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Apple will be switching back to IBM

No Chinese lab escape conspiracy theories required

One of the four coronaviruses which now merely cause the common cold, may have originally crossed over from cows circa 1890:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

...and there's speculation that it caused the Russian Flu pandemic which killed about a million people worldwide (out of 1.5 billion) over about 8 years ("abouts" abound, because records are scarce). By all accounts it caused a similar disease to Covid-19, killing the same people. Therefore with the increased level of present day international travel and herd immunity impossible with present vaccines (the best we can get is an average of 50% immunity with 100% of the world vaccinated, when we need 80% complete immunity to get herd immunity), we can expect about 20 years of Covid-19 flareups worldwide.

> Only 'natural persons' can be recognized as patent inventors

...what if one of those malformed multi-headed gene spliced experimental immortals in cages in secret Chinese labs escaped and applied for a patent? I know they exist, it says so on Facefsck.

I thought the headline was about sausages. Lots of navels in sausages...

It's either Sun poo or the remains of the interstellar seed bank which kickstarted life on Earth, sent by aliens from far far away, long long ago, from a galaxy far far away...

Ozone Layer

We need a better solution than Hydrogen

Such expenditure on effective recycling facilities of rare earths makes sense, if India invades Kashmir or Afganistan...

Could it be a guide dog? "Xiaomi the exit", etc.

Are they using a DAC of their own design, or have they incoporated someone else's? Listening to anything at all with Sennheiser HD600 headphones is always a revelation.

Nice models! But why were these photos taken with a wide angle lens? Show these off at their best. At 50mm, there's less distortion.

I tell them I'm a perfectionist, and that it's a burden burden being this way. Worked every time.

Wish I'd dropped a huge chunk of change on Bitcoin before the pandemic, and cashed out at the start of mass vaccinations...

Mine is the wool filled futon

Many of the chemicals used in the manufacture of such foams, have never been tested for safety... and includes foams used in most bed mattresses, the fumes of which you all inhale for about 6 to 8 hours a night.

ArcaOS is looking good...

Microsoft needs to be taught a lesson! IBM should emit OS/3 ASAP!

> Apologetic Audacity

They're not apologetic - they're audacious... mindless hypnotised automatons constantly triggered by the product name

It'll take about the same length of time for capacitors to fail (or less) than before, if they're from the same batch.

STOP! BURNING! MY! OXYGEN!

Amazon is fsucked, as are we:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57839364

I sold my ZX Spectrum for £50 in 1998 but I wish I hadn't, it'd be worth £51 now

How safe are cyclists? It's bad enough already with drivers zooming past far too close, or trying to overtake me but underestimating my speed (UK legal ebike, 250W, 15mph max cut off speed, no throttle), and ending up close to crashing into bollards or oncoming traffic. Do these systems recognise cylcists and more importantly, will they make room?

My laptop runs XP from a CF card through an IDE converter I got from Maplin, when it was. Boots fast, more battery life.

QUIT!

BURNING UP MY OXYGEN

Mushrooms are great whole - throw them into a pan with about half a cup of boiling water and a bit o salt, boil at as high a heat as possible, covered, for about two minutes (there should be clouds of steam venting at high pressure from under or through the lid), then uncover, add a knob of butter and reduce to fry brown while stirring. Awesome. What starts as a large mass of whole mushrooms, becomes delicious miniatures. Thank you Malliard.

...this will be a boon for game dev in schools...

TPM wouldn't have prevented this at all.