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* Posts by Stella Duvel

23 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Mar 2012

Britain ignores booze guidelines – heads for the pub

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And don't forget the tea...

Which of course, fruit tea rots the teeth

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Watson AI panned, 5¼ years of sales decline ... Does IBM now stand for Inferior Biz Model?

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Utility of AI

Surely, if the AI was any good it would have already worked out a winning business strategy...

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Google aims to train two million Indian Android devs by 2018

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I can't see this ending well...

The one thing I always found with Bangalore was a feeling that the engineers knew it all, despite not having read the written documentation.

Which I suppose marches well with Android, somehow

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RBS and Natwest online banking goes titsup

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Seems OK

Just made a payment with NWOLB - looked like it worked (at least insofar as taking the money out of the account was concerned, hopefully it will arrive OK)

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People bored of mobes, say magic quadrant wizards

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Re: Bored "with"?

Or even "bored by ..."

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FUD?

Is this the background reason underlying the recent attempts to scare punters with tales of Android vulns?

Quick, your old mobe is compromised, get a new one Johnny!

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Yet another Android app security bug: This time 'everything is affected'

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A flap of flaws?

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Camera-carrying DOLPHIN SPY caught off Gaza

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Hamas grills captured dolphin?

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Apple: Samsung ripped off our phone patent! USPTO: What patent?

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Mushroom

Re: Taketh away

Oooh! Can we take out a patent on a new fit-for-purpose patent office?

Or is that 'prior art' too?

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ANIMALS being CUT UP to make Apple Watch straps

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WTF?

But we are omnivores after all...

...So it's pretty good that the skins of some of these food animals are being used.

Shame that conversion of free meat-byproduct into 'bling' adds so much value

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FAIL: Windows 10 bulk patch produces INFINITE CRASH LOOP

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Re: Try turning it off an...

Sounds just like the QC department at Sinclair back in the day.

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Foxconn to hire a million Indian staff in major base shift

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Re: This will be entertaining

When I witnessed this type of clash in Singapore - one side hated the other and referred to them as 'monkeys' and the other side hated them for it...

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Why are all the visual special effects studios going bust?

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Re: there's plenty of people willing to see ads

Isn't this in part the Law of Hidden Competence coming up?

"As I don't work in discipline 'X' it looks to me as if they are incompetent"

Whereas from inside, they do know what they're doing (see, Accountancy for examples)

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Quantum computers have failed. So now for the science

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Re: quantum vacuum is a superfluid,

isn't he the mad king in Game of Thrones?

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Is light a wave or a particle? Beaming boffins prove it's BOTH

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But...

Everyone has known for years that light is made of string wavicles...but it's nice to have pictures

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HAWKING ALERT: Leave planet Earth, find a new home. Stupid humans

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Re: LOOSE != LOSE

(LOOSE != LOSE) == LUSR!

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Car? Check. Driver? Nope. OK, let's go, says British govt

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It's not just the last mile...

...it's also the first mile!

How does it help me to have a driverless car to get me from Milton Keynes bus station up to the shopping centre (which is located a silly distance away, why wasn't the bus station located within sensible walking distance of the shopping centre?) and to get to that bus station I (living in a village) have to:

1. take a walk to the local bus stop

2. catch the once-per-day bus to the nearest town

3. wait for the X5 bus (which passes our village but doesn't bother to stop there)

It's all a gimmick designed to take our attention away from the dreadful state of public transport.

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Worried you got PINK EYE when you shook hands? Doctor Google will see you now

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Re: Kudos for that JKJ ref

And also to learn from - like the episode of Uncle Podger hanging the picture, a very apt model of government initiatives...achieve very little, involve everyone else and make an unholy mess in the process

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Video: Dyson unveils robotic tank that hoovers while you're out

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Mushroom

Re: Is it...

Provided the charger is no more than 1600 watt, who is going to know?

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Titsup UK Border IT causes CHAOS at air and seaports in Blighty

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Re: What would have happened if

Well, possibly one might discover whether the gentlemen with sub-machine guns are firing blanks this week?

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Smarty Ring promises technology at your fingertips

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What on earth ...

At 0:26 in it declares it has a "butt call alert" - is there something I don't know about Chennai - is "butt call" a synonym for something?

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum FAILS latest radio noise rules SHOCK

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Not just the Spectrum?

I'd love to see also the results of testing the X-10 PWM aplifier ...

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Sony Xperia S NXT series Android smartphone

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FAIL

Micro-USB Flap

I've always found the rubberised flap a true pain, and ripped it off after only a few days - after all, you have to plug it into USB every day, for goodness sake...

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