Posts by Parax

Does the FDA consider a hair cut a medical procedure?

In my opinion a medical procedure is something done to living tissue of the body NOT something done to an extract/secretion. If the dna kit is acting on a swab sample there is nothing 'medical' about it. likewise testing a stool sample is not 'medical' but instead a biochemistry procedure. However an allergy test that you apply to your skin is medical, as is any cream ointment or tincture that is likewise applied to tissue (that includes water sold as treatment homoeopathy).

Of course this is only my opinion, and not that of the FDA.

Kerbal Space Program

As always it seems Jebediah Kerman was happy to launch even if SpaceX mission control weren't...

If you are curious about space and want to learn about orbital mechanics give KSP a go it's great fun and very educational.

Lithium Metal...

Which batteries contain lithium in its native metal form? I've only ever seen it as a grey paste compound.. I think there is some exaggeration going on here... the kind that says if you have H2O, you can make a Hydrogen bomb...

Also I would not like to be the one holding that "shotgun" I think that might be one of the deadliest places to be, based on the number of parts it disintegrated into... hardly reusable...

I have no doubt that there are some items that are dangerous in airports, I'd start by looking at the cleaning cart in the toilets rather than the duty free shop. but I don't want to live in a world where you can't take your laptop/phone on a plane at all..

36 cameras

Just seems like too many cameras to me.. Why not use fewer cameras with wider angle lenses?

Surely a dodecahedral arrangement of 12 would be good? afterall Google manage fine with about 8 for Street View. I cant fathom why you'd want 36 unless they have a bulk load of cheap ones in which case why is it still $500...

I liked the video...

I think microsoft should stick to making videos.

Is the video still available? it seems to be showing as private :(

infrastructure that scales

Infrastructure that scales.

So...

Google defines Forever as 8 years.

I wonder how that compares...

On waking after the op...

No Doctor, I wanted it on my forehead!

Free drone with every book..

I like this idea..

Apple Donut

Mmmm Doughnuts...

Hexacopter choreographer

Am I the only one who finds the hexacopter footage slightly disappointing?

Don't get me wrong I love it, but It seems like they are just turning up and shooting what they can.. which is still good, but could be much better. I feel they are not making the most of GPS waypoints. They (someone at spacex) should know exactly where the Grasshopper will be, so the hexacopter could be preprogrammed with a GPS sequence (using manual waypoint advance for timings if preferred) It would be superb to fly around the hovering grass hopper, and even drop down to the pad with it. (I'm not sure the hexacopter could match grasshoppers climb rate though...)

I do agree with Elon when he says: always look for what you can do better.

Who Else?

So who has control a of a zombie army of BT home hubs?

I've been asking the router question for years, seems I'm now getting answers..

Bah..

It's all just Pi in the sky...

the Fifth Estate

Perhaps "An Inconvenient Truth" would have been a better title...

(yes, I know)

self checkout

Is something every man of a certain age should be doing, but usually in the privacy of your own home...

None of us really want those 10 stone testicles...

he's far too young to drink.

On earth maybe. but who makes the law in space?

Nexus

Still surprised Motorola are not making the Nexus for Google.

tbh I preferred the previous Samsung Nexus. the LG version does not seem as responsive, I don't like the glass back seems bulkier and you can't put it down without it sliding off, and the battery is poor, my Samsung nexus would last 36 hours the LG sometimes only manages 18 hours.. (My usage has not changed.) and without a removable battery, that is very poor.

I'm tempted to swap back..(if the wife will go with it...) and If google cant be arsed to make decent nexus's I may end up considering a non-nexus like the htc one.. but I really hate the operator OS modifications with slow/poor updates.

5v 3A

So not a mobile phone charger (5v1A) like Pi and Beagle then.. just another item for the cons list.

THIS.

Do you really think I would be that f****** stupid after 30 years in politics?”

But he is fucking stupid enough to take the pics in the first place.... and have them on his devices..

If you really need* the pics use a camera without connectivity and securely stash your memcard.

*presumably he's concerned that in a few years he'll forget what it looked like...

If they don't get my phone number am i bothered? not really... but there is a concern that knowing which phone is at my house each night is a privacy issue..

Assuming they use 4TB SMR drives: 4 x 345,600 = 1,382,400TB

Assuming Raid @ ~75% = 1.0 EB Total usable space.

So the 744 racks number starts to make sense...

Scale?

So what is the scale?

If each 1km grid square is a 20x20 block are we saying it's 50:1?

That's not bad, but I'd love a 10:1 or even 5:1!

Caught on CCTV

It was on Ewetube.

at certain points in the day it’ll be able to turn itself invisible.

Yes, I find that most objects become un-visible in the dark.

Mob attack?

So looking at the multiple impacts on the windscreen and the smashed rear window I'd suggest there was a certain amount of mob activity involved too.. maybe the driver fled because of fear for his life rather than his money.

Why no Rockblock iridium comms for GPS coords? surely you can make life easier on yourselves!

SPB Drone?

Sounds like a job for an SPB Drone. if the excuse were needed. You should be sending a drone to fly in to gps coords to video crash site, and report back, before you trek up to it...

Belgacom

Is that some sort of euphemism?