Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole

Re: Milestone moment

Now there's a business opportunity - closer to home - how about Fukushima Single Malt? There's so much of ³H over there, they're emptying it all into to the sea.

Re: Milestone moment

What about milk for the tea? Any cows on the Moon?

Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom

Drat! You beat me to it

Start rummaging: Atari's new 2600+ console supports vintage cartridges

Re: Lovingly recreated joystick?

Didn't the Atari joystick have microswitches instead of potentiometers for the axes?

No shipping

to right pondians.

"This product is only available for shipping in the United States."

https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus

Budget satellite drag sail shows space junk how to gracefully exit orbit

Re: Retrofit?

A (laser guided) basking space shark

Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud

a special operation against the Moon

A Special Military[Moon] Operation

LG's $1,000 TV-in-a-briefcase is unlikely to travel much further than the garden

Re: Money saving idea

Nerve attenuation tonic - - >

Money saving idea

Save over $1,000 on your next camping trip!

Cut out all the hassle and expense - stay at home, camp out in the garden, and when you want to watch TV, go back inside the house and watch TV from your favourite comfy chair/sofa

Re: TV licences.

why not take some books and an electric lantern...

And also some (non-electronic) games

Japan's digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks

Re: salary forfeit scheme

Thick Lizzie

Reminded me of Thin Lizzy

RIP Phil Lynott

Re: salary forfeit scheme

Nor the increased cost of mortgages.

Only consolation is I read somewhere that Kamekasi Kwarteng had said he's paying a lot more for his mortgage too. But Truss has no shame or contrition and is still banging on about Trussonmics and getting paid for spreading the odious ideology

Re: The UK is the opposite

You forgot Liz Truss, and I'm certain she wouldn't like to be excluded from that select bunch who gave us the "moron risk premium"

Former DEC employees to rally against stagnant pensions post-HP

Re: Just picture the annual board meeting

CEO - Transfer that amount into the executive performance bonus pool. Money saved.

What DARPA wants, DARPA gets: A non-hacky way to fix bugs in legacy binaries

Tesla Autopilot

This could be one way to fix flaws

icon =>

Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

Sounds like

An MBA driven design than one driven by what the MBBS wants

You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak

Re: Isn't it seeing triple now?

I fear the politicians will take the easy option of restricting scope of the FOI Act, as they don't like scrutiny and view FOI requests as hindering their right to act with impunity

Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux

Job Cuts???

Surely it should be "Resource Action" - didn't they get the memo?

X-rated auction sells last vestiges of pre-Musk Twitter

Re: all at the low, low starting price of $25

He could buy it all, and especially the sign that is still on the building - then do nothing about removing it - that will annoy the hell out of Musk. Once that's gone one for awhile, secure a prominent location opposite Twitter/X HQ to transfer the sign to - now, Musk can't do anything about it - other than moving HQ - though that may be sometime soon when the landlords get fed up of Musk

X

When Twitter/X embedded references appear on other sites, the "X" appears at the top right of the bounding frame. My first instinct is to click on that to close the damn thing. Instead, the page redirects to Twitter/X as that is really a link.

A cunning ploy by Musk to drive traffic to his site.

Re: An Epic location?

I was hoping for an appropriate Roman period fighting spectacular with Musk taking on Zuckerberg first and then, if he is still standing, taking on some hungry lions and tigers

FTX crypto-clown Sam Bankman-Fried couldn't even do house arrest. Now he's in jail

Re: The Nitty Gritty Bottom Line

If he were a Chinese national, and he did this in China, then, an equivalent by life limiting punishment would be very likely, especially given that this is crypto related

Oops Apocalypse!

Whoops Apocalypse

"Bankman-Fried planned to buy Nauru and build apocalypse bunker – lawsuit"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/21/sam-bankman-fried-nauru-bunker-ftx

Well, the apocalypse has dawned as far as SBF and his operation is concerned

Re: The Nitty Gritty Bottom Line

The thing with Madoff was that the name should have had people running away - he did make off with his customers' money.

And what of Bankman-Fried - well, if the alleged activities are proven, then he'd have literally fried the bank accounts of his customers

Indian authorities reject Infosys 'COVID ate my homework' excuse

XXXX

Australians wouldn't give a Castlemaine XXXX...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEoDSEbVSk

An opportunity for Castlemaine's ad agency to make some commercials lampooning Musk and X

Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors

At the very least Bollywood can make a song and dance film about it when it goes TITSUP

Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office'

Cunning Plan

Here's a cunning plan that will have them coming back in droves courtesy of Jacob "Baldrick" Rees-Mogg...

Just leave printed sheets on empty desks bearing the message:

"sorry you were out when I visited".

"I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61202152

Re: don't blame employees blame offshoing

It is the Elephant in the room.

Manglement do not get it

Virgin Galactic sends oldest-ever Brit and first mother-daughter duo into space-ish

Re: C'mon... Look at the wonder

Buy her a Root Beer!

Re: C'mon... Look at the wonder

"Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance’s debut memoir, Starstruck, offers a window on what it is like growing up to be a scientist today as a woman of colour. "

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/12/astrophysicist-sarafina-el-badry-nance-starstruck-memoir-astrophysics-light-dark

Virgonaut

The "astronaut" handle should be reserved for professionals, not tourists.

How about "virgonaut"

Re: That's not space ...

The "astronaut" handle should be reserved for professionals, not tourists.

Child: What did you do in Space?

"astronaut:" I took selfies

New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level

Re: Second level nerfing

Add a dash of petrol for a truly memorable explosion. A once in a lifetime experience

Infosys launches 'sonic identity' – an aural logo to 'reinforce brand purpose'

Re: Next week: scratch'n'sniff for the Cisco Corporate Smell

Unlike Jobs' emissions, as Ellison is still with us, it is still possible to sample his exhaust tune as it were. Then captive Oracle licencees can be given the full treatment till they caugh up more in fees

Re: Brand assets

His phone would probably be set to play this tune when his wife or in-laws call

Never mind room temperature, LK-99 slammed as 'not a superconductor at all'

Re: Sounds like that's about it, then

No appetite for lead-apatite

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

Re: Palantir

Bound to hear some government type wanting to limit FOI requests or disband them all together.

Palantir

I think the government should step in and ask Palantir to provide all the data handling and analysis for the Electoral Commission

Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud

Directorships

And consulting for a few hours per week/month. Only open to those who opened doors when they were in government

Scientists strangely unable to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor

Transmission costs

Any savings trickling down to the consumer would be very unlikely

North Korean hackers had access to Russian missile maker for months, say researchers

Re: "It seems to fit both"

Sunak is 5'6"

Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

UK Home Secretary

Would probably be interested if Google could offer those rates in the UK. She's looking to house tens and thousands of asylum seekers whilst their applications are processed

Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works

Confidence

"...confidence that it will work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year and satisfy an economic environment in which it's got to live."

Exactly what Microsoft thought when they named Office 365

Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup

Resistance is Futile

But the flipside is that it means systemd will gradually encroach on even more of your operating system.

Where did the Borg get the idea?

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

Re: Not a lift but…..

Redundancy?

Surely this calls for a spare quant for emergency use? Could it be a telescopic type to be extended prior to use? Something that the Engineering students at Cambridge should be able to figure out?

Read lips? Siri wants to feel them, according to fresh Apple patent

Re: Open the pod bay doors, Siri

I wonder if amanfrommars 1 is using such a system? Over the years I have come to recognise his posts without having seen the name of the poster - it looks like gibberish at first, with random words strewn together, but sometimes, it is possible to glean the gist of what he is saying

Indian Head Wobble

Let's see if Siri cracks that

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180722-cracking-indias-mystifying-nod-code

Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system

Re: observed from Earth, Moon, and Mars simultaneously, really?

Indeed. Always reminds me of James Burke on his eponymous TV programme "Connections" explaining why "Live" TV broadcasts showing the relayed scene as it was, a few moments ago...

Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

Mash-up

Would have been an interesting sight if, when he was jumping the red light, there had been a Tesla on "autopilot" entering the junction.