Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>Why so fast?
It's a new EasyJet service. You fly from Manchester(Prestwick) where you clear security and they then drive you to Manchester.
For years Lufthansa had a special cargoes 'flight' from LHR to Frankfurt that was actually a truck. It always looked weird that the "flight time" was 12+ hours
>but can't the cops simply walk in to any telco with a court order to hand over this data?
Florida cops walk into Google's California data center and demand data. Google and the Californian courts laugh at them (while scrolling the Floridians search history)
Florida cops have a deal with Blackwater-WagnerGroup data inc for security data services - who buy the data from Google.
> don't tell me aborting a healthy 8th month old foetus is acceptable
A compromise solution. The Bible clearly states that life begins with the first breath. So a suitably trained obstetrician(*) with a quick draw and a Glock can deal with problem before the baby cries.
That way the hospital still gets to bill you for delivery, and the NRA and the GOP will fight for your rights to access the procedure.
(* police would traditionally be used, but that looks a lot like socialised medicine and anyway the police in Tx are a bit squeamish and probably wouldn't want to enter the delivery room)
>you'll just get abortion tourism
If your medical insurance covers it, and you can afford the flights, and your employer gives you the time off.
After all politician's mistresses in the south need a way of fixing their mistakes.
It's almost as if this bill, aswell as pandering to their religous right voter base, is aimed at poor/disadvantaged women
I'm not sure the failure of Google Glass was due to objections of the users so much as everyone else.
They trialled it with Google employees in the very tech-savvy environment of SF. The main objection was that somebody working for the worlds biggest harvester of personal data was following you around with a camera. It also meant that anybody else wearing specs was immediately suspect
If I was followed by Fox News film crews 24x7 I don't think I would be mad at the manufacturer of the TV camera.
You are rendering this locally - it's more like a games engine than watching a movie.
Caves (industry term) are more used for business and simulation. It's lot easier technically and socially, to have a half a dozen engineers stand in the same room and look at floor-ceiling 3D renders of a chemical plant and be able to have them point at things and discuss them face to face - than have people at their desks all meeting virtually with headsets
(even if that means they could all have cool avatars)
((they won't have cool avatars - the sort of people who use these systems in engineering all pick the same avatars))
> They actually shoot the actors on green screen and use a computer to replace the green (color humans don't have) with whatever CG decor they want.
Not anymore, at least in TV. Green screen takes a lot more acting skill and rehearsal time. If you have to look at the dinosaur in the background you either have to have a man with a tennis ball on a fishing rod and you have to do 30 takes so your eyes track the right position - or you have a dinosaur on the background.
It's also a lot quicker and cheaper in post - matting in background is 95% automated but the last hand tweaks when you have close-ups of hair or you need to do color tweaks is time consuming if you are doing a weekly show.
And the lighting is easier, if there is a light in the scene and it's on a high brightness background screen the real light of the right color falls on the actors face in the right way - you don't need to fix it in post.
The really cool bit is that the backgrounds are generated in a games engine and tied to the camera track, so when the camera moves the perspective view of the background moves with it.
In the former colonies some places are single consent (you can give yourself permission to record) some require you telling the other person.
In the UK it comes down to the judge. But the odds are that while an employer secretly recording their staff in violation of GDPR is likely to be frowned upon - a poor oppressed minion recording a scary interview with HR just so they can remember what was said, is likely to be forgiven.
There are quite a few MBA types who make a good living on being brought in to do all the firing before being let-go themselves with a nice golden-handshake.
Even if you don't want to do it yourself, like the guy who felt bad firing everyone over zoom, why not just hire some big scary guy the gym for the day to do it ?
Yes but that requires you to have a company with profits.
The advantage of art is that I can say to a Columbian Artisnal Pharmaceutical Grower - I really like that scrawl stuck on your fridge door, it really speaks to me, put it up for auction at Sotherbys and I will pay $100M for it.
The gentleman can then bank that perfectly clean money, without even paying tax in most countries, I can deposit the masterpiece in a vault in Luxembourg's special evil-villain tax-free zone and use it as collateral for a $100M loan from any reputable (or Swiss) bank
So if I buy some IBM shares on Robinhood and that only exists in a ledger somewhere then I don't really own any of IBM and i can't go to IBM and take a bit of the their building ?
I only really own part of the company if they give me a share certificate printed in copperplate on vellum ?
whats the global art market worth ?
Paintings that look a bit like sunflowers have no intrinsic value - I can get a picture of a sunflower for free on Google Images
Not sure the Louvre would accept the claim that it had no intrinsic value if you nicked the Mona Lisa
In Taiwan by realising that you are a tiny island with no resources and need to move up the value chain from making plastic crap. So you have your government hire some very smart guy who didn't get promoted at TI because of his eyelids - and have him build you a chip company
In Korea you have a bunch of giant corporations that run the country like a mafia family and divide up the economy and government between themselves.
However both these solutions require you to have an educated skilled workforce and a government that looks beyond the next press conference
And a tax on tech to give oil companies a subsidy for domestic oil exploration for energy security.
You know if a government became the shareholders of all these companies and used the money to invest in strategic enterprises. You could have some sort of centrally planned economy.
I'm pretty sure that Japan, Korea, Germany can make steel - it's also quite shippable, that's why the US Army doesn't need to make its tanks next door to the Rheinmetal factory.
SpaceX is the most easily relocatable space company - that's part of its business model.
It makes everything in house from commercial parts so its a lot less vulnerable to EAR than than people were in the 90s.
If major market X demands that you build/launch from their territory to access their market - SpaceX can do that.
If a future US administration get uncooperative then a S. African citizen can make rockets with in-house parts made on German machine tools with Taiwanese chips and Chinese carbon fibre and build and launch from anywhere that offers the best terms
Being south only really matters for GSO, sun-synchronous polar orbits for Earth observation or Starlink clusters don't benefit so much.
SpaceX can build their own pad fairly easily and the Cape's facilities are spread out enough to handle a SaturnV oppsie
I suspect avoiding NASA is the big draw. If you are used to a Shuttle launch/year then all your internal procedures and dealings with local authorities are on this time scale - SpaceX don't want to work with this or have their people catch "Nasa"
