Posts by Roj Blake

Re: Freetard Clickbait

Facebook potentially tracks you even if you don't knowingly use them, or even have an account with them.

Re: > punishing people for their political beliefs

A better definition of anarchy is what happens when you invade a densely populated area, destroy all of its infrastructure, force the population into a tiny town, and then starve them.

Re: Time to start my next programming project

The mice must flow.

It will certainly be an interesting insurance claim!

Re: Passengers unharmed?

Maybe, but you would have definitely seen the little gremlin on the wing ripping everything apart as the plane passed through the twilight zone.

Re: Blue Origin in association with SAGA Travel

In this case, it might stand for Sending Another Geriatric Astronaut

Re: Cloud

A lot of their own designs aren't proprietary though - take a look at OCP hardware.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Management at Boeing by an AI

Are you saying that hasn't already happened?

It would certainly explain a lot.

Re: FFS

Yes and no.

The season one credits list William Hartnell's character as Doctor Who.

Re: One for the how not to text books

Were Infosys on the approved vendors list, by any chance?

Re: Past history

I used to drive through his constituency on the way to work.

Needless to say, some of his posters during election campaigns were defaced in an all-too-predictable manner.

Re: Coming to a govt building near you

There are enough Blairites influencing Labour policy to make me fully expect this to happen in the UK in the next couple of years.

Re: No kill switches in AIs in island volcanoes

Why would a white cat be stroking Blofeld?

Re: So basically..

According to Ireland's Supreme Court, Subway bread isn't actually bread

Re: Puzzling indeed.

France has, on multiple occasions, offered to let the UK build a migrant processing centre in France. Such a facility would provide a safe and legal route for claiming asylum in the the UK and as such would destroy the business of the people traffickers overnight.

The UK has always declined the offer.

Re: As a Southern Water customer*, When they said "Sorry we leaked your shit"...

Now we've left the dastardly EU, we no longer have to worry about their nanny state directives and are finally free to swim in properly polluted seas.

British sewage for British beaches!

They won't need many nutters to make a tidy profit though.

And luckily for them, there are a lot of nutters out there.

Re: Something I have yet to grok...

It's for making cash for Elon.

Re: Can someone explain?

You say that by definition most people are average, but most people have an above average number of legs.

Re: Dogpile?

There was also an app called Copernic that collated results from multiple search engines.

Re: Vaguely reminiscent of the opening of a film ?

Arnie vs Johnnycab in Total Recall.

Re: "can only be sold to governments and used to fight terrorism"

If a firefighter fights fires and a crimefighter fights crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

Re: It's everywhere

Water privatisation has led to literal enshittification.

Re: Unfortunately .....

Also, the report mysteriously doesn't show up when they search for it on Bing.

Are you Paula Vennells?

Re: The silicon chip inside her head, gets switched to overload

Tell me why

Re: Some will insist that milk must be added after the tea

If you're making tea in a mug, then the milk has to go in after the water, to ensure the correct temperature for brewing.

For the teapot method though, putting milk into the cup before the tea helps prevent your best porcelain getting stained.

Re: on-device gen AI for the iPhone

Once it's there, they can sue other companies for having rounded AI on their phones.

Re: Thanks again, guys

On the other hand, the hatch would have popped off without any help at all had the cannister been made by Boeing.

Re: this particular scenario is called "lying"

Alexander Johnson might disagree with you there.