Posts by Toni the terrible

'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'

Again, they are not Chartered Engineers who pay a fair bit to call themselves that. Sky engineers are at best technicians and there is nothing wrong with that.

Re: Hold up ...

Yes, you shouldn't put decart before the horse

IT error at Great Western Railway charging £10k for 63-mile journey ticket

Re: Are they reducing prices in case the election goes 'wrong'?

use a 'Battlebus' they will be all over the place

Wiltshire matters? thats a new one...

Man nicked trying to 'save' beer from burning building

Re: like mixing wine and beer

Sure but what would you do with it?

BOFH: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back

Re: ITEOTWAWKI

The thing is quicklime is not really that good for body disposal...

CompSci boffins find Reddit is ideal source for sarcasm database

Re: able to understand when a person is being sarcastic

parboiled or roast? I like babies but I could never eat a whole one

Hard-pressed Juicero boss defends $400 IoT juicer after squeezing $120m from investors

Re: All the cost of a juicer at considerably more of the price (HP printer business model)

Why do you think this thing requires a wifi connection? becuse everything does & how else will our lords and masters know what fruity stuff you are drinking!

Far out: Dark matter bridges millions of light-years long spotted between galaxies

Re: Neurons, to me

Boltzmann brain?

Re: It's the Dark Side, of course

And where are these midi-thingingies if so obvious? In a bottile of bleach?

Facebook shopped BBC hacks to National Crime Agency over child abuse images probe

Re: What the F*** Zuck

Obvious, He is rich, influential and American so no prosecution

NASA agent faces heat for 'degrading' moon rock sting during which grandmother wet herself

Do you think Armstrong truly didn't GIVE anything away but Sold it?

'Nobody's got to use the internet,' argues idiot congressman in row over ISP privacy rules

Re: Gilmore vs. Gonzales

You can always go by boat...

Just another thicko politician - FTFY

Re: That's not an option.

Just ignorant, no evidence that he is doing anything sexual to morons. It does make you wonder why anyone votes for him though - as he surely has not kept up with what his constituents actually do or want.

Re: Gerrymandering created in 1812 Massachusetts....

A Blackadder episode covered rotten boroughs, almost a documentary

Declaring war on Powerpoint?

Powerpoint torture

Both Torture and Powerpoint have limited usefulness, the former however tends to create enemies out of all those it is inflicted on - wether enemies to begin with or not. The latter just bores the stuffing out of people unless kept both short and infrequent.

No one dies during a powerpoint presentation though you may wish to, so it can be a little like a minor torture don't you think?

Silicon Valley tech bro's solution for homeless: Getting himself in the news. Again.

Re: Narcissism

would love to ignore him, but if you do they get elected e.g., Trump

Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC

Re: Slowly, but surely...

"The chances of any sense coming from MS Are a million to one, they said..."

No that would make it practially certain, an the probability of sense coming from MS is about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

Re: "I should be able to make a personal decision about the value"

Privacy was always only for the rich

Re: @ ShaolinTurbo

That is the only reason I have heard which justifies Trump, as an agent of Chaos/Anarchy, who knows it just might work

Dieting cannibals: At last, a scientist has calculated calories for human body parts

Basic Research

Basic Research for the Solyent Green Project perhaps?

Germany gives social networks 24 hours to delete criminal content

Re: Possibly incorrect translation - Canterbury rules

who will rid me of this meddling priest? was it an order or was it exasperation?

Re: Enforcement?

The German armed forces have a few, its true - or so I am told.

'Evidence of Chinese spying' uncovered on eve of Trump-Xi summit

Chinese Walls

Of course the chinese spied and are continuing to spy, and the Norks, Sorks, Russia, Moravia, UK, Croats, Serbs etc etc Occasinally you find out what exactly they have been spying on - which is useful in it self.

Re: I wonder who tipped them off?

They do have micro-breweries that can produce decent (if craft) beer

Crafty Fokker: Norfolk surgeon builds Red Baron triplane replica

Re: I wish him well

Only buyable by the MOD if there is a profit for BAe

BOFH: Defenestration, a solution to Solutions To Problems We Don't Have

Re: Seven pints

Nah, Old Peculiar

Ever visited a land now under Islamic State rule? And you want to see America? Hand over that Facebook, Twitter, pal

Yes

Yes you are quite correct they are morons, but terrorists are even worse and would think it was a cunning plan to make them drop their guard a little...

Astroboffins stunned by biggest brown dwarf ever seen – just a hop and a skip away (750 ly)

Re: It's quite a small object

"Nothing comes from nothing - Speak Again"

or it is all nothing except when it isnt - a minor wibble in nothing

Miss Misery on hacking Mr Robot and the Missing Sense of Fun

It bored me

I dunno, perhaps it should have been entitled "Mr Android" and the series named after the various OS releases instead of Series 1, 2 or 3

How Ford has slammed the door on Silicon Valley's autonomous vehicles drive

Not this time 2

I am sure no one with a modicum of sense and without an overwhelming need for shineys would use IoT, but I can see Govs eventually requiring you to provide at least read access to telemetics on all cars for insurance / safety / accident stats / think of the children / and 'security'. So enjoy your home brewed computer in your car while you can, it may not be lawful in the future.

Still I wish I had the skillset to play safely with my car innards but I don't - hence the mild envy.

Still if you do want security give up that Smartphone as well and never connect any of your computers to the internet. It could be that the most data secure people will be those not poor enough to get Gov help and not rich enough to buy / use the technological shineys, and of course manage to stay healthy.

UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud

Re: Oh, Oh. Another Home Secretary Gets the GCHQ Power Point Session

But they want to repeal at least large sections of the HR Act, and how long before England (after Scotxit) is not a signatory to the human rights declaration. So, that doesn't mean anything to them.

Re: More Tory Stasi Party nonsense

Used to be called 'waving the bloody shirt' some decades agho

Re: Here we go again. The 'Claire Perry Test'

I think you are clikely correct about Massod. He was a madman/nut job with suicidal intent who just happened to be Muslim; & therefore must be a terrorist. And so is grist to the Amber-May mill.

We have had white non-muslim nutters in this country that murdered schoolkids for no sane reason, were they then terrorists? What ISIL/Daesh said later means nothing, they like to claim responsibility.

Re: Deadworld ahoy

Now dont be daft there is Satan & all the devilish cohorts - not normally thought to be alive in our sense, then there are Zombies eating peoples Brains while the victim is alive (must be murder)

Sus Crims

In a Police State there are only two types of citizen; criminals and criminals that havent yet been caught, so watching everyone is only reasonable.

"Many wont accept it, get ready for a gov U Turn on this when they realise how impossible this will be, make good PR tho"

Ah, but it will take a while and a few banking scandals and even then they will never admit it was their fault

Re: Colour me surprised

Yes, being loopy doesn't necessarily negate puppetmaster skills

Re: Colour me surprised

Being HomeSec used to be the job they gave the person who wanted to be PM and had a lot of influence but was too much of a nut job to be PM. Things went wrong...

Re: Colour me surprised

Farr Out! at least hopefully

Bloke whose drone was blasted out of sky by angry dad loses another court battle for compo

Re: It's too bad

Using a Hellfire missile to remove the intruding drone maybe

Re: always adding extra syllables

Does anyone recall Clickety Ba?

Boffins reveal how to pour a perfect glass of wine with no drips. First step, take a diamond...

Wine?

I am a cider drinker, I drinks it all of the day ooo ah oo ah ooah a (The Wurzels)

That said I am happy that anyone rediscovers a way of reducing alcohol loss, even with wine. Have a drink on me (another song) down at the Town and Country etc

If fast radio bursts really are revving up interstellar sailcraft, here's the maths

Re: Message In A Bottle

Perhaps the Medium is the Message (Hello Worlds)?

Re: Kardashev scale

Who says the Monkeys are Smart?

Re: "may be distant aliens powering up their sailcraft"

But how would they even know we were here given the distance involved (even our RF droadcasts wouldn't have got there), so they are unlikely to aim at us because of that.

TRAPPIST-1's planets are quiet. Quiet as the grave, in fact

Re: We don't even know what we're looking for

Yes it is just possible we are a abbreation and life normally doesn't get this far in complexity. There may be no sentient aliens anywhere, no truly sentient creatures even here - e.g., Trump.

Re: "Earth has a one in a million combination of life supporting conditions."

Fermi predators reduce comms traffic - it may be a dark forest out there so don't send messages