* Posts by TRT

9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009

Now that's taking the p... Sewage plant 'hacked' to craft crypto-coins

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Re: Hmmmmm... Yuck

Efflereum.

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Re: Hmmmmm... Yuck

Shitcoin.

Uber: Ah yeah, we pay women drivers less than men. We can explain!

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Re: Here's a link for a UK article on it ...

Rule 698.

@Twilight: You can't cite the Daily Fail as an authoritative source. Unless you're trolling or being ironic or otherwise messing around. Seriously; don't. Provably wrong... it's the best laugh I've had on this thread.

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overtaken by a boy racer...

At least one has the satisfaction of being able to think "I bet they'll end up wrapped round a tree before I get home".

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Speaking as...

someone who competes for contracts to repair damaged vehicles and provide finance for additional warranties and can comment on sex-bias in the industry...

That would mean I would be a fender bender mender, gender lender extender looking to tender.

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Piece work, then. Does that pan out in the traditional factory lines where women dominated?

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARS: SpaceX parks a Tesla in orbit (just don't mention the barge)

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Re: Could Musk be more of an anglophile?

Furry dice hanging from the mirror and "Gaz & Shaz" printed on a turquoise vinyl windscreen sticker?

No check. Fail.

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Re: Hey Mac, you can't park that there!

Truly a red dwarf.

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Re: Park the car at a Lagrange point...

IF... he took along enough change for the parking meteor, of course.

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The photos do show a flat Earth, though.

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Re: SpaceX can't do it

Space Embassy.

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Re: guacamule

Donkey?

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Re: Wonder if the Tesla will outlast the Voyager probes?

With that elliptical heliocentric orbit, it's likely to unwind into a sort of a coil in space. A Tesla coil.

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Re: 50 years.

Would they be friendly letters, by any chance?

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Created by humans indeed...

Created by ROBOTS more like.

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He's only going forwards, 'cos he still can't find reverse.

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Start firing their flamethrowers into the air as a salute?

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Re: Julian Assange

So Assange at Lagrange.

It's not a joke if one has to explain it.

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Re: GCU Arbitrary

It was, however a roadster. AKA a spyder. On Mars.

Excellent.

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Re: Could Musk be more of an anglophile?

The absolute give away, though, is if his car doesn't run on petrol, or if it doesn't run on gas.

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Re: Julian Assange

What does the 'L' in 'L1' & 'L2' stand for?

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Re: Academics

Simulated payload.

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Re: GPS

Marvin the Martian: You should've turned left at Albuquerque...

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The Mighty Zog...

Will be most pleased with the delivery of his new vehicle.

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I can just imagine the scene now at control centre...

Well, that was a success.

Time to go home. I'll just get my key... oh.

Hey, guys! Anyone give me a lift home? Guys? Fellas?* Hey! Come on.... it's a long walk to the bus stop.

*In the entirely genderless sense of course.

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Re: Julian Assange

Park the car at the exact point of gravitational balance between the Earth and the Moon?

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Re: Academics

Surf board on the back.

Benson Arizona as track 2 on the CD player 8-track.

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Re: Excessive cheering

Have the crowd say 'Wop' instead?

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Re: Great Headline, Register

Will he stop to pick up hitch-hikers?

What did we say about Tesla's self-driving tech? SpaceX Roadster skips Mars, steers to asteroids

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Re: Asteroid belt?

Has he got enough change for the parking meteor?

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Re: no one has mentioned

Hey! Who turned out the lights?

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Re: Missed opportunity

Underground, overground...

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Re: I'm Impressed!

Hey, it did the Tesla run in under 12 parsecs.

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What do you do if you see a spaceman...

Park in it, man.

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ASA tells Poundland and its teabagging elf: Enough with the smutty social ninja sh*t

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Re: But a gaggle of women...

This p.o.s.

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...ads that aren't remotely funny or clever

well you see the problem started when they got the quote from the advertising agency...

How much?

Pound.

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But a gaggle of women...

viewing a buff male undressing to take a bath from behind a one-way mirror is clearly neither voyeuristic nor offensive.

Pff!

Boffins crack smartphone location tracking – even if you've turned off the GPS

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Re: Curious...

You sure that's barometer and not bar-o-meter, the pub crawl app?

MPs: Lack of technical skills for Brexit could create 'damaging, unmanageable muddle'

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Create?

Worsen, surely.

Ghost in the DCL shell: OpenVMS, touted as ultra reliable, had a local root hole for 30 years

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Re: When men were real men

And the instruction manual came in a box larger than the system itself.

Yes. I recall the grey wall.

Long haul flights on a one-aisle plane? Airbus thinks you’re up for it

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Re: 9h with ScumBag Air seat spacing

The thing with Hajj air is all are equal before Allah, so you're ALL going cattle camel class.

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Re: The Golden Age of flying is over

There's some little wedges that you can buy that stops the seat in front reclining. The occupier just thinks the mechanism's broken or non-existent.

‘I crashed a rack full of servers with my butt’

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If a particularly long and sticky out mains lever switch...

Gets caught up your butt crack, does it cause a brown out?

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Re: D'oh

Eat a Snickers.

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Re: VIP visitors

Dennis was THERE to take the blame. That was his job.

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Re: College students...

What about 10Base-5? The tripping snake.

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College students...

stretching their legs out under the desk was a frequent cause of problems as toes pulled out power leads, keyboard and mouse cables variously.I had told them that proper cantilever desks with cabling trays were required rather than reusing the old 4-leg plain top wooden tables that had been there since 1953.

A tiny Ohio village turned itself into a $3m speed-cam trap. Now it has to pay back the fines

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Bunch of cowboys and cops.

And sailors, builders and Native American Indians.

Disengage, disengage! Cali DMV reports show how often human drivers override robot cars

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Re: Paradoxically, yes

20 years on from the advent of the fully automatic self-driving car, how will the next generation of learner driver acquire enough experience to be able to hold a driving licence?