Posts by CraPo

Re:Hologram

The 90s called and want their credit cards back. And my AMEX is 15 digits :-P

Re: WTF? He should *know* this is like shooting fish in a barrell for the SEC

Did you read right to the end?

"At the same time, the US Attorney for New Jersey today filed a criminal charge against Levoff, accusing him of securities fraud."

Re: GDPR

Have El Reg asked the "relevant regulatory authorities"?

Re: I wonder if...

Talking of fire, don't airports usually have access to fairly powerful water canon. What is the maximum range of one of those things?

Re: TBF...

Not today ISYS, not today

Re: Dates of birth

I favour 1/4/69

Re: Auto-crash-pilot

> Not quickly enough as for 1/4 second or so you are thinking "is it going to brake? Am I supposed to take over? Oh shit it's not doing to stop"

Almost 3 seconds pass between when the vehicle starts to move across, showing a stationary vehicle in front of it, and when the impact occurs. You may well be late, but any breaking is better than no breaking.

Good alert defensive drivers will get twitchy straight away; those with less experience and more so as they rely on auto-pilot in the future, less so... YMMV :-D

Re: OlaM

German Wings 9525 anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525#Cause_of_crash

Re: PPRuNe thread

"My body should have been a very big wobble." :-D (poster's translation)

Re: Maintenance

The OP said LHR

Woosh, there goes the point flying over your head.

The point being the difference between an Opal card valid ticket and an NFC paid valid ticket. The mechanism is exactly the same; the only difference is the the Sydney transport network adhering to the old fashioned requirement to have the whole ticket, which proves nothing. I see that they are catching up with a contactless trial (although they don't do daily/weekly fare capping like TfL do)

https://www.opal.com.au/en/news/opalnews/news_12March2018.html

So if Mr Cyborg had had a NFC induction loop embedded in his skin and had been travelling on the light rail or ferries, he'd have been totally legal.

Re: Hand it back?

I don't know how serviced offices like WeWork, erm, work. I presumed they mostly provided a desk, power, toilets, heat, networking. Having a monster like that would require either a semi-permanent desk that no one else can use or lugging it away into a cupboard every night, at more expense and effort, so probably not worth keeping it in this case.

Re: "bait bus"

Probably reverse psychology. There is no bait bus, but telling people there is may well put them off trying it again.

Re: Duck and cover revisited

> Lets hope that NK has better GUI design than that of the wealthy, technologically superior country that made this mistake. I don't hold much hope; do you, honestly?

Errr, nope.

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180103090028-01-north-korea-south-korea-hotline-0103-exlarge-169.jpg

Re: Bah!

The post 1st September 2001 system is actually quite clever given what can be spelled out and the amount of business generated by it, whilst still being similar to the old system. It is claimed that the new system was designed to make it easier to remember registrations in the event of an accident or crime but if I was a suspicious man I would say that whoever came up with it had one eye on the custom sale aspect of it. I can't think of any other comparable European system.

Easy to charge?

With the charging port tucked round the back, right near the hinge, even with the angled cable, it's a pain in the @rse. I like it though. I like I can check messages without having to get my phone out (at the dinner table) or easily see if whatever notification it is, is worth getting the phone out for. I also like making it a trusted device to smart unlock my phone so I'm not constantly doing it manually.

I have the stainless steel strap and it's a really cr@ppy design which has broken once, took six months to get a replacement from Sony, and now that one is on the way out, and I don't fancy my chances of getting another from them.

Re: All those products

Rubber dog-shit?

About 2km away

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Embassy+of+the+United+States+of+America,+Calzada,+Havana,+Cuba/Paseo+Habana,+Calle+A,+La+Habana,+Cuba/@23.1389805,-82.3957429,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x88cd79d5f1d6817b:0xa66689f666e933e!2m2!1d-82.3876316!2d23.1458786!1m5!1m1!1s0x88cd77643b791045:0x335c618cffac812c!2m2!1d-82.3956105!2d23.1344525

Re: I believe the word we are all struggling to vocalise is ...

Should have just surrendered (and eaten cheese)

Re: Although it's a bit crap....

I'm 4 days short of my renewal date...so I have 64 days to find a new provider and resync 2.5TB of data, so not that lucky.

Re: Slippery slope?

"I suspect the manned aircraft numbers are only widely available because there are people who stand at the end of runways counting these things anyway."

Nope. Because of jobs, budgets, shareholders and appearing to take a tough stance, these things are generally published.

https://airbusdefenceandspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-11_mrs_gen_ord-deliv-by-country.pdf

Re: Two sides to every argument

"Shows the killing of a policeman as captured by a body camera."

No it doesn't. From the YouTube blurb (did you even read it?):

"Both officers were rushed to a hospital in Greenville, S.C. Police said both received non-life threatening injuries."

In fact, it doesn't even show the shooting and who did it.

Yes, but I think the point here was that it over ran and over ran and Nationwide's communications with it's customers was poor.

Re: Conjours up the image ...

Do you mean....beatifically?

"Cashpoint"

Was introduced by Lloyds in 1972 and trademarked in 1986

You are Dianne Abbott and I claim my £5

Re: There's 2 sides to stories

You seem to be conflating the issue here. You say he could well be innocent? Innocent of what? Innocent of the suspicion of terrorism? That's not what he's been charged with here. He's been charged with withholding passwords. So, technically, on the face of it he's not innocent; he didn't hand over his passwords when asked and there is a statute in place to prosecute him as a result. Whether that's right or not is another matter.

on yer bike! Could've been there by the time you waited for 6 buses...

Re: Fly on one - if you have a death wish

Can't have been that high-speed if you could notice the rust :-P

Re: Remote wipe.....

Faraday cage.

Just saying