Re: Waste
Your point is valid however there are ways to minise its impact on the environment http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/rubio1/
Posts by Shadowmanx2012
40 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2012
Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape
Monday 15th August 2022 13:50 GMT
Re: I have been on about this since I was a teenager
The issue I feel here is one of emotions vs logic. On that basis, nuclear will lose as most people know little or nothing apart from the line nuclear = bad, encouraged by the Greens and other environmental groups.
As mentioned elsewhere, some countries have been persuaded to close down their nuclear plants only to have to replace them with much "dirtier" techonologies.
We (governments) need to start a program of education on the massive benefits of nuclear even with the associated detriments regarding waste disposal.
Or to put it simpler, do people want the lights to stay on into the future or not?
Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?
After 7 months and 500 million kilometres, the Emirates Mars Mission has to endure 27 nail-biting minutes of engine burn
Monday 8th February 2021 21:20 GMT
Re: Love all this space exploration
"As a species we need to get off this rock just in case dint what to be a dinosaur"
They naysayers would say stop "wasting" money on space research when we need it down here to feed starving children/save the planet/fight climate change and so on. To which I would reply, every child leaves home eventually, this is Mankind's home and we really should start thinking seriously about leaving it!
Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed
Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea
Machine-learning models trained on pre-COVID data are now completely out of whack, says Gartner
Plan to strip post-Brexit Brits of .EU domains now on hold: Registry waves white flag amid political madness
Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse when diversity-oriented devs jump ship
I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision
British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings
Monday 22nd July 2019 11:32 GMT
Online streaming
"Then you have the bollocks that is and soon to be was Ultraviolet. What a load of shit that was. i tried once to use it and had to sign up to about 3 other fucking services before getting the movie. I fucking gave up. Now appears they are shutting down the service on 31 July this year. So assume that means you'll no longer have access to them once shut down? You also couldn't move the movies to another device so pretty much shit."
Have never been suckered in by these "services". Much prefer to buy the media and rip it to my own system then I can stream around my network as much as I like.
Upgrade refuseniks, beware: Adobe snips away legacy versions of its Creative Cloud apps
Monday 13th May 2019 20:57 GMT
Re: Dear Valued Adobe Creative Cloud Customers,
"You're not getting off this treadmill, we've got you now. You should have stayed with the retail versions when you had the chance but you jumped at the shiny trinkets we offered you because you're just as greedy as we are."
Which is precisely why we are still using the older, purchased versions of the software! Anyone could see this coming from a mile away.
People can't say that they weren't warned.!
Be wary of emails with links to ... er, Google Drive? Is that right?
Sky customers moan: Our broadband hubs are bricking it
Monday 29th April 2019 21:14 GMT
Re: It's been years since . . . .
One slightly easier option is to retain the ISP provided router but not to use it
This is exactly what I ended up doing when I was with Sky and it made life so much easier as I would swap it back for "trouble shooting" then remove it again afterwards.
Worked well.
Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days
Friday 19th April 2019 16:46 GMT
Re: Pretty well Inevitable for an Alpha Version
The problem is most likely that they "tested" it with people who knew the product and so treated it with kid gloves. This is unrealistic as when it is released into the "wild" it will be subjected to all manner of uses probably most of which were not anticipated by the designers.
Reminds me of Apples phone wear holding it the "wrong" way caused it to drop phone calls. Except the "wrong" way was how many (most?) people actually used it.
Google Fiber experiment ends with Choc Factory paying Louisville $3.8m to clean up its mess
Tuesday 16th April 2019 17:27 GMT
HS2 Cancelled?
"That's why the out-in-the-sticks people still don't have broadband at all, but I can get 300Mbps just by paying for it. That's why there's no mobile phone coverage at all in 5% of the country and it will stay that way."
Belatedly some parts of the "establishment" are coming around to that view:
Replace HS2 Project with fibre rollout
AJ
Trump fights with Google over Chinese military, AI scoops Turing Prize, Dota2 competition coming
Monday 1st April 2019 08:23 GMT
How could it go wrong?
“The ability to deploy a swarm of low cost autonomous systems delivers a new paradigm for battlefield operations,” said Ian Williams-Wynn, managing director at Blue Bear Systems.
Perhaps he should watch an episode of Black Mirror, to see how badly wrong this stuff can go.
Click here to see the New Zealand livestream mass-murder vid! This is the internet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter built!
Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'
Tuesday 11th December 2018 14:36 GMT
Re: @ toilet duk
“My suggestion: if you're required to obtain one, do so and simply leave it at home in your drawer unless you're required by law to carry one at all times or unless life is deliberately made so difficult that. carrying an ID card makes things incredibly easier.”
And that is precisely What will happen! It will start out “voluntary” then become compulsory, because that is the way of governments.
And it will be necessary as I can see a time where in order to “combat terrorism” you will be required to use it every time you want to access some government service.
Douglas Adams was right, ish... Super-Earth world clocked orbiting 'nearby' Barnard's Star
Thursday 15th November 2018 08:14 GMT
Re: Getting a probe there?
Maybe not quite today's technology but certainly in the near future and most likely using Ion Drive propulsion systems.
As for getting the information back they will use radio waves, which will take 6 years but better than 30.
Unless they are able to use something like quantum entanglement, which means essentially real-time communications may become possible.
More info on next generation ion drives here
NAO probing Capita's sickly £700m GP support gig
Sunday 6th May 2018 19:12 GMT
Re: The Tories want to break the NHS
"We manage it just fine here in Scotland where our NHS is the best performing in the UK"
And the population of Scotland vs the rest of the UK is what 5 million people? Certain things work at different scales. Plus, the NHS has been mis-managed for a very long time by both main parties. As has been said elsewhere, what is needed is a grown up, non political free ranging discussion on exactly what the NHS should be doing vs how we are going to pay for it. Certain treatments may not be viable long term or will require patient contribution.
Tuesday 2nd January 2018 01:51 GMT
Re: The Tories want to break the NHS
The NHS is the nearest thing this country has to an official religion
The real problem is the expectation that the NHS provides everything for free! Things that were never envisioned in the original setup such as sex changes, IVF and non-emergency plastic surgery. Yet these are expected to be free, although I note IVF treatment is free only under certain conditions and is limited to 3 cycles LINK .
Health should never be treated as a cash cow and a, supposedly, first world country like the UK should be able to provide properly for it's citizens. National Insurance contributions were supposed to do this but this seems either to be insufficient or is not being used for the intended target.
Whilst keeping the basic stuff free necessary drugs, surgeries etc., we should look to charge for everything else. Other countries seem to have found a way to have a functioning system so perhaps we should look at their methods and see what might work here.
Perhaps the government should start with this article: How European nations run national health service
Biting the hand that feeds IT
