Posts by charlieboywoof

There's no Huawei back now: Biden signs law that forbids US buyers acquiring kit on naughty list

Couldn't have been Sleepy, he couldn't hold a pen the right way round.

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

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

Overdue: After a 2-year £12m delay, Northern Ireland Libraries looks to close chapter on Fujitsu saga

Easy

Just sell off the library service in its entirety. Problem solved

Far-right internet haven Parler to be allowed back onto Apple's App Store with added content moderation

The least "far right" thing i have ever seen in my life

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Was Richard Hammond in the building at the time, joking aside, that car took days to put out when it crashed.

India boosts space program budget by 46 percent

Hey India

Fund your own stuff, thanks

The chips are down. We need your support, semiconductor industry tells US President Biden

In Other Words

Multi Multi Billion dollar rich companies wait for handouts from the less welloff.

Recovery time objective missed by four weeks, but Parler is back online

err......

"clearly encourage and incite violence" like BLM and antifa

President Biden to issue executive order on chip shortages as under-pressure silicon world begs for help

its called..........................

....................... socialism. Billions and billions of big tech worth, but you will be made poorer.

Biden administration pauses pursuit of TikTok and WeChat

Err....

"Pauses pursuit" Shows where this place stands politically

Apple reportedly planning to revive the MagSafe charging standard with the next lot of MacBook Pros

Current Apple

Just shows TC doesn't have a clue.

Amazon turns Victorian industrialist with $2bn building project to house workers near new headquarters

In Other Words

keep them corporate slaves

Intel chief pens congratulatory letter to President-elect Biden urging work on immigration and domestic manufacturing

This wont age well

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Now give them the UK health service. Seriously.

Apple calls BS on FBI, AG: We're totally not dragging our feet in murder probe iPhone decryption. PS: No backdoors

Correct

It would be on the web within an hour

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Re: Not right about everything

And the folks who stuck up Washington

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

Impartial????

The most terrifying blatant anti democracy anti British anti family organisation.That,now, we willnot fund.

It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig

"Hes from Barcelona"

Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater

They wont though, horrendous biased organisation, and no, i dont pay for that reason.

The BBC are currently working out how to link this to brexit.

We ain't afraid of no 'ghost user': Infosec world tells GCHQ to GTFO over privacy-busting proposals

Insert Applicable Terrorist Flavour

............................who was know to the authorities.

Breaking news: Bank-card-slurping malware sneaks into Forbes' mag subscription website

Re: I am not a techie

Cool, I do the same with Revolute Bank Card

Timely Trump tariffs tax tech totally: 25 per cent levy on modems, fiber optics, networking gear, semiconductors…

Re: *NOT* Emabarrassed American!

Well said. I'm on the inside of this topic in medical electronics.They are underhand, thieving ripoff artists.

Silent Merc, holy e-car... Mflllwhmmmp! What is that terrible sound?

Dumber and Dumber

Problem exists already, with runnists and Lycraists using earbuds

Need a 1TB microSD for your smartmobe? Come April, you can free up storage space in your wallet and buy one

eggs in baskets etc.

Google faces another GDPR probe – this time in the land of meatballs and flat-pack furniture

Article photo

needs updating to a war zone.Your welcome.

Germany hacked: Angela Merkel's colleagues among mass data dump victims

I use this

and find it very good, according to my German colleagues too

https://www.deepl.com/translator

It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

I can has?

Dutch boyband hopes to reverse Brexit through the power of music

another reason to get out

NHS supplier that holds 40 million UK patient records: AWS is our new cloud-based platform

Re: Storing PII Data in AWS (S3)

Its not in the UK

Xiaomi anarchy in the UK: Chinese tat-flinger wants to slip its cheapo flagships in Brit pockets

Re: Actually considering the scooter jobby

"If any person shall wilfully ride upon any footpath or causeway by the side of any road made or set apart for the use or accommodation of foot passengers; or shall wilfully lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description, or any truck or sledge, upon any such footpath or causeway; or shall tether any horse, ass, mule, swine, or cattle, on any highway, so as to suffer or permit the tethered animal to be thereon."

This just in: What? No, I can't believe it. The 2018 MacBook Air still a huge pain to have repaired

"insurmountable"

I know there's a joke there somewhere but its Friday afternoon

UK.gov to press ahead with online smut checks (but expects £10m in legals in year 1)

I am a lobster

Surprise! VAT, customs likely to get a bit trickier in a Brexit no-deal world

Re: Can anyone

The megarich are and always have been unaffected by rules that apply to Joe. They will give zero F's

Eye eye! DeepMind teams up with doctors to ogle eyeballs for illness

Maybe

But this will be done at the cash point in the future and notify you.

Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!

Besides........

.......the 5 year olds spelling, it does prove the state is your enemy

Amazon meets the incredible SHRINKING UK taxman

Re: Just say No to Amazon

Always the same with lefty wet news outlets. Not even commenting the particular figures, but is NOTHING to do with amazon, moan at Gov. if needed, they make the rules.

From toothbrushes to coffee makers to computers: Europe fines Asus, Pioneer, Philips for rigging prices of kit

Re: They're still at it!

Not while they're at the banquet, may take some time, hhhiicckkk

Wah, encryption makes policing hard, cries UK's National Crime Agency

...................every time

..............................known to the authorities........................

MacBook Pro petition begs Apple for total recall of krap keyboards

Re: Useless Apple

Seems the norm now all over Apple, the customer is R&D

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

Re: The most amazing engineering

Sorry, you lived near an airport, your choice.

Javid's in, Rudd's out: UK Home Sec quits over immigration targets scandal

Cant see the problem

There are targets for prosecuting drink driving, speeding, and a hundred other illegal things. If your entitled to be here fine, prove it or be nicked.

Brexit has shafted the UK's space sector, lord warns science minister

BS

My gravy train detector has just exploded.

BBC extends Capita Audience Services contract to 25 years

I don't pay, useless, meaningless biased PC BS, die BBC die. Cheers

Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case

Re: As usual Andrew hates Google

Anything hurting google is great new IMO

Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg has flunky tell UK MPs: Nope, he's sending someone else

#DeleteFacebook

I get my hoodie.

Manchester Arena attack: National Mutual Aid Telephony system failed

Re: Unbelievable

The contract will be confidential no doubt, and impossible to get out of.

Fail

Not forgetting the ever present and obligatory "suspects were known to the authorities"

While they listen to my phone calls and read my shopping lists.

Pasties in SPAAAAACE: Cornwall hopes for slice of £50m spaceport cash

Re: Remind me

Nope, hydrazine first, then cider. Or is it the other way around?

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Tokyo crypto-cash exchange 'hacked' for half a billion bucks

I'll stick to gold, cheers