Gaining momentum in a curved space is trivial - just jump off a cliff
Posts by Christoph
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Scientists unveil a physics-defying curved space robot
WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat
Other Disadvantages
The government enforced program on your phone will be optimised for thorough scanning, not for conserving your battery. You will have no control over it draining all the power just when you need your phone.
Not only can they expand what is scanned, they can update the program to do other things. "Oh, there's a terrorist threat, so we had to make it send all your messages to us in clear, together with your exact location at all times"
Psst … Want to buy a used IBM Selectric? No questions asked
Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install
US EV drivers won't be able to choose vehicle safety alert sounds
FBI and MI5 bosses: China cheats and steals at massive scale
You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too
Re: Measure twice, cut once
"After a run of these in the late 20th century, "some" training programs now emphasize that junior staff should be proactive and senior staff have to accept it."
On a fully laden, just refuelled jumbo jet at Tenerife, the junior staff didn't want to question the captain's misunderstanding of a radio message as clearance for immediate takeoff.
Some of the people in the jumbo that was taxiing up the runway in thick fog survived.
Aircraft now wait for departure. The word takeoff is used only for authorising or cancelling immediate takeoff.
Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America
UK's Post Office shells out for SAP software it thought it had
Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes
Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits
Photonic processor can classify millions of images faster than you can blink
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings
That time a techie accidentally improved an airline's productivity
Easy to miss something trivial
In the mid 80s the building manager of the big office building had gone on holiday, and had left detailed notes on how to work the terminal that controlled the heating, air conditioning, etc. of all the building.
I got called in because they could not get the instructions to work. The instructions said to connect by pressing Ctrl and C. So they pressed Ctrl. And then they pressed C.
Immersion cooling no longer reserved for the hyperscalers, HPC
Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux
Distrohopper's Digest
You could also look at Distrohopper's Digest
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
BT: 'Quantum radios' could boost 5G network range
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law
Re: Gaping hole
"Here in the UK we have Article 10 the Human Rights Act (1998) on a national level (which in itself is only a backstop for more detailed protective legislation) and Article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms providing two levels of protection and two courts we can go to."
Haven't you been keeping up with the news? Boris is going to repeal all that and claims he will replace it with his own version (but of course he's a habitual liar). So we will be at the whim of the current Home Secretary, who is panting to bring back the death penalty and has openly stated that she doesn't care if the person executed is guilty or not as it will still act as a deterrent.
Re: SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM!
Spam, scams, viruses, harassment, grooming, stalking, etc. etc. On the face of it that clause completely bans spam traps. We'll have to treat any email from Texas with the same suspicion as emails from Nigerian Princes.
Of course some of the right wing will be delighted that they can now freely drive off the net any uppity woman who dares to disagree with them.
Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist
Buying a USB adapter: Pennies. Knowing where to stick it: Priceless
First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets
Are we springing into a Y2K-class nightmare?
Re: Daylight Daylight Savings Time
ObXKCD https://xkcd.com/2594/
An open-source COBOL contender emerges
Driver in Uber's self-driving car death goes on trial, says she feels 'betrayed'
Samsung shipped '100 million' phones with flawed encryption
Russia 'stole US defense data' from IT systems
50 lines of Bash to bring a Wordle fan out of their shell
Website fined by German court for leaking visitor's IP address via Google Fonts
Re: So if
There have been recent cases where open source code used by thousands of sites has been found to have a security hole. If you self-host such code you will not automatically get updated when the code is fixed.
You may never even hear about the problem - you might be running code that is years out of date because you forgot to check for updates.
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe
Behold! The first line of defence for 25% of the US nuclear stockpile: Dolphins
Massive rugby ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings
Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue
Assange extradition case goes to UK Home Secretary as High Court rules he can be sent to US for trial
Galileo satnav system gets two new somewhat confusing satellites
China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon
Chill out to the sounds of an expert typing on a variety of mechanical keyboards
The ideal sat-nav is one that stops the car, winds down the window, and asks directions
UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin'
Of course we've tried turning it off and on again: Yeah, Hubble telescope still not working
Make it last until there's overlap
It's critically important that Hubble is still operating for a while after the James Webb Telescope is fully operational.
If they can make simultaneous observations of the same objects, this will make it vastly easier to cross-calibrate the instruments.
So then the data in the Hubble archives can be fully linked with the incoming JWT data.
Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
All I want for Christmas is a delivery address that a delivery courier can find
Re: Oh dear
I was at University when the Prisoner first aired. We were doing an experiment that required liquid helium to cool it. The gas that boiled off was collected in a large latex balloon, a couple of feet across. But the recovery system hadn't been finished, so the gas was then just allowed to escape.
One time I took the full balloon out of the lab and sent it bouncing down a very long corridor.
Someone came out of a door at the far end and saw this large white sphere bouncing towards him along the roof of the corridor.