* Posts by earl grey

1630 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2011

No parcel drones. No robo-trucks – Teamsters driver union delivers its demands to UPS

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Trollface

What happens when humans get dead-ended?

They go into IT?

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Facepalm

Re: Horse carts vs delivery trucks again.

They're out on their ass.

I saw what you did there...

Driverless cars will lead to data-sharing – of the electrical kind

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Devil

It's all chicanery

Are they as least wearing a rubber?

RIP Ursula K Le Guin: The wizard of Earthsea

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Unhappy

RIP

Sadly, RIP.

Why did I buy a gadget I know I'll never use?

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Trollface

Re: @ onefang

And now your conversion to the dark side is complete.

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Happy

Sprouts - love 'em

Apparently i'm the only one in the house who does, though.

As for parts? Still have my QIC drive and tapes, dual floppy drive, hordes of cables and old drives.

But wait! There's more. Boxes of screws, nails, nuts, bolts in various sizes, shapes, and metals (steel, copper, brass, bronze, aluminium); miscellaneous hardware (hammer head wedges) and saw handle bolts.

My only collecting problem is not enough space.

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Facepalm

Wooden toast tongs

What? You don't just use the butter knife?

Talk about a positive mental pl-attitude: WD Ultrastars shed disks without hit to capacity

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Trollface

Re: SSD manufacturers' olde saying

I want to know how they get the platypus in there.

Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun

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Unhappy

Re: Clarity required

"increasing the provision of healthcare and of women's empowerment"

That won't be the US then.

HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens

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Facepalm

Re: If

Always liked that movie.

Wait, what were we talking about?

Flying on its own, Thunderbird seeks input on new look

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Angel

Pah, you kids

I was ....blah blah blah... before the beginning.

Crinoid

1980s sci-fi movies: The thrill of being not quite terrified on mum's floral sofa

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Alien

Klaatu barada nikto

I know what i like.

Where did all that water go? Mars was holding it wrong, say boffins

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Happy

where have all the waters gone?

Where have all the waters gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the waters gone?

Long time ago...

apologies to Pete Seeger

FBI tells Jo(e) Sixpack to become an expert in IoT security

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Happy

Re: Continuous product and service improvement

"Merry Christmas. You're fried."

Erm, not yet, but i'm working on it. Happy solstice to you, too.

Auto auto fleets to dodge British potholes in future

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Facepalm

Re: Meatbag option

" they can file it in the same place they do now"

So it'll become bog roll. Got it.

Brrr! It's a snow day and someone has pwned the chuffin' school heating

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Facepalm

Re: Lucky little sods

And walk uphill both to and from school in the snow.

IBM to expunge over 500 people in latest redundo round

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Flame

"drive a series of accelerated..."

Yeah, well they're driving something; but it's pointed, barbed, and very abrasive and i can tell you where it's going.

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Mushroom

Re: Optional

Yes, lose your redundancy package.

Oh, you mean getting buggered every day until you go out the door?

Rogue PIs found guilty of illegally snagging personal financial info

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Flame

Now, who's up for checking out the credit reporting agencies?

Thought not. A little time in chokey might change their attitude.

Disk drive fired 'Frisbees of death' across data centre after storage admin crossed his wires

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Angel

Re: What no-one has mentioned yet... - DRUMS

When i first started with a certain employer years ago they had Unisys 494's running in 490 mode with Fastrand drums as well as 432 and 1782 drums. The Fastrand were two huge drums with a controller cabinet and in total weighed in around 6000 pounds. The floor tiles buckled a bit when they got moved, but i don't recall any collapses. BIggest danger was always getting a tie caught in a printer (or in my case at one place, getting a hand caught in a decollater).

Meet the woman with a supernatural affinity for stiff lovers

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Unhappy

"Over to you all."

Erm, i read that as "all over you". No thanks.

No, BMW, petrol-engined cars don't 'give back to the environment'

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Facepalm

gives back to the environment

Yeah, my spreader does that down on the farm. Gives all that shite right back to good mother earth.

Car rental firms told: Tell your customers about in-car data slurps

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Trollface

Thank googly for a rotary dial

Guess I'll never have to worry about my phone data being slurped.

IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

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Mushroom

Re: To all employees: Merry Christmas...

P.S Trebles all round?

I think you mean Tribbles. They're going to be stuffing them up your fanny so best be prepared.

BOFH: The trouble with, er, windows installs

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Pint

Have one

And then have another.

Fear not, driverless car devs, UK.gov won't force you to write Trolley Problem solutions

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FAIL

You're all missing the real point

In actuality, the trolley problem involves another party - YOU, the passenger. I don't ever want the car deciding on its own to not run over the old lady and to not run over the cyclist and instead to run into a brick wall with me inside the tin coffin.

Death Race 2000

just sayin'

Windows Update borks elderly printers in typical Patch Tuesday style

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Trollface

Re: Dot Matrix, that takes me back.

Chain printers and band printers back in theh 60s and 70s, but most of them were connected to mainframes (OF here). Even some stand alone solid drum types. Thankfully no windows software to deal with.

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Angel

Re: Dot Matrix ?

Part of Spaceballs (1987). Played by Joan Rivers.

I'm more of a Barf fan myself.

BT plots to slash pension benefits for 32,000 staff

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Flame

damage our ability to invest

And to give out handfuls of money to the c levels and loads of dosh to shareholder. As usual, screw the grunts. they can all DIAF.

Go on IBMers, tell us what you really think

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Mushroom

Three words

Bend Ye Over

BOFH: Do I smell burning toes, I mean burning toast?

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Unhappy

Re: Good on ya, PFY

Is your cat plotting to kill you?

You know my cat then?

Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs

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Devil

i have to ask

why were they done wrong in the first place?

Leicestershire teen admits attempting to hack director of the CIA

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FAIL

on the autistic spectrum

OMFG - aren't we all? I have stress in my life. My shorts were too tight. I can't afford to live in high style. The sun was in my eyes.

Do we have to put a written warning on every computer to not do stupid stuff now?

Seagate fires NASty volley of 12TB spinners with lifebelt for fried data

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FAIL

gave up on seagate a long time ago

Hope they actually got their act together and these hold up better than their old drives.

Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?

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Unhappy

I sense a disturbance in the stupid

Oh never mind; it's just politicians with their yobs open.

MH370 final report: Aussies still don’t know where it crashed or why

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Mushroom

planet is surrounded by spy satellites

And you darn well know someone has an idea where it is; but then that would be telling now, wouldn't it?

30 strong fingers but still no happy ending for robotic back rub

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Paris Hilton

" No happy ending for me."

At this point i would suggest you either work on it yourself or get someone like the picture to help you.

BOFH: Come on, PFY, let's pick a Boss

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Pint

It is that time.

Have another.

Alleged dark web drug baron cuffed – after he flew to US for World Beard Championships

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FAIL

repeated use of the word the word "cheers,"

And here i thought that said repeated use of the word the word "cheese," a-la Wallace and Grommit. Now i'm disappointed.

Playboy founder and dressing-gown wearer Hugh Hefner dead at 91

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Flame

Nudity =/= porn!

Dear author, please take your nudity hangup somewhere else.

Driverless cars will make more traffic, say transport boffins

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Flame

Only if they autoclave the interior

And i don't have to ride with anyone else

and it's available exactly when and where i need it

and i don't have to pay every time (my auto is payed off and only minor maintenance)

and it's smart enough to take a different route if i tell it

and it works well in all weather and road conditions (snow, rain, etc.)

and the answer is still HELLZ NO!

Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid

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Unhappy

And in today's news

Financial Times journalist is killed in crocodile attack on surfing vacation in Sri Lanka

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FAIL

gamble in the presence of a live crocodile

If you're near a croc you're gambling you can outrun it.

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

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Paris Hilton

Pike?

Surely not Esox lucius?

She's the only thing fishy here.

UK attorney general plans crackdown on 'trial by social media'

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Trollface

The wookie did it.

'Nuf said.

BOFH: We're only here because they said there would be biscuits

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Pint

I laughed

A good start to the weekend. Have another.

Virginia scraps poke-to-vote machines hackers destroyed at DefCon

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Flame

laugh about the chads all you want

But i used the punch card system (in Ohio of all places) and it worked well and was reliable. Florida was (and is) a joke for the way they handled this whole mess and it wasn't a reason to go to crappy machines.

Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV

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Trollface

Re: Excellent

Get, got, have got, have getted, have gotted.

Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest

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FAIL

what could possibly go wrong

where to start...

Boffins bust AI with corrupted training data

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Trollface

I'm waiting for human intelligence

'Nuf said.