ship formation with those!

Re: No F35 in the list?

Of the 10 F35s that would be assigned to the squadron, they would only be able to display a maximum of 2 flying formation at any given time.

F-35 'sovereign data gateway' will stop US reading pilots' personal data? Yeah right

Smart bombs

We've moved from an age of guided missiles being fired by misguided men to smart bombs being dropped by dumb planes...

Vatican and musicians at odds over appropriate use of crematorium leftovers

Iain M Banks got it right....

"The ship had displaced Linter's body. I wanted him buried on Earth, but he'd left specific conventional instructions before he got here, and the ship sad we should honour them. He would be sent into the sun, in our tradition, so that in a million years he'd return as light to the planet he somehow loved."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU&feature=youtu.be&t=40m52s

Bloody robots! 860k public sector jobs to be automated by 2030, say researchers

Great!

Let's instigate a massive government outsourced IT project to automate the civil service.

Google Pixel: Devices are a dangerous distraction from the new AI interface

Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers predicted the evolution of this ecosystem

<!Gory Video!>

https://youtu.be/6JKBQnNs_wk?t=28s

Samsung halts production of Galaxy Note 7

Re: I would quite like a phone thats not ludicrously thin

But monsieur! This phone is only "wafer-thin"!

Boffins eschew silicon to build tiniest-ever transistor, just 1nm long

Re: Shirley

some better revised names for Silicone Valley:

App Valley

Internet of Things Valley

Social Media Valley

...

'My REPLACEMENT Samsung Galaxy Note 7 blew up on plane'

You know it's a bad day when passengers' washing machines start catching fire on your flight....

Re: RE no, no, no, stop

You really can't have worse marketing than having every airline singling out a Samsung phone as the bogeyman to ~1.5 miillion travellers every day.

(Sent from my S5)

UK will build new nuclear bomb subs, says Defence Secretary

Re: Shouldn't the new names all start with a "W"?

They should take a leaf out of Iain M Banks' Culture works and call then:

A Frank Exchange of Views

God Told Me To Do It

Trade Surplus

Poke It With A Stick

Ex-army sergeant pleads guilty to using private browsing mode

Re: Abuse of private browsing mode

"Surprise your wife...

...by ordering her flowers"

Did you spend long adjusting that sentence to get the line break in that place? Or is it just how my browser displays the text in private mode?

The wait is over: MoD releases latest issue of Ship Paint Monthly

50 shades of grey....

....for geeks

She cannae take it, Captain Kirk! USS Zumwalt breaks down

The damage doesn't look so bad from out there in the picture

Sorry James Kirk, I had to get a Star Wars reference in

Which would win in a fight...

between a Zumwalt and an F-35?

UK Science Museum will reconsider its 'sexist' brain quiz

It reported my gender.....

as non-binary-investigative-hetero-cis-trans-existential-ubuntu-helicopter

Sorry Nanny, e-cigs have 'no serious side-effects' – researchers

Re: NRT

That reminds me of a line from Tom Lehrer:

He soon became a specialist, specializing in diseases of the rich. He was therefore able to retire at an early age.

Phones exploding in kids' hands, shares tanking – but it's not all good news at Samsung

Removable battery

Not sure if this fault is due to the battery, or the phone's internal battery management circuitry. If the former, a removable battery would have made this fix a whole lot simpler.

Built-in batteries seem like built-in obselecence in so many cases...

What next for the F-35 after Turkey's threats to turn its back on NATO?

cutting-edge Western jets?

I thought this article was about the F-35...

Harrison Ford's leg, in the Star Wars film, with the Millennium Falcon door

Who needs the force?

Who needs to use the force when you can just press a remote button?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNhYJgDdCu4

Woman charged with blowing AU$4.6m overdraft on 'a lot of handbags'

The higher tiers of "bag lady"....

Are bearded blokes more sexist?

Re: Proper sexism

Are bearded blokes more sexist*?

*sexist as defined by feminist ideology

Flying Spaghetti Monster is not God, rules mortal judge

Re: HERESY!!!!

"May the Flying Spagheti Monster strike Judge Gerard down with long thin strands of pasta!"

Fortunately, the FSM is a really easy going deity. Seriously, he doesn't even mind if you want to follow other religions at the same time. Remember that this is the one religion where nobody has been killed in his name. Let's keep it that way.

NASA prepares to unpack pump-up space podule

I've just had a weird vision of an astronaut on a spacewalk furiously operating a bicycle pump wondering why nothing is happening. Too much caffeine for me, I think...

That naked picture on my PC? Not mine. The IT guy put it there

Re: Meanwhile, in t'mill

Is bus tycoons the sequel to transport tycoon?