Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>You aim for the head
There used to be an ad for shop safety glasses with a shotgun fired at a polystyrene manikin head wearing the safety glasses - obviously turned to dust except for the eyes.
Seemed like an obvious flaw if the accident still took the rest of your head off.
>When it comes to water navigation GPS is only one tool in constant use.
Which is why competent navies require their crews to be able to navigate anywhere with only charts and sightings/soundings.
One interview with a captain, we don't rely on markers either, if the enemy is blocking GPS we assume he has the good sense to move the channel bouys as well.
Lots of safety features are optional.
Did you order the auto-braking radar for your car? Lane departure warning?
What about fitting self-sealing fuel tanks, bullet-proof windows (if you live in S London), 5 point harness, rally seats, roll cage, fire extinguishers?
Would you get on a train without these safety features?
It's not even the plane that is insecure.
This is the entire supply chain.
The aircraft avionics can be super cyber ninja proof but if the engines wont start because the maintenance server is DDOSed or hackers manage to reroute a vital part from one of the 97 suppliers in 52 states the plane is just as useless as if it was blown up.
The f-35 was widely ridiculed as being a supersonic super advanced air superiority fighter necessary to take on th air aces of America's enemies, ISIS, Al Queda, the next muslim country that discovers oil and any south American country that doesn't import enough F150s.
By allowing these supersonic-fighter-poor but hacker-rich enemies a way to hit back they are just giving them a fair do - well played America
Have you considered leaving the Union and taking back to control?
It is a guaranteed painless processes which allows your small output easy access to a world market with trade deals that are easy to make 1nano-sec after you leave.
If you do decide to let in foreigners we have 650 experts on the process and we can soon let you have a chief negotiator at a very reasonable rate.
>length of service qualifies me for the maximum possible redundancy payment.
Until they decide that they are just paying the statutory minimum. what are you going to do - go on strike?
>I am very very glad my pension gets paid in less than a year!
Sorry the part of the company that paid the pension went bust. All the asests and employees of the Company were transferred to New Company(Bermuda) ltd which doesn't have a pension
So this is conclusive proof that Huawei have been spying on British and American workers.
Once GCHQ discovers that the entire platform has been knocked up in PHP scrapped from Stackoverflow by an Indian outsourcer we will know that they have penetrated to the heart of our military-industrial complex
>What makes sense for the formaldehyde-free mattresses it sells doesn't necessarily make sense for luxury consumer electronic
Rather the opposite, you have to make higher margins on large bulky goods you sell once.
Expensive electronics where you can then sell apps, content and advertising to your customers for ever - you can make as much loss as you like on the HW
Xiaomi have 10% of the chinese app store market and are trying (with some success) to be the middle class trusted brand for everything
>why would I now go and spend the best part of a grand on something that carries a 'branded' name that won't do any better?
According to the specs the Ulefone can survive 1.5M of water for 1.5Hours but 1M of concrete for only 24hours - so if you need to spend more than a full day buried under 1m of concrete you might have to look elsewhere
Cars are a mature product but Americans pay ever more for cars that are objectively worse, the average car payment is now something like $575 and > 70months
Obviosuly phone makers need to copy Ford.
Make a giant phone, too big to fit in your pocket with a slight tendency to roll over and kill you when you make a call, but - and here is the secret - give it an engine.
People complain about battery life and replacement but are happy to carry petrol powered lighters around with them. Just add a very small engine + dynamo to the phone and everyone is happy.
Make it a V8 with a turbo and they will even sell in Texas
>I'm more surprised that people are using Google rates for anything serious
Why not just go to the source that sets the rates? illuminati.org
Republicans hate it because helping people in a disaster without making a profit is basically communism and anyway if their trailer park is flooded couldn't they just stay at their lake cottage for a while
Democrats hate is because it exits to give massive contracts to companies like Haliburton but then not actually deliver any help
Tricky, it's necessary to change parameters especially when the pacemaker is first installed. Typically the programming unit needed to be very close - on the chest.
Yes they could have done better key management - but you don't want the doctor to be locked out of the pacemaker because they didn't have access to your key pair in the ER and so have to open up the chest to replace it.
It's a balance of risk: what's the chance of a deliberate attacker building a high power controller and lurking next to your bedroom to reprogram your pacemaker (vs just shooting you with an AR15 like a real American) vs you dying because the hospital couldn't adjust the profile when you had an angina attack.
But they also presumably prefer a maximally disruptive version of it - so continuing the FUD might be in their strategic interest.
Isn't it nice to have a proper enemy that has a proper mustache twirling strategic evil plan, rather than one that flips with with the latest stock market or twitter news.
