* Posts by WraithCadmus

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1,300 customers of Brit bank TSB defrauded due to botched IT migration

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@A Non e-mouse

There was a BBC News article on how Sweden is pushing very hard to go cashless. Many shops their now only accept card payments.

Indeed, I was in Stockholm recently and everyone took card, even the humble hot-dog vendor on the corner. Some shops the staff seemed almost offended if you tried to use cash. I took 1000kr (~£90) cash with me expecting to burn through it in the first couple of days, came back with about 700.

Fixing a printer ended with a dozen fire engines in the car park

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Re: Had the fire brigade called to a five star hotel, in Malta....

When I was in my final year of university I lived in a 1960's tower block (that has subsequently been demolished). The hall is catered, so there are only limited cooking facilities (microwave and fridge in shared kitchenettes)

Sounds like York when I was there ('02), except the catering had long since shut down, leaving you with a Baby Belling between 7.

Icon: York Brewey, Toft Green.

Danish submariner sent down for life for murder of journalist Kim Wall

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Holmes

Indeed, 'Life' means you're never off the hook, you're always known to the authorities, only ever out under license, and can be detained if in breach of said license.

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Guess who's still most moaned about UK ISP... Rhymes with BorkBork

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Zen too, no complaints, you pay for exactly one unit of internet and get exactly one unit of internet, I admire the simplicity. Also not hard to get a tech who can give you straight answers, I was shopping for a new router and asked what protocol it needed to support (telecoms is not my forté), they just gave that right out and I was on my merry way. It's possible there's cheaper, but I've never had any bother.

The law of run Nintendo consequences: Sega brings out mini Mega Drive / Genesis

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Road Rash was great (if a little low on framerate by modern standards) but it's owned by EA. Only things we can expect on here are first-party titles.

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Streets of Rage has got to be up there, and inevitably there'll be some weird shit from the back catalogue no-one remembers like Gain Ground.

Devs see red after not seeing Big Red on Stack Overflow database poll

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Windows

Fuck Oracle

Icon: It has literally driven me to the drink on occasion.

Soz, guys. No 'alien megastructure' around Tabby's Star, only cosmic dustbunnies

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Alien

They've gone

We can turn the lights back on

1,000 jobs on the line at BAE Systems' Lancashire plants – reports

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Flame

Re: Range

in terms of multirole it is probably better than the Typhoon

Well, yes, Typhoon was primarily designed as an interceptor, multi-role it's always been a bit naff at best. Unless that's what you're driving at with your post and I have the wrong of the stick.

Icon: Stand clear of jet wash

World's first dedicated computer centre declared 'irreplaceable' by Historic England

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Pirate

Re: TNMOC rocks!

Yup, they have one of my old machines! I should find out what they did with it.

Icon: Surprisingly few pirated disks

Another day, another drone upstart skips the consumer market

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Joke

Payload of 9kg...

What is that in sacks of potatoes? Except there are no potatoes, and politburo has taken sacks, such is life.

German police seize 5,000 Donald Trump-shaped dance biscuits

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Boffin

Of course they're orange...

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India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet

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Re: Nice problem

Beers all round.

Or perhaps a malt drink for any Muslims on the team. Close enough colour right?

Whisky snobs scotched by artificial tongue

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Peatiness

Disappointingly for whisky fans, though, the tongue failed to distinguish whiskies based on their peatiness

As an Islay fan that's a bit of a shame. Though of course not everything from that wee island is peated (see most of Bruichladdich's output).

Icon: What a good Ardbeg tastes of.

It's not just Elon building bridges to the brain: The Internet of Things is coming to a head

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Boffin

Re: initially for therapeutic purposes...

VR improving - check

I just realised that a Vive is basically a GloGo ("Gloves and Goggles") from Cyberpunk 2020.

Icon: Gloves not pictured

Our Sun's been using facial scrub: No spots for two weeks

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What am I going to blame random outages on now?

'Sunspots' has been my go-to excuse for years.

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

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Happy

And this is why this year's Mother's Day gift...

Is a new PC.

Want to bring down that pesky drone? Try the power of sound

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Devil

Sonic Weaponry?

This quiet offends Slaanesh

THINGS WILL GET LOUD NOW

Icon: More of a Khornate Daemon

Devonians try to drive Dartmoor whisky plan onto rocks

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Angel

Re: Whisky Galore

Saw Jura, but didn't have the time to visit, was too busy on Islay.

As it's Friday can I tempt anyone for a bit of Ardbeg Corryvreckan?

Icon: Alcohol lost during maturation is called the "Angel's Share".

Oracle sues its own star sales rep after she wins back $200k in pay fight

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Oracle Delenda Est

Oracle has no customers, only hostages.

WTF? Francis Ford Coppola crowdsources Apocalypse Now game

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Mushroom

We already have a Heart of Darkness-based game

It's called Spec Ops: The Line.

Icon: I love the smell in the morning

British military laser death ray cannon contract still awarded, MoD confirms

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Facepalm

"I did warn you not to look into the emitter, Admiral..."

- Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet

Russia to convicted criminal hackers: 'Work with us or jail?'

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You see comrade...

There is no I in team, but there can be a U in gulag.

RIP John Glenn: First American in orbit – and later, the oldest, too

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Re: RIP A quiet hero

Met him twice when I lived in Ohio.

Ah, the old joke about Neil Armstrong, Orville Wright, and John Glenn all being from Ohio. They were looking for the fastest way out!

Cassini tickles Saturn's rings ahead of final death plunge

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Re: The Audi option

Ramming Speed!

Openreach split could damage broadband investment, says BT's chief exec

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What broadband investment?

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UK will build new nuclear bomb subs, says Defence Secretary

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Re: Oops

You see, Ada wouldn't have let him post the article with that in.

Blighty's telly, radio watchdog Ofcom does a swear

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Re: Bah!

This also turned up in the game Brütal Legend, if memory serves you could censor the swearing and the prompt acknowledged you might be doing this to spare your ears or because censorship is funnier sometimes.

See also: C*nt von C*nt

Curiosity sniffs Mars' odd atmosphere wafting out of its soil

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Pint

Re: Science is awesome!

Yes! It's Friday, time for some zymology to celebrate.

Complaints against cops down 93% thanks to bodycams – study

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Holmes

Re: This is outstanding.

Can you staple this to it as a covering note?

Icon: Not a police officer

Unlucky Luckey: Oculus developers invoke anti-douchebag clause, halt games for VR goggles

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Alien

Re: Americans, again not realising there's a world outside them

"O R'lyeh?"

Iä, R'lyeh!

Icon: Some colour from space

'Strategic' submarine cable to connect islands where locals just emerged from stone age

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Coat

Re: Start the countdown...

Ootini! Wait, that's probably already on there.

Uncle Sam rules on self-driving cars

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Re: In the UK...

Thanks for the hints! Slow driving I can deal with (being a somewhat timid motorist myself) and I guess if I were in a motorhome I'd probably be tucked in with the lorries anyway going 90 at most.

It's odd you mention priority-from-the-right, as that was a constant source of worry for a Belgian-raised friend, they still have it but just made every junction a give-way, apart from when you get to the really rural bits when you have some old boy with his eyes shut, will in one hand and copy of the Code de la Route in the other...

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Re: In the UK...

@Def

I was thinking of a motorhome holiday in NO one of these days, is it worse in the cities or the rural areas?

Icon: About £7.50 at current rates.

Robot cars probably won't happen, sniffs US transport chief

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Go

Re: I'm not so pessimistic

@AMBxx

Do petrolheads not want this at all? I would have thought the option would be nice for humdrum travels, a weekend in the country with the robot eating up the motorway miles to get there and then taking the reins yourself to experience the B-roads seems like the best of both worlds.

As for who would want one... me! Passed my test at 17 and driven less than 100mi since. While I can drive I find it stressful and a chore (probably due to a lack of experience). A trip to the arse-end of nowhere requires me to fortify myself and do it, but I'm not looking forward to it. As a hill-walker it would be nice to tell a robo-vehicle...

"Trail starts here, drop me off, refuel, then meet me on the other side of the ridge in three hours time"

*bleep, bloop!*

"Good car"

New booze guidelines: We'd rather you didn't enjoy yourselves

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Boffin

Re: I've consumed a lot of alcohol in my day but

10ml of pure alcohol, so it's easier to make comparisons between different sorts of drink (beer v wine v spirits).

Penetration tech: BAE Systems' new ammo for Our Boys and Girls

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Re: Lead-free shot

As far as I know the British Army only uses shotguns in jungle warfare

Yes, we bought a crate or two of Benelli M4s for use in the Green Zone in Afghanistan too.

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Mushroom

It does seem rather odd I know, but really it's about not polluting firing ranges etc.

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

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MEAT IS MURDER! Fish is justifiable homicide...

Okay I'm just being mean. People who are veggie on animal welfare grounds can make an argument that a fish lives a natural life up until the moment its caught, so the suffering is minimal.

Seagate flashes 60TB (yes, sixty) SSD monster

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Happy

Re: Pah!

Hey hey 16k

What does that get you today?

You need more than that for a letter

Old-school RAM packs are much better

Source

You know what would really make your metamaterial pop? 6th century Japan tech

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Pint

Past informs future

A reward for boffinry

Autumn coloured beer

Hello, Barclays? Why hello, John Smith. We meet again

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Happy

Re: What could go wrong ?

Now place your bets, is the above commentard a fan of Sneakers, Uplink, or both?

Cats, dogs starve as web-connected chow chute PetNet plays dead

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Re: Another negative for IoT

I've been looking at Lightwave, and the only reason I'm considering it is it acts as you describe, storing the config on a local controller and using the network for updates.

Icon: Boiler to come on as I leave the pub this winter perhaps?

Tech firms reel from Leave's Brexit win

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London Falling

I just had my job opportunities halved at a stroke by a bunch of spiteful shits who don't realise the EU was protecting them from being run into the ground.

EDIT: The thumbs down start already, but a lot of the areas that voted heavily for Exit are those were benefiting the most from the EU redevelopment funds. The reason they were getting those funds is because they were so staunchly for one party or the other they would always be passed over for the pork. At least the EU funds were (hopefully) awarded based on merit and how well you argued your case and not who you voted for.

I am now going to have some beer and a cry

Happy Mappiversary, Ordnance Survey

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Re: Happy days

Google's great for roads as befits an American company, but you cannot use them as soon as you leave the highways, only a proper paper topographical map will do (either as a primary navigation tool or as a backup).

Queen's birthday honours shower knighthoods and gongs on tech's finest

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Re: "Incoming...."

I wonder if you can date commentards by whether Team 17 makes them first think of Worms or Alien Breed?

Brexit threatens Cornish pasty's racial purity

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Re: Newcastle Brown

Yes, jokes were made at the time about 'Taddy Broon'.

AWS blames 'latent bug' for prolonging Sydney EC2 outage

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Re: Your business in the cloud - reminiscing...

The cloud offers many advantages, but always have a plan to do your business somewhere else if it's needed.

Oracle to sue cloud sales 'whistleblower' for 'malicious prosecution'

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Oracle Delenda Est

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King Tut's iron dagger of extraterrestrial origin

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It's an interesting bit of enconomics

Gold was available for the right price, but iron was only from the gods (in space-rock form), so was only for royalty. I believe some tools used in mummification were made of iron too for the same reason.

Icon: Another ancient Egyptian commodity

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