Posts by 's water music

Re: Only 1337 downvotes?

I guess I'd better compose the perfect post, to get my score to a more acceptable level

Your heart's not in it. I couldn't see any refs to:

Bad grammar

Feminism (for)

LGBT rights (against)

Bad grammar

Religion (for)

Simple scientific, engineering or philosophical solecisms

Bad grammar

Re: The punishment

We regularly see reports of X caused £1000's damage, but gets ordered to compensate the victim a couple of hundred at a fiver a week.*

*citation needed

Re: If only the NSA protected MY information with such zeal.

why we are in this war and better yet, exactly who are the enemies?

Silly, it's the Eastasians. Always has been.

Re: Not a problem solved

What happens when an autonomous car is approaching an accident and only has a choice between mounting the pavement and possibly killing many pedestrians, or going into the accident and killing the driver?

What are the chances of a competent driving AI finding itself in that situation without having had the chance to anticipate it and take avoiding action? I speculate that if we can work out why the bowl of petunias thought what it thought then an answer to your hypothetical may suggest itself but in the mean time baking would seem a sensible reaction

Re: I'm thinking that a mammoth is itself

exploding mammoth

interesting, but have you thought how you might attach it to a shark? <strokes white cat>

Re: Time to go back to cash

You can't hack cash.

The artful dodger could

Of course what would be more useful ... when moved violently, ... capturing an image or video with both cameras

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homophone corner

... this is one of the perinials.

Given the dirty washing metaphor I'm trying to decide whether you meant perennial or perineal.

Re: I LOATHE the Bigoted Biased Corporation…

I think I would be a bit pissed with the NHS if they had fucked up my meds that much too

Re: As a new start up...

It's the track record that counts. Like they say, if I owe the bank GBP1 million, I have a problem. If I owe the GBP10 beeellion, the bank has a problem. The best time to survey where all the bodies are buried is when you are burying them.

abstract subtext

>> ...potential dates who turned down one of us repeatedly...

Second, the word I've highlighted leads me to read it as though he was pestering asking the same women again and again.

I guess, either that or perhaps he sees individual women as instances of some sort of hive mind that has it in for him rather than people in their own right. Either way the whole thing sounds a bit like a PUA dressed up in nerd chic

Re: Grandma

Attack of the Underpants 419ers

1 Bad Grandma

2 Rule 34

3 ???

4 Significant losses

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

The lawyers must be rubbing their hands with glee!

Did they find a way to monetise the the postings of internet Jeremiahs wondering whether* driverless car engineers have thought about the possible need to steer around obstacles?

* I'm going to guess that this came up in early project brain storming

Re: Further proof...

Hi, network/password nazi

No network/password for you

Re: Have i missed something?

A fridge, for example, its unlikely you will have an ethernet point in the kitchen, so it must connect wirelessly, therefore, it must be configured to connect. If i choose not to configure it, then it cant connect can it?

Or is it like these unwanted smart meters using MESH to connect.

You have to get the TV to really really promise not to tell the fridge the WPA key and hope that the TV isn't as tempted by cold beer as you would be

Re: Tax allowances

You're not giving more to the better off, you're taking less off them. It's an important distinction.

Only for no-spherical better off folks not in a vacuum...

Like coding, economics is pretty simple until the users get involved.

Re: MS going for the niche markets!

In this day and age I definately believe that there are far more important subjects than

False dichotomy? We've heard of it

Re: Speed of electrons

In a good conductor electrons travel millimeters per second. A semiconductor has far fewer electrons (or holes) that can move, so given the same current density, the electrons travel much faster. If they want fast electrons, silver is a really bad choice.

IME really fast electrons give a clinical listening experience. You really loose the warmth of slower conducting media. I couldn't believe the difference when I swapped from 1.5 metre silver interconnects to 50 metre cables. The increased propagation delay allowed the pre-amp time to really open up the sound-stage. Honestly I think it even beats liquid nitrogen cooled granite speaker stands I bought last year.

Re: "Broadcast is efficient"

My possibly misplaced faith in human nature

H.L. Menken had something to say about estimating this sort of thing

Re: Flash?

So flash is more dangerous than thought?

Gordon's alive?

Re: How do they keep the helium in?

Get the above wrong and it reverts to an air-filled enclosure (or a partial vacuum when cold, as the heated helium escapes) fairly quickly. Must be a real design headache.

c'mon how is the mark^H^H^H^H customer going to be able to tell (apart from their balance sheet)

Re: The Point

I disagree that use of secrecy indicates a broken society. Functioning societies require a means of enforcing cultural norms whether through shame, guilt or fear and secrecy is just another mechanism for increasing the granularity with which norms are enforced and exceptions are granted (or taken). Utopian dreams that there is an achievable 'perfect' society where we can dispense with checks balances and other inconsistent fudges are just that, dreams. Reality always comes back to balancing competing priorities a and absolute secrecy or openness will remain in the realms of thought experiments

95%

Another point Ms McIntosh made was that in rural areas (y'know where, like, farms are) lack of access to 2 'megabytes' (sic, she repeated this several times) broadband was running at 18%.

Re: Flash

Dispatch war rocket Ajax. You know why.

cute

Wonder if Cortana (who came up with that one BTW?) will reply as cutely as Siri when asked "Hey Siri, talk dirty to me"

I find, when asking a lady to "talk dirty to me", that addressing her with the name of another lady will significantly alter the cuteness of the response. Do not ask me how I know this.

Re: How to spoil a good comment.

Its not an exaggeration:

claiming that the bbc just locked up your gran for failiure to pay the license fee even though she doesnt own a tele is not an exaggeration because someone else over 60 was imprisoned for failing to pay a court imposed fine is not a good argument. Note that my point is not that prison for fine defaulters is a good thing. It is that category errors in support of specious statements are a bad thing

Re: could be worse...

Or... "Life Support has stopped responding and needs to shut down"

Rocket throttle has stopped responding and really, really needs to shut down.

Docking operation will complete in 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 35 seconds, 1024 years, 5 minutes

Re: Fake news.

Is this story fake or satire?

Downvote for Fake or Satire

Upvote for Could Care less (dyswidt?)

In a lot of cases they are not even referring to either book or film- they are just referring to the law/rule:

They may not realise that they are referencing the book. I think it would be harder to reference the film without being concious of the source.

Re: "Really? But Google is the internet, surely"?

Great comment. I'm going into Carphone Warehouse tomorrow, and asking them to sell me a phone with AOL on it. That should confuse them...

Apart from anything else, where would I put all the CDs?

See if they will cut you a deal on an acoustic coupler. You always get the best accessory deals when you bundle them with a handset purchase