Posts by XSV1

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

My ZX81 still works

My ZX81 still works

Bonkers rocket launch sees craft slip sideways, barely climb and tear up terrain

Vomit

A more comprehensive video with nauseating commentary by someone from the company's PR department is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjO7VCyjPM

I've got a broken combine harvester – but the manufacturer won't give me the software key

Re: Only half the story

The Fluke 87 is a handheld, battery-powered *Vrms* digital multimeter. It was unique at the time it was launched (around 1996-1998).

South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software

The DAA

Of course, with Sir Humphry at the tiller.

Ah lovely, here's something you can do with those Raspberry Pis, NUC PCs in the bottom of the drawer: Run Ubuntu Appliances on them

Re: Sounds like a solution looking for a problem to solve

You use the word "geeks" in a pejorative sense. I am proud to be a geek/nerd.

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

— Bill Gates

Keep it clean you lot: Samsung's created a hand-washing app for its wearables

Absurd

I am an avid Samsung fan, but this is just effing ridiculous.

Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit

Re: "65 chunks, littering Earth’s orbit with debris"

If they could modify the deflector array to emit a thoron pulse each time the vessel approached a piece of space debris, that would likely deflect debris away from the ship. Also, alternately polarising the warp nacelles could theoretically ensure that larger pieces would be transported into the delta quadrant with no loss of energy to the warp core.

Serial killer spotted on the night train from Newcastle

Token ring

> Token Ring is what you need for railways!

Exactly! Never any collisions :-)

Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4,000+ women after judge upgrades gender gap lawsuit to class action

Re: Quit Then

> But they rarely push themselves at it.

I actually can't believe that you wrote any of that, especially that last bit. I am staggered.

Some of the women engineers (electrical) that I have worked with are the finest programmers that I have had the privilege to work with. For the record, I am male.

Fed-up air safety bods ban A350 pilots from enjoying cockpit coffees

Trolly dolly?

The politically correct term is "Flight Safety Attendant", as opposed to "Flying Mattress" or "Trolly Dolly".

Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways

Re: Why is the company still alive?

<cough> Bombardier<cough>, <cough>Airbus<cough>, <cough>Embraer<cough>.

Deadly 737 Max jets no longer a Boeing concern – for now: Production suspended after biz runs out of parking space

Re: Welcome to Seattle

Yes and the fuckers in the Boeing boardroom still get to take home handsome salaries. The fucker-in-chief makes US$30 million a year. It's fabulous to watch him squirm in this video below:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/30/boeing-ceo-grilled-over-salary-accountability-on-capitol-hill.html

If you have a security alert, I feel bad for you, son – you got 99 problems but a hack ain't one

Wolf, wolf!

The alternative is that Kaspersky and other vendors could, you know, just produce better software that doesn't deluge admins with false positives

I couldn't agree more! We use Kaspersky on our network and the number of false "positives" is infuriating. It's a real cry wolf scenario.

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

Re: Board of directors

And the directors' families should fly with them too.

Off somewhere nice on holibobs? Not if you're flying British Airways: IT 'systems issue' smacks UK airports once again

We are reaching out...

At least "We are sorry..." is better than the American platitude, "We are reaching out...".

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

Re: Stuck in the middle with you

75 countries drive on the correct side of the road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_left-hand_traffic

Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y'all boarding passes to spies

Re: somehow get past security

where you just scan your boarding pass just before security checks

This is very common, especially for pax that fly without checked luggage.

That scan is just for the purposes a total head count and for a record showing that a pax is about to pass through security and will be entered a secure area. This also allows the airline to know if the pax has started to go through the security checks, or if the pax is going to be a "no-show".

The actual pax "identity verification" often occurs only at the boarding gate where the pax's passport/ID is checked against the name on the boarding pass.

Apple stock hits bottom ... as AirPod exits man's backside and still works after colonic travels

... this too shall pass.

Without a doubt... the best comment so far!

What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

The Cloud is the answer to everything. Or is it AI and the Edge...?

Or is it IoT or IIoT or AIIoT or AIIIoT?

Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?

Re: 6G?

My Toyota Rav4's radio goes zero to 62 (and then maximum). REALLY? WTF were the engineers thinking?

Go, go, Gadgets Boy! 'Influencer' testing 5G for Vodafone finds it to be slower than 4G

re: PR, marketing, hype,

PR, marketing, hype

Absolutely... marketing shite... the latest buzz word for the unwashed masses.

Fake broadband ISP support scammers accidentally cough up IP address to Deadpool in card phish gone wrong

Re: Dirty Scammers

A mate of mine kept the scammers going for half an hour. At the end of the process he told the scammer that a message had popped up on the screen. He asked the scammer if he had a pen and paper to write down the message.

He then spelled out the alleged message, “c u n t”.

“Now what does that spell?” he asked, “because that is what you are if you think that I am dumb enough to fall for your scam.”

Smartphones gateway drug to the Antichrist, says leader of Russian Orthodox Church

Thank God...

Thank God for Richard Dawkins!

Time for a cracker joke: What's got one ball and buttons in the wrong place?

Re: Smart Arse I.T Cnuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U

Naked women cleaning biz smashes patriarchy by introducing naked bloke gardening service

Re: Not gonna trim the hedges in the buff

"And Australia gets a lot of sun, right? I'm worried about too much UV exposure and the skin cancer rates of these poor workers."

The bloke that is undressing in the icon is about to cover himself in sun block SPF 100 which blocks 99% of UVB.

Marriott's Starwood hotels mega-hack: Half a BILLION guests' deets exposed over 4 years

Au revoir Marriott!

Oh bugger. I have stayed in sodding Marriott hotels all around the planet. Their patently crap attitude to security really pisses me off.

No more Marriott hotels for me!

Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads

"one of the kids has an MBA"

Q: "How do you know if someone has an MBA?"

A: "They tell you, or in this case the parent tells you."

PS: I have an MBA.

Euro eggheads call it: Facebook political ads do change voters' minds – and they worked rather well for Trump in 2016

Re: Divide and Conquer

You're either with us, or against us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_either_with_us,_or_against_us

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata

Re: AIG changed their name to 21st Century and continue in business today.

Actually, AIG is still very much in business and is still trading as AIG. See www.aig.com

Tony Blair

> On this scale Tony Blair was virtually on the same end of the scale as Joseph Stalin.

Would that be Tony "Trust me" Blair you are referring to?

Car-crash television: 'Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?' 'Yes I do,' replies AMD's CEO

Re: Might not look scripted, but they've prearranged the interviews and for how long in advance.

> Might not look scripted, but they've prearranged the interviews and for how long in advance.

Actually you are partially right and wrong. I have worked in outside broadcast at F1. Only certain interviews are lined up. A lot is flown by the seat of the pants.

Half the world warned 'Chinese space station will fall on you'

A tap with a menhir

> Clearly it will land in Northern France as predicted by Vitalstatistix.

A light tap with a menhir will sort out any concussions that may occur.

You had one job, Outlook! Security bug fix stops mail app from forwarding attachments

Ooo... a new feature!

Think of this as a new "feature".

Sorry, psycho bosses, it's not OK to keylog your employees

What if...

I am curious if the court would have given the same ruling if the company had informed its staff that keylogging software had been installed.

But then I suppose the situation wouldn't have arisen because the employee wouldn't have broken the rules he had known that he was being keylogged.

WannaCrypt 'may be the work of North Korea' theory floated

Dear Leader

How does anyone seriously think that "Dear Leader" and his clan are capable any sort of cyber crime. Seriously?

If you bought a dildo in Denver, the government must legally be told

On the subject of dildos

The government is being quite intrusive

QANTAS' air safety spiel warns not to try finding lost phones

KLM / Air France has the same warning on its flights

KLM / Air France has the same warning on its flights.

How much does your kid hate exams? This lad hacked his government to skip them

Job offer

I have an internship position available for the man!

Your mission, should you accept it, is to use cheap VMs before they self-destruct

Re: "And which Google can shut down at any moment of its choosing."

Point conceded

"And which Google can shut down at any moment of its choosing."

Why would anyone want to rent a VM that could disappear at any moment?

Giant Musk-stick test-firing proves a rocket can rise twice

Re: All nice and well, but

Haven't seen Ms Galore in quite a while, but then I am gay which probably explains why.

Behold the ROBOT RECTUM... medics' relief

Finger pointing

Look, I wouldn't want to point any fingers, but you have to hand it to these guys. For once, there are no arseholes working on the project.

The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey

Verily

Verily I say unto thee, "Thus are we reminded much of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch".

Ireland's international tech sector bumps up against language barrier

Ek wonder...

Ek wonder hoeveel Ierse mens Mandaryn kan praat?

I am Craig Wright, inventor of Craig Wright

No. I am Albert Einstein and I never said that!

Furious customers tear into 123-reg after firm's mass deletion woes

Re: M-Web

"Normally" users are only responsible for backups of their data, not for the image of their environment.

M-Web

M-Web Business in South Africa had a similar cockup with their VMWare servers last year. They lost EVERYTHING on the affected servers.They couldn't even roll back because the backups were deleted as well.

North Korea exploits 0-day in Seoul's favourite word processor

Made in (North) Korea

Interesting to notice that the laptop appears to be a Compaq. So much for all the US embargoes.

I have no doubt that the rest of their computer hardware, like the monitor, was all made in N Korea. NOT!