Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
I just had to throw away a bunch of front panels for a switch unit to be used in a doctors office where a patient's hand might come into "intermittent accidental contact" - because the factory couldn't trace the batch of anodize that was used to make it silver.
And yet BAE are allowed to just buy FPGAs on fsckin ebay to sue in a fscking plane !!!!
"The point of the gold rings and so on is permanence and untarnished endurance. Pasta is no viable substitute. It mocks, it tastes great, but it doesn't last."
I'm guessing the correlation between "amount spent on traditional wedding" and "length of marriage" - isn't a positive number
Did this once to piss of a DEC salesweasel at university.
When they did maintenance they always insisted that we opened the CDs so that we were agreeing to the license when they installed it.
So we got a post-doc from a former soviet republic that didn't exist anymore and was now officially stateless - we introduced him to the salesdroid and him open the CDs.
The police have just announced that they are planning to deal with drug violence here by:
Introducing a zero tolerance policy (where they arrest youths of a certain skin color for walking on the cracks in the pavement) and simultaneously "earning the trust of the community" to get people to help them by turning in the naughty people.
The sort where you are paid £X irrespective of how good you are or what you do.
But after 3 years you can be promoted to Intermediate Science Officer ( lower grade ( type B ( sub section III)) [class 2b] and receive a 3% pay rise, unless a future government introduces a pay freeze.
It will be secure. The FBI, CIA, NSA, USSS, every branch of the military and 20,000 local police departments will have access to the backdoor - with that many security professionals protecting the access how can it not be secure?
Then add in the security services of every foreign country the manufacturer wants to do business in, and the secret will be super secure squared !
Certainly a gift to Chinese manufacturers.
When this law is introduced all the other countries will demand access to the backdoor.
So all US built equipment will be compromised.
So the only place that US police, security services, military and politicians will be able to source communications gear from is outside the USA - ie China.
Born as a product of a Nasa that had grown too big too fast as a result of the Apollo race and was desperate for large projects to justify itself and put jobs in the right constituencies . Placed in a useless orbit 4 years late and at 3x the cost so that it could be launched by a vehicle which was itself the result of the same mindset.
A lot of the good HST did was funding students and postdocs to work on the data and creating a software and organisational (STSCI) infrastructure to process - the images from ground based telescopes got a lot better a lot faster. The VLT was built for the same money that a singe HST servicing mission cost.
Opera stuck to the standard and didn't display many pages.
Since the "standard" is now whatever works on chrome it does at least display the pages.
I suppose Chrome is the new IE6 might be regarded as progress.
ps although it is odd that Google sites tell you to upgrade Vivaldi to the latest version of Chrome
>Why haven't GCHQ and the NSA been all over this for years?
Because along with terrorism you also need to fund counter insurgency and freedom fighters.
Like those muslim chappies in Afghanistan fighting the Russians, and those similar chaps fighter Sadaam and Assad. Not to mention all the devout anti-communist regimes in S America and those loyal gentlemen in Northern Ireland.
If you get up the bank's nose too much they could "leak" everyone's account.
>If our future trading is with the Far East why isn't it currently?
There must be a reason that Germany has a trade surplus with China and sells it all the robots used to make iPhones. While Britain has a trade deficit and buys all the iPhones.
It's probably because of immigrants/unions/red-tape
The price is set by wealthy investors, you aren't even allowed to put money into the funds unless you are a multi-millionaire.
Perhaps the SEC could have done a better job protecting the pensions and savings of ordinary people who put their trust in safe reliable companies like GM.
You have the GIGO principle wrong when it comes to internaltional geo-politics.
It will decide to attack somewhere and then calculate the required evidence to justify that decision. Afterwards it will delete the evidence.
To be honest we shouldn't have given it so much real-world training data
Not scurrying, They have produced a breakthrough AI which can wear a brown coat and sit in an office drinking tea while denying that an urgent delivery has arrived - when you can see it sitting on the counter.
It is believed to be the first AI to pass the Turing test, or the first warehouse man to fail it - the philosophers are still debating.
Simple solution - go back to journals being published by institutions.
Then the Proceedings of the University of X or the Royal institute of Y can be peer reviewed and prestigious and edited and appear on their website for negligible cost to the institution.
The only reason publishers got in on the act was that it became too expensive for an individual university dept to print and mail physical paper - we don't need to do that anymore
