Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Finally

I'm torn between wanting more government and businesses tracking me online in order to protect me from from the children - but I'm British and so want to be tracked by biscuits not American 'cookies' - preferably hobnobs

OK so I haven't played video games since Attack Of The Mutant Camels, but how do you have a loot box in a soccer game?

Can you buy a chest that has an invisibility cloak, healing spells and David Beckham's left foot ?

> as he swims gracefully through space.

Or She

Re: Misunderstanding

It seemed inteligent enough to fool the general public - but in reality they were just pasting the error message into stackoverflow and copying the first answer until they didn't get anymore errors. No real sentience

I think you mean:

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Google has - in view - become much, much worse.

I have cast doubt whether the Earth is really flat and on the back of a giant turtle

Re: "govern"

Except we don't have a "vote for the ruling party" system - we have a "vote for the local guy who has no effect on the policy system" where the local guys who do have an effect are safely in seats with no risk of them facing any democracy

>Industry is not going to pick up the tab

Really? Every network node your email/web/tiktok/snapchat/whatsapp/instagram/wibble-pling activity goes through gets to eavesdrop/analysis and sell all that data? And you are forced to allow it ?

You bet they are going to pay for it !

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Re: Trading Places

Ironically perfectly legal as long as you don't have any actual information

If you owned a major garden vermin named news network you could announce that Facebook was being shutdown for child porn and Zuckerberg had been arrested, while shorting the stock and it would be fine

There were people in a former president's press office shorting stocks before his tweets went out

Re: "Is that illegal?"

Only if you aren't married to the politician passing the law and texting you from the cabinet room about which companies are getting the $$$$$$

Re: It never ceases to amaze me!

>Lying is fraud

No it isn't (*)

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Re: left holding the ...

You could design one that flew off immediately before an accident

In fact it would be pretty trivial to design

Re: What time to be alive. ®

Unless the AI has been trained on real black cab drivers - then they wont want to kill 'all' humans

Re: Emergency drill. Not a Tuba but a Trumpet

> My 1st thought was if car ahead suddenly stopped he would be rammed through the neck by his trumpet.

Adaptive cruise control

Hopefully he would also match the tempo of the playing to the speed of traffic

Re: Let the Chinese Test This One

>I would certainly cheer on anyone throwing bricks at cars not yielding to pedestrians.

So you're obviously not American !

"bricks"? Why do you think there is a right to bear Javelins

Re: The Bit-Theory

I'm not sure it's appropriate to arbitrarily classify bits as 0 and 1 - I think we have to ask bits their preffered state and value those values

Have you ever tried to play it back? I have a really fast backup drive on my system mounted on /dev/null

Re: The Bit-Theory

That's ridiculous. What's happening is that foreigners are generating extra ones as waste by their one industry and so are dumping them in your phone. In the future kids will look out onto vast slagheaps of used oned

Re: Read it carefully

Listing in the US doesn't mean the HQ has to move.

The 'HQ' moving doesn't mean job losses in the UK - look at how many UK high st business have their 'HQ' on Sark

The Union's job is to be concerned about absolutely everything but i would think that a bigger risk for their company's future in Cambridge is that you can't hire people, especially now we aren't letting any foreign chaps in, and the people you do manage to employ can't afford to live there.

It's a great job ad. "Hey new Mathmo/Natsci/CS/chip designer! Want to live in windy Cambridge ? We pay 1/4 as much as Silicon Valley, 1/10 as much as the City of London, with the highest house prices in Europe"

Re: Read it carefully

So what? Other than a few extra fees for London based accountants why does it matter what exchange it's listed on?

I can see for a company like BAe moving the HQ to the US so its a US company and can get US defence contracts matters. But does anyone care where an API licence comes from

Re: Ambivalence

Option 3, you don't interfere with the machine but put a lot of anti-copy features into the printing. Holograms, alias patterns, reflective patched etc.

Then demand a copy of driving license /passport to do anything online

Re: modern technology will prevent such counterfeiting efforts

>can we please get the various mobile payment apps compatible across borders,

What? Get different countries across Europe to all join some sort of common market and agree on trade standards ?

Inconceivable, will never work !

Re: Years ago....

Couldn't they have paid for the copier with .....

Re: Sure, as long as you don't need power

The people are there in Austin

It ensures Republican support, or at least not opposition, to their bid

That's not normally the problem, they are customers

The problem is that they will reduce their orders for chips.

So ARM Qualcomm etc all have to reduce their headcount - and they are mostly R&D

So in a couple of years when things pickup Apple ask where the new chips are .....