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18 seconds that blacked out South Australia

Re: RET plan

I have a feeling that the creation of a nuclear energy industry from scratch here would be a boondoggle of proportions as yet unseen in this country.

NBN is essential, says Essential poll, but not Turnbull's NBN

The Liberal Party

Australia's Liberal party is a socially-and-economically conservative party

Technically they're economic liberals. Wristies by the invisible hand etc. etc.

Microsoft disbands Band band – and there'll be no version 3

Re: As I have said a million times

How they are still in business simply amazes me!

Incumbency in a handful of very large, reasonably mature markets?

Top interview: Dr Patrick McCarthy – boss of the world's future largest optical telescope

Re: E-ELT

I like the part where they run out of sensible adjectives to describe the size of the next telescope.

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia

Re: Despair

Get your ass to Mars!

Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen

Re: Rounded corners

The article's author already beat you to that joke

Source: nbn™'s fibre-to-the-kerb will be VDSL at 100/40Mbps

What a shitshow this has become since Mr. Broadband took over.

Unimpressed with Ubuntu 16.10? Yakkety Yak... don't talk back

Re: The early releases of Ubuntu were a revelation and made Linux a practical desktop, but...

Wow, so shouty

Elon Musk: I'm gonna turn Mars into a $10bn death-dealing interplanetary gas station

Re: Link to slides

That final slide...

Don't let banks fool you, the blockchain really does have other uses

lol

The point of a blockchain is that it is a trustless and decentralised database, and it makes huge usability and efficiency compromises to do this.

I'm not a banker, but I'd be surprised if banks need either of those things...

Silicon Valley’s top exorcist rushed off his feet as Demons infest California

Obligatory

"do these people know it's 2016?"

The law is an ass: Mooning banned at arse end of the world

Re: Winning the race

I should point out that this has nothing to do with the "Australian Government". It is the Victorian state government.

Re: Kev's not going to be able to perform in Vic anymore

Amusingly, obscenity laws are precisely why Kev exists.

Dutch bicycle company pretends to be television company

Speaking of Australia

I bought a reasonably large TV from a local retailer a few years ago and when it was delivered to my house I observed that it had been stabbed through the heart by a forklift at the warehouse.

Obviously this is mostly irrelevant but at least a bicycle might have survived...

SpaceX: Breach in liquid oxygen tank caused Falcon 9 fireball ... probably

"A static firing test at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ended abruptly"

Technically, the test didn't even begin...

Asian hornets are HERE... those honey bee murdering BASTARDS

Re: Stings like a bullet

A mistake?

Re: Stings like a bullet

That article is about the Asian Giant Hornet. This one is about the Asian (normal sized?) Hornet.

TRUMP: ICANN'T EVEN! America won't hand over internet control to Russia on my watch

Understood, but I found the idea of him winning and then being forgotten anyway amusing enough

Re: All hail the new Golden Don!

I don't even know which vote button to press on this one

Whether or not he wins?

Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat?

Re: We are not liable for...

Volvo intends to accept liability for what its AVs do.

ISIS beard?!

That looks more like a neckbeard, which seems appropriate.

You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'

Biometric ID of your anus?

Look no further.

The next Bond – Basildon or Bass-Ass? YOU decide

Re: Where is this poll of which you speak?

During loading, a DIV with id="poll", situated between the final two paragraphs, inherits some styles and then disappears because it also contains style="display: none;".

Other than that the DIV is empty. Whoops!

Err... Bondy McBondFace?

I don't want a prize, just acceptance.

Just not cricket: Microsoft's big data Googly called No Ball

Are you sure D/L(/S) was the problem?

Florida Man's prized jeep cremated by exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7

You win some, you lose some

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Star Trek film theory: 50 years, 13 films, odds good, evens bad? Horta puckey!

Re: No sir, don't like it

By chance, Generations was on TV here last night. Those fight scenes between the ageing McDowell, Shatner and Stewart, hah!

Apple killed OS X today and binned its $10,000 BlingWatch too

Bit of a shame

It was, perhaps perversely, that five figure Apple watch that rekindled my interested in wristwatches, when I began to research what mechanical timekeeping devices you could get within that price limit. Being right on the edge of "high end" territory, a whole world opened up.

So thanks Apple.

Tesla driver dies after Model S hits tree

Re: own EV happens to have the exact same problem

I wonder how heavy the impact was to have caused part of the battery pack to separate from the vehicle...

Pains us to run an Apple article without the words 'fined', 'guilty' or 'on fire' in it, but here we are

Re: Water to 30 meters, but what about SALT water??

My understanding is that "water resistant to 30 metres(/3 bar/3 atm)" is static pressure resistance. Start moving about and things change very quickly.

This is why the manual for a wristwatch that is rated to 30 metres usually informs the owner that it's not suitable for swimming, at any depth.

Surge pricing? How about surge fines: Pennsylvania orders Uber to cough up $11.4m

Come on Reg

If I wanted to read words like "butthurt" in a news article I'd be on Gawker or Buzzfeed, not here!

Robot cars probably won't happen, sniffs US transport chief

Hart

Some people just like to drive.

Granted. I count myself among that some, but I also wouldn't mind a car that can drive itself when I don't want to (e.g. congested urban areas, long distance travel).

Some people don't trust the automation so they're going to want to drive.

And some people still don't trust airliners despite a proven safety record. This will be a generational change.

There’s no software designer in the world that's ever going to be smart enough to anticipate all the potential circumstances this software is going to encounter.

That's what testing is for. Is an Apollo Program analogy too much of a cliché here?

I can give you an example I've seen mentioned in several places. My automated car is confronted by an 80,000 pound truck in my lane. Now the car has to decide whether to run into this truck and kill me, the driver, or to go up on the sidewalk and kill 15 pedestrians.

Presumably not a self-driving truck. This is a bit of a furphy IMNSHO, but why has this old railcar thought experiment lately increased from 5 to 10 to 15 pedestrians? Why not go for 50 or 100?

A self-driving vehicle is not a philosopher. All it has to do is lessen the severity of a collision, no matter how contrived the circumstance, and it's proven its value. If it can avoid the collision entirely, perhaps only by seeing the errant 80,000 pound truck well before a human would have, so much the better.

Tesla touts battery that turns a Model S into 'third fastest ever' car

Re: Range

I might be confusing the US and EU ratings. Some articles quote two numbers, one in miles and the other in kilometres, that don't convert directly.

Re: I'll wait until...

Do you often drive over 300 miles non-stop to visit the in-laws and then leave again 15 minutes later? You're tough to please if an EV with a range (380 miles for the P100D) that accommodates probably 99% of trips doesn't impress you yet! Facetiousness aside, what it does need is for prices to come down dramatically and widespread fast charging infrastructure.

I'll wait until Jeremy Clarkson takes it around the track explaining it to us, then lets the Stig time a lap.

Then I'll be impressed.

You'll probably be waiting a while for Clarkson to return to the BBC...

Range

It's the current Model S P90D that has a quoted NEDC range of 315 mi. The P100D's quoted NEDC range is ~380 mi.

Uber and Volvo take on Ford in race to launch self-driving vehicles

Re: A race to the selfdestruction of big car manufacturs ...

I should probably say "...with the service that kills the market" as people probably wouldn't buy a personal car to share with strangers; they'd subscribe to a car-sharing service like the one Ford et al. are working on.

I suspect uptake is going to take long enough that the industry has sufficient time to pivot and no excuses.

Re: A race to the selfdestruction of big car manufacturs ...

This is probably why everyone's so bullish, pouring so much money into the idea and ramping up so quickly. Nobody wants to be late to market with the product that kills the market.

The calm before the storm: AMD's Zen bears down on Intel CPUs

Sadly it seems that, like Kaby Lake, Zen's not going to support Windows 7.

So stock up on your Skylakes, boys and girls.

Bitcoin 'targeted by state sponsored attackers' says Bitcoin.org

As we saw not too long ago it can be effectively taken out of action by a bored guy with a couple of hundred dollars.

If "state sponsored attackers" wanted to bring it down it would be gone by now, but the community is so hilariously awful that they don't need any help in wrecking it from governments.

'Daddy, what's a Blu-ray disc?'

Re: Skeevy bastards

You're describing pixel dimensions, not resolution. Resolution is a measure of linear density (or linear detail), e.g. dots per inch, line pairs per millimetre etc.

I have a 1920 x 1200 pixel monitor on my desk. It's a 24" monitor, thus its resolution is ~94 pixels/inch.

Re: Skeevy bastards

[UHD and/or 4K] screens have nearly 4 times the resolution of 'HD' screens.

Twice, actually. Resolution is a linear measurement.

Re: Worse...

They're using pentile subpixel matrices in TVs now? Is there no god? Wait, don't answer that.

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

Re: The 'We thought you might like' conundrum

I tend to get the following ads on mobile:

1) For products I've recently purchased

2) Mature age dating, despite being half the age of the target demographic

So I'm saving the advertisers money by blocking them, obviously.

Networking wonks say lousy planning, not DDOS, caused #Censusfail

Re: I say DOS was orchastrated by locals!

Several million locals did try to access the system at the same time from numerous locations.

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

Re: Class divide?

I would have said age divide.

Web pages, Word docs, PDF files, fonts – behold your latest keys to infecting Windows PCs

Re: I wouldn't know...

It's probably trying to complete the Australian census.

Uncle Sam set to flog Silk Road's Bitcoins

Re: The Waiting Game

A "bitcoin" is effectively just a number in the memory of a computer with a synchronised local copy of the blockchain, so I don't believe that's possible.

The blockchain is public however, so all transactions by a particular address can be watched by anyone.

Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?

Re: Windows 10 did especially well

I wouldn't mind something that doesn't spy on me or force updates and software I don't want down my throat too.