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Non-US encryption is 'theoretical,' claims CIA chief in backdoor debate

stupid argument

we all know all American kit is designed and built in China nowadays, or made using Chinese parts......

Swede who spent 28 years vacuuming in the nude to be evicted

28 years vacuuming in the nude? You sure it was just vacuuming, and not some kind of body enhancement?

Fly to Africa. Survive helicopter death flight to oil rig. Do no work for three weeks. Repeat

Re: A long time ago ...

at a guess a Sea King sim?

Re: @lybad

"smelling faintly of race fuel "

if the fuel had nitrate additives it would really freak the sensors

friend of mine was a consultant on power station contracts in Africa. He said the hold-up at customs was a standard con used to make the contract run over schedule and so force penalty payments from the contractors.

He said that on more than one contract things became so desperate that they employed teams of people flying in and back out on a daily basis, with their personal baggage consisting entirely of simple steel pipes sawed to around 2 feet in length. It was cheaper to do that than pay the overrun penalties.

He claimed Nigeria was the worst for this, but other African nations weren't averse to the scam.

Users fear yet another hack as TalkTalk services go down

" the Jubilee river" and there was me thinking that tunnel was for a railway line....

Re: TalkTalk needs your help!

" Please send all you can afford to Dido Harding."

that idea sounds a bit dicky.......pull the other one, its got hairs on it

from http://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Current-Known-Service-Issues/bd-p/service

"Due to severe weather conditions some of our systems are currently unavailable which means we may not be able to assist you when calling also the following websites are currently unavailable:

Talktalk.co.uk

Talktalk webmail

Help2.talktalk.co.uk

talktalk.co.uk/contactus"

note - POP/IMAP servers are down as well

and

"As you may know we've had some adverse weather and flooding in the east of England. This has led to service issues for customers of communications providers (TalkTalk, Sky, BT and others). The amount of time it takes to fix faults can vary depending on the type of weather and the impact on the network. In this case the damage is all across the network, both above and below ground."

whats the chances that TalkTalk have taken their servers offline because of the TeamViewer hack? Half-assed attempt at preventing more attacks by shutting down access to customer accounts online?

NHS e-prescription problems persist after Cegedim fixes fault

Re: and then there's the ongoing script and token printer problem

if you phone them they'll tell you the printer is out of warranty their junior support staff don't know.

Report it online on their faults support site. You'll need to input the serial number(s). Then they'll call you and sort it

and then there's the ongoing script and token printer problem

no-one has mentioned yet that the Brother printers that most pharmacies use have a fuser problem which overheats the prescription token paper, making it crease / tear jam, and barcodes illegible.

Brother are keeping it quiet and repairing printers piecemeal when they get complaints, but its a national issue which they're trying to avoid. Many pharmacies and NHS CSUs are buying replacements for faulty machines that Brother should be fixing.

Models are HL-5450DN and HL-5440D

If you're in a Pharmacy or GP Surgery and have one of those two printers which jams, tears or screws paper, or prints script forms or EPS tokens on which the bar codes won't scan, call Brother and tell them you've a printer with a faulty fuser. It also needs the latest firmware installing (to regulate the fuser temperature). There are thousands out there affected.

Brexit threatens Cornish pasty's racial purity

Re: So sad news

sorry to hear this. His articles were always some of the most interesting to read, and fun to comment on, on the site. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing sympathy and condolences to his family and friends.

Re: Champagne Cider - what about Babycham?

the problem with Babycham was the number of women who used it as a mixer and drank "brandy and babycham". It could get bloody expensive. I had a girlfriend once who would knock back two or three Brandy & Babychams for every pint I drank. After a couple of expensive dates she got told to piss off back to her husband, as he had more money than me.

Re: Heathens!!

there are two other things that are "wrong" about modern cornish pasties, besides the crimping

1) a cornish pasty should not contain potato. Makes the mix too mushy. And potatoes are better used in other ways to eke out a meal. Only veggies in a pasty should be swede/turnip/carrot/mangels.

2) whatever the recipe books say, the meat was unlikely to be beef. Only rich people ate beef. Poor people ate pasties, and the only meat available to poor people was the remains of old knackered sheep, or maybe the occasional goat. Not lamb,but old rank mutton. The alternative would be rabbit, or whatever could be poached. But in the main it would be old, chewy sheep meat.

You have to remember - a pasty wasn't a delicacy. It was a working mans essential midday meal. A poor mans meal, made as cheaply as possible. Poor people didn't eat beef. The closest they might get would be a stuffed ox heart at christmas.

Re: Is this piece a joke?

"rounded off by half a bottle of wine (Italian, I think)"

you can't tell? Either its crap wine, or you've drunk too much of it!

Re: Swings and Roundabouts.

?????

Shouldn't that read, "A quick survey of my panties shows ~50% of boxers showing a country of origin."

Re: Heathens!!

or go to a strip club, have a beer and watch the flying pasties. And tassels.

Re: Swings and Roundabouts.

" British lamb sells better in France if labelled "Product of the EU" rather than "British Lamb""

British lamb slaughtered in France sells better as, and is legally marketed as "French Lamb" (or whatever the French call baby moutons)

Re: Champagne Cider - what about Babycham?

many years ago, I was enjoying a series of pints in a pub in Ludlow, only to be entertained by the antics of an over-the-top American tourist couple. Typical yank OAP tourists - pastel coloured golf sweater, pastel socks, white baggy tapered trousers, very loud complaining voices. Nothing was good enough: the meal service was too slow, they couldn't understand the language (do you guys speak English here in Ludlow??), they tried to claim every meal the waitress brought from the kitchen because they didn't know what they'd ordered. Eventually they got the wrong meal and couldn't understand what cumberland sausage was......it seems they'd actually ordered steaks. By this time my brother and I were having fits of the giggles, but what finally made us both dissolve into hysterical laughter was this, delivered at loud volume for the whole pub to hear:

"Hey this here Baby champagne isn't anywhere as good as the real champagne we make back home in California. "

As to what happened to Babycham.......Brother's Cider is run by the Showering family and I believe uses very much the same processing techniques. Its a mainly pear-based cider with added flavouring and is very much the descendant of Babycham, even if made by a different company. Its the same family behind it.

if the EU has been so successful at helping trade, how come we're not all eating frogs legs pasties? Or snail salad?

Re: Heathens!!

no, we don't want the Picts. Too many gingers..........

Re: Sarcasm

""I seem to recall that Romania was one of the countries implicated in the horse-meat scandal"

Now that the market for Romanian horsemeat has declined, I'm sure there's been an increase in the number of Romanian working girls in the UK. A lot of the current crop looks like horses.

Re: Heathens!!

"Seen loads crimped along the top."

If its crimped on the top it is NOT a Pasty. It is a completely different product, properly known as a Tiddyoggy. Because of the shape, Tiddyoggys weren't as strong and couldn't be dropped down mineshafts without breaking. The point of a pasty was that it was strong enough to survive the drop

Re: What About Cornish Pasties the Non Food Kind?

"What would the status be of the articles used to cover lady bits known as Pasties?"

they should be banned!!!!

FREE THE NIPPLE.!!!!!! PEAK (or is it perk?) WITH IMPUNITY!!!!!

Re: Just when I think I've firmly decided on Remain

"Now, I like Lancashire crumbly cheese, and but for a very select number of quality retailers, all the world knows about Lancashire crumbly cheese, is the seriously, nothing at all like it, muck, that gets churned out of a factory in south east England."

"Lancashire Crumbly Cheese" isn't real Lancashire cheese, It doesn't even use the same manufacturing method. Its a relatively modern industrial cheese (method dates from the 1950's) and most Lancs cheese sellers won't touch it

What you need are either Creamy Lancashire or Tasty Lancashire. Those are ONLY made in Lancs. There are around ten creameries around Beacon Fell, which produce enough variants of cheese (Lancs, blues, goat, sheep) to probably outnumber the types of cheese made in the rest of the UK

If you fancy burning off energy, the local tourist board has three walking guides, each dedicated to one of creamy, tasty and crumbly. Spend a weekend in Garstang, explore the country, and eat cheese

Re: Champagne Cider

actually......there are records of the "méthode champenoise" being used in Somerset BEFORE it was recorded in France. Admittedly we were making cider, not wine, but the method was identical. To quote from http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Burrow_Hill_Cider

"This so called ‘Champagne Method’ was pioneered in Hereford in 1632 by Lord Scudamore before the Civil War and had reached Montacute House in Somerset by 1664, long before the French even claim to have invented the method…"

So the bloody frogs were pinching our strategic technology yet again!

Interestingly, the hill west of Montacute is terraced with what were - according to village tradition - vineyards, though it was never clear if the supposed wine makers were the Romans, or the Clunaic (i.e. French) monks. Perhaps both? Wine is still grown further north in Somerset

Ericsson set to lay off thousands of workers over summer – report

surely they're Microsofts next takeover target?

Chinese space station 'out of control', will do best firework impression

Re: Typical problem when you don't have all the data

"Ironically enough, only the European (with german input) Ariane was based on new research that did not come predominantly from Nazi backgrounds"

I always understood that much of the ESA technology was based on what had been stolen from Britain during the antics over Blue Streak / Black Arrow involvement in the Europa launcher. Our first stage technology worked, the French second stage didn't. We got pissed off with the French and walked away, they pinched our technology and set up the ESA and Ariane.

Its a "space station" so there must be people on board. Whats happening to them?

Or is this actually just another dead satellite?

Rogue Somerset vulture lands at Royal Navy airbase

"the whole place reeks of fuel, lubricants and dope, "

strange combination. Do the fuel and lubricants help the uptake of the dope? And why would you smoke cannabis at an air musuem anyway - does it help the pilots perform?

just imagine the problems if Yeovilton did have an F-35 on the strength........would have been a heck of an airstrike.

However the notional navy F-35 squadron will be based at an RAF station, not Yeovilton. Yeovilton will become a predominantly Royal Marines / Army base with Lynx and Wildcat helicopters

just remarkable that the vulture decided to fly to one of the few places in Somerset where it could be properly handled and safely controlled. How did it know?

Re: PENDANT ALERT

"I havent been in for a few years, but the signs always USED to read "RNAS Heron" - with "Yeovilton" underneath."

I hate to say this, but your memory is befuddled. It has always been HMS Heron / RNAS Yeovilton. NEVER RNAS Heron.

Study of asexually reproducing honeybee ponders: But why the mass murder?

Re: Insect Cuckoos?

Cuckoo bees exist, and predate beehives, but on a smaller scale

"The worker bee lays and fertilises its own egg"

you sure about that? These bees are parthogenetic, not hermaphroditic. The eggs don't need fertilisation as they are already diploid, not haploid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Insects

Its quite common among insects. Gall wasps, stick insects, aphids can all reproduce asexually

Java API judge tells Oracle to suck it up, quit whining about the jury

question:

where the Java APIs open sourced? If not, what was Google's rationale for using them?

"Even the iPhone is basically just a custom UI layer on Linux,"

really? That goes contra to perceived wisdom. Cam you prove that or are you an Apple shill?

Grim-faced 'naut Malenchenko prepares to return home

he must have had a sense of humour to get away with this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3138941.stm

first person to get married while in space, and to an American as well. His employers must have been really not amused

but Yuri Gagarin was a womanising piss-head, no wonder he was always smiling. However if you're an average Russian, subject to Russian dentistry, then you wouldn't do much smiling. Especially as their space boys are kept away from the vodka (partly in due to Gagarin's frolics).

It's commonly believed that Gagarin's wenching frolics and imbibing are what forced the Soviets to crash the aircraft he was flying - an easy way to get rid of an embarrassment and create a hero. With the Russians prepared to do that to their "first and greatest" then if I was a cosmonaut I wouldn't be doing much smiling either.

And don't forget that the rumours of the "lost cosmonauts" have never actually been disproved. With that knowledge I think I'd grit my teeth and clench my buttocks quite a lot....

PC market sinking even faster than first thought, thanks to Windows 10

Re: Knew it!

"Right now I could go out and build a kick-ass rig and play ED"

"ED"? Whats that? Erectile Dysfunction? Comes from too much willy waving while playing shoot-em-up games

Hobbits really did exist – and endured erectus shrinkage, say boffins

certain Chinese authorities claim that modern Chinese are directly descended from H erectus rather than sharing the same african origin as the rest of modern humanity.........I don't know if that's based on DNA, bone structure, or some kind of racial vanity. Interesting idea though.

One entire US spook base: Yours for $1m+

"The UK's version of this"..........

the UK has had several sites, some on "secret" RAF bases, some on Post Office / BT "Research" sites, now nearly all closed though a few RAF sites still have geodesic domes with no apparent overt purpose....

Then theres the covert sites such as the Capenhurst Tower..........

Re: What was that children's book where it was the fire engine that started fires?

" What was that children's book where it was the fire engine that started fires?"

Do you mean Fahrenheit 451? Not really a kiddies book, though I was aged ~ten when I first read it

Sysadmin 'fesses up to wrecking his former employer's IT systems

ten years AFTER a plea bargain???? What could he have got otherwise?

Marauding monkey blacks out Kenya

so what did the monkey do, and how did it survive? Did it piss on something?

Verizon! to! bid! $3bn! for! Yahoo!'s assets!

what are Melissa Meyer's assets worth? Does she have a stake in the company

Mars One puts 100 Red Planet corpses colonists through fresh tests

isn't suicide illegal?

Model's horrific rape case may limit crucial online free speech law

Internet Brands are a bunk of cprporate idiots. Take their pprune.org website. Its moderated (or rather censored) by a pompous idiot who bans anyone he personally doesn't like. Its essentially run as his personal wet dream, where he gets to lord it over the proles he allows to post.

A properly run business would have sacked him years ago.

Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill

" So maybe we ought to call in all our loans to UK going back to WW II."

We paid all those back years ago. Perhaps maybe now you'll consider paying licences for the technology you took from us back then and we never bothered to charge you for? Like jet engines and radar for starters.

Belgian brewery lays 3.2km beer pipeline

I feel sorry for the poor bastard who has to pull the handpump........to have enough muscle she'd need a 96" DDDDD chest measurement