Re: Not sure the comparison is valid
Those glass-doored drinks fridges tend to have double glazing because of that. And because of the terrible thermal conductive properties single glass has.
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Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else
Excited about dual-screen laptops? Make your own with duct tape and the ThinkVision M14
Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience
Sunday 13th October 2019 07:29 GMT
Organisations all that have been racing to the bottom and got there.
And the reason they're not any deeper yet is that the purchase request for the manually operated pedal-force augmented soil transfer and reshaping implement has been denied due to the requester not being authorised to submit it.
There's also no-one around who can assign the proper authorisation level to the requester, and neither is anyone able to bypass the authorisation workflow.
That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize
Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told
Wednesday 9th October 2019 17:18 GMT
Re: It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic
Here's a prototype for her to fit BoJo and the others with.
But it could be more cost-effective to use a singe and much larger block and multiple lengths of chain. Another option would be to put such blocks at the border crossings in case the customs agreement were to call for them, each with a few lead Brexiteers attached.
Boris Brexit bluff binds .eu domains to time-bending itinerary
Tuesday 8th October 2019 08:02 GMT
Re: The inevitable independent Scotland's ccTLD
Just over a decade ago (the time of the discussion on the Scotland TLD) the Old Neat SCO had been superseded by the New Litigious SCO for a good couple of years already, and at that point had had most of the points of its lawsuit against Novell dismissed (other lawsuits have been stayed, but occasionally have, even quite recently, displayed convulsions).
Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me
600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims
Tuesday 1st October 2019 08:28 GMT
Re: Servers in space ?
The method of connecting users to the satellite. Either they'll have to have similar hardware that you use,
That would be just what would be required for standard satellite Internet, with probably a sprinkling of encryption. Some of those systems don't even require a terrestrial link to a gateway, unlike the early sat systems that were meant to just boost your download speeds for larger stuff (where RTT mattered less). Apart from that you need at least three satellites to cover most of the Earth, though you might get away with two if you concentrate on where the bulk of your customers are.
But your terrestrial control for the systems 'up there' would still be as vulnerable to being taken out as any other ISP, unless you happen to run it out of that undersea volcanic lair.
Monday 30th September 2019 19:29 GMT
5000m^2
That would be several tens, and possibly up to a hundred, rooms and corridors, which you want to enter nearly simultaneously to avoid the crew, any of who might be in any of those rooms, being alerted and starting a data wipe. Not that that can't be reconstructed if not done using thermite or explosives (and I doubt the crew had those measures in place), but you want to be sure to capture most if not all of it with as little disruption as possible, hence the flooding. Quite similar to the pub scenario described above.
Monday 30th September 2019 19:16 GMT
Re: "200 servers along with documents, cellphones and large quantities of cash"
Yes, it was a WWII bunker.
Nope. Built in 1955.
Not all Japanese got notified of the end of WW2, especially those on small, remote Pacific islands with some keeping at it well into the 1970s and 1980s, but in Germany no-one considered the war not to have been over for ten years then.
Monday 30th September 2019 16:31 GMT
Re: Servers in space ?
I find myself idly wondering about the practicalities of shoving a server in a satellite
As satellite launches get billed to the customer according to launch weight[0], that's pi[1] in the sky
[0] couple 100k EUR/UKP/USD per kg to reach a geostationary orbit
[1] needs to be rad-hardened, plus there's still the solar panels and/or RTGs and the comms dish[2]
[2] uplink won't be cheap either.
Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts
Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!
Pro tip: Plug in your Tesla S when clocking off, lest you run out of juice mid hot pursuit
Saturday 28th September 2019 13:20 GMT
Re: Fremont is not today ...
it is often much easier to tell people the name of the nearest big city rather than my own Walnut Creek.
Ah, where they made those shareware collection CDs. At least if it's the Walnut Creek out of the probably dozens of Walnut Creeks across the US where they made those CD's.
Still wouldn't have known where it actually was, that is until you mentioned its location just now.
BOFH: We must... have... beer! Only... cure... for... electromagnetic fields
Friday 27th September 2019 23:03 GMT
Re: Friends, families and physics...
Empirical evidence aside - i.e. electric cars do NOT run forever on a single charge - I was completely unable to get them to understand that all energy conversions are lossy (usually as heat) and therefore even regenerative braking doesn't magically give you a perpetual motion machine...
Somewhat recently I had to deal with a guy who firmly believed in that free energy stuff that those videos on Youtube irrefutably prove exists.
"We should all put dynamos on the wheels of our cars, charging batteries while driving that we then could use to power our homes."
Even trying to get the concept of conversion losses, never mind those laws on thermodynamics, energy and all that, into his skull[0] was a lost cause.
[0] doubtful that there was an actual brain in there, except for some limbic control.
The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future
UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament
Tuesday 24th September 2019 20:47 GMT
and she has support from other wealthy/influential people happy to ignore the referendum results to protect their own interests.
And that referendum result, such as it was, wasn't bent towards Leave by some rich, influential people who saw fit to use their wealth and influence to do exactly what you're accusing Remain of, but in the opposite direction?
Tuesday 24th September 2019 19:41 GMT
Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.
The Prime Minister no longer has that power. He now only has the power to advise the Monarch to prorogue parliament if the Supreme Court allows it.
Nope.
The PM still has the power to prorogue Parliament (via his advice, such as it is, to the monarch), and he is reasonably free to do so as long as the length of the prorogation is in line with previous ones. If he chooses to set out a significantly longer one he'd better have a bloody good reason to do that, and there's now a SC ruling that people (MPs or ordinary citizens) can use to dissuade him from going down that road.
Courts don't start cases all by themselves; there has to be someone outside them to start the process, which is, for exactly that reason, bringing the case (to court).
Tuesday 24th September 2019 18:54 GMT
And then the drawer snapped shut trying to take your fingers with it. ;-)
Not my fingers, but I had such a drawer open semi-spontaneously by the setting down of a litre bottle of cola, full, near it. This opening of the drawer then wiped the bottle off the table as in some kind of protest, and from there gravity had free play.
This was back when those bottles were glass.
And the floor was concrete.
Tuesday 24th September 2019 18:46 GMT
Re: Just when you think UK politics can't get any weirder or messier.
and the shopkeeper put some round metal disks called "cash" into the drawer which represented your payment for the product.
Didn't the drawer also have compartments for those little bits of coloured paper that are said to be strongly tied to happiness?
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