Re: El Reg weights and measures soviet
The ohnominute is about 42 ohnoseconds, and an ohnohour is about 23 ohnominutes, based on perceived time?
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Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent
RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep's salary details on office printer
Thursday 28th November 2019 17:39 GMT
Re: This is why...
I worked there about five or six years ago (for the death knells of Tranformers).
All staff had RFID cards which let you through doors (when the fingerprint sensors broke. again.), paid for food in the canteen, and logged you in to the printers so the only person who can print your document is you. So, if it's been left on the printer, it's either because you are an idiot, or you saw that the printer had run out of paper and you were too much of a git to replenish it.
1Password hopes to cross some items off its todo list with help from $200m in venture capital
Astroboffins capture video of Mercury passing across the Sun's surface
Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras
You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords
It's back: The mercifully normal-looking Moto 360 smartwatch
Play Huawei... for now: Firm aims Googletastic Honor 9X at young 'uns
Friday 25th October 2019 09:59 GMT
Re: Unfortunately for Honor/Huawei...
Considering how anyone sane puts a case on their phone, I wonder why they insist on making backs fragile, and thinking we'd rather have 2mm shaved off the depth rather than having a more usable battery.
My Nokia8 is an insanely svelte feeling 7mm thick. Which goes up to 17mm when it goes into a top-grain leather case. An extra 3mm would fit in a lot more mAhs.
But I guess that's a rant for a different article...
What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner
Sod 3G, that can go, but don't rush to turn off 2G, UK still needs it – report
Friday 18th October 2019 15:27 GMT
The Cambridgeshire village of Papworth Everard (that which used to have the hospital) isn't "rural", but it doesn't have reliable 2G, 3G or 4G.
Here's an idea. Make it so that we can "roam" in our own bloody country. As soon as Vodafone drops out, let my phone automatically switch to EE. Or whatever. And make the telco pay a decent charge to the new provider as punishment for having a shit network.
Junior minister says gov.UK considering facial recognition to verify age of p0rn-watchers
Friday 18th October 2019 15:27 GMT
Who needs porn when you can watch this clusterf*ck?
I look forward to the inevitable news that this facial recognition system keeps watching after you are verified and the government has accidentally created a vast repository of self pleasure. Including lots of people under 18 years of age. Maybe the home office could arrest itself.
I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship
UK culture sec hints at replacing TV licence fee, defends encryption ban proposals and her boss in Hacker House inquiry
Thursday 17th October 2019 16:09 GMT
Re: Yes please...
Why? I get one "you aren't being naughty, are you?" letter a year. Only time they've ever turned up in 18 years license-free, I showed them a roll of coax behind the TV as proof it had no feed. They left happy.
I used to watch iPlayer til they changed the rules. Now I occasionally watch Only Connect at a friend's house. Don't miss anything else.
Thursday 17th October 2019 16:09 GMT
I'm constantly bemused that no-one seems to remember that free licenses for over 75s only became a thing in 1999.
Can't help thinking that they ought to be free to anyone under a certain income threshold. My grandfather's civil service pension used to be more than my salary as an IT professional, but he was entitled to a free license. :/
This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats
Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people
The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look
Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020
Thursday 3rd October 2019 09:10 GMT
Forget the 360 hinges - if they can make it 180 with edge to edge screens then (IMO) they have a better product than Samsung of Huawei.
I still wouldn't buy it though. My Nokia8 is a fantastic machine for sod all money. I just wish they'd make it a couple of mm thicker and double the battery size, but that's the same for all modern devices.
Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise, politicians will philander... And US voting machines will be physically insecure
Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse
The Wun Show: Douglas Crockford has been sniffing JavaScript's bad parts again
Wednesday 25th September 2019 13:04 GMT
I've been doing this job for 20 years and often had DC's name flung at me without ever bothering to find out *why* he's considered the one true authority on JS.
It does worry me when people decide that any one way is the only way, and the fact that he's just one bloke who happens to be smart and happens to have looked under the hood early on makes me wonder about the logic of buying into the cult. Obviously there's a lot of sense in the DC-ish way of doing things, but there are other religions that have the same general rules. IYSWIM.
EU court rules Right To Be Forgotten doesn't apply outside member states
Tuesday 24th September 2019 12:58 GMT
So... what counts as "inside the EU"?
It can't be a matter of location, or else google could/would argue that its servers are outside the EU and therefore exempt.
It can't be the domain, or else everyone would use a .com domain and claim to be exempt from EU laws.
It can't be the location of the visitor, or else the EU would argue that all Google domains are covered, but only from EU IP addresses.
Look, we know it feels like everything's going off the rails right now, but think positive: The proton has a new radius
OK, let's try that again: Vulture rakes a talon on Samsung's fresh attempt at the Galaxy Fold 5G
Big bang theory: Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor? Dunno. By a military jet? Maybe...
Thursday 5th September 2019 10:41 GMT
Re: military aircraft ...
This is what I was trying to work out. Presumably any of those could break their rated ceiling on a balistic trajectory, but you'd presumably have heard the boom over a wider area as it would have been supersonic on the approach.
The reporting makes it sound like it was a boom in a relatively localised area, which only leaves rocks, doesn't it?
With nothing non-military going above about 50,000ft I assume that radar doesn't track those heights? Or is all tracking at that height transponders anyway?
Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words
Good news Flash lovers! Microsoft won't be disabling it by default (so long as you use IE or old Edge)
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 12:34 GMT
Re: Banks
The only reason for Flash to be a better option for compatibility in the last ten years is Microsoft and its stupid habit of tying IE versions to OS releases. If IE6, IE7, IE8 and even IE9 had been upgradable to the latest versions the whole world of compatibility would have been massively easier.
That and all the activex bllcks that meant some companies (looking at you big banks) hung on to old OSes for waaaay too long and insisted web developers support them.
India's Chandrayaan-2 and Vikram lander split amicably above Moon, SpaceX hops over Texas
Monday 2nd September 2019 16:15 GMT
The lander is in an orbit of 119km x 127km and has a few more engine firings to go. A first deorbit burn is planned for tomorrow, taking the orbit down to 109km x 120km. A second manoeuvre on 4 September will send the lander to 36km x 110km.
Can someone explain these numbers to me? This looks like a distance being recorded as an area. What am I missing?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
