Posts by Olafthemighty

Watch your mirrors: Tesla Cybertrucks have 'Full' 'Self Driving' now

Re: Clearly not ready for unattended driving

Also, you'd need a C1 licence in the UK as they're too heavy to be driven on a standard driving licence.

Neuralink's AI brain chip could be in humans within six months claims Elon Musk

Re: What's the size?

Diameter is 0.1733 linguini (0.004 giraffes).

CAPSTONE mission is Moon-bound, after less rocketry than expected

@ Stork

You're absolutely right, and I think that would be more common. Luna is maybe more sciencey..?

Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...

Re: So Proteus....

With AI! Don't forget the AI!

Majority of Axon's AI ethics board resigns over CEO's taser drones

Re: Taser equipped drones

ISTR they were talking about having little hatches in the top of doors for the drones to fly through, conveniently forgetting that this might have subtle implications on fire-worthiness.

South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes

@Captain Scarlet

I worked for Severn Trent for several years sending gangs out to fix burst mains: it once took 15 holes to find the right pipe, despite the chap with the detector wandering around the place! The lack of awareness of the network as a whole is staggering, with leakage figures in megalitres per day.

Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on Windows 10X: OS designed for dual-screen PCs axed

"We are leveraging learnings from our journey thus far..."

I threw up in my mouth a bit and had to stop reading.

File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar

Re: Batterfly

If I could have given you 8 upvotes for that, I would. Bravo.

'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum

Re: Mishcon de Reya

Also after she was dead.

Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password

Winner?

Wiener, surely?

Google wants to listen in to whatever you get up to in hotel rooms

Re: Just unplug it

That's exactly what they want you to think...

Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour

Re: It communicates the vehicle's exact location to emergency services

Of course the car will forget! Right after we upload this data for <flip><flip> integrity testing..?

US govt proposes elephant showers for every American after Prez Trump says trickles dampen his haircare routine

"Actual real hair"

...and a girlfriend, but you wouldn't know her. She lives in... Montreal..?

Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness

I know not of these matters...

Is there a valid reason for one to perform such "equality checks"?

Apple: Don't close MacBooks with a webcam cover on, you might damage the display

Re: 0.1mm

You got one of the good ones then!

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Not dead yet!

Got it a couple of days ago (possibly. Not convinced I know what today is) and nothing's blown up or fallen off yet...

Latest bendy phone effort from coke empire spinoff Escobar Inc is a tinfoil-plated Samsung Galaxy Fold 'scam'

Re: A derisive snort

But it's so shiny!! Must be worth it.

600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims

"A handful of cops"..?

You have freakishly big hands.

Canadians moot methods to embiggen moose monument and make Mac great again

Re: Go on, laugh

Fingringhoe! It's in Essex, predictably enough.

There's just one month left 'til the big day: May 25... but don't panic!

@ armyknife

Sorry - someone had to!

OK, who is shooting at Apple staff buses in California? Knock it off

Re: Use the Trump solution

"handheld pellet gun"..? As opposed to the more normal truck-mounted sort?

Will the defendant please rise? Utah State Bar hunts for sender of topless email

Pretty sure more than 50% of the population have breasts!

Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds

Re: tags?

Yup - crisp packets, cool bags, bathtubs - you name it! Signal loss does count as a possible violation and requires a visit from a bloke with a huge aerial on his company car.

Private moonshot gets the green light from US authorities

Re: Which moon

I note the presence of what appear to be several Somebody Else's Problem fields on those photos (I'm assuming that's what all the SEP's are, anyway) - there must be something we're not being told!

Screw Internet-of-Things: Boffins build Internet-of-Sound UNDERWATER

Re: To be named....

Interwet!

Police 'stumped' by car thefts using electronic skeleton key

@ Stacey

Welcome to Leicester - the town where Primark was about the only shop that got looted in the "riots".

Class? Never heard of it!

Quid-a-day nosh challenge hack in bullet-hard chickpea drama

Ooooh, that makes a difference!

I'm sure the last sentence ended "fundraising goat" the first time I read the article...

John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net

Re: Hmmm

Psychlos - nutters on bicycles?

Behold: China's robot noodle army!

Re: Pictures or it didn't happen

@James: Playmobil.

You're welcome.

Samsung chucks 'free' Galaxy S III at dragon sketcher

@Nick

Almost all of them, apparently. Scary page.

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Bauernfrühstück v bacon sarnie

Blue cheese.

Gotta have blue cheese. And brown sauce.

ICANN eggfaced after publishing dot-word biz overlords' personal info

Re: in regard to the whole gTLD "choose your own" auction (now fiasco)

Two words: Ker. Ching.

Samsung's projector phone beamed up to Blighty

Can't imagine I'd actually use the projector much

So why do I still want one?

Pint-size gizmo shoots X-RAY LASER for first time

Go boffins!

<-- Obviously.

Flying Dutchman creates dead cat quadcopter

Re: Does anyone know...

Somewhere in the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, if memory serves me correctly.

Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS'

Re: Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS'

Indeed. I remember spending many an hour typing out a several-hundred line program from <insert name of forgotten magazine here>, only to get

SYNTAX ERROR AT LINE 60.

Ahhh, happy days!

Lingerie-clad she-devils romp past watchdog

Re: That's got more nudity...

You, sir, just made my day!

Scientists weave battery into clothing

2 questions...

1) Is it waterproof and shark-friendly?

2) Could it power a laser?

Cosmic rays blamed for Phobos-Grunt fiasco

Quite possibly...

The best sub-head ever!

Reminds of Men Behaving Badly.

NASA: Solar system may have alien origin

@ deadlockvictim

Yes; in / on Magrathea. In outer space. Doi.

Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov

YAY!

Fun AND good for you - not much else you can say that about these days!

YouTube tops one hour of video uploads per second

@ Grease Monkey

About 0.3 standard nyans-worth.

How can family sysadmins make a safe internet playground for kids?

@Cheesy

That was a very reasonable and well-presented comment. Are you new here?

Iranian coder faces execution 'for building smut websites'

RE: Oh dear

What scares me is not just the original post but that 2 people apparently agreed with it. What the fuckitting fuck? PLEASE tell me they didn't actually RTFA.

Phages: The powerful new bio-ammo in superbug war

RE: At what point did "chemistry" become "life"?

About 2.30 in the afternoon. I think it was on a Thursday.

Tiny frog claimed as smallest vertebrate ever

Yup.

Exactly the sort of determined journalism that keeps me coming back here - you don't get that kind of insight from the Beeb!

NASA's ageing black hole-stalking probe switched off

I take it we're all invited then! Venue details required..

Huawei uncloaks sleek, slim, sexy smartphones

I do!

My right trouser pocket is my phone pocket; nothing else ever goes in there (apart from a little bit of fluff). I have yet to scratch, dent, mangle or otherwise damage a single bit of any phone so ner to you!

Comet Lovejoy spotted plunging toward fiery doom

Beacause...

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Sorry - bad day. Mine's the one with a pocket full of dried frog pills.

Super black hole about to scoff speeding space dinner

Space is AWESOME! In the true sense, not the farcebook sense.