* Posts by Trollslayer

1322 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Dec 2009

Let's check in with our friends in England and, oh good, bloke fined after hiding face from police mug-recog cam

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Re: What the heck

Correct about the constitution.

The second amendment REPEATEDLY refers to organised militias AKA the National Guards.

NOT individuals.

BTW National Guards are federally funded.

Finally look up "Operation Jade" for USian stupidity.

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Re: What the heck

I would rather have the right to arm bears.

BTW how are the school shootings going?

Microsoft sends partners hundreds of unwanted OPI: Other People's Invoices

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The usual

Cost cutting by people who don't know and don't care about what is happening.

The plane, it's 'splained, falls mainly without the brain: We chat to boffins who've found a way to disrupt landings using off-the-shelf radio kit

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Castles

made of sand.

Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog

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Re: Worst option

The people who created the software did so as an ASSISTANT.

Musk thought it would be cool to rename in Autopilot so he bears some direct responsibility for the deaths.

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Musk is dangerous

The driving assistant software was renamed as Autopilot by Elon Musk despite it not being designed or tested for that purpose.

He should be held at least partially responsible.

This is the guy who called a volunteer rescue diver a paedophile when his submarine wasn't used in the cave rescue.

You're on a Huawei to Hell, China tells US: We'll fight import tariffs, trade war to bitter end

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Mobile semiconductor companies dropping

Percentage of sales to China:

Skyworks Solutions - over 80% (RF related)

Qualcomm - over 60% (SoC and modems)

Xilinx and others are suffering as well.

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

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Two days later

and it's still breaking news?

C'mon, UK networks! Poor sods have 'paid' for their contract phones a few times over... Tell 'em about good deals

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Re: Just be grateful you aren't in Germany

I haven't had that with car insurance.

Mind you I don't go for the cheap companies.

China trade tariffs? Fuhgeddaboudit, say Cisco execs. We, er, shifted some production

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Screwdriver job

Everything except final assembly done in China, that gets done next door.

Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks

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Re: Pardon me!

Trump's father died from Alzheimer's induced dementia and Trump's symptom fit.

Add to that he never was very intelligent in the first place and you have a recipe for multiple disasters.

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Re: Huawei + China Vs Cisco Systems + United States of America

There will be other companies on the radio side of the network.

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Re: National Emergency

The fifth entry - 12th May 1941.

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Re: National Emergency

It means HE is the national emergency.

Supreme Court says secret UK spy court's judgments can be overruled after all

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This particular slippery slope

Is being dealt with but how many but how many others are there?

Congrats, Satya Nadella. In just five years, you've turned Microsoft from Neutral Evil to, er, merely True Neutral

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Re: "GPL is cancer"

I notice that you hang on to "GPL is cancer" and when one case is shown to be flawed you then look for another.

Disingenuous at best.

Apple won't be appy: US Supremes give green light to massive lawsuit over App Store prices

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January 2018

Apple had $252 BILLION stashed outside the USA.

Think about that.

Hi! It looks like you're working on a marketing strategy for a product nowhere near release! Would you like help?

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Re: So...

Both.

Assuming they aren't the same.

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What a delightful image - NOT!

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

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Re: China's Fault

Trump started it, China is pushing back.

Tough.

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Re: FTR

If only you were wrong.

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Re: What is it with Trump and Taxes?

That reminds me - Trump's academic details are hidden whereas Obama's is publicly available.

Then again, Obama was president of the Harvard law society.

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Re: Diplomacy Speech

Good to have you here.

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Re: It is Art

"He's a sociopathic egotist".

Spot on!

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Re: Same old, same old

He can't read much more than two sentences.

He is suffering dementia brought on by Alzheimer's disease which is carried down the male line and his father died from it.

Also at a European meeting on TPP Angela Merkel spent twenty five minutes explaining how it work and one of his reported questions was "So it works both ways?".

Oh and on military briefings there had to be plenty of charts and maps.

The Republicans wanted a puppet, they got Mister Punch.

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Global contract manufacturers

I worked for one (Celestica) in the early noughties and they moved work around the world as it suited their needs.

I doubt the Chinese companies will be able to do this easily because of their labour conditions.

Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register

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Re: Thank you

I think you have identified what makes a great reporter.

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So long

and thanks for the fish.

You played a major part in the best err... whatever El Reg is.

I know - above and beyond description and the hope San Francisco bureau is still there.

Many many thanks.

What's that? Uber isn't actually worth $82bn? Reverse-gear IPO shows the gig (economy) is up

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Which will leave Uber with the lower value areas.

US government internet and spectrum overseer resigns, along with legislative director

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Re: Are they all crazy?

If I wrote drivel like that I would be anonymous.

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Glad I didn't emigrate

I was at a Nvidia subsidiary in the UK and when it closed due to skull duggery by a competitor I could have looked for a job with Nvidia in the US.

This is the kind of reason (plus campus cops acting like they were in Mad Max) that put me off even investigating it.

Double-sided printing data ballsup leaves insurance giant Chubb with egg on its face

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Re: Yeah, no

Good idea

US minister invokes Maggie Thatcher, says she would have halted Huawei 5G rollout

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Re: Feck off Mike Pompous

Mike Pompous - I like it!

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Re: Pompeo has lost it ...

Huawei 5G equipment and software is examined VERY carefully and they do not (from what I remember) access the core network.

In the claws of a vulture: Nebra AnyBeam Laser Projector

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A picture could show you that it works but not how well.

US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans

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Anything to get stuff made more cheaply.

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Re: Code inspection

Huawei's mobile network equipment and software has been inspected for at least five years that I know of.

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Re: Quite

Arseholes are offended by the comparison.

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Re: 51st state

Andrew - air ambulance pilot.

Imagine you have a four year old child in the back of the aircraft and no matter how hard you push the aircraft you can't get to hospital before the child dies.

Harry - infantry. While back from his first tour a lose d friend was killed and his family really didn't want him to go back but in the end respected his decision.

Care to comment?

Age verification biz claims no-payment model for 40% of Brits ahead of July pr0n ban

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Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

No - it's yet another government clusterf*ck!

'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco

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Management's job

Is to blame everyone else.

What happened to "The buck stops here."?

Rocket Lab picks up the pace while SpaceX sends a Dragon to the Space Station

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Re: NASA has plenty of budget

It's not swapping car engines.

Particularly if the crew get turned into chicken nuggets when the craft explodes.

Now you can officially dox Scrabble players, thanks to the new dictionary definitions

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Life

Get one.

Great disturbance in the Force as Star Wars' 'big walking carpet' is laid to rest

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UK is 'not a surveillance state' insists minister defending police face recog tech

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All that is neded for evil to succeed

is that good does nothing.

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland

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Over in America

Where exactly? Brazil or Argentina?

BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH

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We have Bosses like this

No names but we area small company that is growing well and we have some very good people here.

Unfortunately there are a bunch of directors who treat the company as a toy to play with.

I am a test engineer these... ornaments... decided to come up with how I should test things.

This is going to get interesting.

Strong-willed field support op holds it together during painful customer call

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A great example of professionalism

As per title.

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Re: Seriously?

Grow up.

I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords

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Re: Start a War!

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.