* Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

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Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired

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Under a Cloud?

This article is filed under the [CLOUD] category.

Is that a nod to Trump being under a cloud? I'd have otherwise expected this to have been filed under [POLICY]

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Re: Move over Kardashians

It did cross my mind that, if Trump had a yacht... could there be a repeat of what happened to Robert Maxwell

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Re: What is the golf handicap of Edward Snowden?

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper

Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (Super duper!)

If you're blue and you don't know

where to go to why don't you go

where fashion sits

Puttin'Putin on the RitzTrump

Puttin'Putin on the RitzTrump

Puttin'Putin on the RitzTrump

Puttin'Putin on the RitzTrump

With apologies to Irving Berlin

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Move over Kardashians

Post Washington, what will the Trump clan do to make themselves feel important and think we give a damn?

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Re: Long may Trump continue. . .

"Whether America will become a better place now"

Make America GreatGood Again

There was a photograph of a someone holding up a placard with

"Make America Gay Again" - that's sure to rile Trump

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Re: What is the golf handicap of Edward Snowden?

A big headache for the US Government is Trump having had access to extremely classified information. Will he keep his mouth shut

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Re: Yay! Party time!

As he hasn't yet been charged with anything arising from the Mueller investigation due to the Justice Department guideline that prohibits the federal indictment of a sitting president, in theory, there is nothing for him to pardon. He may be able to pardon himself of the impeachment that passed the house and failed at the Senate.

I am just a bit pessimistic about how far they are willing to throw the book at him at Federal level with the messages of "healing" from the President-elect. Depends on how far Barr has managed to knobble the Justice Department as to how it will function after. At least the State level actions and the bankers finally having enough something to hope for.

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Re: What is the golf handicap of Edward Snowden?

The handicap of Trump's golf partners does not matter - he cheats.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/trump-is-the-worlds-worst-cheat-at-golf-players-and-celebs-say/

“To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,'” writes Rick Reilly in the new book “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump”

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Re: FCC

I did! I did mean Pai!

Of course Tweeter-in-Chief is on notice too, as soon as he leaves office, Tweeter's public interest exemption no longer applies, so, he'll have to behave himself - which is about as likely as anyone having a straight round of golf with him

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Re: One down ...

Of course the result of the American election would have been well known in advance to Cummings with all the AI and Superforecasting that he does. On the other hand, we may see him doing a day trip up to Barnard Castle again to check his eyesight if he has incorrectly read the forecasts

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Re: Yay! Party time!

And now for the next question, will he leave as a gentleman or will he be escorted out by men in uniforms or white.

The exit of autocrats that he so admires is seldom with grace. The very stable kind of guy could have a very stable kind of breakdown.

Get the popcorn in and let's wait and see.

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Re: ...letting someone else carry the can...

...that's the Bullingdon Club for you

The Bullingdon Club is a private all-male dining club for Oxford University students. It is known for its wealthy members, grand banquets, and occasionally bad behaviour, including vandalism of restaurants and students' rooms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club

Perhaps the vandalism of restaurants and student rooms was what set in motion the wreaking of the United Kingdom

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Re: Yay! Party time!

+1 I've never been so happy about the result of an election... even one in another country

"Ding-dong, the jerk is gone. But read this before you sing the Hallelujah Chorus"

Thomas Frank

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/trump-defeat-election

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Bye Bye Tweety?

Somebody's Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won't take it lying down

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Re: Say no more, Squire

@JD Power, @Arthur the cat

That post could be by GCHQ... having broken into the amanfromMars 1 account

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Re: it could "turn people into monkeys".

given we are led by donkeys, turning into a monkey is the least of my worries

Never mind the White House. At least we know who's going to Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic to fling ship into space again

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Re: Bow chicka wow wow

And over in Westminster...

https://londonist.com/london/history/the-story-of-london-s-other-great-stink

Apparently it does still stink now and then and the Honourable Members do find the resultant atmosphere a bit odorous to conduct their own odorous business, which is why there is a multi-billion pound refurbishment on the horizon for Westminster

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Re: Bow chicka wow wow

It will take a bit of time for lingering smell to disperse after the delivery of the Super Strength Elephant Laxative in the form of Democracy being delivered to eject the odorous orange lump and his policies from American and World affairs. After that, almost anything would smell of roses. The problem is around 70million people chose to back him

UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing

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USA...

Looks like Boris will have go grovelling for whatever he can get with the EU as his good friend Trump is not going to care about giving him his chlorinated chicken free trade deal before he gets escorted out of the White House on 20th January

Shopping online for Xmas? AI chatbots know whether you want to be naughty or nice

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Re: Based upon your order history ..

since for the past 6 months you have been buying useless tat from Amazon during lockdown then you will want to buy these amazing products for your family for Christmas

I think Covid-19 cut off the supply of tat from conferences for family Christmas presents

https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/03/those_it_gadget_freebies_youve_been_collecting_they_make_awful_christmas_presents/

Elon Musk's ancient April Fools' gag about 'Tesla Tequila' made real in lightning-shaped bottle

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Re: Coming Soon

Tesla branded water that has been passed by Elon himself.

"Eau de Musk"

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Re: Coming Soon

Tesla branded watches, AA batteries, underwear, TVs, mobile phones, tools, coffee etc. If the car company does go under, the brand will live on.

After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords

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I can see clearly now

I wonder if Johnny Nash's "I can see clearly now" is on Cummings' phone/iPod

Let us have a think-think: TalkTalk extends £1.1bn go-private takeover deadline

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Apple/Twitter moment

Dido Harding could come back at the helm just like Steve Jobs at Apple and Jack Dorsey at Twitter

Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in

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Stephen Elop

I presume that name is on a list of undesirables that they will reject without further consideration

Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant

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Re: Won't work

That's not enough to attract funding

They should add "World Beating"

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Re: Superspreader?

David Icke has been permanently suspended from Twitter, so we won't be hearing more from him from that source

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54804240

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Re: Now I'm confused...

Don't worry, No. 10 Downing St will readily cough up a few hundred million or more

With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one

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Re: "Check an HGV is Ready to Cross the Border"

U R allowed AN excuse.

Have A beer for making the effort

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Re: Check an HGV is Ready to Cross the Border

Symbolic "first"/ceremonial truckload to cross the border will be stuffed to the gills with "Oven Ready" DealTurkeys (non-chlorine washed).

And Government Advisors have been busy herding pigs and feeding and watering them at Manston airport in Kent ready for them to run down the runway and fly themselves to abattoirs in the continent

BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, observers grumble about the HTML

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"Running a site the size of the BBC on Lambda is nothing short of an exuberant waste of a government-subsidized budget, it's absolutely crazy. Lambda VM time has a massive markup compared to regular compute...

government-subsidized? Surely the bulk of the funding is the Licence Fee?

You only live twice: Once to start the installation, and the other time to finish it off

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Re: Fairly Frequent Flier

What brand were the batteries... "Ever Ready"?

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Re: Fairly Frequent Flier

"Always Ready for Action"

...the motto of the "Third Foot and Mouth" in "Carry on Up the Khyber"

US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs

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Re: The principle makes economic sense to me...

There's always the E1-B to bring in talent.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43256318

Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use

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gstatic.com

Recently, I had to allow gstatic.com in noscript and uBlock Origin when I want to load google.com, and it did appear to be related to accepting their T&Cs, so, I presumed it involved more snooping/cookies.

TikTok wins right to stay in America past current Art of the Deal deadline on November 12th

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Re: Oh no!

in fact if we ban opium, that will show those evil foreigners!

Indeed. We need citizens to get addicted to prescription drugs to shore up the profits of the sector.

IBM slaps patent on coffee-delivering drones that can read your MIND

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No need for more asteroid-blasting attempts, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has more than enough space dirt

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Re: NASA

2 Kilos is within the range they were aiming for.

"The spacecraft has enough nitrogen to allow three sampling attempts, to collect between 60 and 2000 grams 2–70 ounces (60–2000) grams."

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/osiris_rex_factsheet5-9.pdf

The upper limit is important as the mission planning would have had to take that into account for the fuel required for the return journey.

Fancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user support contract is up for grabs

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Re: Wonder who'll get it

Would this type of work come under the remit of "NewCo"'?

Return of the flying car, just when we all need to escape

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Tesla-Vision

Musk could buy Klein Vision - then quite rightly have a "proper" "Auto Pilot" on a Tesla vehicle (albeit once airborne)

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Re: I love pasta day!

Every Friday is a holy day for Pastafarians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

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Video Conferencing

YouPorn/PornHub could diversify and offer a service to rival Zoom

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"A dash by Parisians to either escape the new national lockdown or scramble back to the French capital to prepare for the restrictions caused record traffic jams on Thursday night"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/30/paris-region-sees-record-traffic-jams-ahead-of-lockdown

One day... Parisians in Flying Cars - what could possibly go wrong?

Just cough into your phone, please... MIT lab thinks it can diagnose COVID-19 from the way you expectorate

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Re: I'm catching up with them

See if you can correlate the methane content - then come up with an app that you can offset the carbon automatically.

Google Safari Workaround case inspires campaign to sue Facebook in UK's High Court over Cambridge Analytica app

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Re: Class action in the US

In the UK...

The name "Beresfords" is indelibly etched in memory of their handling of the Miners' Compensation Scheme.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/solicitor-jim-beresford-makes-pound30m-from-sick-miners-compensation-scheme-fzlzgqjq3r6

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/beresfords-pays-out-to-former-coal-miners/55253.article

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Re: Wait, is this some kind of private equity investing in lawsuits?

Trying to deal with 4.4 million small claims might be the bigger nightmare for FB, the claimants might end up with more in their pockets but the lawyers' children might have to subsist on dry bread and gruel.

Yes, something even along the lines of the Payment Protection Insurance(PPI) redress that got setup in the UK. I can't remember the exact lead up to that being setup - test case/official inqurt, but, it was made easier and straightforward for the individual to claim. Of course it did also spawn the hoards of PPI leaching firms trying to get their grubby hands on what was due to you.

Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves

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Re: Trained on 570GB of text scraped from the internet...

Trump's Twitter history to learn from

GPT-3 Medic: "The test shows you have Covid-19. I suggest we try the patent Trump-Bleach cure

NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app is leaving some unable to access government self-isolation grants

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well-earned rest

Baroness Harding, the Tory peer who leads the government’s much-criticised test-and-trace programme, should be removed and replaced, a senior Conservative MP has said.

Sir Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich and chair of the powerful parliamentary liaison committee, called for her to be given a “well-earned rest” and moved on to focus on “lessons learned”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/25/test-and-trace-chief-dido-harding-should-quit-says-senior-tory

--->A Beer for the Peer. (Please drink up before 2200)

Ho hum: If you're so artificially intelligent, name this song while my videos go viral

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Quelque chose pour le weekend, Monsieur?

I wonder if Monsieur Dabbs has considered switching the title

Got a problem with trust in AI? Just add blockchain, Forrester urges. Then bust out the holographic meetings. Welcome to the future

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Re: Putting the AI in blockchAIn

AI can replace Forrester and Gartner - not as if the incumbents are spot on in their predictions - the bar is much lower than say using AI for medical screening