* Posts by Ken Shabby

388 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2018

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Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

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Re: Different groups

I thought you said “Fozzie Bear”, “Wocka, wocka”

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

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Re: Basically

Just saw an article in the Sydney Saturday Herald

“Elon’s case of premature congratulation”

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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Depends where you spread the butter

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

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Each McDonalds creates about 50 jobs, 25 heart surgeons and 25 dentists.

The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things

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Re: Internet of Things (IoT) devices

A shit-ton of that about, and it ain’t all IOT

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

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They use Oracle?

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

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Holmes

Guess we get to detect when someone drops a Clanger

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

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Former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen argued daylight saving faded curtains and confused milking cows.

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Mushroom

And to think you can compare floats for equality

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And not being able cater character encodings that are not ASCII

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

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Ned Kelly had the best idea, apart from the eye slit, a bit of a design issue, they have long claws,

What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all

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I see this all the time, the ubiquitous "Something went wrong" no stack, not allowed 'cos security. Seems general, not any particular company.

Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway

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Re: UTC

Simple innit, with one you get sunburnt and the other radiation sickness, but not necessarily at the same time.

First functional graphene semiconductor could power future chips

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Re: Outstanding

What have the Ramans ever done for us ?

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

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Holmes

Re: These stories are crazy

Put a bin next to it?

China bans export of rare earth processing kit

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Mushroom

Re: Rare

That's wy they are called rare.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

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Re: Three point one pints please

Is insulting to cats.

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

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Pirate

Re: If you aren't full of shrapnel you will probably suffocate

Elevate! Elavate!

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

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Meh

I’ve seen my own code appear with someone else’s name on it, sort of flattered and a little pissed off at the same time. Internal performance measuring software.

England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters

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Re: Just trying to work out which Led Zeppelin album to put on

"Dazed and Confused", definitely

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

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Re: I

I always imagined him as a bloke, you learn something new every day.

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

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I predicted it 1st

Blockchain is found to have use after all

NASA's Psyche spacecraft beams back a 'Hello' from 10 million miles away

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Re: Fabulous, but…

Breaking news: They just got rid of it!

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

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Re: Quantum slipstream

I prefer Hardtofindium, very popular in this manor squire

BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown

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Quasi walks into a pub for a pint. Someone asks the barman "whose that? " "Not sure" reply's the barman "but his face rings a bell "

Russian Nauka module plays leak-a-boo with International Space Station

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Re: Russian Nauka module plays leak-a-boo with International Space Station

Could have been worse, what if they blew a seal?

Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

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In my teens, I worked at a petrol station that had a car wash. Seen a nice sports car (well think it was an MG), get a new go faster stripe, perfectly front to back, over the top, from his Ariel or a previous user’s.

Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport

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Re: Facial recognition

Sir, is that a durian you are carrying or has a rat crawled up your arse, and died?

Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues

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Re: That's criminal

Because it wasn’t the Furari he ordered

CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted

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Mind over Mater

Mind / Matter = We don't mind and you don't matter

No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center

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Re: Could be worse, of course

Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

Rick Wakeman.

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Re: poor taste

The Rolling Stones, Sister Morphine.

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

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Tourists

But apart from the foreign exchange and creating new jobs, what have the Tourists ever done for us?

Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss

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I misread that as “Degenerative Dick Disease”, good to hear they have a potential cure

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

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Re: Rolled My Own....Yup...Please Decrypt!

Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait ‘till lunchtime.

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

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Devil

Supersize me

Would you like oxygen with that?

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

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Re: Bad storage joke

Did you hear about the infinite storage hard drive?

No, probably because they're still formatting it.

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Re: Outlook...

Many a micomangler has told me to sort my desk. I told them it is sorted, a heap sort.

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

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Re: Trade Opportunity?

It’s actually quite palatable, I had to try it, well because it’s Japan. That and a litre can of Kirin from a vending machine used to cheer me up for some reason.

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Mushroom

Re: Be fair:

First remove negative battery terminal…

Aerial cable tangles are still being strung up, but carriers are slowly burying the problem

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Re: Swings and roundabouts

Round here it’s possums, not tried them fried

Polishing off a printer with a flourish revealed not to be best practice

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My guess is that he said “Fuck” quietly under his breath

Europe's tough new rules for Big Tech start today. Is anyone ready?

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Let’s not compare Johnsons

Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom

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Re: Context is everything

I used to commute, for about 12 years, 1 hour each way, via a very reliable bus service, until they axed the service and then the same time by car (the bus lanes, etc, but often I was the only passenger, the cost though was less than the toll). They closed that office and we were moved, to 100 yards from where I live, who knew? I can see the office from my bedroom. I now walk to work and we are mandated to be there 3 days per week, Going back in has some people feeling punished, they have arranged their lives over working from home and they now have to re-arrange all that and have travel times of at least an hour each way.

For me, hybrid works, one better than the other? Differences yes, but on balance about the same, The same people I interact with in person, I do the same via Slack and Webex. All customer stuff is mostly international anyway, as is company stuff (given my timezone and other locations around the world).

This has to be a follow-the-money, lease, investment, and tax write-off, fair enough, but why not just tell us that, rather than some nebulous verbiage? Amazing how every other fad is embraced because that was the old way of doing things,

Windows screensaver left broadcast techie all at sea

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Lost his job due to modern technology, the Brass Bound Buggery Box™

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

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Re: Do Musk and (again indicted) Trump share forefathers somewhere?

Fly away you sweet little thing they are hard on your tail

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

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Re: This is not a joke. This is not a drill. This is the messiah for a whole bunch of idiots.

Is that you Molesworth?

A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look

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Re: Apatite

If it looks like line noise, it must be TECO

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Mushroom

Re: Apatite

If I expressed that regularly, I’d seek medical advice.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

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Holmes

But could they climb stairs?

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