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Great Scott! Bitcoin to consume half a per cent of the world's electricity by end of year

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Re: Black Mirror, yet again..

Bitcoin et al. are becoming more and more assimilated into the mainstream banking system

lol no

nbn™ scoreboard: miracle needed to hit FY 18 construction targets

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Re: Mobile will kill the NBN

Can already get mobile data for $1/Gig

So only $999/mth to go!

America's forgotten space station and a mission tinged with urine, we salute you

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Re: the whole setup was pretty crude

"By the skin of their teeth" essentially describes the space race from start to finish. Early on this was by necessity, but by the time of the Space Shuttle there were unfortunately other factors at play.

And THIS is how you do it, Apple: Huawei shames Cupertino with under-glass sensor

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Re: Priority P1 Severity S1 - yep, that's a bug Jim

Clearing your Play Services cache fixes the issue - until the next reboot.

How often is a reboot necessary?

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Primark

Is "primark" a typo or am I just failing to keep up (as usual)?

NASA will send tiny helicopter to Mars

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Re: Why?

On a planet with an atmospheric pressure 0.6% of Earth's?

First SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket lobs comms sat into orbit

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It's people!

Also worth mentioning is that this is the version of the rocket SpaceX expects to use to carry live humans into orbit.

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I remember the first time I saw GATTACA, I thought "those rocket launches look completely unconvincing". Likely because I was used to seeing grainy technical footage from the 60s-90s.

It turns out that real daytime launches of kerosene-burning rockets, shot on modern high quality equipment for publicity rather than technical purposes (Falcon Heavy being a particularly good example of this,) really do look like they do in the movies.

Publicity shot from this morning's launch

Chap charged with fraud after mail for UPS global HQ floods Chicago flat

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Trollface

I'm going to take a stab and say that USPS did absolutely nothing.

Your software hates you and your devices think you're stupid

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Re: AFAIK audio CD has no way to name songs...

Many stereos supported the feature but the only CDs I remember seeing with CD-Text were CD-Rs.

Virtue singing – Spotify to pull hateful songs and artists

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Re: dangerous policy

And how do you decide which death metal band is satyrical and which is clinically insane? The lyrics are the same.

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Ahh, but isn't that the point of the The Pope Song?

Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail

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FAIL

Having a bad day? Why the need to turn this into a rant about something completely unrelated?

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In Australia we send up a police helicopter. Anyone who's stupid enough to lase airliners is usually stupid enough to have a crack at the chopper.

IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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Joke

Re: When USB sticks are illegal.....

The only way to stop a bad guy with a USB stick is a good guy with a USB stick.

*shakes evil black USB stick*

Australian foreplay: Bum-biting in an underground hole

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Gimp

Wombats have it all figured out

It's not a proper date unless...

So when can you get in the first self-driving car? GM says 2019. Mobileye says 2021. Waymo says 2018 – yes, this year

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Joke

Re: wrong direction...

And then we can pave the unused roads with solar cells!

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Joke

Re: Remember that old doctor joke

Fortunately you don't have to ride in the first self-driving car because someone else has already been doing it for years.

Glibc 'abortion joke' diff tiff leaves Richard Stallman miffed

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That's what I assumed it would be after reading the headline.

Having read the article however, it's making fun of censorship, not abortion IMO.

Hacking charge dropped against Nova Scotia teen who slurped public records from the web

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Re: this won't be the end of it...

No lessons learned

Correct!

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Re: um details?

There's a link to the previous article in this article.

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Holmes

"no grounds to lay charges"

No shit.

Arista: Sales up, profit up, share price down

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Re: Shares down?

It just means the speculators are getting burnt.

Which is fine!

Waymo van prang, self-driving cars still suck, AI research jobs, and more

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Re: 2000 GPUs

If I had that many GPUs I would sell them to cryptocoin miners before the resale value crashes any further.

Nvidia quickly kills its AMD-screwing GeForce 'partner program' amid monopoly probe threat

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Blimey

Some kind of evil custom keyboard with a delete button where return should be!

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update downs Chrome, Cortana

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Sounds like a useful bug?

Or a feature, if you will.

Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it

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Re: XML

Blockchain is actually a useful concept.

What gives the blockchain concept a bad name are the cryptocurrencies

"Blockchain" uses concepts that have been around for decades and for which there has been more than enough time for someone to find uses for them. On top of that, the only thing that makes a blockchain a blockchain is the mining of tradeable tokens. Take those away and there's nothing new under the bonnet.

Another quarter, another record-breaking Tesla loss: Let's take a question from YouTube, eh, Mr Musk?

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Re: Pioneers

I must be unreasonable

There will always be edge cases.

Exclusive to all press: Atari launches world's best ever games console

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I still have mine

This reminds me that I need to get around to modding it so that it can be used again.

We just wanna torque: Spinning transfer boffins say torque memory near

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Indeed

"Retained more than 10,000 times longer" than what? One second? One hour? One day? One millisecond?

No top-ups, please, I'm a millennial: Lightweight yoof shunning booze like never before

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Pint

I blame craft beer

When that barrel aged soured white stout with raspberry and cocoa costs as much as a case of piss water, well you can't afford to get drunk any more...

More seriously, it has become trendy to enjoy your drinks and favour quality over quantity. And thank fuck for that!

Ahem! Uber, Lyft etc: California Supremes just shook your gig economy with contractor ruling

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Re: Looked at the other way

Presumably.

Bill Gates declined offer to serve as Donald Trump's science advisor

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AI boffins rebel against closed-access academic journal that wants to have its cake and eat it

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Avengers: Infinity War: More Marvel-ous moolah for comic film-erverse, probably

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Re: Does this not terrify anyone?

No not at all why would you say that?

Cosmic prang probe: Euro space boffins to smash sats, virtually

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WTF?

Re: Serious question.

1- satellites orbit in the same direction

Where did this assumption come from?

Translating Facebook's latest 'Hard Questions' PR spin – The Reg edit

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Re: Targeted ads

Presumably it costs so little for them to keep hounding you, on the off-chance that if you haven't bought it they can convince you to do so, that it's worthwhile taking that risk...

I find ads that follow me around the internet to be incredibly creepy.

Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient

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Re: Drilling Brass

It's trivial to modify a normal twist drill to handle brass, so I'm surprised that brass is considered to be a viable extra layer of security.

Exposed: Lazy Android mobe makers couldn't care less about security

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Re: No money in it

While well made, Rolex's stock in trade is basic steel tool watches (which, before their prices began dramatically inflating ~30 years ago, were even considered affordable!) They don't decorate their movements, indeed they are hidden, they don't combine major complications and the most complicated watch they offer is a chronograph. Unlike the true high-end watchmakers, to address more wealthy customers they are content to take these basic watches and throw precious metals and/or gemstones at them (then charge several times the marginal cost of doing so.)

Almost every brand listed on FHH's website is more innovative than Rolex. When you can't physically manufacture enough of your product to keep up with demand and operate at margins that Apple would likely be jealous of, you don't have to innovate. For (IMO) true "haute horlogerie", some examples would be A. Lange & Söhne, MB&F or Urwerk.

OMG! OIG to audit SLS: NASA probed over big rocket project's big budgets, big delays

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Tesla will be making 6,000 cars a year before we get the icon :(

Is that just before they shut up shop?

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Re: Not Invented Here

SLS is just the poster child for the old way of doing things. A scientific welfare system in bad disguise.

I would agree with you, except to point out that it's a military-industrial welfare system.

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$18bn! (or twice that!!)

It looks like trying to reuse all that Space Shuttle tech is still biting them in the arse.

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Now SpaceX with very little money has already launched a missile with greater lift capacity than SLS

Falcon Heavy is rated at 64 t (fully expendable) while SLS's lightest configuration (Block 1) is currently designed to lift 70 t.

Although I suppose, technically, you could say that SLS currently has a payload of 0 t...

Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

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Facepalm

Re: Sophocks

I can't believe I went for the pun I did when that was up for grabs.

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Sophocks

So... you registered for the sock lottery and then didn't turn up, right?

Soyuz later! Russia may exit satellite launch biz

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Re: A SMARTR AIMovement ..... with the Off Loading of Sensitive News Stock Items ...

So stealthy!

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Re: A SMARTR AIMovement ..... with the Off Loading of Sensitive News Stock Items ...

With all those random caps and unintelligible post overall, forget aliens, that's crude AI (I stand to be corrected).

amanfromMars is a long-running (>10 years) "semantic web" AI experiment.

Motorola Z2 Force: This one's for the butterfingered Android lovers

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Dammit

This phone looks almost perfect, especially with the battery extender, but for the loss of the 3.5mm jack..

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Fruit

A haggis in the fruit bowl? Much better!

You're a govt official. You accidentally slap personal info on the web. Quick, blame a kid!

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Re: Unisys screwed up

And intentionally so!