Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: How many were actually developed

Yes but it did enable cheap Chinese Blackberry phones allowing Blackberry OS to become the dominate platform today and leaving RIM as the global trillion $ business.

Re: 6G-W

Texas should have it's own separate 6G standards to stop any of that Commie/Yankee/Liberal data getting in.

Re: 6G

If you combine 5G and 6G you get 11G which is obviously better, it's one faster for a start

Expecting people to read signs?

This is rural America, reading is for nerds/democrats/liberals/

Re: Do what did you expect?

I blame Apple. Kids today don't know which way is clockwise.

Re: Signs ...

At least the UK has one agency planning the stuff.

Here the motorways are federal, so there are no signs to the motorway on the surface streets because that's not their jurisdiction. The motorway numbers 'junctions' but in the city a junction can be every block, junction numbers get skipped so J32 can be immediately after J20 or you can have J20a,b,c,d,e because some suburb was built.

The local signs are the city responsibility, but the city can change every few miles, the same road can change name. There is no standard road numbering outside motorways.

Then in the city there is the same road east/west or north/south with the same building numbers.

Re: Yankees and roundabouts

Enhanced business opportunity.

Wonder what happens to accident rate when the ambulance company wins the contract for road signage?

Re: Invasion of the roundabouts, thank Gawd

The problem isn't the 4way stop - it's the alternate 2way stops.

So at every junction one set of roads is a stop but the other might be (4way) or not (2way) so you are never entirely sure if the other car is going to stop - unless you can see the back of an octagonal sign on their lane.

That's multiplied by the probability that the other car will stop even if they have a stop sign of course.

Re: Check out Freakonomics episode 454

> there's a fair bit of science supporting them as a good traffic management measure.

That's the problem. We don't your science - 4 way stops are in the Bible and the Constitution so that's all that matters

Re: Russia is affecting the weather

Yes but their solution is to attack Belgium

Re: Who are they addressing?

>You might care to tell that to the Uighur population

But that's not a threat to me.

ISIS are definitely naughtier than my local police dept. But they aren't able to behead me at a traffic stop

> Everything in Canada is Maple Syrup flavoured. Even the beavers.

Only in Quebec

Re: Only one feed into the town?

There is probably only one road into this town. You could run multiple lines along the same roadside but they will all get taken out by a single landslide, river, flood, ice thaw-freeze

Re: Toyota Land Cruiser

There was a suggestion by the USMC that it be given the "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal for the number of US troops it has killed.

Re: Toyota Land Cruiser

That would be an effective US military strategy. Make Toyota pick up trucks as complex, unreliable and unmaintainable as an F35 or Osprey that both sides are now back on equal footing.

Re: When is a city not a city?

The self driving large white spheres worked though

Re: Covid 19 and hot desks

>The fundamental philosophy behind hot-desking is that the desk is what's important

But what is a chair or keyboard without its idiot ?

Get a mountain bike and ride over the top those shiny metal humps installed in the no-parking/bus/cycle lane.

Re: Covid 19 and hot desks

> is how are they going to CV19 clean each desk so its safe for a different person ?

BOFH solution = flamethrower. Why do you think it's called 'hot' desking ?

Re: "Maybe a handful of people can work remotely"

We had to go back into the office when the corporate sysadmins discovered the trick we were using to work from home on our non-approved Linux machines hooked into the corporate network with an unofficial VPN.

Since the official VPN uses RSA keys which are only approved on corporate laptops which are only issued to approved salespeople who are the only ones approved to be working outside the office.

Why were the sheep trying to sabotage the line ?

Is there some sort of Harrow liberation front ?

Are they deploying SOE (Special Ovine Executive) agents to attack the occupying forces ?

Re: First step towards human colonisation

>The only useful pizza delivery system is pair of hands

The only useful pizza delivery system is the Deliverator.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. .... The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs.

Re: Where's the phone app

It;s the comcast long distance charges that really kill you.

the very-very small print, limits your included 4G data to Earth

Re: Coming to the 'net soon

They used the Nasa time machine from 2165

Re: First step towards human colonisation

It's an American mission, all their technology is aimed at high speed pizza delivery.

Re: Nothing to see

>Today's kernel devs seem to be more inclined

That's the thing with open source, the only way to get stuff you want into the kernel is to become a shareholder

Re: As someone who has to make those decisions

>someone sued the company as a result of the actions I was told to perform.

If the fine was less than the financial benefit from the actions then you failed in your duty to the shareholders

Re: Banks across America test facial recognition cameras

Homeless aren't people.

The same law that made corporations people for political funding made people who earn less than 100K not people

Re: Communist Party of America

Without the public transport, ballet and shiny biceps presumably

Re: Hmmmm ..... It is somewhat mysterious indeed whenever help surely be so close to hand

>Has anyone worked out how Russia has still not collapsed?

>A tiny uncompetitive economy supporting superpower ambitions and a kleptocracy that makes the end of the Roman Empire look like an amateur dramatics production.

How very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!

Re: It does have a finite life

>they could also build it in an orbit more convenient to our launch facilities.

Closer to Florida ? No thanks

Re: It does have a finite life

>The point of a lunar outpost .... is to iron out any kinks in technologies and procedures

So there will be no flags, no square-jawed ex-test pilots, no token female / POC crew members, no Whitehouse lawn press conference?