Re: ...
I believe that was the turbine disc that failed – not a blade separation event
Good luck containing the kinetic energy from a failed turbine disc when under take off/climbing power.
Posts by Steven 1
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Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways
Iranian-backed hackers ransacked Citrix, swiped 6TB+ of emails, docs, secrets, claims cyber-biz
UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo
1,300 customers of Brit bank TSB defrauded due to botched IT migration
Thursday 7th June 2018 14:33 GMT
Re: She cannae take it, captain
Indeed, they've failed to honour two standing order's of mine, on both occasions the account had more than sufficient funds to cover them.
Let me be clear, they weren't returned due to insufficient funds either, they just weren't processed at all. If that doesn't raise some eyebrows that there is something very wrong with their systems I don't know what will.
Naturally I've been unable to get through to anyone to actually find out why and have decided enough's enough.
TSB meltdown latest: Facepalming reaches critical mass as Brits get strangers' bank letters
Monday 4th June 2018 12:43 GMT
Voting with your feet
Already had enough, it's been one cock up after another so I've pulled the plug on them and moved.
Historically I was a Lloyds customer who never asked to be bumped over to TSB, they just decided my branch was going and that was that.
Did it old school as I assumed any migration process was as likely to cock up as anything else they've done recently.
If enough people whip their money out from them I can see that causing them a few problems as well, not sure what their liquidity ratio is but might be interesting to keep an eye on it.
Monday 4th June 2018 12:35 GMT
Re: ... and Crapita
If I'm getting letters delivered to my address but to people I've never heard of your damn right I'm opening them.
When the oh so charming bailiffs turn up trying to enforce a writ I want some advance warning.
Been there done that.
In my experience they’re not that bothered about mistaken identity either, my girlfriend (now wife) had two goons turn up to try and collect on a debt for a woman with a different first name, birthday and address to her (woman at one stage lived about 20 doors away) from an organisation she had no links with whatsoever.
I would add these two were at the more budget end of the debt collection spectrum rather than the more pucker one’s you might’ve seen on TV.
DIY device tinkerer iFixit weighs in on 15-month jail term for PC recycler
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MH370 final report: Aussies still don’t know where it crashed or why
Fasthosts' week to forget: 4-day virtual server summer bummer
That minutes-long power glitch? It's going to cost British Airways £80m, IAG investors told
Boeing preps pilotless passenger flights – once it has solved the Sully problem, of course
Monday 12th June 2017 09:51 GMT
Re: The industry is also facing a severe shortage of pilots
Not sure you gave much thought to that before you hit submit.
There's a reason large aircraft have more than one engine, even at MTOW losing an engine shouldn’t compromise the ability to get airborne in a controlled manner and level off at a safe altitude.
Notwithstanding an uncontained failure, in which case it somewhat depends on what the hot spinning bits hit when they depart the engine case – kinetic energy being a cruel mistress and all that. Hydraulic lines and passengers don’t take kindly to being hit with fragments of compressor disc.
FWIW people caught flying drones in controlled airspace should be hung from the nearest bridge.
BT considers scrapping 'gold-plated' pensions in bid to plug £14bn deficit
LastPass now supports 2FA auth, completely undermines 2FA auth
Monday 22nd May 2017 09:53 GMT
Re: "an arbitrary subset"
Back in the day to change your password on Santander's site you'd have to enter your existing password all in upper case for it to accept it. Even though my actual password was upper and lowercase.
Very worrying. I ceased having anything to do with them shortly after pointing that out and them not realising the significance of the problem. No idea if that's still a 'feature'.
Train station's giant screens showed web smut at peak hour
Redmond's on fire, your 365 is terrified: Microsoft email outage en masse
Who's behind the Kodi TV streaming stick crackdown?
Wednesday 8th February 2017 10:45 GMT 
Games Up
The Genie is out of the bottle for the content providers and he's not too keen on getting back in again - games up, they need to accept the rules have changed and adapt rather than try and stiffle the alternatives.
People will generally pay a modest subscription rather than use a moody alternative but most people I know who have a Sky/Virgin sub aren't happy with the cost and are fed up with the drip drip price increases, invariably at some point these people will look for alternatives when either they just cant justify the subs or realise the alternatives are there.
Granted they'll always be a certain number of freetards who wouldn't pay for it out of principle if they could get away with it but I'd wager that's a very small minority.
Anyone in the industry who thinks they'll be on the winning side with this strategy should look at TPB. How's that blocking working out for you?
IT team sent dirt file to Police as they all bailed from abusive workplace
Friday 20th January 2017 12:22 GMT
Re: Not a great surprise
Thanks for your replies Trigger, will take a look at them.
Place I've been at has had a change of senior management in the last 12 months and the new SVP is a full on sociopath, coupled with a recent change in HR..... sorry "People Strategy" we've got a clown that wants to make a name for himself and has already put himself about a bit.
Suffice to say the first tasty role that comes along you won't see me for dust but having someone in your corner probably isn't a bad idea and the cost is relatively trivial in the grand scheme of things.
Thanks!
Laser surgery ignites internal methane, burns patient down there
Straight outta Staines: Attenda has finally been sold... to US biz Ensono
Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 51Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge
Friday 19th August 2016 18:42 GMT
Re: "He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent"
"This comes across as the plod being rather vindictive."
Be under no illusion, if the Police charge you and you go to court and are found not guilty, in their eyes you're just one who got away, if they get the chance to punish you in the future you'll be the first person in their cross-hairs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
