Re: You're taking the piss
No, because the problem is that with that amount of caffeine the kidneys shut down and you can't, in fact, take the piss. Did you not see that bit in the article about dialysis?
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Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high
Thursday 26th January 2017 21:48 GMT
Bah!
Is it any fucking wonder the world in general backs away from science and distrusts it when the idiots currently wearing the lab coats can't check their sums before committing them into immortality?
First bleeding spreadsheets that were screenshotted and published without running a finger down the columns and doing some mental arithmetic to see that the displayed information wasn't garbage, and now this twattery.
Everyone concerned should be made to stand in the market place wearing a pointy hat with a "D" on it for extreme unscientific stupidity and sporting sandwich boards declaring "I have a University Education and I can't do simple arithmetic".
President Trump tweets from insecure Android, security boffins roll eyes
Oracle sues its own star sales rep after she wins back $200k in pay fight
Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?
Thursday 26th January 2017 14:00 GMT
Re: The return of the high horse 4 PTW
Re: The return of the high horse
You know what Tories and Republicans don't do?
Smash shit up when they don't get their own way! Or spout vile nonsense along side chants of "hope not hate"
A joke, right? Because eight years ago I watched an entire television network turned over to wild allegations and outright (and outrageous) lies concerning a jumped-up dark skinned man who won himself the presidency in a landslide despite protesters turning up to his rallies with - and I am not making this up - rifles because they asserted, and continued to assert in the absence of any evidence over the course of an eight year presidency, that "Obama was coming for our guns".
And let's not forget the "birther" movement, whose figurehead and spokesgit in chief was ... oh, it's on the tip of my tongue, never mind it'll come to me later.
Or the Do Nothing Congress. Or the Do Nothing Senate, whose publically stated goal was to commit all it's efforts to preventing President Obama from getting anything done. And the, what, 60+ attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act just because, and with no planned replacement for "the worst legislation in American history".
No, I see it now. You are absolutely right.
Chevy Bolt electric car came alive, reversed into my workbench, says stunned bloke
Wednesday 25th January 2017 15:44 GMT
Re: I live in Canada
I have family in Canada; Alberta to be precise. They have to plug both ends of the car into an electric supply in winter so that the oil doesn't solidify, the core plugs don't get displaced and the windows don't crack when the defroster finally kicks in. Last time I was there in winter my breath was freezing into ice crystals in front of me and I thought I was having a stroke because the air was twinkling. Microscopic spontaneous ice crystals forming in mid air were reflecting the ambient light. My parent's house's concrete foundation slab cracked from the cold and it *was* heated.
So don't talk about Canadian NoFreeze Handbrakes. Everything freezes solid there if you don't run around the houses to prevent it, and even then it might just to be difficult.
Sunday 22nd January 2017 15:40 GMT
Re: Have you had problems with parking brake cables freezing? Or is this one of the FOAF things?
Yes. *I*'ve had my brake cables freeze solid on three occassions. Being English and with 10 years of driving in the UK behind me before I came to NY I had the habit of putting on the handbrake before I killed the engine. I've also only bought cars with a real handbrake for my own use (US cars, including some of those with Japanese names like Honda on them, often have a foot pedal parking brake, which is damn near impossible to use for a controlled hill start).
And then I came home after dark to a car frozen over the course of the day down to the point when road salt doesn't work any more. Salty water had froen and turned the brakes into a solid mass. I ran the car in the hope the hot exhaust would thaw it out but no dice, and I was forced to drive slowly home with the handbrake on. It let go after about half a mile.
The second time was the next day because I automatically put on the brake when I parked in my drive. I had to get a lift to the station that day. The third time was, as they say, the charm and I no longer use the handbrake routinely.
I should point out that the car concerned had been dealer serviced for the entirety of its life and I had specifically asked for the handbrake cables to be greased at each fall and winter service. When the quadrants froze in the UNbraked position due to corrosion I had it out with the service manager, but really, what could be done? I can't get under a car any more and check for myself, and it gets cold enough here to freeze the grease anyway, which would make it crack and fall away.
So no, not FUD. And the freezing of parking brake cables/quadrants is a VERY common thing in NY so if any manufacturer really had a cure as some here are saying I would have seen it touted as a feature on a Caddy or Lexus commercial before now.
And when that original commentator said -10, he meant -10 F. And that isn't an unusual happenstance in winter. Like I said, it gets cold enough that exotic over-the-counter ice-melt chemicals don't work any more.
So you are dead wrong GBE. If you want to start using UK weather to do a comparison, go with the weather in highland Scotland, not Watford.
I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the API key
Wednesday 25th January 2017 14:09 GMT
Bah!
Blither away, fools. Yes, today's harvesters are the size of a firestation on wheels and only have a few hundred bytes, but soon the technology will begin maturing making for larger data capacity in smaller footprint. In twenty years I fully expect to see gigabyte harvesters the size of dinky toys, and within fifty years terabyte tractors will be marketed that cannot be discerned with the naked eye.
Nuclear power station sensors are literally shouting their readings at each other
How Lexmark's patent fight to crush an ink reseller will affect us all
'It will go wrong. There's no question of time... on safety or security side'
Tuesday 24th January 2017 21:17 GMT
Bah!
"Cheerful chap writes off all mission-critical IoT software without realising it"
And your point is?
"It's almost as if real engineers look at industrial IoT offerings and say to themselves, “Nah, we've been working perfectly well without all that guff, why bother?" "
No, it's exactly as if that were the case. Because, well, Duh!
And given the sorts of stories recently seen on El Reg reporting from the hellish, shell-pocked IoT landscape, who can blame them?
SEE: Light bulbs, thermostats, baby monitors, etc, more etc, tediously more etc.
I am looking for a small home weather station and I can tell you the models that want to join my LAN are moved to the bottom of the list pending some sort of certification that the manufacturer understands how not to have their network-privileged crap used as a conduit for shenanigans as the default configuration.
Batman v Superman leads Razzie nominations
Oracle lied: Database giant is axing hundreds of staff – at least 450 in its hardware div
Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up
iPhone hacking biz Cellebrite hacked
Plump Trump dumps TPP trade pump
Monday 23rd January 2017 21:19 GMT
Bah!
I look forward to seeing the Trump line of Exclusive clothing bearing the Made in America label as opposed to the Made in China one they have now (including those "Make America Great Again" baseball caps the Trumpeters were buying in shoals during the Great Public Lying run up to the election).
Learn to code site Code.org loses student work due to index bug
Monday 23rd January 2017 15:27 GMT
Bah!
We used to get this sort of problem sometimes with new DBAs working with Unisys' CODASYL DMS 1100 databse tech. The 36 bit db key word is chopped to include dataset #, page #, and slot #. A DBA had to keep the page size and number of pages front and center during design spec or data could be stored that couldn't be retrieved. Our local term for it was 'bit out'.
Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures
Friday 20th January 2017 22:12 GMT
Re:lf. The British (and Australian) maps were prepared for military purposes
Not quite. The staff of the OS were originally recruited to make maps for such purposes during WWI. But.
Between the wars, there was a fear that because the government had no legal reason to maintain the OS in peacetime the skill-base would be lost*, so they came up with a spiffing wheeze; a proposal to map the entire British Isles to a scale of one inch to one foot.
In the very late sixties they were nearly done, when the country decided it was going to go metric in a bid to make the French more receptive to EEC membership, and the OS were tasked with doing the job over to 1:50,000 scale.
The original OS 1 inch to one mile scale maps had bright red covers. In order that there should be no confusion (the overall coverage of any given map was slightly different in the newer scale) the newer 1:50,000 ones had bright pink covers.
For a glorious couple of years you could actually get both, though the red ones quickly disappeared once the series was complete. How do I know? Because I was there, and a keen Outward Bounder at the time.
You get a truly gobsmacking amount of information on one of these maps, enough that should one have a selection of landmarks including churches (ruined or otherwise, with a tower or spire or neither), power lines (the national and super grids were distinguishable), a railway line (especially if it ran over an embankment or through a cutting), a windmill (ruined or working) or a road (minor, major, A or B) or a raft of others (rivers, lakes, canals) a compass is actually superfluous. And all before you start examining the contour information to identify hills by their steepness.
I bought one for every single place I worked a contract and the route to it from Coventry. I can show you on the one of Land's End where to stand almost to the yard in order to see <i.why</i> they call it The Lizard. The one I have of Corris is from before the heritage railway was up and running, so the railway isn't shown - but the ancient trackbed is along with the reasons it was built in the first place.
More modern ones even include scenic lookouts for the traveler with a camera.
The American GS maps are nice, but not *as* nice. Different reason for making them, see?
Yes, I miss the OS map rack in W.H.Smiths.
* If anything illustrates a difference in attitude between then and now, this does.
Thursday 19th January 2017 14:32 GMT
Re: easily equal
Mmm not so much. Great detail, and perfect for reading on some sort of e-device but lacking the superduper features of an OS paper map. I'd say why but limit it just to the key and let people look it up for themselves.
That said, this is a great steer and thanks many times over, jake.
Thursday 19th January 2017 14:28 GMT
Re: Why not just leave the satellites on the ground, where you can go and fix them in a van...
With an OS map there is no calculation required, just visibility out to the required landmarks and one working eye.
Never heard of anyone driving up a flight of steps and through an active worksite when working from a map either. Nor having a strident voice demanding in increasingly hysterical tones that I drive into Manhattan despite having set waypoints to prevent that very disastrous routing beforehand.
I might very well have had the same trouble with barricaded Washington DC roads not shown on a map either, but then I wouldn't have planned a route through DC in the first place.
Wednesday 18th January 2017 19:12 GMT
Re: Why not just leave the satellites on the ground, where you can go and fix them in a van...
"Well it's your own fault, if you insist on having a tantrum and storming out then you don't get to have nice things."
Eh? I'm an ex-pat but I didn't "storm off" anywhere.
[VOICEMODE=DALEK_RING_MODULATOR] Explain! Explain! [/VOICEMODE]
Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed
Friday 20th January 2017 17:13 GMT
Bah!
Python, where the intern opening and closing the text in the wrong editor can fuck the code to a fare-thee-well.
Seriously: All those good pythonic ideas saddled with the beyond idiotic significant leading whitespace design feature?
Even Cobol didn't fall for that one. Stay between columns 12 and 76 and remember to punctuate properly and you could do what the hell you liked with spacing.
Of all the things to get bent out of shape about with the flood of "C-like" languages in the wild, the curly brackets seems a bit .. silly.
Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout
Friday 20th January 2017 14:17 GMT
Re: "but Android doesn't support that" 4 Ken Hagen
The article does describe that, but the dogfood comment was hinting that leading off with "the irony of etc" was a bum steer since this isn't irony but an example of a deliberate use before selling policy.
And reading the article I get the impression that you are underselling the other players' problems with IPv6, though I've little experience on a narrow range of equipment to draw on.
Assange reverse-ferrets on promise to fly to US post-Manning clemency
What's the biggest danger to the power grid? Hackers? Terrorists? Er, squirrels
Thursday 19th January 2017 15:13 GMT
Bah!
"For decades now people have been claiming that the power grid could be taken down by terrorists. "
a) Decades? Really?
2) A local substation outage or a line down does not remotely constitute "taking down the grid".
$) Decades of shortsighted management, replacing decades of engineering knowledge specific to the business of power generation and distribution with software written by programmers with a total disconnect with the actual business, and refusal to invest in new infrastructure that doesn't replace knowledge base with IT do more to threaten the grid than any othr factors.
Zuck off: Facebook's big kahuna sues Hawaiians to kick 'em off their land
London Ambulance IT system hit by three outages in last year
Li-ion tamers: Boffins build battery with built-in fire extinguisher
Chelsea Manning sentence slashed by Prez Obama: She'll be sprung in the spring
Google harvests school kids' web histories for ads, claims its Mississippi nemesis
College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000
Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers
You know how online shops love to keep tabs on you? Now it's coming to the offline world
'Ancient' Mac backdoor discovered that targets medical research firms
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