That can also burrow its own hyperloop tunnels and transport passengers to Mars by 2035.
Posts by Oliver Mayes
573 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Nov 2008
Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck
Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support
I once had to debug a broken button on one of our internal systems, user helpfully sent a screenshot of the page in question so I'd know which button she meant.
I checked, and sure enough someone had broken it a few days earlier with a minor update. Took me maybe 90 seconds to apply the fix and deploy it, asked the user to try it now... still not working.
I asked her to close and restart her browser and try again, still not working. I dragged myself out of my chair and crossed the building to where she was seated to watch the continuing issue in person, she demonstrated clicking the button and noted that nothing was continuing to happen.
I pointed out that she was clicking on the screenshot she'd taken earlier and the actual button was behind it. Ticket resolved.
55-inch Jamboard and app ecosystem tossed into the Google graveyard
We played around with one of these a few years ago. They set it up in the middle of the office and encouraged everyone to explore it and see if it would be useful to put one in each of our meeting rooms.
After a few days there was a presentation about it in the all-hands meeting, where a manager gushed about the functionality and demonstrated how it even had a 'History' feature, so if you erased something by accident you could rewind it and get your notes back. He clicked the revert button rapidly and a wide variety of crude drawings, that had previously been erased, returned to life in front of a few hundred staff.
Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs
ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons
Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months
Re: Track record..
We once fired a salesperson who then demanded access to personal items left in their locked desk. The company didnt trust him to take only his own items out and he didnt trust the company with the key. Ended up with us having to carry the entire desk down three flights of stairs so that it could be opened in reception under the gaze of lawyers.
Hot, sweaty builders hosed a server – literally – leaving support with an all-night RAID repair job
We had a new data center constructed a few years ago, as it neared completion some of our engineers went out for a final inspection before we began the process of moving all our on-site servers into it. They found it a little warm inside, eventually discovered that the builders had somehow connected the shiny new aircon system up backwards. It was cooling the outside air and dumping the exhaust heat into the building. Great for the planet I'm sure but not a happy place for 30 racks of servers to live.
Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable
Tech professionals pour cold water on UK crypto hub plans
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles
You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see
Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button
Senators, net neutrality advocates rail against looming lame-duck confirmation of new FCC commissioner
So bye-bye, Mr Ajit Pai. You drove our policy into the levee and we still wonder why
Researchers made an OpenAI GPT-3 medical chatbot as an experiment. It told a mock patient to kill themselves
"GPT-3 forgot the specific times a patient said they were unavailable, and it instead suggested those times as appointment slots."
Sounds pretty realistic to me, all it needs now is to book an appointment three weeks in advance and then call the patient the day before to cancel it because it just remembered the doctor isn't actually in the clinic on that day, and it'll have perfectly emulated my GPs receptionist.
It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes
Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe
Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report
Epic Games gets itself epically banned, launches epic Fortnite death match with Apple over App Store's epic 30% cut
Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch
You're testing them wrong: Whiteboard coding interviews are 'anti-women psychological stress examinations'
I had one interview about... 8 years ago? 3 managers sat around a conference table while I stood at the front with a paper flipchart and a chunky board pen. They read out programming scenarios and I had to write the code to solve them.
Paper was definitely not an ideal medium, being impossible to erase or change anything I'd written when I realised I needed to insert a line between two I'd already written.
Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world
Splunk to junk masters and slaves once a committee figures out replacements
Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'
They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station
Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch
Twitter ticks off Trump with new 'Get the facts' alert on pair of fact-challenged tweets
Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service
India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones despite most local phones not being smart
There's no chance I'm going to install any of these apps. Rushed through with no oversight, they'll just be a collection of security holes held together with snippets from stack overflow. I also don't put it past any of them to start harvesting and selling off my data the first chance they get.
International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech
Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom
Facebook does the right thing for once: Joins Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube to clean out dodgy COVID-19 info
Australian privacy watchdog sues Facebook for *checks notes* up to £266bn
Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires
Re: Amazon is our creation
It wasn't exactly a choice for some of us. Unless you want womens designer clothes or naff jewellery my local town center has no shops of any interest. We now boast about 15 coffee shops and 3 separate branches of Greggs but if you want to buy anything else it's about a 20 mile drive to another town.
Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass
Sketchy behavior? Wacom tablet drivers phone home with names, times of every app opened on your computer
Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+
LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
China tells America, with a straight face, it will absolutely crack down on hacking and copyright, tech blueprint theft
FCC proudly wastes $90m getting data-capped, pricey satellite internet to tiny percentage of US population
That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman
Email! HUH! Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing...
I've got no sympathy for companies who don't pay attention to this kind of thing. People make mistakes, it's happened to everyone. The company should be taking steps to make sure things like this are caught and fixed. This mailing list was so important to them that no-one at all ever checked how many people had subscribed to it?