Posts by Tom 7

Re: Really Ancient News, El Reg...

Its really quite a stunning piece of work - glad its survived and Neugebauer et all became interested n it.

Re: A couple models are showing the potential for 60" of rain in localized areas

I was not far from the Wray flood of 1967. We had around 4" of rain in around 1/2hr. Its was seriously impressive - windscreen wipers cant cope and even if they could the road disappears under the backspray. The noise inside a car is phenomenal as we sat unable to move for 20 minutes.

At the top of the valley where the most rain fell it stripped several inches of soil and vegetation. revealing the bed rock underneath. The beck at the bottom of our garden (fed from an adjacent catchment) went from a 6' wide by 4" deep chuckling flow to a 60' wide 15' deep 60 mile an hour torrent tumbling 12 ton concrete blocks (to prevent erosion Ha!) and tossing 60' tree trunks like lolly sticks.

Some areas under the hurricane will be getting this kind of weather for a few days!!!!!

Re: You guys are nuts

I might not buy a sandwich but when I used to visit the Paris offices of one of the companies I worked for we got a smorgasbord of stuff to eat on the go and a 2 baguettes with butter and a round of Camembert* and I was a happy cholesterol laden bunny, even if the keyboard needed jet washing.

The Camembert was 'President' brand. In France it is a completely different animal to the same product on UK shelves. And I mean animal - that stuff cures sinusitis before you get it into your mouth.

Re: No factory reset?

Of course not - that would make it your tv not theirs.

Re: Oh dear... maybe

So the man responsible for inventing the switch should be in prison for allowing terrorists to set bombs off. Plonker.

RE Other guesses are available...

7 Years? 11% ROI. The only reason they are not doing this is they think the Government will pay for it.

Re: sounds like

Had an MRI scan recently - the only noise seemed to be the glop glop glop of a pump.

Re:1200-baud modem

I had a strangely psychotic boss who thought I should work from home when ill and he turned up with a modem and terminal for me to connect in to work with. 300/70 jobie too. I was save by the fact it required the handset to be pushed into the two rubber holders. I had a trim phone so didnt actually have to tell him to fuck off while I Hills Bronchial Balsomed myself into a semi-coma for the next week.

Re: Fucking Heresy

Bright Green on Dark Green - Tecktronics storage screens. Used to use them a lot - one thing about them was not only did it burn the text and diagrams onto the screens it burned it into your psyche too. I can still read some help manuals from 1982 even now....

Re: That damned sinkhole server

I heard of bosses arranging pernicious outsourcing where you get someone to 'headhunt' a member of staff so they resign and loose all employment rights and then dont last long, if at all in the new post.

This is the logical extension where you perniciously outsink them to defcon and make up some shit for the FBI - I bet insurance would even cover your 'losses'!

Re: What a pity, these German impostors are not dead yet!

There's a book called "Queen Victoria's Gene" which looks into the origin of the haemophiliac gene and wonders whether the royal line is more of a zig zag. I'm sure they'll let us know the tests give them the all clear though.

Re: And what if they could access those messages?

One could argue that they want a better excuse - if they've been told 5 times someone is a potential problem and they have not looked into it that looks really really bad.

If, on the other hand, they have 25000 suspicious communications to look through they can sit back and relax that only 5 warnings were missed.

Its almost like they are setting themselves up to fail.

Re: costs

Or they could have saved themselves some money from the start by putting in fibre that doesnt arc over when there is lightning about or worry about the rain filling up the ducts. I dont know how much the hardware is for doing this now but when I worked at BTRL we could have put 2.4Gb both way fibre over 10km for less than £100 if you could somehow put 10km of fibre in one unbroken run. I'm not sure what jointing losses are now but I'd like to think the fibre losses would be a bit less now so it might be possible to put in a dozen joints and still get a decent bandwidth.

Re: Something to work on

I think the NKs are the only people with one ready to launch!

Re: "Like a human"

I'm hoping they wont drive like humans most of the time - the thing is if the cars talk to each other and cooperate then they can drive bumper to bumper and reduce fuel consumption enormously and massively increase traffic capacity. They should also be able to break blocks apart smoothly so cars can get in and out for junctions etc - even manage these things well in advance. I'd like to think I can head down the motorway and not find a wave of slow traffic several hours after whatever cause it has been cleaned up.

Re: Infrastructure

It would be a lot cheaper and safer to generate hydrogen from renewables, The new generation of Nuclear looks rotten to the core.

Re: In the UK at 7.35pm BST on August 21 ...

Cant see clouds at the moment! The rain has reduced visibility to 50'.

Re: @Steve Evans

I got a USB 'charger' battery for running my Pi3 and Touch screen. Wired up a zero W for amusement and it was still going a week later.

The micro:bit would have been good a few years ago but the zero is miles ahead of it. Having said that you can program the micro:bit to write rude words in the air as you spin it round on a piece of string.

Barmcake

In theory barmcake is a white bread leavened with barm - that's the vigorous froth seen on the top of a beer brew going at full tilt. This gives is extra flavours of malt and hops. Haven't had one for 30 years but still remember them as being 'lush' in modern termibollockly. I'd be worried about a modern version that isnt made the proper way - or possibly worse from a craft brewery using citrusy hops - the only citrus allowed near a full english is in the bloody mary used to pad out the ketchup.

Re: 8 million pounds thrust

Two paperless NHS projects? You do realise it would cost nearly £12billion just to cover the paperwork for that.

Re: Why do I have a sinking feeling

"seeing the justice system as just a speedbump " and yet crashing off the road every time she hits one. Managed to keep the Hooked one in the country for years by not getting the date right on forms. It would be laughable but this is probably what brixit is really about - they've spent their lives copying others at school while keeping an arm wrapped over their copying and hate to be exposed for the incompetent idiots they are. This can only be achieved by removing all oversight.

Be warned, be very warned.

Re: anything but python

You can tell it to rely on parentheses rather than indentation - comes in handy when doing things like keyboard/mouse handlers and other complicated things that just wont be broken down into smaller functions in a desperate attempt to fit in 80 chars. I can only thank god that no-one has written a python ASP thing like PHP - imagine following indentions down through that code!

Re: "Battistelli may finally face serious consequences"

"A glorious example of the complete and utter failure of management to manage management."

Take of the last word and you have a general statement about most businesses higher level.

3/4 with extremely hight risk then?

nt

Re: 27 years too late, after Thatcher killed it

Mad Mike - not 10km of it in one go though - well not through existing ducting.

Re: Er ... Dr. Who canon ?????

Canon? This is Doctor Who! Can you hear Tom Baker - "You have the tentacles of a woman. I bet those tentacles have never been blown off by a force 9 Exterminator"

Re: Well

He'll never eat maltezers again!

Re: Instant space travel

If you were to take all life on earth and convert it into dna mass wise and blast it into space by the time it got to Alpha Centuri their would be 1 dna molecule for every 100km2 or so. So the chance of a single viable cell landing on a planet even at that close range is pretty slim. For it to find a viable habitat...

Re: Trolley problem.

While the trolley problem is an interesting distraction I think it might be possible to produce systems where the trolley problem is very unlikely to occur. Unlikely to the point of being largely irrelevant. If we have an electric CAV fleet driving around London saving many thousands of lives a year who dies when one of the vehicles quantum-tunnels onto a disused railway line is another address space all together.

Re: No longer in post -> Can speak truthfully

We need a bulletproof whistleblower law so people who know can speak out in just that situation.