If only the grid had been able to expand to keep up with demand. The NiIMBYs and planning departments saw to that, maybe direct your ire about the unreliable network there not at those of us that want to hand an habitable planet to our descendants.
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Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset
Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation
IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak
Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead
Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200
UK's proposed alt.GDPR will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting
Re: Can it just be delayed?
The chaps who saw war service who were Home Secretary in the 70's and 80's used to tell them to jog on. The civil servants and chief constables could never put a convincing argument together for mass surveillance nor ID cards. The current crop since the 90's don't have this experience and didn't learn from their elders. We need a set of politicians who understand why we shouldn't have these things due to the risk that they pose to the populace from future nutters in power.
Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Don't worry, that system's not actually active – oh, wait …
If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now
Re: air CON
A similar experience in a flour mill control room. Engineer says this is perfectly sized for your environment. Being slightly aware of the calculations needed and where to find the information to do a slightly better job. I pointed out that the machine supplied was one third the output it should be (for just about meet the spec control of room temperature for testing purposes) and possibly one quarter of the output for a bit of reserve on the warmest days.
Engineer bitched a bit, manglement spent the money on the just about adequate solution and we were able to test flour at the correct temperature for the rest of my time there and be comfortable when the roller floor was running in excess of 30C.
In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up
This is the military – you can't just delete your history like you're 15
Yodel becomes the latest victim of a cyber 'incident'
Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024
I was fired for blowing the whistle on cult's status in Google unit, says contractor
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone
When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer
A discounting disaster averted at the expense of one's own employment
The time you solved that months-long problem in 3 seconds
Debugging source is even harder when you can't stop laughing at it
Brave takes the spring out of creepy bounce tracking
UK govt signs IT contracts 'without understanding' the needs
Just two die for: Apple reveals M1 Ultra chip in Mac Studio
Beware the big bang in the network room
Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds
Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand with tighter macOS integration – but it defaults to 'on' and can't be disabled
Time to party like it's 2002: Acura and Honda car clocks knocked back 20 years by bug
Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection
BOFH: You drive me crazy... and I can't help myself
First, stunning whistleblower leaks. Now a shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk
I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation
Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports
Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem
Qualcomm under fire for 'anticompetitive' patent shenanigans causing pricey UK smartphones
Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued
Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable
United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted
There ain't no problem that can't be solved with the help of American horsepower – even yanking on a coax cable
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo
Xiaomi Mi 9 owners furious after dodgy Vodafone software patch bricked their mobes
'Non-commercial use only'? Oopsie. You can't get much more commercial than a huge digital billboard over Piccadilly
Cloudflare goes retro with COBOL delivery service. Older coders: Who's laughing now? Turns out we're still vital
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I heard somebody say: Burn baby, burn – server inferno!
Re: How about a nice long hot summer?
I have met one or two of the cowboy HVAC chaps. A flour mill control room that needed to be a 20C to measure dough water absorption accurately. Too much water or too little in the bakery dough meant either too much space in the plastic bread wrapper or a mess of crumbs and plastic as the machines try to stick big loaves in too small bags!
Control room had 2 or 3 500w meat based heat radiators, a 1 megawatt facitilty outside and sundry control PC's or PLC's installed. Said cowpoke couldn't work out why the temperature couldn't get below 25C with a 2.5KW unit. The 7.6KW unit that we replaced it with coped much better but the 'engineer' was unhappy that a 'civilian' had worked it out for him.