Why does it not have a latch that closes as soon as the door is opened, you know, like pretty much every normal outside door?
Posts by Ben Bonsall
357 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2008
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Another Amazon Key door-lock hack
Jocks in shock as Irn-Bru set to slash sugar and girder content
Danger! High voltage: German customs bods burn half-tonne of weed in power station
Thursday 21st December 2017 10:56 GMT
Re: "Cannot be traced back to the source"
Not necessarily. Some stuff comes from OUTSIDE the Earth, you know, as in extraterrestrial stuff. Meteorites, for example, don't come from Earth, so Mother Earth isn't everything's mother like you think.
So you're saying mother earth is getting stoned with some extraterrestrial rock?
Sex robot forum venue 'encrypted in a poem'
Release the KRACKen patches: The good, the bad, and the ugly on this WPA2 Wi-Fi drama
The Google Home Mini: Great, right up until you want to smash it in fury
Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs
What is the probability of being drunk at work and also being tested? Let's find out! Correctly
ITU-T wants video sizes to halve again by 2020
Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid
Friday 15th September 2017 08:55 GMT
Re: Cats are neither a solid nor a liquid.
Can a cat be poured into two separate containers at the same time?
Yes:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05505
"Quantum superpositions of distinct coherent states in a single-mode harmonic oscillator, known as "cat states", have been an elegant demonstration of Schrodinger's famous cat paradox. Here, we realize a two-mode cat state of electromagnetic fields in two microwave cavities bridged by a superconducting artificial atom, which can also be viewed as an entangled pair of single-cavity cat states. We present full quantum state tomography of this complex cat state over a Hilbert space exceeding 100 dimensions via quantum non-demolition measurements of the joint photon number parity. The ability to manipulate such multi-cavity quantum states paves the way for logical operations between redundantly encoded qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computation and communication. "
Dude who claimed he invented email is told by judge: It's safe to say you didn't invent email
China: Cute Hyperloop Elon, now watch how it's really done
Connect at mine free Wi-Fi! I would knew what I is do! I is cafe boss!
Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller
Thursday 31st August 2017 10:34 GMT
Re: I'm touched by the weirdness of this request...
+1 For Discworld Noir - Hell of a lot better entertainment vs frustration compared to the other Discworld games.
Never! unless there is a point in a point and click where you literally have to try everything with everything else until some ridiculous pun emerges, it's not a point and click.
Also, the 3d interface was annoying. Ask me about how Grim Fandango was the beginning of the end.
Should you stay awake at night worrying about hackers on the grid?
iRobot just banked a fat profit. And it knows how to make more: Sharing maps of your homes
Snopes.com asks for bailout amid dispute over who runs the site and collects ad dollars
Sweden leaked every car owners' details last year, then tried to hush it up
Tuesday 25th July 2017 07:35 GMT
Re: "as much value as a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory"
As no-one else seems to have noticed, I'll point out that it's actually a quote from the very aptly named film, "Top Secret"
Nick: Listen to me, Hillary. I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island, who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.
Hillary: I know. It all sounds like some bad movie.
[Long pause. Both look at camera]
Eggheads identify the last animal that will survive on Earth until the Sun dies
Vegemite tries to hijack Qantas name-our-planes competition
Boffins gently wake the Large Hadron Collider from annual hibernation
Forget robot overlords, humankind will get finished off by IoT
SpaceX wows world with a ho-hum launch of a reused rocket, landing it on a tiny boring barge
Disney plotting 15 more years of Star Wars
A bigger splash: The mathematics of spilling beer
User jams up PC. Literally. No, we don't know which flavour
Face down in a Shoreditch gutter: Attack of the kickstarting hipster
FAKE BREWS: America rocked by 'craft beer' scandal allegations
European F-35 avionics to be overhauled at Sealand, says UK.gov
Hm, is that a minefield? Let me just throw my magic bomb-sniffing spinach over there
Boffins coax non-superconductive stuff into dropping the 'non'
Belgian court fines Skype for failing to intercept criminals' calls in 2012
Getting your tongue around foreign tech-talk is easier than you think
Oh God, here comes the artificially intelligent boss bot – look busy!
Paint your wagon (with electric circuits) but leave my crotch alone
IoT manufacturer caught fixing security holes
My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back
Friday 19th August 2016 11:03 GMT
Re: Fat-Burning Hats
Shouldn't be too hard- you burn a lot of energy regulating your temperature, and the head is one of the places that looses most heat, so shave the head, mount a refrigeration unit in the hat, and Bingo, weight loss.
Also, a big heavy hat will mean you burn more energy carrying it around and strengthen core muscles trying to stay upright with a fridge on the head.
The deluxe model can have a couple of slots to insert beers, for relaxing after a heavy hat wearing session.
You could even recover some energy with a peliter effect layer between the scalp and the refrigeration unit, and potentially combine it with one of those neoprene belts, redirecting the extracted heat into the belly where it can raise the core temperature, requiring more heat loss through the head.
Perpetual motion, until you run out of fat. Or collapse under the weight. Whichever.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
