Obligatory door comment
A key point in Virgins defence case - If we had stolen Boeings tech, the doors would have blown off by now....
Posts by MAF
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Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic
Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns
Wednesday 28th February 2024 10:39 GMT
A little test
OK Jensen - we propose letting an AI run the Nuclear power plant near you (What could go wrong)
When you need a medical procedure to be performed on you, the Doctor will use an AI
You are not driving or flying anywhere without an AI at the controls
Surely no objections there. You must be willing and able to put your health, wealth and security
in the hands of this espoused AI utopia?
No? Then stop spouting this drivel....
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches
Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation
How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators
Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater
User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work
China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices
Thursday 7th September 2023 11:13 GMT
Phones getting ubiquitous for work these days
Good luck with that ban....
2FA everywhere all expecting apps e.g. MS Orifics, Github.
Very soon will need to authenticate bathroom break using MS Authenticator so vitally important to remember phone
(and to charge it and not break it) to mis-quote Douglas Adams.
Passwords are so last Century....
Artemis I isn't just a test run – there's science to be done
UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs
Thursday 18th August 2022 09:59 GMT
Leave means leave
The "Project Fear" pidgeons are coming home to roost and the Government that campaigned for and got re-elected on the own goal that is Brexit are now trying to dictate the rules and access the benefits of a club that they are no longer a member of...
Horizon and previous EU Framework programmes were a big influx of funding to UK Science but never mind we got blue passports.
NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030
NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that's not SpaceX
Lack shame? Fancy some festive Windows knitwear? We've got your back
Junking orbital junk? The mind behind ASTRIAGraph database project hopes to 'make space transparent'
NASA postpones spacewalk as it would be too much of a pain in the neck for astronaut
UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries
Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database
Newcastle University, neighbouring Northumbria hit by ransomware attacks
Someone must be bricking it: UK govt website for first-time home buyers snapped up for £40,000 after left to expire
Ooo, a mystery bit of script! Seems legit. Let's see what happens when we run it
I heard somebody say: Burn baby, burn – server inferno!
US Homeland Security mistakenly seizes British ad agency's website in prostitution probe gone wrong
You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will
Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons
British Army down thousands of soldiers after outsourcing recruitment IT to Capita
Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released
Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy
20% of UK businesses would rather axe their contractors than deal with IR35 – survey
Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory
Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?
Tuesday 29th October 2019 11:54 GMT
Re: Tobacco smoke
Working in the era of DecMates word-processing system used by our typing pool (That description is akin to carbon-dating). Yes, they smoked and drank at the keyboard and yes, their keyboards would stop working.
Would swap them for working keyboard and work on duff one. Shake it upside down to remove paper-clips, biscuit crumbs and staples (and once tinsel fragments!).
Most major mistake was to do a thorough job by infusing keyboard with Isoprop alcohol and watching in horror at the disgusting resultant yellow/orange nicotine solution draining out of the accursed device
Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders
Conspiracy loons claim victory in Brighton and Hove as council rejects plans to build 5G masts
HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry
Wednesday 9th October 2019 09:45 GMT
Of course, it could result in people not buying HP at all
Posit:
Used to be expensive well-built printers with expensive consumables but cheap 3rd party ink/toner available & usable with ignorable nag-ware about
used/'counterfeit' consumables
Move to cheap nasty inexpensive hardware with expensive consumables with 'chips' to stop 3rd-party (until subverted by 3rd parties)
Now move to pricier cheap-to-make hardware with expensive consumables with another lock-out
Do they really believe that we just exist to transfer money from our wallets to theirs regardless?
Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software
Thanks-thanks to TalkTalk teen hacker: UK cops' first auction of ill-gotten Bitcoin nets £240k
Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet
The wheels on the bus go round and... Oh dear. Chancellor Sajid Javid unveils spending review
Another sign of the End Times: Free software guru Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft HQ
The purple SIM of fail: Virgin Mobile punters left in the dark with batch of borked cards
I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™
Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin
Choc-a-block: AWS sues sales exec for legging it to Google Cloud. Yup, another bitter battle over non-compete clauses
Tuesday 6th August 2019 07:35 GMT
If shoe were on other foot?
Additionally, if they dismiss an employee then they (AWS) ought to pay gardening leave for the period of the cause in addition to any redundancy package.
Also, an employment contract can be terminated by either party. Once the contract is terminated, surely any clause is null and void?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
