Posts by james 68 606 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2009
Great park it in your garage and it senses "objects" within crash distance on all four sides and rapidly then flops to the ground as a jelly like mess requiring the purchase of a new car. This is either the height of stupidity or a genius ploy to boost profits by getting customers to need a new car every X days.
Whilst I agree in general with your statement, I must point out that it is not always the case. Back when I was living in the UK I had a Virgin fibre to the home connection advertised as "up to 150 megabits per second", however at off peak times I regularly saw download speeds of over 250 megabits per second.
I wish I still had that connection. Now I'm just outside of Tokyo and have an "up to 100 megabits per second" connection, which is utter crap. Peak or off peak I've never seen it crawl along at anything over 10.
TLDR: Virgin media disproves your otherwise correct statement.
@SkippyBing indeed, there were many in fact, some became quite famous (at least for short periods) when sailing into port with essentially half a ship.
@Caustic Soda you mean like the lauded RMS Titanic? You perhaps overestimate "watertight" compartments, as they only work when the doors are closed and some Muppet hasn't drilled stonking great holes through the walls to pass pipes and wiring. The Royal Navy has something of a reputation in the area of leaving said doors open to facilitate storage and help cool the lower decks, leading to a number of ship losses during WW2. As is well known, once the navy does something just once it becomes a "longstanding naval tradition" and will continue to be done against all common sense and damn the losses.
Pi's can run perfectly well on battery power (6aa batteries will get you well over 12 hours use including always on wifi and bluetooth, a phone charging pack will last much much longer even when powering various USB devices from the pi and handily has usb ports for easy power supply).
Wall wart aint needed.
Nope it's a cross pond definition. They do indeed slavishly follow every trend that rears it's head, but if you ask them about it they'll waffle on about how they do so "ironically" and "to show the mainstream masses how gullible they are". For people so fond of the word 'irony' they don't seem to understand its actual meaning.
They're hipsters, ergo "Being healthy is too mainstream, I'm all about anti-health" they probably use the phone connection to show on their ironically anti-mainstream twitter status how many steps they haven't taken today on their trip to starbucks to cough out their lungs on an ecig while tapping dribble into their ironically fashionable macbook in the hopes that it'll turn into an ironically bestselling anti-mainstream novel while they wait for their acting breakthrough (though they'd never go mainstream it's all about the ironic arthouse movement).
Only 120 GB for games? What with the current trend for game development not bothering with any kind of compression or optimization most modern games come in at 12 GB+. My Steam library alone comes in at almost 2 TB and the list of games isn't exactly huge, I dread to think what my total is when I add battlenet, origin and those I own on physical disc. I make do with only having a few installed at a time, with those I'm not using backed up to a 4 TB NAS box so I can install them when I want, quickly and without killing my internet connection for several hours.
Your argument that only pirates need so much storage is very broken.
Well I'm not the one who downvoted you - but I will answer your question (Knowledge after all should be shared and downvoting someone instead of explaining why they're wrong is just crass).
The speed of sound varies not only due to the medium (air, nitrogen, helium, you get the idea) but also due to the pressure and density of that medium. Near the ground on Earth for example, air is more dense meaning sound travels more slowly, 5 miles up it is less dense meaning sound travels more quickly. (the sound wave needs less energy to 'move' the less dense medium meaning it can travel more quickly). Even the temperature of the medium changes the speed of sound as a cooler medium is more dense and a hotter medium is less dense.
Given this, in space (which is not a complete vacuum) the speed of sound can be many, many times faster than the speed of sound at any height within Earths atmosphere.
Strangely the opposite is true for the speed of sound in liquids and solids, the more dense the liquid or solid, the faster sound travels.
My thoughts exactly - these "entrepreneurs" are starting up a company in America which would provide Americans with jobs and provide both revenue and bragging rights due to Made in America home and export sales. But Trump does not want this? Make America great again my hairy arse, he is dead set on turning America into a third world nation so his buddy Putin can rule the world.
Sounds like something his ex-wife would do (tearing it off the non-rotating wall mount in the process). Mind you, I once argued with her for over an hour that people cannot catch viruses from an infected computer, something she still believes in wholeheartedly, alongside fairy power and guardian spirits.
Even rotating using the DVD player menus still wouldn't work however, what with him having made a DVD meaning it then had permanent black bars at either side to fill the aspect ratio - same thing as what happens when YouTube re-encodes portrait videos to 16:9 using standard settings but idiots persist in doing it anyway.
It certainly is interesting, so thumbs up.
However knowing when a spider is looking back at me will now just make the creepy little bastard's that bit more horrific.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."Friedrich Nietzsche
When will they work on a mobile phone camera that will slap sense into the idiot user when they try to take video in portrait mode?
I hate it when people do that. Just one example:
A friend was showing off some holiday videos on his TV. The TV is of course wide-screen but the video is portrait, when asked why he chose to record in portrait when he intends to make a DVD for use on a wide-screen TV his reply was "Well, that's how my phone takes video".
Cue facepalm.
As both stars would be losing mass then it stands to reason that their gravitational pull would weaken to the point where they would no longer be bound, sending them off rather quickly in opposite directions. Depending on specific mass, orbital distance and speed, this could have happened very early in the life of the stars.
That comets emit radio waves is not in question (there are other peer reviewed articles covering this), what is in question is this particular article and author.
A small but important question for you - where is the authors proof that the WOW signal matches that of the comet?
I'll save you the search, there isn't any. The author speculates that there is a match, although the signal does not in fact match and the author resorts to hand waving, giving several different solutions as to the variance stating that any one of them could be the factor.... or maybe even a mixture of them. This is not science. A scientist would work at the problem until they found an answer so they could state that the variance is due to X, not fire off that maybe, possibly if you squint real hard it could be X, Y or Z but maybe its X + Y to the the third power of Z's cousin twice removed but I can resolve this maybe/possibly if you donate on my kickstarter page.....
Well what do ya know? Seems that astronomers and astrophysicists are saying the guy is full of crap, helped along with a hefty dollop of "Oh look he's started a kickstarter page to scam people for drug money funds." as opposed to seeking legit funding.
Always wait for the peer review and study replication.
I'll wait for their work to be peer reviewed and replicated several times before I agree with their conclusions. I find it difficult to take their thesis as wrote, perhaps something to do with them stating "We speculate..." as opposed to "Our rigourous testing has proven..."
Essentially they only have speculation, not a proof or theory.
That's theory in the scientific sense, not the common usage.
@Palpy
"Ever seen an (American-style) football coach on the sidelines of a game? Why is he hiding his mouth as he speaks? Is it because he is describing shameful secrets to his quarterback?"
According to the many news stories I've seen concerning various coaches that is sadly very, very possible.
@BillG
"As I recall all Flynn did was not declare a visit to Russia. That's hardly as dark as the deliberately vague statement "links to Russia"."
That's some very selective memory you got there.
Phone calls to the Russian ambassador, emails to the Russian ambassador (specifically talking about sanctions), denying and deliberately obfuscating receiving payments from Russian interests and lobbying on their behalf, same as previous for Turkey. That "visit to Russia" you mentioned? He tried to deny that too until the proof against him was overwhelming and he tried to spin it as just a typical RT event. So happens he was photographed in the presence of the Russian ambassador (again) and Putin himself at said event, funny how he didn't mention that when quizzed by congress about meeting Russian individuals dontcha think?
Oh and the final gasp of an "innocent" man, he has promised to spill the beans if he is provided with immunity from prosecution. I'm sure that's something every innocent man asks for.
And that's only the dirt on Flynn....
I wouldn't put anything past a tax office.
Just before leaving the UK I got a tax rebate due to overpayment of £437.76, two months later in Japan they send me a bill for £437.76 saying that I underpaid for the previous year. I phoned them to enquire if they had made a mix-up somewhere (my taxes at the time being automatically deducted by the Education Authority I had two separate accountants check the records and was told they could only find the overpayment and not any sign of an underpayment, I was also very curious as to why the amount matched the rebate exactly). Their response was that there was no mix-up it was pure coincidence that the amounts matched exactly and that it should be paid immediately to ensure that my Japanese visa would be unaffected - I was seriously left feeling like it was extortion, their choice of words sounded like a protection racket in a cheesy movie. I paid it and moved on, but I remain far from satisfied with their explanation and attitude.
NEVER trust a government office, especially a tax office.
Writing off a PS4 is easy.
It's an "Internet connected market analysis tool for research into entertainment and social trends" or it can be covered under medical as a "device for stress relief and depression treatment through roleplay and social interaction".
Even the games could technically be covered under either of those headings.
@Bill Gray +1 for answering the question and not being condescending.
But...
The acceleration would be a positive even if the object were being pushed away from the positive mass just as it would be if it were attracted as it is accelerating in space not decelerating, it is direction which is changed (I could well be wrong, but this is how I view it).
The application of a force shown in the experiment, a positive pushing force, caused the object to be attracted, so why would the inverse also not be true? If gravity is acting as a pulling force why would the acceleration not be sending it away from the earth?
Serious question.
"Glassholes are COOL now Apple's doing it" - Funnily enough I predicted this a long time ago on these forums and was massively downvoted for even suggesting it.
Now I just need to con...vince Junipers gullible customers to pay me a stupid amount of money for pulling predictions out of my arse and I'll be minted.
You sir, are a paragon of common sense.
Parents who stick their kids in front of an iPad or PC and leave them to it are in my opinion guilty of neglect.
A child is fully capable of "driving" a car (probably into a brick wall) does that mean we should hand them the keys and let them just because they whine that the want to drive? No matter how much amusement may be gained from a practical example of Darwinian evolution the answer is no, and any parent who did so would be charged with child endangerment and neglect. However taking them to a go-kart track and getting a few laps in while under supervision is not only perfectly fine but also a lot of fun. Common sense is all it takes, supervise your offspring instead of neglecting them by sending them off to "play on the internet" just so you can watch tv in peace. Parents are supposed to be the protectors of their children, not ISPs, don't like that? Get a vasectomy, cause you shouldn't be having kids.
"The brakes on his bicycle were also cut while it was stored in the EPO's underground car park." Rules out the Sys Admins and other techies then.
Any fool with a BOFH brand knows that you don't cut the cables all the way through, you only cut them 3/4 through so that they work fine but fail when they're really needed and the rider is grabbing a handful to stop in a hurry (most likely to be during a dangerous situation).
Even a shiney from the training college PFY can get that right.
@Mage
That'll be because you showed good sensibility, I applaud you for that. The contractors I've dealt with in the past rarely show anywhere near that level of logical understanding, I wish more were like you in this regard.
@Alan Brown
I've had to deal with similar idiocy, more often than I'd like to recount. But you provide a good example of why networks should not only be secured from outside AND inside molestation but be proofed as much as possible against actions by "administration" also.
Only tangentially related:
When working in an all girls secondary school in Belfast I got a call from the headmistress to attend a meeting because she couldn't understand the reams of buzzwords the contractor was spouting. As it turns out the meeting was for migrating to a hosted cloud system. As the head technician I should have been there in the first place but the headmistress "hadn't wanted to bother me" which was foolish.
I listened to the guys bullshit for maybe half an hour and it was painfully clear that he had no idea what he was talking about. I then asked him if the school would be connected by a secure VPN, he didn't know. I asked what kind and strength of encryption was used both on the connection and stored data, again no clue. Annoyed by this point I pressed him on how exactly his company guaranteed the data concerning 400+ young girls would be secure considering that if it went into the wild the school would be the one held legally responsible, It was at this point that he started waffling about "security through obscurity" and I got up and walked out taking the headmistress with me.
This cloud company btw came supposedly vetted and rated for security by the NI education authority.
From what I heard at that meeting, waving chicken bones while humming cumbaya would have been more effective.
The overall view of many companies concerning security, when they really should know better, is woeful.
Regan definitely does "belong on the list with the other psychopaths". He and his cronies actively supported the IRA with arms and cash in a largely successful attempt to destabilize an allied nation.
I grew up in Belfast during that period. Regan was an asshat.
But I also have a bone to contend with this articles author. He states:
"The JSON data for the petition, publicly viewable on the Parliamentary petitions website, revealed that in among the 1.6 million signatures from Britons opposing Trump's state visit were 3,000 signatures from Germany, 6,700 from France – and three from the Solomon Islands. Only signatures from British citizens and UK residents are eligible to be counted towards its total."
Yeah... about that. Never heard of people relocating due to work or family reasons or even being on holiday? Heaven forbid an actual British citizen might be currently living in another country, the unmitigated horror that must create in the bowls of your soul eh? I for example am currently in Japan, according to your statement I must presume that you think I got my British passport as a prize in a cereal box? Or could you perhaps just be trying to delegitimize the petition using the narrative of bigotry and hate by implying that nasty foreigners are despoiling our green and pleasant petition system? Get the barrel scrapers wound up by stirring the pot a bit? Berk.
Maybe Trump should ban Americans from entering America (and yes I know tomato/tomayto what with him already doing that to the ones with not quite white enough skin). American government officials did after all supply the IRA with weapons and funding during the Raygun and Bush 1.0 periods - openly holding fundraisers even, as did quite a large section of the American public.
That I guess is the "special relationship" for you. "Do as we say, when we say it and no complaining about US funding terrorists who try to kill and maim as many of you as possible. Oh? what's that? you want reciprocal trade deals and extradition treaties? LOL! yeah, we'll get right on that......"
Chain has been attempting to hack U.S. and U.K aircraft carriers. Of course these ships use the same internet that we do.
@BillG You might want to check your sources, the UK at present has no aircraft carriers and hasn't for a while.
Last was HMS Illustrious which since the Harrier was decommissioned in 2010 was nothing more than a helicopter transport until it's own decommission in 2014. The first of the 2 new carriers won't be ready till 2020.
Oh, and no, they don't "use the same internet as we do", they use dedicated encrypted satellite networks which while those "connect" to the internet at the endpoint, are heavily firewalled allowing access to only some email services and websites.
BTW about Obama doing nothing about US Steel. US Steel only filed their grievance in April 2016, and by May the US gov started an ITC investigation into the alleged hacks, by June they had given them the green light to seek sanctions and redress against China. That's quite a lot done in a very short period of time to describe as "nothing".
He can fire off as many threats and exec orders as he likes, fact is his attempted gagging of these environmental agencies (and others he disagrees with) is illegal.
The OSC note lists some examples of things that are protected: “For example, one prohibited personnel practice explicitly shields employees for blowing the whistle on any effort to ‘distort, misrepresent, suppress’ or otherwise censor any government ‘research, analysis, or technical information’ that the employee reasonably believes could, among other things, pose a substantial and significant threat to public health or safety or constitute a violation of law, rule, or regulation.”
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