Posts by Graham Cunningham

Two astronauts conduct a successful spacewalk, world+dog lose minds

Re: GOTCHA!

MyffyW, have an upvote for the phrase "ploughs a delicate line" - rofl!

Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist

Pythagoras (or was it Archimedes?)

c = s ^ -1

(Closeness = 1 / distance)

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

Re: Valcohol (Valhalla + alcohol)....

Or make that valhalcohol?

Four-malt proof

Big iron bru

Q.A. (Quality Azured)

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

Beautifully done.

Because I love it so much, here's the Steve Lyons compilation from many years ago set to Enigma's Return to Innocence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCC3SaJECE

And one of any number of Medeira videos for anyone who likes their holiday to start with a white-knuckle ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkAFUazoFbM

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

50 miles???

"99 per cent of drivers in England and Wales would be within 50 miles of a charge point."

WTF? Who is going to drive 100 mile round trip detour to charge their car? And what happens if everyone within 100 mile circle want to use the charging point?

AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)

Lego

No need to peel stickers when Lego can do it so quickly. (A few years old now, but still...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0pFZG7j5cE

Dutch chip-making specialist ASML rifles through pockets of rival XTAL: Nice IP. We'll be having that

"A few dozen nanometers"

Even if "10nm", "7nm" and "5nm" are not literal channel lengths, an accuracy of "a few dozen nanometers" wouldn't seem to cut the mustard. Should that be "ångströms"?

Water big surprise: H₂O found in samples of 'dry' asteroid brought to Earth over millions of miles by plucky probe

"Kindeny bean shaped"

The "kidney bean", so named because......

Dear Britain's mast-fearing Nimbys: Do you want your phone to work or not?

I don't get the "where people tend to be" thing. Where I "tend to be" (work/home/restaurant/etc.) is served by WiFi so a good signal is less important there. I would like a decent data connection when I am *traveling between* the places I tend to be. Kind of the essence of the "mobile" part of the name. Roads, trains, and so on.

SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown...

Re: Landing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship

Oldest white dwarf star catches amateur's eye – and its dusty ring leaves boffins baffled

Re: oldest white dwarfs

Science! :)

I am just a mapper: Solar drones take to the skies above Blighty

Police drama

I hope they have those cameras I see on the police dramas that my wife watches, that can zoom in to distinguish the exact shade of nail varnish that the perp is wearing...

Japanese astronomers find tiniest Kuiper Belt object yet – using cheap 'scopes and off-the-shelf CMOS cameras

And thanks!

For the artist's impression of a rock, without which the story would have been impenetrable!

+1 for the amateurs, though :)

Raspberry Pi Foundation says its final farewells to 40nm with release of Compute Module 3+

"How can we find out? There's science to be done!"

For the people who are still alive?

SpaceX enjoys three whole seconds of fire and fury on Pad 39A

The fact on if

"The fact SpaceX has been tightlipped on if this indicates something was amiss."

Sentences? We've heard of them.

Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON

Re: I can just imagine the timeline

Dark side of the moon is where you find crazy diamonds, if I am not mistaken.

Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff

Beer for

a sub-head with a sting! ;)

Bomb squad descends on suspicious package to find something much more dangerous – a Journey cassette

Re: Harmless

You do know which century we're in now, right? ;)

It's over 9,000! Boffin-baffling microquasar has power that makes the LHC look like a kid's toy

Re: 25 TeV vs 14 TeV

Sorry for downvote, but this is the wrong usage of "pitched" with respect to a cricket ball ;)

Bombing raids during WWII sent out shockwaves powerful enough to alter the Earth's ionosphere

Re: Approx

621 miles +/- "about"

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

Re: So, why don't we still have dinosaurs?

Isn't it pretty well established that we do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds

Google Spectre whizz kicked out of Caesars, blocked from DEF CON over hack 'attack' tweet

Re: Hum

Is there an APP for that? ;)

Shatner's solar-powered Bitcoin gambit wouldn't power a deflector shield

Units

Is the Reg Units dept. asleep at the wheel?

We demand appropriate units!

SW - Switzerwatts?

In defence of online ads: The 'net ain't free and you ain't paying

+1

Upvote for the Genesis video, even if it's the wrong track and won't expand to fullscreen ;)

Oh, Lenovo! 1,000 staff strapped to redundancy cannon

DSLR

Down-Sizing Labo(u)r Resources

"Resource Action"

Well it used to be "Rightsizing"...

UK data watchdog swots automated marketing call pest with £260k fine

Swots

Swats

Intel stuffs extra cores into latest mobile Series U Core i5 and i7 chips

"Up to..."

There should be a law against quoting "Up to.." without also quoting "Down to..."

Toshiba invests $1.76bn in flash fab production line, WD kinda peeved

Sorry also confused...

Is that: "(If I had a penny for) the number of times they were 6 months behind...." ?

PC, Ethernet and tablet computer pioneer 'Chuck' Thacker passes

Re: I first met him at Stanford ...

Um ,a downvote? For this??

Presumably by someone whose neighbours won't miss him/her?

Goodbye, cruel world! NASA's Cassini preps for kamikaze Saturn dive

Re: Inevitable 2001 reference

But second law trumps third law, no?

Boffins name 12 new types of cloud in first Cloud Atlas since 1986

Cloudy McCloudface.

Online name polls are done, forever.

UK.gov confirms it won't be buying V-22 Ospreys for new aircraft carriers

Deterrent

Like the nuclear deterrent, it is the threat that it *could* be equipped with aircraft that will deter enemy aggression ...

Disney plotting 15 more years of Star Wars

Getting old ...

And forgetful? Same plot and cast as previously: Baddies have death star, goodies fly in an bomb death star.

Why change a winning formula?

AT&T CEO clambers up Trump's tower, explains why he should shower gold for Time Warner

But why picture Trump Hotel on Central Park West rather than Trump Tower on 5th Ave, a few blocks away? Laziness? Or because it is across the road from Time Warner Center?

Terry Pratchett's self-written documentary to be broadcast in 2017

... Again.

Qualcomm, Microsoft plot ARM Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs, tablets, phones

Companies mentioned above: Microsoft, Microsoft :)

England OUT (of Euro 2016, not the EU) tops Twitter year

Britain?

Gavin, "Britain" does not have a team, it has three; the UK has four, the British Isles has five. I think you are referring to "England". Wales did better. Scotland didn't.

Brit upstart releases free air traffic app for drone operators

Has research been done on what effect a drone strike would have on a commercial aircraft?

Arkivum's new CEO gets £3m cash boost to play with – now what?

http://www.acronymfinder.com/AAAS.html

What should the Red Arrows' new aircraft be?

Come on guys, too retro...

Contemporary J-20 stealth fighters. I bet they'd be on time and on budget, too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/01/china_j20_fighter_jet_seen_in_public/

ARM: Hold my beer, we'll install patches for your crappy IoT gear for you

Sounds like nobody here thinks that baked-in hardware security and signed updates is in the least bit useful for improving the state of things?

Parliamentarians ask Obama to withdraw Lauri Love extradition request

The alleged crime took place in the UK. The UK is equipped to prosecute this kind of offence. Where is the justification for rendition?

RRS Sir David Attenborough construction goes full-steam ahead

Not...

Subby McSubface?

Pokemon NO! Hospital demands ban on virtual creatures after addicts invade private wards

Re: Sad dull

You don't know me or anything about me, and are therefore not entitled to have an opinion of me.

As you say, "f*ck off".

I would contend that playing a harmless game which all of a family can enjoy while getting some fresh air and exercise is a rather better use of time and money than sitting in front of the googlebox getting pissed.

2,000 year old man found dead near 2,000 year old computer

Re: "have claimed the Antikythera mechanism was of extraterrestrial origin"

"That was about 1500BCE though, and this is 200BC so it's unlikely the device is Minoan/Atlantean in origin."

No, the author stated that this was the first century before Christ. I assume the last century before Christ was about 2100 to 2000 years ago, but the first century before Christ must have been a lot longer ago than even your 1500BCE, right?

It's 2016 and Windows lets crims poison your printer drivers

Re: Win10 fixed this for me

MP600. I fudged it (for printing, at least) with some effort, but not before being browbeaten by a certain domestic user for having "chosen" to accept the unwanted OS "upgrade", when she then couldn't print or scan anything. Interestingly, I see the MP600 support page on Canon's uk website now seems to offer win10 32- & 64-bit drivers.

Maybe I should check again and see whether the stupid machine now recognizes my Galaxy S5 too? Maybe too much to ask.

Win10 fixed this for me

By not supporting any printer driver for my Canon printer.