Posts by seven of five

70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch

Re: Just askin'

Disclaimer: Quite a bit will be lost in translation

More Disclaimer: Obviously, any recreational vessel is a luxury item by definition. "A hole in the water, filled with money".

Depending on your local definition of Yacht, a Folke Boot is a yacht. And they are very nice to sail. But, as yachts go, the are rather frugal. In Scandinavia, no one would consider a Folke a luxury yacht.

Personally, I'd draw the line at anything above 50k CHF per foot waterline. But thats just my mileage (kilometrage? footage?...)

DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M

Re: Doordash IT Security questions

Maybe... he made a quick dash to the door (ba-dum..etc) SCNR.

Nah, the explanation will be "incompetence and neglect".

As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database

Re: Prediction

Oracle, probably.

Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted

Re: That'll do it...

They are so angry, they will write the letter in Comic Sans and stick it next to the water cooler.

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

What is the world coming to?

I mean, really: Amazon are the good guys now?

It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions

Uber has always left me wondering.

Uber is the one company which (judgeing by ther MO) should be headed by Elon, but isn't.

Strange. They would be such a nice match.

Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

Re: "it clearly has its hands full"

Some would be inclined to argue they never had any hands to start with...

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

One Meeeeelion Percent!

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

90 days to upgrade

That is the same Teams which is to recieve a "90 days to upgarde to the current version or be locked out"-Teams?

Lovely.

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

Re: Krasnov

Putin Putin Putin everywhere. No way the US would have brought this unto themselves. Must have been them foreigners. Though it plays into his hands, granted.

Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark

noise. Or the lack of it.

Few things in a datacentre are as loud as a rack going silent.

The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

Is Reign in Blood on it?

And if not, maybe we can smuggle it in under cover of a certain Rick Astley Video?

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust

Re: Recharging = needed break anyway?

23 Minutes is three stops for a combustion vehicle (3x45L @ 20L/Minute + payment). About 2000km. EV do have a lot for them, but turnaround time and long distance travel are certainly none of them.

Re: Recharging = needed break anyway?

apart from the charging times, all dislikes are same-same for any new car, irrespective of propulsion. Quite frustrating to see just how bad most (mandated) assistants are, even taking into account a single miss will stay in your mind longer than the times the system worked as intended.

'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild'

Re: Poisoned Fruits of Serialization

But look, LOOK! how fast we made it!

OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining

Brains. Err...

Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz

Re: Thumbnail Image

And it is not actually on fire!

Scandal!

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Re: 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Nope, "malvolent" is missing.

Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital

Big deal...

Pfff, big deal. Monster-in-law has been around for more than 60 years without any heart (or brain) at all. Don't get what all the fuss is about..

Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

wat? Is spof also something rude? Or does single point of failure nowadays need further explanation?

This would become more glorious then the privatization of the british rail.

spof

More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies

Re: I wonder

Reminds me to check the X-clacks plugin

Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again

Re: Linux

No app, a systemd module.

Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice

Re: Anything with a %

Actually, they will fuck it up somewhere between -7 and 137624812% of the time.

Re: Battery Icon Colourwheel

A lifetime ago, a colleague programmed the status display of his 7043-43p to show the time. B45 was lunchtime.

Re: FFS.

With the speed I usually go, doppler shift will make both lights blue anyway...

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

Re: Marsraker

We'll use the real Musk and send him to Mars.

alone.

"Unfortunetaly", there will be a mix-up between metric and Freedom-metric, so the rocket goes... somewhere.

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Re: "they need to put all their information in one place"

"Hacking" as in: find the wide open dev account. Or the hard coded credentials on git.

Sad days ahead, when the good old "extract super secret CIA backdoor with a hot babe" isn't even neccessary.

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

Yeah - but what about beer?

Re: You are missing the point.

I might be willing to sacrifice a fire engine to quicken it.

NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts

Certainly better suited to judge the size than "… about the size of a slice of bread.”

What does anyone in the US know about bread anyway?

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

Re: Not really a time to be owning a Tesla

This one actually goes to Kurva. Err, Cupra.

Re: Not really a time to be owning a Tesla

They did have engineering qualities to offset the slightly negative image, though. Whether that still is the case remains open for debate.

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd

Re: Modular?

Modular as in "just on module needed to pull the other parts in via dependency".

two corrections:

> Let's have a look back at the tumultuous beginnings, how we

1. It is not "tumultous", it is "tumorous"

and

2. With you (and your co-conspirators), there will never be a "we".

Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024

Re: Space. How hard can it be?

Heil Vogler!

-Iron Sky

Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash

Re: Nice SpaceX Cargo Dragon you have there

Do they have a marker pen rated for outside on the ISS? Could they paint a dick on the capsule?

asking for a friend...

As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

Re: We also buy iPhones, Fords and Teslas

Concerning the Ford Capri:

That is a current model again. Alas, much like the hot guy/gal from school, time was not very nice to it.

And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples

Re: I misunderstood

or my marriage

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

Re: Sigh.

Mind bleach, please.

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

Re: Confusing activity with productivity again

Force your status as amber/away, do a lot of work and see him die by a "division by zero error" end of month...

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: Not for the developed world, shirley

Both of them?

Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers?

Re: re: The problem is people, not technology.

>The job of a consultant is to find out the client's budget and spend it."

>And he was perfectly serious.

Like Dogbert said: "I like to con people, and I like to insult them. That makes me a consultant, doesn't it?"

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

Re: Eurofighters not F35

Spending your cash on non-US produce is certainly NOT what was intended.

Re: A child's understanding of the world

Oh, those dastardly 99% again. It is always "them" isn't it? Ban them, I say! Ban them! I'm not sayin anythin... BUT the govenment really should do something about them.

(may contain traces of sarcasm)

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

Re: Ugly Truth About Copilot

> and has been for 900 years.

Pff, impossible. The World has only begun to exist in 1776 (salutes flag, watches glorified seagull, waves gun around).

UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey

Re: For context

> The only thing I'm allowed to be president of is my dog's food bowl.

That's a good job. And you'll recieve true recognition for it.

Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs

close shave

> but you'll need a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC to use it.

Excellent news - I don't have one of these. Bullet dodged (for now).

IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door

Re: National security implications

Should have, obviously.