Posts by Tronald Dump

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Re: A word can be patented ?

Shudda patented "upskirt"

El Reg is hiring an intern. Apply now before it closes

Is there Fondue?

Linus Torvalds' lifestyle tips for hackers: Be like me, work in a bathrobe, no showers before noon

Re: One word springs to mind

well, presumably he gives that a good soaping too.

Google will appeal €2.9bn EU fine

Cor! a fine with a sting

for once.

Scottish pensioners rage at Virgin cabinet blocking their view

Re: It's Scotland

Exactly, you'd cherish every photon.

It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild

I recently bought a Thinkpad P50

I am well impressed.

Well, whad'ya know? 'No evidence' that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower

Is anyone the least bit surprised?

Thought not.

Trapped under ice with no oxygen for months, goldfish turn to booze. And can you blame 'em?

Stirred John, not shaken

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

Re: Nobody needs more than 640K of RAM.

No one needs a computer more than 16 megaliths.

Builders of stone henge.

(disclaimer : I don't really know if they said that)

Foot-long £1 sausage roll arrives

I've got 12 inches

But I don't use it as a rule!

HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

egads, Liz has put some weight on

WannaCry kill-switch hero Marcus Hutchins collared by FBI on way home from DEF CON

Plea bargain!

40 years or 3 years if you sing.

But I dun nuffink!

Your choice to gamble......

Google drops poker face, allows gambling apps on Play Store

They'll all be arrested

they will

The Telegraph has killed Prince Philip

Ho ho ho

it's not even Xmas

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

If you've nothing to hide, they'll fit you up with something

Cellphone kill switches kill cellphone snatchers

Re: Cellphone kill switches kill cellphone snatchers...

Or solve the battery lasts only 1 day problem, genius

Virgin Media mulls ditching 1 in 3 UK facilities, starts £20m spend audit

Didn't know they have an office in my town

Home to; Van Morrison, Jean Claude Van Damme etc etc

OnePlus cash equals 5: Rebel flagship joins upmarket Android crew

1+5 looks decent

But plenty mileage left on my 1+3, will wait a few more weeks and see what the 5T is like.

Q. What's today's top language? A. Python... no, wait, Java... no, C

Re: I suspect there are quite a few Java devs out there

Therein lies the paradox.

Jesus walks away after 7,000lb pipe van incident

Some miraculous first aid....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-first-plasters-band-aids/dp/B00BTGMS0Y

Well

I hope he's not stigmatised because of this incident

Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in

Actor gets role...

Yawn

Brit neural net pioneer just revolutionised speech recognition all over again

Here's to you Mr Robinson

Trump to world: Forget moving to America to do a startup

Trumpistan

Trumpistan

'My dream job at Oracle left me homeless!' – A techie's relocation horror tale

Had he not heard of

Air B&B?

Virgin Media to close flagship Oxford St store in August

They have stores?

Who knew?

Braking news: AA password reset email cockup crashes servers

Did they get someone to RAC to it?

weak joke

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

Not free to take, en masse

Given away, shirley

FCC: LEO ISPs A-OK

Re: My guess is that they'll follow the Iridium model...

that's the standard model innit? Worked for channel tunnel, cable tv ...

IBM's contractor crackdown continues: Survivors refusing pay cut have hours reduced

Mystic Meg mode

Just wait till they merge with that other shower of twats DXC

Jaguar Land Rover ropes in Gorillaz to help it lure 5,000 'electronic wizards'

Hopefully this'll improve reliability, yeah right

Feeling old? Well, we're older than that: Newly found Homo sapiens jaw dates back 350k years

Have ...

Dept. of Work and Pensions deemed this person fit for work?

Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law gets six months for hacking sweary super-chef's computer

Stop dreaming, you can't elope with her.

Utah fights man's attempt to marry laptop

Re: OK Computer

and that's just the keyboard!

Nokia's retro revival 3310 goes on sale and disappears immediately

Re: 2G only?

Shirley, that's where the stellar battery life comes from

Comey was loathed by the left, reviled by the right – must have been doing something right

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