Posts by AkodoGilador

UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet

GPMS is obsolete. The GSCP only has OFFICIAL, SECRET and TOP SECRET.

Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?

Re: Pizza toppings

Pineapple.

Here's to beer, without which we'd never have the audacity to Google an error message at 3am

The above applies to doctors, too:

"Sometimes trying to find something sensible amongst the thousands of pages of misleading information and wrong answers on technical forums is like digging for gold and a skill in itself."

Alex

What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years

Re: Boom!

No, you get neutron stars instead.

Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal

Re: I think it's around the right time

"Performance hit"? "Cost"? I think you'll find "faster" *and* "cheaper".

EE tops Ofcom’s naughty list, generates most fixed line broadband complaints

Link pls.

Help! What does 'personal conduct unrelated to operations or financials' mean?

Buggering the bursar?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085478/quotes?item=qt0213725

Clueless do-gooders make Africa's conflict mineral mines even more dangerous

Three orders of magnitude

$4bn / $10m = 400, not 400,000.

Operation Redstone: Microsoft preps double Windows update in 2016

Re: Redstone? Sounds familiar...

That was Treadstone.

'G-WIZ like' object doing 40,000 MPH CRASHES on the MOON

Moonbase

How common are impacts this size? How much of a hazard would they be for any moonbase?

OHM MY GOD! Move over graphene, here comes '100% PERFECT' stanene

Manufacture

There's plenty of methods of making graphene listed on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene#Occurrence_and_production - but has anyone succeeded in making silicene or germanene?

Or plumbene, I guess.

Facebook Frankenphoto morgue will store your cold, dead selfies FOREVER

1.38 exabytes would be a fair chunk of the 8.2 exabytes shipped last year: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24302513 (link borrowed from xkcd: http://what-if.xkcd.com/63/).

Surprise! Republican bill adds politics to science funding

No repeated research?

*Most* research should be repeating other people's work, not none of it - eg http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/serious-power-failure-threatens-entire.html

Alex

Space elevators, vacuum chutes: What next for big rocket tech?

Re: Feasible Space Elevators

So... According to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator - Tsiolkovsky's original idea was a tower, which would be in compression. Current thinking resolves around a cable, in tension. Is there a feasible midpoint, which is neither in compression nor tension?

Brit cops blow £14m on software - then just flush it down the bogs

Someone's playing the man not the ball.