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Posts by Steve K
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AWS sells local Chinese infrastructure to local partner Sinnet
Tesla buys robot maker. Hang on, isn't that your sci-fi bogeyman, Elon?
Brace yourselves, fanboys. Winter is coming. And the iPhone X can't handle the cold
Saturday 11th November 2017 11:02 GMT
Re: as autumn weather turns to winter
Probably based on the Southern Hemisphere having 20% / 80% land/water ratio.
Therefore the part that is not the equator or Antarctica is even smaller.
Whilst Winter is applicable to the whole non-equatorial Southern Hemisphere, we can assume that the bulk of iPhone X users are on land (as indeed for the Northern Hemisphere), and not in Antarctica.
Therefore as far as iPhone X users go the statement is likely to be accurate.
Geographically however - what you said.
ATM fees shake-up may push Britain towards cashless society
Two drones, two crashes in two months: MoD still won't say why
Wednesday 1st November 2017 13:36 GMT
Daft question here:
If the gates had to be closed to keep the sea out, then at any point they were open, it would have flooded - drunk gatekeeper or not.
If the tide had to be in for the gates being open to matter then surely he would just leave them open then to let the tide go out and everything unsubmerged, but damp.
(I am also sometimes referred to as a legend - I am getting old and no-one really believes in me any more....)
Wednesday 1st November 2017 11:15 GMT
Re: "temperatures on the day averaged about 9°C."
Absolutely - I'm not sure whether the article is saying "Duh! Why are they testing anti-icing if the temperature is 9°C!"
A statement that "temperatures on the day averaged about 9°C" tells you nothing without knowing the altitude of the drone, its airspeed (i.e. airflow over its flying surfaces and hence chill) and whether icing conditions were prevailing at that time (e.g. humidity).
Also - being pedantic - the period of the "average temperature" is important too - it could have been 9°C for 24 hours, or 0°C for 12 hours and 18°C for 12 hours or any other combination....
They may well have proved that the airframe is prone to icing, and/or the deicing does not work (twice!) but the fact that they are saying nothing implies it is more stupid than that (e.g. out of fuel, batteries ran out on drone, flew at negative altitude over the sea for too long, wings on back-to-front).
F-35s grounded by spares shortage
Chinese whispers: China shows off magnetic propulsion engine for ultra-silent subs, ships
Man: Just 18 Bitcoin babies and my home is yours
Tell the public how much our tram tickets cost? Are you mad?
Sniffing substations will solve 'leccy car charging woes, reckons upstart
Cortana, please finish my sentences in Skype texts for me
Tuesday 10th October 2017 10:44 GMT
Re: Let's see how it works...
Rumour has it that even that avenue is being closed off as only Skype Mobile 8 will work with the Skype servers at some point.
The desktop Skype remains untouched as yet on Windows (so you don't have to install the W10 Store Skype App) which matches the Mobile version.
The design motif to my mind is like the guy in the Skittles advert (milking the giraffe) has eaten too many, vomited into the bucket and then the giraffe has crapped rainbows on the resulting steaming heap.
Oracle’s automated database is a minimum viable release - analyst
Researchers promise demo of 'God-mode' pwnage of Intel mobos
Tuesday 26th September 2017 09:21 GMT
Asus?
For my server board (Asus Z10PA-D8) this note is published on AMT.
They say "ASUS server product is not featured with Intel Active Management Technology（AMT）."
Does this mean that Asus have already disabled/blocked it in Firmware - or is their statement not strictly correct?
Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban
Uber Cali goes ballistic, calls online ads bogus: These million-dollar banners are something quite atrocious
Dell EMC refreshes its entry-level arrays
Yet more British military drones crash, this time into the Irish Sea
Would you get in a one-man quadcopter air taxi?
Sacre bleu! Apple's high price, marginal gain iPhone strategy leaves it stuck in the mud
Regulate, says Musk – OK, but who writes the New Robot Rules?
Wednesday 13th September 2017 09:48 GMT
Re: will the rise of the Robots
Good point.
There may also be a level of self-regulation of robot numbers here since at some point there will not be enough people to buy whatever it is that the robots are making also - therefore fewer new robots will be needed - i.e. peak robot.
The taxation argument can be applied to other new technologies (e.g. electric vehicles) since if fuel taxes/duties diminish due to lower consumption then they have to be raised elsewhere. However we know that governments frequently "innovate" creatively on the taxation front...
Wednesday 13th September 2017 09:20 GMT
Working out what AI is thinking and why
“It should always be possible to find out why an AI made an autonomous decision,” says Winfield, referring to it as “the principle of transparency”,
I'm not sure that this is possible with some aspects of AI/ML, since the algorithm is honed by the AI/ML itself and may not be transparent/apparent to its developers at all even if logged in a black box log.
I recall reading something similar recently in relation to this - may have been to do with Machine Translation where the AI/ML was able to translate directly between 2 languages it had not been specifically trained on, via triangulation.
Virginia scraps poke-to-vote machines hackers destroyed at DefCon
Scotiabank internet whizzkids screw up their HTTPS security certs
Solaris update plan is real, but future looks cloudy by design
Whoosh, there it is: Toshiba bods say 14TB helium-filled disk is coming soon
China: Cute Hyperloop Elon, now watch how it's really done
Friday 1st September 2017 15:16 GMT
Re: Something I think people have missed:
So how do passengers embark? How do they exit? How do they breath?
Not that I believe that this will be feasible but these 3 challenges at least are fairly easy to answer I think.
Embark/disembark
This would have to happen at atmospheric pressure and the car would then move through an airlock to join/leave the depressurised tunnel.
If the tube is a close fit for the cars then you would be unable to board/exit whilst in the system (the doors would open inwards but the clearance would be minimal for crawling out - assuming that there was an egress point you were aiming for.
How do they breathe
Compressed Air carried onboard. You have an issue of what happens if the cabin depressurises enroute, and I don't think that drop-down oxygen masks will cut it here.....
Maybe they would wear pressure suits anyway as a safety precaution (the mind boggles though given that most people would probably be unable to put a lifejacket on quickly). The pressure suits would have to be worn at all times since a sudden depressurisation would not leave time to put helmets/gloves on.
This means that::
* Passenger comfort - how do you go to the toilet during the journey if pressurised.....
* If you get stuck mid-tunnel then after recovering from your deceleration you have to rely on stored air supplies OR require that section of track at least to be repressurised whilst you await rescue - if you can't get out
Friday 1st September 2017 08:12 GMT
Re: Pressure suits?
Followed by uncomfortable emergency braking for the following cars (whether intentional via safety systems or from the loss of vacuum/power), depending upon their speed.
A tunnel breach could spell disaster for more than one car in that scenario, depending upon separation distances and velocity at that time..
Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller
Wednesday 30th August 2017 11:52 GMT
Re: I'm touched by the weirdness of this request...
Bad form, I know, replying to my own post, but while we are discussing gifted authors departing us far too early, I would recommend "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and possibly "The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul" (not as good) by Douglas Adams
China to identify commentards with real‑name policy
Vodafone won't pay employee expenses for cups of coffee
Friday 25th August 2017 11:32 GMT
Quid pro quo
I think the issue here is that if you are being flexible by travelling long distances on your own time (or avoiding a hotel stay expense for doing so) then a coffee or sandwich etc. is a fair quid pro quo for the inconvenience.
The result of this is likely to be people heading home early, or not being able to make those 08:00 meetings any more since - people will not feel the urge to be flexible.
It seems a short-sighted approach, which cannot add up to that much over a year even for an operation Vodafone.
'Driverless' lorry platoons will soon be on a motorway near you
IT worker used access privs to steal £1m from Scottish city council
Paris nightclub red-faced after booze-for-boobs offer exposed
Wednesday 23rd August 2017 13:08 GMT
Re: Outrageous Sexism
On a loosely-related note, many years ago, participating in a Central London stag night dressed (in drag) as old ladies, we overheard a US tourist observing this in McDonalds at Tower Bridge and remarking "Gee, these UK cross-dressers sure are ugly"...
No photos remain, I am relieved to say! To anyone reading, if you saw any of this in early December 1999 (or were that US tourist) then I can only apologise.
The sight of my Kiwi ex-brother-in-law with huge colourful tattoos, wig and what remained of an old lady dress running down a platform at Waterloo is not easily erased from one's mind.
Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls
Monday 21st August 2017 15:32 GMT
Re: Spawn of Satan
The regulators don't work well enough to provide automatic cross referrals to the responsible regulator
The TPS is not a regulator as such - it is a self-regulation scheme/sop run by the Direct Marketing Association, with no connection to government, but against which DIrect Marketers are legally supposed to check.
This explains why TPS do not really make it easy to complain about various dubious practices, why TPS opt-outs are so non-permanent unless you are very careful, and that the only cross-referral is a URL or two pointing to ICO/OFCOM.
A scheme independent from the vested interests of the (direct) marketing industry and the phone companies (or maybe the ICO or OFCOM doing the full job themselves...) would be far more sensible.
Which is why it does not happen.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
