* Posts by Phil Skuse

11 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2014

Sales 'smasher' Simon Niesler lands role as SAP UK cloud supremo

Phil Skuse

Some sales guy got a promotion. Good for him. But why is it newsworthy?

Post-outage King's College London orders staff to never make their own backups

Phil Skuse

Re: Re:And they TEST the ****ing backups.

> Backups never fail

Clearly you've never experienced an Exabyte DLT Library. You lucky *******.

How Chairman Mao's secret military project led to a Nobel Prize

Phil Skuse

The “Four Olds” : habits, culture and ideas

Nobody expects the Chinese Revolution!

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Vodafone adopts hydrogen fuel cells to dodge African outages

Phil Skuse

Masai

Why is there a photo of Kenya in a story about South Africa? You are 3000 miles off target!

What next, a photo of Kazakhstan in a story about London?

Florida cops cuff open-carry, balls-out pirate packing 'operational' flintlocks

Phil Skuse

Re: Much fuss over nothing?

It does seem odd to us Rightpondians.

If you are so scared of being attacked that you feel the need to carry a firearm then why conceal it?

You'd be better off having it in plain view where everyone can see that you've got it. Then nobody will dare risk attacking you. If it's concealed then there's slightly more chance you will have to use it.

Would a mugger try to rob the seemingly unarmed guy, or the guy with the glock in a holster and an AK47 slung over his shoulder?

Climate change alarmism is a religious belief – it's official

Phil Skuse

> Otherwise, human beings will always try to impose their own laws and interests on reality.

When the pope says this, it's like goldy and bronzy but it's made of iron.

Are we looking at the first domain name meme? Neigh

Phil Skuse

flogging.a.dead.horse

Bracelet could protect user herds from lurking PREDATORS

Phil Skuse

How is this any better than a keycard attached to the user by a piece of string, so that they have to remove it when they walk away from the terminal.

Jurassic squawk: Dinosaurs were Earth's early feathered friends

Phil Skuse

"Our new find clinches it: all dinosaurs had feathers"

Welcome to Paleontology, the science of extrapolation.