And in today's news
Financial Times journalist is killed in crocodile attack on surfing vacation in Sri Lanka
Posts by earl grey
1190 posts • joined 28 Sep 2011
Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid
gamble in the presence of a live crocodile
If you're near a croc you're gambling you can outrun it.
'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?
UK attorney general plans crackdown on 'trial by social media'
BOFH: We're only here because they said there would be biscuits
Virginia scraps poke-to-vote machines hackers destroyed at DefCon
laugh about the chads all you want
But i used the punch card system (in Ohio of all places) and it worked well and was reliable. Florida was (and is) a joke for the way they handled this whole mess and it wasn't a reason to go to crappy machines.
Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV
Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest
Boffins bust AI with corrupted training data
Kill animals and destroy property before hurting humans, Germany tells future self-driving cars
@Eddy Ito
And they would check your tyre pressure, top them up if necessary; top up your washer fluid (in later years); take your cash and give you proper change without you having to count it out for them.
Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60!
Node.js forks again – this time it's a war of words over anti-sex-pest codes of conduct
sounds like he should be working on unix
" has something of a history of being inflammatory, and has regularly been accused of abusing his own powers to shut down debate he doesn't like."
Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired
Headless body found near topless beach: Missing private sub journalist identified
Re: This story is still nowhere near as strange as...
Nice. "if..."
Loved that movie and still have the VHS. Have a beer.
Western Digital hauls out weighty tome with 20TB external storage
Spotify cleared of exposing kids to self-love innuendo in TV spot
Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found
Biz sends apps to public cloud, waves 'bye to on-premises server folk. NO! WAIT!
Re: Wow....
"boardroom primates"
I think you have mistakenly moved them up the ladder by several steps.
No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court
Re: Wrong Solution
Pshaw. Next thing you'll be saying they shouldn't be killing citizens in the streets.
Read IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's letter to staff: Why I walked from Trump's strategy forum
Re: Trump was right the first time
Puppetmaster....hmmm; wonder if we could get the Major after him.
Ancient IETF 'teapot' gag preserved for posterity as a standard
Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis'
US prosecutors demand data to unmask every visitor to anti-Trump protest website
Re: In my newsfeed 'highlights' today
They didn't have a choice. Everyone else in either party was far worse. Hard to believe, I know; but true.
Waymo fleshes out self-driving car tech with hardware that goes soft at first sign of trouble
The cheek of it! Beach bar owner shoots nude bather in the booty
i have to say the bloke was lucky
My first thought was that if i had been in the group i would have gone back and put his rifle some place the sun doesn't normally shine. What an arse!
Foot-long £1 sausage roll arrives
You had ONE job: Italian firefighters suspected of starting blazes for cash
Britons ambivalent about driverless car tech, survey finds
@AMBxx - Self breaking
Every car I ever owned could self break. None of them had automatic braking though.
gawping out the window
"Most of Blighty's ex-drivers would also spend their time in a driverless car gawping out the window"
So just like now?
UK publishes Laws of Robotics for self-driving cars
Re: Fail
You don't understand. When all the meatsacks are gone or not allowed to drive, the automobots won't have a need for red lights and so that technology will simply go away.
Particle boffins show off 'cheap', cute little CosI, world's smallest neutrino detector
CMD.EXE gets first makeover in 20 years in new Windows 10 build
Re: What's the point?
" Old Yeller treatment"
That's kinda harsh. At least the Yearling treatment. erm..................
so they fixed it?
To use CTL-C and CTL-V? Have i been sleeping in the tip?
Anyway, monitors are really great lizards, so this whole thing is a tip-o-the-hat to our lizard overlords.
And the chocolate is that nasty Nestle's stuff. So not really.
Cardiff did Nazi that coming: Hackers slap Trump, swastikas, Sharia law on e-sign
Trump-backed RAISE Act decoded: Points-based immigration, green cards slashed
Re: The Information Technology Industry Council, AKA "Isn't It Ironic".
"Mostly at the expense of the incumbent natives. Remind me - how much of the country was stolen from the First Nations again?"
Who took it all from the old ones who were there before them, and the ones before them, and the ones before them. this is nothing new and has been going on for thousands of years. stop acting like it's something that "just happened yesterday" and "oh, we're so bad" because we're just the latest group.
Canadian ISPs do not Canuck around: Bloke accused of piracy grilled in his home for hours
I guess they're lucky
Pulling that stunt in the US might have found them face to face with a loaded shotgun. I'm not a gun nut, but invade my property and try to buffalo me and you're in for it.
Facebook pulls plug on language-inventing chatbots? THE TRUTH
Sputtering bit-blasters! IBM's just claimed densest tape ever record
How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really)
It's hard to know from your headline
If i should upvote you for Black Dahlia or Lovecraft. In either event; have one.
NEWSFLASH Now even science* says moneybags footballers are overpaid
Re: A can of worms has opened
Anyway, since it's a can of worms, you may as well have wormwood.
Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there'
i still haven't seen the answer
What happens to ME, the passenger, when some wanker causes a kerfluffle and the car has to save me or a dozen kiddies on the sidewalk. I expect it to save me. No ifs, ands, or buts. And i really don't expect the manufacturers to insure these vehicles. they don't want the responsibility for what they sell now; they're sure as sin not going to want it when the cars are level 4 or 5 out on the byways.
Re: Strong push?
Personal computers ... didn't seem all that useful to the general public
So, nothing much has changed then.
The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY
spam, spam, eggs, and spam
and bacon. lots of bacon.
and fried eggs only.
and no sauce.
and a thick slice of pumpernickel with butter
and more bacon.
