Posts by JJKing

Trump's taxing problem: The end of 'affordable' iPhones

@ Mark 110

I am interested to know if your moderate government down under is more to do with you having proportional representation than compulsory voting

Sorry Mark but you have mixed up two different countries here. New Zealand has proportional representation but no compulsory voting.

Australia has compulsory voting but not proportional representation. Australia does however give you two votes (waiting for the down vote avalanche now) and this is called Preferential voting. You get a primary vote where you vote for your desired candidate. If your desired guy, sorry candidate, doesn't get sufficient votes to carry the day, 50.1%, then your second vote comes into play. Your second vote for the next person that you might like to see elected then gets totalled with the initial votes so there is eventually get a candidate who gets a 50.1% of the two votes and so wins a seat in parliament. (The 50.1% is for the Lower House. The Senate works a little different but also on percentages.)

It gets very complicated and all sorts of deals are made to get the Preference vote for your party. In the election held here in July, there was a doofus who won a seat in the Senate with just 71 primary votes. He got past the line with preference votes directed from other parties.

Angry user demands three site visits to fix email address typos

Schools, meh!

Autocomplete function is actually the Outlook address book and so I was educated by this IT illiterate Primary School teacher. Her problem was it kept corrupting, unlike the NK2 file from Outlook 2007, so I kept getting calls that her address book was corrupted. After about 15 minutes I just gave up trying to explain the difference and I was fairly good at reducing an issue down to an analogy that was understandable and not geek speak. I told her to stop installing a certain Apple program that was responsible for the death and destruction in this case. Bloody iTunes.......oops.

Got a call at 8.30pm about a teacher who couldn't logon to their laptop. I had set the passwords to never expire as I only had 4 hours per week at this school and couldn't afford to spend it on id10Ts who couldn't remember it (also happened after their 2 weeks breaks). I said I would make a special trip into the school and I would be there at 8.15am sharp, and I was. Strolled into the principal's office and laptop was on his coffee table, closed and turned off. No password had been left, would have been useless since teachers start each sentence with a capital letter so who knows what the case sensitivity of the password would have been. Some even wrote their whole password in UPPERCASE when it was asked for. TEN minutes later the teacher was found, typed password into the laptop that I had booted and surprise, surprise, it logged on. "Well it wouldn't work last night". I cracked it saying I had just wasted 30 minutes coming here for a working password. It was out of my way for that day and I had to wait while the teacher was found. I should have just left it and fixed it during my next weekly scheduled visit.

A Prep class (first year students), I couldn't leave there after fixing a fault until I got a special stamp on my hand from the minimalistic brain sized teacher.

Oh yes, the Internet is not working is teacher code for "I can't access my Facebook page" when everything else is working.

Had a school where they office staff refused to keep documentation from couriers. This resulted in some 8 laptops being delivered, put into the strongroom, $2,000 worth of books being delivered. Laptops were configured and setup for the appropriate staff members. Laptops ended up having the wrong serial numbers (I could have resolved this with a single phone call but I was not forwarded the email that got sent to the School Notebook Representative, SNR) so another 8 laptops sent to the school and put in the strongroom. Remember, I don't know about these extra laptops. School sends laptops back to supplier. I enter strongroom and ask why there are 16 laptops here. No said office moron, they were returned. I get call from laptop supplier about a delivery of books from said school. My report was a two pages long as I described in detail what had happened. You guys got the cliff notes version. It was a total and avoidable cockup if I had been forward that single email.

Trump's plan: Tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, turn off the internet

@ MyffyW

And Donald, if you come anywhere near me with those wandering hands I'll knee you in the goolies.

I hope you have an LTD (Laser Target Designator) because what we have seen from the size of the hands, you are going to have a tiny target to knee. (Oh look, I turned a noun into a verb)

Naughty UK Google cloud users can now be sued by Chocolate Factory in England

Read the Fine Print

"free accounts will not be terminated due to inactivity during the first 365 days of the contract".

And what happens if it's a Leap Year?

Vodafone Australia promises fixed-line broadband over NBN

As oft asked in the area where I live and only 40km from Melbourne's CBD, "What's NBN?" It's certainly not faster, quicker, sooner therefore the price part of the TWS (Three Word Slogans) doesn't even enter this equation. Not even listed on the FBN's (Fraud Band Network) website.

Almost as bad as not even being able to get it within 10km of the CBD. Gee, a refrigerator sized spacecraft can travel millions, nay billions of kilometres through space and intercept a tiny comet with all this timed down to mere seconds yet we can't even get an estimate when we might possibly expect work to possibly commence of preparing for the eventual beginning of the crappy FTTN rollout to areas of not just my local but to a swath of this country.

Still, should not be surprised. Four months since the election and has ANY legislation been passed yet? If Bob Day was deemed to have been in breach of Senate rules, does this mean any legislation that he did vote for and was passed by a single vote, does that legislation now need to be put before the Senate again? If he wasn't a legal member of the Senate due to the rule breach of having the taxpayer pay the rent of his electoral office, a building which he owned, then surely that legislation was passed by the vote of an illegal Senator.

Now if he was sitting (and voting) as a non Senator, which political party should have had that seat for the PREVIOUS electoral sitting period? Will he have to pay back the nearly $2 Million of taxpayers money for that alleged bribe to his school in exchange for his vote for the Liberal Govt legislation?

Apologies Simon, went a bit off topic there but was Day instrumental in getting any Liberal Broadband legislation passed through the Senate?

Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'

Big John is Totally Correct for once.

@Big John

Always imagining committing violence against your political opponents (when not actually doing so). It really is a mental disorder.

Totally correct BJ. Are you called BJ because that is what you are always doing to other guys?

No different to someone saying they could shoot a person dead in Times Square and not lose voters.

Same as suggesting the Second Amendment people (who have some, not all, just some seriously disturbed gun owners) could act against Hillary Clinton.

Not to different saying if you grab them by the pussy you can do anything.

Are these the violent images that you are reefing to Big John? I assume you call yourself Big John because your hands and other wishfully thinking appendages are Drumpf sized.

Seeing how you think these violent images are really a mental disorder then you should grab your intellectual capacity equal, idol Donald J Drumpf, and both pop down to Bellevue to ask for a room each. Don't be surprised if the other "residents" look down on you both since they are in 95% of the cases shall be tour intellectual and physical superiors.

Microsoft puts Windows Updates on a diet with 'differential downloads'

Windows 7 SP1 Clean Install

Having treated my Win7 laptop with Maginot Line defences (an apt example since nasty Windows 10 Nazis just walked around it) and having not updated since November 2015, I thought a clean install would blow all the cob and interwebs out. (Shame I was too stupid to neglect an SSD install). The basic install was all finished in about 25 minutes or maybe less and then came the dreaded Update button depression.

The first run lasted about 7 hours while I was studying erstwhile site such as this one in an attempt to gain valuable intellectual knowledge to lodge into the cavernous pit between my shell likes. Got tired of Dinsdale nailing said cavernous pit to floor and was hoping a full cavernous pit would halt progress of said nails. Anyways, I digress. After several Update attempts I built up the courage to leave my non Samsung supplied li-ion battery to run by itself, unattended like. THIRTY-ONE HOURS later, I was the proud parent of a 271 Update baby. In my exuberant excitement I failed to record the time taken to install the 271 bloody updates however I can say that once they had finished and the updated Updates and the updated, updated Updates and the updated, updated, updated Updates, etc etc, had finally finished, it totalled 364 Updates.

A Windows 8.1 clean install I left running overnight and was rewarded with 301 Update totalling 1,977MB for the first Update round. I am ashamed to say that I haven't yet migrated to a Linux flavour but I am looking at things like WSUSOffline and Autopatcher because waiting so long to got old real quick and I don't like handing a newly installed device to the owner and telling them, "Oh yes, I have left the Updates for you to do." Not real flash when they are paying you for the install and who knows what the idiots are going to install, you know like Silverlight!?

Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

My country's SF troopers and arty, 161 Battery, served alongside you guys over there so THANK YOU Florida1920. The Sandy of VN is the A-10 of today. When are the air farce generals going to realise the A-10 is such an important tool in their arsenal. The F-22 has turned out cheaper than the F-35 but they still insist that the more expensive toy will win the day. The A-10 and F-16 have sure proved that theory WRONG!

Australia's new data breach disclosure laws have a rather floppy definition of 'breach'

Clayton's anyone?

Ah yes, the Clayton's Breach. It's the breach your having when you not having a breach. Damn, I can hear Jack Thompson's voice even as I typed that.

Microsoft kinda did OK this quarter – but whatever, Wall Street loves Satya Nadella

P. Lee, thank you for the laugh :thumbsup: . It immediately brought to mind this old gem.

Windows 95 is 32 bit extension for a

16 bit graphical shell for an

8 bit operating system originally written for a

4 bit processor written by a

2 bit company that doesn't care

1 bit about their customers.

I guess that makes me old even in dinosaur years.

nbn™ says nobody needs gigabit internet, trumpets XG-Fast at 8Gbps anyway

Faster uploads.

I might not be able to fully utilise 100mbps at present but I could sure take a big bite out of the 40mbps up speed. People go so hard about the lack of need for the download bandwidth but forget it is the upload bandwidth that has the possibly greatest potential at present. Say I have an operating system ISO that a colleague needs. With a 100/40mbps connection I can upload it to him four times FASTER than I can presently download it.

Watched a TV doco a few years back about the potential of fibre in the outback towns. A small hospital has a patient arrive in the middle of the night when all the specialists are off duty. High speed fibre would allow a specialist in a large city hospital or even the other side of the globe to download hi-res scans and diagnose what is wrong. With the advance in "remote robot" technology, this outback patient may even be operated on by a surgeon 2,000km or more away from them. The problem then was the fibre connection the hospital/medical centres in the outback were fully utilised and they had issues even sending a hi-res x-ray due to bandwidth limitations.

Sky Muster I and II are going to bring the remote and very remote regions into the modern world and not have to educate their children via HF radios. Why do people have so much trouble seeing the massive potential of high speed fibre and consistently run with the line of 25/5 is more than I will ever need. Guess they also only need a non STD telephone and not require any sort of smartphone either if this is they way they think.

Gigabit not needed, what a load of crap!

I know of over 50 businesses that would kill for a gigabit connection and become serial killers for it to have that speed in BOTH directions. Ok, I over exaggerate the extremes they would go to but they have multi hundred MB files to transfer and the faster the connection the quicker they can get the modified images returned for printing.

Guess the liberal lacky morrow is just spruiking how great it will be to have 25mbps FTTN speeds guaranteed for 1 second every day and the poor old Kiwis will only have 1000/500 speed to 70% of the country. Seems the jokes on them since gigabit is not necessary.

Now we just have to wait for mathew42 to come and paste his usual slow speed tripe.

Drone idiots are still endangering real aircraft and breaking the rules

Drones will cause impact damage.

There hasn't been a single accident involving a drone

I bet there wasn't a single accident involving an automobile until there was.

I've seen the damage a 1.2lb bird can do to a light aircraft flying at 87 knots and it scared the shit out of me at the time.

Amazon supremo Bezos' Blue Origin blows its top over Texas desert

Re: The crew capsule of death?

It was so out of control the rapid change in acceleration forces would have incapacitated the crew in seconds.

Apologies, poorly worded post by me.

I was referring to the lateral acceleration forces caused by the unstable "wobbling" movement and not the vertical force. The rapid lateral movement changes would cause necks to fail under those conditions. I would assume stabilisers will be fitted to the capsule to avoid oscillations like that in the future.

The crew capsule of death?

If there had been any astronauts in that "escape" capsule, they would be dead. It was so out of control the rapid change in acceleration forces would have incapacitated the crew in seconds. I'm not a rocket scientist but I know from my aviation experience and training that that was not a survivable "escape".

Also, when it left the main rocket with that much thrust, what would the G forces be that were applied to them during the escape phase? It's not like it was a gentle bang seat ejection. :-)

What the HEC? HDS claims it has a big *aaS

NABA! I am so sick of them.

Wi-Fi baby heart monitor may have the worst IoT security of 2016

When I was a baby, parents used to tear themselves away from a device known as the wireless and check their baby was ok. Now I suppose it is such an inconvenience to have to put down your tablet, tear yourself away from the latest restaurant food shot your friend has posted on InYourFaceBork to physically check your new real life device.

Oh the inhumanity of it all.

Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi you, you're fired: Apple sacks staff secretly snapping shoppers

Sometimes you need to check an image

Replaced a video card in a desktop, clicked in Pictures, selected a random image to see if the card was working and up popped some porn. Since it belonged to the Principal at a catholic school I reported it and later discovered it was child porn when plod arrived on my doorstep with a search warrant.

Sometimes you need to check an image or document for testing. Now I have a write protected USB stick with my own pure as the driven snow images and never click on anything without a witness present. Not pleasant shit to go through.

NBN is essential, says Essential poll, but not Turnbull's NBN

Why, why, why?

Why, why, why do the naysayers only see this as how it affects them now. Is there nobody looking to the future for this or even how it can vitalise and allow business to grow and add jobs, especially in regional Australia?

This brilliant idea has been abortonised for political reasons. Even if the original FTTP had cost double what was initially projected, it would have returned that many times over and not that far down the road. Instead so many are "what's in it for me now"; just like our pension rich pollies who suffer ZERO consequences for fucking over the country multiple times.

Government rushes 000 tender out, two years ahead of schedule

If it's in Australia and the gummint have anything to do with it then it is going to end up as a giant far cup, cost billions to implement and probably billions more to fix but the pollies friends will have pocketed millions of taxpayers money in the process.

Surprised it hasn't been outsourced to Asia as a cost saving measure.

Is Apple's software getting worse or what?

It's a Mac, I mean doesn't it just err work? That's what the advert and fanbois say, isn't it?

Feds collar chap who allegedly sneaked home US hacking blueprints

Can someone define for me what they consider an "operational blunder". Is that like he got caught when he didn't think he world?

Edinburgh University to flog its supercomputer for £0.0369 per core hour

Now where did I put my old copy of Doom......

User couldn't open documents or turn on PC, still asked for reference as IT expert

The dreaded L user and L techs

I my corporate job when my daughter started school so I could either drop her off or pick her up. It was a massive financial drop in $$$ as I went to work in the school IT system. Years later I was employed at a school and was told my boss was the 21 year old "tech"and here I am now 55 years old. I arrived the SharePoint Helpdesk was full of open jobs that that the "tech" couldn't clear. Two weeks later I had nothing to do, SharePoint was clear. I then noticed the kid was fixing teacher's home machines that they bought in and was entering them into the Helpdesk as work he had done. I can only guess it was so he would be able to point out that he was actually fixing things and entering them into the Helpdesk.

A couple of new laptops were in the office when I arrive one day with a note say "XXXX with do!" so, he was the boss so I left them alone. I had noticed that he had been downloading a large number of wireless LAN drivers for these laptops and I didn't know why. We worked different days so I didn't get the chance to ask. About 3 month later the Principal asked if I could if I could look at the laptops and get them to him with the appropriate software installed on them. After spending 1.5 seconds turning on the Wi-Fi switch I proceeded to install the software and handed them to the Principal 90 minutes later. It was after turning the Wi-Fi switch on that I twigged as to why all the wireless drivers had been downloaded. He didn't know there was a switch. Guess he didn't know how to RTFM or use Google.

At the end of the year I was terminated. I later heard that the Business Manager hadn't been notified my departure and was not at all pleased because in her works "at least Joseph fixes things". I had to fill in for this clown at another school for 3 months while he was off for some reason. There were 18 computers that I was told were dead. When I was told when they died I was not happy because it happened while they were still under warranty so could have been fixed and cost them nothing plus they would have had these resources. I looked inside a couple of the machines, borrowed a compressor of a friend and resurrected 17 out of the 18 "dead" computers. Things went downhill from there.

I wonder to this day (5 years later) why he was able to keep his job being totally inept but I couldn't because I was now in the undesirable age bracket. This isn't intended to sound like a whinge about me but it is more about the thousands of dollars this one idiot had cost these schools some of which had tiny IT budgets where the loss of one machine was a disaster. From the previous readings it seems that incompetence rises to the top and us with the receding blonde hairlines are seen as being unable to keep up with these new fangled magic boxes filled with electronic thingies.

Last one. I walked into a classroom and the teacher had decided to take the cover off a 15" CRT monitor to show the students what was inside. Now I don't know what sort of charge the large electrolytic capacitors in these held but I do know, not from personal experience, that it is not a good thing to touch them. I don't think any parent would have been too pleased to find their 9 year old child had been zapped with one of them.

If we techs wrote a book listing all the stupid and dangerous things we have come across day to day in our chosen profession, it would be labelled fiction because nobody would believe anyone could be so dumb. Thank you and please keep them coming as some have even made me go, no way, why did they do that?

Source: nbn™'s fibre-to-the-kerb will be VDSL at 100/40Mbps

And yet bill morrow still get $1.5Million a year

nbn™ therefore sees the access to possible upgrades as representing value beyond its original arrangement with Optus

Really, our we as the numpties footing the bill actually supposed to accept bullshit like this.

Labor's plan, as I understand it, was to build the FTTP network to 93% of the population with the other 7% getting wireless and satellite and then sell it off. Since this 93% was all one type of infrastructure it would have been an easy thing to sell. But with the mish mash of crap that the creator of the Internet in Australia and his puppet master decided upon, how is that now going to happen.

I think to be fair, all liberals who were part of the decision to murdered the FTTP network should be denied their super package for costing Australia a badly needed technology boost and the extra cost it will take to rectify their abortion in the future.

Do some research about the position of Australia in the computing world in the early 50s and just imagine if the, oh gee, liberal government at the time had taken an interest. Seems that the libs only want to destroy Australia's scientific community. CSIRO, for every 1$ invested, $5 are returned yet the idiots cut their funding and world class scientists are snapped up elsewhere. Well done abbott and tunrbullshit.

Dickhead

Fuck off mathew42. Your anti real Broadband crap is just so bloody tiresome it has brought me to the point of nausea. I'm surprised you haven't trotted out your normal cut and paster figures of 79% are using 25mbps. With FTTN that is all we will get from your cocksucking liberal amateurs masters. Nice to know that you seem so happy that Australia is now ranked SIXTITH in the world of broadband. By 2020 we will be 100th. Nice job you naysayer supporter. You are PATHETIC!!

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia

What a President trump country would look like.

If you want to look into the future and see what it would look like with Drumpf as President then look no further than the Philippines. It is an 86% catholic country, so religious like the USA but not really yet their lunatic president (lowercase p as he doesn't deserve the respect of the office title) encourages the population to continually break one of the sacred catholic laws, the 7th commandment; THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

Read about what their president duterte says and does. The latest is that he has compared himself to Hitler. WOW, doesn't he have high standards. Does that remind you of the beautiful wall builder in the USA? I have relatives in the Philippines and they have gotten behind this idiot just like people have gotten behind Drumpf and they way the masses got behind Hitler. Thousands and thousands of Americans sacrificed their lives to defeat what Hitler stood for and yet the same people who would commit the ultimate sacrifice again for the exact same reasons think Drumpf is a top bloke and should be President Of The USA.

The Germans thought that about Hitler. Filipinos think that about their nutcase whose encouragement has resulted in over 3,000 deaths, several being children, because someone has accused them of taking or dealing drugs. Sounds very much like McCarthyism to me. You are accused and are guilty until you prove yourself innocent (an impossibility to prove that negative) or are murdered.

Drumpf's election not only affects the United States of America but also the rest of the world and for the next four year or until impeached.

Thank you.

I wish I had the literary dexterity to properly lambaste Trump to the degree that he deserves

AC, never argue with an idiot because Trump will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

No surprise: Microsoft seeks Windows Update boss with 'ability to reduce chaos, stress'

Bloody Win7 Updates in clean install

Anyone tried updating a new W7 install the conventional way recently, it's like watching a slug traverse the pitch at Wembley

Yes, I did. It spent SIX hours looking for updates and then announced that it didn't need any. It was a Windows 7 with SP1 slipstreamed. However, two days later I went to shut it down and was informed it had 59 Updates installing. The last time I did a full Windows 7 update there was 252 Updates in the first round alone. Can't remember the exact number of the rest but it too FOUR sessions before Windows 7 admitted it was full. Then it was off the cleanmgr to clear out all the duplicated crap.

Time to get reacquainted with AutoPatcher me thinks.

Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station

Shame Gene Roddenberry is not around. I think he might enjoy saying that we will boldly go where no man has gone before. [I mean man as in mankind, ok]

I wonder if they will build a confectionary factory and make a chocolate bar called Earth.

nbn™ dumps Optus HFC, will use fibre to the kerb for ≈700k sites

Bloody shame the lib pollies weren't required to put their pensions on the line with Faster, Cheaper, Sooner bullshit. Maybe with their own money at risk we would have had a realistic and eventually a useable high speed, that's world high speed and not politician high speed broadband.

Australian border cops say they've cracked 'dark net' drug sales

I would be very surprised if the black uniformed, jack boot border farce thugs could crack a fat while studying a porn magazine.

Uni student cuffed for 'hacking professor's PC to change his grades'

Maybe next time he will opt to play a nice game of chess.

Judge makes minor tweaks to sex ban IT man's order

Did that plonker of a judge watch that movie The Minority Report and think it was actual and real law?

Half! a! billion! Yahoo! email! accounts! raided! by! 'state! hackers!'

Didn't yahoo make everyone change their password in the past year?

I copied and pasted my old password into the New Password box and Yahoo email was quite happy to accept it. Wonderful security. My Yahoo account is 20 years old and while I don't use if much I do prefer their interface to that abortion Gmail uses.

Guess I really should change the password to something different, after all a password should not be 20 years old too. But then again, I only use that password on that site, in fact every site I logon to has a unique password. I'm old so I have an excuse to be stupid and lazy.

Samsung wants your exploding Galaxy Note 7. Have a new one instead

Samsung 7 has 2 different battery manufacturers.

I read that the batteries in the Samsung incendiary phone are produced in 2 different factories. The ones that you can toast marshmallows on are made by one factory. The other factory makes the non exploding variety of battery. I would imagine Samsung will swap the phones, replace the naughty battery with the well behaved one and then they have a refurbished Samsung 7 market.

The sooner critical manufacturing is removed from China and real quality control is restored the safer we shall all be.

I have a Nexus 5 that had a battery that wouldn't hold charge. Removed the case it was in and the plastic back cover popped off. This was caused by the battery that had obviously eaten something that didn't agree with it. I wonder how long before it too would have had a thermal runaway and caught fire. Bought a battery online for AUD$15 and it's been running like clockwork since. The hardest part was finding a place to take the chubby battery to so I could dispose of it responsibly. How many just toss their old batteries in the rubbish bins for burial?

Want a Dell printer? Unlucky – they've just stopped selling them

Five year plus old printers.

Those who have had a printer last over 5 years in the last decade.

Lexmark T522. Got it second hand in 2005 or 6 with a 500 sheet tray, duplex unit and a 2,000 sheet tray on the bottom. Cost me AUD$150 and came with a half full tone plus a new hi-capacity cartridge. In the last 3 months it has started ghosting on the lower half of the page. Now need to get a replacement mono laser as I don't want to waste the drum and fuser on my 2 year old Oki C531 just printing black. Does a not too bad colour image AND it has a 3 year warranty. :big-smile:

Samsung CLP-500. A seal broke on the waste toner container and got toner spilling onto the pages. It was 8 years old and due to the 4ppm colour rate decided to replace it with the Oki C531.

Someone mentioned the HP 5L and 6L with the feed problem. It sent the last 12 pages through the feed together and HP had a fix for this. I emailed them when it first became an issue and they sent me 2 boxes with about 20 fixers in each box. Gave one to a mate and every 5L or 6L spent 30 seconds (took 20 seconds to open the container the fix came in) and fixed each and every one. Later got another box of fixers from HP. I still have 2 of these things left is anyone is having feed problems with an HP 5L or 6L. The HP 1100 required a different part.

Australian universities drop tech services to dodge metadata retention obligation

Crow call the metadata, as per Graham Kennedy.

I am going to assist my ISP by reducing my metadata footprint by adding a VPN to my router so every Internet capable device in my house only passes encrypted packets. Problem is that I am still going to get whacked by an increase in my plan due to nosey fucking pollies, ASIO, AFP, ASIS, RSPCA, all American music and film organisations, local council, various Australian horse racing clubs (seriously!), Con the Fruiter and the million and one other organisations who want free access to the retained metadata.

Negative apologies to any TLAs that weren't mentioned. Rot in hell you scum sucks.

Australia, the cuntry that has passed more terrorism laws since 2001 than any other one in the world, INCLUDING surprisingly, America. Now the bloody cops want even more laws to "fight" crime. I think they want these new powers so they no longer have to do actual police work to catch real law breakers and can spend more time catching those heinous, fiendish criminals who exceed the speed limit by 5kph.

RAF Eurofighter gets a Battle of Britain makeover

Interesting part of the photo is the slight bit of applied left rudder on the jet. Doesn't look like a sideslip but possibly done to give a better view of it for the photo. I have an excellent example of an F-16 in a massive crossed controls so as to make a better view for the photo.

That racist bigot twit Churchill was quite correct when he said, "that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." However I would hope it will be the whole world that shall remember this very special generation between 1939 and 1945 and in a 1,000 years, This was our finest time and people.

I do not believe we shall ever see a whole generation like that again. Individuals, even many individuals yes but never a whole generation.

Trump website server config snafu left interns' CVs exposed

If Drumpf is elected it will make America a bigger laughing stock than it presently is. When Dubya was was allowed to steal that election I was dumbfounded. Then when he was voted in a second time I finally realised how low the IQ was of the voters in that part of the world. Electing Drumpf is going to have a detrimental flow on effect to the rest of the world. The US was responsible for the Great Depression and that reverberated around the globe. Drumpf's election shall be far worse and unless there are some very strong types in the White House I fear that mental midget who proclaims to have the "best words" will use nuclear weapons against some country that mentions the size of his tiny digits.

Hitler (Godwin's Law invoked) and Drump are both little tin gods who use(d) the same speech pattern to suck in the masses that listen(ed) to them. I genuinely fear for us if Drumpf is elected to be US President and you people will get what you deserve and the rest of the world will suffer because of your small minded short sightedness.

Typo made Air Asia X flight land at Melbourne instead of Malaysia

Makes me wonder what other patches have no been applied.

Patches.....we don't need no stinking patches!

Tesla driver dies after Model S hits tree

Re: standard operating procedures

No, it's spilt milk. SOP is to notcry over it.

FTFY

Re: standard operating procedures

No, it's spilt milk. SOP is to not cry over it.

FTFY

Forget Khan and Klingons, Star Trek's greatest trick was simply surviving

But to you all trekies ,sci fi fan alike around the world the sad fact is warp drives/ ftl travel/ hyperspace are all utter nonsense as the universe has unfortunately "made it so"

I am sure even 1,000 years ago trains, automobiles, telephones and the ISS would have also been all utter nonsense since their universe had unfortunately "made it so".

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”

Star Trek TOS didn't invent them but we now have:

Wide view screens

Tablet computers

Flip phones (Motorola for you young 'ns)

Laser/Phaser

Tricorder

Transporter (ok so it only does an atom but it's a start)

Food replicator (3D food printer)

Hypospray

I am sure there are others I have missed. So, why not dream and say "Why not?"

Oh yes, ask NASA about the Warp drive.

Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X

It gets tricky if the install is done from a usb3.x port.

Maybe I am misreading things but I slipstreamed the xHCI drivers into Windows 7 with the WindowsImageTool supplied by Gigabyte. Installed just nice on the USB 3.0 port. There was a USB 2.0 port but kept getting the same error message and no installation. Can't find the error image I had taken but so can't provide the wording but this was a new ASUS motherboard and i5 CPU.

Making us pay tax will DESTROY EUROPE, roars Apple's Tim Cook

Tax inequality

Tim Cook get $135 Million bonus and pays $71 Million tax.

Apple Australia has $8 BILLION in sales and pays $85 Million tax. Something not quite right there.

Arrogant bastards.

SETI mulls reboot: Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

"No, I'm from Iowa, I just live work in outer space".

FTFY

BSODs at scale: We laugh at your puny five storeys, here's our SIX storey #fail

Supported some Lenovo SFF desktops (the ones with the external laptop like power packs) running Vista Enterprise that would get very sad and not boot when the BIOS was updated. Sorry, not a BSOD but was still bloody annoying as we couldn't fix it. At least with a BSOD you have a chance to get it back working again. A BIOS rollback wasn't an option due to the upgrade being required for some forgotten reason.

Ireland looks like it's outpacing Britain in the superfast broadband rollout stakes

There are non so blind who cannot imagine the future.

Does the average person *really* need 2MB/s, let alone GB/s ?

Why, why, why does this short sighted argument always come up? Must have been the same during the steam age when the railways were initially constructed. "Why would we ever need a train line to run the length of the country to all those town? Oooo, at 30mph the forces will ripe your body to pieces. These horseless carriages will never catch on. What a crazy idea these new fangles flying machines are. Who needs a telephone in every house, absolutely absurd?"

If 2mbps is really ought then great for you. Me, I want, require, need 10mbps minimum UPLOAD speeds. For some of my clients, 40 to 100mbps are needed to backup their data to the Cloud. Can't backup GBs of data with a 1mbps line, well you can but it takes a while and then your backups are out of date. I long for the day when there is 1GB up and down as a minimum.

In the words of someone who had a better speech write than me and had the good sense to use the words of the great GBS, "Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.” Imagine if it had been, "Some men see things as they are and say I don't see the need for anything faster or better."

SpaceX Dragon capsule lands in Pacific carrying 12 moustronauts

I was going to ask how someone would go about extracting mouse sperm.

Duh, with tiny little mouse sized hands of course. I'm sure a Donald J Trump (aka Drumpf) has experience with specimens this tiny.