Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

Re: sandporn?

Rule 34.

Re: Frequent visitors don't necessarily log in, etc.

"I can't believe that anyone has trouble finding free porn."

In soviet russia malware internet, porn finds you!

Re: This clearly goes to show you...

Given that every* economic theory I've come across so far assumes that all the participiants are rational beings and act rational... no, there really shouldn't be a Nobel for economics** because whatever it is or may be, it isn't proper science.***

* Quite a lot, but certainly not all. In one of my former lifes I was enrolled in economics for two years; not in order to persue a degree, but to learn a bit and get to understand how these people think.

** Well, technically there isn't. Nobel didn't found one, the Swedish bank of issue**** did so some time later. But for all practical purposes it's 'the Nobel in economics'.

*** There is a good and proper rant in this, but right now I just haven't got the energy.

**** This reads kinda strage, I hope Pons Online didn't pull a prank on me here just now.

Re: Actually VCRs still exist

U-Matic for professional use, actually. Betamx is U-Matic's little bastard brother, so to speak.

Re: They're behind the curve

As quantum leaps are very small and random, I hope someone comes up with something clever that actually works.

Re: Overlooked Problem? / submarines

Which is why modern, non-nuke subs use fuel cells. Diesel-electric is so 21st century...

Re: Sorted

Not as such. 'Inspired by", but not "copied off". Sergej Kalashnikov found himself facing the wrong end of the StG-44 (or 43), but was lucky enough to survive. He started thinking about the design of something similar while recovering in military hospital. The result was the 'Automat Kalashnikov', introduced in 1947 - hence AK-47.

Re: What a waste !!!

"No one demanded pretty pics of the "Higgs Boson" ... "

Wrong. I did. But I never got an answer.

Re: Wrong question ...

Cui bono ... always a good question to ask ...

I take it all your gear is EMP-hardened, then?

"If you set up a system like our current education system it is almost inevitable that we now have a system like what you descibe."

IMO that's because the current system made the switch from "education" to "training" some time ago. And no, they are not the same.

Re: Stages of grief

What about the bargaining stage?

Re: Obsessive

No, you may not take one of my comics out of the baggy and fondle it with your dirty, sweaty, smelly fingers. No, not even with cotton gloves. Now run along before I have time to fetch one of my power tools from the workshop.

Re: They're almost done..

Difficult to move on without some closure, no matter what you know on the rational level. Thing is, humans aren't rational beings. (And if you doubt this, just look at some of the discussions in the forums here.) Funerals are for the living. If they were done simply because of the hygienic issues a dead body will rise, there would be no need for all the rituals involved. This goes way, way back in our history as a species; even the Neanderthals buried their dead in some sort of ceremony.

Re: Security professionals?

Not a badge of honour for the rival security biz that got hacked either.

Re: Data estimates

"If you take a look at the average autonomous car in 2020, the estimates right now are it will throw off about 40GB a minute of data"

It is now July 2016. Significant numbers of autonomous cars on the road in less than four years? Sorry, I can't see it.

Re: Did you just think about this?

Yes. The amazing (if that is the right word) thing is that no one had a plan for the result of the referendum to be 'leave'.

But, life being a funny old thing, there is a funny side to everything.

Re: "customers"

You are Dido Harding, and I claim my £5!

Re: freshest of it's time

Oh, that would have been this one

Aha. Well, that's that cleared up, isn't it?