Re: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been granted an audience with Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos
No doubt Boris took his official photographer with him - I doubt though we'll see a photograph of Boris kneeling down and kissing Bezos' hand
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Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes
Monday 20th September 2021 20:47 GMT 
How Boris got his name
Charlotte Johnson Wahl, who incidentally passed away this week is quoted...
She once recalled how the prime minister got his name – when, after an uncomfortable Greyhound bus journey to Mexico City while three months pregnant, a man named Boris Litwin, whom they were staying with, gave them two first-class plane tickets for the journey back. “I was so grateful, I said: ‘Whatever the baby is, I shall call it Boris.’”
She later changed her mind and called him Alexander Boris de Pfeffel: “At Eton, his friends discovered his foreign name and everyone started calling him Boris – even the [teachers]. But everyone who’s known him since childhood calls him Alexander. If I were to call him Boris it would mean something was really serious.”
Looks like Boris picked up the tendency to let others pickup the tab (holidays, home decorating etc) from before he was born
Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit
Tuesday 21st September 2021 01:16 GMT
Re: Every breath you take...
Sting - He has prior form when it comes to space...
Monday 20th September 2021 13:09 GMT
Re: When I see...
All Bezos has to do is to suggest that he'll commission an Amazon Prime TV programme - "The Greatest British Prime Minister since Churchill" with a nod and a wink, and Boris will think it's him and forget all about what he came to talk about and give Bezos some honorary title in next Birthday/New Year honours list.
Sunday 19th September 2021 22:21 GMT
Re: When I see...
Boris is going to have a word with Jeff...
who is most probably quaking in his space boots right now a the prospect of Boris demanding he pay more tax.
GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands?
Sunday 19th September 2021 09:22 GMT
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
"Good women are beautiful. Bad women aren’t. And men will do anything for a Guinness and a potato. Our writer loses herself in the blarney-filled world of the new culture secretary’s oeuvre"...
Thursday 16th September 2021 22:39 GMT
The Great British Cabinet
Ended with Chippendale
- he of the eponymous wooden furniture
and of course the male dance troupe - they obviously had talent or something to make women of a certain age go crazy.
As for Boris' Cabinet of the talented crème de la crème of the Tory party - they are as wooden as one of Mr Chippendale's pieces of furniture
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet
Sunday 19th September 2021 09:10 GMT
Pigeon v Broadband in SA
Anyone know if the broadband situation has improved in South Africa?
https://www.theregister.com/2009/09/10/pigeon_v_broadband/
portable storage capacity has increased several fold, so may be the pigeons still have the edge
Punchy Biden-lookalike grandad goes viral for fighting boxing gadget
Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks
Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral
Thursday 16th September 2021 23:58 GMT
Re: More window dressing as specialist personnel get pushed out of posts
My productivity and will to live falls through the floor during all the agile whatnots - after which I get back to normal service and create things. I think the only people who relish the whole thing at the place where I work is the product owner, team leader and the scrum master (mistress?)
Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown
Thursday 16th September 2021 20:32 GMT
Re: Police and Drones Are A Joke.
No, don't press THAT button!
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/19/sussex_police_drone_crash_crawley/
The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system
Java 17 arrives with long-term support: What's new, and is it falling behind Kotlin?
Australia gave police power to compel sysadmins into assisting account takeovers – so they plan to use it
Tuesday 14th September 2021 22:38 GMT
Re: United Kingdom, next
Someone mentioned the home secretary?
“I said last year we’re the Saudi Arabia of wind. Probably the Saudi Arabia of penal policy, under our wonderful home secretary,” Johnson said.
Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter
Tuesday 14th September 2021 21:23 GMT
Re: I wonder if fecal matter could be used
A more authoritative article on the same subject from a publication well versed in covering such topics...
https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/19/wombat_cube_poo_demystified/
US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju
Intuit branches out into email marketing by splashing $12bn on Mailchimp acquisition
Off yer bike: Apple warns motorcycles could shake iPhone cameras out of focus forever
Ghosts in the machine learning pipeline will be impossible to exorcise
Monday 13th September 2021 21:32 GMT
Re: It's not imortality.
"Bezos was this month reported to be a significant investor in Altos Labs, an age-reversal firm which is on the scientific quest for immortality."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/10/jeff-bezos-eternal-life-amazon-taxes
You can 'go your own way' over GDPR, says UK's new Information Commissioner
Linus Torvalds admits to 'self-inflicted damage' with -Werror as Linux 5.15 rc1 debuts
Lenovo blames 'firmware' issue for blank-screened Smart Displays, says Google's working on a fix – 6 months after complaints started
Sunday 12th September 2021 14:04 GMT
Re: Smart Clock?
...they are still available - read somewhere that apparently lockdown caused an upturn in their sales
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swan-STM201N-Vintage-Teasmade-Featuring/dp/B0144OPWOG/262-4809244-5267801
Here is a modern take on the same - with a suitably modern price tag...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barisieur-Coffee-Alarm-Clock-Black/dp/B07J5LFMLW
UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead
Saturday 11th September 2021 21:44 GMT
This report says he intends to go on and on - let's hope he jumps ship soon to make £££, but as ever, the country will be left to pick up the pieces of his vanity.
Saturday 11th September 2021 21:33 GMT
Indeed - Cameron was bad enough, then May comes along. Then when you think it can't get any worse BoJo the Clown gets a crack at his ambition to be World King, so starts flag waving. Though he did have the willyflag fixation from earlier when he was Mayor of London - a fact not lost on his IT Tutor
Saturday 11th September 2021 17:57 GMT
There's always a way
to skirt around privacy laws
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/08/operation_ironside_anom/
See how the Australians made available their trove to the FBI (who had the keys but not the data), by giving a 3rd country the data, but not the keys)
You walk in with a plan. You leave with GPS-tracking Nordic hiking poles. The same old story, eh?
Saturday 11th September 2021 19:15 GMT
Apple Store
The one place you can't make an impulse purchase is the Apple Store. Nobody says "Oh look, there's a USB adapter going for €80, that'll make a great stocking filler."
Dear Santa
As I have been very good this year, please can I have an Apple Monitor stand for Christmas?
Thank you very much
Alistair
Spot the dog? No, we couldn't either because Spot is a robot employed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
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