Posts by YetAnotherLocksmith

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

Re: Tricky

Surely you jest? You've heard of lotteries before, right? Sweepstakes? Gambling?

Amazing how all the claims of a rigged election that went on for 4 years suddenly stopped, isn't it?

It was just one of over a dozen issues that tilted the table towards trunp winning.

69 (67? I forget) bomb threats from Russia on one states' Democrat leaning polling places, for instance.

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

Re: Multi-Fail

It was presumably serious, as the employee didn't return to work until after the plane was falsely declared ready!

I mean, how easy would it otherwise have been to ask the person who signed the tool out?

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

From the previous First Lady, no less!

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

Re: Simplest solution

Upvoted for truth, but still barely relevant - plenty of not open stuff harvests everything. Windows is about to start harvesting everything you think and storing it with insecurity.

NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice

Always uplifting

Even if there's nothing else uplifting or inspiring going on, that these two space probes are still running is enough!

I wonder what the initial budget was, and how far over it's gone? After 50+ years.

Revenge for being fired is best served profitably

Result!

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

If they're quick, they might catch them before they've eaten the evidence!

Re: So-poor-markets

Makes life hard for the cremation team!

Re: So-poor-markets

I'm far more likely to rage quit the shop if there's no customer service (which usually means, why are there no tills open? Or only 1 staff to sort 35 self checkouts?) than if there's no single item.

Re: So-poor-markets

Combine that with the 4+ year waits I've heard about for a space, and you might go hungry.

Re: That's not the half of it....

The biggest deflation of UK supermarket prices was the arrival of the German supermarkets!

It's almost funny how the UK ones bang on about price matching the German ones, endlessly, now.

Re: "a minor discrepancy"

Both Lidl and Sainsbury's here have tightened their security recently. The Lidl isn't huge, but doesn't have the double entry/exit doors that they commonly have. Lidl added a security guard a while back. Sainsbury has just added automatic gates, and has had security guards for years.

I can see people stealing the basket occasionally. Probably those using distraction - someone kicks off, they nip out the door with the unpaid basket. Trolleys disperse themselves all the time, and they're way bigger!

UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab

Re: Sensible

The tories are already drawing up plans to privatise it, I expect.

Re: Sensible

That's why arc furnaces are better! Along with them actually being better.

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

Wait, what? The (only) two defendants both died within 48 hours of each other?

Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

Re: The problem with climbing helmets as hard hats

A thin bit of foam probably isn't going to stop anything punching it's way through, though. Like a dropped screwdriver.

Re: Hard hats

I usually wear a hat. Keeps the rain off, and the brim functions as early warning of low things.

Re: Hard hats

That's cause your mind has a sense of how big and where things are, including a mental map of where your head is. So when your head grows an inch or more all around, of course you smack it off things that you would've missed. Like wearing clown shoes.

You mean a makerspace?

Ah. Well, that's "exercise for the reader" territory, isn't it!

Re: Hard Hats and Hi-Viz...

But it was his car, and he didn't want to walk 200m to the new parking.

Re: On-site security

Hence the UrbEx and hacker memes involving getting into almost anywhere by simply putting on a high vis.

If you're using a £3 bit of neon as your security token/access control, you deserve what's going to eventually happen.

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Did anyone bother to read that guff?

N/T

Re: When will oxygen become offensive ?

The tories ran out of money agreed 12 years of "austerity", while they all got 7 figures and more. Did not realise they were the real socialists all along!

Re: And I suppose the women were coerced?

They've gone all the way to Vegas and the hotel, then they get given those dresses and head gear. Are they really going to then say no, get fired on the spot, and lose a small fortune?

So they take the discomfort and think of the money. It's a subtle coercion.

UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up

Re: ...you will own nothing, be poor, cold, and probably not very happy :(

What, you'd rather they didn't bother?

Re: one of Manchester / Sheffield / Leeds

I think that guy was hard done by. 5 computers per room isn't so far from the truth! If you average it...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Hmm

Safer from aerial drones, though!

They'd notice if they couldn't charge their phone, for sure!

Re: "expensive and unreliable state energy"

Calling it "bribes & payoffs" when it's building a power line that'll help the community and see the land owners compensated, marks you out as an American.

That's Microsoft in Ireland, not the UK govt!

Microsoft are doing something unrelated to the main point of the story - that the decade and more of stalling by the tories on this power connection to get cheap wind energy from Scotland to London, is finally going ahead! A month into a Labour government.

That'll literally save £millions in payments to idle wind farms, and should hopefully reduce some prices!

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

If musk ends up with a warrant out against him, being the richest man in the world won't help him.

Re: North Carolina is also looking into this

Even worse is 4) To allow fast bulk deregistering, via the web interface, of voters in Georgia!

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-cancel-voter-registration-personal-information-5bf7d7d474e0e077c7fd50141ff487e8

All the info is easy to get, then they send a letter, but that could trivially be timed so loads of people were disenfranchised. And you could easily select which voter group from the info you already gathered!

Re: Bootnotes

Amazing how fast a single shout of "Free Palestine" terminated the call!

Why, has he been "helping" restore white power over there, too? Busy guy!

Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it

Re: For once

That would be the weirdest, worst place to live. And who would watch the 50% of the population who were the police, in case they, too, misbehaved?

Student's flimsy bin bags blamed for latest NHS data breach

I feel that too many people here are after the managers, when it's obviously the person who actually took the stuff home then left it lying around that's to blame.

I have no love for managers generally, but at some point they still have to trust the actual people to use the actual shredder.

Re: Inexcusable

All the £billions available?

After a decade of cuts?

Re: Inexcusable

It's probably a smokeless zone.

Interesting idea for saving on student loans by eating the coursework, though.

Adios, accountability: X to hide 'likes' for everyone this week

It has always allowed porn. Now it is allowing porn *to be advertised* to anyone.

Waymo issues software fix after driverless taxi hits telephone pole

Unicycles!

(no, seriously, they had an accident because of them recently)

Re: Some details

At 8mph it should've stopped almost instantly.

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

Re: BS7666

I got his business card at Loughborough Uni!

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes

Re: So why does everyone...

It's not that simple.

India and China are getting richer, and have literally billions of people who want a car. You need to look at the West, which, quite honestly, is where most of us live, and the trends for your own country, which are masked by the East.

Re: So why does everyone...

Elno, who just boosts the racists by retweeting their vile shite out to millions and millions of accounts? Every single day? That guy?

You should look into the works of Carl Poplar.

Calling for those promoting genocide & quoting Russian propaganda, and the like, to be deplatformed is not the same as calling for genocide. If you think that, you're a blithering idiot.

Re: Great news

If only there was a little joined up thinking and common sense applied to this.

The UK needs more robust infrastructure, all over. Everything needs modernisation after 14 years of tory neglect or, worse, fire sales for fast shareholder profit.

A modern, wired up grid that can send power from wind and solar to car chargers? It isn't beyond the wit of man. It isn't even hard, if you're in the countryside and have 6kW of solar (and, of course, could add far more) and bingo, most of the strain of charging the car is on the solar panels that are on the garage roof!

Excess power to and from the grid, blah blah...

Scotland has enough wind farm now that it is completely able to power itself 3x over. And we have a nuclear power plant for base load.

Charging a car is very, very easy, if you don't have to pump the electricity all the way to England and back again. (Have the tories paid out for those interconnects yet, or are they still paying the wind farms to stand idle as the South of England runs out of electricity?)

Re: Great news

Uh oh! Sounds like a(nother) secret Big Electric conspiracy! Just write off all those fragile petrol engines, and replace them with... another ICE.

I guess Elno was in charge of the operation?