closer to the Mary Rose
The Tudor warship performed well for decade until the upgrade.
Posts by tony2heads
1193 posts • joined 1 Apr 2010
What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++
Developer’s code worked, but not in the right century
Universal Credit has never delivered bang for buck, but now there's no turning back – watchdog
Re: The government position:
DWP and 'agile' do not even belong in the same universe.
DWP belongs with slow, cumbersome, rules-based, box-ticking, legacy.
Agile belongs with new, experimental, startup.
It's like running a bus with a formula-1 engine.
10 social networks ignored UK government consultations
“And after all, these companies were set up to make the world a better place."
What universe does she come from?
Companies are set up to make MONEY.
LocationDumb: Phone tracker foul-up exposes world+dog to tracking
Re: carriers sell the data to services
DEATH to corporations!!
If they can swindle and kill they should be sentence appropriately.
John McAfee ‘goes underground’ in motorcade to flee SEC
Batshit crazy - perhaps
but he definitely has his own small army, so I would not push the point too hard.
How many ways can a PDF mess up your PC? 47 in this Adobe update alone
UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures
Cloud themselves
Surely the UK government with all the HMRC, NHS and other stuff would be big enough to run their own cloud.
Or is that a stupid idea?
NASA boss insists US returning to the Moon after Peanuts to show for past four decades
Google's socially awkward geeks craft socially awkward AI bot that calls people for you
Re: "The software pretends to be you, or act for you"...
Google are starting to morph into the Sirius Cybernetics corporation with 'socially awkward' AI.
Share and Enjoy!
I spy with my little eye ... a quantum drum with TRILLIONS of atoms
Windows 10 Spring Creators Update team explains the hold-up: You little BSOD!
*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode
Shhh! Don’t tell KillBots the UN’s about to debate which ones to ban
Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?
Re: "...a [Lidar] blind spot low to the ground all around the car."
What about sinkholes?
BT: We're shuttering final salary pension scheme
Re: I suspect that there will come a time
@J27
They definitely did exist once -my father in law had one. The are thought to be extinct but may still exist, like the coelacanth, in obscure parts of the world.
Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation
Not dead, but asleep
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Bad blood: Theranos CEO charged with massive fraud
Re: 2014: "...simply made up figures."
aren't they just 'alternative figures' just as we now have 'alternative truth' ?
BTW how did this stuff get past accountants for so long?
Russian boffins blow up teeny asteroids with tiny laser... to work out how to nuke the real thing
Rant launches Eric Raymond's next project: open-source the UPS
Diesel generator
I assume there is a seriously large flywheel in the system to get you therough the diesel startup.
Re: Cheapo UPS?
Seriously WTF.
They can't or won't (for cost reasons) supply him with power, but when he gets his own setup working they want to sue him..
In many other places he would be lauded for getting his own solar powered system.
Most IT contractors want employment benefits if clobbered with IR35
Oh honey! Oxfordshire abuzz with reports of a MEEELLION bees stolen
Smartphones to be inescapable, even at 40,000 feet
Samsung's Galaxy 9s debut, with not much other than new cameras
Battery life
The only thing that would get me interested in a new phone would be a longer battery life. I care about that more than more pixels on the camera or face recognition or notches.
The e-waste warrior, 28,000 copied Windows restore discs, and a fight to stay out of jail
Worth?
How can they argue that the rescue disk was worth ANYTHING.
I would argue that even with the key Microsoft Software isn't worth much
Cops find ATM spewing cash, car with dodgy plates, stack of $20 bills and hacking kit inside
Re: I believe...
Wouldn't somebody notice you drilling into an ATM? Don't most now have cameras?
Bluetooth 'Panty Buster' 'smart' sex toy fails penetration test
Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing
Fujifilm, Xerox throw each other a US$6.1 billion lifeline
When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa
Passive ultrasound absorption
If I recall, some foam rubbers and some curtain materials absorb ultrasound. Can any confirm this?
If so wrap you home 'assistant' (alias spy device) in curtains.
UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory nominated as World Heritage Site
Re: Bah!
If it had been a mile off it could have been Badgerbank (which I think much better)
Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs
I remember this
When I was a lad in the 1960's in Gillingham, my dad told me about this shipwreck with thousands of tons of un-exploded bombs off Sheerness. The worry at the time was that it blew up it might take the oil refinery at the Isle of Grain with it.
Frenchman comes eye to eye with horror toilet python
raise
I'll see your python and raise you cobra
I think the snakes hide in toilets to totally freak us out
What do we want? Consensual fun times. How do we get it? Via an app with blockchain...
Shed
How can you think of such a thing! Sheds are places where a man can contemplate life (while pretending to work on something) without any interruptions of any sort
Self-driving cars still do not exist even if we think they do
We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare
Ubuntu 17.10 pulled: Linux OS knackers laptop BIOSes, Intel kernel driver fingered
BIOS fail
I assume Linus had some choice language about this one.
I don't believe in aardvark
Cloud-building alien space rays altered Earth's climate – boffins
Behold, ye unworthy, the brave new NB-IoT logo
Now that know the logo
I can avoid it it like 'biohazard', 'radioactive', 'corrosive' and 'explosive' signs. They really should put the yellow triangle around it -like in the icon
Samba needs two patches, unless you're happy for SMB servers to dance for evildoers
From Vega with love: Pegasus interstellar asteroid's next stop
Brit moron tried buying a car bomb on dark web, posted it to his address. Now he's screwed
Re: Time to start deporting the problem fast before it gets much worse!
Britain for the beaker people
Remember that the beakers contained traces of mead and BEER
Intel's super-secret Management Engine firmware now glimpsed, fingered via USB
Those IT gadget freebies you picked up this year? They make AWFUL Christmas presents
Evil green liquid
Sounds like absinthe. Watch out for the hallucinations (from the wormwood content).
Remember what they say: absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
Camera company, huh? Snap's nerd goggles look destined for landfill
Estimating that the number is 250,000, that's over $30m worth of stock.
The stock is worth approximately $0 if nobody wants it.
AI bot rips off human eyes, easily cracks web CAPTCHA codes. Ouch
Samsung to let proper Linux distros run on Galaxy smartmobes
NYC cops say they can't reveal figures on cash seized from people – the database is too shoddy
Argh, my loafer just fell down the rope ladder! Yes, I'm in the Microsoft treehouse
@phuzz
No, beancounters suck all the available energy of everything around them, so the air gets cold
