* Posts by Dr_N

1646 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2012

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

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Re: Came to say the same thing

I hear there is already a club for the BYD Seal.

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders

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Re: This is almost bibilical

Gibson, "The Peripheral" reference.

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Re: This is almost bibilical

It's so dystopian Luke 4:5 comes to mind.

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground

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Alien

100 billion to 1?

"ULLA!" ?

'Repeal hate crime laws for free speech' petition passes 14k signatures

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Re: TimeMaster T My view

Welcome to El Reg comments! Way to make a splash.

UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

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Re: Or They Could Just Pull Another Rwanda

Isn't 22/7 already Pi-Lite?

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

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I got a severe case of the Tribbles on the C64. Sprites all over the screen.

The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128

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"The New ROM antics.."

Kudos on that one.

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

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Seems this pineapple pizza thing is really triggering. I'd hate to think of the anguish anchovies in trifle would cause.

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I bet he wears shorts with sandals & white socks too. The wrong 'un.

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Re: I don't understand...

Pascal Monett > I think everyone knows for who that is intended

People from Alsace. The mingers.

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Re: Having grown up in Hawaii

Next Christmas it'll be turkey with kale, sweet potatoes, and Guacamole at your house? With piña coladas I'm guessing? Mmmmmm. And Hot Cross Buns for afters?

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Trollface

Wow. Someone really doesn't like the No Pineapple on Pizza viewpoint. What's your take on Marmite on sushi?

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Re: I don't understand...

Next people will be supporting ketchup & mayonnaise on their chips. The savages.

Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year

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Joke

Re: For many of us, hybrids make more sense than BEVs

Jeep have a small network if off-road chargers in the US:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/jeep-to-deploy-solar-powered-stations-in-remote-areas-to-recharge-electric-off-roaders-198997.html

Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022

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Mutants

Read this headline as a supermarket assault by The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator

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Too young.

But he leaves an outstanding legacy.

NASA 'quiet' supersonic jet is nearly ready for flight

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Re: As much political as technical

The Galaxies taking off from Moffat sound horrendous. They scream to get airbourne.

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

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Mushroom

"Threads"

Just conjures images of a UK nuclear apocalypse.

[Edit: I see others already noted this.]

Hacking a Foosball table scored an own goal for naughty engineers

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Stop

"Foosball"

NO.

Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme

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Re: Spanish motorhome park example

Yup. But Brit tourists mostly don't have those.

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Re: Spanish motorhome park example

Passport for any accomodation is de rigueur in most countries.

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Suica/Pasmo seems to work ok in Japan, for ticketing.

And I'd love a digital identity car. Is that one with vanity plates?

German finance minister says nein to more Intel subsidy cash

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iron> I wonder what that is in real money?

69,607,760,176.017 groats.

UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies

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Re: Umbrella Companies

That is only after they become incorporated.

NASA's electric plane tech is coming in for a late, bumpy landing

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Over Complex Solution

What about using rubber bands!!!

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

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Xiaomi will be happy ...

... FM radio and IR remote as standard on mozt of their models, I believe.

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

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Re: hmm

Lars > Regarding "Can't be trusted any more."

That is a very good/fair point in that discussion.

But there are some quite unsavory/untrustworty Brits too.

Normally it's the ones who refer to themselves as "Expats".

They normally have some hustle on, to get round tax/residency rules, in my experience.

Japan's NTT claims it's built 1.2Tbit/s optical comms that sip power

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Re: Progress

I guess I should have used a Joke Alert instead of Troll Face. My bad.

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Progress

This will speed up fax transmission rates for sure!

EU proposes regulations for tablet battery life, spare parts

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Black Helicopters

Potentially ambiguous perhaps.

But it is absolutely clear that a Gendarme cannot ticket you for not having a box of bulbs in your car.

Which is what cross-channel ferry companies, car-part shops and motoring organisations in the UK try and intimate.

Guess what they all sell? (It's BigBulb!!!)

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Re: Dippy Cops

How would having a spare lamp have helped in this apocryphal corner case?

If he couldn't "fix" at the side of the road they would have impounded/immobilised his bike. Which the Gendarmes have the power to do in such cases.

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Or, for newer cars, you'd need to keep 2 LED headlamp units in the boot.

At €1000 a pop.

I think we can all see it's a nonsense.

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Black Helicopters

Not in France it isn't. But people (especially Brits) have been led to believe it is. Probably by BigBulb.

AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m

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Re: Chemicals & Services

Or, in civilised countries like France and Japan, you get paid a proper wage for a day's work instead. And such work is not considered to be beneath people.

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Re: If it steers boots on the ground to double check

AMBxx> Our council tax rating now has an asterix next to it.

Not Obelix?

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Re: Chemicals & Services

That is actually the old-school, polite way to address anyone when calling on the telephone.

LG makes a TV roughly the size of a queen-sized bed

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Re: Missing

17.598 linguine ?

We were promised integrated packages. Instead we got disintegrated apps

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Psion 5

The last time a set of software/apps worked together seamlessly was on the Psion5.

It's been downhill ever since then.

Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault

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Re: Karens

Mr Dabbs> but I can't catch them all.

So they're like Pokemon?

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Karens

"I want to speak with your manager!"

"I'm cancelling my subscription to Private Eye!"

It's all about the drama. Just find a workaround and move on.

Extreme updating, on the other hand, should be a new competitive sport.

Microsoft open-sources its emojis as part of new design philosophy

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Re: Clippy

xneko too.

Enough with the notifications! Focus Assist will shut them u… 'But I'm too important!'

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Not just the national government.

When the prefecture of Alpes Maritimes asked ASF/Vinci to install a variable speedlimit system they refused on cost grounds.

So the prefecture passed a local decree to reduce autoroute speed limits from the already reduced 110kph to 90kph around Nice. And now we are stuck with that.

China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like

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Re: Ours

I much prefer the production from Glenfarclas.

Psst … Want to buy a used IBM Selectric? No questions asked

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Read this as Scalextric...

... and am now extremely disappointed.

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

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Re: re: streaming services and content

NTSC VHS and Region-1 DVD & BluRays definitely feature the, "The FBI are coming for you !!!!!" opening splash screens.

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Re: re: streaming services and content

What happens if there are 2 or more you want to watch?

Are there enough hours in the evening to be watching them each every evening ?!?

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Re: You know you're old when...

The resort charge on those is outrageous though.

Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE versus CDE

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Exactly. .

OpenWindows with olvwm for multiple (but connected) workspaces.

Never been equalled.