Posts by Ken Shabby

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

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.

Re: poor taste

The Rolling Stones, Sister Morphine.

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

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

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

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

Supersize me

Would you like oxygen with that?

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

Re: Bad storage joke

Did you hear about the infinite storage hard drive?

No, probably because they're still formatting it.

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

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.

Re: Be fair:

First remove negative battery terminal…

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

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

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

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

Let’s not compare Johnsons

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Apatite

If it looks like line noise, it must be TECO

Re: Apatite

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

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

But could they climb stairs?

Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher

Re: Is it anything like this?

It’s an experimental jumbo tinny of XXXX. The project got canned. The icon is stretching it a bit, but at least it won’t kill you, probably.

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

Re: Someone phone guinness!

Kind of offer not to be sniffed at

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Re: Scunthorpe problem.

I know and can confirm that he is.

Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!

Re: Bunch?

A circle of arseholes?

Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation

Re: May??

At least it does not have dropbears

Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file

A few cowmediams round here

Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers

Re: "the plethora of deadly creatures found in the one-time prison colony"

It is not recommended when asked by the ABF as you enter the country if you have a criminal record to reply

“I didn’t think it was still compulsory”

Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password

Re: Just the one letter?

I had to do it the other way around, but if you remember rla is 김, and you got most of it cracked.

Neuralink says US OK's human experiments with Elon's brain chips

Re: Will it work the other way?

I’m pink therefore I’m spam

The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault

When told him an interesting story about the radioactive atom + Geiger counter + amplifier + charge of gunpowder + cat in a box, he was very attentive.

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

Re: "Hairy jumper"

I emigrated here, to the land down under, many, many moons ago. Her indoors wanted to holiday in FNQ (Far North Queensland). Restaurant in the rain forest, a spider the size of a dinner plate, very black, very hairy just sauntered through slowly on the floor. When pointed out to the staff, "Oh that's Bruce" (forgotten the name, could have been Eric), "'He's' a Queensland bird eating spider that comes through this time every night, no need to worry". The bastard was HUGE.

Pager hack faxed things up properly, again, and again, and again

My Wang never goes down!

Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins

Cassandra?

Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker

Re: seeking "all identifying information" for GitHub user FreeSpeechEnthusiast

It’s a fair cop, but society is to blame.

Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count

Re: I think we may have found our next chancellor.

Gladstone, Chief Mouser to HM Treasury, has that covered.

Gladstone

Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used

Re: I don't have a problem with that

I’m sure there has been a sneaky tug or two in space before. Unless they’re putting something in their space tea.

Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could

Re: As a member of the Reformed House of Python

Oh, intercourse the penguin!

Duelling techies debugged printer by testing the strength of electric shocks

Re: Visa Electron

Could be reluctance.

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

Re: Fail...

Subscription only, want to default?

Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee

Re: Drinkers rejoice

As would your bits, don’t fancy their chance of survival.

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Learn both?

Or barleycorns, links, chains, furlongs

Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data

Re: Secured data? -- it's as secure as the AWS persistent key!!!!!

Oh sh…

Uncle Sam OKs vaccine that protects honeybees against hive-destroying bacterium

Too many buzzwords?

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Re: Fiat

You need a Fiat Lux

The IT decision-maker that really matters? Your pet

Re: Why?

Cost of collar, 100 bucks. Knowing which neighbours garden he shits in, priceless.

US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough

Re: Imagine what this might mean for the people of the world:

All I want for Christmas is Joules..

Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

Re: The great turn off

Most I have seen are being used as doorstops. So no danger to anyone.

Re: Remembering

I am sure my cat is moving them to gaslight me.

To build a better quantum computer, look into a black hole, says professor Brian Cox

Re: What goes on in black holes....

First rule of black holes: we don’t communicate with black holes.

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

Re: point of order

Only wrote one F77 program, thiugh plenty of MNF FORTRAN before that, but fairly sure F77 took lower and upper case, just the compiler assumed they were all upper case. To be honest, the mixing of case in variable names gets my goat, might look pretty but functionally does bugger all. Wrote all my assembler in upper case too.