Question: in theory, would it be possible to design a programming language that uses song lyrics as code? (After all, there is something like Ook! already.)
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US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics
Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'
PC rebooted every time user flushed the toilet
Sunday 25th June 2017 21:42 GMT
Re: cleaning staff at computer centres
... always remind me of Hot Millions (trailer), writeup on Jimbopedia.
Facebook gives itself mission to 'bring the world closer' by getting people off Facebook
NASA? More like NASAI: Brainy robots 'crucial' to space exploration
Lordy! Trump admits there are no tapes of his chats with Comey
US Air Force resumes F-35A flights despite not knowing why pilot oxygen systems failed
Friday 23rd June 2017 15:45 GMT
Re: Two words
I initially assumed this had something to do with bits of Toblerone getting stuck in pipes; turns out it's something else entirely.
BOFH: Putting the commitment into committee
Smart burglars will ride the surf of inter-connected hackability
Genoans flout terror ban with bumper basil hand baggage policy
'No decision' on Raytheon GPS landing system aboard Brit aircraft carriers
Canadian sniper makes kill shot at distance of 3.5 KILOMETRES
Thursday 22nd June 2017 17:42 GMT
"Let's assume that there were several sighting shots, and that they got closer to the target. Wouldn't the target therefore know that he was under fire, and consequently be unlikely to hold still in an exposed location for nearly 10 seconds?"
Not neccessarily. I dimly remember bits from basic training about stuff like this (but it's been 30 years now), and off the top of my head:
1. You might not even notice a couple of incoming shots around you, depending on what they hit and how buisy you are. Especially if they come from far away and the sound, even if you actually hear it, doesn't match the timing of noise/impact you are familiar with.
2. Let's say you notice and recognize the sighting shots for what they are - but you can't tell where they are coming from. All you know is that there is a sniper somewhere who's really far away. So for all you know, shifting your position might make it easier for the sniper to hit you. At the sime time you know that you are relatively hard to hit where you are right now due to the distance. I guess I'd toss a coin.
3. Let's say you notice the shots - and conclude that someone wants to drive you away from your position. Maybe to lure you into the range of, say a mortar or something like that.
Uber wants your top tips to mend its rotten image
Ego stroking, effusive praise and promise of billions: White House tech meeting in full
The Internet of Flying Thing: Reg man returns with explicit shots
Wednesday 21st June 2017 15:01 GMT
Re: around 800kg
"I'm perfectly happy buying a paper in the airport if I need news, or reading a book if not."
Unless the airline deceides to charge you for not using their on-board wi-fi, entertainment system, or whatever... because this means you are not producing any sellable data. Wouldn't put it past the likes of RyanAir.
Besides, only terrorists read books on a plane these days!
Fancy buying our aircraft carrier satnav, Raytheon asks UK
Oops! Facebook outed its antiterror cops whilst they banned admins
Yeah, if you could just stop writing those Y2K compliance reports, that would be great
Saturday 17th June 2017 08:57 GMT
Re: Time for Y2.1K
"Besides, many Y2K fixes were really hacks that assumed 20xx after some cut-off year. They run into trouble even before 2100!"
Yes, I vaguely remember that there were fixes on some systems that were more like somewhat questionable workarounds that pushed the problem from 1999 to 2019; the thinking being "that will give us enough time to either fix the problem or replace the systems completely". Well, time's nearly up - does anybody know whether this is still an issue?
Yahoo! cleanup! will! cost! Verizon! half! a! billion! bucks!
Fighter pilot shot down laptops with a flick of his copper-plated wrist
Saturday 17th June 2017 08:08 GMT
Re: You want placebos? Talk to a hi-fi nut
Duh, everybody knows that a CD player sounds better when you put a brick on top of it. Mind you, the brick has to be burnt at the proper temperature at new moon, and from the right sort of clay out of a quarry touching a layline, and has to be angled just so.
Saturday 17th June 2017 07:55 GMT
"I wonder how many times our bodies totally regenerate during our life-time?"
Depends on how you look at it. There is no such thing as a total body regeneration, but a lot of stuff gets constantly replaced. A lot of your parts are younger than yourself. Your skin has a regeneration cycle of about two weeks, while your small intestine's is about 16 years. Liver, two years. Skeleton, 10 years. And so on. And some stuff doesn't get replaced at all or at at rate that is so slow that it usually amounts to the same, like most of the brain and nervous system.
And it's all done automatically, from a dataset that was created at your conception, using building blocks that were once made in distant stars.
Friday 16th June 2017 23:12 GMT
"And all the other printers hear it, and swear vengeance upon you!"
Oh snap! Election's made Brexit uncertainty worse for biz, says BT CEO
Tuesday 13th June 2017 14:14 GMT
Re: Even less difficult with my plan:
Not bad at all. Needs a bit of work on the details, though.
1) Ask Trump whether we can be annexed to the US as a semi-autonomous state. I like the sound of Trumpania as a name.
Britain would have to get in the queue behind Puerto Rico.
3) [...] In particular adopt US food standards, and let Monsanto run our farming.
Monsanto has just been bought by Bayer.
Security co-operation unlikely to change post Brexit, despite threats
Tuesday 13th June 2017 13:57 GMT
"Nice Community you have there - It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it."
Quite. It's just that Mrs May's approach rather reminds me of the Vercotti brothers rather than, say Vito Corleone.
Congressman drafts COVFEFE Act to preserve Trump's Twitter tantrums
Raspberry Pi sours thanks to mining malware
Tuesday 13th June 2017 04:09 GMT
1. Which cryptocurrency exactly? Bitcoin? The mythical Maycoin?*
2. Are there that many Raspberries out in the wild that, even assuming they are connected and still on their default settings, they could mine coin in a useful timeframe?
Somehow this smells like proof of concept.
* A cryptocurrency I have just made up. It is designed for post-brexit Britain, traceable by the authorities, but totally anonymous for anyone else thanks to the ingenious FlexiCrypt system. The FlexiCrypt system, which I have also just made up, uses deep learning AI algorithms that can recognise who is mining and using any given Maycoin and whether it is a legitimate use of it or not. If it is a legitimate use like a donation to the conservative party, the whole transaction stays completely anonymous. If it is used for something clearly related to terrorism like paying for a VPN service, all availiable data is automatically transferred to the relevant authorities.
Lockheed, USAF hold breath as F-35 pilots report hypoxia
Tuesday 13th June 2017 10:54 GMT
Re: I'm surprised...
No surprise. They don't call them "fighter jocks" for nothing. Including the women.
Besides, at that age you are immortal and indestructable. (Until the day life teaches you otherwise.)
Another example courtesy of Lokheed: Germany bought 916 'Starfighter' (30 F-104F, 586 F-104G*, 163 RF-104G and 137 TF-104G, of which 35 were stationed in the USA for training purposes). Roughly one third, 269 machines, were lost in crashes. Another 31 had to be written off due to accidents, making it a nice round 300. Including the last deadly crash in 1984, a total of 116 pilots were killed. In not a single combag sortie. It was nicknamed the 'widowmaker with wings'. I remember jokes from when I was kid along the lines that the cheapest way to aquire a 'Starfighter' was to buy a plot of land and just wait.
And yet there never was any shortage of pilots wanting to fly it. Grown men had tears in their eyes when the F-104 was finally retired in 1991.
* The troubled multi-role version.
Sharp claims Hisense reverse-ferreted its US telly licence deal
We're not saying we're living in a simulation but someone's simulated the universe in a computer
DIY self-driving cars are closer than they appear (and we're not talking about in the mirror)
Has riddle of the 1977 'Wow!' signal finally been cracked? Maybe...
Shoebox-sized satellites made by civs win trip on NASA's newest rocket
Human-free robo-cars on Washington streets after governor said the software is 'foolproof'
Friday 9th June 2017 20:31 GMT
Re: How does your brain percieve the difference --
"We've already had a discussion here about the ethics of a computer deciding between killing a pedestrian (a non-paying human) and killing it's occupants (paying customers), those choices will need to be made and a human driver will make them in the heat of the moment while a computer program will have had to be taught who it should kill in order of preference."
Ethics? Odds are that the choices will be made based on factors like who has a premium account with the company operating* the autonomous vehicle(s) involved and who doesn't.
* You're not assuming you'll be able to buy your own robocar, are you? It's going to be "Mobility as a Service" or something like that. Even if you are the sole person using one particular car.
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