Re: "......the mine had closed."
Nothing a bag of rice won't fix!
Posts by LoPath
106 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2009
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer
NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice
Boffins hear Martian dust devils' rumbles for first time
Huge nonprofit hospital network suffers IT meltdown after 'security incident'
Friday 14th October 2022 18:36 GMT 
Downplayed
I took my wife to the walk-in clinic on Wednesday. They said "oh, our computers are down" when we checked in. Absolutely every aspect of the visit was done on paper. Even left with a handwritten prescription and a work note, also written on a prescription pad. Her simple 15 minute visit resulted in a pile of at least 10 pages. Somebody's going to be very busy doing manual inputs if they ever get their computer systems back online.
Amazon's Roomba acquisition gets caught on FTC's rug
Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC
Russian anti-satellite test added to a 'pressing threat to security' in space
NASA to send prototype robot surgeon into space
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles
Schneider and Dell integrate UPS, HCI for graceful shutdown
Tuesday 5th July 2022 16:09 GMT
Generator failure?
But what if your generator fails to start? That's when your UPS runtime is put to the test. Where I'm at, we have about 50-60 minutes of runtime. That's just barely enough time to drive to the site, do a quick diagnosis, and fire up the generator. If the generator doesn't start, well then...
Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash
Thursday 23rd June 2022 19:27 GMT
Re: So when one of these things is junked ...
When I was in the military, our unit would go through a boatload of lithium batteries that were used in radios. Each battery had a discharge button on them, that would put a resistor across the battery to discharge it slowly and completely. We'd typically mash the button and load up 40-50 of them in a connex and come back in a week with a voltmeter to check that they were discharged fully. If they were, great. Into the trash as "commercial waste". If they wouldn't discharge, they'd have to go into a hazmat barrel and turned in for recycling. Every once in a while, one would catch on fire, but they wouldn't burn up the connex. We'd just have to shovel out all of the molten batteries and chuck them into another hazmat barrel! Totally safe! :D
If AI chatbots are sentient, they can be squirrels, too
Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping
Boston Dynamics spends months training its Atlas robots to perform one minute of parkour almost perfectly
Spacey McSpaceface: Artemis takes shape ahead of '2021' launch – but first you need to name the crash-test dummy
Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract worth 'up to $22bn'
Space station dumps 2.9-ton battery pack to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after hardware upgrade
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol
Malware attack that crippled Mumbai's power system came from China, claims infosec intel outfit Recorded Future
Hundreds of Facebook moderators complain: AI content moderation isn't working and we're paying for it
Tuesday 24th November 2020 14:31 GMT
Re: "There should be no question over either of those"
I knew a guy that used to do background investigations for the US Dept of Defense. His job was to go to people's houses and interview them. They would interview the employee and their relatives, friends, business associates, etc. He told many stories about weirdos inviting him down to their basement, answering the door in a bathrobe, and other oddities.
Boeing Starliner commander Christopher Ferguson bows out of first crewed mission due to family commitments
Someone not only created a comment-spewing Reddit bot powered by OpenAI's GPT-3, it offered bizarre life advice
Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks
Wednesday 16th September 2020 14:37 GMT 
One on every corner
Many moons ago, I worked on a project for the Massachusetts State Police. It was strikingly odd and yet very noticeable that there was a Dunkin' Donuts within a block of every single police barracks in the state. And many of them were in strip malls right next door to a women's fitness center. Do you believe in coincidence?
Howdy, er, neighbor – mind if we join you? Potential sign of life spotted in Venus's atmosphere
Mate, it's the '90s. You don't need to be reachable every minute of every hour. Your operating system can't cope
'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport
Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m?
What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible
CompSci student bitten by fox after feeding it McNuggets
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
Wednesday 24th June 2020 13:34 GMT
Re: What do you think it is about
The first time I went to a Jimmy John's (sandwich shop), I went through the drive thru. On their menu, they have several sandwiches listed including toppings. Some of the toppings I didn't care for, such as brussel sprouts. I had the audacity to request a sandwich without the authorized toppings. I could hear in the order taker's voice that this was an extremely unusual request. In the end, didn't care much for the sandwich and never went back.
Intelsat orbital comms satellite is back online after first robo-recovery mounting and tug job gets it back into position
Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum
Wednesday 15th April 2020 14:00 GMT
Re: Possibly OTT on my part but..
Not sure about the treason part, but I agree, it's damaging critical infrastructure. These towers that are getting torched typically have a lot of equipment on them and the 5G equipment. So while you might be torching the 5G equipment, you're also torching everything else. Many towers share space with other carriers and some also include public safety radio equipment.
Apple: We respect your privacy so much we've revealed a little about what we can track when you use Maps
Apple bans COVID-19 games and restricts virus-related apps to authoritative souces
Austrian foreign ministry: 'State actor' hack on government IT systems is over
Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
Clunk, whirr, buzz, whine. Shared office space can be a riot and sounds like one too
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush
If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline
Blame of thrones: Those viral vids of PC monitors going blank when people stand up? Static electricity from chairs
Today's budget for application improvements is brought to you by the letters "Y", "K" and the number "2"
Tuesday 31st December 2019 14:36 GMT
Y2...um... okay?
Reminds me of when the US Dept of Defense when on their tizzy about getting everything Y2K compliant. Anything that plugged into an electrical outlet had to get a sticker. Anything found to be non-compliant got put on a spreadsheet for funding to replace it. I got to take a peek at that list for our base and saw that the medical squadron had a dozen VCR's on the list. Of course everyone got what they wanted... but I couldn't help but wonder if the clock on the VCR's would flash 13:00 instead of 12:00?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
