Posts by BristolBachelor

Tell me please...

...how much does it cost to follow 1000 people 24 hours a day. On the other hand, how much does it cost to write a naff but possibly catchy game, and give it away free to 1000 iPhone users?

As far as stealing your phone; you'd notice that, but what has been reported is that there is a file on your phone, and they don't have to steal your phone to read it.

Also the fact that they can decide to "follow" your movements AFTER you have made them. How much does it cost to follow someone afterwards (what's the going rate for a time machine these days?)

Who turns off CCTV?

How about the same sort of person who gets their shop to automatically open the doors and turn on the lights rather than get a human to do it?

two actions?

I can only see one 'justifiable' action...

Being in range of the tazer :)

recompile Planet Earth

What's that you say? Planet Earth is not square, but has rounded bits? Don't tell Jobs, god only knows what he'd do!

@Sarah

You are being too narrow minded. Those who embrace god never need to fix their computer because it never goes wrong!

Or alternatively, they just need to pick it up and shake it upside-down to re-boot and then twiddle the two grey knobs again until they get the picture that they had before. (with acknowledgement to Dilbert)

405 lines is enough for anyone...

See above

I've given up telling them

If it works for them (and it's a lot less work just ignoring it than explaining how it really works)...

Max... Max Headroom

Ok I'm going.....

Indeed

"There is no greater crime than to risk the lives of informants who live under a medieval theocratic regime"

And that is porbably why these Twitters are asking for their details to be kept from a medieval theocratic neocon regime.

As for the release of information that has allowed the voters to see what has been done in their names, with their money and putting them at risk of revenge attacks; I think that is a very good idea. If you honestly think that the release of this information has put anyone at more risk that the risk they are in just for living in their own country which has been invaded, you need to think again.

ravenviz

Please tell me your name, address, bank details, where you travel to, who you travel with, your medical conditions...

I mean why not? How am I different from any number of people who can access all the information collected on you?

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, so tell me.

Saturn V

Yeah, but the Saturn V was built in Metric (cause it was done by a German guy).

Now the US don't want to use Metric*, so they can't do it :)

(*) It's possible that some measurements for orbit insertion around Mars may use metric, but don't tell anyone, so that they assume they are imperial :)

"so much to discover"

...like giant squid with a penchant for carbon, titanium and epoxy :)

(However I completely agree about how his money is used to drive things forward)

Microsoft ?

They have loads of money and can afford to spend some in the minor hope that Linux suffers at least something. After all, FUD seems to be a good marketing campaign.

But then again, the SCO thing has been having death throes for so long maybe it doesn't even generate FUD anymore. The only uncertainty is when the rigamortis will set in.

Netback

It is a portable computer for use by the infantry. You wear it on your BACK, and is recognisable by the 20 foot long antenna that comes out of the top on one side for the NET.

It weighs about 40Kg, costs about £1M, has a battery life of a little over 15 mins, and is just about capable of showing a B&W video with a resolution of 80 x 60 pixels.

Not failed ?

So the cloud was a service for the storage and processing of files. The buyer of said service put their files in the cloud. Then the files were not there. The buyer of said cloud service did not delete the files, nor did they forfeit them by not paying.

In what way didn't the cloud fail?

You can argue semantics about WHY the cloud failed (e.g. insufficient security, insufficient backups, etc.), but the fact is that the cloud failed. You can argue that the disks in the cloud didn't fail, you can argue that the servers didn't fail. But the total service, "the cloud" failed.

Why Duplicate?

So if the US military system is so great, why was it that no-one stopped the Iridium satellite from crashing into a piece of space rubbish? Because that wasn't their job. Their job was to look for intercontinental balistic missiles with nuclear warheads flying towards America.

So therefore a system that is designed just to prevent this type of thing happening, and is not affraid to publish the data of everything up there so that people can work out and avoid possible collisions is a good idea.

Redundancy is another reason. Why does your car have 2 breaking circuits? What a waste! We should get rid of one of them for you. Similarly when you fly on a plane, we should remove all the redundancy there too; it's so wasteful having 2 things that might do the same job...

Gallons

It will only work in the USA.

Europe is definately out, they use Litres. Even the US uses proper gallons, but this has obviously been designed for US gallons...

Stupid questions

"above tsunami level"

Please tell us what a tsunami level is (It is a Reg unit of measure?). The whole complex was built to withstand "tsunami level" waves, but unfortunately someone came along with a "bigger than tsunami level" wave! (Caused by a bigger Earthquake than anyone knew Japan could have; and they have lots of experience)

"waterproof buiuldings"

That's fine, but don't the generators need air to operate? Does that mean that there needs to be an air-intake? What height should that be? Perhaps "above tsunami level"? How about the air-intakes for the control systems and motors? Also "above tsunami level"?

I'll get me coat. It's the one with the copy of "Hindsight" in the pocket.

Nuclear free

Presumably after doing that, they fitted a 20cm thick lead sheet under the town to protect it from all the nucleides in the Earth (the things that are keeping the middle warm).

Then they fitted one over the top to protect you all from the stuff coming from space, and finally fitted a wall all the way around so that they don't annoy any of the towns nearby with their stupid, useless pondering?