Re: holding phone in hand all the time
Reminds me of something Harry Rowohlt once said about Stuttgart: "Were I forced to live there, I'd always carry a map in order to make people think that I'm a tourist."
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Paint your wagon (with electric circuits) but leave my crotch alone
SETI searchers: We still haven't found what we're looking for
How much does your kid hate exams? This lad hacked his government to skip them
Friday 2nd September 2016 12:05 GMT
Re: There's precedent. / Wasn't this?
No and no. And while we're at it, no.
JTK actually hacked the computer and tampered with the test program*. This kid did the IT equivalent of a graffitti on a toilet wall. The links to the relevant xkcd cartoons have already been posted; just scroll down a bit.
* Actually, he didn't. Because he's a fictional character from a TV show.
Cooky crumbles: Apple mulls yanking profits out of Europe and into US
Watch SpaceX's rocket dramatically detonate, destroying a $200m Facebook satellite
Lenovo's tablet with a real pen, Acer's monster laptop, Samsung Galaxy S3 watch
Now the Olympics is over, Theranos is withdrawing its Zika test application
SpaceX blast kills Zuck's sat
US spectrum auction falls short by, oh, you know, $66bn thanks to tightwad mobile giants
More banks plundered through SWIFT attacks
USBee stings air-gapped PCs: Wirelessly leak secrets with a file write
Lawyers! win! millions! in! bonkers! Yahoo! email! snooping! case!
Blink and you missed it: Asteroid came within 90,000 km, only one sky-watcher saw it
Newest Royal Navy warship weighs as much as 120 London buses
Height of stupidity: Heathrow airliner buzzed by drone at 7,000ft
Microsoft releases firmware fix for faulty Surface Pro 3 batteries
Ireland taxman: Apple got NO favours from us, at all, at all
Reports: Autopilot will go on strike if you're not paying attention
Tuesday 30th August 2016 12:40 GMT
So, did they flamingo-up the naming, or is it a sinister plan to improve the gene pool? The first thing they should do is to stop calling it 'autopilot'.
$329 for a MacBook? Well, really a 'HacBook' built on an old HP
Pump-priming the new ampere: NIST works to count electrons in silicon
Li-Fi with my little eye … a vulnerability
Tuesday 30th August 2016 12:02 GMT 
For what it's worth - I still have the doohickeys somewhere that would link your printer to your PC via IR*. One box plugged in the PC, one in the printer - centronics interface, naturally. The boxes didn't even need to be able to "see" each other; the IR signals would bounce off the ceiling and you'd have a duplex connection.
In theory anyway.
*IR is in the visible spectrum - for some species. Just not for humans.
SETI Institute damps down 'wow!' signal report from Russia
Pope meets Zuckerberg
FAA powers up an invisible hand, groping the skies for rule-busting biz drones
Facebook replaces human editors with McChicken romping, Fox News faking AI bots
Apple sued over shoddy iPhone touchscreens
cicret bracelets
Our pacemakers are totally secure, says short-sold St Jude
Pizza delivery by drone 'trialled' in New Zealand
The Internet of Cows is moo-ving fast … no bull!
Mars to get Chinese delivery. Estimated time of arrival: 2020
Voyager 2's closest Saturn swoop was 35 years ago today
Google 'Solitaire' ... Just do it
Snakes on the phone!
Juno probe to graze Jupiter on Saturday
NASA's free research trove may have broken arms trafficking rules
Watch the world's biggest 'flying bum' go arse over tit in a crash
Angler hooks German's todger at nudist lake
French submarine builder DCNS springs leak: India investigates
False Northern Lights alert issued to entire UK because of a lawnmower
Thursday 25th August 2016 12:41 GMT
Re: Intermittent interruptions...
Had something like that sometime in the early 1990ies. LAN cable next to power line for a freight elevator in a warehouse. No problems when the elevator was used - except on the odd day when the elevator was loaded to maximum capacity. Took some time to find the fault...
Vidahost hikes domain name fees by a third, blames Brexit
Nuclear fallout shelter becomes cloud storage bunker
NIST spins atomic gyroscope to allow navigation without GPS
Thursday 25th August 2016 10:54 GMT
Re: dead reckoning without a starting referencence would be useless
That's 3 cm error from gyro drift. Plus X Nautical Miles error from drift as in 'something floating submersed in an ocean' that is also moving, and not consistently. Doesn't hurt to get a fix on your position every now and then.
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