* Posts by Macs1000

25 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Feb 2020

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

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Re: "Fujitsu finance chief says sorry"

There used to be an honourable Japanese tradition of making a sincere apology by committing hara-kiri...

Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator

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Re: Everyone's at it..

It seems that AC still has unrestricted access to RT, then!

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

The pressure at 3800 metres (the depth of the Titanic) is about 5500 psi, or 2.5 tons per sq.in. If my arithmetic is correct, (and it may not be) then the force acting on each titanium end section would be about 19,600 tons, and the force acting on any side of the cylindrical section (although having to guesstimate its actual length) would be about 26,000 tons. I find it hard to understand how any sane person with even an inkling of these sort of figures would contemplate climbing into such a contraption.

James Webb spots the early galaxies responsible for tidying up the universe

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Something else is wrong here..

What in the name of the Deity is an "honoree"?

Australia to phase out checks by 2030

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Re: Checks?

Which, of course, is pronounced A to Zed.

Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts

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Re: Big Brother has another way to cock things up.

My (lack of any) Feature Phone got the alert. But I'm really curious as to why it has had two previous test alerts over the last few weeks. Am I the only one?

Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?

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Joke

Re: Only three types of people...

No, a retired IT person would be too inflexible and wooden in his approach!

Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes

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So, did nobody think it might be a good idea to check this stuff before it was actually aired?

Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh

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Re: The hot coffee lawsuit...

Of course, if you like your coffee hot, then the answer is to balance the mug on top of an nvidia card. Dissipating 450watts plus, it'll soon bring the coffee to the boil!

German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk

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Sanctions

"US Treasury Department sanctioned the dark-web monstrosity."

It's a funny thing, isn't it, but in English English, to sanction something is to allow it!

Consolidation looms for UK broadband providers

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Re: Fibre Fibre Fibre Fibre FIBRE!!

My English teacher used to point out that if the English is incorrect, what else in the article is incorrect? Or to put it another way, where does accuracy begin?

China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)

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Re: Weight

I suppose it all hinges on whether, on the moon, you use a spring balance or an old-fashioned pair of scales!

Mouse hiding in cable tray cheesed off its bemused user

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Facepalm

Pointers with a mind of their own

Twice, many years ago, I was called out to fix a mouse pointer that would move to where it was told, but then jumped back to its original position.

The cause? Each time, buried under piles of paperwork on the desk was a Wacom tablet with the stylus left lying on it...

Europe advances crypto-coin regulation – without potential ban on Bitcoin

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Re: just ban this conmans dream shit

Having just read the article on LokiLocker ransomware I wonder just how many ransomeware gangs demand payment in hard cash?

'We are not people to Mark Zuckerberg, we are the product' rages Ohio's Attorney General in Facebook lawsuit

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"....Nick Clegg were also listed as defendants"

Wow! If they find against the Dead Corporation will Cleggie be personally liable? Please, please, please!

BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day

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FAIL

Free email?

"It seems that the days of free email as a perk from your ISP are rapidly ending."

Free? A perk? No, these things never are. They are included in the fee you pay for the service.

And since we're talking about service (or lack of it) I find it strange that Plusnet is claiming the problems started early Wednesday morning. I was unable to log into two of my accounts late Tuesday evening. A bit of honesty and openess would not come amiss!

Future astronauts at risk of heart attacks, strokes if radiation allowed to ravage their cardiovascular health

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Re: They Usually Bring Up That Transatlantic Passage Was Considered Impossible

An upvote just for quoting Kai Lung!

Screw you, gadget-menders! No really, you'll need loads of screwdrivers to fix Apple's AirPods Max headphones

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Re: Question

Sorry, are we talking fasteners or personnel here?

Test tube babies: Virgin Hyperloop pops pair of staffers in a pod, shoots them along 500m vacuum tunnel

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I can't get the picture of an oversized Lamson tube out of my mind!

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

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Re: onions are too sex?

I'm a peach man, myself!

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

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Re: ding dong ditch

Chickenelly.

UK privacy watchdog confirms probe into NHS England COVID-19 app after complaints of spammy emails, texts

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Re: FFS!

I believe that GPs are indeed "outside" the NHS. They are independant contractors, not employees.

Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word

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Sorry, but you're all wrong. Many years ago, in the Civil Service, when they used to Do Thing Properly, three spaces was the rule!

That critical VMware vuln allowed anyone on your network to create new admin users, no creds needed

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It's very unique...

No it isn't. It's either unique, or it's not.

School's out as ransomware attack downs IT systems at Scotland's Dundee and Angus College

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It was Dennis the Menace wot dunnit!