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Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

Haven't tyres been getting noisier as compensation? They have where I live.

Re:How long until the government makes helmets mandatory for pedestrians?

Don't hold your breath. We already know that many vehicle occupants as well as pedestrians are killed by head injuries that a helmet would mitigate. However, I don't see any pedestrians wearing helmets, including myself, even though I was wearing motorcycle helmets and seat belts several years before they became mandatory. I wasn't alone.

I have thought about wearing a helmet when walking, but it's unappealing. I guess I'd accept it if it was mandated.

Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests

Re: When you achieve > 1 km range...

Maybe you could boil all the water between the transmitter and receiver first, with an absurdly high powered pulse and then transmit briefly through the steam filled void before the it collapses?

Of course, that's after solving the simple problem of aiming the laser at a sensor screened by turbid seawater.

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

Land of the Not So Free!

TIL that you can't download "apps" from developer websites if you're in the USA!

(Explanation for the non-IT hordes on hetre: So would be users can't just downoad the app from elsewhere.)

You can in the EU and I think I've done it in the UK after Brexit.

How's the rest of the world?

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: The "3D printed chicken"

In the UK it's called "reform", reformed meat, reformed seafood. Not 3D printed, but just tiny scraps.squeezed into a mould.

Search "reformed meat / formed meat / reformed seafood" for examples.

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous

Created 2016, sold as a museum souvenir.

Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum

Laugh?

In Space, no one can gear you scream!

DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

Re: How long before ....

Can we now build lasers without internal mirrors? If not then mirrors can cope with the weapon's energy levels.

The issue with incoming mirror coated weapons is that they'll accumulate non reflective particles on their surface, as they fly. If you ablate the particles, you'll also ablate the mirror beneath and the ablation will grow until the weapon is destroyed.

This begs the question: what happens when a fly lands on the laser's front, or a seagull craps on it?

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

£383 million?

>"The CPS also used the announcement to trumpet its wider proceeds-of-crime record, stating that over the past five years it has recovered nearly £478 million through confiscation and compensation orders, returning more than £95 million to victims".

478 - 95 = 383

Why aren't victims getting a bit more?

Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’

Re: Solution pretty simple though

If the 'planes can still get in, what about the drones?

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas

Thinking ahead ...

I see a prototype iCod (iCodpiece).

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew

Arse elbow?

BBC knows its Calculus from it's Submissiveness.

Robotic lawnmower uses AI to dodge cats, toys

Carabiners?

So this can force march, or be powered by 12 Uyghurs?

SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship

Re: Maybelline

"Maybellene, why can't you be true?"

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: What is HMRC doing in US-East-1??

Probably because they've forbidden the use of any European Union sites for UK government uses yet haven't remembered that EU can be an abbreviation for "Europe" as well as "European Union".

SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb

Re: Recap of moon return mission

Can there be more than one Jingo?

Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI

Re: Phones?

> Considering that Android runs on phones I can't see it having any problems running on cheap laptops

Running? Sure.

Working? .....?

Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally

Burns?

Where's the poetry?

Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

Insurers don't offer to make payments. The insured have to claim.

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide

The DIE is CAST!

I knew what boxes and diecasting were.

However, since looking up "1550 diecast box", I've been stunned to read that the boxes have been "casted".

Who can I blame? They should have been cast away before this could happen!

1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines

Re: Laundry machines

Thanks for the warning. Another reason to go electric:)

Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

You forget to add the benevolent dictator to the list of those who become drunk on their own power.

Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile

Isn't the "10" redundant?

Re: Refurbished?

Does this refurbishing amount to anything more than running a cleaning cloth over the phone and seeing if it turns on?

Don't get me wrong, I have had a succession of second hand 'phones, but don't believe that there is a real "refurbishing" industry.

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

Re: Rust

USA air safety ≠ World air safety.

Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

Re: No scheduling problem.

In the age of the Houthi-engineered pick up truck a shoal of cheap River class or even more primitive boats, loaded with cheap drones, may be more useful than a single Sa'ar 6?

Re: "Need to go get the book..."

Paul Verhoeven got away with a hilarious send up of the US military and how the USA views other countries.

Although it was painted with a trowel, it seems to have gone right over the heads of US audiences.

UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers

British Bloodhounds!

I'm sure that we could knock up a big batch for less than the price of a single Land Ceptor.

Then park them beside major roads to reassure UK motorists.

Reddit is people! Which means its search might not be so damaged by AI slop

Hilarious!

Well that's the majority of advice I see in technical subs. One or two people who know what they're talking about, drowned up by twits who _think _ they know everything. How does the AI decide?

US sends 33,000 smart 'strike kits' to make Ukrainian drones even deadlier

American Pickup Trucks?

Does Russia not build vehicles like that/?

The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

Re: the thickness of screw threads was not fully standardized in the US

mushrooms? or beans?

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

Re: Still too small

83 million miles away?

We could call it "Sofar Power.".

A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Re: Philips

it seems like a very limited start.

It could put them at the top, but I'm not holding my breath.

I will take a look when I need to replace one of my Dysons.

China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12

Re: I Guess No In-Flight Meal Then?

Wrong - Hot and instant: there's a lot of waste heat available for near instantaneous meal incineration.

Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields

Re: It's still terrorism when you do it to unpeople.

@GNU SedGawk:

If that's terrorism, what do you call the people who set fire to whole cities in Germany and Japan?

Re: Who built/supplied the drones?

No Slouches Indeed!

I also imagine that they've go a covert nuclear weapon programme coming along nicely using all the expertise they lentt to the CCCP.

Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing

Doge purges.

Have they had time to destroy the USSF, yet?

FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone

Re: UK should probably get some Sky Sabres over to Grand Turk and insist on flight path changes.

Won't that just add to the debris falling on Grandma's house?

Could they "accidentally" intercept the "Starship" while it's still over Florida?

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

Re: Government sponsored faraday cages

We looked into this for $MULTI_NATIONAL_ISP.

I was being pedantic. A Faraday Cage is earthed, Shielding can still be effective wtithout an earth: if not, I'm sure that 'planes would still be using sextants!

Re: Government sponsored faraday cages

However, the tapes are insulated from each other by a layer of adhesive and they're not earthed:(

Just because it looks like a Faraday Cage, doesn't mean it is a Faraday Cage.

Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop

Gold Coast?

>a new fairing had to be shipped from the company's Gold Coast factory.

Is the Gold Coast now a hi-tech hub? It's a long way away from the launch site!

Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

Re: The Small Bread Product Identification Standard

That's sheer, unabashed Limey genius!

The same idea would have even finer granularity in Italia.

Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

TSMC -> Invidia?

Are Taiwanese imports still getting a 32% tariff?

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: Econ 101

@Brave Coward: May I humbly remind the people of the USA that they're all genocidal maniacs, because the original settlers destroyed the majority of the indigenous people.

Re: Econ 101

Locally produced goods are subjected to the same VAT rate as imports, so it's a level playing field.

Re: Liberals

Few people in the USA have a clue about what left wing means in the rest of the world..

US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space

Re: Space Force...

> I'm sorry, I still can't take that seriously.

You will when the first space battle makes it impossible for us to leave the Earth. (All that orbiting debris.)

Does Musk know about this?

US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal

Re: Still very much a work in progress?

> "chance of downing the drone"

Ok, I'm sure that we all remember that it took 70,000 rounds to kill each Viet Cong soldier, but shouldn't they be trying to wreck drones with a single pulse?

Google’s broadband balloon laser comms tech floated out as independent company

Re: Dealing with Welsh weather

Maybe an LSA (linear sheep array)?

Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes

Antikythera

Can you show that the Antikythera was Turing Complete?