Posts by 's water music

Re: lasers

If you are going to have perimeter mounted lasers then you might as well shoot down the rain drops directly and do without windscreen wipers altogether. Presumably you would need a system to harvest rainwater from some other parts of the vehicle to sustain the sharks.

Re: Lack of detail?

Was this transport business going to have the mission statement "nobody likes us, we don't care" ?

In which case you can see a clear overlap with the license-rights-enforcement-juggernaut from over the pond.

Perhaps TCFKA Oracle101 have a fee scale which starts off based on freight weight and miles travelled but then starts randomly adding in per-spark plug and per-valve multipliers as well as clawing back driver wages from time to time

Re: Wearing them wrong - sunglasses too dark

They look a lot like Joo Janta 200s. If they turn dark, start worrying

Re: did anyone ever use these buttons the way they were intended to?

then got a shroud and tripped it again with a soccer ball

I blame some of my fuck-ups on Wilson too

But therefore they're not true British Citizens!

Certainly they are no true Scotsmen

Re: Nice

Irregular capitalisation FTW

It provides a simple visual branding scheme for deciding which of Bob's posts are worth reading (it is left as an exercise for the reader to decide whether to subscribe to the CAPS or lower-case feed)

terrorist one: ok, time to whatsapp our Elbonian boss to report that the plot to disable all UK internet infrastructure has been successfully executed.

terrorist two: wait, wut?

...and you start sharing ideas with other Uber drivers, you pick up a few pointers

but they ban the few bad apples that make it through screening so you would only 'pick up pointers' from ex drivers Shirley

corollary

It's then necessary to take up the floor and replace the whole cable.

I think that only applies to structural concrete floors. If there is a void with removable panels/tiles then there will be an obscure compatibility issue that means you can easily replace the cable but also need to replace the display panel as well as upgrade all of the rest of your AV/IM infrastructure and migrate to a different vendor platform that does not inter-operate with your biggest customer. Or something

Re: Some people.

Cattle prod.

I dunno, might be worth checking first if he has a cousin who does mobo replacements and ask to be cut in on the deal

Re: how to get people to keep their religion off your property.

I usually tell them I'm a bit busy just now

Re: Lethality

lethaliciousness

Re: Shadows....

I spent a while looking at thispersondoesnotexist the other day. Leaving aside those images with a gross distortion artefact in the background I noticed that almost all had what looked like weird skin folds in the neck or around the edge of the face, sort of like wrinkles but not quite. They seemed to re-use the same teeth a lot which was another giveaway. I got bored before I got a fake/real guess wrong (ok it didn't take that long). Without the training a good set of fake faces and the expectation that exactly one in each pair is fake I would not be so confident

Re: RE: """prove""" that it is racism

While I find it hard to believe that you have ever rubbed anyone up the wrong way at work bob, I think you ought to draw a clearer distinction between discrimination based on protected characteristics, which is illegal, discrimination based on irrelevant characteristics which is unfair (and may be illegal if it correlates too closely with a protected characteristic) and discrimination based on relevant characteristics which is the purpose of a hiring and promotion policy in the first place.

using the term "5G" even though (as the article points out) there's no concrete definition as to what it actually is

What it is, is It's one faster isn't it?

Mild-mannered janitors. Them's the ones you need to watch

Re: A Subtle Distinction

I haven't seen anyone flashing in relation to Brexit, which is very disappointing. Where should I be looking for this?

Presumably Dr Victoria Bateman. A source who knows her suggests that she was just looking for any excuse.

Re: If you're looking for a challenge...

I dreamt of owning one of those and escaping the limitations of compact cassette recording. Was gutted when the format didn't take off

Re: El Reg Headlines

My theory is it's all the work of some poor dude chained up in a dark basement... kept aloft with coke and beer while simultaneously weighed down by deadlines.

You are confusing it with coding

Re: High Quality Test Software Of High Quality

upvoted for not having added a 'joke alert' icon to this short documentary

Re: The benefit of being forced to accept a customer's licencing terms

PHB: 'This piss-ant little vendor wants us to accept a perpetual license agreement. Sounds too good to be true. It must be a trap. You there. Copy and paste the Oracle terms and tell them to accept a grown-up's license agreement or fuck off. This is why they pay me the big bucks.'

example?

correspondence about dealing with snagging on a new build property? Results of investigations by the developer into the background of a home owner who is in dispute with them over snagging?

Re: He's a prize twat

While I have every sympathy with any attempt to get his stuff back if there's no ongoing justification for it to be held, I still think the guy is an idiot. A pretty mouthy one at that.

Well luckily (for me at least) that isn't an offence

Re: Road Runner testing?

Now come on, who here wouldn't love to draw a curve onto the divider line up to a brick wall and paint a tunnel on it as a test of this technology?

Yeah sure but you'll feel a right cunt when the AV goes straight through the tunnel and when you try to follow it you smack right into a wall