Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Optimism

These satelites aren't going to bother visible astronomy

Space is, as the prophet said, big.

So the solid angle blocked by one of these satelites is like a midge flying across your telescope a mile away. They are in such a low orbit they are only going to be lit up by the sun very close to sunrise/set

They are more of an annoyance to radio astronomer, blanketing the whole sky in Ku and cat pictures - but realistically doing radio astronomy from Earth in any band useful for mobile data is too late

Re: Security

Didn't he have the Hungarian phrase book ?

Re: Skippy-speak

Lassie can say all that with a look

Re: Trump vs RoboTrump

I propose a new Turing test.

If you can't tell the difference between a conversation with a moron and a computer - then the computer can be said to be stupid

Re: "no requirement of 'registration' for deactivated firearms"

And leading to the slightly bizarre requirement to get driving licenses to prove you are legally blind (at least in Ca)

Re: Surely

That angular resolution is the closest two points can be before merging (and only at the fovea)

This is not the same as an absolute angle measurement between the two eyes

Re: Applications could include...

You can verify that this will run the payloads sent to it properly - without them being modified

You don't get to choose what those "updates" do to the product this is protecting

Re: Fundamental Question

The problem with copyright is that I can take you code, change all the variable names by one letter and I have created a new work.

Copyright sees it as taking a song and changing all the notes.

I remember a Judge Dredd story back in the mists of time where there was a fashion for surgery that made your face look like a smiley.

Of course this means that criminals can't be identified - so people were forced to have barcodes tattooed on their foreheads

Re: Were previous medical reports wrong?

But Cuba is a terrifying military threat if you believe America's reaction to the place for the last 60 years

Re: I love it when a plan comes together

I'm sure a political opponent would pick up on that and base some of campaign around it

Re: A reason why hugh asda/tescos/otherones is here to stay.

Remember they only need 2MW while being used - which isn't 24x7

The highpower DC fast chargers here supposedly use the battery pack from the BMW i3 as a buffer

Re: Well now we know

Presumably Twitter must also have an algorithm to decide what is a political ad in order to ban it?

Re: Not new

Wouldn't a furry earworm be an earwig?

A massive benefit for those young hipster who don't have the same fabulously luxuriant ear fur that us oldies have.

Re: Amazon 'Black Friday Deals'

>Where do you buy your bent nails from then? Do you use them for doing DIY around corners?

There are still artisan makers of specialist DIY products you can't get in big box stores

Pre-bent nails, stripped screw heads and plasterboard with hammer marks already included.

It's a great time saver for the clumsy, yet busy, diy-er

>more surprising is that per person there were a lot more ads shown in Austria.

Austria has a bunch of "not-at-all-alt" right parties , I suspect a lot of Trump-esque clickbait ads aimed at their followers

Re: Ok that's it.

>Have you seen Westminster recently?

Even Boris didn't declare that he was above the laws of maths

> that's over half the Navy!

No we have at least 70 admirals still here

So why doesn't this also apply to Lenovo and Motorola gear ?

Because they have millions of US shareholders or simply because they don't sound as foreign ?

Or for deciding for you that you are building 2-3 new data centers

Re: I recommend Ronald Coase

His conclusion was that firms avoid the friction and administrative costs of dealing with separate suppliers for each task.

Now we work for companies where it is 10x more expensive in time and money to get an official pool car than to take an Uber. Even worse if you work for government and double if you work for military/security

>For over 40 years, Microsoft has delivered innovative, proven and secure technologies

Flight simulator

Re: Unintended Consequence

>Intel-based mobile phones?

It is winter up here, I wouldn't mind a combined phone/hand warmer

Are we still talking about wearing a suit?

There's an old saying in aviation. When the documentation weighs more than the aircraft it's ready to fly