Posts by Tim Ward

US space programme in shock metric conversion

Wot about aviation?

We're still having to cope with:

feet and meters and nautical miles

for measuring distance, and

liters and US gallons and UK gallons and pounds and kilograms

for measuring fuel, and

pounds and inches and kilograms and centimeters

for measuring balance, and

knots and miles per hour and kilometers per hour

for measure speed, and so on and so on. Yes there are accidents which are partly or wholly caused by using the wrong units or getting conversions wrong.

Dutch get wound up over invisible SMS

Eh?

Erm ... the GSM system knows where you are to within a Location Area, but GPS can tell where you are to within a couple of feet. Which do you think is more useful to the police?

UK air traffic control goes after Wikileaks

When I'm talking on the radio ...

... I know of course that what I'm saying can be heard by anyone with a VHF radio and an appropriate licence ...

... but that doesn't mean I want to see my joking with the air traffic controllers printed in the local newspaper, and if I kill myself I don't think my family would want the recording on the internet.

Webmasters fume as Google profiles signed-out searchers

Who is whose emeny?

SEOs are indeed the enemy of Google and other search engines, and they are the enemy of the punters, and they are the enemy of honest webmasters.

The punter wants to see the most important and relevant results, not the results from whoever has spent the most on paying SEOs to game listings.

Anyway, aren't most SEOs scammers who take money off people but don't actually deliver any improvement?

MPs vote to keep addresses private (theirs, not yours)

Mine's not secret

My MP does not keep his address secret - he lives a couple of streets from me, everyone knows where he lives. What's the problem?