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Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

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IT angle? Let's Plug'n'play

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As someone who has the opposite problem, I'd appreciate having way too many plug sockets. It really cuts down on my toy purchases so maybe it's not such a bad thing...

Antarctic researchers send an SOS to the world: Who wrote this message in a bottle?

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Re: Song

Can someone please call the Police?

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Antarctic researchers send an SOS to the world: Who wrote this message in a bottle?

The subtitle certainly had a Sting to it...

Bad news, developers: Apple Mac App Store tells cross-platform Electron apps to get lost

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Electron has a number of drawbacks – builds tend to be large and memory-hungry, for instance – but the advantage of being able to use familiar web technology to create a single code-base that can generate builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows outweighs the downsides in many cases.

The downsides are pretty much all for the end user as their machine's RAM & disc get swallowed; the developer gets a much easier life in return.

GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security'

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Re: Another 'necessary hashtag'

Did you have to commit to that comment you git?

I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t

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Re: Dont call it food poisoning - call it pickling.

My cousin's wife (a coeliac) will be in bed for days after eating even a tiny wheat... Next time someone in a kitchen is careless perhaps you could pop over and nurse her.

Comcast-owned Brit telco Sky to hire 1,000 new staffers, half of them engineers

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Re: They are not engineers

I was about to make the same point

Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)

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Re: In 6 months time.....

My Swiss insurer offers discounts for if you link your tracker to their website and do a certain amount of steps per day. They don't however include other sports so if you cycle five hours a day then it doesn't register it...

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Re: Health data is the missing piece for Google

Strava already has challenges where you can access discounts from energy drinks, clothing etc. after cycling or running a certain distance.

Police confirm interview with UKFast boss Lawrence Jones

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Jones has denied any wrongdoing. His wife has taken over as chief executive while UKFast conducts an internal investigation.

It'd be a very brave person who'd find him "guilty" in the internal investigation when his wife is the CEO.

US Air Force inks deal with Raytheon on Windows 10 (and other) support for ARSE

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Butt the cheek of it!

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Re: Top Gun is not geeky

Someone's a bit arsey today...

GraphQL a cut above the REST, say query lang's fans: Airbnb, Knotel, others embrace the tech

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Re: It lets the client decide

Thank you both for the explanation.

As it's Friday -->

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"When we were looking at designing front-end applications, they only needed a small subset of that data," he said. "Most of them need the address and the lat/long, for example. Sending back all the information we have about every building every time would be very, very onerous. And so for us, it made sense to use GraphQL where the client could select exactly what data they wanted to get back."

Potential dumb question: this sounds like exactly the kind of the thing that any SQL database could handle well; what advantages are there to use GraphQL or similar in this context?

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

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Re: Bravo

Yes, I hear she's pretty good too.

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority asked drone orgs to email fliers' data in an Excel spreadsheet

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you mean drone work when you're upside down? Who knew?

Boffins blow hot and cold over li-ion battery that can cut leccy car recharging to '10 mins'

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Sizewell I never

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It's very similar to cancer research: there are always stories about advances, but it's rare that there are just huge leaps, just incremental improvements in treatment.

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Re: "simple but elegant"

only needing to stop to 'fill up' for 20~30mins every 5 hours on a long trip means that thinking about it completely changes.

I agree, a ten minute charge would mean you run to the loo and caffeinate and by the time you're done your car's charged and ready.

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

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Re: From the Windows world

That sucks. Thanks for the headsup, I'm still using an old school Microsoft Natural keyboard at home and I'm unwilling to downgrade for what passes for a keyboard these days

Remember the big IBM 360 mainframe rescue job? For now, Brexit has ballsed it up – big iron restorers

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Re: Surely a Container's the better option?

>Surely a Container's the better option?

Maybe a Docker can help with the transportation

'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)

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"Earworn Wearables" & "wristband-based wearable tech"

What's wrong with the words "headphones" and "watches"?

Aw, bad day at your air-conditioned, somewhat clean desk? Try shifting a 40-tonne fatberg

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Enough about Trump; what about the Fatberg?

Microsoft welcomes ancient Project app to the 365 family, meaning bleak future for on-prem

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Re: Looks like Larry shot his bolt 20 years too early!

A shame they Sunsetted those services...

It's dangerous to go alone! Take Uncle Sam and the Netherlands: Duo join naval task force into China's backyard

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Re: The South China sea is British

So what you're saying that the Royal Navy should deploy to the Irish Sea so we can "invade" and name after something suitably British?

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Re: I understand there's a nice harbour available

We should dock some up vote for that....

Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos

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As with all clouds, there are probably vast data egress charges to help lock people in. The people making this decision may have retired or moved on before that becomes an issue.

I'm not Boeing anywhere near that: Coder whizz heads off jumbo-sized maintenance snafu

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Re: A350 XWB

That's plane stupid...

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I was tempted to downvote for you apologising for the pun; but it made me laugh so have a pint instead...

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Re: Patchy-damn compiler

Hopefully they remembered to patch the trunk too

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So no one wanted to talk about the missing software for Jumbo Jets; was that the elephant in the room?

Remember when Bezos whined about having too much money? Amazon's Q3 will help out with that

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Amazon profits down? Cry me a river...

Aviation's been Boeing through a rough patch: Software tweaks blamed for Airbus A220 failures

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Re: Are these engines running Windows 10?

Not sure; but I'm pretty sure they use the Jet database underneath...

BOFH: Judge us not by the size of our database, but the size of our augmented reality

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Re: Happy Friday

Simon can have one from me too

Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more

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Re: 445 – bikinis – rather than the bicycles in 444

Or you could even send nukes to Bikini Atoll

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Re: But Officer, about these pictures on my PC...

"That money was just resting in my account"

Power to the users? Admins be warned: Microsoft set to introduce 'self-service purchase' in Office 365

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Re: A typical scenario

Or, person buys the licences on their credit card; leaves and then it's suddenly IT's problem to fix it when the billing period expires.

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Re: A typical scenario

>I remember a call at 3am after the dhcp server stopped working. After getting in and seeing lots of 192.168 addresses on the newly restarted desktops we tracked down the Linksys router some twat had plugged in to get an extra rj45 port in his office.

We had someone take out an entire subnet doing the same only with a D-link.

Sadly we never tracked down the culprit or else it could have appeared in a BOFH episode one day -->

Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

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Re: Great article

I remember Puppet, we used to deploy Linux systems with it...

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Re: Great article

F.A.B.

Cloud file migration geek Mover packs boxes for Microsoft

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Re: "a seamless and cost-effective experience"

Mostly those betting

Everything must go as school IT supplier Gaia Technologies' £5.7m debt burden revealed

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Research Machines?

Would rm Gaia be appropriate here?

Big Red tells crypto-coin publication: One does not simply call one's website 'OracleTimes'

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Re: Keep away!

I imagine that "normal" people would have never heard of Oracle (the company)...

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Last time I was in a hospital there was O2 allover the place. I wonder when Telefonica's lawyers will get busy...

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Re: But of course

That could open the Gates to something massive...

Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack

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Re: no dns security this is what happens

And best of all, you may even get to pay for the extra compute required.

Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests

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Re: What did they expect?

Where do you think that Socks proxies come from?

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Re: What did they expect?

Sounds like someone lost the shirt off their back

Messed Western: Vuln hunters say hotel giant's Autoclerk code exposed US soldiers' info, travel plans, passwords...

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Paris Hilton

I'm awaiting the first big GDPR hit...

Ms Hilton seems like an appropriate icon for a hotel discussion