Posts by TRT

Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight!

Re: LIMIT 1 before running an SQL statement

You can also LIMIT 0.

Did the outgoing Senior DBA ...

get a golden parachute?

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

This gammon and pineapple pizza lark...

All sounds a bit 70s to me. I prefer a chicken in a basket or scampi and chips pizza. Though the calzone cocktail sausage, cheese cube and pickled onion hedgehog does have appeal.

Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite

Re: Ah, the good ol' days

Whereas the future, for us all, holds old age which isn't just a another country, it's a whole other continence.

Grant Shapps named UK defense supremo in latest 'tech-savvy' Tory tale

Re: Question

Apologies to whichever author I forgot who wrote something that I read and inspired this, but Penny who is good with swords ought to learn to swallow them. And then it's just a simple matter to swap the 'S' from the start of sword to the end for it to become a useful skill for a politician.

Re: Question

Excuse me... that's 37 words.

Re: We're doomed

We're doomed, Captain Mainwaring. Doomed.

Re: Xitter...

I see it as Chi - itter. As in Chitter-chatter.

Which doesn't deny the fact it IS shitter.

Pokémon Go was a 'success disaster' and Niantic is still chasing another hit

I don't know if I should upvote you or downvote you... "hostility to rooted phones"... have you ever tried playing Ingress when there's a spoofer active? The international and local coordinations required to put a multi-layered blue field over most of Europe... whilst some incel just sits in their bedroom and spoils all that effort through spoofing... boils my blood.

Re: Any chance

That would be very popular. Make a fortune if they offered an incentive to sign up... like free cake maybe. Everyone loves free cake.

I feel sorry...

for Mongo. Must be utterly fed up of being poked these last few years.

Re: The buzz has worn off

I would still be playing Ingress if V2 hadn't changed the UI so badly that I can't use it without putting on reading glasses, which is kind of annoying for an on the move game.

BOFH: What a beautiful tinfoil hat, Boss!

Re: I am sure

Fresh air... will keep you fit and healthy for the rest of your life. No matter how short that might be.

UK flights disrupted by 'technical issue' with air traffic computer system

Re: It's an impressive sight

Holding over the outer marker?

Re: It's DNS

I think it's too much of a coincidence that it was also the first day of operation of the new funkily named air carrier ;( Drop Table Flights;)

Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves

Random PLA

That's one way to get rid of the Hot Pink filament mountain in the corner of the warehouse.

Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk

Sounds familiar

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

They encrept into the encrypt, encrapped, then encrept out again.

Re: The Reg goes all EFF, yet again

And kittens.

Re: The simple solution which surely only fools cannot recognise or realise

There were, but the powder was white, not black.

Re: "Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear."

The secret seems to be in the haircut.

Re: Not holding my breath

I've forgotten... what was this article about?

Re: Computer MOT

Thank goodness 10 is your lowest supported version. My version number is much higher... 95.

Re: Computer MOT

"The issue was that a car had hit the green box at the end of the road,"

There's one round here that where that sentence would be followed by "yet again."

Re: Computer MOT

Yes. The engine had already cut out, and the ignition wouldn't even turn it over.

Re: Not holding my breath

Well there WAS the ECDL... so a logical step to have an eMOT, and then comes excise duty of course, and the Information SuperTollRoad.

Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin

Re: patterns with regression-based decoding models.

Sky Arts showed the David Bowie self-promo video "Love You 'til Tuesday" on Sunday. That's a 20 minute trip to Tripsville. Even has the original video for Space Oddity in it.

Re: Sounds like...

I noticed it in the CD section of Brighton library whilst browsing one day, way back in 1987. Saw the names... borrowed the disk... was enchanted by the utter lunacy, humour and charm of it. Over the years, whenever I remember, I try to get the DVD of the film. Haven't succeeded yet.

Sounds like...

music from The Body.

BOFH: Zen and the art of battery replacement

Re: Danger of escalation alert

You're thinking of the one with 1.21 jigawatts

Re: Danger of escalation alert

Third party liability cover.

Ah. Their special lunar excursion project. It certainly wasn't a moon LANDING.

Cruise self-driving taxi gets wheels stuck in wet cement

Re: Wet concrete

A human would be tempted to write their name in it with a stick.

Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again

Re: Perhaps facial recognition isn't the issue

And the evidence goes further, m'lud. The defendant was identified from the CCTV images using a facial recognition algorithm.

A facial recognition algorithm?

Yes, m'lud. It's the practical application of an electronic system for rapidly scanning a collection of photographs of known offenders in order to identify a probable suspect.

Is it now? How fascinating. Amazing what they can do nowadays. Please, continue...

Thank you, m'lud. After being picked up by the police officers the defendant was found to be in possession of a deluxe model inflatable companion, whatever that is.

The deluxe model is the one with the genuine hair and realistic skin-feel.

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

Re: Estate agents

I once went to view a house that was described as having "An enormous potential"... Turns out there was a national grid pylon in the back garden.

Hm

An articulate, thought provoking and insightful article. Plenty of explanation, well written.

Obviously by an AI, so I don't believe a word of it.

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

You could stand there helpfully shouting PIVOT! at random intervals as they try to get it up the stairs.

Or alternatively materialise, say, a professor's office on a landing part way up the returning staircase and open the door so they could make the first turn before dematerialising again, leaving some poor chump to create a 3D computer simulation model to work out how to either get the now stuck object all the way up or how to get it back down again without cutting it up into smaller pieces.

Re: This sounds familiar

Good lord. I worked on one of those in a factory in Trafford Park in 1982 as a youth doing a one week work experience. The factory wasn't by any chance making tasty meat products was it?

Re: We had a similar incident

Not to mention the sudden change in load which, between floors, shouldn't happen. In some designs of lift it's possible to stop it between floors just by a couple of people (or one hefty person) jumping simultaneously up in the air and landing heavily. Well within the total tolerance etc but the RAMP is what's important.

BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!

Re: I miss Infocom...

You wake up.

The room is spinning very gently around your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it, which you can't.

It is pitch black.

> inv

You have:

a splitting headache

no tea.

Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries

Re: Floating drone

Except if someone programmes in a Kolvoord Starburst...

Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

Tried it.

Hate it.

What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

Re: Sniffing joss sticks.

Especially ones described as "elan musk".

Re: An X Man

Was it a musky smell?

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

In terms of modularly connecting a device...

Why does this design smack of a wired connection? I mean, a dongle that plugs into a standardised connector e.g. USB and enables a wireless interface with the iPad / screen that can then be mounted to meet the user's convenience. It shocks me how similar things like the Tesla in car display is very much a tablet on an articulated holder. The lifespan of a tablet is what? 3-5 years? Of a car, 30 years to be conservative. A row of automotive rocker switches that can be serviced easily - 50 years plus. Replace / upgrade the computing component of a car... now you're taking a break from disposable consumer tech. Question is, do you actually need to do that? Apple's forays into mounting things are very limited. It's mostly up to third party suppliers to do innovative cases and mounts. That's all I see this as. There was a modular mobile phone mooted a few years ago.

Infineon to offer recyclable circuit boards that dissolve in water

I was going to say this is ridiculous but...

It actually seems quite a good idea. It would take time to prove, I think, and obviously there are going to be snags and non-use cases. But hm.... interesting.

Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings

Re: Real Sanitizers

Seven and a half million years old in fact.

And THAT'S just from waiting for it to complete booting to the Windows 11 desktop.

Re: Real Sanitizers

You could always, you know, fashion a pair of Thai sticks into curling tongs or something.

Re: Real Sanitizers

And telephone sanitisers are mentioned in episode 6 of the TV series. There's a "dead" one in the first hibernation pod that Ford and Arthur come across.

Re: Real Sanitizers

You mean The BBC TV Series? The radio series was a BBC series.