Posts by PNGuinn 1940 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2014
" It's actually quite a feat of engineering because it's totally sealed with the motor coils sealed inside the unit with the refrigerant."
Wot - like that black thingie at the bottom at the back of my fridge freezer - the bit wiv the wires and all the pipes going to it?
The special gas used to be a freon, (think they're still used on cars) but the greenies don't like those. So now we use isobutane. Works ok unless it develops a leak into the cabinet, reaches the lower inflammability limit and the cheap electromechanical stat clicks in. Tends to blow the bl**dy doors off. The kitchen doors. And windows.
Agreed, any fule kno it can make coffee and toast, and do that simultaneously, but ...
Can it simultaneously drain the coffee lake, AND level the toast mountain while peeing the processed coffee over Android and sh***ing the toasty guano over Slurp, whilst simultaneously emitting a self satisfied sigh?
Enquiring minds etc ...
..... Oh, no, not again.
Methinks it might even be safer to send one's personal data through the post on the back of a postcard than trust the security of some big name cowboys ....
In the cloud, you say? well, I'm sure that the relevant three and four letter agencies will keep their copies of your data safe .... ?
"Is there a helpline number to call if your bath water temporarily glows blue?"
Only if it's a super intelligent shade of the colour blue.
If not, you're fscked.
And if I gave you the dialling code for Magrathea I'd probably have to kill you.
Ahhhh .... I do like to use that icon once in a while .... gives one such a nice warm feeling ....
NURSE!
"Google has said it will begin allowing its enterprise customers to purchase pre-configured Android smartphones and other devices that will ship with corporate policies and settings already in place."
With customised added G-centric data slurping ad slinging software for you the product's enhanced security and user experience ? ...
Call me a cynical old b*stard if you like.
"Calling for an election half at half time demonstrates the sort of incompetence that would get any normal employee sent to a competitor "
Now there's a thought.
Lets start a compo for the best way to make her leader if the Liberal Party.
No, culling the rest of the party, however socially desirable, doesn't count.
Haven't you got it yet?
Anyone who has the nerve to disagree with the Great Leader is an evil terrorist, guilty by definition of subversion, hate speech .....
Must be neutralised, crushed, re-educated ...
It's the only way to protect our freedoms, our children, our democracy ...
>> PUKE<<
No, GMT would remain GMT whatever the Grubbymint decides watches in Greenwich should be set to. It's a standard, see. Like badgers' feet.
C'mon, standards soviet. We need a standard location for standard time to give a standard offset from Imaginary Time. AND a set of real elReg time units.
That'd end all the confusion for good. Ideas on the back of a perfectly smooth badger please ....
In these pc days shirly we need more than 2 options?
I mean, this IS the 21st century after all. Just having 2 options is so last century.
am, ateabreak, pteabreak, ap, pp, ash*t, psh*t, aamsh*t, alunch, plunch, aidon'tgiveaflyingfu*km ...
Hmmmm my spellchecker didn't complain about ash*t.
NURSE! I need a commode. Or a new iphone.
>>Thanks. You don't want to know what's in the pocketses
"The last thing you want is to have air or sludge in your fuel lines and so to prevent this your fuel gauge has been set so that your fuel tank should never be empty even when it registers as being empty."
Sorry, I don't get this. The outlet pipey bit of the fuel tank is at the bottom, no? We drive over rough roads, take corners fast and brake hard sometimes, no?
Shirly that'd stir up all that muck at the bottom of the tank and it'd get into the fuel system anyway. If it's a problem, fit a fuel filter. Most cars seem to have them.
I call bs - it's an old wives urban legend.
What you might get if you suddenly overwork an old LI battery pack? >>
Yeah, I have.
For a Motorola brick - with pull up aerial and flip out mouthpiece.
100 squid. 17 odd squid a month contract for 15 mins airtime. In 1995.
Battery life on standby of about 9 hours. At least some things don't change that much.
A good inch thick, but you could *just* stuff about half of it into your shirt pocket. And it didn't bend.
"I see you're about to bomb the sh*t out of country x. Uncle Sam / $ rouge state sponsored leet hackorz doesn't want you to do that ..."
OR
Over the radio in a combat zone ...
"Hello, this is Ferdinand from microsoft, there is a problem with the computer in your F-35 ...."
Nah - the sooner they are automated the better. It's already happening.
Tried ringing the Inland Revenue lately? Piss poor voice recognition software with the intelligence of a re-entrant telephone tree.
Just wait till someone integrates the two.
Pro Tip.
Swearing at the system doesn't work. But confessing nicely to the poor abused human you finally get through to that you've just seriously verbally abused their computer system often makes their day.
Pro Tip 2.
Try making animal noises. The computer seems to think it's speaking to someone high up in the IR or the grubbyment, and you get put through to a human.
Essential.
A matt screen is still essential on a carefully positioned desktop setup. There's always a couple of bastard reflections somewhere in any room, especially if it's got one of those essential thinigies called windows*, preferably the opening kind.
A laptop may be used anywhere, the location's almost by definition going to be sub optimal - so why the systemd do the flaming things almost always come with shiny screens???
RANT - RAGE - SPLUTTER ....
* That's the only kind of windows allowed anywhere near my machines - I presume this'll run Linux / BSD without having to jump through hoops?
The current idea's batsh*t crazy.
For proof I offer that it's a greenie government scheme.
So change it a tad so that, to the above it's a goer.
1. More than 3 vehicles.
2. Driver in the first vehicle. (for the moment, got to consider public opinion), but all vehicles ("identical "- must meet certain "Standards"). Others fully controlled by the first.
3. Front vehicle to control all the others by secure* radio link.
4. *Add that bit 'cos it'll reassure everyone.
5. Internet connection essential.
6. Well, because. Just do it. You never know when it'll come in handy.
7. The CAN(t) bus'll have to come into it somewhere.
8. Because. (See 6 above if you've got any technical doubts.)
9. Build in an entertainment option. Because.
10 ........
Can anyone not see where this is leading?
Assume that, for example, there was to be some slight interference with the signals.
The rear starts to lorry drops back just slighty and looses contact with the one in front. At 59.999999 mph.
Or the following lorries begin to drift out and in just ever to slightly.
Or the third lorry suddenly thinks it's seen a fox. Or an elephant. And applies the emergency anchors. In the wet. On a bend.
The opportunities for causing remote mayhem must be endless.
From anywhere. Roll up, roll up, watch the carnage from the bridge or on the hacked surveillance camera system .....
This could have one advantage ...
There will be lots of a******es* in beamers, mercs and audis only too eager to force themselves in between the lorries ... Lots and lots of well earned Darwin awards. **
* Other brands of a******es are available.
** Another Australian reference - I MUST be right.
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