* Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

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Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system

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Re: Would be nice if Oracle stepped in

Larry has near death experience /or slips on the deck of one of his yachts and knocks his head.

Refunds all the fees and for good measure adds a couple of billion on top to get Birmingham out of the mire it is in.

After that, he sets out to liquidate all his worldly goods and donate the proceeds to good causes - free health care etc

Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes

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USB-C

The temperature rise is due to the iPhone rejecting the alien USB-C connector. Consider lowering the core phone temperature by immersion in an ice bucket.

Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer

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There are lots of tech billionaires who owe him a debt of gratitude. If none of them help, the rest of the tech community can crowd fund

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Re: An inspirational guy

the man who helped produce some of the best quality CLI tooling (at the time)

May I propose a new CLI tool named... "rms" ? As for what function it performs - may be some reporting function about the system/may be a list of gnu utilities on the system?

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Re: Hang in there, rms.

I think Jake was born a COG (probably)

iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way

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Update coming to iOS 17

Apple says software bug and certain apps causing iPhone overheating

Company says it will update iOS 17 to fix bug and is working with developers of apps that overload handsets

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/01/apple-says-software-bug-and-certain-apps-causing-iphone-15-overheating

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Re: The iPhone 15 toaster oven attachment coming any day soon!

iGriddle

Handy for when you are feeling peckish and fancy a toasted egg and bacon sandwich.

Flame-grilling is an extra option

Infosys launches aviation cloud it claims can halve lost luggage

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Hi Dad

Rishi is for ever worring about luggage going missing at airports. I remind him that we don't take commercial flights so it is not a problem for us. Still, is there anything that you can do to reassure him? As air travel is the only form of transport that he can relate to with the voting public, it would be a great help

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PhD student guilty of 3D-printing 'kamikaze' drone for Islamic State terrorists

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Re: Deep trouble

I recall being told as an undergrad to be careful what you order from the Aldridge catalogue, as ordering some items in it would get you tipped off.

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Re: Not the brightest tool in the shed.

Joke icon: Just covering myself in case the crazy one in charge of the Home Office sends the boys and gals in blue over to take me down the station for a nice cup of tea.

The even more crazy thing is, she could replace Sunak after the next General Election.

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Re: Friendly reminder

Yes, he should have applied for (and probably been granted) a permit and line of credit via the Export Credit Guarantee Scheme or whatever it is called today

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Re: Not the brightest tool in the shed.

If these nutters weren't occasionally, and often accidentally, capable of mass homicide[running a country] they would be a joke.

By that I mean, the current UK Government. There's only 1 competant office holder in Downing St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office

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Watchkeeper

Whatever happened to that? IIRC, that had problems a few years back - whilst not designed as a "kamakazi" drone, it exhibited such behaviour

Musk, Yaccarino contradict each other on status of X's election integrity team

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Re: Ex CEO of X

May be Musk should tap Baroness Harding of Talk Talk fame next. Or, a master of the craft, Stephen "burning platforms/Hello There" Elop? That could be the "Elon and Elop show"

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Ex CEO of X

Won't be too long now when Yaccarino becomes Ex CEO of X

Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira

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Resistance is futile

We're all Jira drones.

All hail the Borg[Atlassian] Queen

Bids for ISS demolition rights are now open, NASA declares

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Spacebnb

AirbnbSpacebnb

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Re: How much

A Merlin.

The V12 Petrol from Rolls-Royce.

That would be an engine of suitable pedigree to lift into space. Far more deserving than the space tourists.

Not much use in space, just like Musk's roadster

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Re: I know it's old, and I know it's wearing out...

When Suella Braverman gets to hear the news that there is vacant accommodation up there, she'll want to send asylum seekers and refugees over

Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs

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The OBR has minimal clout

Dare I mention that what we need is the equivalent of...

The Spanish Inquisition

to keep the ministers in check

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in danger of never launching

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HS2

Reading the article, with the references to the comments made by the IRB, sounds awfully like the HS2 project in England

The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right

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Re: Phones are lovely but they'd be much better without cameras

Gap in the market...

DSLR with phone functionality!

EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024

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Wi-Fi 0

Time to upgrade to a thicker tinfoil hat

Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec

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Re: Always a fan....

(p.s. and please no gratuitous downvotes for discussing Huawei or China).

Huawei to criticize

Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu

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Tofu

‘Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati’

‘The Register-reading, openTofu-running wokerati’

If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

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Re: In other news

"How they arrived at the land-locked bodies of water is not yet clear."

may be, this way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo

As for any (rainbow) trout that they may catch whilst there, they can sell as Salmon, back in China

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45178638

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Debris located

Officials with Joint Base Charleston confirmed that debris from the jet had been located in the Indiantown area of Williamsburg County, reported TV station WCBD.

https://www.newsweek.com/missing-f-35-update-plane-debris-located-1827974

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Re: Pilot ejected for reasons that have yet to be explained

but not before he put the aircraft on autopilot.

Would he be able to recall what heading(s) he programmed?

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Harrier GR5 ZD325

There was this incident in October 1987 of a Harrier on a pre-delivery flight, where the pilot got pulled out through the canopy by the firing of the parachute deployment rocket - the aircraft continued to fly until it crashed into the Irish Sea on fuel exhaustion. The body of the pilot, Taylor Scott was found several days later in Wiltshire.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/55537

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Scott

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Extinct Volcano?

Any extinct volcanoes/large caves in the vicinity? Given that the aircraft is the STOVL variant, it would be the ideal aircraft for Blofeld/Dr Evil type character to take control of and fly in to their lair.

icon: Little Nellie

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

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BMW Heat Settings

Burn Medium Warm

UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision

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There's several reasons why lawyers are lawyers and not judges, and this is one.

Begs the question why a top flight lawyer like our esteemed home secretary didn't want to become a judge

Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite

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Mary Whitehouse

@Bebu: the notorious prudery of the English

I do wonder sometimes what Mary Whitehouse would have made of the current media.

See the quote attributed to Michael Grade, CEO of Channel 4, reflecting on her career:

"I don't think she has had any effect at all. She never sees things in context..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

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Re: So let me recap...

I have trouble inserting mine!

Ouch! yelled the male hedgehog, to the female hedgehog

UK government awards chunk of mega-billions tech framework

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Re: Digital and Legacy Application Services, or DALAS

Bobby[The Treasury minister] wakes up to find the Cowboys have been filling up their stetsons with £££ for billable hours and there's nothing much to show for it

Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972

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Re: If the lander's rocking...

We have no way of seeing a rocking lander on the dark side of the moon.

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Metric AND Imperial

Car Tyre (Tire) Size measurement is usually expressed in a mixture of Metric and Imperial. Whilst it is possible to us/see full metric measurements, marketing (and indeed historical left pondian) influence comes into play, and with vehicle tyres, we have this mixed system of the nominal width of the tyre in millimeters and the diameter of the wheel in inches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_sizing

e.g. 205/50 R 15

Width 205mm

Diameter 15 inches

iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards

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Yes, looks like they asked, and Apple replied.

Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B

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Re: What if

but he has to answer to investors and shareholders.

I'm sure that will be news to him

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What if

It was not Tesla, but Twitter/X that built Dojo.

Musk missed a trick there, to transfer Dojo to Twitter/X, which then could have monetised it. What would the value of Twitter/X be then?

IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps

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Trump

I wonder what the AI would make of the Florida resident and his organisations

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and others

I see no mention of "accountancy partnerships" directly.

Now, what are the chances, were such organisations investigated, that they find that the IRS owes THEM refunds?

Elon Musk has beef with Bill Gates because he shorted Tesla stock, says biographer

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Should that be "sometime" rather than "former" squeeze?

Looks like there's another mini-Musk...

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-reveals-third-child-with-grimes-and-the-babys-unusual-name-12958525

MOXIE microwaved Mars air into oxygen, but now it's time for a breather

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Future Experiment

NASA should send an experiment called PLANT to convert CO2 into O2

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

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Meta

Perhaps they could issue each worker a VR headset and, when they are in the office in meetings/conversations with colleagues, they will be transported to a view at home.

Ticks both boxes. Physically In the office and collaborating with VR

Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin

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The"burglars could work out when you're home from your power usage" argument is the only one I've heard against that, and it's ridiculously unlikely.

The burglers would have traditional low-tech means of working that out - but that data is still a mine of valuable information that goes far beyond the purpose it was collected for, and stopping or restricting the re-purposing of that is the problem

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That nice Mr Sunak has an electricity and carbon footprint way higher than the citizens that he lords over - for heating the new swimming pool of his private residence, a new connection to the national grid had to be installed across open fields. And of course he has a weakness for helicopters, usually for quick short visits for photo opportunities.

Now, he could, if he chose to, avail of such a demand based contract - sign up for one that keeps the pool at the optimum temperature all year round, but then sell back the electricity for when neither he nor family are in residence, when the thermostat can be set lower. That would of course be the financial wizz kind of thing that his instincts would say he should do, but in terms of politics and the optics, very difficult to justify - at least until he has given up politics

SK hynix says no Huawei its memory should be in Chinese wonder-phone

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Re: Can anyone tell if the Mate 60 Pro will work in Canada ?

but China might come to you

"Don't call us, we'll call you"

"Don't tell us, we'll listen in"

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

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Re: So Musk has blood on his hands

Other beasts of burden/4 legged tractor units are available, such as, donkeys, mules, cows/bullocks, dogs, elephants