Posts by W3dge

Why the Sun is setting on the Boeing 747

Where did you go to maths school?!

FBI collars exec who allegedly tried to nick secrets of game fronted by babe Kate Upton

Re: Not innuendo

I suppose it would be alright if it was a bloke and the headline read 'Hunk' though, huh?

World-beating TWO-QUADRILLION-WATT LASER fired by boffins

Anyone know how much energy they had to input?

Oh, Obama's responded to the petition to pardon Snowden. What'll it be?

"The White House stated that no amount of public pressure"

Yay democracy!

Hurrah! Windfarms produce whopping one per cent of EU energy

Constraint Payments

Surprised no one has mentioned the issue con constraint payments:

http://www.nationalgridconnecting.com/grounds-for-constraint/

So far, the national grid has paid £34m this year for wind power to NOT generate electricity, for grid balancing issues. All this does is incentivise the construction of turbines in less than ideal locations as the operators get paid for not running their machinery (thus saving maintenance costs, etc.).

In a galaxy far, far, far away ... Farthest ever star system discovered

Re: Far Out, Man!

Well its not incorrectly phrased, it follows the exact same convention as we use in every day language.

As we observe it. it is happening right now, just the same as when I observe someone crossing the street, I say that's happening in the present. In actual fact it happened in the past, albeit a few nano seconds prior.

Its the exact same concept here, except the time factor is scaled up. For all intents and purposes that is happening right now because it is impossible for us to observe it any sooner (speed of light etc etc.)

That was probably a crap way of saying what I was trying to say, but meh.

Nokia boss smashes net neutrality activists

Surely the topic of net neutrality is whether service/content providers charge the consumer differing amounts of delivery of different types of content.

QoS mechanisms have been around for a long time, and I wasn't under the impression that they were being argued for/against in the net neutrality debate?

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Volkwagen

If you think a humble Volkswagen is particularly easy to work on, you've obviously never worked on one... ;)

Hoaxer posing as GCHQ boss prank-calls PM Cameron

Re: direct call

Indeed. But a secure call would likely be preceded by an unclass call to arrange the secure call (be in the presence of secure handset, have correct keys ready etc).

'Yeah, I'm like, SO backing Microsoft over Google, YAH'

Maybe you do have a right to be offended. But you don't have a right not to be offended. All this modern day pussy footing around in case you offend someone is pure bollocks.

How does the US government run the internet? This is how

Re: Not sure what the point is

Doesn't stop them from being idiots...

Hooker beating: What if you read the Bible AND play GTA5?

Female Equality

Could you imagine the uproar from the 'feminist' camp if you were only allowed to murder male characters on GTA? Pretty sure that would be considered sexist. So - right - Rockstar allows you to murder any sex character, but that not encourages violence against females.

Its pretty much what men have known for centuries - you just can't win... lol

Kali turns Nexus fondleslabs into hacking weapons

I think you're using your transformer wrong...

UK WhatsApp duo convicted of possessing extreme porn

If true, this is truly terrifying...

Phone charging log helps to convict murderer

Re: What?

Android records a history of battery charge level over the past 24hrs or so, and is easily accessible from the battery usage tab. From this it would be pretty obvious at what time the phone was on charge as the battery level would be increasing.