Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

It would if it was work - but as long as it's training or an internship then slavery is fine

Re: Three button mouse?

The very first mouse had one button - although the first production model had the correct number of buttons

Re: Can’t see the data for the trees...

That number is a bit "marketing speak". Imagine listening to radio1 on a software defined radio, that's 100Mhz at 16bit = 200Mb/s. But it quickly cooks down to much less "information" / second.

The reason the data rate from each dish is so high is that the 'raw' data can now be digitised and then a bunch of correlation / filtering /frequency selection etc that we used to do in HW can now be done more efficiently and cheaper in software,

Re: Heat detector

So that's the reason for ITER

They are building the hottest object in the solar system - in order to lure all the cats to southern France.

the only question is why? what are world's nuclear scientists plotting with an army of millions of moggies?

Re: Ha!

No obviously the current government is composed of Thatcher-Reagan free marketers.

Having the navy train their own people themselves would be "government doing stuff" which is the very

definition of communism

Ripping off the customer for the benefit of shareholders is the fundamental rule of capitalism - so using the biggest ripper-offs is a vote for the free market

>More than one employee seems a rather silly requirement in my view...

Without it everyone on the internet who every used Linux will register as a "raspberrypi consultant" and the list is useless.

LaserJet4 laughs at you and asteroid strikes

Re: less than a month before no one has to care what appears on Trump’s Twitter feed ever again

I suspect in politics a lot of peddling leads to back pedalling

Re: looking for the easy life

These are VC companies not people.

They take other people's money and invest in companies and try and make money so THOSE people can take their wives to restaurants

It's like saying if I was a bank manager - I wouldn't bother running a bank, I'd just take those billions and buy an island

Ironically for free-market capitalist American types - if there really was a genuine market for jets they would be safer AND there would be no need for an FAA

If a Boeing crashed and they couldn't convince the customers that they had fixed the problem then the customers would all switch to one of the 100s of other competitors and Boeing would go bust.

Re: Up And Down

Remove the engines from a 737max, hook up to a high altitude weather balloon and drop it from 80km up.

Going to space, Ryan air style

I'm sure the deep levels of mutual trust and fraternal cooperation between the USA and Iran, Russia and N Korea will swiftly lead to arrests.

Re: A badge of honour

There was a head of BP that was caught in a rent boy 'scandal', he was commenting that now he is publicly shamed for being head of an oil company (although ironically he did try and shift it towards a post oil future) while nobody cares about the sex

Re: " because one always keeps a spent cartridge in the chamber."

>JFK was accidentally shot by one of the Secret Service men in the Cadillac

I thought he was shot by a time-travelling JFK?

There was a BBC documentary on it starring Craig Charles

Re: Crippled Webex?

What about the $M in productivity he added to the economy by stopping 'all hands' WebEx meetings?

Re: LAMP TEST

I worked in a lab once which had a continuous alarm.

A beeper went off every 2 seconds to let you know it was OK, if the beeper ever stopped - that meant an alarm, or that the alarm system had failed. Logically sound, but induced twitching paranoia in everyone that worked there.

Especially since it was the sort of place where if there ever was an accident you just paint over that bit of the map and rename all the surrounding towns.

Wait till we have contract manufacturing in the cloud.

Get a sign wrong and wake up to a queue of trucks delivering 2^32-1 prototypes

>the employer has had to prove that there are no unemployed locals availible to do the work.

They do, the solution is to advertise for C++ programmers in the Wichita pigeon fancier weekly and show that you received no replies.

>that the dev here had to take the employer to court for a measly payout suggests that the US condones this behaviour.

There was a certain 'push back' on their previous slave labour system so they modified it.

>considering the lost taxes and associated benefit to the state from healthcare/pensions etc then employing externally means that this is money/benefit lost to the state and civillians.

Employing temporary immigrants is a net good for the state's income. They were raised and educated at somebody elses expense, they pay taxes to you and then leave before receiving any of the benefits.

Crack down on it too much and they move the jobs abroad and you lose out on both the taxes and all their spend in the local economy.

The company gets to employ cheap labour and drive down the cost of competing local labour, the government gets to keep the tax take - everybody important wins.

Re: British Expertise

>Jacob Rees-Mogg?

The sex God himself?

It's Quantum, it exists both in the warehosue and at your house until you look at it

Re: Reaction

Art is anything made by an artist that sells

Re: How soon

>Excess deaths also includes deaths due to COVID taking up medical resources

Here drug overdose deaths/month are higher than our total covid deaths (until a few recent old folks home outbreaks). Reasoning is that people got cash from the govt and spent it on the street