Posts by Gort99

Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry

Re: Pollution not CO2

Also, cigarettes are really, really good for you! Fact.

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Come on, Datsun were never that bad!

The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release

Re: Why am I reading about ancient tech I don't want to own?

>Quit comparing it to modern tech. Compare it to what existed at the time.

Betamax on a Sony Trinitron (I had a friend with rich parents).

VHS was horrible.

Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline

I blame the parents

If it does turn out to be a 17 year old "script kiddie" what are the bets one of their parents work for TfL in some capacity?

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Sports Sponsorship

Funny you should say that. I remember many moons ago going to a corporate event at Autonomy's HQ shortly after they started their high profile sponsorship of the Mercedes F1 team. Whatever happened to them?

Tesla slams advisors for not loving Musk's $44.9B payout

Re: Time to go Elon

The wack-a-doodle is strong in this one.

Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car

Re: I used to love visiting San Francisco

Must be a San Franciscan.

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

Re: Alternatives to car use?

I cannot be bothered telling you it is not true.

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

WTF! I mean just WtF. You have some learning to do my friend.

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

Re: Is there any way to remove...

Ed China got out, maybe you can too.

Elon Musk has beef with Bill Gates because he shorted Tesla stock, says biographer

Re: Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change

Orangery? Is that where Trump goes to top up his tan?

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Re: Easy win but challenging keep.

"replacing the current UK government with the inmates of Bedlam"

Wait, you mean that hasn't already happened!?!

Most distant observed star is blue – and it isn't alone

Re: a massive distortion in space-time

Is he?

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

Re: Looking at the logo

I thought that was the whole marketing campaign. "Threads. Like Twitter but shitter".

Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons

Re: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ..... IT is Making Everything Greater and Better

Are you just turning into the Lord HawHaw of the Ukraine conflict?

Theranos' Sunny Balwani gets longer sentence than Elizabeth Holmes

Re: Another lesson

Well, this is true. Women rarely receive a harsher sentence than men for the same offence. For evidence I would recommend listening to Lucy Worsely's podcast "Lady Killers" on BBC Sounds.

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water

Re: Where did you get that bathtub?

Damn it! You bet me to it. Still waiting on that solid gold planet.

Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister

Re: Depends on what you mean by "it"

Who's Keith?

Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL

Re: Voice prompts

"I produced a system many years ago to measue the pH of cat urine"

Now you really are taking the pee!

Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes

When in doubt

lube?

In the graveyard of good ideas, how does yours measure up to these?

Re: Level 3

I assumed it meant pilling into the back of a transit van on the way to their fruit/vegetable picking "side hussle".

Bouncing cheques or a bouncy landing? All in a day's work for the expert pilot

I always have problems with users pressing the wrong 'fn' keys!

Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips

Yes, but can it play a nice game of chess?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

Re: BBC

Can't really say that since Bake Off went to Channel 4.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Curious

So a whistle blower opens a whole can of worms on Facebook then Facebook goes down and all of the headlines are for the outage and not the whistle blower.

Suspicious? Moi?

Trouts on a plane: Utah drops fish into lakes from aircraft and circa 95% survive

Mr Pool?

"Wade Wilson, a Wildlife Resources biologist". I didn't know Deadpool was an environmentalist.

Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way

Re: Isn't this a bit like Stark

Up vote for the Ben Elton reference. I'm guessing the down votes are from people who don't like Ben Elton.

Space station dumps 2.9-ton battery pack to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after hardware upgrade

Re: Pollution?

Why can I imagine Jeff Goldblum using that as a metaphor in a Roland Emmerich film?

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

Re: Tech angle?

The article mentioned that some computers were left unlocked.

Re: geez

It is coming to something when a countries reality starts to resemble a Gerard Butler movie.

Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence

Re: Not quite but nearly

Great name for a band.

They can't sing, can't play and they look terrible. They'll go a long way.