Master of Bugger All
Posts by Stork
1499 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2013
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers
Re: Yeah but…
Very much the last sentence.
I was involved in a large logistics company's integration testing (so, after systems had been tested individually) and four errors were found that would have stopped suff moving. ATOH, the system pricing insurance damages to cars did not work the first days of 2000, it had reasonably enough not been tested.
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law
CEO arranged his own cybersecurity, with predictable results
Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies
Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning
NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish
Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights
British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in
Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan
Re: I worry the "clean" nature may be being overstated here
In Denmark, which has a climate comparable to Scottish lowlands, the eastern bit, many are air source.
Houses are (better) insulated and heating systems use lower temperatures, making it easier to switch. But the statement that heat pumps don’t work at moderate frost is wrong.
No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI
UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities
India's lunar landing made a mess on the Moon
Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system
Web Summit CEO's comments on Israeli conflict 'war crimes' sparks boycott
Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts
Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained
One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe
$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list
Does the average consumer (not the average ElReg reader) realistically have a way of knowing what is repairable?
As an aside, I am trying to replace a cable on a MagSafe2 charger which sustained rabbit damage. I have done it before with success on an older MagSafe2, had bought a replacement cable, but Apple has changed the solder to something that doesn’t melt. Can’t get the old cable stump out, grrr
Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right
Re: Phones are lovely but they'd be much better without cameras
I have a DSLR (Nikon d5300) with both GPS and WiFi. Never tried the latter, GPS far too slow and battery sucking for practical use.
Why not have an app and say Bluetooth that gives location to the camera and let you send photos (perhaps just jpeg)?
Thom Hogan has complained about this for ages, and even suggested it to the Japanese companies. But they are still HW people.
Re: Phones are lovely but they'd be much better without cameras
What Camera makers have missed here is making it easier to get the photos off the effing camera - in far too many cased it involves shuffling around with cards or cables like 15 years ago; the SW integration is more often than not atrocious.
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
Similar story from print times
My aunt was working at the Royal Danish Mail, responsible for correspondence in English with other postal services.
In the seventies there was a lot of publications of graphical nature posted from Denmark, and in one case a shipment was returned from the US with the comment that they could not let that sort of stuff into the country. My aunt took a quick look and wrote back: “yes you can, it says printed in the USA”.
Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign
UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM
Re: How about the ministers go next?
What should that be good for? Everything is well with the PPEs and classics graduates in charge, right? /s
It’s not just in the UK though. Here in Portugal law graduates seem to dominate politics, in Denmark it is a mix of graduates of law, political science and economics (but they only do one of them, and then usually a masters).
I am afraid numerate and scientifically literate people find something more rewarding to do.