Posts by Trigonoceps occipitalis

Should we wear masks and gloves to prevent convictions?

FTFY

Re: We accept your conditions, just prove your honesty

There are many, perhaps too many, cases of insurance payouts being refused because there is evidence of a pre-existing condition. Has anyone's search history ever been used to support such a decision?

"double the pork-barrelling"

As Mervyn Griffith-Jones nearly said:

"Is it the sort of thing you would wish your wife or servants to see?"

Re: The equation to be evaluated ...

"POCA allows the seizure of all the assets of anyone suspected but not convicted of a crime."

With the minor inconvenience of getting a judge to agree, albeit at civil standards of proof.

Re: So you're saying

Isn't Avocado the basis of that Guacamole you get in fish 'n' chip shops?

Re: Density

"The Moon appears to have an iron-rich core ... "

They've found the Soup Dragon's cauldron!

What may you infer if a BMW's indicator is flashing?

The bulb is working.

" ... tripled for every hour of outage ... "

Never done the sum about grains of rice and a chess board have we?

Re: Yay! Its groundhog day!

Stuck in a stupid time loop until a properly peer reviewed paper is published that proves or disproves the concept of a safe back door.

Actually that will not stop the idiocy. A bank's assessment of safe is somewhat different to a law and order (think of the children) politician facing re-election.

The world is covered with the graves of indispensable people.

Re: Numpties, the lot of 'em.

The clue is in the name "Kingdom". HM the Queen is head of state for all parts of the UK - hence United Kingdom. As for the rest, yes, cats and herding.

Re: What about redemption?

The last public execution in Great Britain occurred in 1868. Michael Barrett was executed at Newgate Prison for mass murder.

Re: "There's no slave in git though"

" ... condemnation of those who previously used the terms. It's not."

I just can't help the feeling that in a few years time there will be cyber pitch forks out:

They used the M word in their software! No platform them!

I hope not but one thing the Internet is good at is demonstrating the lack of thinking in some.

Re: FBI

And small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were really not small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Re: Is this the year of Apple on ARM?

No, it is the year of Apple in a Pi.

Re: So how will it go?

Jackblock Construction Technique

"The building method starts by constructing the roof at ground level."

Spit the bones out of that Big Ears!

Re: Aaah...

Wales: the first part of the English Empire.

If you think, even for a moment, that multinational companies, or those that have that aspiration, will buy second best or over priced kit/IP etc because "Brexit" you are seriously deluded.

Brexit may be, or may not be, the most rational of political decisions but please stop saying "Brexit" like it is some absolute final argument that supports your world view.

Re: X Æ A-12

"Chumley"

Cholmondeley

FTFY

Re: Makes a change

"quality beats quantity"

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

RADAR

Airports run two types of RADAR. Primary RADAR is the traditional bounce EM radiation off the metal bits and detect the reflection. Secondary RADAR (not strictly RADAR) detects a radio signal reply generated by aircraft systems. Both are useful and fill slightly different functions.

The particular advantage of secondary RADAR is that the squawk will identify the individual aircraft.

Re: QuadraNet did not immediately respond to The Register's request

"Send them a DM over WhatsApp"

Send anyone a DM over WhatsApp

FTFY

Re: Until some vendor takes security seriously...

Surely it will be when Linux is in the desktop?

Re: Its all binary

No they don't, but they do belong to my macaque.

Re: That's not a comet...

No problem, I have a small dog.

The military is supposed to blindly obey orders.

They tried that one on at Nuremberg and look where that got them.

Re: Generalised testing

https://xkcd.com/2295/

So, it will be ten years or so?

Major General John Sedgwick

"Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

Re: But........

"No idea why cars built 12 years after DAB ..."

While there is more or less full coverage by FM radio it is good enough. Car manufacturers are masters at up-selling. Why forego the opportunity of offering a (expensive) DAB upgrade, fitted as standard to differentiate higher trim levels ?

Re: Curious (any boffins out there?)

"high enough value target"

When has that been any concern of script kiddies and others doing it "because we can"?

Re: Troll

"If your employer tells you not to come into work, for any reason, and you do, you are trespassing. That alone makes you subject to arrest for trespassing ... "

Not in the UK.

Re: And even sadder

Actually, they have 2 rules:

Rule 1: The FBI is always right.

Rule 2: When the FBI is wrong, Rule 1 applies.

Re: Bugger

Apparently the Patriarch of the Cyprus Orthodox Church has decreed that, as the wine and wafers are he blood and body of Christ, the corona virus will not be passed on during communion. This, of course, is based on a double blind trial - well blind something or other.

Re: Ventilators...

At the start of the daily briefings my heart soared a little. Apparently the policy was evidence based - and we don't see that often. As the crisis progresses I think Boris may be depreciating the science because he is a politician.

Whatever else he is Boris is not thick, for all that he assumes the demeanour of the fool. Like him or loath him, he was a King's Scholar after all.

I wish him a speedy recovery.

Yes, take the battery out.

Re: Glad they didn't overthink the process....

My only problem with firing the Queen is appending any of the following to the word President:

Salmond

Blair

Corbyn

Cameron

Johnson

Sturgeon

Adams

Brown

Essex

Ashley

Martin

Branson

Sugar

Khan

Morgan

May

...

You get the idea.

Re: Brain the size of a planet and you've got me controlling traffic

"I don't wan't any sort of intelligence controlling the vehicles I travel in."

Judging by what I see on the roads every day that is oh so true.

Re: The long, dark teatime of the next few months

There is always the dog milk.

Re: Lies!

"How much heat do I need to apply to burn diamonds?"

If I recall my school boy chemistry correctly, drop a diamond ring in the fire and you will find molten gold in the grate but the diamond will be doing its little bit for global warming.