Re: Does Nature Publisinh Group (actually Springer?)....
To survive yes. If they dont prevent AI from coming up with far better replacement that has no interest in profit, only science, then they have to control it.
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It could have been available within a year. We had tested devices using the same process that were far more complicated and the simple point to point fibre was a reality - we'd done TAT8 and PTAT already. The tories killed it in BT and once they'd done that it was impossible to do it outside - can you imagine trying to develop a product that BT would just say they owned whatever we did.
BT could have had it working within a year - we had everything that was required.
Went to a council meeting last week and it looks as if we're getting some wireless broadband by the end of the year 30Mb apparently. What is interesting is BT didnt even bother to bid for the public money available - which given openretch has already laid the fibre on the quiet is a bit strange. However it looks like decent (?) BB is now available to pretty much all of the farmers etc living outside of the villages which got FTTC upgrade a year or so ago and went from very fast ADSL to not much faster FTTC. Only one business went for the 70Mb option from what I hear.
I think the new wireless BB will more than double the properties with fast broadband at considerably less cost than BT/Openreach not really speeding anything up for their FTTC setup.
I might see if I can get some of the wireless modules for PTP stuff with some neighbours!
Elfin safety often dont work in Grade1 listed buildings which are lovely to work in but near impossible to add ducting too, both legally and physically. I worked in one 14thC place where you could just about get the cable down the gap between the oak floorboards but a couple of foot were on the floor and we had to cut the lever thingy off the etherrnet plug so it would come out easily rather than send the tripee flying. We tried those cable covers your can get but they just flipped the wheelie chairs during races and getting things from the printer without getting up.
I live in a man cave so no Windows but a friend has a VM set up so he very slowly takes the phonefool through booting it and very slowly following their instructions, even downloading their trojan (at around 2 baud) and once all is set up and they've gone away he kills and clones another ready for the next caller.
I believe his understanding of the trojans and their origin and where they send info is of some interest to him but I dont ask as I think I might OCD myself into trouble with that.
A meeting was held to discover why a design change had failed and about 30 people were invited. While waiting for the meeting to start I was tidying up my desk and found a piece of paper in the cambrian layer and realised that it was all my fault - I'd mislaid this instruction to rotate a test component so all the 20 or so devices had this (probably pointless but that's another matter) test component in the same orientation so all the devices could be pre-tested on the same rig before going on to their own individual tests. Oh fucking hell I'm going to get fucking slaughtered here. I made it to the loo before going to the meeting and prepared to die.
The chair started the meeting and I could feel the anger in the room and at the first opportunity in the proceedings fessed up and sat back waiting for the shit to hit and working out what job I could get next and nothing happened. There were some comments but somehow my confession had caused some kind of impedance mismatch and I spent two hours sitting there waiting while the meeting seemed to be trying to hunt down someone who could be blamed for what I'd confessed to. I went from a state of abject terror to one of abject confusion to one of abject amusement if such a state can exist. Which it can and after eleventeen pints that evening I went into work the next day expecting them to have worked out I should really die but I just spent four grand* fixing the problem and updating the procedures and no-one ever mentioned it again in my presence.
*about the cost of the meeting coincidentally.
Commercial load balancers were a bit shit but you could do something with a fast PC with a handful of network cards installed. They had FDDI on the outside and even then you could install versions of Linux that could then fan out that FDDI with a host of machines with 10Mbit ethernet on the inside, either simple round robin or something slightly more intelligent.
'Given how much control they were asking BT to give up?'
What we need to do is set up an organisation with the power to tell BT and other providers what to do. We could call it the Office for Communications or OFCOM for short.
Do BT vet OFCOMs HR choices FFFFS!
There is no evolutionary answer to a nuclear holocaust. If we suffered a nuclear holocaust/Carrington there may still be humans left but there are no evolutionary advantages to be gained from this - the people who will survive will survive by luck not some skill or advantageous protein. There may new evolutionary pressures then but human development is far more meme than gene these days.
The road surfaces in the UK in towns are built on roads from, in some cases, 5000 years ago. As such, once the waterproof tarmac or concrete is breached then, on a rainy day, the hole deepens at a rate the average oil driller would be pleased with. In dense traffic and everyone in a rush people drive nose to tail and by the time they notice the pothole emerging from underneath the car their only option is to drive into it (left here is dead pedestrians and on the right other vehicles coming the other way). As potholes can be very deep wheel rims are bent, suspension is badly rattled and the springs can be bashed against parts of the car they were not expected to hit. a small crack on one soon leads to its imminent destruction by another pothole.
In one of those deja-fuck moments I took the dog for a walk last evening to discover the road at the end of our lane had been resurfaced - 6 months after all the potholes had been covered over (half road repairs etc not just tipping a bit of tarmac in each). Lots of signs saying 'No Road Markings' - when we dont have any on these country lanes. Lots of 20MPH signs too. Which were obviously being ignored as there are, in around the mile I hobbled about 20 new proto-potholes where drivers have braked hard leaving holes in the new tarmac that will, by summer be deep potholes if we get the rain we've been having lately.
Life is wasted on the living.
We had some potholes near us and the council were forced to put out to tender for the work. A few months later a 10' by 7' pothole had a 1'*2' patch put in the bottom as that was what the contractor had tendered for.
I've had to put a set of cheap wheels on my car after I lost one (and some suspension) in a hole that wasnt there the week before, I reckon for every pound the tories save me in council tax costs me about 50 as a result. Thanks.
Ballistic delivery of real ale is possible, With practice the english pint can be swung underarm and thrown and caught up to around 20' away with 'acceptable' spilling after a few minutes practice. Alas after a couple of hours practice it starts to go wrong again and can require repairs to catching arm and oral interception is to be avoided at all times.
what I didnt like it was falling out and breaking while pulling trousers up after sitting on the loo! I will be getting the shoulder holster out when I get one of these - after I've finished a couple of dozen things I need to do with my RPis!
And yet still people keep using it! I found a flash video that was 43MB - all it was was a flash video someone made of an animated gif running for a couple of minutes ffs.
We dont need high speed internet connections - we need to kill Flash and anyone who uses things that reduce effective bandwidth to that of two tin cans and no string.
Testing needs testing too.Sometimes the first time you meet a failure mode is when it fails - a computer can exercise a lot of things very quickly but spinning rust can slow it down considerably, as can the wrapping to ensure you know what's going wrong - which as anyone who has spent time in gdb will know that simply doing that will hide a multitude of sins.
@jake - 'to your knowledge' I think you will find if someone learns a language its amazing how the brain can pick it up amongst background noise. My uncle learned morse during WWII and was forever hearing bits of morsey things. You'll find being close to someone a low voice is far less likely to be intercepted as it is too similar to the general mele to be discriminated.
I am working on a design for a glink pistol - a small water pistol embedded in my glasses that identifies phone screens held between me and a stage so it can fire some incredibly sticky black glink onto the screen so that I can actually watch what I came to see and not some twats bingo wings.
I may look for public funding on Inkygogofuckoff with your money for this.
Not quite - rubber is in a compacted powder form with a hole down the middle with and igniter and N2O is blown down the hole as the igniter is lit and then the rubber burns in the gas stream. You could replace the rubber with almost anything that will burn in N20 (which is used because it easy to liquify at room temp). I've seem a video of someone who made a hole in a frozen sausage and set that off. It seemed to work quite well but IIRC virgin sausages probably wouldnt smell that good.