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Incorrect. Connery was from Edinburgh, the Fountainbridge area to be exact. You may be thinking of his John Mason character in The Rock who was supposedly from Glasgow.

Ascension seem to me to be 90% to blame here. MS and AD security issues are well publicised and benchmarks give good advice to follow regarding RC4 removal and so on, e.g. NIST / CIS Level 1 or 2. And all the security tools like Nexpose etc. etc. know what to look for. Kali is free and...

Well strangely for your view most of the power companies, more correctly billing companies, offer overnight rates using smart meters for charging electric cars etc. Occasionally they’ll actually pay people to use power. Demand still needs smoothed out even with low amounts of heavy industry...

Where is that image of the world’s smallest violin when one needs it.

Prices will only be driven up because of the dealers greed, i.e. they’ll refuse to sell at list but instead chuck a hefty margin on top. Think that has been seen before with some popular EV’s in other words if they make say $100k profit selling 10 cars now they’ll want the same profit from...

If memory serves, at one point when US started photographing and electronically fingerprinting tourists Brazil started to do the same in a tit for tat, but with mug shots with an ID number and an ink pad for the prints. No idea if they still do it.

McAfee has produced similar problems several times in the last decade with it deciding critical windows system files were malware. Although not on such a large scale as this.

I also went to ST I also went to ST:TE. We were staying at the Hilton anyway so it was handy. Don’t remember much about it except seeing a Ferengi and a Klingon wandering past deep in conversation. The costuming was excellent. Still got a Quark’s bar T-shirt which I wear occasionally...

Nice. I’ve seen the one at Cardross - Geilston Garden just last year. Photo on site is about 9 years old and doesn’t do it justice. It is massive, and very beautiful.

Was there a couple of years ago. They do a very good, and gruesome, explanation of the properties of the plants and all the lovely ways they can kill you. Worth the admission price to the gardens for that alone, but the rest of the gardens are lovely as well.

Rubbish. It’s easily available on the net albeit not cheap. It’s also prescribed for kids, both my autistic teenagers are on it. Without it one wouldn’t go to sleep until 3am and the other wouldn't go to sleep at all. Entirely possible it’s a placebo effect but if they forget to take them or...

I was WFH for about 2 months at start of Covid but have then been back in office full time, well 98% probably. Like yourself i vastly prefer it, for some reason I always feel more productive when out of the house. My company was moving towards virtual first for most people before Covid anyway...

That’s only in very limited areas depending on your ISP not nationwide unfortunately.

Indeed. Action never stops.

Did nobody learn anything from Battlestar Galactica? :)

UK is pretty much as you say EXCEPT if one person earns more than £49,999 and they or partner are claiming child benefit. You then have to fill out a self assessment form and pay some of the benefit back on a sliding scale up to earnings of 60k or more where you would have to pay it all back ie...

Always pay attention to Sir Terry Pratchett’s estimation of what isn’t lethal in Australia. ‘Some of the sheep’.

That was my first inkjet. Stupidly large power block but built like a tank and never failed me the whole way through university.

Same here. 20-25 minute commute each way depending on traffic lights and idiots on the motorway. Public transport would be about 1.5 hours each way and 2 changes or over 2 hours if connections missed. Plus i don‘t have to stand in the cold and rain waiting for said public transport and can go...

I also used Telix, even licensed it, and I think a copy of Zmodem? think I got my first v22bis modem in 1989 as an import from the US. Illegal to connect to UK phone system but hey ho. Upgraded to faster modems then started running a BBS using Spitfire from Buffalo Creek which came on a single...