Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
I worked with the ESA team that did the original european camera on Hubble
When it had its little optical problem there was an urgent push to release some pretty pictures to show it was still usable.
They press releases had both the Nasa logo and ESA logo. But printed the same width the square ESA logo looked bigger than the rectangular Nasa and so Nasa blocked the publication until they reached an agreement.
>SO NO !!!! The USA couldn't give a hoots toot about exports from Australia.
Rather my point old bean
But since exports to China have given Australia their miraculous 20 years without a recession economic record while close links to the USA merely gave them an opportunity to partake of Vietnam
They might have to decide which side of the prawn is on the barbie, or whatever they say down under
You have to feel sorry for the FSB/CIA/MMB agents taking down the transcript
Comrade, I have hacked the zoom feed but they seem to have some secret code....
"Wiff-waff, crikey, bit of a sticky wicket as we used to say in big skool. Well my old motto, scribi bolloxi on omnibus"
Which is why you probably shouldn't fix this 'bug'
Simply require it to be powered down every 28days as part of the maintenance procedure.
I'm sure the engines need oil replacing every X 100 hours, nobody is demanding that the plane contains enough oil for a 50years service life.
It was Windows95/98 and it took years in the wild before anybody noticed for that very reason.
“ - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.”
Or a best of both worlds.
Keep the fee to pay for BBC news and make "celebrity strictly come dancing in the jungle on ice" a subscription.
Then the government would be assured there was fair and unbiased reporting of their triumphs, rather than having to rely on the dailyMail and Fox news, without the taint of popularism
Why does there need to be announcements of takeovers?
HP is traded on the market, Xerox can buy all the HP shares it wants at the 'true' price - but for rules stopping it.
The rules are in place to stop shady consortiums of buyers picking up a company without anyone knowing about it, but it's not clear who this rule benefits (except protecting large corporations)
The only legitimate objection would be monopolies concerns, but the 15% rule applies even when there is no competition question
In the UK expect to go to jail for typing in the top-level name of the website
>As other posters have pointed out, a mobile 'phone's location can be triangulated from nearby cell masts.
Yes and all they can track is the phone number of a bought-for-cash PAYG sim
With a smart phone they (goverment/online ad agency) can tie that phone to your facebook profile, everyone you have ever received and email from and every website you ever visited.
"Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free" .....
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."
The original deployment as to take snatch landies from N.I. and paint them sand coloured while making smug statements about how their experience in Belfast meant they knew how to deal with Johhny Terrorist
But don't take my word for it, there is rather a good display at that bastion of hippie communism - the imperial war museum. The high court recently allowed group of families to sue the MoD for negligence in not equipping with the same level of armoured protection other forces had
