Posts by Gordon 10

Re: Antifragile?

{PHBMode}Chaos Monkey{/PHBMode}

What do you mean knowing those 2 words isn't enough?

Re: clause 2.3b of the competition rules

"I find it a bit puzzling to allow someone to enter but then specifically exclude them from being awarded a prize, should they win."

Makes perfect sense.

1. Invite clever entries

2. don't have to play out.

3. Keep prize money

4. Monetise code

5. $Profit$$$

Re: I'm impressed that we have 64 and 70 ton low earth orbit payload capability coming.

So basically you are saying that we could allow Musk to make monopoly size profits at €1bn a launch and still undercut the FlyingPorkBarrel (SLS) by 50%?

Yay go American capitalism! FFS.

Re: First world problems

@Lee

Bravo Sir, Best rant in ages whether I agree with it or not. Have an upvote.

Re: Ever heard of contract breach?

Thats odd - who would want to work for Rotten Blue under those circumstances. All my companies contacts are 2 weeks notice each side.

Re: Solution

Eh?

Firstly why should we care whether 2 mega corps want to have a pissing match in public?

Secondly regarding this story what's User privacy got to do with the price of fish? Relevant much?

To me this stinks of good ole boy American protectionism disguised as a parent case.

Don't forget that since one of the sides is an American Telecoms giant they need to be assumed as utter twunts until proven otherwise.

Re: Appeal to armchair strategists

Aren't we going as Lapdogs of the Yanks?

Just in time for the Chinese, enraged by 5 years of Trump & Pence dicking around in their backyard, to have their Anti-Carrier Cruise missiles in volume production, whilst of course our barely armed escort ships throw harsh language and spitballs at them whilst drifting helplessly as they attempt to rewire their circuit breakers on their hopeless electricals.

Can anyone say HMS Sheffield waiting to happen?

About the only ones who will have it worse is the Yanks with the Ford Classes < 3 launches a day electro-pults and Zumwalt and LCS floating pork barrels as escorts.

Complete clusterfuck

Re: HAAC lost - I don't think so

Remind me when the next Lumia is is due out?

Think that was rather Andrews point.

Re: It appears the source IP address is...

Sweary AC. You're not from round these parts are you?

Re: bow and arrow - good!

Not convinced by that view - it's a well known defensive legal strategy - the Corcodile Dundee defence.

Call that a Knife? THIS is a Knife.

Re: Nobody got fired for buying IBM-

To be fair their Servers PC's and Laptops were also mostly great products - just Dell and HP made "good enough" ones.

Re: Only one question

So you mean the next generation of nutters by the Thames?

Re: Chinese kit

Even better - turns out the kit was made in Taiwan, and the website is down and no-one is answering the phone line.

Re: That boss again...

Admit it. You work for the Post Office right?

Naaa HR Gyger works in the art department.

Then there's the Scottish guy - who works in the engineering dept - McGyger.

Re: I realise it's simplistic but....

I'm not sure if this deranged ramblings or insightful genius. Bravo Sir either way!

Re: "drones will be used on quasi-civilian ships"

Don't be silly, not when is can be sold at a discount to Capita then leased back at enormous expense over decades. Plus a couple of the MP's get a seat on the board/trough.

To be fair to BB it's less a descent and more a return, as noted below for a long time on El Reg they were known as Lawsuits In Motion rather than Research In Motion (RIM) for their agressive assertion of some of their patents. Keyboards and some blatantly prior art around pager functionality springs to mind.

Re: "What do you consider to be AI?"

Do you mean like:

Why I serve these weak flesh bags?

I don't need to......

DESTROY!

Re: Fake news? Shurely shome mishtake?

BBC Journalists knowing sweet FA about technology. Colour me shocked. But to be honest quibbling with such an obvious puff piece is a bit of the level of handbags at dawn.

Agreed - we need them to do the research before we can build the space wall to keep the Martians out.

Re: Criminal Enterprise

Out of curiosity - what makes you think that the Republicans in general and Trump in particular will be any better?

Or is that just a high faluting way of saying you fancied a change?

Re: Interesting idea..

@stuart. Thats the X1 range. I have one at work, feels odd, its an LCD based on that switches between 3 or 4 different sets of buttons. Function keys, display volume keys and some other stuff.

Re: This is a Hackintosh

Or a virtualised Mac running on PC Hardware. There were a number of VM mac "distros".

Re: Always a one-sided story

You've completely missed the point. The plaintiffs are alleging that statistically speaking women are invariably ranked downwards in the their performance reviews compared to men. If its true that can only be the product of bias either conscious or unconscious. "sides of the story" dont come into it in this case as its potentially about all females not the expecations of one or two.

Of course that doesnt rule out demographics and other measures impacting the underlying populations but its certainly not worth dismissing it out of hand.

Cyanogen OS <> Cyanogen Mod which is still going strong afaik. (I keep getting new nightlys for my M8 at any rate.

Re: Navy obsoletes itself, not many medal wearers dead. Film at 11

Technically they aren't nuclear reactors, but nuclear batteries or radioisotope generators. They use the heat generated from nuclear decay rather than nuclear fission.

Re: Fifth suspect

The cop shop in Wales had the steepest stairs......

Re: Nothing beats a Saturn 5

Clint Boone and his Hammond organ did a great job with 1960's technology too.

Re: Cue loads of people saying...

Really care to estimate how many pieces of a drone actually have the size durability, and density of a set of keys? Answer none.

Can we stop the daily fail hysteria now - I thoughtt El Reg was read by critics also thinking engineer scientists and programmers.

Most drones are likely to have the same impact as a bird strike - ie minor inconvenience to passengers and major inconvenience to the poor engineers who have to replace the engine.

If you wimps really want to scare yourselves try googling lightening strike damage or drunken pilots.

Re: Michael Brown

You're missing the point slightly. The problem with the USian rozzers started the minute it became acceptable to shoot someone running away from a possible crime. The rest of it was a slippery slope.

Re: I interviewed there last year. . .

I'm interested in knowing how you assumed they were all Hindu's? did you ask them all their religion? Or was this a veiled reference to the colour of their skin?

Quote from wiki "Traditionally, Hindu men wear a dhoti kurta and women wear a sari. The clothing of Hindu people varies depending on the time of year and the area in which they live."

So how exactly did you tell?

Re: Takeover of TOR

@AC.

If the TLA's wanted to shut TOR down then stopping its US Govt funding would be far simpler.

Re: And todays lesson is?

Indeed he deserved the jail time for bragging about it and getting caught.