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Posts by seven of five
702 posts • joined 27 Jan 2010
‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
Systemd 249 release candidate includes better support for immutable OSes and provisioning images
Infrastructure SNAFU results in French public being unable to contact emergency services
Friday 4th June 2021 05:58 GMT 
112 in all of Europe? No, not all of Europe...
"These are in addition to the standard 112 number, which is used across Europe."
JFTR, in case you may need this (though you probably won't remember then):
In Switzerland you can dial 112, but will have to further specify whom you want to reach. 117 is the direct number for the police, 118 call the firefighters and
144 will reach the ambulance. 1414 mountain rescue (REGA)
iirc, 117 and 118 are alias for 112.
Microsoft Irish subsidiary makes $314.73bn profit
UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet
Who gave dusty Soviet-era spacecraft that unwanted lick of paint? It was an idiot, with a spraycan, in Baikonur
Unihertz Titan Pocket: Like asking Mum for a BlackBerry and she tells you 'but we've got a BlackBerry at home'
Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet
IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips
There may have been problems with the JEDI deal but you still wouldn't have won, Oracle told by US govt
Boomi busts out of Dell with $4bn sale to pair of private equiteers
Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file
US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated
OMG! New free speech social network won’t allow members to take the Lord’s name in vain
Oracle founder Larry Ellison lands on another lily pad, this time an $80m Florida mansion he intends to tear down
Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on
For blinkenlights sake.... RTFM! Yes. Read The Front of the Machine
Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened
Atheists appeal to higher power for intercession over alleged sins against privacy
Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck
Nominet ignores advice, rejects serious change despite losing CEO, chair, half its board in membership vote
Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog
Monday 29th March 2021 05:10 GMT
Re: Charging infrastructure
>"I personally don't like those gimmicky retracting door handles, you know what happens when that nonsense wears out and becomes glitchy"
A bill of two thousand of switzerlands finest, that happens. Twice so far. To be fair, JLR also has retracting handles, but come at only 1/3 of the bill.
The silicon supply chain crunch is worrying. Now comes a critical concern: A coffee shortage
Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century
OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab
Chairman, CEO of Nominet ousted as member rebellion drives .uk registry back to non-commercial roots
Å nei! Norway's Stortinget struck by Microsoft Exchange malware
Thursday 11th March 2021 12:20 GMT
Re: Swiss cheeses are awesome!
Interestingly, most swiss cheese actually do not have the huge holes it is famous for. This is primarily the "Emmentaler".
Gryuère, Vachérin (both essential for the most popular variety of cheese fondue), Appenzeller, S'Brinz and most of the more comon varieties sold in the supermarket all come without (notable) holes in them.
Tilsiter might be an exception, though its recognition as "swiss" is difficult, it was only brought in a few hundred years ago from Pomyra. It is quite popular, though.
Maybe someone from the Romand can correct me.
MPs slam UK's £22bn Test and Trace programme for failing to provide evidence that it slows COVID pandemic
McAfee to offload enterprise business for $4bn, focus on consumer security
Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol
Boeing successfully flies unmanned autonomous military 'wingman' aircraft that may become pilot's buddy
Thursday 4th March 2021 13:50 GMT
Re: "a human pilot in the lead"
Well, it IS supposed to become state-of-the-art killtech, they possibly can't call it "fairy glitter unicorn princess"
I mean, they *could*, and it would add embarrassment damage to the burning wreckages of their opponents as well, but... it... somehow... might be ... .hard to sell.
