Posts by John Smith 19

Beer == energy drink?

so could we look forward to say Bradly Wiggins in full lycra downing a pint?

Oh for the days when a proprietary MS solution guaranteed instant market dominance.

Not.

No doubt a generation of graphic designers will raise their iWhatevers in salute at such a noble but doomed enterprise.

Like I cared.

Stunning feat of measurement.

It's so close to this sun it completes an orbit in 8 hours.

Next to a sun that's practically nothing.

Thumbs up for that feat alone.

Note at 3000K I think only something like Tungsten is actually solid.

WTF

Seriously WTF has a charity got this much access to the PNC.

Now you've got to wonder how many PI's are friendly with RSPC "officers" and what they might get for an "unofficial" donation.

As others have noted it is well past time for these quasi- non governmental (but investigative) agencies to be under FOI requirement.

The solar challenge has come a *long* way since its inception

As I guess have electric cars.

"pseudo anonymized."

Or as we call it un anonymized.

Spoiler Alert!

He dies in the end.

So held for about 28:50 longer than needed to copy his personal data I guess

What's The Terrorism Act good for so far?

Freezing assets of foreign banks moving through UK banks because otherwise UK councils would lose them.

Detaining friends (I don't think they've gone through a formal ceremony) of Persons Of Interest involved in "Copnspiracy-to-embarass-another-country-the-UK-is-big-buds-with"

For a good look at the electronics of the era try

"Musical Applications of Microprocessors by Hal Chamberlain."

It has all kinds of stuff in it from voltage control (Common state of practice at that time), the new fangled MIDI right into DSP and Fourier Analysis and synthesis in assembler (probably not for the feint hearted).

To clarify.

As a non blind heterosexual male of course I care not a jot if a women wears spectacles or not as long of course as she can pass the question "Would you?"

It's someone dumb (or narcissistic) enough to want to turn their entire life into a reality TV show.

They would clearly have no concept of either privacy or (data) security.

And I feel I should point out that Mattie has both a spouse and children.

He's said so on several occasions.

In 1975 there was a report called "Coal:Bridge to the future"

I must dig it out some time.

It looks like they were right and the nuclear advocates of the time were completely wrong.

Who knew?

"Eduaction and awareness are our best weapons"

Now if you could just make David Cameron and Clare Perry believe that you might be on to something.

Incidentally if you're wondering how card scammers can afford a commercial grade 3d printer that's simples.

They bought it on (someone else's) credit card of course.

The challenge. Run a *database* with encrypted records and enciphered field names*

with valid indexes which remain valid.

I think that's pretty challenging but it's the only way. I am clueless how you would do this.

*What? You didn't realize how much info you can get off that metadata?

So "Self reporting," like shrub bought in for offshore oil rigs

And I think we know how well that turned out.

It seems no one has powers of investigation or over sight with the NSA.

You are allowed to know when they broke (what little) law there is in this area when they tell you they did, and by how much.

Now if one of those "Earth II" planets was within a human lifetime at say 0.1c

That would definitely raise some interest.

Whatever happened to the speculation about Barnard's Star?

There was a reason the BIS chose it for the target world for their Daedalus probe.

Astonishingly lovely but just a little bit threatening to look at.

I always thought if it could talk it would probably say "What are you looking at?" in a fairly aggressive way.

Still just an amazing demonstration of what the Advanced Projects Division could do with a small team of clueful engineers.

When this thing was being designed the IBM 360 series had not been announced

Seems like these days everybodies crystal meffin'

But honestly, who would do a drug there parents were taking?

Remember Clare Perry's plan to age limit *all* internet sites by requiring a valid bank account?

This does.

It's equally cretinous.

Here's an idea for all you web UI designers out there planning the next great social media site.

Include a button for "Do not accept messages/posts from AC."

Simple. Localized to site and user and easy to enforce.

So this thing is kind of like Lotus Agenda

IE sort of natural language recognition

And allows Google to construct an even better graph of who you communicate with and follow.

No I don't think I'll be signing up.