Posts by John McCallum

British Army's drone degree program set to take flight

GEE wizz 20 students, I'm overcome with dispair over the recklessness of our goverment./s

Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face

Ford

I thought it was Fix Or Repair Daily .

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

Re: Many moons ago, when I was gone for a week ...

The Passports from the 1960's had that as part of the name Etc page still have one that calls me a Goverment Servant.

Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker's bankruptcy

Re: Unimpressed.

As we are dicussing a US Co. here don't forget "campain contributions" as well.

Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

Re: SqueezyJet tips

There's probably a claim limit... yes there is it is called The Montreal Treaty (1926) IIRC

An arc welder in the datacenter: What could possibly go wrong?

Welding with explosives

I'v seen that done there is a video on you tube about that.

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Lets hope that this is the last we ever read about this moron.

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

Re: According to Musk, fraud is protected under the 1st Amendment

I think New York is about to will that do?

Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time

Re: I thought this was an Onion article

In some cases more like antisocial media

Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

Re: Its always the simple things

Or a dodgy connection outside of the home trying to shuve at least 300 volts three phase through a domestic meter

Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it

Re: When it isn't Joe-Proof

don't affix asset labels on any IT equipment until you talk to us first to figure out the best place to put them! OHH tempting very tempting!

JWST snaps first chemical profile of an exoplanet atmosphere

Re: Seems we have given up

OH we gave up on that a long time ago we are now looking for the Extra-terrestrial variety.

Singapore to phase out checks for businesses by 2025

Re: Spell checker, not cashing a cheque

No but that won't stop the comentairiat moaning

AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds

Re: Human-like AI

Q: Real question from my CO in the RN. why do you not get drunk like everyone else?

A: I don't like getting drunk TWO months later I'm being released from said RN.

Those screws on the Apple Watch Ultra are a red herring

eWaste

And what would Apple do with whatever they take back? It all just ends up as e-waste The disosal of eWaste would be Apples problem in that case.

Chemical plant taken offline by the best one of all: C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

Re: Sugary soft drinks ...

It is also used in some powder coating plants to treat steel before the coating operation, I guess it gets rid of grease or something.

'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead

Re: colour me sceptical

OH a death-daptor

DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back

Re: REstart?

And then you blow the bugger up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag-XOnBwLSU&list=PLlnBeA_am1Q2XYIL9bbys0bCm2hHYa-vP&index=9

Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law

Re: Better for citizens to choose

You are wrong in that there were no school shootings in the 1980's according to the wicky page on school shooting in the 19th/20th centuary's there were over 60.

Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement

Re: yes no no no yes no yes!

Google wants me to prove I am old enough to see that sub 1 minute video

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Re: Ms just does not know when to stop fiddling

And how many tales have we had on this site about fiddling with things?

Massive rugby ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings

Re: Birth of a planet

Depends The American book market sometimes have the same book with a differant title.

A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

Re: Positive signals

Until the idiot light becomes the problem.

Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime

Aparently whilst the servers were down they couldnot get into the buildings to turn them on again until someone could cut the locks off with an angle grinder.

Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status

Re: Tunnock's caramel wafers

Unfortunatly Grey Dunn went bust, RIP and as for Fig Rolls as long as they are cut before baking great if not no thank you.

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

If local councils use their resources can we then get live updates on the location of the bin wagons then?

UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects

Re: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Are they all shorthand for we don't know what the hell we are doing?

Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign

Re: Interesting choice of words

I prefer shit the bed, who here agrees with me?

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

Re: Lost at Sea

One wonders what else was "Lost at Sea".

Mike Lynch extradition: Uncle Sam offered Autonomy founder $10m bail if he stood trial in the US

Puts hand up, PLEASE sir can I go to the toilet.

UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum'

Now pensions

If some cunt has stollen my pension pot I will be having someones guts for garters.

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

Re: Thats that f88ked then

Thats it we're screwed

Italian competition watchdog slaps Apple with €10m fine over allegedly misleading iPhone waterproofing claims

Re: Own Goal

Reminds me of when one of the multinational burger bars ws taken to court because its coffee cups didn't warn people that hot coffee is hot.Ahh that chestnut AGAIN that coffee was if I remember correctly was just below boiling point and gave the woman very serious burns to her crotch try boiling your bollocks and see how it feels.

Adiós Arecibo Observatory: America's largest radio telescope faces explosive end after over 50 years of service

Re: Higher Up

If has to be in a hole in the ground why not Barrington Crater in Arizona?

Confirmed: Barnes & Noble hacked, systems taken offline for days, miscreants may have swiped personal info

Re: UK Nook e-store was closed down in 2016

B&N's UK servers transfered to Sainsbury's then to Kobo

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Winking red supergiants sneezing hot gas 650 light years away

Stelar Fart ?

From the Southern End? Where I come from that would be refered to as a wet fart.

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

And The Trump wants to ban Tick tock because stupid sods film themselves doing stupid things like getting traped in babies and infants swings and having to be rescued by the local fire brigade.

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

Re: Great.

https://na.panasonic.com/us/computers-tablets-handhelds/computers/ For your viewing pleasure

This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing

Re: Intel admission of risks . . . in 2015

Every tech channel on youtube has been taking the piss out of Intel for this same thing not being able to produce a 7nm chip for months probibly the investor press aswell so what did she think was going to happen to their share price?

Think of a number: A tale of iffy discount codes, supermarket loyalty cards and Hotels.com

Re: selling the discount codes for between £200 and £750

The quote in full. "Two hacker forums," said CyberNews, "were found to be selling the discount codes" with a value of between £200 and £750. The individuals were selling the codes for much lower sums.

Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

Re: Another App That Can Stop FAILing

All "smart" phones could legitimately be called "pocket" computers.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears

Re: It's a shame...

This dummy is 47 so at least 30 years too late

Brit MP demands answers from Fujitsu about Horizon IT system after Post Office staff jailed over accounting errors

Re: WTF?

If you want to hear all about this sorry saga the BBC are running an interesting tale on radio 4 at the moment catch up on BBC Sounds but mind the blood preasure.

Borklays soz for the ailing ATMs but won't say if fix involved a Microsoft invoice

Wrong spelling abuse

Yes just ask a North American they constantly spell words wrong colo(u)r hono(u)r gas(petrol) etc.

Post Office burned £100m in UK taxpayer cash on Horizon IT scandal legal fees, MPs told

@David 142

it is maleficence in public office and perjury both criminal offences.

Starship bloopers: Watch Elon Musk's Mars ferry prototype explode on the pad during liquid nitrogen test

Re: It's complex work

I think that all of them were filmed it is another matter on how many were or will ever be released to the gawping public

Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya super-pwnage

Re: Seems insane

The share holders do not give a sh1t they are for the most part insurance and pension company's.

You, FCC, tell us again why cities are only allowed to charge rich telcos $270 to attach 5G tech to utility poles?

compusory purchase

this I doubt nephew of mine had a cheap house in Lancashire £8000 the local council made CP order on it and only offered £8000 in the end after he was paid all the fees he was entitled to he got nearly £60000.So CP is not the cheap option some think it is.

It's been one day since Blighty OK'd Huawei for parts of 5G – and US politicians haven't overreacted at all. Wait, what? Surveillance state commies?

Pompeo :-

couldn't point out the back door in a set of long johns.

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Re: Can anyone explain ...

RTFA The Faroes are an autonomous region so they can make their own trade deals I assume.