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Braking news: Tesla preps firmware fling to 'fix' Model 3's inability to stop in time

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A different problem

If car makers start competing on minimum stopping distance, and they all fit automatic braking radar - are we going to have a whole set of freeway pileups when half the cars in a stream of traffic can stop in 1/4 the distance of the others ?

It could be you: National Lottery hands £16m to England's Jodrell Bank

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Re: This is fabulous

I'm just glad that there are so many new scientists coming on that none of this could be used for studentships, scholarships, PhD or post-doc places.

But since the future of British science is assured we can throw some spare money at celebrating the past.

Military brainboxes ponder 'UK needs you' list of AI boffins

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Re: RE: ah I see a problem!!

At which point the expert will fail vetting because they have a tattoo or visited the former East Germany 10years after the wall came down.

Seriously, Cisco? Another hard-coded password? Sheesh

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Re: Why Move From Pig in the Middle?

"Pig in the middle"? Is that a UK thing? We play monkey in the middle here in the US

Monkeys are rare in the UK - and almost never achieve high elected office

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Re: " we should change it to human-in-the-middle"

No no, it's now huperson, personkind, etc etc....

Facist !

It's huperoffspring and peroffspringkind now

US Congress mulls expanding copyright yet again – to 144 years

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Re: how long before...

No because the studios have no interest in making it back dated.

eg Pinochio was written fewer years before the Disney movie than the Disney movie is to today

The 144 years would be reasonable if it was retroactive - to all the C19 books of fairytales that the Mouse House based its movies on

UK Supreme Court to probe British spy court's immunity from probing

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So they lose, everybody goes away feeling happy and the spies introduce new "double secret probation" for their operations

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Taking back control

Didn't an overwhelming majority of the British people just vote to remove any pesky judicial oversight of the sovereign state ?

China changes its mind on Bain's Toshiba chip takeover plans

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Re: Vulture capitalism

Which is why China approved it - they are allowing American investors to pay to destroy a Japanese competitor.

Of course this means you have to think strategically- beyond tomorrows morning news show

Great Scott! Bitcoin to consume half a per cent of the world's electricity by end of year

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Re: Great Scott

I wonder how much all the global offices of PWC and all the other of their ilk use?

At least come the Mad Max style eco-pocalypse you can eat accountants

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Re: Does not include ...

A few years ago people were offering mining rigs for free in Canada, you ran them in place of heaters in winter and the makers got the bitcoin

I got 257 problems, and they're all open source: Report shines light on Wild West of software

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Yes by running IIS instead of Apache you get a get-out-of-jail free card when you leak all the medical data of your patients.

PS please note that open source is cancer and all Linux users are communists

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Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet

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Re: Last time this happened...

>Prst. V.Jeltz

Yes, internally fitting plug windows would be ideal, but often there are bigger concerns. Especially in safety critical systems, not having to touch system B-Z in order to service system A is a bigger driver than making A better. A bit like software really.

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Re: Ram Air?

The plane is aerodynamic - it isn't a funnel. Even with a window out most of the airflow is around the nose - I would expect the fluid dynamics to reduce pressure in the plane, even after the initial decompression.

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Re: Trained for?

nobody has yet managed to replicate the successful landing on the Hudson River using a simulator.

Not quite - what the NTSB simulator tests tried to do was establish whether a return could have been made to the original (or alternate) airport. But even with the crew prepared for the engine failure it wasn't always possible to return and land safety.

The concern was that in this phase of flight with both engines out the checklist procedure was too long and to see if this could be improved to have allowed them to get back to a runway.

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Because he should have looked in his rear view mirror before the ground handling staff signalled him to pull back ?

That's why Boeings are fitted with opening windows and a step ladder -t o allow the pilot to get a clear view out of the back of a 747 when pulling back from the gate

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Re: Last time this happened...

True, but had i been the airplane designer* I would definitely have designed it that way first time round.

Even if that meant the entire instrument panel had to be dismantled and 100 of instruments disconnected to replace a window ?

They are plug type on some airbus because the computers mean that the instrument panel is a lot smaller and easier to work on than in the old days.

John McAfee ‘goes underground’ in motorcade to flee SEC

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Sounds like presidential material

The only problem is that you would never be able to uninstall him

America's forgotten space station and a mission tinged with urine, we salute you

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Re: "Could have been used to feed hungry people"

WWII = Computers, Radar, Jet engine, etc - but that doesn't mean invading Poland is the only way to invent things

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Re: I hope..

could have been used to feed hungry people

could have been used to bomb hungry people - and it later was.

Wah, encryption makes policing hard, cries UK's National Crime Agency

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Re: Wut?

There is very little counter-argument to be had against "more regulation" for guns.

Except that more regulation would reduce the number of gun owners dying from guns and so prolonging the problem

First SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket lobs comms sat into orbit

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No the landings are real, the launches are faked.

This is how Musk's lizard people are secretly invading Earth

Hacking train Wi-Fi may expose passenger data and control systems

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Re: Separate WIFI

So you want the wireless non-wired network not be wired to the wired non-wireless network ?

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Us northerners had to invent and build the trains before we could ride on em

Sort your spending habits out, UK Ministry of Defence told over £20bn black hole

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Re: RE: Come IndyScotland and, hopefully, IndyWales

There are between 1,500 and 5,000 Welsh speakers of Welsh descent in the Chubut Valley of Patagonia.

Attracted by the sheep or just really bad at map reading ?

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Re: A truly excellent plan....

There is nothing to provide the steam for any steam catapults. HMS Queen Elizabeth has electric propulsion

Perhaps British electrical tea making technology could be adapted to other uses ?

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Re: A truly excellent plan....

It is completely impossible if you require the same company to do it that you are intending to pay a gazzillion $ for the F35

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Re: Deviation From Plan

we should have had a pair of nuke carriers

Whose total role, outside of their brief appearance (and then disappearance) in a global thermonuclear war - would be to cause a political row and bad publicity everytime they visit any country other than the USA?

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Re: RE: Come IndyScotland and, hopefully, IndyWales

So Wales could return to be the globe bestriding colossus it was before the C12 ?

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Simple solution

Have a war.

Nobody complains about defence spending during a war

It could also distract public attention from Europe (note don't have a war in Europe)

Make masses carry their mobes, suggests wig in not-at-all-creepy speech

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It doesn't need GPS to track you, it records the signal strength from 3 nearby cell towers and transmits that to Google.

Yay for Nvidia, GPU giant report decent first quarter results despite recent setbacks

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Obviously

Time for import tariffs

It's Galileo Groundhog Day! You can keep asking the same question, but it won't change the answer

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ask those nice people in America to launch it.

Why? the Indians will do it for free now that we are back in control of the empire

Data centre down: Budget plane-ride mart Ryanair goes all in with AWS

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When they say they are going to AWS, they actually mean that they are going to a small deserted bookshop in a town 50mi away

Score one for the bats and badgers! Apple bins €850m Irish bit barn bid

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Re: Why do countries want to host data centers anyway?

Because you get to tax all the profits that the data center makes

Unless you are Ireland, or Luxemburg, or Britain

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Re: I feel a song coming on...

Is there any way to generate power with rain?

By building some sort of massive concrete wall across the end of a valley, letting all the rain build up in some sort of artificial lake behind it and then let it run out through some sort of turbine ?

Sounds like typical pie-in-the sky greenwash magic-unicorn thinking

UK Home Office tiptoes back from slurping immigrants' NHS files

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Re: The Home Office official position

Does Phil the Greek have permanent leave to remain?

Sounds like a sham marriage for him to just get into her free housing

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Re: Windrush

You know it's a joke when it says "not Richard Herring" on the tweeet

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Windrush

Why are people so suspicious of the Home Office?

Surely the intention of linking NHS data with police facial scanning is to allow them to point cameras at people and immediately see from the overlaid detail medical information that they have been in the country since the 1950s and so don't need to be immediately deported - even if they have failed to carry their landing cards with them at all times

IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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Re: It's not for everyone but for most it could be good

You key in the network driver from the front panel toggle switches - like the good old days

Zero Tech Emitted: ZTE halts assembly lines after US govt sanctions cripple mobile maker

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Re: How are Intel doing in phones?

So if somebody banned the export of ARM technology to the USA ......

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Re: Trying hard to care

Moto is now owned by filthy foreign commie Lenovo - so no true American would buy them either.

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How are Intel doing in phones?

Since Trump started a trade war over a tiny amount of Steel imports from a country that now owns the CPU in every mobile device

I look forward to buying my V8 diesel powered Itanium phone

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A cunning plan

This will force the Chinese to develop better home grown kit to replace the stuff it can't buy, thus leading to enhanced Chinese technologies, more choice, cheaper prices for everyone (outside the USA) and a rise in Chinese GDP - thus proving that Trump really is a global benefactor

NASA boss insists US returning to the Moon after Peanuts to show for past four decades

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Re: classic "schmuck bait"

You can however hire high school graduates ( pref. veterans / oppressed minorities depending on how is in power) to watch Japanese robots assemble German components into robots designed by the children of immigrants from countries where TV game show host isn't the highest achievement

As long as you get enough tax breaks to cover their minimum wages

Trademark dispute by Dr Dre against Dr Drai the gynaecologist dismissed

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Does that rhyme ?

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