Posts by Sub 20 Pilot

Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course

How long before the orange faced twat decrees it illegal for any airline to fly to the US unless it is using a Boeing ? My apologies if this is an idea he has not had yet.

China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

Re: Sounds really good...

No, because science and scientists are usually working towards a goal and a common good.

It is the politicians and the greedy fuckers in most nations that would want to sabotage things unless it was something their nation did. The US is typical of the sort of nation that does this. I await the nonsensical bullshit that emanates from the orange crook and his evil overlords as to how China must be stopped from doing this research or to give it away to Musk etc. so that the US can do their bit and then hold the world to ransom with it.

The cooperation of all nations and people of different religions within organisations such as CERN and ITER should be a model for everyone. Russian scientists in the main want their science to suceed like the ones in the EU, the US and other countries, it is their bad luck that their country is run by a bunch of cunts. Same for scientists in the US.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Same victorian dad / US shit.

Blah blah blah...pornography is bad, needs to be stopped, same shit different twats in charge.

Does anyone else think that this victorian / US atttude towards sex is fucking bonkers while there are billions of sites and tv programmes showng all manner of graphic volence, murders, death etc in fictonal tv or internet shows ?

Sex is natural, nudity is natural despite the relgious morons teling us it is perverse. Killing people, even fictional, is not fucking normal but this is considered OK for children to see ?

The aliens or the world killing asteroid can't come soon enough if the majority of people disagree.

Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Re: 'Safely Switched'

With you 100% on the 'dumb useless elderly' trope which never goes away in mainstream media.

Rapidly heading towards 70 and although we are all able to be caught out, I suspect I would be less likely to be scammed than your usual teen, 20's social meeja junkie who may use tech but have no idea how it works. Being able to access netflix or instagram is not a sign of understanding technolgy, any more than the ability to have a shit and flush your WC makes you an expert on human biology or waste disposal technology.

What the precious arrogant little dumbfucks don't understand is that the tech they are using is platformed on technology that was designed and built by my generation and the one before.

The number of times some obnoxious little turd has told me 'you wouldn't undertstand' in some discussion is incredible. Depending on mood, I may bite and when I do I just throw a pile of questions on the tech and then sit back as they splutter and I end up telling them how it actually fucking works.

Anyway, rant over, I enjoyed your comment. Have a good weekend.

Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve

Re: Nine solar radii -- just wow!

Sadly, there are a lot of people out there that believe this sort of shite.

I am working with someone, luckily not closely or I would have walked off the job, who not only thinks the world is flat but is religious and claims all this bollocks about the sun being a few miles away within some dome, no proof needed, his god said so. Gravity, speed of light, eclipses, weather - no - his sky fairy states that this is nonsese so he believes it. In a just world he would be out of a job and unable to eat and breed - Darwinism as it was called but we keep him alive for no fucking reason other than to dumb down the gene pool.

When you look at the brilliance of the engineers throughout NASA and the other space agencies you have to wonder why the fuck are we going backwards. Again, in a just world, all the anti vax morons would be the ones that die out rather than normal people dying through the increase in curable diseases beng allowed to strengthen.

I somehow doubt things will improve in the next 4 years.

Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

Re: It's not just Brits...

I would have walked out of the restaurant as soon as I saw that you had to use some shite app or QR code to get you food. Fair enough if it was pointed out at time of booking, that is by huge full web page or being verbally told of it at booking, not some tiny text somewhere on the website. Then I would have found a more sensible place to eat.

Places like these, run, no doubt, by some wanky hipsters so fucking dumb that they can't see just how stupid it is to make your customers install some crap on their phone just to pay for their meal deserve to go under.

Ransom gang claims attack on NHS Alder Hey Children's Hospital

I am far from being wealthy but would happily throw a £1k or so into a pot that would actually destroy these fucking parasites.

Find these cunts.

Spend the money that would be handed over to them in doing so.

Nail them to a tree and burn the fuckers.

Film it and put it out there as a warning to others.

There is a lot of bad in the world and a lot of good.

Evil cunts that target a childrens hospital is about the lowest you can get.

I do hope the bastards have a slow painful death whenever it happens.

Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

Re: Meaningless Buzzwords

This seems to be standard everywhere now.

Wanky soundbites from any tech based company, response from any government agency is a jumble of pointlessly made up shite that means nothing.

....is our top priority.

... are our laser focused targets

...tirelessly striving to achieve...

Fucking dullards the lot of them. Have a good weekend anyway.

EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids

I am a part time emergency first responder so understand what training you have done for blue light training etc.

With regards to acceleration of EV's - I can see why some people would see it as a problem but I used to mess about and modify motorbikes - 180 kg bike with a 225 BHP engine was my best one so an EV feels pretty sluggish after that..

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

Re: deathbox

My response, when these arseholes have contacted me previously, was to tell them to fuck off then block the number. Now I give them a random postcode and house name and if they stay on the phone without questioning this,then I tell them to fuck off etc.

I have had conversations such as ''This is your bank, your account has strange activity and you need to confirm your login etc..'' My reponse - ''which bank and which account?'' then when they can't answer, tell them to f... etc.

Sometimes I will ask ''HSBC or Natwest?''Neither of which I have an account with and whatever the response, unless they say ''no we are XXXX which I DO have an account with, then tell them to f... etc.

If ithey say it is a bank I have an account with I ask them to give me details of two or more direct debits or payment I know I have made. If they won't I will tell them ..etc.

Worst case scenario, I assume, is that if there is a very faint chance that they sound genuine, then I would tell them that I will phone the bank back on a number printed on the back of it's associated account card. If they try to stop me doing this it is a scam so...

Same when they say ''your computer has a virus..., I ask them which one and what OS are they referring to as I have a number of differnt machnes and a variety of Linux and Windows boxes.

I am pretty certain that it is worth following this type of routine and never to deviate, whatever they say to keep you on that call. While not the stupidest or the brightest person in the world, I am well aware that we can all fall foul of scams if we are under stress so for me, this is my strategy. Would be good to hear what other people do.

Wish all honest people a good weekend and all scumbag scammers a painful death.

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

Re: Multi-Fail

I have always done the same with my parachute repacking. A set number of tools, straps, weights at the start then the same number at the end. Not good to need a reserve chute or an issue with your main canopy because there is a holding strap keeping the risers together.

Darwinism in a way - you only ever make this mistake the once..

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

As usual, it is only China and other 'foreigners' spying on us. Never any mention of the countless US products and companies doing exactly the same if not more.

Do try to be a little more fair and unbiased in your articles please.

I know that this site is sadly owned by the bloody americans but for fuck's sake don't take us all for morons just because a huge percentage of your country are.

Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams

Might not work for everyone but I will NEVER buy anything or try anything or respond to a cold call or email. Anyone phoning me out of the blue is told to fuck off as I am on the UK do not call lists.

I currently receive a few SMS a week from sume cunts pushing investment scams so I bin them and block the number.

Any emails trying to sell me something or offering a service that I did not actually ask for is binned and the address added to my junk list. Persistent offeders I pass the details on to OFCOM although I know that they are worse than fucking useless at anything involving anything apart from protecting the big companies such as mobile phone co's, BT and ISP's.

I hope that the fuckers all jumping on the AI bandwagon face a painful death because it will do nothing except make scams and advertising easier, dumbing down everything and fucking up the envirnonment.

Humanity is fucked.

Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

Bunch of cunts that will do anyone over if they get away with it.

They stiffed me for £1200 over flights during covid. I could do nothing about it, tried everything I could to reason with them but their attitude was 'tough shit we don't need to give you your money back so we won't.'

Since then I have hopefully cost them a few £100k of lost business due to what I was doing and the number of people asking my advice on travel to different destinations to undertake those activities. Since then I have told people specifically to get any airline other that these cunts and will do so as long as I can.

Everyone is entitled to make a living but don't be arseholes just because you think you can.

CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage

2024 and this shit is still allowed to happen.

In my industry, you fuck up, you lose money or get put in jail when a building collapses or does not work.

Why are the cunts running anything to do with software still allowed to get off free when they fuck up big style and cost other people billions.

A revolution is needed worldwide where these people are made accountable. Until that happens this shit will go on and on.

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'

The state pension is NOT a benefit. I have paid full tax and NI contributions, on employment, self employment and other income for 43 years to date and will have paid the same for another 6 years until I actually get to 67 which I think is when I can get my state pension.

The minimum payment period for NI is 38 years after which you are eligible for the full state pension. By then I will have paid an additional 11 YEARS of conrtibutions for fuck all extra.

Anyone who tells me my state pension is a benefit will get their fucking head caved in.

Re: Training & safeguarding measures to protect vulnerable benefits claimants.

If you are a midwife and you are looking at their face, you are doing it wrong...

But..seriously. I agree with you, just had to make a pointlessly dull comment.

Best regards.

Re: Seems a bit odd

True. I had to set up a new account for personal use, at a bank where I have had a current account, a savings account, a mortgage account and a credit card account. The current and credit card accounts have been there for over 45 years.

I had to go to the local branch in person, sign a paper form, show them my passport and two household bills in my name and address, all of which they photocopied.

So it begs the question - how the merry fuck do these scammers get away with opening and emptying bank accounts then disappearing without any way of tracing them ?

UK law gives green light to self-driving cars from 2026

Re: UK self driving car

To which my response would be to fuck right off.

My car is road legal, I drive within the law, I am very careful around cyclists and horses as a matter of courtesy but any horse rider telling me what do do will be told to get off your unstable animal and take it off the road, where it is obviously the source of danger, not other road users.

I have seen too many entitled fuckers on horseback who think they own the fucking roads. Ride off road and on bridleways unless you have full control.

I can be prosecuted for not being fully in control of my vehicle so why should it be different to someone in charge of half a ton of muscle and a miniscule brain.

A lot of these are no doubt the entitled wankers insisting on the right to have an uncontrollable killer dog on a bit of string and it being everyone elses' problem to not get attacked by it.

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

Re: What's your point?

Yet per capita, the US still uses / wastes more energy than China by a huge margin. Something conveniently ignored by all americans.

Biden cranks up the heat on China with wall of tech tariffs

In the real world the choice is between giving your money to China for cheap goods or giving a fuckload more money to US companies that sell you the same stuff which they get from China cheaply while exlpoiting the slave labour and human rights abuses they criticise China for, then make a fucking obscene profit from.

Fucking hypocrites.

GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs

Re: I suppose its not possible to fool eyeballs

This has been going on for years and is getting worse. ''Caution fatigue'' similar to the over abundance of warning signs on construction sites, which I have taken up with the APS and the HSE to no avail.

Add this to the total clusterfuck of 20mph limits in most villages and towns in Wales and people inadvertently break some law or other because rather than have their eyes on the road they are scanning all the unneccessary signs, their speedo, the fucking moron six inches from their back bumper.

Having three stes of warning signs that you are approaching a speed limit is fucking nonsense. You need a speed limit sign, that is it, if you can't cope without the big huge fluorescent sign each side of the road every 100 metres for 300 metres then you should be off the fucking road.

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

Re: The 3 assistants with fantastic people skills who effing hate computers

We need to stop delaying progress because some people are too stupid.

Re: I predict.......

Simple answer is to mandate an open standard and provide a date for it's implementation. Huge fines on MS or any other closed source outfit that doesn't toe the line.

There is no reason why MS Office should be the de facto standard. I have to use 3 programs for my work that will only run on Windows and this should be illegal.

The US will do nothing about it but the rest of the world need to get their act together and start to push for open standards.

Also it may be a chance to simplify a lot of stuff - most office based stuff is not complex and there is no reason to tweak things so that they do not work in open source alternatives while doing fuck all about the security.

On another issue, it is time all online meeting software had to follow an open standard as well. I can speak to anyone in the world using my Huawei or Samsung phones and I can pick up emails from anywhere using my choice of email client so how come Teams, Zoom, Meet etc. can't talk to each other ? I know why but governments need to make it so. They need to take back some control from the profiteering bastards that hold us all to ransom.

US senator wants to put the brakes on Chinese EVs

Re: Popcorn icon needed

They may do but like a lot of others you need to recognise that they do not suit everyone.

I may do 400 miles in a week or I may need to do 300 miles in a day all, depends on my work.

As an emergency first respoder volunteer I can not afford to come back home after 200 odd miles or more of work related travel then miss out because my car is not charged.

Where I live and the hours I work you can guarantee that my wipers, demisters, heating and lights will be on most of the time due to the shit weather except for a few months. This all reduces the travel distance.

I have never spent more than £15k for an used car, never bought a new one and will never splash out £50 - 80K for a top end tesla or one of the vehicles that do several 100 miles per charge.

Where I live, a very rural location, hence the first responder bit - there are almost fuck all publicly accessible charging points.

Even if there were I will not sit in my car for an hour or so and pay a premium for a fast charge.

EV's suit a lot of people but not everyone. I would love to be able to get one within my parameters but it looks unlikely for the foreseeable future.

You need to understand that everyone's case is not the same as yours before commenting.

Re: Popcorn icon needed

Please have a pint on me Sir. The most sensible comment by far for a very long time on the subject of EV's = particularly here in the UK.

Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos

One possibility that will obviously never be looked at - the US could get off their fucking high horse and assumption that they own everything.

Try to work with other countries instead of threatening anyone and anything they don't like.

Look at CERN - a fantastic multi national operation where politics and religion don't count. How shit would it be if it was located in the US ?

Everyone is entitled to make a living and do the best they can.

Many nations, including the Chinese, are leading on many industries andenvironmental proection despite the twats in power in the US trying to prevent them doing so. Sadly your democrats are no better than the moronic Trump and his republicans in this instance. Would be quite funny if the Chinese asked for their $3.5 trillion loan back.

Will look forwards to the downvotes, threats of violence etc. that is the normal US response on a once great UK site.

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

Re: It's Zuckerberg

Him and his sort really need to be hit with multi billion fines, non negotiable, payable now, not allowed 20 years of appeals, and them beng put in prison.

If not, the whole farce will just carry on. ''Yes we were caught, sorry, won't do it again honestly'' does not work. It has been tried and it does not work so go for the only thing that will, asset seizure, immediate billion dollar level fines and jail.

Anything short of that is just the various governments fucking their people over.

Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

Re: Photo ID in UK

No, what it does is to provide free ID for anyone who does not have any of the dozens of acceptable forms of ID. If the 'young and the minority people' can't be fucking arsed to pick up a widely advertised free ID then they are the ones too stupid to vote. Westill have personal responsibility here in the UK.

We must stop pandering to the dumb and lazy in the UK, that way leads to the sort of fucked up state of affairs in the US.

Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data

Re: My irony meter just broke

Fucking hypocrites. Always been the same with the US. Do as I say not as I do.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

Re: Are the United States

And you think the US is not doing exactly the same ? Time that bloody nation got slapped down and told to behave,

The morons that run the US, much like the fucking idiot looking to have another go at it, are just running protectionist scams to keep China at bay. What would they do if the rest of the world said the same about US cars and all their other tech. After all it isn't as though they haven't been caught out spying on their ''allies'' is it.

One day China will bite back and it will hurt you fuckers the most and to be honest you deserve it. (US, not you personally.)

The west has thrived by expoliting the Chinese slave economy for as long as they could, now they see it as a threat they are running scared and claiming that everything is a threat, even though nothing in any Chinese tech is any different to the stuff they sell on to their so called allies. Fucking hypocrites and parasites.

Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance

Did the americans not just shoot at each other, or at kids? I think they knew how to kill each other.

Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data

Re: Avast has not, however, admitted guilt

I think we have a ''prince'' that did just that?

The grand old duke of york,

he had twelve million quid,

and then he gave it all away

for something he never did.

And this is different to all the US based companies who do exacty the same ? This site gets more MAGA like and trumpian by the week.

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

Same old shit, different year (almost.)

Just read through the whole thread and am not surprised at the general consensus. I don't do films or tv and have never used Amazon for anything, ever. If I can only buy something on there I do not need it.

I pay Google a lot of money for a number of work related services and as a consequence, linked my account to youtube for a few things I had an interest in. Now they are forcing their shit adverts for stuff I would never pay for throughout youtube then it can go and fuck itself. Adblockers currently can't stop this so I have signed out and can live without the stuff I was watching ocasionally.

There are alternatives to the google services that will work for me and I will be changing over in 2024. It will cost them a few hundred pounds a year, not going to bankrupt them, but as far as I am concerned, there is a cut-off point for parasitic greed and they have over stepped it.

I suspect that people will start to go back to full on piracy en-masse. The various online, download and streaming services were a way of getting what you wanted at a reasonable cost so most people were happy to give these companies their money and stay legal when they provided a service. Of course the parasitic corporations can't accept this so they are all getting even more greedy and determined to fuck over their customers in any way they can so it is time that people dumped the bastards.

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

Re: Excelent design - aliens must be proud

Could you imagine Voyager 1 and 2 being prepared for use these days ?

Would need billions of gigabytes of storage for any onboard software, would need to upgrade online very few days with a billion times more bandwidth that V1 and V2 have, would need constant rebooting and troubleshooting with at least half the time not working. Would be filled with useless shit and nagging adverts.

My humble respect for the engineering skills of the people who put the kit together in the 70's. It would be just fantastic to have their skills and work ethos in all software design now as opposed to the total clusterfuckery that has been allowed to proliferate.

Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices

Re: Not a good experience

I don't touch their shite, I use a small paid-for pdf editor and a lot of other utilities as alternatives to their bloated crap.

Also done the same with Autodesk, now refusing to pay well over a thousand pounds a year for a subscription model that changed things randomly to justify their fees and refused to work offline while I was away in foreign parts for weeks on end.

I now use progeCAD and have paid £300 odd for a permanent license for 2 machines. If I want to update I can, if not, no problem. Loads in half the time, installs in minutes with a simple code as opposed to multi gigaabyte online hassling and hidden files that insist on checking your license before you opened it or tried to print from it and caused endless problems and expensive online connections from various parts of the world for no reason. Autodesk treated me like a criminal even though they had taken my money. I hope the fuckers die a painful death.

Sooner these arsehole parasite mega corporations are told to fuck off by paying customers/ victims, the better it will be for us, the people they rely on.

Only one reason I can't move from MS Windows - another parasitic shitbag - to Linux is my reliance on a number of small specialist structural and heatloss software which are windows only with no alternative. I count the days until I don't need them and can rid my machines of the MS shite.

Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online

These fuckers need to be tried quickly and publicly then jailed for decades with no benefits or parole. It needs to happen so that any other cunts wanting to try the same can see that there are consequences to enslaving people in order to scam other victims. It has to be world wide. Any bonkers regime not agreeing to this need to be sanctioned to the hilt and no trade participated in with them. By bonkers I mean any nation that thinks it is above the law. NK, Russia, rogue African states, the USA, some Eastern European nations etc. No mercy. 8 billion people should be able to trump any fuckwit-run state that allows this to happen.

Kneecapping and burning at the stake would also be acceptable for those where guilt in 100% proven. The world needs to deal with this before it gets even worse.

It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals

I disagree with you, I speak 4 languages but sometimes swearing is the only thing that works.

You can't say that it is bad while selecting an use case for yourself that justifies it. That is hypocricy.

Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

Re: Since

Agree. We do have the skills etc. but we have spineless, useless, lying pricks that govern us that always come up with this nonsense. Red / Blue ones are all the same.

What I find annoying is that the UK invented most things up to when we gave up and let the americans run everything after the second world war. For those unaware- see how we boxed up everything that Tommy Flowers of the GPO and most of Bletchley Park were working on for years while we sat back and watched the US take all this stuff and make money from it. Now all we get is the morons in charge clamping down and over regulating everything. (Except the cash paid to the incompetents running our utilities and HS2.)

Re: Since

Also the UK government, red or blue, will sit on the fence and wait until they can throw all our taxpayers money at US companies that eventually come up with an SMR rather than back an UK based company that has a working model requiring some work to make them suitable. Has been the case ever since WW2.

So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale'

Re: Lay off guys

When the US behave then I for one will not slag it off. Biggest polluters, biggest waste producers, experts at bullying smaller nations to do as it says not as it does.

When it stops trying to push it's shit on the rest of the world while saying that anything from China should be banned everywhere else, not just the US then it can go and fuck itself. Not trolling, just reality.

Behave like a part of the human race and as a nation that respects others and you will be treated with respect. The rest of the grown up world is getting tired of their antics.

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Re: Be careful BT

The joy of an almost monopoly - all other mobile providers will be doing the same and BT Openwound have the monopoly for landlines except for a few minor things I believe.

Monopoly - never having to give a fuck about your customer/victims.

Meta says it'll ask Euro peeps nicely before hitting them with personalized ads

Re: Nice one Boris

Not a problem for most people but the continuing Talibanisation** of the US, which of course we slavishly follow in the UK, means that sex or nudity is disgusting while violence is fine.

** - allowing, or wanting to allow a pile of gun-obsessed, religiously backward and intolerant, woman hating buch of cunts run the show.

Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries

The marketing wankspeak in those two sentences is atrocious. Why does the mainstream media allow these fuckers to spout this meaningless crap for everything instead of calling them to task for it. A pile of words that mean fuck all in the real world and the media allows them to get away with it as a free advert.

It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365

Best I ever had Teams working was on a cheap Huawei phone after getting pissed off with it crashing, refusing to log me in, needing random reboots on a Windows machine. I run Zoom, Ring Central and google Meet on a number of laptops with no problem. Teams running on windows - I can heat my house with the hammering the processor gets.

Serious query - does anyone else get this or do most people run it in conjunction with MS Office ? And no, before the shills respond - I don't need MS Office, I run Libre Office and Thunderbird as that does all I need, I spend thousands per year on CAD software, specialist structural and thermal programs and a few other bits so don't feel the need to give MS any more money for things I don't need over and above their shite bloated OS.

TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade

Same here, last went there in 1980 or so and will never go back. Plenty of other countries take my tourist / travel money without treating me like a criminal.

It is their country so they can do what the hell they like I suppose but nt for me.

North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch

Re: Amazing they’ve been able to do this

Spot on.

You forgot religious mania, a mediaeval view of women and abortions, aversion to sex while glorifying violence..