Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more

Super Bugs

Let's hope that the Office Suite does not get infected by a hospital bourne Super Bug!

Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space

Re: Rich people's toys I guess

I'm watching the UK ONS Consumer Price Basket of Goods - waiting for when Helicopter Hire gets added to it - it would appear demand has increased since the current incumbent moved into No. 10 Downing St

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/ukconsumerpriceinflationbasketofgoodsandservices/2023

Re: Italian Air Force Salary

What's this sudden interest in Space that the Italian Air Force has is what I'd like to know

SAE says yes to making Tesla EV chargers an American standard

That Rogue Programmer

Watch out he does not work for Tesla - he's likely to detect a non-Tesla being plugged in to a Tesla super charge station and then reduce the charge rate

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

That would be a cock and bull story

Re: To all the author & all pun-makers

Rather you than me

Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart

Straight and Curlies

Looks like Genius were trying to get Google by the Short[Straight] and Curlies

"Genius set the 2nd, 5th, 13th, 14th, 16th, and 20th apostrophes in each watermarked song as curly apostrophes and all the other apostrophes as straight

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

Cheers

Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

My wife thinks I'm nuts ... She's probably right. Didn't stop her from trying it too, though.

Your wife thinks you're nuts ... She's probably right. Didn't stop her from marrying you, though.

icon: buy her a beer

Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

Now, the following post is bordering on acceptability for this particular thread, otherwise, when discussing water pressure, one should remember...

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

As there is no Reg unit of Pressure, first derive it from SI units. 1 Pascal (Pa) = 1N/1m²

Pressure = Force/Area,

Force - 1 Newton (SI) = 0.01 Norris (Reg),

Area - 1 m² = 0.0481 NanoWales (Reg)

Pressure = 1 Pa (SI) , 1 N/m² (SI) = 0.2079 Norris/NanoWales (Reg)

1atm = 101325 Pa = 21065 Norris/NanoWales

10m (SI) = 71.42 Linguine (reg)

1 atm for each 10m (SI) = 21065 Norris/NanoWales for each 71.42 Linguine (reg)

Re: A fitting epitaph

Periscopes on Virginia class submarines...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/navy-xbox-controllers-attack-submarines/

Re: A fitting epitaph

Rush by name,

Rush by action,

Rush to, death

History will repeat

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

Re: Who's who?

Mr Musk, who turns 52 later this month, also tweeted: "I have this great move that I call 'The Walrus', where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65981876

That would make Musk's Giant Haystacks to Zuckerberg's Big Daddy

Re: Let's make it more interesting

Best of 3 bouts - winner takes all

Who's who?

Musk and Zuckerberg,

The Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks of the IT bros

Clash of the Titans?

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg could be on course to clash in a "cage match."

"Placing both titans in a cage..."

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

Re: As Many News Organisations Have Pointed Out

The thought that came to me was, someone sat on the controller and broke it, and there was no alternative control via a touchscreen

Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio

Re: ChatGPT-powered Clippy

ChatGPT's answers...

"All the Right Notes[Words], Not Necessarily in the Right Order"

ChatGPT-powered Clippy

For those desperate for a Cippy fix

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/clippy-gets-smarter-with-raspberry-pi-and-chatgpt/

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Re: What I cannot understand ...

Apparently some papers he's mentioned in recordings and transcripts are still missing.

May be Putin's just having them translated

Phosphates on Enceladus could mean sub-surface oceans teeming with aliens

Rwanda

It's off to Rwanda with them if they land on England's shores, says Braverman

NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability

Re: Interesting design

There's always in-flight refuelling!

"When Cobham was developing his system, he saw the need as purely for long-range transoceanic commercial aircraft flights, but today aerial refueling is used exclusively by military aircraft."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling

Family-owned aerospace biz throws a wrench in Boeing IP lawsuit

Boulder, Colorado

Where Mork from Ork used to reside.

Can we be sure that the technology is not alien inspired?

Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out

Re: lost earbuds

Indeed.

How's about using something like surgical tape to keep them in place? May be a fashion faux-pas, but, who knows, you could start a trend.

Alternatively, use a headband, placed over the ears, or perhaps a balaclava or gimp mask. Though, on second thoughts, those last items are not very advisable in an airplane, or any public transport...

Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State

British Level 5 trial!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65857348

icon: "I'll get my coat[car seat cover]"

FAA proposes air taxi pilot licensing plans, sans actual air taxis

I want one

Says Rishi "call me a chopper" Sunak

UK government to set deadline for removal of Chinese surveillance cams

Re: Don't ban them, buy hundreds more

Point them at a wall in a back yard somewhere [with an enormous mural of Winnie the Pooh]

Don't forget drinking buddies of government MPs and ministers

James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away

Sausages

Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public

It's the...

Benny Hill[Elon Musk] Show

Cue closing credits

to the sound of Yakety[Yaccarty] Sax

Musk and Yaccarino chasing advertisers

UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just shopping for improved satellite comms

Re: Maybe ask James Cameron where he got the name?

Could it be that he came across a document containing that name in the back of a taxi?

Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028

You take the train, I'll take the chopper - says the current incumbent in No. 10 Downing St

They could get Boris to test the zip line

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

Re: Oh, really?

Brazilian Shave

Brazilian Shaped

Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext

Re: It was driven to extinction

... family of Philips/Mullard ICs

SAA 5040 etc

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/timeline/eti-decoder/part1.shtml

North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash

DPRK leader Kim Jong-un should study the collected works of Chairman Mao[Musk] to learn a thing or two about launching satellites

Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

Vanity Pair

Coincidentally, the latest issue of Private Eye (#1599) 2 June-15 June, mentions Twitter/Musk under the above title...

Research from the Pew Institute suggesting that "a quarter of Twitter's current users are "not very" or "not at all" likely to still be using the platform in a year"

..."the same research found that mentions of "Elon Musk" have doubled since he bought the platform."

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

Re: Hoovering Is One Thing....Understanding The Results Might Be A Different Thing!!

Hoovering -

J. Edgar would approve

Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover

Rishicopter

Ingenuity was silent-running whilst moonlighting as Sunak's personal transport. He needed to supervise he building of a luxury, no expense spared outside lav at his constituency home, probably

The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable

Re: The next frontier …

Proctology.

Exactly the same thing that came to my mind

got much more serious or killed you.

Preferably the latter, from the point of view of the government/health service bean counters - that way they get to keep the contributions you paid for health care and you are no longer a burden

Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary

Re: Interesting opportunities...

Certainly the Samsung marketing people have left the door open for different interpretations - content that is usually carried by ads of the unsolicited kind

"Rollable Flex" effort is the first to offer 5x growth.

"Flex In & Out"

"Slidable Flex Solo" ...from a 13-inch ...to a 17-inch

My Thinkpad X220 is a tad less well endowed at 12.5 inches - I guess there is room for improvement

Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill

First Contact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTNUm-pIFmQ

In Context:

Mini Metro - ceased production 1998

Woolworths ("Woolies") - ceased trading in UK stores by 2009

Anthony Wedgwood [Benn] (Tony Benn) - deceased 2014

Terry Wogan - deceased 2016

The Barbican Centre - opened in 1982, it is still standing

MTM

Any chance the message could have been tampered with en-route? Man[Martian]-in-The-Middle attack?

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

Re: Back to the past

I've been looking for a replacement for my trusty X260...

A few years ago, bought a X230 to replace a X220 - bit of a downgrade on the keyboard front - bought another X220.

A couple of years ago bought a X1 Carbon - most of the time that is gathering dust - back on the X220 again - it's the keyboard again.

As the author comments, there must be something against keyboards - though probably not just at Lenovo - I have to use a Microsoft Surface for work - with the function keys and some of the cursor keys being assigned to the same keys, have to keep switching modes - WTF

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

Poop Alert

"Musk pursued his agenda of maximalist free speech [poop] on the micro-blogging platform"

Modest Apple talks up these 'incredible' advances in iOS

incredible

incrediblePhone, incrediblePad, incredibleOS, incredibleMac

Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims

Over in Finland...

An alternative to battery replacement...

https://electrek.co/2021/12/23/tesla-owner-blows-up-model-s-dynamite-battery-replacement/

Watch out of Elon Musk dropping by at about 4min, and the explosion around 5min 14sec

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Re: for now and evermore

Careful - the letter "s" is only 2 keys to the left.

(on a qwerty keyboard)

Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

Re: As usual, hire a female CEO when the company is collapsing

The best man for the job being a woman?