Posts by Danny 2

Indian tech minister picks a fight with Wikipedia over cricketer's dropped catch

Same abuse in Edinburgh

Some petty vandal Hearts fan claimed a '60s Hibs' cup win as their own on Wikipedia. As if we wouldn't notice, we have a limited amount to keep track of. I was moved to register to correct the injustice with a supporting link. I wanted to demand they ban the vandal and pass their info to the Leith police, but there wasn't enough characters in the box.

I managed to cut my mum's Virgin bill from £131pm to £53pm this month, mainly by cancelling my dead dad's football but my timing was off. No Celtic vs Real for me tonight, except on the radio and highlights like any other poor person. Options are not an option.

Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister

I want to be Prime Minister!

There was a cute wee blonde bairn on Scottish TV told that the new PM had went to her Paisley primary school. She shouted out, "I want to be Prime Minister!"

And all of Scotland wished she was. I can't guess her policies but less homework and longer play breaks sounds fine.

Chances good for NASA Artemis SLS Moon launch on Saturday

Massive Moon Rocket

That is seriously how Sky TV and BBC TV referred to it for a week. Now the BBC are calling it the Artemis moon rocket. And the Guardian is calling it the Artemis 1 moon rocket. Which I guess is slightly better. I look forward to the rebranding, Massive Mars Rocket.

Internet pranksters send hundreds of cabs to Moscow street, cause gridlock

99 pizzas

Have they tried sending endless pizzas to Putin? Or maybe SWATting the Kremlin, making use of the militarised US police.

Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election

Lord Of The Racism

Or maybe speciest or nationalist, I dunno.

2am this morning I watched Rings of Power, the most expensive TV ever. And there was a black elf, a black dwarf, a black harfoot - great! That didn't happen in the Peter Jackson movies.

But they introduced a new form of racism. All the dwarves had faux Scottish accents. All the harfoots had faux Irish accents - even Lenny Henry! That also didn't happen in the Peter Jackson movies.

Nothing against dwarves per say, but north of the border some of us are elves, some of us have hairy feet...

US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all

Rembering Aaron

This move is a good thing a decade too late, Aaron was treated horrendously. I hope this provides some tiny solace for his family and friends.

We used to break into British military nuclear bases, rarely taken to court, a few folk got six months inside. 35 years for liberating published science papers is mucked up.

Twitter savaged by former security boss Mudge in whistleblower complaint

Re: I very much doubt that Musk is behind this, I see more of a very bruised and frustrated ego...

"and writing an 84 page document takes time..."

No, it doesn't. A day or so with editing.

He worked with the Dead Cow so he must be okay is obvious bullshit. I worked with peace organisations who portray themselves as saints, and some of them are, or are cover as paedos, thieves, and similar. I doubt even the worst of them would have worked for Twitter. I do have a couple of good Dead Cow anecdotes that could maybe fill 84 pages, but I'll spare you and sign off with two timely words from the bible, filthy lucre. Guy's a bad'un.

NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years

Re: Sci Fi got there first

​TV news covering the Fringe keep saying the amount of rubbish on the streets is attracting rats, but that is pejorative. Locals prefer to say performers are attracting tourists.

Re: Sci Fi got there first

​“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

It was a joke, a better joke than the best joke at the Edinburgh Festival fringe this year. Plus I was right, and first, which has to count for something. I hate to insult everyone but I could suspect I'm being downvoted for being a smartarse.

Re: Sci Fi got there first

Actually, I got there first, six hours before you. And I read through the thread to check nobody had posted it. And I got the name right with a supporting link. And I got downvoted when you got upvoted. This must be the bad universe.

V'ger

Being shot down by aliens isn't the worst thing that could happen to Voyagers. They who forget Star Trek movies are condemned to rewatch them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture#Plot

Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid

Re: Comments section

Thankin' you much Filippo, it helped greatly because you not only answered, you explained. I mean I like all the jokes here too but I knew I could goad someone smarter than me into helping me understand. I have to explain this stuff to my even stupider friends and family.

[To the jokers to the left of me, clowns to the right, my nephew pulled two people from a river two months ago saving their lives, I was hugely impressed. Then I learned he was flatmates with the daughter of Cerys Matthews, and shamefully I was even more impressed. "Tell me, every morning when she awakes does she thank the Lord she is Welsh?"]

Comments section

It looks like a beautiful article, but would a beautiful article sit down next to me?

I want to pass this onto my even stupider friends because optimism is rare, but I know what they are going to ask and if any of you could provide intellectual back-up then I'd be grateful.

Isn't this just energy storage? I got that one, energy storage is essential for renewable energy.

Isn't CO2 causing global heating? I assume they know that, it's 2022 so I assume everyone knows that.

Does free energy have to be efficient? No, it's free, it just have to be distributed better.

Why aren't the names of the supposed scientists not under their photo? Trump's USA, some idiot would shoot them.

Better answers would be appreciated, because I'm the smartest bloke in my admittedly daft social circle but they deserve good news.

Is this really good news? Great news? Positive news?

It's a great article, I just need help explaining it.

I, for one, don't mind the kWH v kW mistook, it happens and I can explain that to my even stupider friends. "But how many homes in Wales can it power?"

Googlers demand abortion searches ‘never be saved or treated as a crime’

Re: Free tampons! Get yer free tampons here!

The experience is not mine, it's my nation's experience doing the right thing.

All you other nations should hang your heads in shame - nearly all of you still tax tampons, WTF is that about, it's not a luxury product!

Put it this way for the guys here, if you bled out your bum once a month then free, or at least untaxed, tampons may seem a better idea.

Those wee lassies are your daughters, nieces, cousins. Show them some decency.

Free tampons! Get yer free tampons here!

This is a wee bit off topic but I never thought I'd ever I'd have a chance to post it here, so please indulge me.

The often/sometimes fairly funny US comedy programme 'The Daily Show' just led on Scotland being the first nation to provide free period products in schools, hospitals, well, everywhere. I knew that last year but I'm so proud we did it first. Finland will be jealous.

As an anarchist it's increasingly hard to hate my parliament, and that is my role in life.

Why is the rest of the world still punishing poor girls just for being girls? Men wouldn't like to charged for toilet paper in public toilets. I assume because 'Big Tampon' is lobbying Westminster and Washington.

It's terrible what is happening in the USA, it shows up the flaws in their elderly and befuddled constitution which doesn't mention abortion. I guess it doesn't mention tampons in the bill of rights - but it should.

All people are created equal, not just all men.

Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

Re: Helium

Nah, I eventually, reluctantly disagree. She is a published biologist, one of the wee ones like micro or molecular, and you are an AC so I take her word for it over yours.

I think your error may lie in your word 'slug'. I've read about it since you posted and you don't get a slug from a tank, you get a blast. Unless you are trying to kill yourself with a funny voice then I would recommend starting with a balloon. And even then, the tank is lined with carcinogenic oil, so maybe just dinnae dae that at all. Learn a joke instead.

Re: Helium

I was at a funeral with a tank of helium that me and my equally stupid and self-destructive pal tried to suck out of, to no effect. I told that anecdote last month to my demonstrably smarter - published papers - first love. "Tank must have been empty or you would have died instantly."

Way to ruin an anecdote girl!

My mum is missing my dad much more than I am. I'm going to hug her next time we are both on our feet at the same time, so maybe next week.

I just forced her to cancel her sports channels and I realised why that was so difficult for her, because they for dad. Plus she's fallen in love with Mo Salah.

Apologies to Callum from Manchester for her/him sounding like a 32 year old girl. My hearing is not great, but it's better than mum's.

"You just chatted up a bloke."

"Shut up, I just chatted up a bloke and got your bill halved. Maybe if you still could chat up a bloke then I wouldn't have to".

£131 a month is not okay for anything. Got it down to £56 after berating Karen from Manchester. Turned out to be Callum from Manchester.

I am not okay with this whole transgender thing, I am still battling with my misogyny, my racism and, och, I've forgot the other thing. Oh, homophobia.

NASA selects 'full force' for probe into UFOs

Re: Again?!

They have to do it again because Trump stole the original Blue Book documents! The fact he took them to Mars on Lago is very suspicious.

The corollary of aliens stopping electronics and electrical systems is people freak out under unfamiliar stress.

I was in a mass car crash once, and the police congratulated me on my driving since I was the only one who hadn't crashed. They asked what I saw and then they told me I was wrong, every other witness disagreed. "Aye, and you're assuming the people who crashed are more reliable witnesses?" Deniers. That is a very long anecdote that I'll spare you the rest.

I drove under a UFO once and nearly stalled the car because I was slowing down on a slope to gawp at and listen to the UFO. If the car had stalled then I'd may have passed out, and then imagined all sorts. I presume a Derren Brown wannabe with a blimp drone.

I could have shot the UFO with a shotgun but a gun licence requires a reason and someone to sign off on it. "To shoot UFOs" didn't seem a plausible reason even in my neck of the woods. That is a very long anecdote that I'll spare you, and more importantly me, the rest.

My tribute to Professor Josef Allen Hynek

I wrote him a letter when I was seven, and he had the exceptional decency to reply.

I'd bought his book, "The UFO experience : a scientific inquiry" - and any book was a lot of money for seven year olds.

I told him many adults around here had seen UFOs up close, and me and my mates had seen them in the sky. I asked him to send us money to buy binoculars and we'd monitor them at night, form a group and spread the word. He didn't send me money of course, the bastard, him being a professor and me being in primary three. He was so charming and encouraging though, and his books were wonderful to read. I don't know if it was ironic but "The UFO experience : a scientific inquiry" was in a Blue Book cover.

BT union announces 48-hour strike action in protest over pay

The U word

I grew up walking my dog to picket lines, just because. I started work in era and a place where simply saying the U word was instant dismissal. I worked in one factory where I was nicknamed "International Hero of the People", sarcastically of course, simply for standing up for my rights - not even other peoples rights.

It's rarely just about money, it's mostly about respect, something that British management have failed to learn. I don't have a dog now, can't really walk now, but I wish these workers well. The gross level of inequality and poverty is not just unfair and unjust, it's unacceptable and unsustainable.

Starlink satellite dish cracked on stage at Black Hat

voltage fault injection

As a teenager I burst into a boardroom meeting about the computer board I'd designed demanding they didn't sell it because it went on fire.

This put a dampener on a previously stellar career, The board didn't go on fire unless I put ten times the power it was designed for. Faulty multimeter. Technically their fault for not checking their test equipment, admittedly my fault too for not checking my test equipment, but the whole panic thing was just normal teenage hormones after I'd been through a few house fires.

My next project was designing cables. I kind of merited that. None of them went on fire.

Russian invasion has dangerously destabilized cyber security norms

@Stork

"I think it was Estonia that was on the receiving end of a Russian cyber attack in supposedly peaceful times."

Probably, maybe, but Estonia was also subject to a USA NSA attack. In peacetime!

They are a famously digital society, their citizenship card is chipped by one of the Gem off shoots. It allows them access to all sorts of things. Futuristic. But dystopian too because the NSA had already hacked Gem.

Edward Snowden is a saint and it's a sin we leave him in hellish Moscow.

Re: Okay, so we've cut Russia off of Swift

Pascal,

Sadly we haven't yet cut the Russian Federation off of SWIFT. I've been arguing here that we should but Gazprombank is still connected. Even though Gazprom is nominally sanctioned, Gazprombank isn't. Why? Don't let's be beastly to the Germans.

Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon

Origins of life

I was trying to breed tens of thousands of cockroaches to invade and destroy Britain's nuclear armed subs. Nobody approved of this but I needed to know how.

My niece had a zoology degree, probably still has, so I asked her how to breed tens of thousands of cockroaches. "Well, you take a little boy cockroach and you take a little girl cockroach, and..."

BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?

Re: Won't somebody think of the scientists?

Taking the 5th, Horseman,

Thankin you for 'apposite'. My new word of the day. I learned all of my grammar and most of my vocabulary in forums such as this. I constantly correct everyone else because that is how I learned, not my teachers. My worst mistakes were getting some words exactly the wrong way around. Bipartisan, prurient, and worse. I still can't say phenomena, still can't spell it either. Still get angry and embarrassed when folk point that out. Fe No Men Ah.

I reread my original post that you downvoted, that nine others downvoted, and it still looks perfectly reasonable to me despite the disdain. A respected and worthy Scottish scientist is arguing against internet anonymity, and I disagree. I would argue for internet anonymity in all cases. Maybe I made that argument a bit jokey, or on the wrong thread, but honestly that is one of my better posts. I know, I ken...

"What you write is both original and good, but what is good is not original, and what is original is not good" - and that's not even an accurate quote.

Re: Won't somebody think of the scientists?

Well, thank you for your care and concern and apologies for worrying you. You are obviously a nice guy. I first came close to suicide when I was nine, next when I was thirty three, not since - but failure is always an option.

It's a BOFH article, comedy essentially, I didn't know I could go off topic. Honestly though I do go off topic on serious articles all the time lately so your downvote is valid if misplaced,

I've been on the internet since the mid eighties, haven't slipped off it for long, and I've rarely seen a good person fall. All too often they just disappear which is scarier. Everyone just forgets them. They're dead, they died! So do we all.

I bore myself lately. I can't keep up with the tech in these articles, but I can tell you one thing - you don't have to regret downvoting me, you can always upvote me. Smiley face.

Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the throat yesterday. Overrated author, but not his throat! I think we should make it illegal to stab any throat even your own. I don't like to think about it but if you ever have to stab me, shoulder blade, left shoulder preferably. Not my throat.

Won't somebody think of the scientists?

Devi Sridhar has been a guiding light throughout Covid, calm, rational and informative. The best thing in Scotland since, well, hills and rain? We don't have much going for us. I admit it, I love her and will fight any of you for the chance to kiss her feet.

She just mucked up seriously today by asking for an end to internet anonymity because a scientist was driven to suicide by internet trolls. No, Devi, no. Trolls don't drive you to suicide, only family and friends can.

"I know a lot about that subject, but I know nothing about this subject I'm about to pontificate upon."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/12/scientist-taken-own-life-health-workers-covid

Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault

Re: It’s your TVs fault, sir

Weather conditions in west Sussex?

I have a hose, I've been watering a garden, I even spilled a little on myself. It's a warm garden today but it's very moist. I could send you a video of me hosing the garden.

I trolled my sister in London with a hosepipe video yesterday. End of the Edinburgh Festival we are searching all English and Welsh visitors for stolen water. West Sussex, northern Sahara.

Why you should start paying attention to CXL now

Tim, nice but DIMM

This article could be a joke / trap article for all I know. Sorry to admit that. Even the comments here are just over my head. Way over. I still like reading them and I don't want to continue polluting the comment section, but all I can add is when I used to have to embed photos of SIMMs into Word documents to train my colleagues.

I was not only unjustly made redundant, I am now wholly justly redundant. I didn't expect the IT industry to stop with me, I'm glad you didn't and I do salute your progress. Just didn't expect to be a technophobe at my age and am unsure what career to pursue now. Maybe typewriter tech, maybe PC gardener.

I just watched '13 Lives' on Amazon - an English IT guy saves 13 lives. Sorry, spoiler alert. Tech angle: How much did paedo-guy Elon Musk pay to buy a US court? Just enough.

I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye

Goodbye!

I'm glad to go I cannot tell a lie

I flit I float

I fleetly flee I fly

The sun has gone to bed and so must I

Taiwanese military reports DDoS in wake of Pelosi visit

Re: Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping?

@GandolphCN

"He actually believed it ffs"

Robert A Heinlein pointed out even the worst people think they are good, or at least justified in being bad. You need to know that to negotiate with them.

I can't give you an exact quote because his novels were very long and I've lost them.

Clarkson feels loved and respected because he lunches with Cameron and earns loads from Amazon. He has no idea that anyone except for 'leftie snowflakes' loathe him. Very reminiscent of the Alex Jones trial.

It's a corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Mixed through rose tinted bubble headphone feedback.

O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us

To see oursels as others see us!

It wad frae monie a blunder free us

An’ foolish notion:

What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,

And ev’n devotion!

The anonymous upvote/downvote button here is a good, if often cutting, tool.

ETA: I was in a jail cell with six other guys, and spraffed about how my psycho ex had gt me there. One guy, one of the more moderate and social, said she sounded great. I explained how narcissists are damaging, and he replied that his girl wasn't like that, she loved him - even though she'd stabbed him in his throat.

"See, that's exactly what I am talking about. Your lover stabbing you in your throat is a classic warning signal."

Anti-piracy messaging may just encourage more piracy

Temptation - New Order

I just saw the official video at the time. It shows a girl stealing the New Order Temptation 12", which was just out. I mean mixed messages, right?

"Oh you've got green pants, oh, you've got blue pants, oh, you've got grey pants"

Ani Difranco worded it best

She released her own stuff on her own label, with the message,

"Home recording, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing."

It both gave permission to copy her work, and guilt-tripped you into buying it.

Lockheed Martin wins $213m contract to update F-35 datacenter

eff-35s

I am the only engineer I knew who never worked in defence, but their stories are funny.

Like when the Tornado nose cone was filled by concrete because the electronics designed to fit in their were imperial measurements, rather than metric. The concrete was fr alance Effing Ferranti strikes again. I'd rename myself too after that devastating error.

US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations

@Dr Syntax - "more radioactive"

The stuff in the media is that wee nuclear produces thirty five times more waste per kilowatt.

That is not coming from anti-nukes like me, how would we know or even care, that must be big-nuke on wee-nuke propaganda.

Do you realise how cheap and quick wind and solar is now? The nuke cartels are no longer opponents. The oil cartels have just shot their load.

Please do come back when you have a risk free, cheap fission.

Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you

Re: Don't know about that

@mmccul

I've forgot something I learned decades ago, maybe you could prompt my memory. It was a style of language where you never say anything definitively, instead you speak neutrally. So, I think you are wrong becomes I think you may be wrong, or my mother ran down your dog becomes it appears my mother may have run down your dog. It was designed to take some sting out of language and make normal conversation more scientific.

I remember I used to have a good memory.

Re: So?

@Dr Scrum Master

"the rigmarole of applying and being interviewed"

And paying expenses!

I was sent to Dell in Limerick, which sounds lovely but is a Game of Thrones / Lord of the Rings hellish village. First question, "The average age here is twenty seven, do you really think you could fit in?"

Well, not any more I don't. I was thirty two.

"I've always found the best environments included a wide range age of workers, from learners to teachers."

Wrong answer, the correct answer would have been, "But I'm twenty six!"

And they didn't pay me my travel or horrid B&B costs.

I told this tale to my future employers, all far older than me and who all stopped buying Dell.

Cost me a bit of cash but I reckon I dodged a bullet.

Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies

UK news media take on the kiss

Basically it wasn't a kiss, it was a sexual assault. Numerous news readers here have hinted or joked about that which shows how our meandering morals are changing.

I have to admit upon learning of her close friendship with Martin Luther King, MLK was a known womaniser that the unknown trans John Edgar Hoover FBI tried to blackmail him with.

She was a wonderful woman, and like other people have said, she let me grow up where I didn't notice race and assume we could all work together like humans.

Sadly today we can't risk Chekov on the bridge, put him in the brig.

Re: A giant

Alright, enough about her dress. For a start every other female Star Fleet wore exactly the same uniform. RAF uniforms were far sexier.

Yes, in the mid '90s many women including techies wore far shorter skirts to work, they were called 'micro skirts' if memory serves me. And memory does serve me on that topic. Your combination of prudishness and prurience has ruined that for the rest of us.

And to dampen your libido, apostrophes go before the decade, not after. It's the 'nineties, ('90s) not the ninetie's (90's). The apostrophe is there to indicate the lack of the 'nineteen' in nineteen nineties.

I don't mean to come across all John Cleese school master in The Meaning of Life, but don't start on the clitoris boys, start with good punctuation.

Preparing for Skylab: The separate 1972 experimental mission that never left the ground

Re: A floating ball of urine?

Thanks for the advice AC,

Poverty is a very complicating factor. I haven't ate at a restaurant in over twenty years and doubt I ever will again - shredded wheat would be the equivalent to a meal out.

For decades I've eaten well. I grew some of my best food at an allotment until I was too weak to walk there recently. I'd look down at my big belly so didn't consider malnutrition until an old friend called me emaciated so I weighed myself. I am both round and skinny, the worst combination.

I've stopped getting worse and am very slowly getting better. I've got two poverty cheques from the council / Scottish government that I haven't been able to cash, now to be sent to my phone which will help greatly. First purchase, spectacles that work! I recently got a magnifying glass and found I've been taking the wrong pills for months. I'm sure you'd advise me to take the correct medication. I see the escape route but feel / am besieged on all sides. My problems are legion and my allies are, well, wishing me well.

Re: A floating ball of urine?

Ta Jake,

Genuinely appropriated.

The section from "Defecation in space was complicated by..." to "space diets, and to Skylab workloads" is something I've been pondering a lot over the past year.

I'd trade my best sexual experiences for a normal sized poo delivered in a normal manner, my best experiences now are in the bathroom not the bedroom. Considered a vacuum cleaner nozzle at one point but didn't want to risk a prolapse.

I grew to hate the US children's propaganda book, "Everybody Poops" - aye, lucky wee kids can. I've been ill for the last year, various symptoms that I assumed wrongly were a disease. A teenage looking A&E doctor diagnosed, "Weakness and weight loss - muscle loss due to malnutrition. Shooting pains in your legs - lower back injury. Constipation - that's just tough shit I'm afraid."

British doctors often become comedians.

She didn't prescribe anything to help so I went for Guinness and prunes, the natural remedy.

What do you want from The Register?

More of this, but with photos - or it didn't happen!

I'd love to see a The Register channel on cable TV to record this for posterity. There's a fair chance future Britons wouldn't be able to read text beyond emojis, and video is their only record of how they got there is El Reg TV.

How bad could it be? It'd certainly be better than 99% of the Freeview channels. It'd be more informative than BBC Click. Remember BBC Open University after midnight? I'd sit there for hours watching stuff I didn't understand just because it was interesting.

Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market

Joke not ahead

I came here to post a joke about the phrase "mildly flammable refrigerants", as I've survived three house fires and none of the flames were mild.

It was a dark joke admittedly, I would have went on about the US media articles questioning why Britons don't have air conditioning, but hell, it was a very short path to eugenics.

Some of you people are obviously too hot, as in hot headed. Don't come to Scotland please, we are overflowing with English now in our balmy 21°. Californians, go to Canada to cool off.

Me, I'm betting on thermoelectrics.

Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm

Dob me in, but cut me in

I was a peace protester when local cops were offering peace protesters vast sums of cash to grass each other up. Like £10k, but that was vast for us. Everyone was getting more paranoid than usual, especially the already paranoid dope smokers.

My salve was to offer anyone who grassed me up forgiveness, as long as they gave me a fair share of the filth's filthy lucre, I did get grassed up, didn't get my share - like a snitch is going to play fair.

I find it discouraging that the US is offering to swap a weapons dealer "Lord of War" for a basketball player. What was she doing playing in a mafia state?

@Version 1.0

"Conservative and Republican attitudes back in the 60's and earlier were "right-wing" but they were busy supporting their inhabitants of each country, not just the politicians - they were generally just good people"

Mmm. '60s? The invasion of Vietnam. The carpet bombing of Cambodia. The genocide in Indonesia. Death squads in Central America. Assassinations in South America. Coups left, right and centre against leftists, rightists and centrists. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent victims.

Mandela arrested. Lumumba burnt. Countless US citizens murdered in the US by the US state.

Generally good people? Since you obviously don't read any history then please read The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Or, there is an excellent TV series based on it. There is also an excellent 2012 documentary film about the genocide in Indonesia called The Act of Killing, which interviews mass murderers who all believe they were "generally just good people".

No, I'm not a commie.

Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads

Remember software engineers read here too

NAND is shorthand for not and. The rules of logic you read about on computers, we built into those computers. i could explain De Morgans law to you, but I couldn't.

Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area

What, no nukes?

Space debris isn't what it used to be. When Skylab fell from the sky we were warned even if it hit somewhere like Slough it could set off automated ICBMs and kill us all.

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

It isn't fit for humans now,

There isn't grass to graze a cow.

Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens

Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,

Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,

Tinned minds, tinned breath.

This was published just three years before Slough was bombed by the Nazis.Sixty bombs, two hundred and seventy dead. Betjeman, you were well out of order.

My Big Coin founder is – you guessed it – a $6m crypto-fraudster

Re: Bewre the dead cat bounce

"I wondered who had been crashing the market lately. You should be ashamed of yourself!"

I had inflation explained to me by my Dutch ex. She told me to buy a stolen bike at Junkie Bridge, but to pay no more than 15 guilders for it or everyone would hate me for bumping up the going rate. I paid 30 guilders - £10. She was a tad annoyed. "Well, it is a mountain bike I suppose. We don't have mountains."

I'd asked her how I could tell a junkie selling a stolen bike from any other Dutch cyclist. "They are junkies, they look like you." Cruel, but I did ride the crest of heroin chic in the art scene so fair dos.

What if a junkie steals my bike? "Then get the tram to junkie bridge and buy it back before they sell it."

I had a bike in each city I worked in so I could get off the train and commute. Took twenty minutes to identify it out of the pile of thousands of other bikes. A neighbour welded purple steel antlers to their bike, very identifiable but hardly safe.

Re: Bewre the dead cat bounce

@Foxglove

You have £2k spare to kill me? I could chip in £20 for that. Can't afford Dignitas, I doubt you even know killers but I could put you in touch.

I could borrow £2k to kill you. What's more, we could sell this to Amazon Prime Video. You are Ryan Gosling, I'm Billy Bob Thorton. I just like him.

My eyes are bad, my mouse needs new batteries, my cat needs treats. I have cigarettes and no lighter. I have no mouth and I must scream.

How about a fist to fist?

Aviation body wants views on rocket plans of Virgin Orbit

HEAT APOCALYPSE!

Remember that headline from a few days ago? Hottest day ever, all that guff. Summer of '76 and I'd lie in the garden and once an hour a plane would fly overhead, a novelty. You'd look up. Now, once every hour there isn't a plane overhead. You have to wear noise-cancelling earphones

I blame the Greens, and the XRs. They now what they are doing. They all fly abroad to see the world before it is destroyed - well, stop destroying it!

Eff off with your space flights. Robots with a useful mission or go to hell. Ban all luxury space flights, and then ban nearly all flights.

Big Oil v The World - iPlayer

Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected

Re: $110,140 is not much in US...

@Pete B

Pro-independence Scot, not party affiliated, loathe the Tories and blame them for everything, even genital warts.

Health care is devolved, but funding for healthcare like all Scottish funding comes from a portion of what your budget is. Plus what we scrape together from other budgets. Last year we gave our nurses 4.5%, while you gave yours a clap every Thursday. 4.5% is nothing now, what can I do? I give nurses and porters lifts to the hospital. I give them chocolates and wine.

I've lived in Europe, and the healthcare was far better in the Netherlands, Germany and France. Saddening, but true. I feel the four nations of the UK should double the amount we spend on healthcare, to US levels.