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Mappy days! Ordnance Survey offers up free map of UK greenery
Judge used personal email to send out details of sensitive case
Monday 10th July 2017 09:12 GMT 
iCloud...
So he probably had a Mac...
And the Apple Mail client is pretty good, I like it. It's way better than Outlook in terms of user friendliness. Although it has developed some annoying behaviours as Apple have tinkered around the edges, such as decoupling the window display from the actual mailbox/message cache so that it looks like it's deleting a message quickly but it has, in fact, just changed the window display BEFORE the connection to the server has been established, resulting in the sync every few seconds returning deleted messages to the on screen list, shuffling everything up and down, causing the wrong message to be highlighted, so it's very easy to accidentally reply to or delete the wrong message.
But it has one extremely irritating quirk... it will send emails from the account last highlighted in the combined Inbox window view. So it is incredibly easy to, say, send from the wrong account revealing a private email address to a recipient you never intended.
'My dream job at Oracle left me homeless!' – A techie's relocation horror tale
Viking storms storage monastery wielding 50TB SAS SSD
Sysadmin bloodied by icicle that overheated airport data centre
Monday 10th July 2017 12:37 GMT
Re: Liverpool, January 1985.
The only heating in the rooms was by electrical panel convector because the piped system had long since ceased to function - though the glorious cast iron radiators were left in place - they were a work of art.
There was no heating whatsoever in the stairwells, toilets or corridors.
Friday 7th July 2017 09:42 GMT
Liverpool, January 1985.
Engaged by my mother to teach YTS oiks the delicate art of computing - 4 sessions on databases, word processing and spreadsheets - we had to trek over to Liverpool from Manchester one very, very cold day. The training centre rooms were on the six floor of some ancient and run down building, with about a quarter of the windows broken. Although the room the computers were in was relatively warm (relative to the blizzard outside), helped by the 12 TRS-80 Model IIs that were in there, the common areas of the building were absolutely frozen; stairwells, corridors and most importantly the toilets. The air temperature was below -10°C, and the urinal was a porcelain wall covered in a thick layer of ice. I'll never forget peeing onto that surface and seeing the trickle freezing before it reached the bottom.
We had to end the session early because it was too cold to continue and the snow was reaching the point where the roads back to Manchester might close. Bless the YTS lot, though, all but one of them turned up for the training.
It was a similar story the next year, although not quite as severe - by then we had the Amstrad PCWs.
May the excessive force be with you: Chap cuffed after Star Trek v Star Wars row turns bloody
Monday 10th July 2017 08:58 GMT
Re: Snowy
Absolutely not. It might not have been "serious" in terms of it having a high amusement content, but it was one of the best made SciFi series of all time, taking certain SciFi staples to their peak:
Bio-technology, Quasi-religious oppressive regimes, Sex-slavery, Parallel universes, Robotic/AI presence and use, Assassin class characters, Undead military personnel. I'm probably only scratching the surface of the tropes it carried.
Utterly absorbing and entertaining.
Boffins start work on data centre to analyse UK infrastructure
It's time for a long, hard mass debate over sex robots, experts conclude
Thursday 6th July 2017 15:40 GMT
They're not androids... they're replicants. Artificial lifeforms, yes, but one is technological, the other is biological. Then there's the half-way house, the cyborg - cybernetic organism. But is that organics first, technology after, or technology first, organics after? Terminator was capable of functioning with just a technological component, although not fully functional as one of its functions was infiltration / fooling humans, and that was called a cyborg. Though the root of the word cybernetic is the same as "steersman" and is used to denote the study of communication and control in both living an non-living systems - in modern usage, cybernetics is entirely technological with somewhat blurred boundaries at the cutting edge. Bionics is used to describe the use of technology to copy biological systems/
So, what do you call a thing that is organism first? Well cyborg is also used to describe restored or enhanced function of biological organisms.
Oh, I don't bloody know. Don't care what you call them, just make mine how I like them. And then make it modular, so I can change my mind.
BOFH: That's right. Turn it off. Turn it on
Tape lives! The tape archive bit bucket is becoming bottomless
One thought equivalent to less than a single proton in mass
Thursday 6th July 2017 09:31 GMT
Re: Breaking out the abacus
which are electrons, one at a time down along the axon. (according to google "how does a neuron work")
Which isn't right. A charge moves, but it's not electrons. And even if it's a piece of copper wire, the electron barely moves. They shuffle along at a really, really slow pace.
Tuesday 4th July 2017 12:45 GMT
"Of course, we know that thoughts are generated by the firing of neurons in the brain"
"...and don't have a physical weight."
Well, given that neuronal firing is a synonym for the rapid movement of ions across a neuronal membrane, there would be a shift in mass involved. I'm sure someone could work it out if it actually achieved anything by doing so.
Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway
TfL, WTH is my bus? London, UK, looks up from its mobile
Thursday 6th July 2017 09:15 GMT
Re: WTF is my bus?
Back in 1988 my fiancée's sister went for a job interview in a small village somewhere around the southern end of the West Midlands. She caught the bus down there easily enough, the train service having succumb to the Beeching axe many years previously.
Interview over, she returned to the bus stop with the latest door stop of a paperback, and after an hour and a half of waiting she asked a passerby "Excuse me, when's the next bus?" The passerby looked down at their watch then quite seriously and calmly replied... "Next Tuesday".
Boffins' five eyes surprise: Bees correct colour for ambient light
Wednesday 5th July 2017 15:14 GMT
Re: The visual equivalent to a noise cancelling microphone.
Indeed I did some work on this with him, but not much. I was part of a laboratory continuing his work. It's actually not as complex neuronal circuit wise as you would think. But it makes a lovely demonstration, changing one colour into another without doing much besides changing how much of a scene is illuminated. Oddly people who go on to develop MS hardly ever saw the colours change.
Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'
Tuesday 4th July 2017 15:10 GMT
It's DISGUSTING! The Pi's board is literally covered with MALE headers sticking up everywhere. And what do you have to do to connect to it? You have to buy a LESBIAN F-F cable. And, and they even do THOSE in rainbow colours. Oh, but it's not a MALE port, is it, despite the header, it's a GENERAL PURPOSE IN/OUT. Gender flexible! This promotion of bisexuality is just as bad as the promotion of homosexuality.
Male escort says he gave up IT to do something more meaningful
What does an enterprise cloud look like?
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