Posts by Fink-Nottle

Re: More Concerned About Safety Gear

> First thing I noticed was that she ... didn't have ear protection.

Quite right. This photo would have been much improved if it showed ladies muffs.

Re: Anyone read the whole agreement ?

OS X EULA's generally allow the installation of the operating system on an "Apple-branded computer".

I've seen the argument advanced on Hackintosh forums that any computer can be considered Apple-branded, provided it displays Apple's name or distinctive logo.

Add an Apple sticker to the side of your computer case and you should be fine*.

* not really

demand for Bitcoin options in shops is still tiny but growing rapidly in certain retail sectors

Humph. These people have obviously never tried to use a Bank of Scotland pound note in London.

Re: A.N.D.

When I was a student, a quick drink at lunchtime invariably led to a downwards spiral ...

Re: This raises the question

Ouija boards can be cleansed by rubbing gently with spirits.

Re: It's quite obvious to me that.....

It's probably just a natural phenomenon caused by the release of fetid marsh gas from rotten old material ... Oh! ... I see what you mean about Lady Gaga.

I was under the impression NEST simply provided username/password authentication to facilitate a secure remote connection to your home device. For that reason the NEST system hardly qualifies as cloud computing; it does not require access to remotely stored data in the cloud in order to function and if the company fails then a VNC server could provide remote access to the device. The worst that could happen is a loss of the software updates.

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Re: @Rustident Spaceniak - Beat me to it! (1.4.)

> being dim is also more likely to put men in situations where they meet more women - washing-up in restaurants, cleaning, factory assembly lines.

<cringe>

If you think you're more likely to find women washing up, cleaning or performing other menial work, then your uni level 'education' may not be the reason women shun you...

Re: The cost of simplicity

> thanks to the way the Home Hub 4 [...] worked when corrected.

corrected: adapted, adjusted, doctored, fixed, modified, remade, remodeled, revised, updated

Sounds about right to me.

Re: Did I miss something?

> I have no idea what that Oscar selfie was!

Wasn't it that shot Oscar Pistorius took?

Re: Glow in the dark Y fronts?

Tron Guy wants his costume back ...

Re: Trade not aid Hmm... aren't we missing the point here?

> Teach 'em to fish, and they will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Teach a fish, and soon fish will go around in schools ...

Re: Might want to re-think the name

In retrospect, it was a mistake to put Father Jack in charge of marketing ...

> I don't know about... but it seems like there ought to be potential there

I've had a go at the Tomnod web search and it's edifying to see the problem first hand. In addition to the waves themselves, there is a surprising number of breakers and loads of foam from breaking waves visible in the images. Unfortunately these features are at the same scale as the wreckage / life rafts.

These ephemeral features mean the best approach would be to compare fairly short time difference images and look for features that haven't changed. Obviously, collecting almost identical data on the off-chance it will be useful in a search would not be a very cost effective use of satellite imaging gear. Therefore, I'd imagine that rules out purely visual sea searches by satellite.

As far as i know, the 'analysis' carried out in this case was simply matching a visual image to a radar signal.

Re: It's obvious!

> No, Lucas is Xenon's nemesis. And also the reason Brits drink warm beer

Don't forget ... according to mythology Lucas is often accompanied by minor deity who acts as his assistant - an anonymous goddess associated with a health-giving elixir that counters the after-effects of warm beer. In many cultures this Lucoz-ade is more renowned than Lucas himself ...

Re: FWIW...

> It's probably the least efficient way of calculating Pi but it works.

I'd venture that the 'persuade a wounded soldier to do all the work' method is less efficient -

"On June 5, 1872 Hall submitted an article entitled "On an Experimental Determination of Pi" to the journal Messenger of Mathematics. [...] In this article Hall reported the results of an experiment in random sampling that Hall had persuaded his friend, Captain O.C. Fox, to perform when Fox was recuperating from a wound received at the Second Battle of Bull Run. The experiment involved repetitively throwing at random a fine steel wire onto a plane wooden surface ruled with equidistant parallel lines."

Re: Not correct!

I have it from a reliable authority that the Arapaho phrase is also used in the wilds of Borneo, the vineyards of Bordeaux and Eskimo.

Re: Operational Redundancy Opportunity

The co-playmonaut would have to be a miniature of Michel Lambert, France's second best racing driver.

Re: British Law

Surveillance (or surveillance related data acquisition) is a distinct activity carried out "for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting" people or property.

Simply using a camera to record the flight of a small unmanned aircraft (as in the Nancy video) does not equate to surveillance. Indeed, photographs of individuals in a public place and photographs where an individual is not readily identifiable are excluded from the Data Protection Act.

Therefore I would argue that the need for CAA permission (and indeed the whole of par 167 of the Air Navigation Order 2009 - relating to small unmanned surveillance aircraft) in circumstances similar to the Nancy flight is moot.

The only relevant law in the UK is par 166 of the Air Navigation Order which deals with safety - particularly166(2) "The person in charge of a small unmanned aircraft may only fly the aircraft if reasonably satisfied that the flight can safely be made."

Re: Reliant Robin?

> Yet both sold. They were successful designs.

It would be more accurate to say they were successful products, despite their design.

Re: Appeasement

> It's a duck bill platitude.

I'm not down wid dat eider ...

Re: Great up to 200 degrees C then what?

> assuming it's similar to the Dupont Krytox used on boats

That's a big assumption to make.

As far as I know, PFPE (perfluoropolyether) is relatively inert and non-flammable.

Also, sodium nitrite is not carcinogenic, although that fact has no significance to the article.

Lemme guess, there are 9 in total?

Well, there were nine ... but I suspect it's only a matter of time before some poor kid is 'left on top of the car drove off and landed on the drive'.

I suppose if you give 'em numbers instead of names, it's less upsetting when you break 'un.

Re: Serious question: why buy a new router?

> Try getting the DHCP server to hand out a custom DNS address.

Would it do any good to be able to define alternate DNS servers; doesn't BT route all DNS requests to their own Mumsnet approved servers anyway?

Re: isn't there a name for this type of legal claim?

Barratry? Isn't that a medical condition?

No, Barratry was my fag when I was a senior at Eton. I believe his people own vast swathes of Scotland and Mars.

Re: Check their tax returns!

> I suspect Anonymous Blowhard was being sarcastic.

Too subtle for a simpleton like me :)

When Google's lawyers advanced a similar argument in the High Court, were they being sarcastic too?