Posts by werdsmith

Re: more likely that "input sanitization techniques" was meant

Can you handle ambiguity?

Re: Anticipating grid failure is more like it..

Marchwood Power Station by Southampton is supplied by oil and gas by pipeline from nearby Fawley Refinery and in turn supplies power directly back to Fawley for refining activities.

The same arrangement stood with the Fawley Power Station that closed in 2013.

Re: Hard to fight the feeling that had this been a regular person

and I envy the smiths, jones, patels and singhs for the automatic anonymity it brings

But I can't publish a book under my own name, there are so many or me already in print.

I was plugging everything together to test the EHT circuit, I connected power, signal, scan coil and with the EHT cap (that plugs into the back of the glass CRT) still in my had I switched on the power.

It was interesting.

A party trick was to surround the EHT transformer with metal foil and allow a purple plasma arc to jump across about 1-2cm from corner of the foil to a finger tip. It would burn a little black dot on your skin but you could barely feel it.

Funniest was with a trim tool though, two guys peering into the back of a monitor, one with a trim tool the other just looking. The trim tool guy got a shock and his hand came out so quick he knocked a tooth out of the other guy.

I was a new Electronics Engineer and the senior guy had designed the monitor by just copying the reference design from the CRT manufacturer. We spent hours improving and testing it. We soaked up a lot of Bremsstrahlung radiation in those days, I had no idea but it was probably more dangerous than the EMF.

Re: Greenland.Has stayed pretty much where it's currently at for a LONG time

If we take the definition of the poles as the point that the Earth's spin axis meets its surface, then these don't stay still either.

4K Netflix wants ~25Mbs, so if someone is watching telly and a phone updates itself then bye bye the film...

So it has no buffer or a very short buffer to queue the data locally.

Re: A rotten Apple

Apple have always bought in and re-worked existing tech. They are know for it from when Apple acquired their touch screen tech by buying Fingerworks and before that.

So nothing is changing here.

Raspberry PI OS (I can't remember how many years ago it was called Raspbian, but it's a long time) has an Add/Remove software application in the GUI now.

The cross charge to the non tech departments for their SAN storage use reflects the cost of Enterprise disk.

Often hear "but I can get 5TB drive from Amazon for 100 quid!!"

Re: Coincidence...

But it doesn’t just work. It’s miles away from that. That’s the whole point of the conversation. It’s supposed to do something, a user gets instructions to do something but it’s not relevant to their distribution.

Re: maximising

Public (and your own) safety would be maximized by not getting out of bed in the morning.

A completely sedentary lifestyle is far more dangerous.

Re: If Xiaomi want to be taken seriously

Xiaomi recruited car design stylists from Mercedes and BMW and external help from..... Chris Bangle of the weird crease BMW styling.

Re: I can't get the video to work

It didn't play for me either, so I hopped over and watched it on BBC.

If there were no penalty for violence or murder, I would still look after the welfare of anyone, including my worst enemy.

Re: "Climate change means beer made from sewer water"

Then also to complain about beer if they can taste it.

Re: a billion?

Ooh, CSV nightmare.

Re: I think I saw it!

Re-entry was between Yucatan and Cuba, during mid afternoon daylight. It would have burned up whilst tracking over the atlantic in a northeasterly direction.

Re: Why isn't it the year of the linux desktop?

Some truths are just not popular round here, including what I like, others might not like.

In WW2 US Marines used native Navajo speakers, who further obfuscated their comms by using a code. This, as far as anyone knows, was unbroken and made secret communications much quicker than the usual methods.

Re: But when life got going on earth ...

I will read the paper when I get the opportunity, but this article doesn't say which hemisphere the 373km pass encountered given Europa rotates about 3.5 earth days being tidal locked with its orbital period.

There will most likely be more oxygen produced at the centre of Europa's trailing longitudinal hemisphere , and it would not be a uniform abundance across the surface of the entire sphere.

Re: Run from a ROM Chip

UV-erasable storage with 2-4GB per chip

Remember 2-4MB eproms. 2716 and 2732.

My little bottle of acetone for cleaning the sticky labels off the windows and my Stag programmer that could do 8 at a time from a master.

Re: Alternatively ...

Buy our product. It's full of security holes, but we'll send you fixes for them every time criminals discover one

That's just pragmatic. If they said "Buy our product, it's 100% secure" I would say no thanks bullshitter.

The Sample-Fetch rover was already developed to prototype at Stevenage, but missions plans were revised and it is now looking for an alternative mission.

Re: Manufacturer's power claims

I've never driven my car to produce its maximum power, never needed to get that loud.

It's not a racing car and I don't drive it on a closed track.

Torque is useful in normal road driving. Power not so much.

Re: "We have received requests"

I took my iPhone to a friends but couldn't charge it because it uses a lightning connector and they only had USB-C.

Actually, what really happened was I placed the phone on their wireless charger and no cable required.

Re: so why not just shut Boing (sic) down ?

Airbus have an order backlog of over 8000 aircraft, Boeing over 6000. If there were no Boeing there would be a fleet replacement crisis, older aircraft would be kept longer.

CAC need to step up quickly.

Re: Why do they need a submarine?

You can take an angle grinder to a HVDC cable if you like.. There wouldn't be much left of you afterwards!

Interesting. Do these fibre optic communication cables that the article is about also carry HVDC?