* Posts by Inventor of the Marmite Laser

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'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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Yes yes, yes. But which way up did it land?

Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems

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The crow calling the raven black

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

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Hopefully Boeing haven't designed any jail doors.

Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery

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I thought that's exactly what lager was anyway.

An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer

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Re: Loretta wants a word...

Very low earth orbit. Ie the very top of the atmosphere.

Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

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This just HAS to be live streamed. Anyone got a link?

Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11

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Re: What does it say about you...

Microsoft taking a leaf out of Apple's playbook.

You're using it wrong.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

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I tried eBay's new-ish AI content generator eearor

It's shite

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners

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Re: A new solvent.

Looks nasty stuff , though I don't know the implications of it being part of the electrolyte.

But, there again, petrol and the additives in it is nasty stuff too.

It's not cheap either. Sigma Aldrich offers it at £71 per gram.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

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"issued an advanced notice". Surely a simple notice is all that's required. It's all that's needed if you intend to issue an advance notice.

Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption

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Listen to the rustle

Of all those vested interests

Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws

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Coup de grass

That's all.

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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You are Simon and I claim my £5

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

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Re: Here we go again

Damnit, I meant DRYING

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Re: Maybe isopropyl alcohol ?

Shouldn't that be iSopropyl,?

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Here we go again

You: Oops

Apple: YOU'VE BEEN TRYING IT WRONG

Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside

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Re: REDACTED

INTEL VEGEMITE INSIDE

Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

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Re: This must rate as the most moronic management policy ...

Many years sinceupon, the QA idiot in a company for whom I was working, decreed that all electronic components would henceforth be stored in a tistatic packaging. All the sensitive stuff - ICs semiconductors etc already were. He pointed out additional stuff so the stores folk duly sighed and complied

We had a batch of dead PCB mounted batteries not too long after that.

America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments

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Will no-one think of the shareholders? They have those poor, poor pockets that so desperately need lining

The literal Rolls-Royce of EVs is recalled over fire risk

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Oopsie.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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Black tea. No sugar. Occasionally green tea, again no sugar. Ditto Gunpowder tea.

Fruit teas generally smell wonderful but invariably taste as if someone has already drunk them. Earl Grey (and Lady Grey) were work of the Devil.

I did have several trips to India (off the tourist trail) and thoroughly enjoyed the "proper" Indian approach to tea: strong, spicy, with sugar and thick milk and having it's nuts simmered off on the stove until syrupy. Lovely.

The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response

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Conscience?

She'll have heard of the idea.

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

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Don't forget Google's systematic, deliberate, poisoning of search results with ads and "sponsored results" - which are uniformly useless.

BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence

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I've not yet worked out why the price needs to be any more than inflation up to now.

For the near future, can we expect prices to reduce as the old and increasingly costly to maintain copper system is retired and BT/Openretch costs fall? No, didn't think so.

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

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Re: Norway

Learned some figures from a project specification for an installation in Kazakhstan many years ago and contrasted it with the Isle of Wight, which is on the same latitude:

Isle of Wight temperature range maybe -8 to +36 °C.

Kazakhstan temperature range: -40 to +40 °C

It's amazing what a coastal location and a bit of Gulf Stream magic does.

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?

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Add: "continual changes to the specification"

Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland

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Re: No Scottish jokes?

You unutterable bar steward. That's reminded me of deep fried haggis (it really was actually very lovely) and now I'm hungry.

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It didn't 'explode'. No sir. It had a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, as you should well know.

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

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Various types and uses of flat, star, crinkle and spring washers. It's one of the many things I wished I'd paid a lot more attention to when I was younger. Try this

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Loose bolts. Could this be the first time Boeing HASN'T screwed up?

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

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Re: Bread and butter

Which way up would a cat land if you put butter in it's back?

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I think Apple will check they are issuing cheques to the right people. They'll only issue cheques when checks have been made.

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

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Re: Think of the Grid!

If my car is totally flat (which, obviously, it'd never be) then it'd need 51kWh. I normally charge at about 50% so 25kWh at -say- the 2.5kW that the "granny" charger can supply would need ca. 10 hours. Off a 7kW wall box, make that ca. 3.5 hours. I'd add a few hours longer at a couple of hundred watts every month or so, to balance the batteries.

Navigating the truth maze in a world of clever machines and cleverer marketers

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How long before AI for general purpose is viewed with the same near-universal contempt as Clippy?

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Re: What is the truth?

Yes dear.

Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago

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Re: Red flags

Add wankword content: "leveraging Infosys platforms"

Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck

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Reminds me of the Dutton Reef and the Dutton Surf. The difference being they've both been available for years and they work.

Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news

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"By leveraging these proprietary tools"

Wank bingo!

Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus

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Re: How fast is that relative to...

Another sad lambent

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Re: How fast is that relative to...

Whatever,it'll be a tightly controlled fly baaa

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

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Still ain't going to buy an HP printer.

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

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Re: No Twitter

What would have happened if Twitter disappeared tomorrow?

Well an awful lot of companies would have to come up with a meaningful alternative route to contacting their customer indifference support people, for starters.

Today's 'China is misbehaving online' allegations come from Google, Meta

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Google and Meta complaining about misbehaviour online?

That's bloody rich.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

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"He's not autistic, he's a twunt."

Have an upvote. Several, in fact.

Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI

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Re: Wot!

"the cesspit that Twitter has become"

Wasn't it always thus?

IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups

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Coat

At least it wasn't enough to leave him depressed

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

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Re: Talking about "idiot proof"

Whatever floats your boat

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"asked my elderly mother (a former Kindergarten teacher) to read through it."

We came up with a very similar concept but it just involved a mythical tea lady and was dubbed the "Mrs Muggins Test"

FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic

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The intelligence of a stapler

Ah, so you've met the new chairman then?

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