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Comment Re:You don't say! (Score 1) 84

they want accurate answers rather than hallucinations and bs trained on reddit memes?

Absolutely not!
Most Google users are far more interested in Reddit memes than reality!

Is the average internet user really so different now?
Yes. Google has rotted their brains. And mine is next in line!

Comment Re:Fuel or electrical? (Score 1) 106

I am pretty sure that 25 litres of Avgas would go un-noticed, but 250 litres would probably cause the results we saw.

I don't think anyone is suggesting it was 100% Avgas. Just that a fuelling tanker had been accidentally part loaded with the wrong stuff, and no one admitted the error.

There are numerous other substances that might have contaminated they fuel and restricted flow - possibly metal objects where they shouldn't have been, oily rags, etc.

I think it will turn out to be fuel related in some way, and the contamination was shifted by roll-out - so likely denser than JetA and not dissolved, which Avgas would be.

We need to hear what the investigation finds. and not rely on speculation by passers-by.

Comment The invention of the automatic transmission ... (Score 1) 177

... did not make thermodynamics redundant.

Some people need to know how to get from basic physics to AI - and that is what Universities are there for.

Others need to know to explain what they want - whether to AI or to their mates. That is what friends and families are for. Or, failing that Schools, and failing that, Google. (Arrgh).

Comment Re:Windows 11 Bluetooth is Still Trash (Score 1) 52

Unfortunately, Samsung have decided that only developers can transfer files to/from their phone over USB! There are reasons why people prefer Huawei - and usability is one!

The persistent redesigning the UI just when you have finally figures out where the last change put the things you need daily is another.

If Google designed cars the brake pedal would go somewhere else every three months!

Comment Re:No shit (Score 2) 147

Anyone who's ever operated a motor vehicle could have, did, and has been saying this for the past decade-plus since these things have proliferated.

Zillions of us have been saying it, but since we buy second hand cars because we don't want this crap, the manufacturers are not listening to us.

They are surprised that new car sales are collapsing just because no-one wants the junk they are selling.

The sales people said "people value newness in a new car". That is probably even true of the gullible people that car salesmen get to talk to.

The design team should, like everyone else, be told "Never trust a car salesman".
Not even as far as you can throw him.

Comment 22,000 destination ports of a single IP address? (Score 2) 41

How many of those ports were open?

Most of my sites have a Honey Trap - if you access it you get the output of a random number generator formatted as an x86 core dump. Any human would close the connection immediately. Robots would quite likely think they have a database of trove and fill their H/Ds with garbage.

However, having read yesterday's news, I intend to make my next one format the data as a database of logins.

You are encouraged to steal that idea and do it for me!

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