Posts by Christoph 3317 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007
"this watches the driver’s face and triggers increasing levels of alarms if he starts nodding off or gazing into space instead of watching the road."
So the drivers will quickly learn to go to sleep while still gazing straight ahead - much the same as going to sleep in class without the teacher noticing.
Jose is expected to swing north away from the US.
Katia will only hit Mexico.
They want to raise £185m a year from contractors? Did they not realise that this would mean that the contractors get £185m less money, or did they think that the contractors would be perfectly happy with this and would not seek to replace that money by avoiding the change, demanding more money, or leaving?
How could this possibly end up not costing them more than the amount 'raised'?
They could communicate locally using far less power. They only need that huge signal if they want to communicate over distances like 3 billion light years.
But just to say "Hello?" "Yes, I hear you" would take six billion years. Who is going to approve the budget for that? It simply does not make sense. A reply coming back after a period longer that the age of our solar system?
The UK are trying to insist on various minor details while ignoring the actual main points that MUST be sorted before leaving the EU (because they really don't want to admit that they will have to surrender on pretty well all of them).
So it's "Hand it round first, and cut it afterwards".
And no detail on false positives.
Someone who is wrongly identified as one of the people on this database will get flagged over and over again. Sometimes without their knowledge - they will get endless problems with no way to find the cause or fix the problem.
"I have had email accounts I have just created receive spam because the senders are sending out to random addresses"
They might just be able to hit some of the individual addresses I have set up, but the one I gave my bank is far too long and complex for them to hit it by chance.
Jordin Kare, expert on Launch Lasers and many other Laser applications, died yesterday following heart surgery.
"More than likely, these poor people who are probably now facing federal criminal charges completely forgot that they even had a loaded gun in their bag."
Which is exactly the problem. They actually forgot that they were carrying a loaded gun? And this is what the USA considers is responsible gun ownership?
A loaded gun is something to just shove in your bag and forget about? When you are checking through your bag before travelling to make sure you have everything, the detail that there is a loaded gun in there doesn't even register?
"It’s an invasive species originating in Africa" so getting rid of it from there just puts things back the way they were.
But this could be (and has been) used elsewhere. It may have side effects, but it's far easier to do than trying to replace with an engineered species. For a start it would take huge amounts of money and time to create such a species and then get approval for its release into the wild. And there would be massive protests at the release (from people who don't live in areas those diseases affect).
"Besides we shouldn't really care about people from the handful of "banned nations" when it comes to the internet anyway. After all, do we really want THEM dictating or affecting any kind of intarweb policy for the rest of the world? I don't."
Thank you for confirming the attitude of the USA to the rest of the world. "We own the game, everyone has to play by our rules, anyone who disagrees doesn't count." "We define ourselves as the goodies, so that proves that anyone who disagrees with us are the baddies."
The people from those banned nations just happen to be human beings, just the same as americans. Yes, that's right - people who happen to be US citizens are not special super-beings appointed by god, with the divine right to piss on eneryone else and sneer at them while doing it.
That looks like they are using both the transit method and the doppler method to look at each of these planets. I know that both methods are successful and have found each huge numbers of planets, but I wasn't aware that any individual planets had been found using both methods?
I would have thought that would cut down the useable number of targets a lot - does anyone know roughly what proportion of the known exoplanets have already been found using both methods?
Plus of course the difficulties of finding earth-size planets with the doppler method if the system also has Jupiter sise planets pulling the star a lot more.
Why do you assume that a star that has been drifting away from us for billions of years must be a close neighbour? It's not only been moving away that long, it's been pulled differently by other stars by being in a different place. Add that all up and it might be on the other side of the galaxy by now. If someone drove away from your house ten years ago, would you expect them to still be in the next street?
IBM makes some rather large machines for some rather large companies. If something goes wrong it can be extremely expensive and may need someone on site immediately.
"Sorry sir, can you wait a few minutes while the bloke who has to sign off the travel gets out of the toilet?"
"Oh dear, he's now signed it off but it looks like the delay meant that the engineer missed the next flight."
"Stuff it where, sir?"
We saw a computer when I was at school. We went on a school trip to this company that had a very large room filled with machinery, that all eventually ejected a pinched paper tape that was taken into a side room and run through a machine that printed the contents out on paper.
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