* Posts by anonymous boring coward

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FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab

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Re: Yeah but... No but

"Snopes: "Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus a hoax.""

Given everything Trump has said, I'm pretty confident that Trump said both that and the complete opposite.

I do know he came up with various racist style names for Covid-19, in his usual disgusting demagogue style.

He caused violence against Chinese-looking people in USA (no surprise given Trump's moronic followers).

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Re: you're incorrect

"No, it was politicians who did those things."

Because if we did nothing the consequences would have been lesser? Or? Please explain.

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Re: The dangers of certainty

"Everything had to be 'managed'. Do as we say, not as we do. Wear your mask. Get your jab. Obey, citizen."

Bit of a drama queen?

It was a pandemic. You live in a society. Get it?

"Do as we say, not as we do."

That's a deduction, not an actual instruction. We have shit politicians at the moment in UK. Not exactly news. But if you think you don't need to follow the rules for that reason, what would that make you? (As bad as them? Stupid? Selfish?)

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I really don't have the time to educate you.

I don't know who told you to read snippets out of long reports, and totally ignore the overall reality of pandemic control? Nor do I care.

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Re: The FBI is way out on a limb here

"The problem with the wet market theory is that no host species was ever found"

Doesn't prove anything one way or another.

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Re: The FBI is way out on a limb here

"what interest the Energy Department has in such matters, but the agency's remit is wider than its name suggests. As well as overseeing Uncle Sam's nuclear weapons program, some of its national labs also undertake advanced biological research similar to that performed in Wuhan"

Scary sh*t. Bit like FDA being some kind of police organisation, only scarier.

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Re: The dangers of certainty

You really don't understand simple physics.

You seem to make up realities to suit your wants.

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Re: The dangers of certainty

"Those f-ing blue 'masks' are EVERYWHERE."

Not around here. Perhaps you live in an extra shitty area?

Anyway, it's just paper. Unlike all the plastic crap people spread. And cigarette buts.

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Re: The dangers of certainty

If someone is sneezing and coughing near you, then you bloody well want them to wear a mask. Especially if you are forced to be near them, as on public transport.

This is simple logic.

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"It now appears that being vaxxed and repeatedly boosted makes you more susceptible and potentially die from complications."

First time I've heard this fantastic theory (yes, THEORY). What kind of weird conspiracy sites do you frequent?

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"Firstly the infection gets into the face holes and starts off in the mucosal linings before working its way into the rest of your body. The vaccines did very little, if anything, to protect against the first phase. Which also happens to be when it is most transmissible."

You really, really don't understand what vaccines are, and how they work.

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Re: Nope

"And lets not mention the early reaction from the US democrat party... Come to Chinatown, its safe!"

I'm confused...

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Re: Okay, okay, we get it...

Doesn't seem obvious to China.

We all know why China is the asshole in the room: They want Russia to back them when they invade Taiwan, and they want the precedent that they have the right to do so by (dubious) analogy.

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Wasn't it "most likely" but with "low confidence"? However that's supposed to work...

My take is that some people (could be just the top one) high up in FBI wants it to be like this. Not worth paying much attention to.

Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life

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Re: i digress

That's correct use of language:

disturb verb [T] (MOVE):

"to move or change something from its usual position, arrangement, condition, or shape"

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"an old Framework laptop"

There is such a thing?

Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML

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Re: The blueprints will get them about 5% of the way there

It's probably not an ACTUAL blueprint. So the data will also specify materials, parts, etc.

And China has the budget to do almost anything. Can you back up your statements about the rarity and non-substitutability of the parts used?

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Re: Warren Buffett tips

Well, what exactly does China have that's worth "spying" on? (I.e. tech secrets worth stealing.)

I can't do that, Dave: AI drowns top sci-fi mag with story submissions

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Some articles here read like they might have been written by A"I".

Starlink tempts users with $200 Global Roaming service

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So, if you pay $2400 per year, are they still planning to inspect all traffic to make sure it's not hurting Russia, the violent aggressor?

BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere

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Re: sloppy journalism

But how many double decker busses parked in an Olympic size swimming pool?

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Re: Possibly a sensible solution

"5G has the potential to make fixed lines redundant for many Internet users."

A, small, pipe dream.

Clumsy ships, one Chinese, sever submarine cables that connect Taiwanese islands

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Re: State Actors

"the team at Bletchley Park carefully (and agonizingly) plan using the new-found capability without giving the game away through statistically impossible successes"

Ruined the film for me. The code crackers making strategical decisions...

Do you rely on Microsoft Bing Search APIs? Price hike incoming

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"rises of between 257% and 900%"

Seems entirely reasonable, and roughly in line with inflation. No?

UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics

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"But with the field explosively doubling to 16 million in the UK"

Really? Are dogs included as well in that figure?

GoDaddy joins the dots and realizes it's been under attack for three years

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Re: Green hats, really ?

Huh?

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

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Never heard of them, but I suspect they don't have $17 billion.

Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

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"The goal had been set at a mere $50,000"

That should have rung some alarm bells from the get-go. Seems like a very naive estimate.

Chipmakers threaten to defect to US, EU if UK doesn't get its semiconductor plans sorted

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Re: I remember British Rail

"Britain suffers the highest rail fares in Europe, and yet pays the most to the rail operators in subsidy."

And has crappy trains, and an awful service level, as well. (I'm sure there must be SOME nice trains somewhere, but I have yet to happen upon them.)

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Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

"With Johnson being the nadir."

I'd put Truss as the nadir. She actually believes wholesale in her own nonsense. BoZo the Clown at least knows deep inside he's just a bullshitter.

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Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

"people emotionally attached to the EU"

Emotionally attached to freedom of movement, and no tariffs and other expensive and time wasting stupidities?

That's just being rational.

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Re: >Where's the Brexit bonus?

"Just look at what the EU do, like with Ukraine and covid. You really want to be a part of that?"

Yes.

BTW, If anyone is a massive moaner, it's you. And you're not even that old.

You think Brits are oh-so different and special? Get a grip.

Brits are only special ins their ability to cap-doff and suffer silently being trampled by their toff overlords. What a quality to have.

Tesla's self-driving code may ignore stop signs, act unsafe. Patch coming ... soon

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"On February 14, Tesla identified 18 warranty claims that could be related to the software issue. The Elon Musk-led giant stated it was not aware of any injuries or deaths associated with FSD Beta."

Yes, because FIRST we wait for people to die, and THEN we look into it, if we must. That's how safety works, and how it should be done. [Sarc]

I said from day one not to trust the self driving software. "Go fast and break stuff" is not a model I'd like to trust with my or anyone elses lives.

Ubuntu Advantage is being wired deeper into the distro

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Re: @VoiceOfTruth - Users is the correct word!

Ubuntu uses shedloads of code that was donated for free by people doing nice things for the general good of the computing community.

Just a little reality check.

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"users were aggrieved by what they saw as advertising – even though Canonical made Ubunto Pro free of charge for individual users"

Ehh.. Advertising is advertising, regardless of the price of the product. Also, who knows what the actual cost will be? Perhaps Pro will push even more ads? Perhaps it will spy more?

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

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The article makes it seem you can just "make a search engine", like some minor app.

Also, I'm not sure Apple wants to be in that arena. One of their main selling points is privacy, and the search engine model for making money is by harvesting data on its users. Google is getting more and more intrusive and annoying day by day, just like Amazon with it's "I'm a moron, ask me anything Alexa".

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

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To Go I say: Go, just go.

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Re: Why are people surprised?

"Why are people surprised?"

Who's surprised? Upset, perhaps, if you had invested in Go. (I haven't)

No one is surprised. It's Google.

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"Telemetry, as Cox describes it, involves software sending data from Go software to a server to provide information about which functions are being used and how the software is performing. He argues it is beneficial for open source projects to have that information to guide development."

Obviously, that cannot be done locally. [Sarcasm]

(I used profiling tools extensively in my earlier life.)

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Re: opt-out of a surprise.

Awww! So naive!

Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it

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I was stating a fact, or two. You downvote facts?

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"This is basically akin to making Apple chargers charge Android phones because so many people are having problems with Android chargers."

No it's not. Those are simple 5V USB chargers. I use Apple chargers to do all sorts of USB charging and running stuff.

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Did the Bidens try to kill off USA with an insurrection yet?

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Trump is more like that "scary rapist clown" type.

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Re: Of course chargers must be standard

"I use a credit card: simple, easy, robust and preserves my privacy"

Really?

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Re: CCS DC cables are awful

Luckily, Mexico is in America.

Cali puts mobile app makers on notice over privacy

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Why is it then?

Care to actually explain? I haven't got a clue.

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else

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Zuck must be very loved?

Or just paranoid.

Tesla recalls 40k cars over patch that broke power steering

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Re: More "context" but, sorry, not anti-Tesla

"Toyota has completely withdrawn their Toyota bZ4X"

Did they recall them to fit new wheel bolts, as opposed to "withdraw" them (i.e buy them back)?

So now Toyota names their cars by letting a toddler hit some random keys on a keyboard.

Make Linux safer… or die trying

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Re: Indeed

"The undefined behaviour of the C and C++ languages has real-world effects such as mysterious crashes and other mysterious "behaviour"."

All C code I've ever written has had very well defined behaviour. (It's run by a computer, after all.)

Perhaps you meant "unwanted behaviour when making programming errors"?

Good programmers generally avoid those scenarios.