Posts by Goat Boy

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

Re: I wonder

Sure I remember one where the crims were holed up in a house / apartment for a while after the job and got nabbed because one of them forgot to press GO on the dishwasher full of their used cutlery etc before they left.

D'oh!

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium

"Pen plotters. Mesmerising to watch."

Agree 100%.

When I left the tools and started in the CAD office we had a HP Draftmaster 2. Because the PC sending the data would lock up until the plot was complete I could stand and stare transfixed as it did its thing.

I'm sure there was some logic in the way it'd organise the process but I couldn't figure it out. It'd do a section of text, leave an individual letter patially formed, swan off to a far corner and do some geometry there then get back and finish off the letter and the rest of the text after it. Utterly bonkers. Miss that noisy bastard.

US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear

So how much for the mk1 now?

Always wanted a Big Trak as a kid but Father C never obliged.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Re: Not all settings have been migrated

I reckon all UI designers who fail a hire at MS end up in washing machine program design.

I'd smash all their heads together for 'quick wash' which only offers a shit spin speed when twice is available.

Cuntsallofem

Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

Re: Power what now?

Had power steering fun just a couple of weeks back when my aux belt snapped on a dual-carriageway at ~60mph.

Only a medium sized motor (Astra) but even at 6'2", a big lad and old enough to remeber non PAS motoring, it shocked me how *much* effort it was to drag that wheel and all the dead hydraulics round for the few mins before I could pull over.

Suppose at least they CAN be steered when the PAS lets go (forearm size permitting).

Long-lost 1977 Star Wars X-Wing prop discovered – lock s-foils in bid position

Judging by the condition of the 'glass' it looks like model-Luke my have left a celebratory model-ciggy lit in the cockpit after bursting the Death Star.

Could bring the price down a bit for you.

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

Re: Bank error in MY favour

In June I got a text from my bank to the effect of "We've made an error on your account but it's fixed now. Sorry for any inconvenience".

Thought - Ok whatever.

Checked my account a day or so later and the 'mistake' was that they'd credited my account to the tune of £5,000,000,000,000.

Then, rather annoyingly took it straight back out.

But at least for a minute or two in June I was a multi-trillionaire and by a very long margin the richest pesron on the planet.

Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'

"can be driven on normal roads.."

My definition of what that means must be different to theirs.

Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure

Re: Aside - How to use an Axe

https://www.togknives.com/..

Hmm.. Nice stocking-filler for the little-un

World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course

Re: Cut him a break

Sure I remember Branson saying 'The fastest way to become a millionaire is to start as a billionaire and buy an airline'.

Ahh.. Gotta pity the obsenely rich and their problems, eh?

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

There's an opposite side where asking an apprentice to go to stores for a Bastard File gets you a "Yeah, whatevs" response.

Elon Musk jettisons Twitter leadership, says takeover was 'to try to help humanity'

Re: No need to worry then!

Johnathan Meads.. That you? ;-)

When you think of a unit of length, do you think of Antony Gormley's rusty anatomy?

Re: Angel of the North, Rusty? not really...

"Its still an invalid unit of length though!"

Agreed but doubly so when using the height as the unit when its most prominet feature is the mahoosive wingspan*

* Any chance we can use the Phelps for future wingspan measurements please? ta.

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

Re: They'll want something starting with A

Reminded me of a Viz funny from yonks ago.. Punchline fits FB perfectly:

"AARON A AARDVARK, Incompetent Domestic Builder,

Drains cracked * Carpets ruined * Cement mixed on your patio.

All prices include 6 bags of hardened cement left by your front door.

Plaster trailed through your home at no extra cost.

Aaron A Aardvark - Not very good, but first in the book

What can the 1944 OSS manual teach us before we all return to sabotage the office?

I too feel that Mr Jones' exit was the point at which we sat our bums on the bristly mat of fate atop Shitshow-Skelter and gently pushed off...

Let's check in now with the new California monolith... And it's gone, torn down by a bunch of MAGA muppets

"When you can just filp on the 'tube"

I think these lovely guys have been flipping far too much 'Tube

AI assistants work perfectly in the UK – unless you're from Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Belfast...

Re: Regional accents

Vowel softening and replacement is my blood pressure's No1 foe lately.

I thought the majority of it was just on my 7yo's telly, where-

"Look" has become "Lick" (fnarr).

"But" is now "Bert"

And "Put" is "Pert" (also fnarr)

But it's permeating normal telly too. *I* won't be able to understand anyone in a few years time, those illuminated bricks sat on the sideboard will have no chance. (Lar)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears

Re: Gullibility is no excuse.

Have you actually checked on tik-tok though? ;¬)