Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

So, two phoones then? One with the trackable SIM that just lies in a desk drawer all the time and the one for actual use with an imported, roaming SIM?

BTW, which firm of consultants came up with this, and for how much?

"These BMEWS stations were positioned over the most likely routes for Soviet ICBMs to come visiting the Land of the Free, and some thought the USSR had worked out a jamming technology that would blind the US ahead of an attack."

"Over"?

But I digress. AFAIK, at that time the availiable jamming technology would have been an EMP caused by setting off a nuclear bomb in the upper atmosphere (or a bit higher)*, and I guess someone would have noted that.

Anyway - with each gem like this released from the archives, "Dr Strangelove"** edges yet another step away from "totally over the top romp, never could have happened" towards "mild satire, not that far away from the real thing".

* Interesting documentary on that: "The Rainbow Bombs" (aka "Nukes In Space"), can be found online by now.

** If you watch the other big film of the age about the subject, "Fail Safe", in comparison you'll see that Kubrick was absolutely right in treating it as a comedy.

"To help narrow the search for Martian life further, the researchers hope to continue testing out meteorite collisions over a broader range of pressures and temperatures to find the specific conditions needed for organic matter to survive blasts."

Okay, who else thought "Mythbusters" when reading this?

Convenience over security. Every smeggin' time.

Ever had something like this?

From the description it sounds a bit like it's a slightly more aggressive version of GWX.

Well, sharing is caring. Or something.

They could repurpose the cat detector vans from the Ministry of Housinge, that would work just as well and shave a bit off the costs.

Was Aleister Dabbs in the area at the time? I heard rumours that he was working on a new ritual against problems with Adobe's CreativeCloud.

Hmm. Looks like Aleister Dabbs must have used the wrong incantation a couple of weeks ago...

They'll ride a wave? Sounds like a bumpy ride in an express elevator with wings...

From The Daily Mash: Millions take 'digital detox' to remind themselves how bored they used to be

Meg Whitman is starting to make sense - is the end nigh after all?

Bitcoin to the value of $67m stolen --> exchange rate drops 22% --> actually Bitcoin to the value of 67 x 0.8 = $53.6m stolen. Until the exchange rate changes again.

Combat ready? Maybe in the same sense that MRE rations* are ready to eat.

* "Three lies for the price of one!"

Yet another step towards their goal of making everything an online service.

Also yet another move that will irritate former loyal customers and prompt them to look for alternatives.

Hey Branson

stop distracting the FAA from getting on with the LOHAN clearances, there's a good chap.

It's certainly a good thing to think about this now, and one way or another the results of the studies will teach us something. However, I won't start to worry until I see the first working quantum computer that is worthy of the name. And if it comes to the worst I'll start using henchmen to distribute one time pads for the really sensitive stuff.

Obligatory, sort of: https://xkcd.com/932/

Kids stuff. But it is usually not a good sign when kids start spewing official propaganda by totalitarian regimes.

"Galvani Bioelectronics" - the name alone made me twitch already.

So yes, there is a lot of potential in this (see above post regarding diabetes as one example).

But I can't help thinking that G00gle dreams of nanobots in my nervous system that will make me actually click on the ads they show me.

"Historian Francis Fukuyama in 1992 reckoned with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the replacement of Communist systems behind it with liberal democracies, we had reached the end of history."

Yes. And he was obviously wrong.

Great start for what is essentially a sales pitch.

Oh, this just keeps getting better and better...

Feels like they either stumbled across something they weren't supposed to see or threatened somebodies business model - and that someone is extremely well connected.