Posts by Stratman

Really silly question

What is the phone in the picture please?

It looks the right size and has non-pointy corners to catch in my pocket

Why do I keep thinking that VW et al actually met the requirements laid down by the EU, namely passing the required tests?

It's not VW's fault the regulations were badly framed. They said "Your cars must pass these tests" and they did.

From the original article

Every couple of seconds or so, a high-priority maintenance task runs and it winds up momentarily hogging the processor

Replace momentarily with perpetually and you've got Windows 10.

Are E and B

the German equivalent of C and A?

So she knows which way round to wear them.

The more Apple raise their prices

the more money I save.

Yippee

Wot, no garlic?

Snails need garlic.

BBC News

are reporting Samsung have ceased production of the Galaxy Note 7

If another country is volunteering to cough up the £50k a year it costs to feed and water a crim, I say "Thanks very much, would you like some more?"

FTOA "Luzgin's lawyer, Henry Reznik, said after the decision that the Supreme Court had "discredited itself" and said he would appeal the ruling."

How do you appeal a Supreme Court ruling?

If the USPTO..

.has the authority to declare a public holiday, what recourse do other workers who would have had the day off have?

(yes, the Central California court is in LA... we don't know why either)

They're not the only one, England's Central Criminal Court is in London, not Birmingham.

So someone gets offended

and then what?

He didn't watch enough gangster films

If he did he'd have known the really cool ones put the gun down the front of their trousers.

He could have made a small contribution to chlorinating the gene pool.

Hairnet but no beardnet?

Hmm...

"The experiment was invalidated by some alphabetti spaghetti discovered in the chamber"

The RSA could have entered into the spirit of things

and required him to wear the colander while driving

It's all academic anyway...

... as the store seems to be perpetually broken.

"Something went wrong this end, try again later", or words to that effect.

"Vulcun will be required to clearly explain the behaviors and any changes to the permissions of any of the products, including browser extensions, mobile games, and websites."

Just Vulcun?

"a "more grounded and elevated" logotype"

Both grounded and elevated?

Their bits and atoms are presumably of the quantum variety

Pilot error

When I was gaining my PPL all those years ago it was drummed into me that all flight aids are just that: aids. There's only one person in charge of the flight and of driving the plane. If a pilot is unfamiliar with an airfield it's his duty to familiarise himself with it.

This clown is on a par with blaming the satnav for driving into a river.

"I owe my soul to the company store"

Netting.

What about

Austin Healey

From the original article

Myerson wrote. "This doesn't include any of your content or files, and we take several steps to avoid collecting any information that directly identifies you, such as your name, email address or account ID."

The Windows 10 Privacy Statement gives examples of data that Redmond might collect, including "name, email address, preferences and interests; location, browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data."

Hmmmm...

Can they be ordered to unlock the phones themselves? That way they don't have to disclose their passwords to the feds, which seems to be the crux of this particular lawyer feeding frenzy.

Has the row between Right Pondians and Left Pondians been resolved?

The one where the LPs demanded the keys to Galileo so they could switch it off whenever it felt like it?

Can't they just configure the A10 to drop F35s on the enemy?