Posts by JimmyPage

how exactly were the school to know of the copyright in the first place?

I can see some sort of metadata being legally (or lawfully) required for images on t'net.

Maybe webservers could be setup to automatically wrap a default set of details around every image download. And audio. And video ?????

Yes, they could be stripped by the unscrupulous. But they could also trigger some sort of infobar in a browser, so you know the score ????

I'm daydreaming ...

and imagining they did the same for the Apollo craft ...

Imagine building your own Saturn-V, plus command, service, and lunar modules.

Ah, the tyranny of choice ...

the inevitability of obsolescence.

Clarkson hack ?

Was it just me that remembered Jezzas red-face moment a few years ago ?

New scammer SOP ?

1) Trip big companys (ideally one with a pretty shit reputation to start with) data breach alert system.

2) Wait for said big company to self-report, and hit the headlines

3a) Flood the interwebs with your carefully crafted phishing emails that look like they are the sort of thing said big company would send out.

and/or

3b) Also hit the phones for some old school phishing.

4) clean up.

Notice how no data was lost - or needed - in the making of this scam.

And lessons learned ?

Zero.

Does it really take 3 months to change banks ?

Because I can't think of any reason why after April someone wouldn't.

If I ran a shitty business, I'd be curious to see who out of my customers is also a TSB customer. Because I know it would take an atomic bomb for them to switch.

Human analogue ?

MrsJP has always been able to tell if there's a storm coming. far more accurately than the forecasts (which are right about 1 in 3 times).

Now, she has MS, so her central nervous system is fucked. I've always wondered if that's made it sensitive (or more sensitive, which is an interesting line of research) to electrical disturbances.

Sometimes I wonder why people - especially scientists - seem surprised by findings like this. Life on earth has been around the best part of 4 billion years. It would be incredible if it hadn't found ways to work out what was going on in the environment. Whether electrically, chemically, magnetically, or indeed by radioactivity. Plus harnessing any useful outcomes of quantum effects. As I believe photosynthesis is supposed to work.

I notice other posters have commented on dowsing. Whilst I have no time for woo, I sometimes despair at the counter-productive and dangerously religious anti-woo cabal that tries to restrict scientific enquiry by dismissing things a priori as woo. They're just as bad as creationists.

Linux ?

accidental omission ?

Sigh ...

there are some ****ing morons out there. And the fact some of them are driving Telslas means there's no correlation between wealth and brains.

Wait for the magic words ....

"in good faith"

CASE DISMISSED.

Next !

Good luck with that.

UK tort law starts with having to show a "loss", and your time is worth .... nothing.

Arthur C Clarkes "2061"

weirdly I was reading this last week (sleepless night) where the premise is diamonds can be created in gas giant type planets. I think there's a 1980s NASA paper on it ?

The correct response is ...

when you pay your tax, we'll give a shit.

Next !

Cake and eat it seems to be a thing now.

TL;DR. They want to be #1, but don't want to pay for it.

Where have I heard that before ?

Nocebo ?

All this talk of placebos, and nobody has mentioned nocebos

Gummy bears ?

Just sayin'

Wasn't this predicted in "2012" (the film) ?

"The neutrinos ... are mutating"

As predicted (again)

I am guaranteeing that Apple and Google will be wetting their collective knickers at this news (if indeed they haven't bunged a few quid into the research to start with).

Not a massive power source. But as a few commentards have noted, it could be used to power up a capacitor to act as a reserve/impulse battery ?

Of course, for the tinfoil hatters, for the 5-Eyes there is now the tantalising possibility of a lifetime tracking device in your mobe.

I love nuclear power. I really do. Especially as it scares people who can't be bothered to learn teh physics of it.

100Mbs VM customer here ....

Shame I can't stand sport.

Twice in one day (thanks to Brexit)

have I been able to point out that this bill won't be debated in this parliament, or the next. so is also five years off. At least.

Asymmetry in nature ...

While an interesting instance, I think the bigger picture is exploring any asymmetries like this in nature could point towards more fundamental truths ?

But when ?

Won't be this parliament.

Won't be the next.

So that'll be at least 5 years. And that's if a change of government doesn't scupper the whole thing before then.

Branson/Assange

has anyone ever seen them in the same room together ?