And if the 3D model is incorrect, or out of date, and you still manage to dig through your neighbour's Internet connection, who is liable? I think I can guess the answer.
Posts by Jonski
131 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
Virtual Australia & New Zealand Initiative launches
Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS
Enterprise flash: The good, the bad and the cloudy
CERN: 'New physics starts now'
I can't begin to imagine the possibilities
Being able to manipulate mass in the way we do electricity or light- I wonder if the BOFH would feel the need to replace his magnetic pinch with a bosonic pinch? Mind you, fitting the LHC into a suitcase may be problematic.
I'm just doubtful we'll see much domestic use out of this research in our lifetimes...
Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH
Steve Jobs had 'personal moral failures', was no role model
NZ ISP piracy law kicks in
Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator
Re: Confused
>Why is leaving a note any more of an invasion of privacy than normal "screening"?
It's not, except that we believe our own lie that our privacy is not invaded. Having a hand-written note of a sexual nature placed in your bag is not just a reminder of this lie, it is a flagrant breach of trust and etiquette.
Similarly, you can admire the cute derrière of someone walking ahead of you in the street, but if you call out and tell the owner of the aforementioned derrière what you'd like to do with it, you could be arrested for offensive behaviour.
Simple, really.
Google report reveals YouTube takedown requests... by country
Pumped-up radio telescope seeks new moniker
Can general relativity explain the OPERA neutrino result?
Science. It works, bitches.
http://xkcd.com/54/
And it works because scientists are always ready to accept they could be wrong.
Religious creotards have no appreciation of this, and any attempt made to fit their ideology to fact is inherently doomed to fail- because they can't accept that the rules they use to prove science for their purpose are the same rules that negate their purpose out of hand.
Oh, and by definition, nothing in this universe is "supernatural" and *everything* is a suitable candidate for scrutiny by the scientific method.
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Microsoft unveils file-move changes in Windows 8
Quelle surprise
"According to that data, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files are "far and away the most heavily used features within Windows Explorer" and account for half of all commands."
It's a file manager, FFS.
In other news, getting in and out of a car, driving to destinations and carrying passengers and loads are far and away the most heavily used features of a private motor vehicle.*
*Except in certain chav locations, where the main activities are listening to crap music, standing around in crap clothes drinking crap booze and dealing crap drugs.
Seven Dwarfs password gag declared Fringe's best
Martian water slides caught on camera (maybe)
Nuclear Mars tank to roam imposing crater
Putting the Square Kilometre Array on a Cloud
@AC 14:31
"God versus Evolution will never be settled while there are academics and bible bashers"
Not true. It is settled, and creationists are marginalised by anybody with a half-decent education.
"How many billions do we nee to spend to see where we came from"
So missing the point. This kind of pure research will answer some questions and throw up new ones we would never otherwise think of. Plus, there could be spinoff technology that will drive domestic technology further and one day make life at home that little bit nicer.
"about 1 person per 100,000 really gives a shit"
And the rest read News Of the World.
Hack attack kills thousands of Aussie websites
Here's some Fail for you, and Fail for you, and you and you.
From another report of this mess... "I think I'm in shock ... I have lost everything .... I couldnt possibly replicate all those years of work again ... my whole lifes work is gone down the drain," wrote one.
How does someone entrust another party with their life’s work, with no copies of it themselves?
Epic, epic FAIL.
Francis Maude goes back 110 years for cybersecurity strategy
So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?
Australians can’t read or count
The Register and Australia-New Zealand
Jacqui Smith 'shocked' to discover we're drowning in sea of porn
Meh
"I'm not naive. I know why men watch pornography. But I think greater availability on the internet is worrying, the way porn is seeping into the mainstream."
1) Yes she is.
2) For the same reason that women watch it?
3) It was always mainstream, just not publically admitted. Pron has been around as long as civilisation has, or longer.
NASA dusts off X15-successor rocket hyperplanes
@ Mr Smith XIX
Are you referring to Ithacus? A "plug-nozzle semi-single-stage-orbit launch vehicle [used] as a 1,200 soldier intercontinental troop transport"?? I really don't feel like being smeared across the rear bulkhead of somebody's rocket-powered meatbag-thrower.
6 hours is fine. A scramjet is perfectly acceptable, thanks.
I don't care how
Just as long as they develop (in my lifetime) the ability to fly commercially to the other side of the world, in a timeframe that doesn't leave me a gibbering wreck. Let's say, 6 hours.
I'd pay the price of a 1st-class ticket to do that in a cattle-class seat. Currently, it's 36 hours door to door AKL-DUB. Grrr.
Oh, and some sharks with frikkin laser beams too.
Think tank rages at NHS' £700 bill for fertility clinic porn
Burger King cooks up Windows 7 Whopper
Philips waves farewell to point-and-press remote controls
So, you're cuddled with your missus
on the sofa and she's gone to sleep because you're watching the F1 and she wanted to watch Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with his homies instead and the cat is intermingled amongst it all. You realise that the gentle snoring is indicative of something and go to turn the volume down...
I can't see this scenario ending happily with a remote like that.
Electric plane takes to the skies
Don't call me Ishmael
FWIW
A smallish home LAN I know well is based around Asterix.
The domain is Amorica, the small laptop is Asterix, the media centre is Cacophonix, the over spec'd and underutilised desktop is Obelix. The NAS is Getafix (in control of all the information, see?) and when my Dad's lappie is on the LAN it's called Geriatrix. I've got several dozen more names before I need to rethink the scheme... (thinking I'll go to Life Of Brian- can't wait to use Sillius Soddus and Biggus Dickus! And of course Incontinentia Buttocks!!)