Re: No good
I think I'd prefer them scaled to fit in with the rest of my Playmobil figures TBH.
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Huzzah! Doctor Who comes to Playmoverse
Trump signs 'no privacy for non-Americans' order – what does that mean for rest of us?
Friday 27th January 2017 10:36 GMT 
Re: Trump has become more deranged
@Pen-y-gors. My father machined fuel diverter valves for the Olympus engines. I too remember the cold war fear. Protect & Survive films give me the willies proper even today. And Threads - that was a cheery outing, not. I'm glad my children will have the experience of Trump and ISIS to look back on and recall the feartime much as I look back now and can recall the cold war and the IRA. Sort of.
Naughty sysadmins use dark magic to fix PCs for clueless users
Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high
Thursday 26th January 2017 13:38 GMT
It seems odd...
that the dose wasn't pre-calculated based on population averages and simply adjusted once the subject's body mass was measured.
I used to do this sort of shit as a student during my first two years. It was mainly the RAF who were interested in the effects of various things that their pilots might get up to. I had to, on various occasions, not all at the same time, eat a 1kg bar of Dairy Milk / a carob alternative with a clothes peg on my nose so I couldn't tell the difference, drink 6 cups of tea (caffeinated or decaffeinated) in the hour prior to the test, drink 4 cups of coffee likewise, starve myself of all but water for 24 hours prior to the test, eat normally for 24 hours or overeat (they gave me a menu and a box of food for these), sleep for varying numbers of hours in the 48 hours before a standard reactions test and, for want of a better word, copulate at least 6 times in the 24 hours before the test, do it just the once, or abstain.
And when you're paid to take part in experiments like that as an impoverished student, you tend to take them up on the offer.
Thursday 26th January 2017 13:28 GMT
Re: To clarify the term Lethal Dose...
A good point @ Patrickstar. Medical treatment... but the LD50 for caffeine in humans is a mixture of animal studies and "anecdotal" accidental poisonings. I expect these two will now form part of those figures. They would have presumably died had treatment not been given.
Thursday 26th January 2017 12:41 GMT
To clarify the term Lethal Dose...
I worked it out the other day based on an average UK male body mass of 84kg and an LD50 of 200 milligrams per kilogram. It comes out at 16.8g
LD50 is the level at which half of the test subjects died. So these two are bloody lucky indeed, having taken nearly double that. What are the odds?
Sixteen to one, if my maths & stats is any good.
Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?
I'LL BE BATT: Arnie Schwarzenegger snubs gas guzzlers for electric
Wednesday 25th January 2017 11:58 GMT
Re: "safety measures needed for pump won't be needed."
Is the cost of recharging on the motorway via electricity going to attract as much of a premium as the petrol stations? I mean, ~110ppl at Tesco/Shell/ASDA at the local A41 filling points and ~135ppl at Watford Gap services. The only filling stations I've seen that are more expensive than motorway service stations are in South Kensington running around 136ppl.
Irish townsfolk besieged by confused smut channel callers
Nuclear power station sensors are literally shouting their readings at each other
Tuesday 24th January 2017 15:46 GMT
Re: I think I'm going to patent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who:_The_Curse_of_Fatal_Death
We've found a ‘vaccine’ for fake news. Wait! No, we really are Cambridge researchers
UK.gov still drowning in legacy tech because no one's boarding Blighty's £700m data centre Ark
Monday 23rd January 2017 10:27 GMT
Government systems...
are huge, unwieldy things that take many years to understand let alone transform into code. And I'm not talking software here, I'm talking systems as in ways of working. Every year some tweak is made to departmental budgets, tax codes, legislation etc etc. And every six months some tweak is made to operating systems, hardware, interfaces etc. It's like trying to hit a moving target from a moving platform with a wobbly crossbow.
As long as you understand that, you could probably project manage your way out of it. But it would take a team with minds like corkscrews to work it all out and devise a system as flexible, resilient, secure and future-proof as required.
IT team sent dirt file to Police as they all bailed from abusive workplace
Friday 20th January 2017 17:19 GMT
Re: Hmm... I am currently
That's a grand story, and I'm glad you got a lot out of your experience. I've never, ever, had a proper job I was unhappy with, so I'm really fortunate. The very worst job I had was in the late 70s delivering Sunday newspapers round the steepest roads in Bolton in the middle of winter under three feet of snow for a couple of quid and a packet of Wotsits. I was out at 6am in the dark, and finally finished at 4pm in the dark and that was AFTER having to call in my brothers as reinforcements. I did two Sundays and that was it.
For my son, he absolutely loved the job. The crap and the unhappiness is purely and simply related to not being able to work after them pinning some incidents on him, incidents which happened outside the office but inside the shared rental. He's a train nut, which comes from having me as a father, and it was as close to a dream job as he could realise because you just can't get a job driving a steam train nowadays. I can't say too much more but you just can't replace local knowledge. It's like outsourcing the RAC call centre to Mumbai, if you catch my drift. "I'm stuck on the side of an A road, I'm not sure of the number... by that field near Milton Keynes, the one with the cows in it. I'm right opposite those, yeah."
Friday 20th January 2017 15:47 GMT
Hmm... I am currently
Having to console my youngest after his data-collation-and-repackaging company seems to have initiated a witch-hunt against him, presumably to save money during a restructuring.
Absolute classic is HR referring him to the company intranet for documentation about the disciplinary procedure, staff handbook etc after having immediately revoked his access to the company intranet as part of that very same disciplinary procedure. There should really be a kind of DMZ for that sort of thing.
I think he's most pissed off at being told his "desk toys" were not an appropriate professional accessory for the office. And this isn't a particularly public place, just an anonymous news-desk type hole in the butt-end of London. I mean, who doesn't have a Lego mini figure or a rubber ducky or a Blu-tack sculpture somewhere around their non-hot-desking place of work? I believe it's called environmental enrichment. The Home Office insists on that for our caged rats.
College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000
Lord of the Dance set to deliver high kicks at Trump’s big ball
Thursday 19th January 2017 16:22 GMT
Irish dancing? Irish?
You mean that nation of terrorist scumbags, blowing up people all the time and funded by a secret network of supporters in main stream America!
What's that Mr Trump? Am I somehow wrong? Over-generalising perhaps? Tarring them all with the same brush? You say the vast majority of Irish people are decent, hard working human beings who contribute enormously to the culture, wealth and development of modern America? And they aren't over-running the country through mass immigration? And their involvement with hard-line religious belief is vastly misunderstood? Well, that's a surprise! Or are you just glad they're not Mexican? Or Muslim.
Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers
Laser beam sky mirage cannon can spy on enemies and generate Star Trek-style shields
Tuesday 17th January 2017 11:27 GMT
Can't you...
change the refractive index of a gas by changing the density of it? And doesn't a sound wave actually cause compression and rarefaction of the gas it is travelling through? So, couldn't you create a lens defined by sound waves? Just a thought. I mean, a sonic lens sounds cool. It's about time we had one.
Microsoft Germany says Windows 7 already unfit for business users
London Ambulance IT system hit by three outages in last year
McDonald's forget hash, browns off security experts
Mr Angry pays taxman with five wheelbarrows worth of loose change
Friday 13th January 2017 17:45 GMT
Re: He'd be shit out of luck in the UK
The first act was the Bills of Exchange Act 1882. Cheques have never been legal tender and banks are not obliged to process written instructions unless it is by a means agreed in advance, that the customer has funds and that the bank is satisfied that there is no fraudulence involved. There were further measures introduced in 1985 to prevent fraud which established some of the features of cheques which would be required for them to be considered "valid instruction" for UK banks. These features have been expanded upon ever since, and there is even a non-standard paper cheque unit at the central clearing house for dealing with foreign cheques and weird-arse shit. It was around 1999 that a legal statute was passed whereby the pieces of paper didn't have to be actually hoiked all over the country in order to have their value transferred. I'm not sure how the pieces of paper felt about this.
Embrace the world of pr0nified IT with wide open, er, arms
AWS, you crack us up. Rebrands Westminster 'Webminster'
BBC surrenders 'linear' exclusivity to compete with binge-watch Netflix
Wednesday 11th January 2017 13:05 GMT
This is LONG overdue...
Because I went to the BBC store to but the animated version of Power of the Daleks when it came out. First time I'd been there, so I had a poke around. Return of Doctor Mysterio was available from the BBC Store for like £2.99 or something, but it was on iPlayer for free (well, included in my license fee) for the next 30 days. Weird stuff.
So I looked at the rest of their catalogue. Huge amounts of cross over on there. Some stuff was commercialised, some not, iPlayer had some stuff available which hadn't been "broadcast" during the last 30 days but was just offered up due to related programming or current events. BBC Store has serials dating back to the 70s and earlier.
If it's all brought together, tied up with the license fee handling stuff, it could be a really great thing. As it is, it looks like a multitude of different project teams all working on their won way of doing things with the merest hint of a guiding hand on the tiller, most evident by corporate branding similarities but without a commonality of UI or technical design. Which is exactly what it is!
This'll be the next thing Trump crows about: Apple assembling servers on American soil
Fake History Alert: Sorry BBC, but Apple really did invent the iPhone
Monday 9th January 2017 20:28 GMT
Re: Invention of iPhone
Some lovely lady who used to work at Apple Education lent me an iPod for the day whilst she worked on some finance deal with our college. The big HDD based one that was an early pre-production model. It was the next big thing she said. The portable Minidisc killer. When she got back and asked me what I thought I said "Meh. Now if it had an FM receiver in it as well..." She said there was a WiFi connecting version in the pipeline and that FM was going to be dead in a few years, to be replaced by Digital Radio and radio over the WiFi. I scoffed and said good luck.
CES 2017 roundup: The good, the bad, and the frankly bonkers
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