Posts by Fr. Ted Crilly

Panasonic brings its founder back to life as an AI

One for Henry Ford

Would fit right in these days...

Tesla Cybertruck, a paragon of reliability, recalled again

Re: He probably shouldn't give up his day job for auto mechanic or electrician.

To quote Sir Ernest Hives: 'We'll soon design the simplicity out of it'

Unbreakable Voyager space probes close in on a 50 year mission

Re: Uh oh..

A right Garry Hunt and no mistake then...

Re: I wish …

Diodes all down your left side giving you gip again?

Depressing isn't it, you ask for them to be replaced but no one ever listens...

Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility

Recent improvement in Trumps speeches remarkable...

Reaction Engines' hypersonic hopes stall as funding fizzles out

Re: Cheap

Whittle and Ohain both went for centrifugal because it was achievable within the current at the time metallurgy and because centrifugal compressors were well understood because of aero engines.

That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled

Re: Sadly, this is as old as the hills

B - arkers one and all...

Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage

well thats useful.

Shopping trolley wheels, for rolling around on the seabed and crashing into Sponge Bob presumably...

Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries

Re: Low salaries for security reasons?

Or weeds in those who can be manipulated by money because the earn so comparatively little by industry standards...

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Hmm

It does smack of the Infinite Improbability Drive doesn't it...

NASA narrows Artemis III landing target list to nine

'All these worlds are your except Europa, attempt no landing there'

There that told you didn't it.

China launches plan to lead the world in space exploration

Re: I am a child of Golden Age science fiction

I think the Brown is nearly dead...

Pentagon stumped by mystery drone swarm flying over Langley Air Force Base

Re: the most sophisticated agencies on earth could not track them once they left

OTH station a reaper at 30,000 ft over langley afb and use IR camera sensors to watch, then 'follow home'...

Presumably Langley afb is restricted airspace so shouldn't be a problem with the Reaper circling...

First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster

Re: 70 meters tall?

Can you... Stack bananas that high?

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

Re: Content surfing

Oh why don't you eh...

Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect

Some say...

Satoshi is actually a construct of the Laughing Man...

And

That Project 2501 is the Bitcoin banker...

No, just a very naughty boy...

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

David Graham

You Forgot he was Kaganovich in Series 2 and Morty Black in Series 4 of When The Boat Comes In...

BOFH: AI consultant rapidly transitioned to new role as automotive surface consultant

Re: I've just realised to my utter horror...

There are pictures of BOFH and the PFY you know (forever young is they).

In the basement on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear

Re: It needs a Fleegle on the front

Drooper and Snork in the back smokin' a blunt perhaps...

Ah the Army surplus-six

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

Matey's a bottle of fun, you squirts me in the bath, i'm loved by everyone, i'm Always good for a laugh....

iirc.

*is old*

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

And just clever enough to know needs to find some real smart people quick.....

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

Re: I'm the OPERATOR...

Endless - endless....

Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit

Re: Now I understand

Da...

Techie made a biblical boo-boo when trying to spread the word

Re: Lord!

Steady now...

Lord!

When the night shows

The message grows on telephones

All the strange things

They come and go as early warnings

Stranded starfish have no place to hide

Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide

There's no point in direction

We cannot even choose a side...

Lord! here comes the flood, we'll say goodbye, to flesh and blood!

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

Re: Honourable mention

Proops of old, an Aladdin's cave of good things to be discovered and hurried home to tinker with...

Tell the young 'uns about it (wistfully ofc) and they don't believe you.

Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

Re: "police declined to pursue the matter"

Ah yes the 'shitter' approach, until some git has your front skewer away outside the station...

Microsoft Bing Copilot accuses reporter of crimes he covered

Tch, that's Messrs Carter Fuck, where did you get this 'ruck' thing from?

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

Re: Newport?

It's a bit of a presumption that any Newport is correct given by experience of Newports.

You need Massive chew sets, it's a rather hard cheese...

Re: Is that California…

It do have a bide-a-wee tavern of that name though for a bit of glamour though.

What? California in Norfolk - (NOT Virginia) has a university. but it's right near Great Yarmouth which must be said not a centre (sp) of learning

BOFH: Videoconferencing for special dummies

Re: Maybe it's the lack of coffee...

Yes...

Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor

And Join the River Police?

Client tells techie: You're not leaving the country until this printer is working

Re: Long Cut

2010 was it?

I was stuck in Schipol 16 hrs on the back end of it, nothing much flying, aircraft anywhere in Europe and legs off schedule,(crews no doubt time exceeded tooo etc) eventually. BA come through with some aircraft there's a 757 going to Heathrow, that'l do. Full load and off we go, I don't think it got above FL10 all the way back followed the Dutch/Belgian coast to Ostende then across the oggin and a direct approach up the Thames estuary.

I've still got the Miffy mug purchased on a whim during those looog hours of boredom. It's much coveted in the office...

Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff

Re: Historically Boeing has a way of buying lenient trreatment

No, but i'm quite sure AirBus would 'do' A340 specials for presidential and the Looking Glass fleet if asked nicely

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Careful now...

Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership

well my contrbution is.

The Amine scale.

Fresh today.

Not exactly stale yet yesterday.

Getting a bit rancid.

Fuck me mate can you spell wet wipe?

EVs continue to grow but private buyers are steering clear, say motor trade figures

Re: Long tail

'Ere don't be bringin' Princess lucky and her huge tracts of land into the discussion.

Or perhaps you live in a swamp...

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Constable Savage and his mate Nosher and his fork spring to mind.

Re: Only for the Far Right

Where's the ARM when you need them, off persecuting some unlicensed mother I suppose...

Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project

Re: Simple rule

Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right, unless you were going all the way...

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

Re: Heck; I can't even trust my Volvo

Hear hear. it's no good laying in the road with a broken leg screaming that you were in the right, look where that got you. It presumes everyone else is perfectly behaved and their not as we all know.

Re: Heck; I can't even trust my Volvo

Well the flashing indicator might just make you a little more apparent and visible as a potential hazard to be noticed/accommodated when joining... but ROSPA eh.

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

42...

explains a lot.

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock

Re: I hate NAGWARE!

Feel better now?

Light-weight solar-powered flying robots are coming

Re: Exposure!

Nag wait for gen 2 and the Grunt-Master 9000 pro version.

Evidence for Moon caves emerges as humans hunt for hospitable hideaway under lunar surface

Re: What's in the Science Library?

Well currently 'If this goes on.. who knows?