Posts by dodgyoriginals

BT is ditching workers faster than your internet connection with 55,000 for chop by 2030

A pension fund that does a bit of comms work...

BT moves inexorably towards the time when it becomes predominantly a pension fund (with a scarily big hole in it...) that tries to do a bit of comms work on the side.....

Porsche wants to sell you a rusty tailpipe soundbar for $12k

Porsche Soundbar...

Guess you could buy one and stick it on the back of your £99,950 Taycan so that you can make it sound like a 911 without the petrol fumes....

IT manager's 'think outside the box' edict was, for once, not (only) a revolting cliché

Protective Film....

Noticed a friend's clock radio on a kitchen cupboard which, upon repeat visits, appeared to have a consistently static display. The manufacturers had placed a protective film which bore a simplified and slightly 'greyed-out' version of the face display. After more than a year they can now read the actual date and time - easily......

Space station update: Mystery tiny but growing air leak sparks search for hole

Leaky Space Station....

You could just empty a tin of Radweld into the weightless confines of the cabin and allow it to settle..... Otherwise I have found some people can seal plumbing waste pipes very effectively with congealed porridge..............

*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

Dodgy Originals

Presumably that'll be around £300k to set it up and run it and the £3.7m balance to go towards Chris Grayling's pension payments......

Infrastructure wonks: Tear up Britain's copper phone networks by 2025

Optical Copper Fibre....?

Optical copper fibre?...surely that would be copper tubing......

As for affordability of the proposd project, perhaps we could cancel the Trident submarine replacement programme. Estimated to be around £200bn over the next 30 years, and that's assuming that BAe Systems don't put their prices up in the next couple of decades or so, let alone the fact that the US might decide not to keep leasing us their missiles/charge us more for them (that costing is separate form the subs, too ..deny us the targeting data (needs regular sub-24hour updating), or, within the next decade or two, undersea drones that increasingly map sub-sea features and fish stocks etc, won't become so prevalent that the 16,000 tons or so monsters won't be able to hide anywhere anymore anyway...................

UK Foreign Sec BoJo asks tech firms to save endangered species

Beware of the Reptiles

One presumes the blonde tousle-haired one was travelling deep into the Amazon jungle in search of a lost tribe with which to strike a post-Brexit 'trade deal'. Cowrie shells in exchange for proper British tin trays, anyone?................

Britain to slash F-35 orders? Erm, no, scoffs Lockheed UK boss

The curse of the F-35.........

We can't afford the carriers, and we can't afford the F-35s - if they ever work properly.... Best thing would probably be to get out the plasma cutters and chop off the ski-jumps on the QE and the PoW... At least we could then get other aircraft - perhaps F-18 Super Hornets - to land on them then - and other things too when on joint exercises. Otherwise, the carriers will make super gin 'n tonic dispensing venues as we sail the seven seas looking for post-Brexit trade deals.......