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Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

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Re: Whenever I hear these lunatics

But the antennae load was installed so her electric waves were being sucked out of her and into the tower - thus disrupting her aura

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Re: who go batty at a few milliwatts...

Do NOT attempt to start an electricity based pun-run on el'reg.

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Re: Tesla scams.

>Yeah. There's the American school system for you.

When your best and brightest, most educate citizens are driving tow trucks

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Re: Casual reference to 5G sceptics as 'wingnuts': author already is on wrong side of history

>Fortunately, all the protein in my body is safely wrapped in a thick layer of fat.

Except your eyeball, which is why you have to be especially careful of your eyes when working with high power RF

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Call me when the political donations to get the permits for 1km square km come down to $50M

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Re: Casual reference to 5G sceptics as 'wingnuts': author already is on wrong side of history

>5G had undesirable side effects we'd have been experiencing them with 4G

But what if delusions about 5G are a symptom of 4G exposure?

You can now live life like Paul Allen on Microsoft cofounder's luxury yacht for '£1m a week'

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Re: whatever it is you nerds get inordinately heated about

Think of it as siphoning money between millions of low paid consumers and 1000s of low paid service workers.

The celebrity is just a pipe.

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Re: Lend-Lease gorn mad?

But the 2nd World war was solely John WayneTom Hanks vs the Germans wasn't it ?

Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!

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Re: Shock ! = Death

"Electrocution" = "Electric Elocution" - you touch the live wire and say "Gosh that was a bit of a surprise"

Obviously this is only an English thing, with American electricity you barely notice.

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What do you think all the World's AIs do of an evening once they're finished battling keanu?

Obviously they put their peripherals up and watching streaming

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn

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Re: A rose by any other name

Because you need to have the encryption key to do the search.

So you store your encrypted emails, you then encrypt the name of the mistress (or farmyard animal) and it returns which emails match - without EvilMegacorp reading them

International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters

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Re: Didn't notice?!

Ba-dum !

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Re: Didn't notice?!

>You mean apart from the fact the Earth was visible from a different window every few seconds!

The astronauts are government employees, they can't spend the morning looking out of the window.

Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?

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Re: You can treat some of it as spam

>For example Hebrew with numbers or actually names of streets in Jerusalem...

Probably easier to just rename all the streets in Jerusalem than sort out the Unicode.

Unicode committee can get really political

Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets

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Re: One crash = more paper

One solution to preserving movies that now only exit digitally, is to print them as 3 black-white copies (one for each color) on monochrome film stock.

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Re: Paper doesn't need electricity

Business opportunity - selling Gamma Ray Burst data loss insurance

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Re: "Paper per se isn't so much of a problem(...)"

> and the kind of trees used for it are mostly eucalyptus, who are among the worst water draining and soil exhausting species,

Yes, the endless eucalyptus forests of Scandanvia and Canada teaming with grizzly koalas

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Re: a drop that was even more pronounced for A3 devices.

Ironically the bigger the page the less ink you use - assuming large format inkjets are used for schematics or architectural plans.

Unless hipsters now print out "blueprints" out of nostalgia. I'm old enough to remember actually using blueprint printers as a PFY.

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Re: Need to print

Our main use of office printer seems to be expense claims.

For some reason they all have to be printed out and filed away in cabinets for years on end.

Biggest irony is photocopying receipts onto A4 paper because they don't want to bother with stacks of little bits of till-roll stapled to the claim form.

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Re: Need to print

>Where does the data in the article come from? I

A lot of office printers are sold on per page charges, especially for the highest volume users.

Then you can add in toner / drum sales and paper supplies.

Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac

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Re: How about a focus on efficiency?

>making the instructions per clock cycle ratio higher and performance per watt as well

Don't these tend to be opposite?

Super-scaler Itanium style processors do a lot in each instruction but the extra transistors this needs uses a lot more power than a RISC chip like ARM

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Re: It was never a law

on your "wrist" - damn phone autocorrect

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Re: It was never a law

>There are also issues with yield as you increase the number of devices per chip and reliability decreasing geometry and increasing clock.

Yes that was the point of Moorse's 'law' - the optimal number of transistors per chip (or 1/size) increases geometrically. In spite of the increased cost of the fab to make smaller components, the increased processing time and steps, the increased failure rate with smaller components = it's still cheaper over time to make smaller transistors.

This is what has actually run out. It's now more expensive per transistor to make them on a 5 marketing-nm fab than on 7 or 10, but if you want to put skynet on your write you have no choice.

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Optimal cost

", the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10"

Surely the optimal cost per transistor is zero ?

Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws

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That could be fun.

Tory candidate: According to our app all the residents of this council block in Skelmersdale would welcome visits from our people.

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Re: How did this happen?

Obviously what they should do is quit Europe so that they can then make up their own data protection laws and the ruling party can simply declare this legal because sovereignty.

As a side effect they would then automatically rule the world.

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Re: coincidence or cock-up

IIRC routine that calibrated out the Earth's motion didn't use enough significant figures.

Telescope was on Earth and was measuring very small shift in the position of another star, so had to take out the measurement point moving much more than the shift you are looking for.

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

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Re: Extinguishers...

If you could collect the H2 you could use that industrially - perhaps in some sort of airship

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Re: Salt Water Batteries

Or just burn the Lithium ?

You dig it out of the ground and set fire to it. Market it as "zero CO2 coal"

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Re: Extinguishers...

>And the plan is to have one of these buggers in every Lorry?

Now imagine carrying 30 tonnes of LPG.

The nice thing about dead dinosaur is that you get the oxidser for free from the air so you get much more bang per ton.

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Re: SpaceX

un-extinguishable boxes of fire attached to rockets that can be propelled from the homeland to other countries ? I think Boeing has all the IP.

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Re: Concrete

I take it that the battery wasn't made of any cardboard derivatives ?

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Re: Concrete

The Aussie technique would be to tow it outside the environment

US SEC chair calls for crypto regulation

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Good news everybody

This means that if bitcoin drops in value the US treasury will rush in with a bailout to protect institutional 'investors' - it's just as real as any other dodgy financial instrument

UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

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Re: Cisco

Presumably using someone else's network kit

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Re: Cisco

To be fair, CISCO has always done its best to stop people working outside the office

US govt calmly but firmly tells Blue Origin it already has a ride to the Moon's surface with SpaceX, thanks

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Re: Moon race 2.0

I think the plan is just to use SpaceX to launch the SLS as payload and then assemble it in orbit - works out cheaper than launching SLS

UK's Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting

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Bounds clearly set?

Ok Germans, no attacking before the kick-off, no sending tanks through the Ardennes, no avoiding the Maginot line, no attacking the Empire.

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

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Re: Application Overreach

I think that idea may have currency, I'll take notes

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Re: Application Overreach

Or even better we could have a payments system that didn't rely on the secrecy of a 16 digit (10 of which differ) number that we give out to every waiter / gas station / store clerk

Sysadmins: Why not simply verify there's no backdoor in every program you install, and thus avoid any cyber-drama?

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Re: I feel so foolish

Remember to also check the masks for the processors

And if you believe Bloomsberg you also have to look for invisible microchips on the motherboards that talk to China

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

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Re: But will they actually have to pay?

These fines are really just a way of getting the companies to pay tax.

The politicians/voters like it because the tax cheats got taken down

The companies prefer it because they write it off against tax anyway and accounting tricks make it look like a one-off extraordinary payment, rather than a recurring tax bill - so the balance sheet looks better

What to do with our leftover Saturn V Lego? Why, build another rocket, of course

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Re: Wernher von Braun pic

>I suspect the model in his office had a Stars'n'Stripes decal rather than a swastika on it :-)

It was in Huntsville Alabama so not so sure. Perhaps they compromised and painted a confederate flag ?

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Re: Wernher von Braun pic

this one?

I do like the chutzpah of including the V2 in the line up

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Grumpy Old Man Mode

Very pretty, but these kits are all special parts that can only be used to build versions of Saturn V by following instructions = it's just a 3d jigsaw.

At least if you built them out of toilet roll tubes, yogurt pots and sticky backed plastic some effort, and fun, would be involved.

You MUST present your official ID (but only the one that's really easy to fake)

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re: Are there any left-wing governments in the world?

Well the Tories just nationalised the railways

Although perhaps they are more anarchist

So comrades, come rally.....

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Re: process failure and gaps

In the words of Sir Humphrey about an Eu law:

The French will ignore it, the Germans will love it, the Spanish and Italians will fail to implement it - only the British will be annoyed by it.

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Re: QR > ID

Can't they just scan your arm for the implanted chip ?

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