Posts by Roj Blake

Wileyfox goes TITSUP*: Smartmobe maker calls in the administrators

Re: waitaminute

It's the tap that's used to water the magic money tree.

Sad News

As a very happy Swift and then Swift 2+ owner I'm very sad to hear this, although I suspect that the writing was on the wall once Cyanogen went kaput.

I hope they all find new jobs very quickly.

Women beat men to jobs due to guys' bad social skills. Whoa – you mad, fellas? Maybe these eggheads have a point...

Re: Related: Microaggressions in Job Ads

"You always remain calm under pressure" in a job ad translates to "we want someone who won't complain when we pile far to much work on them (which we will, frequently)."

Dori-no! PepsiCo boss says biz is planning to sell lady crisps

Re: The Era Of Stupid

What's it like to have an IQ of 150?

Imagine you've got an IQ of 100 and everyone else is a 50.

Re: I once...

I once (many times, actually) had a bag of Tesco crisps with no flavour whatsoever.

At least now I know where it went.

No, Windows 10 hasn’t beaten Windows 7’s market share. Not for sure, anyway

Re: 50% of men and women are below average.

Not always. Less than 1% of people have a below average number of legs.

Peers approve Brit film board as pr0n overlords despite concerns

Re: Who are they going to employ to check all these pr0n websites?

It's a tough job, but I'd be willing to do it (in the interests of society).

Exoplanets from another galaxy spotted – take that, Kepler fatigue!

Re: "2,000 moon-to-Jupiter sized planets for each main sequence star"

It says in the article that most planets are not bound to a star.

Shopper f-bombed PC shop staff, so they mocked her with too-polite tech tutorial

Re: When dealing with others, always be a gentleman*

So a gentleman can be rude on purpose?

Web searching died the day they invented SEO

The one thing SEO is good for...

...is finding SEO companies online.

SEO companies are literally the only thing where if you do a search for one you are presented with a list in the order of how good they are.

Which begs the question: why would you use one that advertises on the side of taxis?

Astroboffins spot sneaky signs that the Milky Way devoured smaller galaxies

Re: Massive dwarf?

If you can have miniature giant space hamsters, then you can also have massive dwarfs.

And at least the dwarfs don't go for the eyes.

UK.gov mass data slurping ruled illegal – AGAIN

Re: "by" = "village"

And this is why the names of many places in England that were formerly occupied by Vikings end in by - Selby, Ashby, Corby, etc.

Twilight of the idols: The only philosophy HPE and IBM do these days is with an axe

Re: Marx

Adam Smith was around at the same time as the East India Company, so he certainly should have been aware of large corporations.

Have a Cigar...

You're gonna go far.

Well done on the section headings.

Intel alerted computer makers to chip flaws on Nov 29 – new claim

Re: And how is the other way looking

It may be that he didn't sell his shares because of the bugs.

But it's also possible that Intel delayed disclosure of the bugs until after the pre-planned sale of stock.

Dell board meeting: What've we got on the table? Sparkling, still, sarnies... and oh, IPO?

Re: Out of idle curiosity

We use a lot of Poweredges. Build quality is excellent and the management tools are pretty decent.

Re: Financial engineering

Since when did Dell make Proliants?

PACK YOUR BAGS! Two Trappist-1 planets have watery oceans, most likely to be inhabitable

Re: "why does the artwork always show a scenery which is pretty much unlikely?"

I did hear a story once (on a Radio 4 documentary) that on one occasion they were filming Blake's 7 when they kept being interrupted by someone blowing stuff up over the other side of the quarry. They sent someone over to complain as they had been assured that no quarrying would be happening that day, and it turns out that Dr Who was to blame.

Re: Food chain

"Inflammable means flammable?"

- Dr Nick Riviera

Google yanks cash firehose from Lunar X Moonshot comp. The actual Moon shot one

Re: They did it wrong....

It would be a great election folks, to make the Moon great again.

Google can't innovate anymore, exiting programmer laments

Re: Allo?

Did they ever get The Fallen Madonna With Ze Big Boobies by van Klomp to Switzerland?

A high-energy neutrino, a powerful cosmic ray, and a gamma ray walk into a bar... Where you from, asks the bartender

Sixteen Sodium Atoms Walk into a Bar...

...followed by BATMAN!

A Proton Walks into a Bar and Orders a Pint

The barman asks "are you sure?"

"Yes," says the proton, "I'm positive."

Half a terabyte in your smartmobe? Yup. That's possible now

Re: re. porn

This time next year, the hedgerows will be awash with illicit SDcards

Murdoch to Zuckerberg: Cough up cash, nerd

Re: Stop Press. Murdoch will have trouble taking over Sky

But why is there only one Competition and Markets Authority?

Re: Pay Journalists

If you think that Murdoch's media are either leftist or feminist, then I can only conclude that your politics are somewhere to the right of Benito Mussolini.

America restarts dodgy spying program – just as classified surveillance abuse memo emerges

Re: Dear America

Bernie Sanders 2020.

Internet giants removing 70 per cent of reported hate speech, crows European Commission

Delete Button

I get that pictures of keyboards with a doctored Enter key are a thing, but why do you need to do it with Delete, when there's already a perfectly good key for it?

Re: Hate speech is...

There are some Osirisly bad puns there.

Your connection is not Brexit... we mean private: UK Tory party lets security cert expire

Re: (blue passports?? my old one (circa 1974) is more black than anything else)

Much like socks that aren't priest socks, your passport wasn't black - if you look closely, you'll see that it was very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.

Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

Re: Whats in a name

The RN has had four warships called HMS Cockchafer

Google Chrome ad-blocking to begin in February – but what is it going to block?

Re: Stable Door Bolt Etc.

NoScript may be able to act as an ad-blocker blocker blocker, but can it block the ad-blocker blocker blocker blocker?

Space.. the fi, er, New Frontiers: NASA to hurl space robot at duck comet – or Saturn moon

Europa

Rather than going to Titan, they should get a submarine to melt its way through Europa's icy crust and have a look at what's underneath.

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

Re: Were they only supposed to blow the bl**dy seal off?

That would leave one very happy seal.

Ey-up, mardy Rochdale council has dropped plans for ban on swearing. Thank f$ck!

Re: The response to this is well known

Drokk, grud, stomm, spug, etc

Virgin Hyperloop pulls up the biggest chair for Branson, bags $50m, new speed record

NHS

I wonder if the money Branson invested included the cash he got by suing the NHS for not giving him a contract?

Irony's lost on old Pope Francis: Pontiff decrees fake news a 'serious sin'

Re: Have you guys read the 10 commandments

Although Jesus himself replaced The Ten Commandments with The Two Commandments.

Brit film board proposed as overlord of online pr0nz age checks

Re: Oh, wow...

Misandrist.

Someone who hates men is a misandrist.

Hey, we've toned down the 'destroying society' shtick, Facebook insists

Re: Its Blakes7 dystopia, only without the spaceships / rebels!

I'd take Servelan over Zuckerberg any day.

Toucan play that game: Talking toy bird hacked

I saw a toucan in my back garden the other day...

But when I looked at it more closely I realised it was just a magpie eating a banana.

Spy-on-your-home Y-Cam cameras removes free cloud storage bit

Re: And in another classic Trustpilot behaviour

They do, and they are.

EE drops packets but retains UK network champ's title

You think EE has awful customer service now...

...wait until their billing and support is rolled into BT.

Investigatory Powers Act: You're not being paranoid. UK.gov really is watching you

Re: Eat their own dog food

But if MPs were being snooped upon, how would Damien Green's "office staff" be able to watch porn on his work PC?

Scotland, now is your time… to launch Brexit Britain into SPAAAACE!

Re: Highlanders wore plaids not kilts.

Not according to the history documentary "Carry On Up the Khyber" they don't.

Ascension

As Scotland is far from the equator, wouldn't it be nice if we owned an island close to the equator, in the middle of an ocean (handy if anything goes wrong) and with a catchy name that means "going up"...

This is peak AI: Bot to guest edit Radio 4's Today programme

Re: Bah, humbug!

Last week, Humphrys was banging on about the effectiveness of dowsing for water. Says all you need to know.

Military test centre for frikkin' laser cannon opens in Hampshire

Re: But, but, but... Flash Gordon!!!

GORDON'S ALIVE?

Possible cut to British F-35 order considered before Parliament

Re: subcontract the build of everything bar the engines to furniture makers

DFS struggle to make a sofa that doesn't fall apart after six months. I'm not sure I'd trust them to build a plane.

Budget 2017: How to make a downbeat forecast sound better. Say 'tech' a lot?

Stamp Duty

You don't solve a problem of too much demand and not enough supply by cutting the tax that dampens demand.

From Vega with love: Pegasus interstellar asteroid's next stop

Re: Well, it's a well documented fact that the Ramans do things in threes.

You wait millennia for an interstellar asteroid, and then three come along in a single day...