Posts by TRT

Disengage, disengage! Cali DMV reports show how often human drivers override robot cars

Re: Override Idiotic Wetware Drivers Option Please

Hm. At least two people on here have accumulated enough points through speeding to have lost their licenses, I see.

Mine increases the motor/generator recharge rate on the downhill so the set speed is maintained and uses the battery to boost back up hill. Only the steepest slopes down cause the speed to rise when the MG can't sink the energy away.

Re: Sleeping feet...

Especially hills and dips. Just a couple of mph dropped up a long hill is enough that your set speed cruise will catch up a fixed accelerator manual driver scarily fast.

Re: GPS NIghtmares Made Worse?

Mine is of a similar state, and it wasn't that it cheaper out, but that the system must accept inputs of wheel rotations, inertial sensors and steering angle etc etc to supplement GPS. At the time of manufacture (2006) there wasn't an alternative other than to design it yourself. I'm not sure even today that there's a commercial system that accepts and balances alternative positional information.

Re: Override Idiotic Wetware Drivers Option Please

Automatic Speed Limiters should be a new class of vehicle on the driving license, and anyone who loses their license for speeding should, once their ban is spent, ONLY be allowed to make use of that class.

Discuss this and the extension to full self-driving vehicles and implications of driving licences etc.

I think the figures are fairly impressive. It would be interesting to see how they correlate the the actual capability of the auto-drive itself. I mean, once every 5 miles on a motorway for a semi-autonomous lane-changer point-and-shoot system is good but then less impressive than, say, once every 0.5 miles by a full A-to-B sat nav style autopilot operating in a dense, urban jungle scenario with traffic lights every 50 yards, Lycra-clad couri-kazi pilots cycling zigzag between the gridlock, phombies walking across your path in full-on Oxford Street style and coping with a street scene having more visual clutter than the painted record of a fight between Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Shopper f-bombed PC shop staff, so they mocked her with too-polite tech tutorial

Re: How thoughtful of her

Indeed they didn't have to be very powerful explosives, just enough to lift the door off the hinge pins. This is what gives petard its slang meaning; fart.

Re: He simply takes the kettle, opens the lid, shows them the lead inside the kettle,

That's unfortunately the kind of inspired thinking that only follows after one has had a fresh cup of really hot tea.

Re: Promoted to customer...

That's chilling. Seriously bone chilling.

That's the ultimate corporate take on an integration of Human Resources and Customer Service. "The customer is the most valued item in the shop, and all negatives are turned into positives through the use of inspirational language".

A tiny Ohio village turned itself into a $3m speed-cam trap. Now it has to pay back the fines

They already splurged...

on personal vices; New Miami Vices.

Tall, slim models are coming to take over dumpy SSD territory

Re: Isolinear

Ha! I was thinking about the time it takes to hot swap a NVMe and rebuild... it brought to mind that episode where Data was brought in to rearrange the isolinear chips because he could do it faster. If they had to wait for the array to rebalance each time, the Enterprise would have been toast.

Re: Height Correction

I'd try looking at it in inches first. And then add the depth of a standard edge connector and the thickness of a back/mid-place PCB.

There are already...

channel suppliers who are making far better use of NVMe and even software/firmware based FTL... they're just not using this form-factor to do it. And therein I see an issue - proprietary lock-in.

It's certainly an interesting field to watch things mature in!

Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing

Re: True hipster

Deconstructed.

I would give it a go...

but just the once, probably.

And I'd eat it as the creator intended, first of all, then I'd probably have to top it off with a mix of Tabasco sauce and HP sauce to disguise the flavour.

Fella faked Cisco, Microsoft gear death – then sold replacement kit for millions, say Feds

Re: long prison terms

Incarceration as a service, innit?

One of the few times...

When you get someone claiming to be Microsoft Technical Support on the phone, it's THEM being scammed.

FYI: That Hawaii missile alert was no UI blunder. Someone really thought the islands were toast

Re: Hmm ...

Which button gets me a latte?"

Re: EMA - puzzling

Semaphore code using brightly coloured grass skirts signalling arm and body movements.

UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory nominated as World Heritage Site

F*** all of that...

It's where the greatest Doctor met his end. And that fact alone makes it worthy of being set in the largest ever Plasticraft known to mankind.

Dodgy parking firms to be denied access to Brit driver database

Re: GDPR

Yes, yes, it's not an absolute and explicit exemption from the Act in its entirety - the Act has derogations which allow a nation to exempt e.g. the enforcement of civil law matters, etc, and yes, this hasn't yet been tested by case law. The RVR 2002 hasn't been amended as part of the bill. Though some law about HGVs was. Weirdly.

Re: GDPR

DVLA are a GDPR exempted authority, I'm afraid.

Re: Is this why our town centres are dying?

Have you SEEN how Amazon delivery drivers park?

Zombie … in SPAAACE: Amateur gets chatty with 'dead' satellite

Re: That's pretty nifty!

Well if it fights back, of course...

Re: @TRT

Quite correct. I could blame auto corrupt, but in this case, it was a brain fart on my part.

Or, I could blame the universal translator... the Klingonese database has been showing signs of corruption.

Re: That's pretty nifty!

Targeting space junk is no test of a warrior's metal.

Re: @anothercynic Come on it's not that old

The commands to control the satellite are stored in this tape cassette... *picks up copy of Great Military Marches on compact cassette* ... Oh really, Mr Bond...

Well done, UK.gov. You hit superfast broadband target (by handing almost the entire project to BT)

Re: Where?

Well, I 'm on Virgin and get 100Mb/s. I could upgrade to 3 times that.

24Mb/s? Superfast?

*tears of laughter emoji*

It knows where the gravel pits and power lines are. So, Ordnance Survey, where should UK's driverless cars go?

Surely...

Connected,

Human-supervised and

Autonomous

Vehicular

Systems?

We could do with a map of that.

Yenta, Yenta, Yenta...

Chava I've found him, will you be a lucky bride?

He's handsome, he's tall - that is from side to side

But he's a nice man, a good catch, right? Right.

You've heard he's got a temper, he'll beat you every night

But only when he's sober - so you're alright

Apple whispers farewell to macOS Server

Re: Xserves...

I still have 5 Xserves going strong in my basement rack, one Intel, four G5. They are all stacked together in an NFS ring, and provide an Xgrid as well. They were absolutely incomparable at their heyday. A 1U chassis, with one or two of the most powerful CPUs around, easily serviceable modules... add to that hardware RAID, dual redundant PSU, dual homed, two expansion card slots. You simply couldn't get anything else that came close.

As for what the software is good for... well that was back in the days where Apple had an eye on education. I had three suites in a college of art & design, totalling 118 iMacs, where I could NetBoot a machine and restore it in a matter of minutes, could have roaming profiles, Remote Desktop and Support with two way chat and audio, license management and audit, policy zoning, default printer setting by machine or profile... I mean, it was an administrative dream!

I guess you have to sell a lot of hardware to make it worthwhile, hence the idiotic designation of the Mac Mini as a Server machine. The Xserve's 1U format was possible due to advances made in laptop design. It's time they started knocking the socks off other rack mount competitors using the same trick coupled with some of their mobile knowhow. Can you imagine what a server loaded with A10s could do, for example?

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Tokyo crypto-cash exchange 'hacked' for half a billion bucks

Re: Convenient notes for criminals.

The €500 note. That was the one that was withdrawn due to the number of times it was implicated as the preferred means of moving dirty money around.

Re: Just VOID the Crypto numbers and redo them

I thought it was that huge Euro note, I forget the exact denomination.

Ever wondered why tech products fail so frequently? No, me neither

Re: Joysticks

TAC2 for me. All metal turned shaft that sat in a lump of neoprene the size of a docker's dump and which simply pressed against one or two of a number of thick metal plates to make the contact.

Here we go again... UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors

Re: I'd love to see an algorithm that only works if a "good guy" uses it.

That's easy. You just take an input from the webcam and determine what colour hat they are wearing.

encraption technology

Re: as easy as staying in EU and exiting the EU at the same time

Hence the requirement for vastly increasing funding for research in quantum technology. As we all know, this exciting field allows something to exist simultaneously in a number of apparently contradictory states at the same time.

Brit escorts: Without the internet to keep us safe, we'd be totally screwed

Brings a whole new meaning...

to Multi-User Dungeon.

RIP Ursula K Le Guin: The wizard of Earthsea

The Earthsea Trilogy...

was a constant companion to me throughout my teenage years.

FYI: There's now an AI app that generates convincing fake smut vids using celebs' faces

Fake actors...

having fake orgasms. What has the world come to?

Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest for Botox-enhanced pouts

I seem to recall...

That Terry Pratchett had quite a bit to say on the subject of camels.

Hawaii governor: I wanted to tell everyone nuke alert was fake – I just forgot my password

All this talk of missile warning false alarms and the new cold war paranoia...

has now got this ear worming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4

Elon Musk offered no salary, $55bn bonus to run Tesla for a decade

re: "Catastrophically boring children"

Scream emoji.

It think it is now worded slightly differently to when I first read it just after 7:30 this morning. I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect the author/editor has added a 12 in front of milestones, because it really looked to me like they added $50bn to $100bn and got $650bn. Stepping up by 50$bn is a single step. "In steps of $50bn" implies a size of increment, and "in steps of $50bn up to $650bn" indicates both the size of the increment and the number of increments. There is a time limit of 10 years, but the company could hit $650bn next week. I wonder if he would get all the individual bonuses if that were to happen? I mean, that would only actually HIT one milestone, although it would have exceeded all the others.

I think it would be better written as:

"But he can score bonuses in those 10 years if Tesla hits a series of 12 “Market Capitalization Milestones”, the first if the company increases in value by $35bn to $100bn, then in steps of $50bn up to $650bn.

Maths seems a bit bizarre at the start.

Serverless: Should we be scared? Maybe. Is it a silly name? Possibly

Re: Isn't that just an API?

If you're API and you know it, clap your hands...

Re: Internet of Trout

Project Neptune? Don't knock it, man. That last layer 1 upgrade was... I mean... Frickin' sharks with lasers, man.

Re: Problematic

McDonalds has a wall based terminal screen now, a bit like the ones at Argos... glossy catalogue... tap in the code for a supersize BigMac... tap in some more codes for the meal options... put in my bank card... receipt printed... Please collect your "food" at collection chute A.

What's happened to the server? Ah! They're now in the kitchen putting the little boxes all the same into the chutes.

Serverless.

Now, what have they done with all the straws?

Unlocked: The hidden love note on the grave of America's first crypto power-couple

They're known as Bacon bits.