* Posts by Nunyabiznes

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Whoa, whoa... Tesla slams brakes on allegations of 'unintended acceleration' bug: 'Completely false and was brought by a short-seller'

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Re: Toyota 2009

Back in the days of drum brakes all around it was extremely important. It was not uncommon for only one front brake to work after fording - which could be exciting in a bad way.

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Re: The Harder I Pressed The Brake, The Faster It Went

Some of us have "large for a bigfoot" feet. Imagine trying to drive a Mini with snow shoes on and you will understand my dislike of tiny foot wells and close pedals.

I've managed to hit all 3 pedals in various commuter cars multiple times. Say what you will but (US) full size SUVs and trucks have lots of foot room - which is why I drive them by preference.

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

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Re: MS conspiracy

Occam's razor - The simplest solution (incompetence) is usually the correct one.

The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment

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Dream judgement

You all suck. Each of the principal officers involved from both sides will give one years total compensation to charity. Said officers are banned from C-level positions for 5 years for incompetence and/or lack of ethics.

Alphabet's 'love rat' legal chief David Drummond ejects after 18 years at web goliath, no golden parachute attached

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Hey now, we've elected some brand new idiots over here!

Pair charged with murder, manslaughter after IBM Aspera boffin killed in New Year's Eve laptop theft struggle

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Re: re. we need some people to stand up and say No.

@ Lord E

There is a line in a movie - by Clint Eastwood I believe, that fits. "A man has got to know his limitations."

Kudos to you for stepping in where you could.

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Sorry, I have to disagree. Thieves (to include "white collar" scumbags) take because they can, easily. Once society as a whole explains to them that it isn't going to be easy anymore, simple crime will go down. In order for that to happen you, me and that person over there need to step up. Some people are not equipped physically and/or mentally for this, and that is ok. It is up to the rest of us to do a little extra.

It is a shame that self defense (including that of your property) has become a sin in Western societies.

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

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Joke

Obviously Monica isn't The Dude because she doesn't abide.

Remembering Y2K call-outs and the joy of the hourly contractor rate

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Re: I was working as a care assistant

Slice and serve with a little salt. Scrumptious.

Sandwiches?

Throw at politicians <lying> talking?

Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader

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optionally employed

Ah the hysteria of the times! I sold a camper to a fellow who promptly wedged it into his garage as a Y2K shelter. He was a legitimately smart guy, but couldn't grasp the concept that the generator, propane heater, separate water system, etc could just as easily been incorporated into his house and he still could have parked his truck inside.

I was intentionally unemployed over Y2k. Worked at a consultant right up until 5pm on Dec. 31 and started my new job on 1-3. Easy days and a helluva party knowing I had a few days to recuperate before reporting to new job.

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

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Re: No Limits!

We used to limit mailbox size because we couldn't get the funding to appropriately size the Exchange box.

Interestingly, the elected official that most railed about IT funding was also the one that insisted on everyone keeping every email.

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Re: Deleted

For those that don't get the trunk monkey reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq0mUxRKHQY&list=PLoxADsZ9YforxtjWODy3Kz_8JjLH-Nxp7

UK's Virgin Media celebrates the end of 2019 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP*

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Pint

Re: Typical Virgin...

Ok, that got me. Pint ---------->

The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes

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Re: To be fair ...

To be fair...

Even today businesses don't realize computers are business critical, at least based on how IT is treated at places I've worked.

British bloke accused of extorting victims for 'Dark Overlord' hacker crew finally gets his free trip* to America

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Re: Where is Anne Sacoolas?

I absolutely agree she should face court in the UK.

That being said, there have been numerous such atrocities over the years and diplomats and their dependents have gotten away with it based on diplomatic immunity. About the most that any country that plays in the international world can do is send the diplomat and family home as persona non grata, unfortunately. Many times local justice is undone in the interest of the State and its international ambitions. States are locked into a zero sum game where if they give here they have to give -there-, in a situation where justice isn't considered equal to their local version.

Sorry, but that is the short and long of it, whether I agree or not.

Personally, at a minimum, I would like to see her tried over here (US) in her local jurisdiction and sentenced (if guilty of course) quite harshly as a reminder that diplomats (or their dependents) have responsibilities as well as benefits.

FYI: FBI raiding NSA's global wiretap database to probe US peeps is probably illegal, unconstitutional, court says

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Re: Amusing to read the comments

So bribery is ok as long as it is from (today's) friend? Good to know.

The bribes into the Clinton Foundation were mostly during Hilary's SOS term. She had significant sway inside Pres. Obama's administration.

I find it constantly amazing/amusing the lengths some people will go to excuse their preferred political animal for what they are persecuting the other side's political animal for doing. THEY ARE BOTH WRONG. Stop with the hypocrisy and point fingers at all of the miscreants.

Alphabet, Apple, Dell, Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries, human-rights warriors claim

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Re: OSHA

Their (corrupt) government is the issue. They need a cultural change w/ regards to doing business there.

OSHA is a good idea, however, I've seen some inspectors that get their jollies by making your life just a little harder - just because they can and you have very little recourse. Yes, that happens with any regulatory body because humans suck, but with OSHA they revel in the power (much like the IRS - necessary therefore untouchable) all the way up the chain.

Remember Unrollme, the biz that helped you automatically ditch unwanted emails? Yeah, it was selling your data

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Good Lord

What exactly do you have to do to get a good spanking from those twats?

Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room

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Re: Keys

Let me guess: Facilities guy? Ours insist on having unrestricted access to our data closets and centers.

One day I came in to find a contractor, not escorted, busily installing a (home) ac unit in one of our centers to alleviate the heating issues we were having. The facilities boss insisted we didn't know what we were talking about when he spec'd the original ac unit, and now that was a failure he raided our budget to install a home unit with an el cheapo contractor. Lovely seeing sawdust floating towards the intakes of your equipment. Even better when you realize he has his equipment plugged into your rack UPS.

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Re: Scram button, revisited.

I put another master switch within reach of me when I'm belted in. One switch cuts ground, one switch cuts positive. I race off road and sometimes you are your own safety crew. Being able to cut power and release your own fire extinguisher (same for co-driver) may be all that lies between you and a bad day.

You have to make sure the alternator charge line is included in the positive master switch. Luckily, I found out my very basic mistake (late night wiring before the race) during testing and not when it counted.

I've never had a "scamble" button. Would that be like the WW2 fighter planes that had "emergency" power levels available for short periods? I've used nitrous in drag cars, but that's a portion of total power output and is in use every run, subject to tuning.

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Re: Big Red Button

Another case of million to 1 odds happening 9 out of 10 times.

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At A.P.

You would think. I've spent a lot of time on the clock cooling my heels waiting for a key person to come back to the mess they made and then left without a care. Multiple people at my current org have done this. They are all still employed at considerably more base rate than I. Sometimes I have a problem with speaking truth when silence would have been a better choice - so naturally I have a much bigger HR file than any of said people.

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Re: And this is why...

Late 70s Ford pickups had about 7 key profiles. Chances are if you owned enough of them (I had many as parts rigs, fix and flips, etc) you had a key for any of them. Came in handy a time or two helping out people who had lost their keys or locked them in the truck.

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I hope they had at least trash bins for relief.

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Re: Dont have your machine room at the top of a building

Or the basement of a building in a flood plain.

Cue IT staff (myself included) lugging sandbags and bilge pumps.

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

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Re: You need actual data on the incidence of medical conditions and risk factors

I am not a Doctor, so honest question:

Why would race be a necessary factor in an algorithm for treatment? I know some genetic groups have pre-dispositions to certain diseases (diabetes and kidney disease come to mind) but with more homogenization of populations (in the States at least) genetic testing should be done as a matter of course because visual indicators will lead to false assumptions. The results of preliminary testing could then be factored into the algorithm.

Take a Big Blue cheque and go: IBM settles 281 UK age discrim cases

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Bailing with a collander

Getting rid of experienced people sure has seemed to help IBM's continued dominance of the global IT market.

/sarcasm/ Because you can't hear the tone of my typing.

Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket

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Re: Because hipsters know best

VEED probably typed the reply to address for their AWS bucket wrong and are blissfully ignorant.

London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke'

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Joke

Nah, they didn't hit the Crapfecta!

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

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Joke

You are John McAfee and I claim my fiver.

Second time lucky: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation

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Considering that the current US administration can't go to the potty without multiple leakers standing on street corners yelling "Extra! Extra!", I seriously doubt there is an ongoing conspiracy. Otherwise, it would be part of the circus going on in Congress this week.

Bloodhound gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record

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Jessie Combs

After Jessie's accident it is good to hear that people are still pushing the limits.

Luck to the team, and fair winds to Andy.

From humble Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka

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Because HR is as HR does.

Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors

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Big Brother

This is my surprised face

See title.

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The troll is strong with this one.

/feed/

The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut?

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Re: failure to think it through

You would think. Our egress isn't legal for emergencies (windows are too small and open out into the window wells, which are not kept clear of snow for the 6 months that's an issue) but when that was reported to the local fire marshal our entity got a pass - apparently because our space isn't supposed to be used as office space we don't rate egress?!? This is by the same fire marshal that wouldn't sign off on a building occupancy permit until we had 2 different alarm systems with separate vendor phone lines for the building and the steel beams had to be coated with flame resistant coating. Which was an open gazebo made entirely of steel. He got quite upset when I suggested that anyone that couldn't figure out which way to escape out of a gazebo on fire probably should be cleansed from the gene pool.

Something is rotten, but I'm not going to be able to fix it. Hopefully I get out of here before this rock pile falls into the hole I work in.

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Re: failure to think it through

We as IT are (of course) in the basement. The facilities guru has decided in all of his wisdom that we are the only office not to have access to the generator or emergency lights. When the power goes out we have to fumble around for our cell phones (most of us have our own rechargeable LED flashlight at our desks now) so we can find our way over to the data center so we can shut down the whole shebang right quick because although the racks go through UPS to the generator, he refused to have the HVAC for the area added to the generator. Reason? The generator he specified didn't have enough power to run the C-level HVAC and our HVAC. At least they'll be comfortable twiddling their thumbs while waiting for the power to come back on so they can get back to work.

That chill in the air isn't just autumn, it's Cisco's cooling finances: CEO warns of slipping sales

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Hmmm

I wonder what set(s) of equipment Cisco will retire support for earlier than expected to push sales?

Gas-guzzling Americans continue to shun electric vehicles as sales fail to bother US car market

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Re: SUVs and pickups are just a lifestyle fad.

There's a lot of things humans don't need.

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

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Lucky bast...

My luck does not run that way.

What is this, 1989? Laplink is still a thing and wants to help with Windows 7 migrations

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Roaming profiles?!?

"We wondered what use a well-run enterprise IT department would have for this tool. After all, surely a standardised Windows 10 image, roaming profiles and data resolutely stored on a server would make Laplink's PCmover redundant?"

My sarcasm meter pegged there. Perhaps it needs calibration? We run roaming profiles here (can't run a complete standard image of course due to our many, many different vertical market software packages) and I swear they are much more trouble than they are worth. It is amazing how many tweaks we have to employ to get even network stored profiles to work with many of our software packages, not to mention roaming profiles.

Microsoft explains self-serve Power platform's bypassing of Office 365 admins to cries of 'are you completely insane?'

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On site Office

I guess this is why MS is making purchasing on site Office installs progressively harder. They have really been pushing O365 the last couple of years (and we know they wouldn't do that if there was less money to be made) and now they are providing scope creep to the users. Nice.

A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

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That user didn't listen to *all* of the instructions. First acquire some distilled water. Make sure power is off and disconnected, pour in water. Power up with rubber gloves on. After appropriate smoke and lightning show, power off unit and drain excess water. Allow to air dry and THEN call support.

I gave those instructions to a lovely lady who had a quite erratic monitor that her boss refused to replace - but wouldn't authorize overtime to catch up on work delayed due to waiting on monitor to be percussed. She was very discrete and never let on how her monitor finally met its maker.

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Re: Not specifically computer,

In my experience the engineers have less knowledge of why it has to be percussively maintained than the techs.

Engineers know how to design to theory, technicians know how to make theory work in the real world.

*I have known a few engineers who worked as techs to pay their way threw college. They rock.

A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

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Re: Don't waste the beer

I think it would be a perfectly acceptable way to get rid of PBR, Old Milwaukee, Schlitz, etc. ;)

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Re: Bah!

If I'm on call, there is a minimum 1 hour charge for responding to calls/emails. That was put in place by our new boss over the old system where we were expected to answer all calls/emails with no compensation. On call rotates 1 week on 4 weeks off and there is a base rate per day on call.

There are noticeably fewer emergencies.

600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims

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I'm guessing the current occupants weren't fully up to speed on physical security and weren't armed like the original occupants would have been.

BOFH: What's the Gnasher? Why, it's our heavy-duty macerator sewage pump

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Re: Great, I'm now that consultant

And in 30 years there will be some old graybeard on here complaining about RPis and Arduinos. "Yeah it was fun to program those little buggers and build them from scratch - but why don't they just let the AI control that system?!?"

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

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Re: Bear in mind..

FYI, the age of consent is 16 in the vast majority of the States. There have been cases where coercion has been proven and the young adult has been considered a child legally, though.

They are called "children" at 16 and 17 by the press and parents when they are trying to let them get away with something - usually felonious in nature.

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