Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Currently a very good whine in the papers by Harvard about the difficulty of Chinese students getting visas to study their and how the current administration doesn't seem to understand that overseas students paying to study in the USA is an export not an import.
>most of South America,
Most of South America requires you to fly through the USA. Since the USA doesn't have transit lounges it means you have to get a US visa to visit a lot of S. America.
Ironically one of patriotic Boeing's selling points for the long range version of the Dreamliner is that it would allow more S. American airlines to fly direct to Europe without the interference of Uncle Sam.
And he repeatedly visited the middle east.
A colleague of mine who served in the Israeli Defense Force (along with pretty much everyone in that country) wondered how he should answer the 'have you ever been involved in espionage or sabotage' question on the visa form. The correct answer - Yes I was made to run around half the desert with a backpack full of explosives - presumably wouldn't get a favorable response
The burglar would first have to break in and disconnect my cable modem for 15mins to force a network reset, then turn it off and on again to get a new IP, before they were able to hack my smart home.
Rogers telecom: not only an expensive unreliable monopoly - but now my partner in security
That would also come with big savings.
Make access to benefits dependent on having a bank account to prove your id.
Banks don't want to deal with people who have no money and live in areas where nobody has any money.
Huge savings on benefits
There is a whole blog by one the engineers dedicated to keeping a state of the art, but now 25year old,
Couldn't they apply for some sort of grant ?
If you paid drug dealers who didn't actually have any drugs 10M quid to ensure the supply of drugs in the event of Brexit, then they wouldn't have to rob meters - and there would still be no actual drugs delivered.
In fact if you gave Crapita the job of supplying free drugs to everyone you could solve the "drugs problems" overnight
>If Apple has no form of business presence in East Texas then there's no particular legal argument for a patent case to be heard there
Generally the plaintiff gets to decide where a case is held. If I am a starving inventor in East Texas and those evil west-coasters at Apple stole my idea, then I want to defend myself here among my peers - not be forced to go to California against Apple's big city lawyers
(Strangely this same argument also seems to hold when it's a hedge fund/activist investor or Samsung doing the suing).
If East Texas promotes itself as a location for patent suits then companies will vote with their feet.
If it means that high tech refuses to build factories/RD/stores there, then the state might reconsider how much it makes from court fees.
Legally it isn't going to make any difference, the plaintiff just has to have a presence there, which can be as simple as trying to make a single sale . It's like celebs only having to show that a single person in the UK saw some online posting to allow them to sue in libel friendly London courts
>We've gone from big honkin' iron in the closet, to mini silicon under the desk to big honkin' iron in the cloud, which could be another room in the building. It's not that hard of a concept
Except once upon a time you paid $$$ for the big iron if you used it or not, $$$ for the OS licence, $$$ for the room it went in and $$$ for the AC/Power/maintenance etc
If mainframe companies offered to install almost unlimited capacity, manage the real estate and HVAC but only charged you for what you used - there might be more of them still in business.
Even back in the 2000s we had to guess how many customers we would have for the next quarter and try and buy/install enough Suns and cram in enough racks to keep ahead of demand, without running out of money. Being able to scale a data center from a keyboard minute-minute is very nice.
Slightly different from a 15 ton tank rolling loose in the Afghanistan 747.
Cargo is in LD containers, even if one came loose it can move far without hitting the next, they weigh less than 1<ton and since this was shipping Amazon packages containing mostly air they were likely very lightly loaded. Typical express airfreight like this is volume limited not mass.
To go down that fast it is likely massive structural failure (wing fell off) a very aggressive fire (somebody illegally loaded Lithium batteries or Oxygen generators) or a mid-air with something unlisted and with no transponder (drug runner or idiot).
NTSB recovered the lack boxes almost immediately (tail was in one piece) so should have some idea soon.
>You do kn ow the term 2 spirit is an old term right ?
I might like to see some evidence dating back before somebody in a social sciences dept decided that they could prove they were more woke by inventing it.
I would also like to see the number of people who had previously felt excluded from the clinic because their label wasn't included and whether the money spent on the ads could have been spent on more staff at the centre.
>Native Americans have long held the concept of more than two genders.l
But what about those who have the concept of an irrational number of genders, don't they get a label ?
That would be a tremendously lucrative domain because all your users would have to replace .gay with .LGT then LGBT then LGBTQ then LGBTQI then LGBTQI2
The sex health clinic here at the university has just put up posters everywhere saying it now supports "2 spirit" people in addition to the previous range of acronyms. I don't know if this has helped anyone ho felt excluded from LGBTQI but it has meant a lot of money for the ad agency
Sounds familiar.
Back when we were being sold 4G the arguement was that it allowed X mb/s on each channel and you could have 256 channels, so a phone could be built that could do 256X mb/s ( if you didn't mind a phone the size of a brick with 30second battery life ) turned into 4G = 256X mb/s
If you think the purpose was to give companies more ways to bill, to make money from people and government...
I live in Canada and we got smart meters because when it is sunny in California they can sell our organic-eco-green electricity to California for more than we are paying retail.
Of course somehow they will manage to make a loss on charging us more and selling it - but it's the thought that counts.
Because the "years of testing" for many of these systems (shuttle/Saturn V) consist of hope and prayer and then defining any fault that didn't actually kill you last time as "non-critical"
It's a little like running across the road drunk and blindfolded 10 times and getting away with it - so that is obviously the safe way to do it, while using a crossing is untried.
>P.S My brother also owns are large number of RORO ferries. I would be please to make these available for another £100 million
That's your problem. Only companies who own zero RORO ferries are eligible for £100 million government contracts
