Posts by Christoph

"another matches faces to ones in a database, and the third detects objects like guns in video feeds."

"I've been trained on mostly white faces and anyway am bad on dark skin tones, so all black people look alike - so that's definitely the criminal in the database. And that fleck of mud on his hand tricks my image recognition so that I identify it as a gun. SHOOT!"

"books as horrifying as The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland."

Damn right. Alice was an illegal immigrant to Wonderland and caused all sorts of trouble until they chased her out again.

"less reliable delivery companies than Hermes "

A couple of days ago Hermes sent me an email saying "Your parcel is now with your local Hermes courier for delivery".

At 8:05pm

The parcel had been delivered at 12:15 that afternoon.

"famed for both its revolving top floor and, more recently, for the banks of LEDs at its summit

And for being knocked down by a giant kitten.

"improved guidance, better phraseology and improved language that gives greater certainty to individuals who make inquiries".

And a fluffy pink unicorn!

Beresheet

Does anyone else think that name sounds like something you'd find in the woods?

"the US Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's GLONASS, the EU's Galileo, China's BeiDou, Japan's QZSS and India's NavIC."

But will it block our wonderful (and wonderfully expensive) BrexitNav?

"This bit looks very bad but is really totally innocent. And this completely different bit is also really innocent. And this other completely different bit."

Once is chance, twice is coincidence ...

The first stage in correcting this kind of behaviour is to accept and admit that what you were doing was wrong.

If they had admitted wrong-doing and done a public house-cleaning with outside supervision, it might be possible to trust them again.

Since they have adamantly refused to accept that there was anything wrong with what they were doing, they can never be trusted again.

Will the Houses of Parliament have a single mechanism to bypass this, or will each politician have to set up their own bypass?

The real problem

The available spacesuits had pockets, so they couldn't let women wear them.

"Hey, kid, what is your nationality?"

"Klingon. Want to argue about it?"

There's a perfectly clear justification for using all those photos without consent.

"Because we can, and there's f**k all you can do about it so tough."

Option 3:

Netflix rename that episode "Boojum", and the legal case will softly and suddenly vanish away.

Were their names by any chance the Russian equivalents of Murray, Phillips and Pertwee?

"the events leading up to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia"

Challenger was under pressure to launch before the President's State of the Union address.

OK you can inject them into the body and they will still function. Then what? How do you get them out again when they've done their job? I doubt something that size will get out through the kidneys.

"the sixth was emptied in December 2018."

"Cotten died while traveling through Jaipur on December 9"

Why is there no mention of what date in December the sixth wallet was emptied? Whether it was before or after the 9th is rather critical. If it was after then either someone else had the key codes or the death was faked.

I wonder if the next thing to happen is that they charge her for that email account?

How about ...

The hideous ear-mangling screech that used to precede announcements on the Tube a few years ago?

There's some very nasty security issues

The possible problems are not just the standard one tiny configuration mistake and all your data can be read globally (and there's some horrendously sensitive data that might leak - such as thugs finding out who shopped them).

But suppose someone gets write access? Delete their own records and the evidence - or add records and 'evidence' to someone else's file. And all sorts of other nasties depending on just what gets stored.

Or possibly it originated from the other binary system and was later captured by the one it's in now? Is there any way to tell?

Makes perfect sense to me

If the people of East Texas want to keep letting copyright trolls win, then it makes sense for every company that can do it to have no presence in East Texas. They may need to also refuse to deliver internet orders to any address in that area. The residents can then either drive al long way any time they want to buy something, or sit at home and chip flint. Or stop supporting copyright trolls.

If you want some hard data from experienced people, or reams and reams of wild speculation, you can get both on the PPRuNe thread

Not the " oldest-known white dwarf star", but as mentioned later "almost three times older than any other white dwarf known to have a dusty disk around it."

White dwarfs without a ring can be much older.

Gliese 223.2 is only 21 light years away ad is nearly 8 billion years old. The oldest known white dwarfs are around 12 billion years old.

Very similar story

I was once told (by an engineer colleague who'd done some work there) of a place that made very high-grade relays with platinum tips on the contacts.

A V60 (very large) reel of platinum wire went missing. A panicked search eventually found the cleaner who had needed something to stand on to reach a high window.

"If anything it's set a bar: your writing online must be GPT-2-level coherent – which is to say, not terribly coherent – or else you might be discarded as a bot"

But can it imitate amanfromMars?

Central computer room in open plan office. Since they might have to evacuate in a hurry if the halon was about to drop, the Big Red Button was placed on the wall outside - in the open plan office. With no warning label.

Later, same solution - hinged box of clear plastic.

"Once a defendant has raised this defence, the burden of proof (to the criminal standard) to disprove this defence will rest with the prosecution,"

And have you ever considered the advantages of buying this really nice bridge?