* Posts by Chemical Bob

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Gnome shrinks the upgrade footprint with version 3.20 release

Chemical Bob

Re: installed when the system's not running

It's like giving a guy a black eye when he's not looking.

Tracy Emin dons funeral shroud, marries stone

Chemical Bob
Devil

Re: I love it when the amateur art critics come out to play

"Why did she go and marry a French stone? Are our British stones not good enough for her?"

Well, the ones on the Salisbury plain are in some sort of religious order....

Domino's trials trundling four-wheeled pizza delivery bot

Chemical Bob
Boffin

Re: First they came for the sky...

They could just use the Internet. It's a series of tubes, you know...

Too Naked for the Nazis streaks to literary glory

Chemical Bob

Re: A Cultural History of the Anus

I hope this book is nothing like "An Anal History of Culture". That book was full of of shit!

How Microsoft copied malware techniques to make Get Windows 10 the world's PC pest

Chemical Bob

Re: I is dreaming

"of a Windows update that gives the user the option of switching off all windows 10 upgrades and notifications, world peace and cats cuddling dogs."

I can understand wanting to turn off Windows 10 upgrades and cats cuddling dogs (the horror!), but *why* would you want to turn off world peace?

Chemical Bob

Re: Finally confirmed my belief...

"a virus is small and efficient in what it does... Windows doesn't fit either of those criteria."

Right, Windows is a sexual mistake.

Apps that 'listen in' to your mobile get slapped by US watchdog

Chemical Bob

Simple solution (maybe)

Seems to me that the right value of capacitor across the speaker terminals would kill the signal.

Irish shun beer, whiskey in favour of … wine

Chemical Bob

Re: Okay then. Here is a Citation

And another: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/683964179594768384/GSuL7JFe_400x400.jpg

IEEE delivers Ethernet-for-cars standard

Chemical Bob
Trollface

Re: It's not weight they are optimising for

>"but weight is a real driver" Let's just have driverless cars then.

Or put the driver on a diet.

Hotel light control hack illuminates lamentable state of IoT security

Chemical Bob

Re: el reg FUD machine in full gear

"what are multiple connected internets called?"

A tangled World Wide Web...

Your unpatchable, insecure Android mobe will feel right at home in the Internet of Stuff era

Chemical Bob

The Internet of Things is all about saving electricity - we will all be so appalled by the laughable security on these Things that we will all choose to live without the White Fire Inside The Walls known as electricity.

Get lost, Windows 10 and Phone fans: No maps HERE on Microsoft's OS

Chemical Bob

Re: Car entertainment units

"Are you saying that the car entertainment unit is for entertaining the car - or for entertaining the people in the car?"

It's for auto eroticism

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