Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: My head hurts

President wants to look tough on Jina

Advisers point out that turning off the favorite cat video habit of 100M addicts just before the election might not make him look like Santa Claus

China was going to block the sale anyway, Oracle could't afford it and would fsck it up

So Larry donates a few $M to the Don, gets a few $100M contract to run some servers for TikTok and suddenly security is not a problem

It's just like the deals for restaurant services in New York by certain Italian-American family businesses

Re: How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit?

Although it's a much harder job when the "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" you are rounding up to put in cages are all blue-eyed blonde English speaking europeans.

Might need some software updates

Re: Oooooh! I think know the answer to this one, is it...

It does seem a little like the government saying "shipping army explosives to Iraq is expensive, here is a grant to come up with a way of making explosive using only items readily available in a Middle Eastern supermarket"

Re: Why does new technology always seems to be developed for death and destruction?

Once all the porn uses have been exhausted

Re: Europe that terrible overbearing beurocracy

" Europe’s top court decided that money does not come before people’s rights"

The very definition of totalitarianism - damn Brussels burocrats

Re: A thought

In the US you can benefit from using the VPN to watch Netflix if your ISP is also a cable company who is losing TV revenue to Netflix and totally coincidentally happens to degrade Netflix bandwidth for totally innocent technical reasons.

Re: Extensive use of euphamisms

Project Moonshot

Project Moon Perigee

Project Impact AKA sub-surface orbit achieved

Project New Crater

Re: Extensive use of euphamisms

Good new excuse though.

I still haven't finished that bit of the bathroom floor for 3 yeas because of "mindset reset"

Re: Confessions of a bolt cutter

>Well I know they are somewhere in my house. I just don't know where :)

Then you need my new Bluetooth(tm) lockpick finder app

It uses blockchain, IoT, cloud and object-orientated magic pixies to locate your lock picks using your phone

Re: Sounds familiar

>Indeed. In fact Bluetooth would only work if you were nearby the lock, in which case just give them the key.

Not if you designed it properly (ie employed a 5 year old or reasonably intelligent Labrador)

The lock has a key generator synced once to the app on your phone, you can generate a valid key and email to your mate. The lock recognises the key code and opens. Extra points if the code is only valid once or for a certain period of time.

Re: AntiTrust

>How come they came up with such a deal?

Does it raise the SP500 before the election? Since ARM and Softbank aren't listed then selling it to a listed company will inevitably increase NVidia's price in the short term.

This government's only priority is that everyone's retirement account statement looks good by November

Re: Softbank wasn't a good match as an owner?

>Why couldn't Sun just continue as they were.

Sun was pretty much dead once we could run free on Linux on cheap x64

A lot of Sun users ran Oracle. Oracle were afraid that a lot of IBM HW salesmen visiting ex-Sun customers might have a DB2 salesman in tow

>Why didn't ARM stay as an independent company?

Because an idiot with more money thane sense (judging from his other investments) offered the shareholders more than the current market price for it.

Except in this case the UK is probably paying the tenants

Re: Twits

Obviously the best way to inform an online business of an urgent and critical vulnerability would be a registered letter to their registered business address.

Re: Shocked I tell thee...

No the Eu ordered it, whether the Irish DPA ever get round to enforcing it ....

Re: About time too

>None of my close friends on FB.

Ah-ah I don't have any friends so I win

Re: ARM?

Founded by an Austrian and success due to a contract from a paternalistic BBC trying to educate the people - glad we stamped out that sort of thing

Re: State Aid? Trump??!

Up there with "Hate Pakistanis? Then vote to leave the Eu"

Re: But there is one.

It has a Japanese owned factory assemble a simple circuit board around an advanced American chip made in Taiwan - rather like claiming a typical premier league side is a symbol of British sporting prowess

Re: Can't wait to see...

But £350M / week ......

Anyway it should be easy for Britain to produce another Apple.

You need a twat poser full of his own importance with no technical knowledge

An under-appreciated genius engineer for him to rip off

An art-school type, and Marillon front man impersonator, to make it look think(*) and sexy

Also need a few 100,000 engineers, but I hear these are available cheap in the colonies these days

* apologies for the typo - butterfly keyboard

>you are the only person who has ever got the Dr Strangelove reference!

The TSA definitely do

Entering the USA from Canada they ask if you have ever partaken of the Devilish Weed (which is legal in Canada) if you say yes they can deny you entry on moral grounds

If you tell that no because it pollutes your precious bodily fluids and destroys the purity of your essence they let you in with no further questions.

Or perhaps they thought I was being serious ....

Re: Not State Aid but Offshoring and Money Laundering

Tories don't do state aid for UK industry for pretty much the same reason that Holland doesn't subsidise its downhill skiing businesses

Re: Well it's kind of a good idea but...

>Even paying £100,000 to a pole dancer every day

So if Scargill wanted the pits to stay open all he needed to do is put on a pair of tassles and turn up at Number 10 ?