Re: meh
Someone last night had clearly had one over the eight and was attempting to make conversation on the bus. Mainly about Rizlas, and did anyone have any.
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Londoners react with horror to Tube Chat initiative
Thursday 29th September 2016 14:57 GMT 
Re: Ah, the French... Ou est le chat?
@Dr_N. How did I work for Radio Shack for so many years without coming across that?! I mean, I'd have thought that was an obvious one, as I did a good few months working for them in Canada. Mind you, I might have become even more confused had I tried to equate hifi speakers, pregnant things and the Metro.
Thursday 29th September 2016 14:44 GMT
Ah, the French... Ou est le chat?
I recall going to Paris with the ex-wife when she was expecting. Not having covered 'my partner is up-the-duff' in school boy French, I added various helpful phrases to my lexicon, such as "ma femme est enceinte", just in case. I had learned a new word; enceinte - pregnant.
Pottering around on the Metro, I was intrigued by a sign that read "Il est interdit pour introducer des animaux dans l'enceinte de system Metropolitan".
Hang on... I thought. It is forbidden to introduce animals into pregnancy on the Metro? Do they have a problem with people breeding dogs down there? Is there an army of stripy jumper wearing farmers tupping their sheep in between the turnstiles?
The best concept I could find was that English used to refer to pregnancy as "the confinement" at one point. Then it becomes clear. You can't bring your pets within the confines of the Metro.
Je suis enceinte, pas un chat.
Samsung: And for my next trick – exploding WASHING MACHINES
M.2 SSD drive format is under-rated. So why no enterprise arrays?
USB-C is now wired for sound, just like Sir Cliff Richard
Wednesday 28th September 2016 14:05 GMT
Re: @cornz1
When you are talking about applying a potential to the surface of the body, or an organ, then yes, it is the current that flows as a result of the potential and the resistance that the current flows through. There's also the issue of duration. But when you get down to a cellular level, it's the potential difference across the cell membrane that causes things to happen in cells, opening voltage-gated ion channels etc.
Wednesday 28th September 2016 07:06 GMT
Re: I wonder how does electrocution through your ears feel like
Even a few hundred mV will kill you if you get it in the right place. Lethality from accidental exposure goes down with voltage. 70V is considered non-lethal in all reasonable domestic conditions, but if you stick a 70V cable across your tongue you'll feel it (and never do it again).
Wednesday 28th September 2016 07:03 GMT
Not really. You encapsulate the socket inside the device. The only thing breaking the water barrier then are wires. Means you have to shake out the socket and provide a small hole for water to squeeze out of when a jack is inserted, but that's not beyond the realm of design. The best reason for getting rid is thickness of device and weakening of the entire structure around the hole. Could switch to 2.5mm but why not go the whole hog and ditch it in that case?
The wait is over: MoD releases latest issue of Ship Paint Monthly
Wednesday 28th September 2016 16:21 GMT
Re: Dezincification
It's actually of huge interest to the narrow boating fraternity, most barges being made of steel like battleships are.
NB most narrowboats employ a sacrificial anode made of alloys of magnesium or zinc to offset the loss of iron that occurs as a result of the boat's electrical system. Electroplating etc etc.
Apple moving to scrubbed up London's Battersea Power Station
Microsoft paid me $650 to scrub Windows 10 from my grandpa's PC, says man
Disney rollercoaster helps pop out kidney stones
BBC to demand logins for iPlayer in early 2017
Tuesday 27th September 2016 13:20 GMT
Re: But surely...
Erm... would you really use a hotel's MyID login? I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a MyID login; I was questioning the validity and usefulness of collecting postcode information when the legal requirement is now to have a TV license for the property you live in (assuming it's not commercial property of course) and there's way more than 1 TV license / household per postcode anyway, and that on a mobile device you might not be in the postcode that your MyID is associated with.
Tuesday 27th September 2016 11:57 GMT
Re: But surely...
This is true. But there's nothing stopping them allowing, say 16 associations of a MyID per TV license serial number. Should be enough to cover most legitimate households. Or they could just investigate the cases where, say, 200 unique MyIDs are quoting a single license number. They have the license holder's details on file.
Tuesday 27th September 2016 11:22 GMT
Re: But surely...
My point was that asking you to put in a postcode to provide regional services is pretty useless given, as you say, mobile devices nowadays means it could be in use anywhere. I can understand the MyID idea - to tie what a person watches with their login so your iPlayer recommends doesn't fill up with period drama, GBBO and soaps when you're into Robot Wars, University Challenge and Click! But how do you tie MyID into a valid TV license which is what they've persuaded the law-givers is needed to reflect modern viewing habits and ensure continuation of a funded service? It just doesn't make sense. It's some kind of Chewbacca defence.
Smelly toilets, smokers and the Kardashians. Virgin Media staff grill top brass
Tuesday 27th September 2016 11:33 GMT
Re: "Whats (sic) your favourite Kardashian?"
My ex-wife is part Armenian. So IME they are very into living off my back, wasting time thinking about "crown chakras" and getting hysterically paranoid about everything. The only other Armenian I know was a cover secretary where I work, and she was into telling anyone who stayed in the office more than a minute the entire story of the Armenian genocide whether they'd heard it before or not. Lovely lady, very in your face. Had that same weird blue-black hair my ex does. Ended up working in the Department of War Studies.
152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
Ever longed to be naked in Paris? City council votes TODAY
Brain plague or estate agents? I know which I'd prefer in Virtual Reality
Monday 26th September 2016 10:53 GMT
"But what is reality?" asked the gnomelike man.
He gestured at the tall banks of buildings that loomed around Central Park, with their countless windows glowing like the cave fires of a city of Cro-Magnon people. "All is dream, all is illusion; I am your vision as you are mine."
Pygmalion's Spectacles, Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1935.
SpaceX: Breach in liquid oxygen tank caused Falcon 9 fireball ... probably
R2D2 delivery robots to scurry through the streets of San Francisco
Heathrow airport and stock exchange throw mystery BSODs
Do AI chat bots need a personality bypass – or will we only trust gabber 'droids with character?
British unis mull offshore EU campuses in post-Brexit vote panic
Friday 23rd September 2016 10:15 GMT
Ok, so...
All the UK universities build a building or "buy" a floor in a building on a new University of Europe in, say, Ireland. Persuade Apple to spend a bit of that £13b building it - if it gives a non-EU country access to research funding and collaboration and working rights, then there's no stopping USA universities from having a presence there... could be the start of something wonderful.
Shopkeeper installs forecourt khazi to counter mystery Dublin dung dumper
I want to remotely disable Londoners' cars, says Met's top cop
Behold the fruit of your techie utopia: A $43 San Francisco fog-infused martini
Virgin Media costs balloon by MEEELLIONS in wake of Brexit
Lenovo denies claims it plotted with Microsoft to block Linux installs
Asian hornets are HERE... those honey bee murdering BASTARDS
Lethal 4-hour-erection-causing spiders spill out of bunch of ASDA bananas
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