Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
That works if you are deep in enemy territory trying to just get the single word "tinker, tailor, soldier or spy" out.
It's trickier if you are trying to run a non-US multinational, a political party, a group opposing an oil pipeline or anything else that is considered an enemy of the state.
>Deutsche Telekom has no links whatsoever with the German government.
Other than having to obey any (secret) laws the German govt decides. And being a large company it has to plat nicely with any little "special requests" if it wants any govt contracts and doesn't want to be auditted into bankruptcy
>Which has no links whatsoever with the US Government.
Other than being USA's 2nd special little friend.
Possibly rising to 1st now that all the enemies are out of aircraft range of the UK or Canada
Because it's going to take time for US cable companies to re-make every decent British show so they have something watchable to show on Netflix.
They have done House of Cards - although without the same sardonic catch phrase - now they just have to to remake Only Fools and Horses with William Shatner and Last of the summer Wine with Bruce Willis
Means any company that might be tendering for a US contract, any that might compete with a US company or any that make sales in the US and the IRS might like to take a look at.
Imagine how useful it would be for the inland revenue to have all Starbucks internal discussions with their tax lawyers (well not at all of course because they are a US company and so the UK government will roll over like good little puppets.)
RTK isn't really even GPS, it uses GPS as a convenient high precision signal and tracks the phase difference between the base station and rover.
It has been around for years but the normal customer is high end surveying so the units are rare and expensive.
There has been an open source system for a few $100 that runs on a beagle board and a cheap SIRTF GPS chipset. You just need a GPS chip that gives you phase information, a cheap linux box and a comms link between the base and rover.
They are held in memory
When you copy a 200page doc it scans it, copies it into RAM then does any 2-up, half side, 2 sided reshuffling, then sends it to the laser printer - which is what a modern copier is
Some copiers also let you select extra copies of earlier docs.
there is normally a security scare story every week about how to access old copies - which is why most companies keep a separate machine for HR/ Financials etc
Even stretching the definition of newspaper, how does a paper whose audience is - the wives of people who read the times and people who want to read the sun but don't want to be seen reading the sun - get to be the most popular online paper?
(admittadly most popular in the same sense that Malaria is the most popular parasitic disease)
>This has nothing to do with the connector used on the device being charged.
Yes it does.
If Apple stuck to the rules you could use any USB socket to charge them. But because they ignore the rules and use a proprietry convector your choice is a $100 iCharger from iApple or a $2 knock off
The problem in these units is that the isolation between the 380V DC output of the switcher and the 5V USB socket is wishfull thinking. Putting it in a grounded metal case would do bugger-all to help
The real solution is for the world to use proper BS plugs so that there is room for a proper 6inch isolation gap, rather than these tiny little American things.
