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Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

Wednesday 10th January 2024 10:20 GMT Real Ale is Best

If it's Boeing...

... I ain't going!

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First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Friday 20th October 2023 09:56 GMT Real Ale is Best

X - Formerly known as Twitter to leave Europe.

Boo hoo, Boo hoo.

What a personal disaster!

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I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

Friday 1st September 2023 13:32 GMT Real Ale is Best

Doug.

Well, he didn't get in trouble, but Doug's dead.

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NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS

Friday 1st September 2023 10:30 GMT Real Ale is Best

ILLUMA-T

ILLUMA-T.

Was this project created at the beginning of April?

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Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Thursday 27th July 2023 14:26 GMT Real Ale is Best

I think Grusch is confusing "professional and personal retaliation" with ridicule.

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Forget these apps and AI, where's my flying car? Ah, here's one with an FAA license

Friday 30th June 2023 10:27 GMT Real Ale is Best

There's a big difference between a firkin = 72 pints and a barrel = 4 firkins = 288 pints.

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Germany to examine China-made kit in its 5G networks over security concerns

Monday 17th April 2023 22:21 GMT Real Ale is Best

It occurs to me...

It occurs to me that China could well have caused more disruption to the West by creating a rumour that Huawei kit is snooping on traffic without having to go to the trouble of doing so.

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Massive energy storage system goes online in UK

Thursday 24th November 2022 10:54 GMT Real Ale is Best

Re: Real numbers

> When homes are preparing the Sunday roast on a bitter winter day with the heating full on

Gas heating and cooking here. I'm pretty sure I don't use 10kWe while cooking dinner.

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Thursday 24th November 2022 10:35 GMT Real Ale is Best

Powering the grid and providing backup?

Something that seems to be missing:

If the data centre batteries are providing energy to the grid, if there is then a powercut, they'll be out of energy to provide backup.

Choosing one or the other task would seem advisable.

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Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it

Friday 7th October 2022 08:46 GMT Real Ale is Best

You are mistaken.

Your systems are already owned.

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Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Tuesday 19th July 2022 15:38 GMT Real Ale is Best

I was sponsored as you have described. I was very happy with the arrangement.

Technology moved on, and they retrained me in software, eventually programming windows apps.

I program in PHP nowadays, but maybe I should look at hardware again if it is in such high demand.

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Being declared dead is automated, so why is resurrection such a nightmare?

Saturday 16th July 2022 09:08 GMT Real Ale is Best

Life Certificate

I Ain't Ded

P.S. We need a Granny Weatherwax icon.

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Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout

Friday 6th May 2022 13:21 GMT Real Ale is Best

Coincidently...

I found my stash of t connectors and terminators just yesterday.

I wasn't sure what to do with them, so they went back into the box of obsolete IT parts for another ten years.

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Study: How Amazon uses Echo smart speaker conversations to target ads

Wednesday 27th April 2022 15:49 GMT Real Ale is Best

Rather than mining my interactions, I'm more concerned about the devices mining conversation I have near my device, rather than with it.

Looking at you, Android.

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NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that's not SpaceX

Saturday 26th March 2022 09:23 GMT Real Ale is Best

A second lunar lander?

1) It'll never get off the ground.

2) If it does, SpaceX moon base will be ready to receive them.

3) It'll not be able to dock if it does get there because of a predictable difference in docking adapters.

4) See (1).

5) It'll be cancelled due to cost overruns.

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Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

Monday 28th February 2022 13:37 GMT Real Ale is Best

Why not:

* Sillius Sododus

* Biggus Dickus

* Incontinentia Buttocks

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A tale of two dishwashers: Buy one, buy it again, and again

Friday 25th February 2022 09:47 GMT Real Ale is Best

Adverts

Adverts are worse. Search for a product, and then everywhere you look is an advert for said product.

I've not experienced the phone eavesdropping on conversation yet, but I guess it's just a matter of time.

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5G masts will be strapped to lampposts and traffic lights – once £4m project figures out who owns them

Thursday 10th February 2022 20:39 GMT Real Ale is Best

Here in Aylesbury they have rolled out 5G masts all around the town. They each come equipped with a couple of large cabinets, so I'm not sure how they are going to squeeze their contents into a streetlamp.

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Have you tried restarting? Reinstalling? Upgrading? Moving house and changing your identity?

Friday 4th February 2022 10:54 GMT Real Ale is Best

After similar experiences with websites, I now just avoid freemium and paywall sites and apps that do this.

Sorry, my sanity and time are not worth it.

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Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*

Monday 31st January 2022 10:32 GMT Real Ale is Best

Hire Scooters

I'd prefer the makers to find a way of preventing them from being ridden on pavements.

The hire company ones in particular, though these are at least trackable to the person whose account was used to hire them.

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RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria

Saturday 18th December 2021 14:46 GMT Real Ale is Best

Re: Technically fantastic but...

You'd think a few rounds from the Typhoon's cannon would have been more economic.

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Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation

Saturday 18th December 2021 12:34 GMT Real Ale is Best

5G Rollout

EE are busy installing 5G masts in my hometown.

I'm honestly surprised that none of them have been set on fire.

Looking at the rate they are charging, I think Starlink would be the cheaper option if I cared to replace my FTTC connection.

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Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

Wednesday 15th December 2021 13:55 GMT Real Ale is Best

I guess I finally need to get around to implementing a piHole on my home network.

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

Wednesday 20th October 2021 12:38 GMT Real Ale is Best

Ono-Sendai might be appropriate too.

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Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers

Wednesday 13th October 2021 09:33 GMT Real Ale is Best

Looks like an old version of Laravel...

... with Debug switched on in the .env file.

Oh dear.

Probably a developer checked in their local copy of the file overwriting the production copy.

Use The Forge Luke!!

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Rumors of satellite-comms-capable iPhone abound. The truth could be rather boring

Tuesday 31st August 2021 07:46 GMT Real Ale is Best

Aliens are coming! And the governments know...

I think it's quite clear that hostile aliens are on their way, and so the US government has commissioned Amazon, SpaceX et al to launch a protective shield of satellites into LEO to prevent any ingress of alien craft.

When they are done, there will be hundreds of thousands of space weapons in place, ready to bombard incoming hostiles with orbital velocity shrapnel.

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Starliner takes off ... back to the factory and not space

Saturday 14th August 2021 11:06 GMT Real Ale is Best

Re: Next space race

I certainly wouldn't bet on Starliner getting there before Starship.

And if NASA won't allow SpaceX to dock, the next Starship can do a loop around the ISS on it's way to the moon.

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Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk

Wednesday 11th August 2021 10:16 GMT Real Ale is Best

Re: I am afraid the whole idea makes me feel yuk

Luckily there is a wide variety of flavours to suit most tastes.

Noone has to like and enjoy every flavour.

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Wednesday 11th August 2021 08:09 GMT Real Ale is Best

I might have an opinion...

There are a number of cholate beers available in the UK, a large number of which, probably the majority are not sweet.

cocoa, naturally a bitter flavour, fits well with hops in a dark malty beer. I agree completely that packaging it in similar packaging as a product aimed at children is not smart.

While possibly in danger the advertising iceberg, Plum Porter is an excellent beer for those that prefer sweet dark beers.

The same brewery produces a Cappuccino Stout that is served best with a shake from the cocoa shaker typically used on Cappuccinos.

Don't knock it before you try it!

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Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

Tuesday 3rd August 2021 08:08 GMT Real Ale is Best

Extinguishers...

Maybe they need to keep some tanks of liquid nitrogen on-site for putting out fires; I suspect CO2 handheld extinguishers won't be up to the job.

I guess halon is out of the question.

I'm actually surprised the containers don't have piping for injecting such fire suppression measures.

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Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs

Monday 17th May 2021 07:53 GMT Real Ale is Best

So basically

So this is a system that swaps several minutes trying to work out what is in some fuzzy pictures, with many minutes trying to find your U2F key from wherever you put it after Google last asked you to sign in with it.

Ok... And which of my two keys (and two backups) should I be using?

I'm not completely certain, but I'm sure that leaving the key permanently installed in your computer's USB socket is not secure behaviour.

Still, it's at least better than having to dig out your phone, start the Authenticator app and copy across the six digit code. If you can remember the right one to use.

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Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA

Monday 10th May 2021 09:26 GMT Real Ale is Best

The easiest way to stop China dropping space junk on other countries is to launch "covert CIA operations" to recover all the pieces.

It would not be long before China modify their rockets to only land in Chinese controlled teritory.

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US declares emergency after ransomware shuts oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day

Monday 10th May 2021 08:53 GMT Real Ale is Best

When will they learn not to connect critical infrastructure to the Internet?

Really this is just asking for trouble.

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Listen, son... Monster trucks just aren't cool anymore. Real winners drive Tesla Roadsters

Thursday 15th April 2021 15:09 GMT Real Ale is Best

Can I have a red one on top of a model Falcon Heavy, please?

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Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead

Wednesday 7th April 2021 09:31 GMT Real Ale is Best

Awards

Doesn't SCO still owe Novell (and possibly IBM) some damages awarded by the court?

Or has that magically disappeared in the bankruptcy fairy dance?

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Founders of medical science upstart uBiome once likened to Theranos now indicted for, you guessed it, fraud

Wednesday 24th March 2021 09:51 GMT Real Ale is Best

Alternative "medicines"

I'd like the producers of alternative medicines, such as homoeopathy, prosecuted for making unfounded and unevidenced claims about their products.

I'm deeply disturbed that companies such as Boots the Chemist sell these so-called cures to the gullible public, rather than providing educational material on how to improve lifestyle; changes that have proved to improve health.

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This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders

Thursday 11th March 2021 14:29 GMT Real Ale is Best

Ahhh!

You're good, but are you a Rockstar Developer?

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Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine

Saturday 27th February 2021 19:44 GMT Real Ale is Best

Repairs

I'd just be happy if I could get my Big Sur bricked Macbook Pro back from the Apple store that repaired it.

Due to covid, they've not been open since I took it in at the beginning of December.

Posting it to me was beyond them.

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Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster

Wednesday 17th February 2021 08:48 GMT Real Ale is Best

If he really cared...

This book would be freely available to download via pdf, kindle* etc.

* Other eReaders are available.

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UK watchdog fines two firms £270k for cold-calling 531,000 people who had opted out

Tuesday 16th February 2021 14:08 GMT Real Ale is Best

> "If you sign up to the TPS, you should not expect to get nuisance calls. It's as simple as that," said Andy Curry

I signed up years ago, but my mother in law still calls every week.

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

Monday 15th February 2021 13:56 GMT Real Ale is Best

Re: I want(ed) to be an Astronaut

It does depend on the radiation and the material.

I believe polythene is a good shield for some types (lots of hydrogen, apparently). Lead also being useful, if massive.

See here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01707-2

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Apple drops macOS Big Sur on the world – and it arrives with a thud, sound of breaking glass, sirens in the distance...

Saturday 14th November 2020 13:53 GMT Real Ale is Best

Unfortunately, my macbook succeeded to download and install Big Sur.

It rebooted, and all I've seen since is a black screen.

Thanks, Apple.

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Windows 10 October 2020 Update has arrived... and so have the fixes. Plus: Fancy a discount on a Surface Duo?

Thursday 29th October 2020 18:25 GMT Real Ale is Best

That's great...

... if I could get Windows to update at all.

It tells me there are missing updates, tries to install them, then:

Windows Error 0x800f0988 - I can't be arsed.

Reboot, disconnect hardware, run trouble shooter, make more free space. Nope, not going to work.

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Relics of the past to be found in Oxford: A medieval friary, a Saxon wall, and... Windows 7

Thursday 17th September 2020 16:42 GMT Real Ale is Best

Westgate

I think the new centre is rather nice.

Good food options, and the view from the upper level is nice in the summer.

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We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

Tuesday 11th August 2020 11:50 GMT Real Ale is Best

The truth...

Amazon developed Covid-19 as a final plan to abolish all other retail and become the world's sole supplier.

#tinfoilhat

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UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

Tuesday 11th August 2020 11:33 GMT Real Ale is Best

Leaks

To be honest, I'd be much happier if they spent a bit more cash and attention on reducing the huge number of leaks in their ageing pipes, especially in London.

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