Posts by Toni the terrible

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed

Re: Lost the plot

Build your own then

BOFH: A security issue, you say? Activate code tangerine

Re: CODE TANGERINE

NO!, thats Code Nectarine

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Re: "because if you unplug your car, your house goes dark"

Then a EV battery based car is even more expensive, keep the gas guzzler!

Re: "because if you unplug your car, your house goes dark"

Now there are many places where one car per household (or none) is the norm and alt transport methods are rare or very inconvenient. It has been argued that having no cars is actually better -if there are alt transport methods.

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

Wasnt it in ancient china that magistrates who prosecuted the wrong person stood to be punished like the person they criminalised were - a form of accountability

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

A low level worker says; You do the job to the best of your ability and then the higher ups mess it up - repeatedly and then either sack you or remove the necessary function for profit.

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

it can always get worse -see all History

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

he made one train run on time, the one that carried him to Rome to takeover

Sir Humprey was competant - Jim Hacker was not

Oddly, the captain of the national ship and his officers never take the reponsibility when the ship begins to list toward easily seen icebergs

That's why they have council workers - to ignore if it doesnt meet their political views.

Re: Equal Pay

It is not surprising that they sell too low and then watch as a enterprising guy sells for a huge profit - the government does this all the time to help its close freiends....

Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye

Re: slow transformation

When we are forced to use Win11 i'll likely join the herd of penguins, if only because I am not updating my hardware for MS

Re: Just the text

OneDrive? I had a message from MS saing they were going to delete docs on my OneDrive cos I hadn't used OneDrive for 2 years. I am not sure what OneDrive is for tho.

Re: So LibreOffice it is then.

I switched to Ashampoo office, why, no reason I just got fed up with msOffice - just dont need the functions etc.

Re: So LibreOffice it is then.

Send me nothing but RTF, I got no time to deal with exotica like Word docx

Re: Kids nowadays ... Sigh!

Whats wrong with Wordperfect, now don't all you shout at once.....

Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests

There is apparently evidence that they may well have had pottery enclosed wet batterys, or that may be Ancient Alien type evidence

Re: Meanwhile, in Japan...

If the boars eat too many radioactive fungai do they become self-roasting boar?

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Re: 10-round magazine...

Still quite expensive compared to air dropped mines etc

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city

Re: For humans?

but they still need resources for those factories

Pharoh Tut's Dads Capital City also?

Re: What will they call it?

Private Military Corporations (PMC) existing forever as mercenaries e.g., The White Company etc

Re: They keep trying to build in deserts

far too many things to list

Re: They keep trying to build in deserts

Energy Crisis? Just build more nukes, just not on the faults amd solar farms....

Re: They keep trying to build in deserts

Copy the Ozzie Opal Miners and build underground...

Re: don't forget

Arcologies are not a new concept, maybe they intend to incorporate Fremen tech?

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

Re: Carbon 14

Scapa Flo - a source of old steel for instruments

Regulations WRT safety of radioactives have reduced the quantity of stuff thought to be safe over the years, and depends on which agency is pontificationg.

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Not holding my breath

When I started riding a m/C the choice was pay way more than the new bike was worth per year or use a flyby nite company that was unlikely to pyout at all.

Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

Re: Handwritten v typed

Recognising a patient by an x-ray or their condition is not at all unusual

Re: "radically alter the workflow of medical professionals, without their input"

I recently deletd Microsoft Office in favour of Ashampoo Office - cos it is simpler and cleaner (Timotei!)

Re: "radically alter the workflow of medical professionals, without their input"

It wasnt written down until millenium after they were informed about it and they had got as far as cuniform

Re: "radically alter the workflow of medical professionals, without their input"

Nah, junk that use AI to sort it all out

So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans

A Bot?

I often fail Captcha requests, does this mean I am a Bot? and a poor one at that.

distorted text

I have seen a number of distorted text captcha, from Amazon

Re: But surely an ethical bot

lie? Truth what is Truth? (See social media)

Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy

Re: the larger the satellite ... the more vulnerable it was

Well wether or not it was the grays it was reported that some Alien or other shut down a complete ICBM base in the USA (true/false?) and almost dispatched ICBMs from a Ruskie base SO....

China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway

Re: Never mind DJI

and are going to supply these drone s excusively to Russia...

Re: "Beijing says it just wants world peace"

Kubla Khan ruled China for a while and most of Asia to the edges of Europe and so you could count in those areas too

Re: "Beijing says it just wants world peace"

Between the Heavenly Realm and the Many Hells?

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Because all Aliens are Americans, well USAians...

Re: Thermodynamics would like a word

So you have cracked it, they are witches. Possibly practising for the eco-apocalypse

Re: Female alien pilots?

and accidents happen, particularly after a long trip

So? Consider what people do here, being a dhead is almost inevitable

In that they were always right, there are such groups. However, that is not so certain when you consider Aliens

if they did that there would be damn few people left

Re: One of these things is not the same as the other.

No they didnt, but only in America would anyone make a big thing of it

Re: warning

No slaves needed, just a Religion with a God-King

Re: warning

Pyramids were built by organised people doing grunt work like always, no aliens or gods needed