Yes, it's quite an experience to face an angry mob of some 200 people who feel they have to take issue with the project you are supposed to build.
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Sysadmin flees asbestos scare with disk drive, blank pay cheques, angry builders in pursuit
Hack us and you're basically attacking America, says UK defence sec
Friday 21st October 2016 21:31 GMT
"So far Britain has managed to avoid the sort of targeted large-scale hacks that have seen big US tech companies such as Yahoo! ..."
Evidently the plucky IT-lads in Britain's counterpart to Yahoo! are better at securing their systems than - hang on, wait a minute ...
In a way, you could call it security by obscurity, I guess.
New measurement alert. The Pogba: 1,200Pg = NHS annual budget
Lessons from the Mini: Before revamping or rebooting anything, please read this
Friday 21st October 2016 19:37 GMT
Re: "...drive a 2CV and B-Class..."
"Vat est das 'smile on mine face'?"
You'll want to be careful, though - there might be side effects.
Friday 21st October 2016 19:25 GMT
Re: Are you saying the mini revamp was a success?
"It's just a shame that they have been made with the traditional FIAT attention to quality.."
My first car was a second (third?) hand Alfasud*... what you get from FIAT** these days is GOLD in comparison.
* Still, it was fun to drive. The 1000 cc 4-cylinder boxer packed quite a punch for it's size.
** Okay, there is the old joke that it's an acronym for 'Fehler In Allen Teilen'.
Friday 21st October 2016 19:11 GMT
Re: Are you saying the mini revamp was a success?
"Indeed, anybody who thinks that "the redesigned VM Beetle had shown that the market liked a small city car with some character." clearly has no clue what size a 'small city car' is."
They also have no idea what a car with some character is.
Essentially, the 'New Beetle' is just an expensive VW Golf1) 2). (The Audi TT is essentially a very expensive VW Golf.)
1) Leftpondians might know it as a 'Rabbit' or 'Caribe'.
2) However, the VW Golf always did very well in the "World's Most Boring Car" awards, and continues to do so.
What will happen when I'm too old to push? (buttons, that is)
Two new dinosaurs walked from South America to Australia, via Antarctica
'Doubly unacceptable' Swiss vegan forces his way into the army
Australia's IBM-assisted Census fail burned AU$30 MEEELLION
China's LeEco eyes up US, takes on, er, Apple, Samsung, Netflix, Tesla
Friday 21st October 2016 07:36 GMT
Re: Learn something new every day...
You need a coarser grind when you don't use any kind of filter, in other words when making any kind of coffee by putting the grind in a cup and pouring water over it. Like turkish mocca. I learned that in - Norway. You can buy coarse ground coffee there; mostly used when going hiking. All you need is a kettle and a cup, no messing around with filters. You'll have to watch out for the dregs though.
If you use paper filters, you'll need a finer grind. If your filter is some kind of fine wire mesh or basically a sheet of thin metal with lots of tiny holes in it (like in most espresso machines) you're somewhere on middle ground, grind wise.
If you invest in a really good espresso machine, you should go the whole nine yards and buy a proper grinder too. It will take a little experimentation to find out what level of coarseness yields the best results - it varies with the type of beans/coffee blend, the type of coffee you brew (espresso, cappuchino, macciato, etc, etc) and of course personal taste. Purists will say that when grinding your beans you should even take the weather into account, i.e. variations in the air's humidity.
My grandmothers both had hand operated 'coffeemills'; it was fun using them and you just can't beat the smell of freshly ground coffee.
Allora, prendere un caffè...
Tesla's big news today:
sudo killall -9 Autopilot
Kids today are so stupid they fall for security scams more often than greybeards
Thursday 20th October 2016 15:20 GMT
Re: It's a mentality change IMO
"... and the more technology people get to use the dumber they get ..."
To some extent perhaps, but there is also the effect that, as technology matures i.e. becomes relieable and easy to use, more people get to use it. Which includes a growing number of people who are, well, stupid.
Example: cars. 100 years ago someone who drove cars for a living was a highly trained specialist in a brand new technology.
Thursday 20th October 2016 14:50 GMT
Re: feeling sorry for the prudes
Don't they have a decent sex life because they are prudes, or are they prudes because they never had a decent sex life?
I can't work it out, it's too much of a chicken / egg problem...
Anyway, I must dash now. We're having the Prudes round for dinner and I must hide the Pirelli calendar.
Thursday 20th October 2016 14:42 GMT
Re: 'Digital Natives' are totally oblivious to how it works
- "How many "kids" know how to drive a stick shift?"
- "If they have a driving license, pretty much everybody in the UK."
It's a leftpondian thing. Nearly every car sold during the last 60-odd years having an automatic transmission, I mean.
That aside: spot on!
If you had to make it work, you learned how it works in the process, at least to some extent.
If it just works, you don't.
Both have their pros and cons - but all things considered I'm someone who likes to know.
Yahoo! begs! US! spymaster! Clapper!: Spill! the! beans! on! secret! email! snooping!
Thursday 20th October 2016 08:37 GMT
What's the matter Yahoo!? Talks with Verizon not going as intended?
Anyway...
If we figure out the keyword we'll know exactly where the problems are.
Wally, what is the keyword?
Keyword.
What is the keyword?
Keyword.
No, no.
What is THE KEYWORD?
Keyword.
I think his keyword was "keyword".
All right, I said "smart," not "creative"
DeepMind boffins are trying to help robots escape The Matrix and learn for themselves in the real world
Thursday 20th October 2016 08:15 GMT
Book tip for DeepMind: Paul Watzlawick - How Real Is Real?
Microsoft reveals career-enhancing .PNG files
Spinal Tap’s bass player sues former French sewer
How do you make a qubit 10 times as stable? Dress it up for work
AI, AI, captain: Royal Navy warships to set sail with computer officers
HomeKit is where the dearth is – no one wants Apple's IoT tech
Oh God, here comes the artificially intelligent boss bot – look busy!
DARPA unveils robot co-pilot
Wednesday 19th October 2016 13:34 GMT
Any word on how ALIAS* handles flying on instruments?
* Somewhere in the DARPA charter must be a "no acronym - no funding" clause.
China's Shenzhou-11 capsule docks with Tiangong-2 station
Hack suspect hospitalised
Digi minister Matt Hancock: Britain needs go full fibre. And we're not paying for it
Who killed Cyanogen?
China blamed in drone hack
AWS turns on Ohio Region
Mozilla strangling SHA-1
Probe boffins: Two balls deep in Uranus's ring
Wednesday 19th October 2016 08:42 GMT
"... given the small predicted sizes of the α and β moonlets, a convincing detection may not be possible in the Voyager 2 images ..."
At 2 to 4 km probably not... Does anybody here know something about the resolution of the Voyager pics? Off the top of my head I'd say the moonlets will be hiding in the pixels, so to speak...
Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and BT bid for Indian cricket online
NFL is No Fondleslab League: Top coach says he'd rather use pen and paper than Surface tab
Ecuador admits it cut Assange's internet to stop WikiLeaks' US election 'interference'
Think virtual reality is just about games? Think again, friend
Crims cram credit card details into product shots on e-shops
Apple's car is driving nowhere
US reactor breaks fusion record – then runs out of cash and shuts down
Apple hires CMU AI guru Russ Salakhutdinov to lure over more talent
India/Russia tech pact
Chinese 'nauts blast off for month-long space station scouting mission
Puny human sailors still needed... until drone machine learning tech catches up
Monday 17th October 2016 13:27 GMT
"The challenge for today’s drone control system designers is to hone their systems into being able to make autonomous decisions at a certain level."
Hmm. Why am I thinking of Isaac Asimov's The Machine That Won The War all of a sudden?
EDIT: looks like there is a dead link on the linked page (the one to the story itself), so here's another one that has a synopsis.
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