Posts by phuzz 6732 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
So the dumbed down version of that is basically, if the telco decide that (eg) your back garden would be a really good site for a mast, and they're willing to pay you lots of rent to put it there, then they can get a court order and then plonk the mast down.
And your only recourse would basically be "they're not paying me enough money".
Is that broadly correct?
Fortunately for you Bob you can remap practically every keyboard shortcut in Windows Terminal, as long as you're ok editing config files?
You'd just need the following:
(elReg's comment code mangles the formatting, sorry)
{
"command" : "copy",
"keys" :
[
"ctrl+insert"
]
},
{
"command" : "paste",
"keys" : [
"shift+insert"
]
}
As other comments point out, Switzerland has additional taxes which put it more inline with other countries.
Anyway, don't most people associate low taxes with tax havens like Luxembourg and the Caymen Islands? Not sure where racists come into it, generally tax havens are much more interested in the colour of someone's money rather than their skin.
Perhaps you should have a word with your fevered imagination holmegm?
Although the efforts to get the PGP source code outside the US* might have been an early precursor.
* (Legally. The source had already been leaked onto the internet, but that was technically illegal to use in the US. However, a book containing the source code falls under the first amendment, and could freely be exported, then scanned and OCR'd.)
Industry only makes up ~20% of CO2 emissions. Electricity/heat and agriculture both make up about 25% each, transportation makes up another ~15%.
Possibly space based solar power could help with our power generation, but shifting industry isn't going to help much, especially as everyone else has pointed out, you still have to transport the parts and the results.
"a new generation of suckers believing that highly invasive advertising works."
As far as I can tell, advertising doesn't work on marketing types any better than anyone else (that is to say, it doesn't really do much at all), so I can only assume that they must think that all of their customers are naive fools.
"the usual compounding problem that affects RPI+ style schemes"
Look, I know everyone and their dog is plugging a RaspberryPi into everything these days but it's not that much of a problem is it?
(It would probably have been worth defining you acronyms, especially when they overlap with one that your audience is already familiar with).
Fortunately, because of HP's Next Generation pricing, we didn't buy SSDs from HP themselves, and instead just bought enterprise SSDs from a third party, and then bought a load of caddies.
At the time HP were charging hundreds of quid for a single small SSD, and it was about a quarter of the cost to provide them ourselves. Sure, you don't get the warranty, but in this case it doesn't look that helpful.
They've got two CPUs (CPU in this case referring to the entire cabinet, not just the chip), and they've found one has 16K (apparently the max for that model), I'm not sure about the other.
They're 360 2020's if that helps.
"it kind of puzzles me people keep falling for this bullshit"
Who's falling for it? People keep investing in them because they see other people doing it and think they're going to make money, eventually. People keep using Uber because it's easy and convenient.
At the end of the day, if you withhold your money from every scummy company in existence, you pretty much have to retire from modern society, unfortunately.
To be fair, the glue is mostly because they want the latest iDevice to be as thin and small (and cheap to manufacture) as possible, and glue is cheaper and easier than designing a fixture that will fit in the same space.
That it locks out third party repairs is just icing on the cake.
I buy things from Amazon sometimes because they can deliver it tomorrow (in some cases), when buying it from a company that's not totally morally bankrupt will take several days more.
Sure, if I get a change to plan ahead I'll take the slight price increase to give my money to a non-scummy company, but when your customer wants something fixed yesterday, you have to go with whatever source can get the item to you fastest.
I quite enjoy putting up Ikea stuff, I'll even volunteer to help friends.
Over the years I think I've had a couple of occasions where a part has been missing, but generally the instructions are as straight forward as Lego (ie, very simple), and with a moment's thought they go together without much fuss.
I've got a book case and a cupboard which have lasted for getting on twenty years, and at least half a dozen house moves.
Somehow I doubt that the average person who can build and fly a 4kg model aircraft, would have much problems getting their drone license. I'm guessing any model flying club worth it's salt would also have kicked out any member who even thought about flying near an airfield, even forty years ago.
And when I check the CAA's website:
"Similarly, where a UK model aircraft association already has an established and CAA reviewed ‘competency scheme’, members who hold an appropriate achievement certificate or award (such as the BMFA ‘A’ certificate) will also be exempt from having to undertake the online education training and test."
You're being very optimistic.
It'll be another hung parliament, so we get another 5 years of no party having enough of a majority to do anything.
This will continue until there isn't anyone left living in the UK at all, they will all have left out of despair. (remainers to the EU where they will sit around agreeing about how cosmopolitan they are, and the leavers to the Costa del Sol where they will complain about immigrants.)
There's a 'Rent' button to stream the film, and a 'Buy' button that literally says "Stream + download anytime", so I'm not sure why didn't realise that you could download a copy.
If you download it (once you've bought it, obv), it comes as a 3.6GB mp4, which is easy to convert to an mkv if you're that bothered by a file extension.
It's said that this was part of the reason for the Soviet copy of the Shuttle (Buran) being so similar to the US version.
Soviet rocket scientists looked at the design, and just couldn't work out why the Americans would make such strange decisions, like adding the enormous wings when much smaller ones (like on the X-37B, or the HL-20) would have worked as well, and allowed it to carry more payload with less risk.
The Soviet leadership over-ruled them, and said that the Americans must have some secret reason for using this design, and so the Soviet Union must have an identical Shuttle! The idea that it was the end result of an awkward botched compromise was clearly capitalist misinformation and should be ignored.
Buran was still bloody cool though, and it's a shame it only made one (unmanned) test flight.
Only if you were ok with this happening:
"Analysis of the final run found airflow underneath the car went supersonic and removed the paint from an area three metres behind the front wheels."
And that's on a vehicle which has been extensively designed to go that fast, and that low. As a massive over-simplification, jets can go fast, or they can go low, but they're not really designed for going fast this low.
I suppose the acronym for one of these would be TASER (Terahertz Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), but that's already taken, so they've just gone with 'terahertz laser'.
This seems to be different from existing masers because it's tunable across a relatively wide range of frequencies/wavelengths.
After spending the better part of an hour wrestling with trying to (re)install nVidia drivers on my friend's computer last night, I think that currently AMD have the better drivers.
At least you don't need to create an account and log into the AMD drivers just to update them.
Agreed, nationalising OpenReach would make some sense, especially when you look at how much money the government throws at them already to try and get better-than-wet-string connectivity outside the M25. If it's already a national priority, why not cut out the middleman and just have part of the government do it instead?
Not sure about "British Broadband" though, why not just go back to calling it the GPO?
I don't know which manufacturer first thought of those ID lights that most servers have these days, the ones that when pushed, start flashing a light at the front and back of the machine, but they're a genius idea and have surely saved me from many an otherwise embarrassing screw up.
Such a safe pair of hands that they (allegedly) threatened to pull out unless NASA gave them more money.
Somehow those newbies at SpaceX seem to be able to provide the exact same service for much less money. Clearly they're not spending enough on bribing lobbying.
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