Posts by Sanctimonious Prick

Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing

Re: SpaceX have turned rocket science into Spaghetti Engineering

@HildyJ

Damnit! Well said!

Re: SpaceX have turned rocket science into Spaghetti Engineering

I understand when people believe things are impossible. At some point though, the impossible thinkers have to accept the impossible is possible, and Mr. Elon Musk has proven that, time, and time again. Yet, people still say Mr. Elon Musk cannot do the impossible, yet... the proof is there for everyone the world over to see that he, Mr. Elon Musk, IS, our present great mind of the world that knows too much than he should, but he works with it, and he gives it to us, regardless.

I cannot think of a single person alive today that can stand taller that Mr. Elon Musk's gift to the world that he is.

(screw my English!)

Re: SpaceX have turned rocket science into Spaghetti Engineering

@AC

I invoke the Black Eyed Peas.

(icon is a weapon of violence)

Re: SpaceX have turned rocket science into Spaghetti Engineering

Oh. Right. So you're comparing SpaceX with Apple? Go back to your dial-up landline Internet access, fool!

These tests by SpaceX have NOT cost a single life. The only cost is to Mr. THE BEST PERSON ON THE FUCKING FACE OF THIS PLANET Musk, and his investors.

What did it cost you? Oh... apologies.. you... what... wasted a few hours watching the NASASpaceFlight YouTube feed? Diddums.

Meanwhite, the rest of the planet sees this as a massive step towards the future of human space flight to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

I still have my old Netcomm 2400 baud modem - it's yours!

We finally get to spot a burnt-out comet and what is it covered in? Talcum powder

Re: Maybe

And if they find Old Spice there, please bombard it with kitty litter!

Re: That will teach the comets

...to the Moon.

Sun.

UK terror law reviewer calls for expanded police powers to imprison people who refuse to hand over passwords

Re: Come Down From Your Ivory Tower

Apple and Google are big defenders of personal privacy, are they not? Shirley the next update can include the option of having a two password system? One password unlocks the phone, the other one wipes it.

"Oh. Oops! So**y officer, wrong password."

Won't wash, will it?

Still, worth a shot until they change the laws again, right?

Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog

Re: Musk & Bezos are much the same

@AC

Munro & Associates.

Re: Who is the most disgusting?

Yeah. Gates. He uses some sort of organic fuel in his private jet. hahahahaFUCKOFFhahahaha!

Words To Eat

@Blank Reg

I look forward to you eating your words.

And I'm the one doing all the downvoting!

Just Keep Burning Oil

Complain all you like about Elon Musk, but without him, there would not be an EV revolution going on right now!

Anyone who believes differently, is fooling themselves.

Ford and GM have gone to extreme lengths to put a stop to EVs.

Car dealerships are trying really hard to stop Tesla selling directly to customers - by law!

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp pause usual data collection with an outage

yt

utoob also had an issue around the same time.

can only image what's going on in the background.

all these hacks lately, makes me nervous.

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

When?

When would be a good time to ask; "So, after all the cloud outages, are you still using the cloud?"

Mine's the one with the remote NAS in the left pocket, and the local NAS in the right pocket -->

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

Russia! China!

Right. Russia. China. Whomever. As long as America can identify an enemy, it can provide funds to American companies specialised in protecting America and waging war on America's adversaries, and partly owned by American politicians (hello, Raytheon).

Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets, say Feds

Re: Who needs proof anymore?

I saw it too... but thought I probably didn't read it correctly, coz, like, the FBI can't charge someone with a crime if the evidence of a crime does not exist, right?

Does the FBI have non-special agents?

"Hi. I'm FBI Standard Agent Fells."

"And I'm FBI Special Agent Morris."

"Pfft! I'm FBI Super Special Agent Dick."

"Guys! Guys! .... girls! I'm FBI Superior Super Special Agent Acosta."

OK. I'm being silly now.

Huawei to Hell: Embattled Chinese comms giant said to be revving up for a move into the electric vehicle market

@AC

And so many people said "Elon cannot..." And then he did.

Australia facepalms as Facebook blocks bookstores, sport, health services instead of just news

This Is What Happened...

Sir Tim Berners Lee to Mark Zuckerberg: What are we to do about these upside down fuckers?

Mark Zuckerberg to Sir Tim Berners Lee: Time to be EVIL!

STBL2MZ: But... but, nobody thinks Google is EVIL, do they?

MZ2STBL: No. No they don't. Since Cambridge Analytica, I'm the EVIL one.

STBL2MZ: Well let's take that line then...?

MZ2STBL: Yes. You pay those upside down schmucks (we'll go halvies), And I'll give 'em the finger :)

STBL2MZ: Done!

MZ2STBL: Done!

Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg

I guess #4

Google's cloud services lost $14.6bn over three years – and CEO Sundar Pichai likes that trajectory

Re: Future headline

I just go an e-mail from Google...

"

We’ll soon delete all of your Google Play Music library and data

On February 24, 2021, we will delete all of your Google Play Music data. This includes your music library with any uploads, purchases and anything you've added from Google Play Music. After this date, there will be no way to recover it.

"

So, Do No Evil turns into Fuck The World!

I'm out of here!!!!!

UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent

Re: Those consultants

I kind of enjoyed the lockdown here (AU). I taught myself PHP & MySQL, and updated my knowledge of HTML from v4 to v5.

... why do some people say "my sequel?" The first time I heard someone say that, I was confused for a few moments. I say "my s q l." Pfft. Whatever.

Re: [Apple & Google] have been on the record as saying that the UK app … is a world first

I'm obviously sitting too far away from my screen... I read "Citation deleted."

Google QUIC-ly left privacy behind in its quest for a speedier internet, boffins find

Questionable Research?

Google is banned in China.

A quick search didn't tell me if it's illegal to access Google in China, but China have banned Google, and it is blocked by their great firewall.

Could this just be Chinese FUD? Asking for myself (no friends).

Very little helps: Tesco serves up 3-for-1 borkage special to self-scanning Tesco shoppers

@Dwarf

By making a fist and then slowly extending the middle finger!

There may be not one but two new air leaks in International Space Station: Russian boss tells us not to panic

Gotta Blame Someone

Trump: it was CHINA!

Everyone else in the US: it was Russia!

Australia: it was New Zealand!

New Zealand: it was Australia!

Australia: it was Ne........

The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at

Re: We Saw Nothing - Obviously

I don't know what you mean by that. My English skills are not the best.

We Saw Nothing - Obviously

Going by the comments here, what I saw with about 5 other family members, just didn't happen, or what we saw was an experimental aircraft of some kind.

That was 45 years ago, and whatever that experimental aircraft was, it still hasn't been approved for production.

A massive dense red triangular object slowly moving across the sky in the early evening.

I've read reports of a similar object appearing from time to time in other parts of the world.

I have no idea what it was we saw, where it came from, where it went to, or anything, but what we saw was real (i was six years old, so little chance of mind altering substances being involved).

Bring on the downvotes, motherfuckers!synchronic

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

Re: Not all countries are founded on socialist beliefs

Hello AC,

I'm glad you got that off your chest. And I'm also glad your post made it past moderators. I've had quite a number of posts rejected on these here forums, and usually for very good reason, though sometimes I have NFI why. But, hey, it's not my website :)

Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there's no licence to ply

Re: A glimmer fof light?

Upvoted coz, that's funny :D

Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features

Re: Great

re: Security 101

Could you elaborate?

I don't remember reading anything in the article about security?

The curse of knowing a bit about IT: 'Could you just...?' and 'No I haven't changed anything'

Another IT Guy

I had a friend call up one day saying;

"My laptop won't boot up. It looks like something is about to happen, but then the screen goes blank, then nothing."

So I asked this friend to remove everything connected to the laptop i.e. all USB devices, any audio products, the power lead, and the battery.

"Make sure nothing is connected to the laptop." I said.

Friend: "Nothing is connected to the laptop."

Then I got him to just plug the power lead in and try turning it on again.

Same thing - looks like something is going to happen, but nothing really happens at all.

"OK. Leave it as is. I'll see you in a couple of hours."

On arrival, I found the wireless mouse receiver still plugged into one of the USB ports. Upon removing this, the laptop booted straight away.

Someone had used much effort in trying to connect a USB device with the plug being the wrong way around.

He bought me lunch :)

Don't give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble 'scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away

Re: Was I the only one...

@BAG

Sun.

UK Ministry of Defence: We won't prosecute bug bounty hunters – oh btw, we now have one of those

Re: Hackathon?

You mean, like, FireEye?

hahahhahahahahapmslhahahahahaha

How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed

What?

No mention of three letter agencies?

Call me shocked!

...And disappointed.

Ever had a bogus call from someone claiming to be the IRS? A tax scam ringleader just got sent down for 20 years

Jim...

Jim Browning on the utoobs. If you haven't heard of him, look him up :)

And Kitboga <-- funny trucker!

Love the work those two do!

Once, there were two guys, one American, the other (not sure) had a Russian accent. They call these scam call centres and give them grief... until, it would seem, these two guys got scammed themselves... then they disappeared. Anyone remember who they were and where they are now?

Fuck You, America! Australia! New Zealand. The UK. Canada!

And because we're (au) aligned with the USA, we have to follow the USs lead, and ban whatever, whomever the US says to.

AND, as a result, we (au) are now experiencing trade blockades with China, OUR major trade partner.

Fuck YOU, America!!!

Fuck You, America! Australia! New Zealand. The UK. Canada!

I am so sick and tired of hearing in the news that Russia and China are really good at hacking the Five Eyes nations!

We, it the tech. industry know full well that the only reason WhooHoo (Huawei) are banned is because they will not allow the Eyes network to backdoor their equipment!!!!!

Go to fucking hell, anyone that disagrees with that!

Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical's Snap Store

Re: I guess, but why?

@BlackJack

Absolutely! MicroSoft tried very hard to make their own version of HTML. I swear, man, that made my job really hard. Eventually, I just made my website HTML 4 compliant. If it didn't work in IE, well, fuck you!

Software engineer leaked UK missile system secrets and refused to hand cops his passwords, Old Bailey told

Re: Mustard-coloured Jumper Man

Cardigans? Nobody wears cardigans!

:D

SNAFU: Clairvoyant train brings warning of what was coming down the line for 2020

TITSUP

If only it said TITSUP...

Total Inability To SNAFU Unsuspecting Passengers!

:D

Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown

Screwed

@AC

Exactly. And exactly why I don't understand all the whaling at funerals... the dead (men) go to a place with lots of virgins (why virgins? is it a penis size issue?) to have glorious sex with for eternity. And if that were true, I'd be there right now! (yeah, penis... oh, nothing)

:D

Wow, you guys have so much in common: Oracle hotly tipped to power TikTok’s operations as Microsoft deal rejected

Any Minute Now

Looking forward to Trumps insistence that all nations in the 14 Eyes spy network do exactly the same.

/tic

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

Routing

I would suppose it is safe to assume the Trump Amin. have no idea about how routing and networks work.

You Musk be joking: A mind-reading Neuralink chip in a pig's brain? Downloadable memories? Telepathy? Watch and judge for yourself

Eyes Back Head

So, with a webcam or two, I could have eyes on the back of my head?

Ed Snowden has raked in $1m+ from speeches – and Uncle Sam wants its cut, specifically, absolutely all of it

Re: Barry and Clinton

@AC / OP

You must be new around here, eh?

Complaining about downvotes will just attract more downvotes.

Australian government wants power to run cyber-response for businesses under attack

Telstra

So who gets hacked back the next time Telstra have a DDoS attack that isn't an attack, but rather a TITSUP (total inability to support usual performance)?

Texas jury: Apple on the hook for half a billion dollars after infringing 4G LTE patents

Re: But...

Damnit, I forgot to mention the _multiple_ Apple Corps (read, The Beatles) vs Apple Computer lawsuits.

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

Re: But...

MY buttons, the ones I made, look like a three pointed star (don't call it a triangle, coz it's not, it's a three pointed star that I designed in Paint Shop Pro v7)! (see icon)

/tic

Seriously, that just freaks me out about Apple and rounded corners on software defined buttons! FKCU!

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

Re: HATE Speech

Of course you can.

Just do a Yahoo! for censored tv :D

My Eyes!

Yeah, I'm OK with the 14 eyes backdooring all our devices too, Peter, coz, it's not like anyone else will find out, right?

/tic

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Re: Trump plans to use his Death Star in a democratic election

Doesn't really matter how it plays out - the rest of the world will continue to laugh at America. Well, I will.