Posts by phuzz

Re: Sensible

A sensible politician == one who agrees with me

Re: lucky escape

"They've probably already trained their model to 'blank' the president and all his senior ministers."

That could well be correct, in which case I wonder if the software recognises masks?

Either way we have the makings of a really ugly t-shirt (William Gibson fans will understand).

Re: Do it in style

"There is nothing like the iconic DeLorean DMC12 in production today."

There's two iconic things about the Delorian: it's looks, and the fact that it was a massive flop.

Any replacement would need to tick both of these boxes, so Tesla doesn't qualify.

Mind you, I guess they do share the 'larger than life founder who you can imagine ending up in a drug deal'...

Re: November 23 is Buy Nothing Day

If you think I'm not buying booze on a Friday after work, then you've severely underestimated my alcoholism.

"Nail that one down for the telcos and I'd bet they would willingly block spam calls."

^^^^ This right here. If it wasn't profitable for your phone company to pass spam calls on to you, then you wouldn't get any spam calls.

"The issue being is that people in the UK do not give a hairy shite about the law any more"

'Any more'? So at some point in the past there was a time when the British public were all entirely law abiding? When was this golden age exactly? Perhaps back when we were all living in caves?

Motorola also have part of the contract for the new ESN (they're providing hardware) so they're not doing badly at all.

Although I'm sure that they've not considered causing a delay just to keep eeking the Airwave contract out longer.

Re: Wombats shit bricks?

Presumably if one fed the wombats on different things, then the shit bricks would come out different colours.

Quick, someone start feeding beetroot to a wombat!

Re: GPS?

"GPS is NOT a synonym for GNSS"

That's only because most people have never heard of the acronym GNSS. If you're trying to prevent GPS from becoming a generic term meaning "global positioning system", then you're at least ten years too late, probably twenty.

Sometimes terms enter popular usage in ways that are technically incorrect, this is one of them. As far as I'm aware, the technical meaning of any of these terms has never been re-introduced.

Re: Glad I'm not him

1) Make bad comment

2) Receive downvotes

3) Claim that downvotes are evidence of a conspiracy against you

4) ???

5) Profit!

Re: How about scrapping them?

"And it still didnt stop us getting horse burgers and horse lasagna dressed up as beef...."

No, but as soon as it was noticed, it did quickly lead to the sources being identified and contained.

To use a more IT-worthy metaphor, it's a logging system rather than a prevention system.

Re: DC and MD are the big winners

"My bet is Jeff Bezos already knew where he wanted his HQ2 but was trying to get a good bargain. enjoys making local governments fight for his largess, like some billionaire's version of bumfight"

ftfy

Re: Which filaments were tested?

I'm not sure why you're getting so many downvotes for a sensible question.

Unfortunately neither of their linked papers actually name either the printers they tested, or the brands of filament, even though as they state in their conclusion:

"Filament brand, [...] can also have a substantial effect on emissions."

From a quick skim, the temperature of the print head seemed to have a large effect, and PLA seemed to produce an order of magnitude less particles than nylon, and ABS was another order of magnitude more than nylon. (Viewable in a particularly fun graph, figure 6, which splits it's y-axis twice to fit dissimilar results onto the same graph).

Re: A note to USAian authors

A friend of mine worked as a tour guide while a student in York.

An American tourist once asked him (with no obvious signs of taking the piss) if York was "named after New York?".

Somewhat surprisingly, no Soyuz or Shuttle has ever launched on November the 5th*.

China did launch a Long March 3B last year on 5/11/17, and back in 2013, India launched their Mars Orbiter on the 5th.

That's as far back as I could be bothered to look, but feel free to trawl through these archives to find more.

* (that I can tell from five minutes on wikipedia)

"via entry points protected with the device."

Surely if it's an anal probe it's actually deployed in exit points?

So did Norman Bates.

Re: Mass Dialers

"Hacen't they heard of the internet?" [sic]

In the US they prefer to have a single supplier of internet connectivity for each region, who will then charge them huge amounts of money for a (by UK standards) terrible connection. And then will charge more for anyone actually using that bandwidth.

I'm not sure why they prefer it like that, but they allow the companies to pay the politicians loads of money to keep it that way so I can only assume it's by choice.

That's right isn't it Americans? ;)

Re: They just changed it this morning

I'll bow to the knowledge of someone who actually reads Russian, but according to Google translate, your link says:

“We are talking about damage to the end sensor as a result of unintended, but erroneous negligent actions of one or several Progress RCC specialists in the assembly and test building at the 112th site of the cosmodrome when assembling a package consisting of side blocks of the first stage and the central unit of the second stage. there could be a one-time single violation of the technological process, "said the source.

As a result, when this side unit was detached, the jet nozzle cover jammed to remove the side unit from the central unit.

ie the sensor failed, so the signal that the booster was detached was never sent, so the 'jet' (not an engine, it's a vent at the top of the O2 tank) that pushes the nose of the booster away from the core never operated.

The sensor didn't "snag" the first stage. It failed to operate because it was bent, so the necessary signal was not sent.

Of course, that all depends on your translation of that second and third paragraphs in the linked article, I'm not sure how many elReg commentators are bilingual in Russian?

Re: Office 364?

They've renamed it after Trading Standards had a word. Its not accessible for about one day a year, hence the new name.

(For those arriving after the corrections, the original headline read "Microsoft claims Office 364 back to business as usual.")

Re: Interesting final line.

They launched the/a relay satellite in May.

Re: RE: Then came the Linux crowd where there were no such applications

"Getting a fully-tricked-out Windows system requires downloading Mammon knows what from Baal knows where"

Ninite. One installer, no spyware, done.

To stick with the point about upgrading a CLI based OS to a full GUI, in Windows you just do: install-windowsfeature server-gui-mgmt-infra,server-gui-shell.