* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

Huawei's Watch GT snubs Google for homegrown OS

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Re: 2-week battery life

I'm still using my Pebble Time Steel. It's a bit scuffed but otherwise works fine. Battery life is still quite decent too.

EU aren't kidding: Sky watchdog breathes life into mad air taxi ideas

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Black Helicopters

RE: AC

Ejector seats have to be specifically tuned for the passenger and can seriously injure your neck and spine. They are not to be used sparingly, or at all if can be avoided. They could never be used in this industry.

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Mushroom

Re: In Germany there actually is a strong push for those ideas in the ruling party

Taxis crashing into other vehicles and your garden wall - bad.

Taxis crashing into skyscrapers and multi-storey buildings - really really bad.

How will we stop bad eggs/suicidal/depressed people/terrorists from getting jobs as flying taxi drivers and suiciding themselves into high profile targets? We need plans in place.

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Uber of the sky...

"The aircraft must be equipped with a [cockpit voice] recorder"

I know they're probably hoping for intellectual radio talk from an experienced pilot, but if this becomes the Uber of the sky the recordings will be very very common...

"Can we make a stop at the kebab shop on the way home?"

"I prefer the direct route"

"Can I have a go flying this?"

"I think i'm gonna be sick!"

Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID

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Re: "You are being served by Jesus."

A true miracle. He was working at Costa turning the coffee into water.

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Re: Whenever I got to Starbucks...

Do they charge you for the extra pump of spit?

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Pint

Damn, why didn't I think of using an amusing pseudonym for login...

Sincerely

Panzie, Jim

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Meh

Re: Silly first name.

Starbucks being Starbucks - expect your drinks wrote out to: Fredd, Fraud, Frad, Glen, etc...

Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

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Linux

The fanboy irony is strong...

Jeez...This is a weekly occurence now...Which OS is the unstable one again?

Does Google make hardware just so nobody buys it?

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Re: 404

A better comparison would be wanting a Nissan Cube, but twice the size and cost of a Ferrari, with half the mileage.

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Re: Dropbear

It seems like a waste. Double the screens and you halve the battery life and double the cost. Since you can only read one screen at a time it seems wasteful and pointless.

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If you build it will they come?

"Amazon sells a colour tablet for £49"

As opposed to a black and white tablet?

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners: So, about that other broken update…

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"One user, "curchep", reported being instructed by the Surface maker to go to the nearest Microsoft Store in order to buy a new Surface Pro"

This strategy has worked well for Apple over the years

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea

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Re: Chivo243

"Bite your tongue man!! His benevolence isn't a parody."

May his noodly appendage both bless and fondle you. Ramen.

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Re: There! Fixed that for you!

"Oh no, you have that backwards. It's in heaven that all the good stuff is forbidden. In hell you can do whatever the heck you want."

I actually had it right, i believe i just missed the comma: "but all the good stuff is forbidden in the Bibble, and in hell anyway"

I've always struggled with commas * facepalm *

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Re: JimmyPage

I'm frequently discriminating against in shops as no one sells a carton of exactly 11 eggs...

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Re: JimmyPage

"Last weeks being "12 eggs". Oh, yes you had eggs in 6s. Eggs in all sorts of boxes. But 12 large eggs in one box ?"

Just checking...You do realise you could just buy two boxes of 6? Hey presto! 12 eggs!

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Re: Chivo243

Yes, it was intentional. I don't hold any love or respect for religion (except parody ones like Pastafarianism and Satanism). I'm sceptical that there ever was a Jebus.

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Devil

There! Fixed that for you!

"an Advent calendar featuring a sausage roll in a manger rather than the Logos Emmanuel, Son of God himself, Jesus Christ"

The alleged son of the alleged God himself, or herself, Jesus Christ.

Sincerely

A pedantic atheist, and yeah, im going to hell, but all the good stuff is forbidden in the Bibble and in hell anyway!

Indiegogo pulls handheld airport pervscanners off crowdfunding platform

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Re: }{amis}{

This guy claims finished product will be wrist mounted. Since this is Indiegogo it will likely be bigger than a backpack and no one who funded it will actually receive one anyway.

Microsoft yanks the document-destroying Windows 10 October 2018 Update

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Re: Dear Microsoft

"About KDE GUI, take a look at the "Visual papercuts" section here:

http://www.ocsmag.com/2017/02/17/the-state-of-plasma/

Note how most of the criticism is still valid after 18 months."

Ah, so no serious bugs, just design changes that are questionable or half-arsed? You had me worried for almost a second. Anyone can nitpick.

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Re: Dear Microsoft

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NSPOHiZ3zLQ/maxresdefault.jpg

I too can present an image of a bug and use it to claim it's host OS is the worst thing since unsliced bread...No OS is immune to bugs.

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Re: Keith

I was not aware of that. Thanks for the link!

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Re: Dear Microsoft

Windows 10 got me to research and buy specific hardware and learn how to use Linux just to escape it. KDE Plasma seems years ahead of Windows.

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Re: Waseem

That's site is solid gold! They have a misattributed quote on the page though:

"This is horseshit. Horseshit, horseshit, horseshit. And for those of you who don't know what that means, it's the shit that comes from a horse!"

-- Greg, Columbia Internet"

Greg in Columbia is clearly Linus Torvalds...

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Re: Marco

Aha, so it does involve Onedrive. For anyone not aware, Microsoft was caught aiding the NSA and giving access to Onedrive. It's not paranoia, it's happening (or at least it was and now they cover it up better).

https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2344633/leaked-nsa-document-shows-microsoft-co-operation-over-prism

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Linux

Re: Why even touch user folders?

Instead of copying everyone's files to give to the NSA they accidentally cut them. The fix is identify which files are yours and give you a copy back.

</Smug penguin>

China's going to make a mobile OS and everyone will love it, predict ball-gazing analysts

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Re: @ Shadow Systems

I'd let the car industry fill my clothes with tech before Google. Just imagine having collision detection for your underpants and parking sensors for your arse. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE POSSIBILITIES WITH AIRBAGS!

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Linux

RE: JohnFen

"There are many more reasons than a lack of apps for Microsoft's failure in this space"

Like what?

Lack of updates? Also an Android issue in many respects, so that's unfair.

Advertising budget? Not an issue.

Likeability? No, people liked the products as the reviews note.

Choice? No, there were a few different phones a year, certainly more than from Apple.

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The biggest issue wouldn't be creating a new OS (Just fork Android), the big problem comes from having a duopoly with established userbases and stores.

Will people switch to a new OS without the most popular apps? Evidently no, or Microsoft would have fared better than they did.

UK space comes to an 'understanding' with Australia as Brexit looms

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Re: Dan 55

"Lies and "alternative facts" - it's established fact that Banks was funded from Russia, one Leave group illegally funded the other, and Cambridge Analytica targeted swing voters.

The Remain campaign was guilty of an insipid campaign and forecasting the apocalypse in the immediate days after the referendum (then again the QE probably helped), but I really fail to see where lies are on the same scale as Leave's campaign.

I'd say threatening the country with a punishment budget if they voted leave is quite despicable, as is wheeling out world leaders and handing them statements to read out in favour of your side, as is spending more than the agreed amount to keep it fair right before the campaign started, as is lying that no other country would trade with us if we left, as is extending the deadline and encouraging more youngsters to vote just to prop up your side, lowering the age limit just for the vote because it favours your side. That's just what springs to mind, there were many more lies from remain.

Vote Leave should never have been fined. They followed to the letter the rules given by the Electoral Commission, who now admit they got the rules wrong - And they gave them a fine for doing as they were told. The head of the Electoral Commission should be out of a job for that and the fine should be rescinded since it is unjust.

"Liar. Any military arrangements, within the EU were always subject to our veto. But, we will lose that veto - so they can do whatever the hell they want."

You're in denial. Germany is already doing it and has been for a while now. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/22/germany-is-quietly-building-a-european-army-under-its-command/

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Re: does the landlord refund you all the money you gave to pay the rent? @Jess

"It is more like that we owned 3.5% of a house, now we want to sell our part of the house to the other 27 joint owners, and we want to include the money we spend on renovating the bathroom in the price"

This is probably the longest of these discussions i've seen where no one has bought up the "leaving a golf club" analogy. I have to say that i prefer this bathroom version. It adds variety.

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Re: Tigra 07

"No deal means planes or trains grounded until agreement"

What planet do you come from where trains aren't on the ground?

Your other post consists of an angry rant accusing me of being angry - Something certain remainers have been ever since the referendum. I'm not angry, i'm dismayed that people like you are still fighting the inevitable with your lies and "alternative facts" 2 years on from your rigged referendum.

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Re: RE: Mooseman

"which didn't represent NI's remain vote"

Northern Ireland didn't get a vote - The UK did. The opposite of how the UK didn't get a vote during the Scottish independence referendum - Only Scotland did. It's not difficult buddy, we've had 3 votes now and you lost all 3. Over 75% of voters at the last election voted for parties pursuing Brexit. Move on and grow up you anti-democrat.

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Re: Tigra 07

"The next crap down on the list is to restrict freedom of travel. That hits both ways. You are contributing towards restrictions on my freedom of travel"

Really? You can't go to Europe anymore? Telling porkies are we?

Let's twist this. You're forcing me to remain in a United States of Europe that takes more of our GDP each year, foists more rules on us each year, and is slowly combining armies to achieve military dominion over members (another thing you lying remainers said wasn't happening during the referendum you cheated and lied in constantly).

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Re: RE: Mooseman

"I have my suspicions a fair few votes were so called protest votes, and not on the actual question, which was vague"

I have suspicions that a fair few people who voted remain have no idea what the EU even is or does. See the reporting during the protests after the vote where many youngsters didn't know what the EU was, does, or even what they were voting to remain in. One dopey cow even got on camera to claim we had to stay in the EU or the UK Gov wouldn't keep paying for us to go abroad to the EU *headslap*.

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Re: RE: Mooseman

"But neither can the Union, if it wants to retain it's current form, allow any special deal with an ex-member (we've gotten special deals before, but that was before the whole leave decision).

To do so, would set the worst sort of precedent, and definitely kick off the break-up of the Union. With all countries uncomfortable about one part or another wishing to back out of different bits"

This is the thing i never get with you deluded remainers. Look at Canada's deal with the EU. It is better than anything the EU has offered to us or agreed with May, and funny enough Canada is not a member. They break their rules when it suits them. It's a protectionist racket

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Re: RE: Mooseman

"Either let us stay in or give us our money back and buy us out

When you move out of a flat, does the landlord refund you all the money you gave to pay the rent?"

As was already pointed out, including by me, that's a bad analogy. We're not asking for the flat back, just our furniture.

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Re: Tigra 07

"Until recently, Brits have done an excellent job of getting an unfair share of EU pork"

No...We're a net contributor. And Blair handed back a chunk of the rebate we get while the French still pull in massive subsidies for their farmers and veto any discussion of reform in this area. It's a protectionist racket where we're squeezed for more and more each year to give to economic basket cases as a bribe to join and make the EU even bigger, all the while "democratically" representing the people less and less.

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Re: does the landlord refund you all the money you gave to pay the rent?

"Within the limits of that analogy, wouldn't it be more like not being refunded for the new bathroom you fitted"

Yes, but the landlord also wants you to pay for upkeep and cleaning of the bathroom for a few years after you moved out, and you're not allowed access to the bathroom.

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Re: RE: Mooseman

"When you move out of a flat, does the landlord refund you all the money you gave to pay the rent?"

Not a good comparison. You do get to keep your furniture when you leave, and you only pay rent up until the point you lived in the property, not for years after. A better comparison would be starting a business with friends and eventually cashing out - you get your share back at current value, unless you negotiate badly, but you are entitled to your fair share.

AI trained to sniff out fake news online may itself be fake news: Bot has mixed results in classifying legit titles

Tigra 07
Trollface

But...

How do we know this isn't fake news?

What do Zuck, Sergey, @Jack and Bezos have in common? They don't want encryption broken

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Re: Rupert

He's monetizing it anyway next year with adverts (according to news reports).

Microsoft: OK, we have no phones, but look how much we love Android

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Mushroom

Re: 3 Words

"Interesting, what evidence do you have that suggests Google are anywhere near as bad a Microsoft?"

Google may be worse than Microsoft these days. Microsoft never had to face down a rebellion against their own employees over whether it was a good decision to build AI weapons of war for the US Army. Regardless of your opinions on the Americans - these weapons WILL be used, and probably in the Middle East - sparking more wars, destabilising more countries, more waves of people flooding across borders to flee, and more terrorism at home and abroad.

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Linux

3 Words

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

Microsoft and Google are just as bad these days.

'Desperate' North Korea turns to bank hacking sprees to rake in much-needed dosh

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For anyone who isn't familiar with the 2016 Bank of Bangladesh heist look it up on Youtube. Absolutely fascinating how they managed it and timed everything, including taking the printers down at the same time. It sounds as sophisticated as an Oceans Eleven heist.

That's not a thumbs up, it's a concealed nuke from the Supreme Leader...

Google is still chasing the self-driving engineer that jumped ship to Uber

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RE: Cuddles

That's a fascinatingly high loss considering Uber keep going to court and claiming they have no employees.