Re: Pretty obvious, no ?
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Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the price of 36 Instagrams
Government regulation will clip coders' wings, says Bruce Schneier
Tinder bans under-18s: Moral panic averted
Cold space gas? Sure, supermassive black holes can eat that. Nom, nom, nom
Thursday 9th June 2016 16:56 GMT
Re: And another question . . .
"Cold gas raining in . . " sounds like a purely radial flow
The speaker is probably someone from the Outer Hebrides, where any angle between 30 and 80 degrees from vertical is called 'raining in', and between 80 and horizontal is 'swept'. There's no term for less than 30, for obvious reasons.
Bing web searches may reveal you have cancer (so, er, don't use Bing?)
Marauding monkey blacks out Kenya
Mars One puts 100 Red Planet corpses colonists through fresh tests
Tuesday 7th June 2016 12:59 GMT
Re: 'And then we'll just be watching a pile of corpses millions of miles away'
Nah, initially it'll be just four, and only if the last one stacks the other three, then goes to die on top of them. Otherwise it won't be much of a pile, really.
Most of the remaining 96 will die of old age, traffic accidents, collapsing scaffolding, choking on chicken bones, dropped pianos, DIYing and other conventional earthly mishap before even half of them have been added to the heap.
Astroboffins create music from SPAAAAAAAAAAACE
Wi-Fi hack disables Mitsubishi Outlander's theft alarm – white hats
Tuesday 7th June 2016 07:10 GMT
Re: @ Lee D Yay, Yet Another Vehicle Hijacking By Maker Lazyness
Thats why fitting a large, sharp, pointy metal spike in the middle of the steering wheel IS a good idea.
So that when you slump over the steering wheel through whatever cause, you stay slumped. No sliding down sideways or whatever.
Maybe re-purposing some of the steering wheel buttons as defibrillator pads would be more effective.
Tuesday 7th June 2016 07:03 GMT
Re: Yay, Yet Another Vehicle Hijacking By Maker Lazyness
or even a sanity check - with either security engineers or a simple street thug (the latter may be a bit difficult to locate for a car maker,
Put the pre-production model in one of the less-savoury Tokyo districts, with a few auxiliary measures to get the crook attempting the car theft to, ahem, change his plans according to Mitsubishi's intentions..
Model's horrific rape case may limit crucial online free speech law
Tuesday 7th June 2016 06:03 GMT
Re: law enforcement?
The sad part is, the site could have gotten around the problem by creating a "feedback" / "ratings" section for each model and agency
"Neither Flanders nor Callum posted information on the website, but they used it to contact models for "auditions.""
There's a flaw in your suggestion.
There's also a flaw in Model Mayhem's site setup, in allowing access for unregistered viewers to rather sensitive personal information.
Latin-quoting Linus Torvalds plays God by not abusing mortals
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest password was 'dadada'
Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm
Monday 6th June 2016 08:01 GMT
Re: stern words warranted
They usually work on a local radio system and I've also seen walkie-talkies and pagers with such a function. With everything inside the Faraday cage there's no reception problem. That said, for the two commercial DCs I've had to work in I had weak but sufficient phone and UMTS signal.
BOFH: What's your point, caller?
Friday 3rd June 2016 18:38 GMT
Mail size
"I should be able to email any size of file I like! It's <insert year here> not the dark ages!"
Back just before Y2K, the Helldesk punted me a call from a guy in the Plant Facilities department, who wanted to know if his message had been received by the construction company who he wanted to construct something.
Him: "How long does it take for a message to reach the recipient?"
Me: "Anywhere between a few seconds and several months (I had not long before that received a message that had been stuck on a server somewhere for nearly ten months).
Him: "That's ridiculous."
Me: "It is not"
Him: "But can you tell me if it's received already?"
Me: (well, why don't you call them and ask?)
Me: "Is it <message of several tens of MB, sent 2 hours ago>"?
Him: "Yes"
Me: "It's about halfway done in the Sent queue on the server, because of the 256k link that handles all mail. From there it goes into <parent company>'s mail system, which means I can't trace it any more. Then it'll get handed off to the recipient's provider, and I don't know if they have push email or just poll regularly. In other words, I have no frigging idea if and when your mail will arrive, nor do I have any control over it."
Him: <protestations>
Me: "If you want it delivered now, burn it on a CD, get on your bike and hand it to them. It's two blocks away; even if you walk they can have it half an hour from now for certain."
Him: <grumps>
Mushroom farm PC left in the dark and fed … you know the rest
'Windows 10 nagware: You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE'
Thursday 2nd June 2016 08:43 GMT
Re: Wow...
Vista is end of life, so is this upgrade mandatory because Vista itself is no longer supported?
Upgrades can only be mandatory in cases that require vendor support.
There's no-one stopping me from running VMS 5.4 on a MVAX 2000 (provided the bloody thing starts up in the first place), but I can't go calling Digital Compaq HP HPE when it bugchecks.
Never mind that it would be useless to call HPE anyway, given their appalling lack of knowledge regarding VMS.
Thursday 2nd June 2016 08:30 GMT
Re: It's GWX Control Panel or Linux
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]
"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]
"ReservationsAllowed"=dword:00000000
Next week you'll be needing to add
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"TotallyBlockOSUpgradeAndIMeanIt"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]
"GWXGoDieInAFire"=dword:00000001
Feinstein-Burr's bonkers backdoor crypto law is dead in the water
Bletchley finds Hitler plain text war machine on Ebay, buys for £10
UK eyes frikkin' Laser Directed Energy Weapon
The Windows Phone story: From hope to dusty abandonware
Saturday 28th May 2016 11:28 GMT
Re: Shame
Betamax's Achilles' heel was that you couldn't fit a full-length movie on one tape. And that was indeed a deal breaker. So yes, Beta would always lose to VHS for all but speciality applications like TV stations using it for shorts and commercials.
It appears you're confusing Betamax and Betacam here. Early '90's I had a Betamax recorder, and you could fit three hours on an L750 tape. Furthermore, I doubt that broadcast would be using a home format like Betamax, rather using Betacam or (before that) U-Matic/BVU.
Betamax losing the video format war is commonly attributed to porn not being available as rental video.
Surface Book nightmare: Microsoft won't fix 'Sleep of Death' bug
Google-backed solar electricity facility sets itself on fire
Monday 23rd May 2016 17:13 GMT
Mirrors
All Archimedes' rig would need (I'm speculating) would be a smaller targeting mirror with a shorter focal length attached to the main mirror,
No need to have each individual mirror concave shaped, because at a distance of 100m or more they would be as good as flat anyway. And there's a trick to aiming a shield/mirror by having a hole in it and a small mirror on the back, concentric with the hole. You hold the mirror between you and the target so that you see the target through the hole, and a bright spot from the sun through the hole on the ground, reflected towards you by the mirror on the back. Lining up that reflection with the hole itself will have the sun reflected right on the target. And you're behind the shield/mirror the entire time.
Monday 23rd May 2016 13:34 GMT
Re: Predicting Problems
Surely a far simpler solution would be to lower the shutters over the mirrors.
A sprinkler system at the top of the tower, but spreading mud* instead of water. If it needs to work in case of power loss it should be driven by a bunch of cylinders with compressed air.
* or see icon.
Monday 23rd May 2016 13:27 GMT
Re: Predicting Problems
Helicopter icon because said reflected beams may still hit an unfortunate one in the wrong place by chance..
Even if all of the primary mirrors (the ones that focus the sunlight on the top of the tower) were misaligned and hitting a safeguard mirror (one that is intended to reflect a beam that would otherwise hit a part of the tower that's not meant to be hit), the result would be a beam spreading out from that safeguard mirror. At double the height of the tower the beam would then be spread out over an area equal to the area covered by the mirrors on the ground, and the intensity of the reflected light at that point would be not more than the intensity of the sunlight itself, but from below instead of from the sky. The only caveat being the safeguard mirror being able to withstand the energy absorbed by it.
Simple optics, really.
And blasting a jet out of the sky would need the mirrors to track it for minutes. Pretty infeasible given the speed with which those mirrors move; not that that would bother a Hollywood script writer.
Troll seeks toll because iPhones work
GM crops are good for you and the planet, reckon boffins
'Knucklehead' Kansas bloke shoots self in foot
Hack probing poodle sacrifice cuffed for public crap
You wanted innovation? We gave you Clippy the Paperclip in your IM client
Google asks the public to name the forthcoming Android N operating system
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