Posts by Roj Blake

Re: Who are the others?

If you want big but not that big, then it's OVH.

It's almost as though they want you to rely on the paid-for results or something

Re: vast majority of trollish twits are not that clever

Well-connected parents don't hurt either.

Re: Cargo cult science.

They already did that, in 1994.

Re: a recurring theme ... was that the three laws didn't really work all that well

The character of Sherlock Holmes was originally based on a doctor who once taught Conan Doyle.

Re: Yellow Devil

Crimean War?

Re: No beer on the train?

Maybe it only felt like a few hours due to the alcohol dilating time.

Re: Vital stuff

I think the Welsh Ambulance Service has access too, so at least if you do get food poisoning they'll already be outside your house waiting for the call.

Re: @Loyal Commenter -- "Harnessing the power of data"

The RSPB did a study a while back that concluded that cats don't affect bird populations much as they tend to only capture prey that would most likely have died soon anyway.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/animal-deterrents/cats-and-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/

Re: ahh the cloud : somebody else's computers i should trust with my passwords .. no ?

And do you carry this device around with you all of the time? What happens if you leave it at home and need to access something?

Re: Usually reports of shortages have one purpose...

Or maybe it's HPE who have the massive stockpile of Skylakes.

Re: Can a company lacking the economies of scale of Amazon, Microsoft or Alibaba

Yes, but you need to offer something that the big boys don't - things like high security, carbon neutral, or a more personalised service.

Re: Binars

The stellar density is far higher in a galaxy's core than in its spiral arms. Having stars more tightly packed means that more of them will be gravitationally bound to other stars.

Re: Microsoft Win10 Specs

Sounds like someone has PNS* Syndrome.

* PIN Number Syndrome

Re: CO2 from Amazon?

In AWS's defence, cloud computing is generally more energy-efficient than doing things on-prem.

Re: Inconsistent with Boeing values

A fine of peanuts will really upset those monkeys that were supervising the clowns though.

Re: Is CEO going to be in next honour list

Being the wife of a Tory minister and the daughter of a baron had nothing to do with the appointment, natch.

Re: Community Edition?

Given that the new owners will want to recoup their investment as soon as possible, I'd start looking for alternatives if I were you.

Re: Selling England By The Pound

"Can you tell me where my country lies?"

said the unifaun to his true love's eyes.

"It lies with me!" cried the Queen of Maybe

- for her merchandise, he traded in his prize.

"Paper late!" cried a voice in the crowd.

"Old man dies!" The note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'

- it seems he's drowned;

selling England by the pound.

Re: I find VPNs very useful

VPNs also mean you don't have to ask for permission to view certain specialist sites every time you change mobile or broadband provider.

Re: No mention of...

Has there ever been any evidence of them using Greyball in London though?

Re: "Boris got his deal"

A deal worse for the UK even than May's.

Re: Artificial Protein-Based Meat

If you fell into a vat of molten lard you'd definitely have health problems.

Re: What, Google is owned by the RUSSIANS???

Well, they were founded by Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin

Re: Meta data craptifying app

Just using a VPN with a server in a different country already seems to screw up Twitter's idea of where I am. Their app regularly sends me adverts from third countries.

Re: Is there an option?

Doro make phones for technophobic OAPs. One of theirs might suit you.

Re:And don't forget China is ruled by a *communist* party.

I'd wager you think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic as well.

Re: Real inanity

That's exactly how shorting Sterling works:

1) Borrow £1M

2) Convert the sum into US Dollars

3) Wait for the value of the Pound to collapse

4) Convert those Dollars back into a substantially higher amount of Pounds than you started with

5) Pay back the loan

6) Pocket the profit

Re: The future arrives incrementally.

The future?

Given the track record of the likes of Special Branch, SDS, and MI5 infiltrating protest groups, I'd be shocked if the UK government weren't already doing this sort of thing.

It's not the future. It's the present.

Re: Brass Eye

It's the crab DNA that does it.

Re: I have no idea who to vote for anymore.

The Lib Dems are just Tories in sandals. Apart from their views on Europe you can't put a fag paper between them.

Re: Why is anyone surprised?

Yep, car insurance companies are especially bad for this.

Re: To get back to the issue

How is needing to have GB stickers a punishment?

Members of the EU are exempt from needing them. If a country leaves the EU, then they are no longer a member and so need to follow the rules for being a non-member.

It's a consequence, not a punishment.

Re: Why not. Automate it all.

But if robots do all of the work in McDonalds, how will Media Studies graduates earn a living?

Re: Disabling means that the app won't execute at all

Until you update the OS, when it mysteriously returns.

Re: Life but lower

Eight times the mass would not result in 8g, owing to the larger diameter of the planet.

Re: Yellowhammer's were nice yellow birds

Many ornithologists will tell you that the yellowhammer's call sounds like "a little bit of bread and no cheese."

It seems appropriate for life in post-Brexit Britain.