* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

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Re: Why some people keep on reinventing the ill-fated Palm Foleo?

I could use one rather than trying to carry a monitor+keyb+mouse + find enough power outlets for headless machines

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Re: Bring back netbooks

Buy chromebook for $50-$100

Install GalliumOS

Cheap, plasticky, kid-proof, crappy screen

Or buy one of the many Atom-Z8350 chipped laptops. 1920x1080+4Mb for around $150, looks like a macbook air for 20% of the price

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

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Unless you intend to scatter them over some pristine ecosystem to monitor it without having to build roads for people to go in and place /remove/ repair sensors

Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned

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Re: Conservative and Unionist party

Northumbria independence is next.

Tek bak control, sithee

NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9

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Specifically they can simulate the paperwork of having done the test

Tea tipplers are more likely to live longer, healthier lives than you triple venti pumpkin-syrup soy-milk latte-swilling fiends

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So should be compared to beer drinkers

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But with milk or lemon ?

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Re: missing details

> trans-fatty hydrogenated vegetable shortening

I don't think that is an acceptable term anymore

They are flexible-gender body-positive special-educational persons of restricted height

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Re: Yep.

Scientists here at the Institute of Studies, compared tea drinking monks in a Tibetan monastery with coffee drinkers in Syria and concluded that tea drinking protects you from nerve gas.

We are also investigating complaints that there have been no proper double-blind trials of the effectiveness of parachutes and intend to replace half the chutes in the Army Parachute display team with anvils.

UK data watchdog kicks £280m British Airways and Marriott GDPR fines into legal long grass

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Re: What's the point?

The IRS (US tax office) got into trouble (well actually a few raised eyebrows) over that

They had a policy to target people making just under average wages on the basis that this minimised the capacity to fight any demand

It's your walkie-talkie Teams mate, over. 'You don't have to say Over, over'. Copy that. Stop making the static noise, over and out

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Incredible

So we can now use smartphones to make direct voice "calls" indistinguishable from a rotary telephone - except for the initial 15minutes of "can you hear me?", "I can't hear you", "are you on mute?", "can everyone else mute, there is an echo" "I have to restart", "can you resend the invite", "I have updates", "you have to send me another invite I'm not in your group"

Alphabet's 'love rat' legal chief David Drummond ejects after 18 years at web goliath, no golden parachute attached

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Re: Or Brooks, "It's good to be the king."

Is that any of the employer's business though?

I don't think St Jobbs is entirely squeaky clean when it comes to extra children - but that didn't call for Apple to fire him

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

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>their *entire business* hinges on being beyond repute when it comes to safety

Their *entire business* hinges on being the only domestic aerospace supplier to a country with a $2Tn defense budget. At this point the USAF and "Space Force" are subsidiaries of Boeing corp

Flying taxis? That'll be AFTER you've launched light sabres and anti-gravity skateboards

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Re: We have the technology

The silicon valley solution.

A set of pelaton bikes in the back of a bus where you can cycle in the warm and dry while keeping up with your stats on your mobile app - and get to your destination

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Re: Uber Flaying Taxis

The same people would run up $100K in student debt followed by $50K learning to fly, then years of sub-minimum wage crop dusting or flight instructing - so that they can get their dream job of $25k/pa 1st officer with a regional airline

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Re: Did I get this right?

No you misunderstood, because it would be too expensive to have TSA for every flying cab you have to feel your own bottom

Love T-shirts, but can't be bothered to wash them? We've seen just the thing!

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Re: Post office smelly man

They are a rich part of our culture and should be paid for by English Heritage

BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret

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Re: "Being employable in the motor industry as a speed bump"

That's nostalgia, the son of a boss being hired as an apprentice a a friends company - instead of being given the money to create his own blue-sky imagineering consultancy and games studio

The soap opera continues. HP again tells Xerox: Show us more money!

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Re: $33bn 'significantly undervalue' the stock

The current value of HP is precisely known it is $30.7bn as of today

If we didn't have this communist interference with the free market, then Xerox would be able to simply logon to their Charles Schwab account and buy it.

Ministry of Justice bod jailed for stealing £1.7m with fake IT consulting contract

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Re: Then again

A million quid lost is a fraud, a billion quid lost is a government IT project, a trillion quid is a too-big-too-fail bailout

5G signals won't make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster

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Re: I'm immune to the effects of 5G

It's a quarter wave antenna

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Re: All electromagnetic radiation harmful?

Or real radiation, other people are a big source of high energy radiation from all those bananas

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effects on lab test animals and not on humans,

That's where they missed a trick.

If they had run an ad in Britain saying 5G harms animals - the whole of mobile phone technology would be banned overnight

Microsoft engineer caught up in sudden spate of entirely coincidental grilling of Iranian-Americans at US borders

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Re: A nasty pattern of discrimination however!

You can't assume someone is a threat just because they work for Microsoft

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Re: silly parents

I'll ask my boss what he thought as a child about not having any grandparents or why his dad had the cool number tattoo on his wrist

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Re: When in America, say you're from ...

It's really going to confuse them when they work out where Aryan comes from

Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways

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Re: What about the integrated standby instrument system

That was banned in the USA once they worked out the acronym

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Re: Why is the company still alive?

>If it's a Boeing, I ain't going!

A view increasingly shared by the aircraft

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Re: Why is the company still alive?

Ryanair are renaming them 737-8000 or something

Perhaps 737-sellafield?

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Re: Why is the company still alive?

They can block any other other companies from the market <cough>Bombardier<cough>

Of course you can always drive to Washington to complain, or use their extensive network of advanced high speed trains

Reusing software 'interfaces' is fine, Google tells Supreme Court, pleads: Think of the devs

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Re: Google and Copyright - Yet Another Anonymous Coward

Obviously they send me a pigeon to ask for permission to read the contact page to get my address....

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Bell Labs should be in for a nice windfall for C

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Re: Google and Copyright

No it's the Google that carried out the biggest copyright theft by storing copies of everyone's website.

If you want to view the content of my website you can write to me and ask permission - address is in the contact page

If at first you don't succeed, pry, pry again: Feds once again demand Apple unlock encrypted iPhones in yet another terrorism case

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Apple should respond to the lawful request

And to the Saudl's request to unlock the phones of all the US officers on the base to see what their involvement was

I spy, with my little satellite AI, something beginning with 'North American image-analysis code embargo'

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Re: Sounds like...

There is a campaign to demand encryption is classified as a munition going on now.

It would then guarantee peoples right to it

Ah the land of the free, where the only way to keep your selfies safe at a traffic shop is to pretend they are a gun

I'm the queen of Gibraltar and will never get a traffic ticket... just two of the things anyone could have written into country's laws thanks to unsanitised SQL input vuln

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Re: 'Twas ever thus

civil servant lowest cost bidder (most closely related to senior politician)

GCHQ: A cyber-what-now? Rumours of our probe into London Stock Exchange 'cyberattack' have been greatly exaggerated

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Why not ?

"The NCSC has not treated the LSE outage as a cyber security related incident and has not investigated it as such."

So without investigating they know that an event that knocked out the stock exchange for 90mins wasn't an attack?

That's some premium grade crystal balls you have there

EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott

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Re: Few things jump out

I thought all the cool old people played games on their phones ?

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Re: Few things jump out

People actually use computers for gaming?

Outside the USA people often play Fifa world soccer for real at school

Unfortunately in the USA children seem to do the same with DOOM

A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

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don't go screwing with files you don't understand

With that sort of attitude we would still be living in trees like marketing consultants

Train-knackering software design blunder discovered after lightning sparked Thameslink megadelay

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Re: Load shedding?

Capitalism, any spare capacity is a waste of money - you want to have slightly less generating capacity than you can be sure you will sell. Having spare unused capacity that the government can call on is socialist

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Re: 50 50

We don't need that French electricity that probably smells of garlic. We can have proper feet and inches electricity from the colonies

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Don't you just want them to have been given handcarts

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

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Re: "she can apply to regain her moderator status"

Persecute the heretic, kill the unbeliever....

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In this case it is the opposite way around.

The company wanted to be all LGBTQ2 and inclusive and she said basically "I have spent years studying English, I'm not going to start using (s)he and singular "they" if I know the person I am writing to is called "Loretta".

The company then came down on the non-specific-gender-unit Monica like a ton of rectangular building materials (some find the term bricks offensive)

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Re: This is no peace at all

How dare you use the pronoun "her" you facist reactionary tool of the patriarchal oppressors

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

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Re: not too sure where I stand here :o(

FB doesn't have detailed info about you to decide if a bank should give you a mortgage based on that dodgy heart valve or even your grandparents history of dodgy hearts

Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader

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Re: The Year 2038 problem is less than two decades away...

Except 2038 could actually cause problems

In 1999 nothing except some banks cared about years, but every control system, file system and network cares about things happening after other things

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