Posts by Tom 35

Re: If I were a betting man...

Cadmium in cheep jewelry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WzFuHg3NcY

Re: Belt and Road

No, I think China just want their turn at what the US, England and other colonial powers have already had a go at.

Re: Phones are like cars now...

There have been cases with apple holes for years. Half the sales department here have them.

Re: American Gods

Flog that dead horse was OK, but kind of predicable, the sequel was terrible.

Can we make them all wear funny hats?

Re: "something that might cause some interference and inconvenience if misconfigured."

What do you think is more likely to be insecure, a router that someone has installed the latest version of an open firmware, or grandpa's router that the cable install guy setup 5 years ago, with remote admin turned on?

Re: "Electronics not destroyed by a sledgehammer"

They had proximity fuse shells in WWII with vacuum tubes in them.

But HP say...

You get what you pay for, about 50 times a day in their ad. I bet they spend more on ads then the ink they sell.

They want a US company to make stuff cheap in China and all the profit to end up in the US companies offshore account. They don't want some upstart Chinese company selling direct and taking all the profit.

Re: Why does he want five-year-old kit back?

Photos of his cat? Who knows, it's his stuff.

But I would not be surprised to find that it's broken and the drives have been "misplaced".

Re: London has fallen

Better to make Putin happy by shooting yourself in the foot with a no-deal Brexit.

If you have more then 10 million to tax

You are ALREADY rich. That's more money then the vast majority of people will see in their entire life.

Wa, wa, wa Marxism, bla bla ba.

No one is talking about marxism except the rich and the fools that think they are going to magically become rich and minute now.

Re: missing the point

Maybe it lacks the backdoor for the US TLAs.

Re: Robot on robot crime is now a thing...

I think the robot was just trying to get out of working CES.

Re: Luddites = Non Sequitur

China is not communist. You don't have communist billionaires.

You think the US is not hacking every one, and Trumps buddies in Russia are hacking everyone. Don't act like it's only China. You think the US can't hack into cisco stuff?

If I was going to gripe about China it would be their payday loans to developing countries.

But Huawei is not China, it's the natural result of outsourcing to China. Why should they make the stuff for peanuts and let Apple make all the profit? They can make their own stuff and take all the money. So now we have the Huawei P20 and other companies like Oneplus starting to sell their own stuff. It's like Japan and TVs in the 70's

US companies that boosted their profits by outsourcing now fear they are going to be the next RCA.

Re: The room doll was removed

Go pound sand?

Re: Hamburgers

That and cold limp fries / chips.

I though the floppy drive was an afterthought so they had to do a lot of processing in the drive to make it work with an existing port. I remember people joking at the time that Commodore's most powerful computer was the 1541.

Re: But seriously though...

It might be the "flush-able" wipes they are trying so hard to everyone they need. Turn the blob into fiberglass like mass.

Re: Very disrespectful

"Not my country so I don't care, but I don't remember Obama being the subject of playground slurs."

Just google Obama + monkey in google images to refresh your memory.

Or try obama + effigy

Re: Smoking is a very significant issue in many poorer countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8

Tobacco: Last Week Tonight

Re: Isn't that what the watches with the numbered bezels are for?

No diving computer? I used this + a dive watch, depth gauge, tank pressure gauge. And a log book so someone could figure out how I screwed up if I got bent.

http://divemar.com/Divemar/docs/dciem.html

So you had to know your maximum depth before you got wet, and had to be conservative on your bottom time (or crazy).