I was 8, I remember the BBC hyping it up for ages beforehand. Loved every minute of it, including the wierder Lintilla episodes.
Posts by BitCoward
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Grab a towel and pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster because The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is 42
Breaker one-nine, this trucker's rubber ducked, facing a year in the slammer for Acer laptop thefts
Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers
Yahoo! hack! payout! nearly! approved! and! the! question! is! how! to! spend! 60! cents!?
Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned
Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency
Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant
You may want to edit this piece a bit
He appears to be responsible for a large number of entirely redacted pages in the Mueller report. He approached the Feds, when first contacted, they ignored him, but when the Trump-Russia investigation was started, then they called him back in and asked him to maintain his relationship with now-convicted Russian agent, Butina.
He also appears to have evidence of Don Jr holding meeting with Russians about election dirt at an NRA meeting that contradicts the Trumpster's sworn evidence to Congress.
So not entirely a crackpot then.
It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins
Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none
Users fail to squeak through basic computer skills test. Well, it was the '90s
Squeaking through a more formal sort of PC testing
An old employer insisted all staff took the ECDL: European Community Driving Licence for IT. I strolled through the email, wordpro and spreadsheet sides, but I was a bit rusty on the database section, even though I used Access regularly. The test used a "live environment" where a question would come up and clicking on the wrong menu item would fail that question. After realising my normal " let's try this" method would result in a fail I resorted to lateral thinking and opened a second window with standard Access. After that, all was plain sailing but my respect for a testing system that could be so easily gamed meant I had no respect for the qualification. Swings and roundabouts...
The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones
Euro consumer groups: We think Android tracking is illegal
'My entire company is without comms': Gamma's Horizon cloud PBX goes DOWN
Atomic keyring's eerie blue glow lights SPB lab
UKIP doubled price of condoms for sale at party conference
Alibaba crafts AI chips, Facebook uses Bayesian magic to tweak code performance, and more
UKIP flogs latex love gloves: Because Brexit means Brexit
SuperProf gets schooled after assigning weak passwords to tutors
So they compensate for their foulup by misleading users
"All tutors from the tutor pages will <snip> have their accounts updated 'star' tutor status, that usually requires many months of activity to achieve on the platform."
So who are the real star tutors on the platform?
Solving one problem by creating another, impressive.