Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>but using fake/shell companies... Can they sink any lower?
Hi I'd like to buy your house.
About me? Oh I'm a Trillion$ multinational and desperately need your property to allow me to connect two halves of my new site. I assume this information won't affect your price ?
The ones that qualified for the grant had to have a Sim. It wasn't clear what they needed to connect to or who was in charge of the service
At this point it's more a case of; government may need to control charging in future for load management or (more likely) tax. And since chargers are expensive and last years they want to make sure the installed base is prepared
There is an open source platform for EV chargers.
It would be a shame if these were banned in favour of a; steal all your data/you need a Facebook account model for "security reasons"
Here chargers need to be network enabled to get a government grant to install them. When we looked at the range of supported networked models it was much cheaper to buy a regular one and pay for it ourselves.
To be fair though, this is only doing the world's biggest origami project at a few degrees above absolute zero a million miles away.
Compared to the insurmountable difficulties of capturing the requirements of a poll tax billing system for East Sussex compared to West Sussex....
It's the only way to pack a 6.5m mirror into what was supposed to launch on a Delta4.
Above about 8m diameter it's tricky to make a single monolithic mirror so we've been building segmented ones since the early 90s.
The main problem with segmented mirrors at these IR wavelengths isn't aligning them - it's that you can see the glowing hot telescope floor through the gaps. Which is solved by putting it in space and keeping it very very cold.
The real achievement was doing the OSHA paperwork to get the Beryllium mirrors polished in California!
Also the goPro pictures from SpaceX boosters are a lot closer to Earth.
Getting video back from a 1st stage booster dropping from a few km is a lot easier than getting video back from something heading past the moon.
And the pictures would look less 'real' than the simulations of stuff unfolding anyway - there is nowhere you can put a camera for anything except the mirror unfolding and that would mostly be in shadow.
>often written by GPs for GPs
That's a relief, I always choose medical professionals for their expertise in cyber security rather than Ivory Tower types.
I also prefer to get my vaccine made by the local village pharmacy rather than those Oxford college dwellers.
>Perhaps addressing the 47.2% of the NHS workforce that aren't in a clinical role
Yes outsource cleaning , building services, IT, HR, training etc to profit making companies - ideally the same monopoly supplier to the government.
Back in the day a prof friend of mine used to equip his underfunded arts dept with computers.
He would trawl the dumpsters of Physics/Engineering depts and look for new computer workstation boxes. He would then offer to take their old computers and "store" them
This was in the US and a state university getting NSF / NASA / DoE grants and buying kit on a mixture of them could never get rid of anything without doing the sort of paperwork you would get in a Terry Gilliam film. So the basements, and stairwells were full of decades-old 19 rack electronics that we couldn't dump.
If he was Satoshi he has $$$$Bn. So everybody is going to sue him because there will be a lawyer or jurisdiction somewhere wanting to try the odds. Just think of all the SEC / banking regulations he might have have broken times the number of countries with an SEC.
Somebody could be motivated to kill him after they had cut off sufficient fingers and toes to incentivize him to cough up the private keys.
Interesting point - a patent must contain the legal name and address of the human inventor, there is no system for allowing anonymous inventors (except where the whole patent is classified for national security). There was even a ruling stopping AIs being listed as inventors.
The nearest you could do was not name the assignee = the company behind the patent. We got to know the commuter towns nearest to various Japanese corporation R&D labs so we could search for patents they were trying to hide by only listing a "Mr Ito + a Tokyo zip code"
Yes that was my question. They shock certain bad heart rhythms back into shape. But are all cardiac arrests => suitable bad rhythms? So do they work for all cardiac arrests or only a small percentage that are due to bad rhythms ?
What triggered my suspicious sales pitch detector was something like:
Slide 1, BIG scary number of people die of cardiac arrest before ambulance arrive
Slide 2, SMALL number of people have access to a AED before ambulance arrives
Slide 3, Therefore you should have lots of AEDs
But they were very careful no to say 2 would solve 1
That as my objection to the sales pitch to our town council.
The maker's presentation was full of scary stats about how many people died of heart attack, and how long an ambulance takes to our rural location - but they were careful to never say the AED would cure heart attacks.
Any medic want to chime in on exactly how often these things are useful?
There was a fundraising to put one on just about every street corner here.
I was sceptical, I thought they were only good for certain heart problems but people who watch TV think they save 100% of all heart attacks and the makers were definitely leaning into this while being very careful what they claimed
That's why London should have its own protocol and be allowed to stay in the Eu.
It voted remain, the city wants to remain in Europe and it would be quite happy to have a hard border down the middle of the M25
Presumably all it has to do is launch a series of bomb attacks on Westminster and then choose a suitable religious holiday to sign an agreement
then it can have all the special treatment it likes
>"Hauliers will be presented with screens showing stuff."
I'm assuming they mean words and numbers.
But it would be nice if HMRC had adopted a surrealist interface - your login is a melting clock and your customs documents are painted on the side of a cow wearing boots and a beret
I know in the USA dialing 112 (the GSM standard emergency number) doesn't necessarily connect to 911 - the 911 service is locally operated so everything varies.
Dialing 911 works in most european countries because the phone system routes it to the emergency services as a safety feature for US visitors
