Posts by RPF

Re: ElReg doing politics ?

He was General counsel at Chinese telco kit-maker ZTE's US operations, i.e. in the US

Re: Great

Russia cannot have it both ways. The Geneva Convention would only apply if they declared war, surely.

2 wrongs don't make a right.

Re: Definitely never ever sat up...

Using EOR with a small loading routine was brilliant; you could not modify the only readable bit of code otherwise it all turned to gobbledigook. Remember these guys were undergraduates when they wrote this!

Brilliant programming and more of the same was in Johnathan Griffith's book "http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22619/Creative%20Assembler%20-%20How%20To%20Write%20Arcade%20Games%20for%20the%20BBC%20Microcomputer%20/"

ACORN also built the first RISC-chip home computer, which Apple also claimed they did first (and lost the subsequent court case).

Re: Computer Control ?

No, ironically it's a safety interlock that is designed to prevent thrust-reverse deploying in flight.

Re: Traditions?

Absolutely, I did of course meant the white Aussies. Thanks for the interesting link, though.

Now all this guy needs to prove is that the Aborigines had mullets in ancient times :-)

Exactly. "Every company gets the union it deserves" they say and here's one that fits.

Re: Interesting legal argument there....

I think it's slightly more nuanced than that. He's saying that because it was such a huge amount, it would be reasonable to expect the bank to have thoroughly checked it. Let's face it, even with about 6 zeroes knocked off this sum, I would check it carefully!

Re: Its getting harder

I've just imported a 1996 W124 Mercedes Benz in to the UK in order to get a rust-free CANBUS-free superbly-built 'proper' car and it's absolutely wonderful. So comfortable, simple, intuitive and solid-feeling that shows modern car design and technology has gone in completely the wrong direction for consumers.

Obviously it's the right direction for the manufacturers, as only main dealers can service/fix them, they will go wrong a lot and they're not built to last. But for Joe Bloggs modern cars are expensive junk.

Re: Excuses, excuses

Passenger planes also need regulatory approval to carry freight in the cabin.

Re: Obviously not GPS jamming

INS/IRS do drift, which is why modern aircraft don't rely on them entirely. The INS/IRS positions are compared regularly with DME/GPS fixing (and radar fixes on older military aircraft) to compute an accurate position. using Kalmann filtering techniques.

Something like a 146/V-bomber would have been much more prone to errors, since the computation was minimal/non-existent.

Someone clearly has never heard of Chobham armour.

Re: A "'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice" Moment/Event Horizon:-)

Impressive.

What's a "small disadvantaged business" though?

Re: A good time to be a lawyer...

Given that iOS devices are hugely outnumbered by Android ones, there is no way there is a monopoly here.

Re: Fingerprinting

There is an API-blocking extension for Chrome that might help with this.

Re: It's a Boeing

So much better than the old version of this rhyme.

Exploding centre fuel-tanks, runaway rudders, runaway stabilisers, then crap FMCs, no stall protection and all the other crap they build would keep happening, but the know-nots would still trot out: "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going".

Glad to not hear that rubbish any more.

Re: Bloody awful

Those are called lift spoilers. Perfectly normal.

The wife is in bed with the mistress? Time to join in!

Dayam that's an image to savour :-)

Re: WTF ....... Is the service demented and infiltrated?

Stuff like WMD in Iraq, you mean?

Re: "won't change Hong Kong or threaten its residents"

Thing is, it even threatens non-residents, if they ever visit China (or Hong Kong, which is clearly the same thing now)

Re: !!! :O TikTok

Am sharing that far and wide!

Re: Flip

You clearly haven't seen Chinese driving before :-)

We definitely also had nuclear depth charges.

Re: No!

They do, but the directors are pretty much IT-illiterate. I'm sure that's something most guys here have heard of before!

One was found to have been accessing the mainframe via Starbucks wi-fi (no VPN, obvs) once...... ...and they never, ever spend on IT if they can help it.

Re: Contrary view

There was almost certainly no hand-over to wait for. Blackpool ATZ is surrounded by uncontrolled airspace.

Re: Yet the weather is still getting worse, not better

Milk has a carcinogen in it, casein.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166373/

Also the calcium "benefits" of milk are bogus: the body stops producing calcium when milk is consumed and then later in life, if you stop drinking it, your bones become brittle. Hip-fracture rates in old people in the West are actually higher than same age group in China.

Perhaps giving milk to kids wasn't such a great idea after all?

Re: Boeing needs to split

Much of the best bits in more modern Boeings were designed by McD-D engineers.

Re: I think the operative word is 'short'

Citation needed on those short positions.

Re: Not just flying

Sounds about right. Military service should not be civilianised.

Re: Certificate Required?

These are called "excepted Dangerous Goods" in the business. They're allowed in the hold just fine, but it is better if they're with you for monitoring (and not getting stolen).

Re: Hmmmmm

You cannot be fined or sacked for striking legally in the UK.

Re: Provost

She just needs to marry someone called "Marshall" now.

Re: Visual Range Dogfights... a question for any air force experts out there...

Yes they are. Its very rare to be allowed to shoot without a visual ID, for instance. By which time the fight is probably well and truly "on".