Posts by Phil O'Sophical

All aboard the Vomit Comet: Not the last train to Essex, but a modded 727 for weightless flight

Re: Oh that would be a ...

All that & it could still fly? What're you worried about?

Airspace might be a bit crowded, I'd guess you'd have to head a ways out over the Atlantic.

Destroying the city to save the robocar

Re: A strange idea

The next trick is to ban cars as much as possible from city centres, and provide instead very good car parking facilities around the city centres.

Unfortunately the ban always gets implemented, but then there's rarely enough money to build the car parks and replacement public transport. Even if there is, the eco-types get up in arms about the plans for the new roads that bypass the city to take the traffic that used to go through it, and the end result is traffic jams, pollution, and a dead city centre because the shops & restaurants have all migrated to places people can reach by car.

Airbus warns it could quit A380 production

Re: Capacity

Things may have changed since then though (2010).

They have. BA short haul is in a downward path that has now passed Easyjet and is heading for Ryanair territory. No food, extra baggage charges, limited routes. They're just another low-cost carrier.

Their transatlantic long-haul is still better than some, far ahead of United & Air France, for example, but was behind KLM. I haven't flown KLM transatlantic much since they merged with Air France, not sure how they're doing now, though. Amsterdam wasn't a bad place to change planes.

For the flights I take, BA still has better schedules, which is one reason I still use them. It wouldn't take much to make me swap, and their appallingly-uncomfortable new economy seats might be the last straw. One hour out of Heathrow in an A380 and my backside was already numb due to the 1cm thick "cushion" over the rigid plastic. The fixed headrests are too wide to support your head, and too narrow to leave room for a pillow. Major fail there, no matter how nice the A380 might be in terms of space and noise.

Butt plugs, mock cocks, late pay and paranoia: The world of Waymo star Anthony Levandowski… by his kids' nanny

Re: The nanny thought she found some leather bondage pants...

I'm alert, where's the joke...

Wensleydale?

Ford giving electric car investment a jolt to the tune of $11bn

Re: Answer me this...

There is *massive* unused capacity overnight

Do the maths. Take the total amount of energy used by petrol & diesel cars in a year (approx 270TWh). Providing that from the grid would require a 75% increase in annual electricity production. Even assuming it could be averaged out over the year, and not just overnight off-peak, that still requires the UK generating system to run at 75%, 24/7. Add power for road haulage into that and you're looking at almost 100%, 24/7. That just isn't possible.

Then you can start using the EVs as localised storage for the grid, feeding back a little of the stored energy at peak times

Nice, you plug in to fill up for the holidays, and next morning it's only half-charged, and there's an SMS on your phone saying "sorry, we needed it more than you did".

Re: If you build them...

I also wonder how fast the electric power industry can ramp up to provide charging points.

They'll cover the whole country, provided you're not more than 4km from a town, and will offer "up to" 30 minute recharges, which may actually take all day when the network is busy.

Frenchman comes eye to eye with horror toilet python

Re: ah ha!

He has a chicken?

Cock au vim?

China's first space station to – ahem – de-orbit in late March

Re: per the piccy it seems to coast over Spain

I don't suppose there's an app for satellite debris?

Maybe, but: https://xkcd.com/937/

Worst-case Brexit could kill 92,000 science, tech jobs across UK – report

Re: But the good old days!

Give me cogent arguments for each of those points that stands up to scrutiny. I can guarantee you won't be able to,

• Politics: here we see only your uninfomed bias. Of the last 8 prime ministers (I didn't go back past Wilson) only one went to Eton and read PPE At Oxford (Cameron). Wilson and Heath read PPE but came from ordinary grammar school backgrounds. As to Tory politicians representing my interests, they don't represent all of them, but they are a damn site closer to them than Corbyn is. A bigger problem here is that the political dimension of the EU has no practical benefit for ordinary European people. It solves no obvious problem, the move from EEC to EU was done by politicians, for politicians. We don't need it, but we have to pay for it, and its consequences. MEPs represent little but their own interests, they have little power over the unelected EC that runs the EU, and that lack of accountability is fuelling a rise in deeply worrying populism.
• Economics. The pound fell on the uncertainity over Brexit, unsurprisingly. We'll need to wait for a few years after Brexit actually happens to see how that goes. Yes, we'll have residual payments to make from past committments, but those are time limited. We will not be fitted into the one-size-fits-nobody straight jacket that has done such harm to European growth and employment over the past 25 years. Will it be better afterwards? I have no crystal ball, but we'll certainly have the opportunity to make it better. Our fault if we fail, which is a better situation than being sucked down with the EU economy.
• Immigration. No argument with you there.
• Trade. There are 27 other members of the EU, leaving about 150 other countries, many of whom have far more powerful economies than the EU. Organizations like the WTO are dedicated to reducing tarifs and promoting free trade, which we will be able to participate in on terms we negotiate. As with the Economy, we won't be tied to protectionist rules dreamt up by people who do not have our best interests at heart. Will we do better? Again, no crystal ball, but if we don't it will be our own fault.
• Sovereignty. Tricky one. By definition it is the ability of a state to govern itself without interference from outside sources, so clearly the treaties we signed (Maastricht, Lisbon) to join the EU did cede some sovereignty to Brussels, so in that sense your are incorrect. Does it matter? In practical terms only a little. The UK has other treaties, linking to the ECHR for example, which are largely separate from the EU and also involved a loss of sovereignty. Once we leave the EU we will be able to revisit those treaties, if we want to, it's a controversial issue. Brexit will make change possible, which could be considered a plus point if change is required.
• Bendy bananas. This just as daft an argument as the Blue Passport one. The EU does have regulations determining whether fruit can be sold as "perfect" or not, and that does require bananas not have "abnormal curvature", but that's about it. Not an important issue, can't you find any more real ones?

The fundamental issues that make Brexit essential are that we get out from a failing, centrally-controlled economy that's never more than two crises away from disaster, and that we prevent the unelected, self-chosen elite in Brussels from wasting our tax money on schemes that benefit only their own vanity while stoking the fires of populism.

Uncertain future? Yes, of course, but I'd prefer to have our future in our own hands than to sit back in my confort zone while somebody else controls it for me. I'll take the risk of opportunity over stagnation and mediocrity, any day. That, to me, is the real essence of "take back control".

Re: Amsterdam

"And of course not being in the EU won't stop us buying from them if we want to" and can afford to.

Can they afford not to sell to us? The UK is the biggest export market in the EU for a number of products, like German luxury cars. It's clear that the EU politicos need Brexit to fail, but whether all the members will toe the line & write off one of their largest markets remains to be seen.

Re: Amsterdam

The UK isn't that special and amazing that it will get exemption rules for all 66 million people.

Let's wait and see...

And while doing so, consider the status of people from places like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Neither is in the EU, and people with British Islands passports do not benefit from the EU rules on free movement. All the same, most EU countries accept such travellers as they do any other European traveller, at least for brief visits. I'd imagine there would be more paperwork if someone from those places wanted to settle or work permanently in the EU.

Re: Amsterdam

Except that the EU are bringing in ETIAS Visas in the near future. All visitors from 3rd countries, which the UK will be, will need approval in advance to travel into the Schengen Zone.

Just like an ESTA for the US, where once every 2 years you have to spend 5 minutes filling in a form on a website? Not a major issue.

Re: Amsterdam

You are quite correct that you normally don't need anything more than a standard vistor's visa (or visa waiver in the US) for business trips: Meeting, training, pre-sales. Maybe even a bit of light on-site support.

However if you want to work you need a visa in most cases.

Agreed, it all hinges on the definition of "work". In the case of the US if the trip is less than 90 days, you're not being paid by a US entity, and you're not there to negotiate contracts, set up a business, etc. then you're OK. India can be trickier, their new electronic visa says that it is acceptable for "casual business purposes" but no-one could tell me what "casual" meant for certain, so I had to go through the usual painful business visa process.

Given how much hassle and paperwork it would be to manage, I still believe it's extremely unlikely that any major restrictions will apply to UK/EU work-related travel as long as it doesn't involve taking up residence or long-term locally-paid employment. Those latter cases are still unclear, but needing extra paperwork for such a long-term arrangement isn't likely to be a major extra inconvenience. It may well be arranged on a whole-EU basis, much as a visitor from outside the EU can today apply for a "Schengen Visa" that gives them entry to all of the Schengen area in one go.

if you're a Brit who up until now has enjoyed working in multiple EU countries. If you have to get visas, might as well go all out and try the US or elsewhere.

I'm really not sure anyone could pay me enough to live/work in the US full-time. It's a great place to visit, but... :)

Re: Amsterdam

Sorry Phil, you are wrong. e.g. Working in France without a work permit or visa (a la non-EU citizens) will result in a visit by the inspecteur du travail accompanied by the gendarmerie.

I know of at least 1 high tech French company who tried it on with Indian engineers who were over on business visas but actually working on a live project "for a few weeks."

After a snap inspection (Literally, "Show me your papers!") the Indians got thrown out and the company was fined.

I work for an international company that has engineers from US, India and the EU often working in one anothers countries. A few countries, India is an obvious one, insist on an expensive Business or Work (they are different) visa to travel to them, and so other countries tend to reciprocate for Indian passport holders. UK travel to the US and Canada doesn't require a visa for short-term business purposes, I've been doing that for 25 years without problems.

In the rare cases when you need a visa there is no problem if you have the correct one. Your comment that the visiting Indian staff were 'actually working on a live project "for a few weeks."' sounds like the French company was, as you say, trying it on with the wrong visas (which are significantly cheaper), and got caught. Their own fault.

That is the future for Brits and that is perfectly understandable.

It's extremely unlikely to be the future for Brits, and certainly not within Europe. There's no reason for the UK to apply such draconian rules to workers from EU countries (it has already said it won't), and so no reason for a tit-for-tat reaction from the EU.

Just because the UK doesn't do things properly, doesn't mean other EU countries don't.

By "properly" you mean "deliberately awkward and difficult for foreigners" you mean? That's certainly the French way of doing things (especially for foreigners are aren't the "right" colour) but generally not a UK trait, happily.

Re: Economics

Don't these countries include students among the Under-25 unemployed.

No. The OECD definition is "the number of unemployed 15-24 year-olds expressed as a percentage of the youth labour force. Unemployed people are those who report that they are without work, that they are available for work and that they have taken active steps to find work in the last four weeks." (my italics). The UK youth unemployment rate is 13%, see https://data.oecd.org/unemp/youth-unemployment-rate.htm

Re: But the good old days!

An England of endless summer afternoons, cricket matches on village greens, vicars on bicycles, and a Bobby on every corner.

It's curious, the only people I've ever seen mention that stereotype are remainers. It's as if they cannot conceive of any other reason to leave the EU than nostalgia for a past that never really existed for most people, which really says more about the remainers' understanding of the big picture than anything.

Re: Economics

Economic growth in the euro zone is pretty good and unemployment is rapidly dropping.

Euro zone growth last year was around 2.1%, forecast as 1.9% next year (IMF figures), slightly lower than the 2.1% forecast for the US and well below China's 6.1%

Euro zone unemployment is at 8.8%, lowest since 2009 but hardly dropping rapidly. It's also significantly unequal, 3.6% in Germany, 9% in France but 17% in Spain and 21% in Greece. It's far worse for the under-25s, which doesn't bode well for the future: 40% in Greece and 38% in Spain.

Now let's look a the UK. Economic growth is low, unemployment is high

UK forecast growth has dropped from 2.0% to 1.7% due to the Brexit uncertainity, so now a little lower than the Euro zone. UK unemployment has dropped from 8% to 4.3% over the past 5 years, certainly not high, and well below the EU average.

Re: Brexit

A right wing coup. In slow motion.

Discuss.

Which of the big left-wing parties opposed it? As I recall at election time both Tory & Labour were officially remain-ish, the centrist LibDems were very strong remainers.

After the vote, both mainstream parties became "will of the people" leavers, LibDems haven't changed. Not much sign of a right-wing bias there. Last year's election fiasco didn't even produce the initially-expected Tory landslide.

Of the smaller parties, the Marxist Sinn Féin were anti-EU by policy, but now support remain (unless Leave gets the Irish border deleted. Hypocisy, much?). UKIP are a single-issue party, and having achieved their aim they unsurprisingly imploded. No-one needs them now.

If anything this isn't a right/left issue, but a populist one.

It is interesting to compare the general EU situation with the UK one. None of the mainstream parties across the EU is publically anti-EU, but opinion polls show a substantial and increasing disillusionment with the EU (and particularly the Euro) in many countries, Germany being the exception. Who do eurosceptics cast their vote for? In the UK they had UKIP, elsewhere only the rather nasty right-wing extremist parties like the FN (France), AfD (Germany), PVV (Netherlands), all of whom have seen significant (and worrying) rises in support recently. The UK is perhaps fortunate that it had UKIP to absorb this dissatisfaction, and hasn't seen a significant growth in support for parties like BNP or Britain First, which again suggests that this is a populist issue, not a right/left one.

There are left-wing populist parties as well, of course, like Syriza in Greece, La France Insoumise in France, and also allegedly centrist ones like the Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy. None of them is especially pro-EU (or pro-Euro) either, and they do get some of the eurosceptic votes in their countries.

Re: Best Case Brexit

She wants to be able to arbitrarily change any EU inherited laws on things like employment rights or food

Not quite. If those inherited laws aren't transposed into UK law by the time Brexit happens there'd be a gap, old laws either repealed or inappropriate but no new law to replace them. A mass "global edit" of EU laws to make them into UK laws is the only reasonable way to proceed in the time available. After that, of course, other changes may be required, and they'll have to go through parliament as usual. Any attempt at an arbitrary change is a quick route to a confidence vote and an election.

Re: Amsterdam

Brits are losing their right to work across the EU. uk.gov is only negotiating for British citizens to be able to live and work in their EU country of residence. Not elsewhere in the EU.

People complain a lot about the "£350m for the NHS" propangda FUD, but this is a perfect example of lying Remainer FUD. No-one except remainers has ever suggested that people will lose the right to work across the EU, people had that right to work across Europe before the EU existed, the EU has nothing to do with it.

Thus if you have a job that entails work across Europe you will need to obtain work permits for each country. (In my case that'd be: Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Holland. Not sure about Ireland.)

Not true.

If you want to be hired for a full-time job in another country you may need a work and/or residence permit (which wasn't hard to get even before the EU) but if you're employed in the UK and need to travel to other countries for a few months at a time for work there is no suggestion nor likelihood that you'll need a work permit, or even a visa, any more than you do today if you travel to non-EU countries like the US, Canada, Middle East, etc.

Personally, I believe Respect is something earned

Me too, and you're not earning much with your assumptions that leavers are all Daily Fail readers unable to think for themselves. I supoport Brexit, would have voted for it if I could have done. I think I read a Daily Fail once or twice, back in the 1980s, haven't seen it in a long time. Unlike many of the remainers I've actually travelled in the wider world, lived elsewhere in the EU (among foreigners, no less. I even learned to speak their lingo!), and have used my own personal expereinces to understand that the EU is an economically moribund wannabe-Empire, created by politicians for their benefit, not ours.

given that they are mentally incapable of engaging in fact based arguments.

You seem to feel that your desire to stay is the result of your superior mental capacity. That certainly says something about you.

I'm still waiting for one to call me a traitor to my face - I'll greatly enjoy the following 60 seconds.

Hmm, interesting. Is that a reflection on your attention span, or an indication that you'll resort to violence against those who disagree with you? Way to gain respect, pal.

I wouldn't call you a traitor, to your face or otherwise just for being a remainer, you're entitled to your views on how the country should be run, and who it should be controlled by. Unless you actually resort to violence to prevent a democratic decision being implemented, of course.

Re: So one remainiac commissions a report from load of other remainiacs...

If you are confident that things will improve after we leave the EU, assuming this insanity cannot be avoided, I suggest you put your money where your mouth is. I am willing to bet you any amount of money that the NHS will NOT get £350M a week additional funding after we leave the EU.

Of course it won't, for a number of reasons, not least that that figure is the UK's gross contribution, not the net one. It was a stupid bit of propaganda.

At least then I may be in the position to get some sort of compensation from one of the fuckwits that voted to screw over the country.

I didn't get to vote, unfortunately, thanks to yet another broken promise by a UK politician. All the same, your comment about "screw over the country" is unfortunately all too common of the remainer attitude that the EU may not be great, but leaving would be worse. Never mind that the EU economy is moribund, growth is low, unemployment (especially in the Euro zone) is high, you'd prefer to sit in your comfort zone and get by. That's not the future I want.

I'll take it in Euros please.

I'll take Sterling, Dollars and Yen, please.

Sure Brexit might be a disaster, but it could also be an opportunity. If we don't try it we'll have neither, just a slow decline like every other European empire in the past. So yes, I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is, I'm investing in the UK.

Sometimes you just have to take a chance on change, as I did many pre-EU years ago when I left the UK to live in another European country. It worked at the time, but like most of the Euro zone it's suffering, it's time to leave.

So yes, I support Brexit and I'm willing to work to make it succeed. Assuming it goes ahead, what are you prepared to do to make it work, even if you dislike it? Or is that too much hard work compared to just complaining that "Well, I didn't vote for it"?

what's wrong with a 'near-socialist' approach, that aims to create the most good for the most people.

Because most people don't want that. People are naturally selfish, and want the most good for them personally. They rarely get it, of course, but they'll never support a scheme that doesn't at least pretend to give it to them.

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Re: meh

It's called 'planning' - one makes a range of assumptions based on a reasoned analysis of the plausible scenarios

It would be nice to think that they did so, but I have my doubts. Faced with a request from a remainer to come up with a report that show show bad leaving is, for which he is paying them, would you really expect a "well, actually, it won't be so bad" result?

Re: So one remainiac commissions a report from load of other remainiacs...

the NHS is doing so well with that extra £350M a week it isn't getting. Magical brexit rainbow unicorns for all!

You do know that we haven't actually left yet?

Infamous Silicon Valley 'sex party' exactly as exciting as it sounds

Cuddle Puddle

It even extended to heavy petting.

Doing it with your iPhone doesn't count.

Self-driving cars still do not exist even if we think they do

Re: Wait for what?

I wonder if she even knows what antidisestablishmentarianism even means...

Could be worse, imagine bumping into a Welsh Mary Poppins fan? It could be s*p*rc*l*fr*g*l*st*c*xp**l*d*c***s in ll**nf**rp*llg**ng*llg*g*r*ch**rndr*b*llll*nt*s*l**g*g*g*ch

Remember those holy tech wars we used to have? Heh, good times

And VMS is still better than Unix.

Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland

Re: Embarrassing ...

I live about 15 miles from there, and never knew.

I've been to Goodrich castle, even have photos of my niece & nephew sitting in that window embrasure, and I didn't know Croome was there. On the list for next time, thanks.

Heart of darkness: Inside the Osówka underground city

Re: Maybe one day we will also visit Cold War underground facilities

Seems like a well spent £100 to me

They'd need to pay me a lot more than that.

You. Apple. Get in here and explain these iOS slowdowns and batteries – US, French govt reps

Re: Storm in a tea cup

Just think if you get into some emergency and your battery is depleted.

Indeed so, which is exactly why I recently bought a replacement battery for my Samsung phone, so I know it will always be available, something you can't do for Apple products. Yes, that phone is a few mm thicker and perhaps a few grams heavier, than an iPhone. So what?

MPs sceptical of plan for IT to save the day after UK quits customs union

Re: Yes, but

the idle arses in the EU have nothing better to do than dictate measurements in a pub.

No so much "nothing better" as "nothing more important that will succeed". The things that would define a true Union, like harmonized tax codes, standardized business status, pensions portable across countries, centralized budget control, etc. are all far too controversial and wouldn't be accepted by most countries. Instead they can only tweak the tiny stuff that makes good PR, like phone roaming and food container sizes. Another example of why the European "Union" is nothing of the sort, it's just a money pit created by politicians so they can show off on the world stage. "My constituency/country/empire is bigger than yours, so I'm more important than you". And we pay for it.

Re: Yes, but

And don't forget the BLUE passport cover

I'm quite convinced that this change was only made so that the remainers would have something to keep them occupied, and out of the way of the serious discussions. They're as bad as the colour-obsessed xenophobes on the other end of the, umm, Brexit spectrum.

FBI says it can't unlock 8,000 encrypted devices, demands backdoors for America's 'public safety'

Re: Money Talks...

Unfortunately if enough campaign contributors want a backdoor the US politicians will give the FBI a backdoor.

And, of course, all the good law-abiding criminals will only use the FBI-approved encryption which contains the backdoor.

WikiLeave? Assange tipped for Ecuadorian eviction

He may regret waiting

He'll have to face the bail-jumping charges in the UK, but once that's done he may discover that hiding out until The Donald was elected was a bad idea. Despite his fears of being extradited to the US I suspect that the Obama administration would have ignored him, to avoid giving him free publicity. Trump, on the other hand, is more than likely to pander to his redneck voters and attempt to make an example of him.

Of course, maybe that's what the narcissistic St. Julien really wants.

1980s sci-fi movies: The thrill of being not quite terrified on mum's floral sofa

Re: The Thing...

The BBC TV 1954 serial of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" had some terrifying moments too - with minimal props.

OK, so totally off-topic, but back in the 1980's a friend took me to see "The Woman in Black", in the Fortune Theatre in London soon after it opened (it's still running AFAIK, which says something). No fancy effects, just very clever stagecraft. I know that there were just two men on stage, with some odds and ends like a hamper & a hatstand, but I remember seeing the stagecoach crossing the moor to the old house. They built up the atmosphere so well than when the lights went up for the interval, suddenly revealing the ice-cream seller standing at the end of the row beside us, the girls in front of me practically fell out of their seats in fright.

As for the subtle final twist, the realization that only sinks in as you're leaving, the hairs on the back of my neck were still standing on end as we got to the street.

No need for effects bar some carefully chosen sounds, or visual tricks, just a plot & skilled actors.

Re: Say what?

No mention of the stop-motion stuff produced by experts like Ray Harryhausen either. Perhaps more fantasy than SciFi, but still excellent 60s fare.

Hold on to your aaSes: Yup, Windows 10 'as a service' is incoming

Re: Who didn't see this coming?

I wonder how long it'll be before there's a monthly subscription charge...

That's the "Windows As A Disservice" release.

Whizzes' lithium-iron-oxide battery 'octuples' capacity on the cheap

Re: Nevertheless...

And 8x more capacity means either 8x longer to charge, or 8x the power needed to charge. Solving the capacity issue just moves the problem.

GIMPS crack whip on plucky processor to find largest prime number

Re: A bloody good read actually

I gave up after the first chapter, it was too formulaic.

Jocks in shock as Irn-Bru set to slash sugar and girder content

Re: Guess what?

So if global warming ever heats Scotland up to the extent that it's at risk of malaria

My God, the midges aren't enough, you want mosquitoes as well?

Re: How to be English in Three Easy Steps

Step 3: Wonder why Scottish people don't like you.

This is El Reg. Do you think they care if people like them?

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare

Re: 'how Itanium isn't affected'

if the compiler generates code that does speculative loads aren't you still screwed

I'd think not, or much less so. Speculative accesses inside the processor that never get committed could perhaps access memory that the user shouldn't have permission to touch, but compiler-generated speculative loads are going to have to use standard instructions, albeit it out-of-order. They will be constrained by the protections available to whatever context the complete instructions are executed in, i.e. a user process won't be able to access kernel memory.

They're also easier to fix, either by a compiler patch or perhaps some post-processing of binaries.

Re: Mixed signals on CPU's

The bug reports seem to describe noticing that a speculative fetch that goes unused causes a delay which can be used to identify the value of data FROM THE DELAY. I dont understand this

The results of a speculative fetch of a bit can be used to decide which of two other addresses, accessible to the normal user, are read from while still in the speculative execution branch. Whichever one is chosen will end up in the cache, even if the actual results are discarded.

Then, after the incorrect speculative branch work is discarded and the program control returns to the user, it reads from both those addresses and times the operations. The one that returns quickly is the one already in the cache, which is the value that was read during speculative execution. That, in turn, allows you to determine what the value of the speculatively-read bit was, even if you can't actually read that bit from the user program. Over time you cycle through the whole kernel address space, bit by bit.

That's my reading of the PoC, anyway.

Re: I have a machine with a Via C7 processor

although to be honest a Raspberry Pi could probably replace it. Does anyone know if that CPU is affected?

Seems that neither RPi processor is affected: https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update doens't list A-7 or A-53

Big shock: $700 Internet-of-Things door lock not a success

Re: What if ...

and an external 9v battery terminal in case the regular batteries died.

And what happens if you apply 240v to that 9v terminal?

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

Re: 68000 versus 8086 @Robbert Sneddon

Whilst I don't have the experience of the 68000 that you obviously had, I believe that there were a significant number of support chips from the 680X 8-bit family that worked with the 68000.

There were indeed, the 68K was designed to be compatible with them, and would switch to a synchronous bus cycle when it detected a 68xx peripheral. I remember using 68xx-series UARTs with them, as well as the 68230 parallel/timer chip.

I'm trying to think back, but I'm sure I saw a working 68000 system around the time that the IBM PC was new.

The Sun-1 would have come out around the same time, with the Sun-2 and Sun-3 roughly aligning with the PC-AT and PC-XT286s.

European court: Let's not kid ourselves, Uber. You're a transport firm, not a 'digital service'

Re: Barcelona, Spain

if it's the one in USlandia then it does.

One? There are 15 Birminghams in the US. There are even two Parises in Europe (France and Denmark)

Re: So...

Dunno about France.

As in most places it depends on the shop. Big chains/retailers don't quibble, small ones will always try to persuade you it isn't their responsibility.