Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Free public transport in the UK?

Back in my day busses in the Soviet Republic of S Yorkshire were almost free.

They had a fare of 2p/5p because making them free was blocked by the ticket collector's union

Re: This is stupid

Is SIGABORT still allowed?

Re: Dark energy

>The Prince of Wales will be in Portsmouth before the year is out.

>Then again, no catapults

Surely we can give him a catapult?

He is getting on a bit but as the last line of defence a few heirs to the throne with some schoolboy weapons is probably still better than an F35

Re: Nope.

No I'm in the illuminati, we get a newsletter about lizard people

Re: £2000...

>How does one crap on the roof of a car, without standing on it?

Yogi flying?

That's really stupid.

What it should have done is shown you a video for the brands most often bought by viewers of the British facist

YouTube exists to make money for us shareholders, not to serve the needs of its customers

Re: Silly, but its fine

Is there really a shortage of British apple fanboys that we have to let foreign ones stay?

Following our huge trade deal with the USA, which will be huge and the greatest one ever , we will be able to obtain genuine San Francisco fanboys tax free

Re: Segmented mirrors

Hexagons but cut out of small identical normal mirrors. Each focusses it's light at the same position so you get the light gathering of a big mirror but not the image quality.

To make Keck each element is a different off-axis parabola, incrediblly difficult to make

Or perhaps have a law against watching television while piloting an aircraft?

Re: About Time

>On the plus side just 9 trade agreements would cover 73% of our exports.

Just 2 would do

One with the Irish and one with the other foreigners

Except the airline in country A is only going to let you board if they are sure you will be welcomed in the destination country B, so the best thing to show them is your passport for B.

So if you travelling between two countries you hold passports for - you are pretty much required to enter and leave on different passports.

Obviously this doesn't apply if a couple of dozen countries somehow got together and made some sort of agreement that you could travel freely...

Re: Some questions...

There was a case back in the 70s where the British Communist Party (note to Americans, as a monarchy without a constitution we allow political parties we disagree with) found a bug in their HQ and destroyed it.

While the government didn't admit they had planted the bug, and at the time didn't admit that MI5 existed, they were found guilty of the intention to destroy government property.

So if you believe that the government plants illegal GPS trackers and you destroy one you are guilty. However if you are a true patriot and believe that the US government would never violate the constitution then they can't be government property and presumably you are free to destroy them

Re: Divide and rule

If you don't they might go to college and matriculate, a place where they may encounter known Homo Sapiens and even thespians

It was probably Russian hackers, we should declare war.

Just out of curiosity, what happens when one NATO member hacks another? Not that any 5eyes count would spy on an ally...

Re: Openly and fairly...

They spent $115k on getting global publicity in such august journals as el'reg.

If they can manage to spin the response into "the security solution that made the worlds best hackers furious" and "that black hats tried to ban" ... they can probably convince a few CEOs to pay

But on balance they are probably just a wunch of bankers

Re: OmfG, how broken?

So security would be improved by giving 10,000 ticket office staff admin access to everyone's card?

Especially since the admin password would be written on a post-it note on the screen.

This is almost a better solution

>If any other politician can block people from their accounts, why not Trump?

Because he is using it to announce government policy.

Suppose he has another twitter feed that announces tariff increases, tax cuts, new bans on certain companies etc. a few days in advance - but this one is private, run by Trump and available for a mere $M donation.

He has already announced government economic statistics on his twitter ahead of official releases, so investors that follow his twitter feed have a theoretical advantage over any that don't (although possibly face higher mental health medical costs)

Re: Has to be a joke or Florida Man.

And ICBMs are also impossible because of the mass of armour they would need to counter the effects of the warhead they were delivering

Re: Impossibly complicated

Obviously all teachers, nurses and doctors will also become self employed 'consultants', then even with nobody paying any tax we will still be able to afford all the public services

Re: Can't say white / black

Nobody went around declaring themselves to be African-American Indigenous Large-Cat

Re: Oh dear.

>What most folks don't appreciate is the economics of the situation.

Which is what Moore was originally talking about.

The most cost effective number of transistors/area scales as a power law - because although each smaller generation was more expensive, the cost increase was mostly linear but the number of transistors was area.

This hasn't necessarily been true for the last generation of process steps, 7nm may always be more expensive/transistor than 12nm - but if you want to pack more performance into a smaller package to fit in a phone or put a gazziillion CUDA cores on a GPU, you will pay for it.

Re: "has ever used Visual Sourcesafe."

>I wasn't defending it as a great tool. I just said it was better than no VCS at all.

It did have an interesting repository structure

Project

Project.bak

Copy of Project.bak

Copy of Copy of Project.bak

Project.broken_don't_use

Project.YAAC_copy

Re: @Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese

> the people in the UK, the wages in the UK, the business tax in the UK. It is here even if the owner is not.

The jobs move abroad, the wages move abroad, the profits are all made in their Cayman island subsidiary Eventually only the branding is in the UK