Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
If I'm standing next to ALICE thinking - "bloody hell thats a lot of detector", then I'm sure that neither of us is moving very much - so I'm mostly uncertain about where it is.
Although I only became an astrophysicist because i'm too short to be a high-energy physicist.
It's well known that the only purpose of HEP researchers is to stand in front of detectors in pictures to give them scale. As a result all HEP students are selected to be exactly 2.0m tall
Evidence, transparency, proper legal procedure.
As opposed to the more traditional response to a military aircraft accident. If pilot==dead then {pilot error.}
Because suggesting that the aircraft was at fault might impact the manufacturer's profitablilty which would put the defence of the realm (and jobs in a marginal constituency) at risk.
> I actually went out of my way not to buy Intel just ion the back of that.
I avoided United Airlines for years because they had to put "fly the freindly skies" into every fscking announcement - it was like being in a cult.
Hint to all the marketing people out there; your regular customers, the ones who fly several times a week, are very valuable - they are the ones who get pissed off at this sort of thing.
If you were on a German voip line owned and administered by a German company in Germany then the Belgium authorities would have to ask the Germans for access.
If you were in Germany then the Germans would have to ask the Germans for the data.
If you are on Skype in Belgium then the Americans are tapping it because they own Microsoft, the Germans are tapping it because the data almost certain goes through CDX, the Brits are tapping it as a backup for the Americans, the Chinese are tapping it because they can.
About the only people not tapping it are the Belgian government and that's because they can't find the Belgian government.
Microsoft Ireland isn't a USA based company, it is entirely separate but wholly owned company that abides by EU law.
Skype luxemburg also obeys Eu law and Belgium can get a warrant in Luxemburg if it wants stored data handed over. If it wants live data in Belgium handed over then it needs to prove that the law applies to Skype in Belgium.
> If one doesn't want it then its a 30 second operation to turn it off. What is the problem ?
Because this isn't a government porn filter - it's left upto the individual companies to choose what they want to block, even the actual "porn list" comes from a private organisation, want to know what political, environmental or religous organisations are on the block list? You can't, its commercial confidential information.
So your ISP can block whatever it chooses, news stories that are unfavourable to it's owner, sites that are a business rival and can choose to change anything they want
So if BA buy enough advertising on a Murdoch paper then this eu law would make it illegal for your News corp owned ISP to block or change any Ryanair page you visited.
By pointing out that the UK's "block porn by default unless you opt out" could also allow a "Newscorp owned sites only by default - you can always choose another cable provider if you want"
Of course this is an entirely accidental side effect of the drafting of the law and wasn't intended by the party supported by a certain Australian media baron.
Pi was introduced because school CS classes became "a click on icon in Word" exercise
Microsoft offer a windows environment for Pi, backed by lots of marketing, glossy lesson plans etc.
Teachers who know nothing about computers think "computers = windows = good"
Schools scared of mumsnet stories about terrorist hackers want locked down computers
School CS lessons become a "click on link in web page from embedded IE" exercise
>That could be the corporate motto of Airbus
Boeing's was not only late and overbudget but they deliberatly built the first aircraft with non-approved rivets in order to meet Wall St expectations. Then had to drill every single one out and replace it before they could start tests.
So where does the black box go ?
To Airbus - so they can prove that it wasn't their fault
The spanish air force, the spanish civil aviation authority.
The turkish, since it was their plane.
The airbus member country who wrote the software
Who decides if it was the software
Having a judge decide this after some deiberation seems a better idea than first to the site grabs it.
Using a mobile phone distracted driving = $250 fine
Using a new car's buitl in touch screen 48 zone climate control integrated radio panel in the wife's Prius that I can't understand even with the manual = ok
Using my phone's sat nav = $250 fine
Using a window mounted after market sat nav = illegal in the next state over
Using a new cars integrated sat nav = ok
It's almost as if the car makers and the legislators were working together somehow
The problem is that one letter about this to the local council can have your cement operations shut down while a dozen levels of government all cover their arses with the voters by demanding inquiries and permits.
Burning waste is a huge commercial risk - even if you can do it safely and economically. Much better to ship it West Africa to be burned on bonfires.
For anybody that services pumps or military vehicles in an environment where 3d glasses and touch pads will survive.
That is any area where it isn't desert sun, or 40deg below, where you aren't wearing safety goggles or a helmet or gloves and your hands aren't covered in oil
Amazon's model is to not make a profit until there is only Amazon. Any money it does happen to make from selling the latest Harry Potter is spent on building new business areas. In this way it should be worth more than Apple.
Think Honda when they first started out making mopeds vs Rolls Royce - who would you rather have invested in in the 1950s?
