Reasons. Not good ones.
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China can't find anyone smart enough to run its whizzbang $180m 1,640ft radio telescope
HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD
Our day with Larry Page: Embedded with one of the world's richest men
DJI drones: 'Cyber vulnerabilities' prompt blanket US Army ban
Brit uni builds its own supercomputer from secondhand parts
Particle boffins show off 'cheap', cute little CosI, world's smallest neutrino detector
Saturday 5th August 2017 05:35 GMT
Re: How many particles are there?
That's a question that pops up in my mind from time to time. And every time it does, I do a little "research", i.e. I feed some words into an internet search engine and go wherever the links take me. Nothing conclusive yet, all I've come up with so far is a very rough guestimate: a lot.
Si vous comprenez ces mots, vous êtes français ou l'intelligence artificielle de Facebook
Are you a clean freak? Are you a keen geek? Do you think space is neat?
Why do you cry when chopping onions? No, it's not crippling anxiety, it's this weird chemical
Friday 4th August 2017 16:35 GMT
Knives and swords and cutlery and stuff: Klingenmuseum Solingen (en). Worth a visit if you're in the area.
How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really)
Wednesday 2nd August 2017 05:38 GMT
I have some legacy engineering software that I use maybe once or twice a year that runs in a DOS box under Win98 on a 20 year old Tosiba Satellite laptop that still has a centronics port for the dongle.
It just works and just isn't worth the effort to change anything. The software will probably reach EOL next year due to upcoming changes in codes/regulations; I'll buy a current software package and put that on my regular desktop box. At that point I will have gotten 20 years of use out of the old setup - not a bad milage, I'd say.
Sun of a b... Rising solar temp wrecks chances of finding ET in our system
Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there'
Monday 31st July 2017 12:12 GMT
"It’s an era described as the "Kitty Hawk" moment for robot cars – a reference to the moment in 1903 when the Wright Brothers made their first powered flight in North Carolina. What followed was a blossoming of ideas in aircraft design, technology and new companies."
What followed at first was a decade of - well, not that much, really. Planes were a novelty with little practical use. A carnival attraction. Only visionaries and crazy peole believed in a future for planes, and it's not easy to tell both groups apart. This changed drastically with WW1, when the military saw applications. As this proved to be true, planes got funding and kept getting funding. Those pesky between-wars periods prompted manufacturers to look into civil/commercial applications.
But between "the first powered flight" and "planes as a form of relieable mass transport" lie untold billions of R&D money and roughly six decades.
So yes, I do think the "nearly finished" claims regarding autonomous cars may be a bit on the optimustic side of things.
Scary news: Asteroid may pass Earth by just 6,880km in October
Monday 31st July 2017 11:44 GMT
Any word from Canolfan Gwylio’r Gofod (The Spaceguard Centre) yet?
Petition calls for Adobe Flash to survive as open source zombie
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Crypto ban won't help trap terrorists
Monday 31st July 2017 11:12 GMT
4. there are handy tools for removing a letter from its envelope and putting it back without opening the envelope. Early models hail from the WW1 era, perfected during the WW2 era, refined into an art during the cold war. Several spy museums have that kind of stuff on display, just poke around the net a bit.
Monday 31st July 2017 11:08 GMT
All letters are processed by sorting machines that scan the address in order to do the sorting. If you also scan the letters for the sender's return address, you have pretty good metadata on who is in contact with whom. Even if there is no sender's return address, this would raise a flag - X gets lots of anonymous letters from region Y.
As this is relatively easy to implement, I wouldn't be surprised if it is already done here or there.
Linus Torvalds pens vintage 'f*cking' rant at kernel dev's 'utter BS'
Another US government committee takes aim at Kaspersky Lab
Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens
Sunday 30th July 2017 20:57 GMT
I do hope that there will be an appropiate opening ceremony.
Pre-order your early-bird pre-sale product today! (Oh did we mention the shipping date has slipped AGAIN?)
Sunday 30th July 2017 06:02 GMT
Re: Excellent HHGTG reference
I see your Betamax and raise you one set of bootleg tapes on Video 2000.
The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY
Clear August 21 in your diary: It's a total solar eclipse for the smart
Dark web doesn't exist, says Tor's Dingledine. And folks use network for privacy, not crime
Ransomware scum straighten ties, invest in good customer service
Virgin Media mulls ditching 1 in 3 UK facilities, starts £20m spend audit
Should you stay awake at night worrying about hackers on the grid?
Flaws in web-connected, radiation-monitoring kit? What could go wrong?
Sunday 30th July 2017 09:21 GMT
Re: Joking aside are these the most potentially seriousl vulnerabilies seen outside of Stuxnet?
Well, potentially, yes.
Okay, this is B-movie plot logic, but technically, this could be exploited by bad actors to bring in a nuclear device through a seaport in a shipping container. Perhaps a country ruled by an insane dictator that has nukes, but hasn't reliable ICBMs?
UK waves £45m cheque, charges scientists with battery tech boffinry
Sunday 30th July 2017 08:58 GMT
Re: So where would that leave developing a sugar solution fuel cell?
The other issue with nuclear, oh what the hell, I'm old enough to call it atomic energy, is: it is still basically the same as mining fossil fuels, of which there is a finite amount, and burning them. So at best, a mid term solution. Short term if you use a larger timescale.
Our energy-based technical civilisation started around the 1850ies; that's some 5 generations ago. And it has managed to use up a substantial amount of all the fuel there is already.
Civilisation as we know it goes back some 6,000 years, or 200 generations. The date for "close enough to us to be called man" beings is usually given as roundabout 200,000 years ago; roughly 6,700 generations.
Atomic energy might get us another 5 generations of technical civilisation, and then what?
On the other hand, we have (indirect) access to a fusion reactor that has been running for some 5bn years already, and is good to run for another 5bn years. For all practical purposes, that's as close to "forever" as it gets. Long term, and I mean long term, tapping in that energy source is the only option. And now is the time to start.
Boffins throw Amazon Alexa on the rack to extract hidden clues
Chess champ Kasparov, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords
BBC’s Micro:bit turns out to be an excellent drone hijacking tool
BOFH: Oh go on. Strap me to your Hell Desk, PFY
The opsec blunders that landed a Russian politician's fraudster son in the clink for 27 years
Wisconsin badgers Apple to cough up half a billion dollars for ripping off chip designs
Thursday 27th July 2017 10:55 GMT
Re: You had me at cheese
"Turns out there's not nearly that many cheese names."
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