Re: And
Don't see the joke in there.
It also knows where you work and where your kids go to school...
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Not enough personality: Google Now becomes Google Not Anymore
BOFH: The case of the suspicious red icon
Friday 16th September 2016 12:27 GMT 
Re: Window?
But it's dark and stuffy in a basement. One quick copy 'n paste production of a flood risk assessment and a nice view is yours to be had.
Of course that does mean any large kit has to be installed by crane through a window, but this is a fantastic way of disposing of anyone (or their car) you've taken a dislike to, via the simple means of "adjusting" the lifting straps on the kit concerned.
Bonus is that any kit you didn't really want, but the boss thought was a Good Thing, is unlikely to work once dropped a couple of storeys onto a user (or their car).
Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all
Hololens for biz shocker: Surprisingly, it doesn't totally suck
Monday 12th September 2016 10:53 GMT
Re: "evaluating the insurance risks for buildings"
If there is one thing high-paid suits cannot stand, it's looking ridiculous.
You've never seen a major presentation by a high-paid suit then? Never seen any get through one without making an utter prat of themselves at least once. If not looking like a dick was a really big deal, Powerpoint wouldn't sell at all.
Self-stocking internet fridge faces a delivery come down
Sunday 11th September 2016 09:37 GMT
Re: Garmin
For maps I've changed to Openstreetmap.
I've found two showstopper fuckups that make that shit useless for navigation:
1) There's no consistent road typing, so the only routing cue is the speed limit. This means that given the choice of a 50mph limited dual carriageway or a derestricted (60mph) country lane running parallel, the navigation software goes for the lane, despite the fact that you'll be pushed to achieve an average speed of 30mph along it.
2) The number of places where someone's drive on road A and someone else's on parallel road B are allegedly a road connecting the two is very scary indeed. Too many "contributors" who think 2+2=5 I guess.
Boffins ID bug behind London's Great Plague of 1665
You should install smart meters even if they're dumb, says flack
Linus Torvalds won't apply 'sh*t-for-brains stupid patch'
Wednesday 7th September 2016 09:34 GMT
Whether Linux would be better or worse if its mailing list had a different hue is hard to say.
No it isn't, it would be worse. If you want to get it right, you need an autocrat to put their foot down whenever the development process coughs up one of the usual expedient[1] workarounds. The foot also needs to be put down in such a way that those responsible for the abortion know that they'll only get away with this shit after hell's frozen over.
I shudder to think what Linux will become if and when it moves to more conventional and compromising governance.
[1] Cost or Time are invariably the root cause.
Meet Deliveroo's ‘bold and impactful’ new logo. No, really
Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court
Microsoft redfaced after Bing translation cockup enrages Saudis
Phoney bling ring pinged by Tolkien's kin
Sysadmin sticks finger in pipe, saves data centre from flood
Sunday 28th August 2016 14:37 GMT
Re: There's nothing quite like...
...these were ones with 2 car sized batteries in apiece....
Best "UPS" lashup I ever heard of was in Turkey. A roomful of secondhand car batteries, of varying sizes capacities and vintages, with an old transformer of indeterminate origin across them, all mounted on something that looked like Dexion racking fabricated from scrap angle iron.
It worked, but the fumes in there meant you had to come out for air every ten minutes should you be unlucky enough to have to work on any of the other kit in there.
They don't really do "elf 'n savdee" in Turkey. I also saw some lads fitting airco units to an office building. Two problems. First was that the bloke fitting the exchangers was hanging out of a window with two other blokes holding his belt. Second was that he was securing the exchanger brackets to the marble cladding panels on the outside of the building. He had to pick where to put the brackets, as many of said cladding panels had already fallen off, despite not having a heavy heat exchanger bolted to them. I mentally flagged the pavement beneath as a "beware of falling heavy machinery" zone.
Watch the world's biggest 'flying bum' go arse over tit in a crash
Honor 8: Huawei targets millennials with high-spec cheapie. 3 words – Food pic mode
Tuesday 23rd August 2016 08:05 GMT 
Not Again!
1920 by 1080 resolution, with 423 pixels per inch,
And that PPI count is higher than the human eye can discern, making anything more than that a waste of time, effort and money. Crowing over the number of invisible pixels is straight out of the "this cam iz bestest 'cos its got more megapixels than that cam" school of review.
If this headline was a security warning, 90% of you would ignore it
Samsung points high-speed Z-SSD smack-bang at XPoint
Australia's privacy watchdog launches '#Censusfail' probe
Watch hot 'stars' shower ... again. It's Perseid meteor showtime
NASA test foiled by rocket shaking power cord loose from camera
Billion-tonne IceCube: Sterile neutrino does not exist
Violence, vandals and vomit: London's naughtiest tech Tube stations revealed
$67M in bitcoin stolen as hacking typhoon lashes Hong Kong's Bitfinex
Android's latest patches once again remind us: It's Nexus or bust if you want decent security
Jacob Appelbaum is a bullying sex pest, says ex-employer Tor Project
Zero-day hole can pwn millions of LastPass users, all that's needed is a malicious site
Apple Watch exec Bob Mansfield 'gets into secret Apple car'
Harrison Ford's leg, in the Star Wars film, with the Millennium Falcon door
Tuesday 26th July 2016 12:33 GMT
Eh? What?
"and hit a button before starting to walk back through it, believing the set was not live and that it would not close"
So, in effect, he closed the door on himself by being a careless twat.
And some bunch of legal fuckwits compensated him for doing that??!!11!!
So this is how it all ends, not with a bang, but with a lawsuit...
Micron sets a canary to watch over its stock in case of takeover
Nintendo to investors: Pokémon Go won't make money come
Free Windows 10 upgrade: Time is running out – should you do it?
World religions stake out positions on Pokemon Go
Official: AMD now stands for Avoiding Miserable Death
Internet issues again
Thursday 21st July 2016 09:24 GMT
Is it just BT? There's been some weird shit going on for the last couple of days.
So far today, Tesco's online payment system is cattle-trucked and anything at ".gov" is lucky lotto as to whether it responds at all[1]. Yesterday morning, every UK site was either slow or unavailable and NatWest fell off the internet completely, even the API connections were unreachable.
[1] Yes, I am trying to sort out the car for another year, why do you ask?
Raving mad: Glow sticks are secret weapon in Facebook's 2.1Gbps laser internet drones
Thursday 21st July 2016 08:17 GMT
Re: Glowing orbs in the sky
....an artilleryman doesn't know friend or foe, only targets.
A fact also well-known by Harrier pilots. When the Falklands went off, some eejit decided that rather than taking an RAF regiment unit, they'd just get 'em to give their Rapier batteries to the pongoes.
The results were what you'd expect from giving an antiaircraft system that effective to a bunch who can't tell the difference between a Harrier and a Mirage from more than 10 feet away.
How's this for irony? US Navy hit with $600m software piracy claim
An anniversary to remember: The world's only air-to-air nuke was fired on 19 July, 1957
Wednesday 20th July 2016 08:11 GMT
IIRC, the specialist on Enola Gay was so worried about the possibility of the thing going off if something went wrong on takeoff, he elected to remove the fuse and explosive trigger. Reassembling same in the bomb bay while in flight was both painful and time-consuming, as the thing hadn't been designed to provide access when in situ.
Tests on the ground had proved it was possible to do this, but only just.
Coup-Tube: Turkey blocks social networks amid military takeover
Alleged Aussie plum plucker pleads guilty to motel tissue swipe
White hat hacker AI bots prepare for DARPA's DEF CON cyber brawl
Tupperware vehemently denies any link to storage containerisation
Thursday 14th July 2016 07:15 GMT
One of many...
There are quite a few firms who go spare at the sight of their product name being used as a generic name for whatever-it-is. Nobody wants to end up like Hoover, with a globally recognised brand that you can no longer claim exclusive use of.
Now that I know that every time I refer to any sort of container as "Tupperware" one of their lawyers dies screaming, I shall do so more often.
UK.gov flings £30m at driverless car R'n'D, wants plebs to speek their branes
Tuesday 12th July 2016 09:22 GMT
Still waiting...
....for the showstopper.
At some point, someone will die in an accident involving an autonomous vehicle. At that point the mantra of "even one death is one too many", beloved of the drooling safety nazis, will come out.
It won't matter that more lives are saved by automation, that's the devil's arithmetic[1] and you're not allowed to do it.
[1] See also: "You can't put a price on human life" and similar stupid aphorisms.
Please stop working and abuse your expense account at the beach
Monday 11th July 2016 09:05 GMT
Conf call to a colleague out on site in Malta.
He went through the issues and came up with something puzzling:
"Ah, could you ask the lads there if they've been doing XYZ?".
"Er, no. There's nobody in the office."
"Why not?"
"It's a Bank Holiday here.".
"Oh dear, it must be terrible being stuck in the office there all on your own..."
"Er, I'm not in the office, it's closed."
"So you're in your Hotel room then?".
"Er, no. I'm in the pool on the roof."
<Sarcasm> "Oh, pardon us for getting you out of the pool to take this call."</Sarcasm>
"That's all right, you didn't. They actually have a bar in the pool itself and I'm using the phone on that."
414,949 D-Link cameras, IoT devices can be hijacked over the net
A statement from Steven P Bong concerning alleged CV inaccuracies
Isis crisis: Facebook makes Bristol lass an unperson
A trip to the Twilight Zone with a support guy called Iron Maiden
Friday 1st July 2016 11:44 GMT
Hmm.
Some time ago, a colleague and I were sat outside a little bar in Cologne, while waiting for the right moment to set off for the airport and due to the heavy night before, we ordered water.
The German waitress asked us, in the slight yank accent alluded to, whether we would like that with gargles.
Cue two puzzled faces.
After some toing and froing we decided that she actually meant "bubbles"....... despite her insistence that she was correct.
Either she was cloth-eared or, somewhere in the Cologne area, there's a yank teaching English who has a mean streak.
Hubble spies rare cosmic tadpole galaxy
ZTE flagship elbows aside Xiaomi
Thursday 30th June 2016 07:53 GMT 
Hmm.
More expensive than a OnePlus 3 with a very similar spec (less memory, less puissant camera, more pixels).
As the pixel density is irrelevant once you get beyond "can't see them" (which both do) we'll have to wait for the reviews as to whether the screen measures up to the OnePlus in use.
As it is, it looks about 50 quid overpriced.....and it only seems to be available in a horrible, tasteless, chav gold finish.
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