Posts by David 77

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

Windows ATM

Upgrading Windows on your ATM to meet the latest payment processor safety standards?

Try the new Copilot ATM functionality. Not only can it dynamically suggest new Microsoft products to purchase* based on your buying history, it can also generate a bank balance that makes you think that you can afford whatever it is that we're currently selling.

*Purchases are not a purchase. You do not own anything and are in fact subscribing to an auto-renewing subscription that we reserve the right to change in absolutely any manner for any reason at any time.

Skype for Web arrives to bring the world together. As long as the world is on Chrome and... Edge?

Still better than the skype for business "web app" which takes you to the download page for a windows installer. I think that skype and I have very different definitions of "web app".

Brit polar vessel christened RRS Sir David Attenborough

Re: I actually like the chosen name, but...

It's the same solution they used for the ISS Tranquility module.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmill_with_Vibration_Isolation_Stabilization#Naming_COLBERT

Predictable name goes on the real thing and the internet's choice gets a consolation prize which I think is a decent compromise. Come on, they were never going to call the ship Boaty McBoatface.

TalkTalk attack: 'No legal obligation to encrypt customer bank details', says chief

Are they going to change their slogan to "It's good to talk, it's better to do the absolute minimum"?

A black box for your SUITCASE: Now your lost luggage can phone home – quite literally

Expensive

I can't help thinking that you could build a version of this yourself with a bottom of the barrel android phone and a copy of tasker for about half the price.

Man+iPhone versus artificial intelligence: Anki robot racer slot cars

Re: If you can't create

My understanding is that the cars can localise themselves within the track, not just bounce off the walls. Presumably using a hidden dot pattern on the track similar to the paper dot patterns used by things like the LiveScribe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livescribe).

Fatty French Kilogram needs a new-year diet, say Brit boffins

Re: Missing something?

That is exactly the reason, multiple groups have been working for years trying to figure out a new measure which can be reproduced.

Current attempts include. perfect silicon spheres with a precise radius and current required to lift a mass using an electromagnet but no one has come up with a reproducible one just yet.

Re: Post vanished into the ether.

Temperate, atmospheric pressure and containments in the water for starters.