Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Contactless and beyond

But this does open up the risk of an attack on the car, or conversely an attack on the network from the car.

We've seen attack on ICE cars through their entertainment system, so the data link through the charger to the internet is an obvious risk.

Re: A little calm ...

There is an open source platform for EV chargers.

It would be a shame if these were banned in favour of a; steal all your data/you need a Facebook account model for "security reasons"

Here chargers need to be network enabled to get a government grant to install them. When we looked at the range of supported networked models it was much cheaper to buy a regular one and pay for it ourselves.

Re: "As the agencies ticked off each JWST milestone"

To be fair though, this is only doing the world's biggest origami project at a few degrees above absolute zero a million miles away.

Compared to the insurmountable difficulties of capturing the requirements of a poll tax billing system for East Sussex compared to West Sussex....

Re: NASA being NASA :)

It's the only way to pack a 6.5m mirror into what was supposed to launch on a Delta4.

Above about 8m diameter it's tricky to make a single monolithic mirror so we've been building segmented ones since the early 90s.

The main problem with segmented mirrors at these IR wavelengths isn't aligning them - it's that you can see the glowing hot telescope floor through the gaps. Which is solved by putting it in space and keeping it very very cold.

The real achievement was doing the OSHA paperwork to get the Beryllium mirrors polished in California!

Re: Rocket Science isn't what it used to be..

One of the big selling points of Ariane5 as a launch vehicle is that it is extremely precise. Their sales pitch is that you need a much smaller manoeuvring budget because they will put your payload in exactly the right orbit.

Re: The Lack of Cameras

Also the goPro pictures from SpaceX boosters are a lot closer to Earth.

Getting video back from a 1st stage booster dropping from a few km is a lot easier than getting video back from something heading past the moon.

And the pictures would look less 'real' than the simulations of stuff unfolding anyway - there is nowhere you can put a camera for anything except the mirror unfolding and that would mostly be in shadow.

Re: Obligatory

It's quite along way away so there is some latency - have you checked back ?

There is a difference between the science side of NASA and the 'astronaut had a gorilla suit on the ISS for the lulz' side of NASA.

Although I suspect if it was being designed today there would be more thought put into having a "PR" camera.

Re: I should sue Canon

I would sue Canon under the DMCA for distributing information about how to defeat copy protection

I mean what happens if you have a monopoly desktop at 10, where can you go? Nowhere

So this one goes upto 11

Couldn't you just make 10 better?

This goes to 11

Re: "improve productivity in an organisation severely short of staff"

>Perhaps addressing the 47.2% of the NHS workforce that aren't in a clinical role

Yes outsource cleaning , building services, IT, HR, training etc to profit making companies - ideally the same monopoly supplier to the government.

Because that's one hospital.

When the Hospital is in a different Health Service Group Service from the IT's Health Group Service Group and your GP and the specialists are in a different Service Group Health Group

And all this is deliberate so it can be gradually sold off.

Re: What will happen to Ed & Izzy?

They were bought on a NASA budget they will have to be stored for 25 years with the paperwork audited annually until they discover they lost them.

Re: 27 Year Old System

I would hope that in the last 27 years with the extra million quid somebody managed to screen scrape the 1998 punch card and teletype terminal interface into a web page

Re: 27 Year Old System

I hope so, I would expect a database of roll numbers, address, owners, last transfer and a download of a map - ideally not just a low res scan of a pen+ink drawing from 1790

I don't want a Web 3.0 interactive virtual interface on the block chain

Re: Are there any relevant patents filed or granted?

Interesting point - a patent must contain the legal name and address of the human inventor, there is no system for allowing anonymous inventors (except where the whole patent is classified for national security). There was even a ruling stopping AIs being listed as inventors.

The nearest you could do was not name the assignee = the company behind the patent. We got to know the commuter towns nearest to various Japanese corporation R&D labs so we could search for patents they were trying to hide by only listing a "Mr Ito + a Tokyo zip code"

He went around suing bloggers who said he wasn't.

It's one thing to claim you're Jesus, it's another to try and foreclose on the Vatican

The difference is that there are lots of possible inventors of email - it's as debatable as any other bit of history

You either are Satoshi, and have the private key which strongly suggests this, or you aren't

Re: Old Nicknames

Missing a "n't" ?

Re: Know the defibrillator's box code!

That as my objection to the sales pitch to our town council.

The maker's presentation was full of scary stats about how many people died of heart attack, and how long an ambulance takes to our rural location - but they were careful to never say the AED would cure heart attacks.

Any medic want to chime in on exactly how often these things are useful?

Re: Doctors...

There was a fundraising to put one on just about every street corner here.

I was sceptical, I thought they were only good for certain heart problems but people who watch TV think they save 100% of all heart attacks and the makers were definitely leaning into this while being very careful what they claimed

Re: AED drones were on standby from 0800 to 2200

You also need someone to notice you have had a heart attack to call for the drone - less likely in the middle of the night

Re: Covid isnt causing any shortages

That's why London should have its own protocol and be allowed to stay in the Eu.

It voted remain, the city wants to remain in Europe and it would be quite happy to have a hard border down the middle of the M25

Presumably all it has to do is launch a series of bomb attacks on Westminster and then choose a suitable religious holiday to sign an agreement

then it can have all the special treatment it likes

Re: While avoiding the question of just what the 'planning' actually covered.

>"Hauliers will be presented with screens showing stuff."

I'm assuming they mean words and numbers.

But it would be nice if HMRC had adopted a surrealist interface - your login is a melting clock and your customs documents are painted on the side of a cow wearing boots and a beret

Re: Hmm

Obvious solution is to split N.I into two - creating a new long thin border region nation with a soft border to N.I and a hard border to the R.O.I / Eu

"We Import Two Thirds Of Our Cheese That Is A Disgrace."

So they solved the problem of "importing" = job done

Re: It's not enough

Then how do you pay for the sites?

Obviously all TV should have a menu where I have to select seeing adverts, and it's only fair that the default must be no ads, but there must also be no licence fee.

Re: Interesting Math

A robot librarian picking physical books from shelves?

Is the next invention a robot arm that moves beads on an abacus to perform calculations faster than a human ?