Posts by Country Bumpkin

Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin

Re: Innovative sundials?

Analogue watches continue to work in the dark, it is the human eye that fails to perceive their display due to the lack of photons hitting the rods (and cones) in the retina. The analogue watch however will continue to work, regardless of light or dark.

London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial

All missing the actual technology point here. From a technology perspective this isn't about whether arrests took place, someone covered their face or any of that, it's simply put, did the technology correctly match the face to the data already in its database? This technology trial would be much better served at a large institution with hundreds/thousands of participants who have willingly agreed to take part, like a university or national/local government building. Set the platform up with a count of 10% of the total population and let it do it's thing. Facial recognition is simply that, what happens with the result after that is down to the individual user (police making arrests, casinos ejecting known card counters etc.).

Don't split Openreach, says BT, and we'll splash BEELLIONS on broadband and 4G

Re: I should be so lucky...

<Me, and a lot of people in my immediate area in a largish town, are lucky to get 2.5MB/Sec on a good day.>

Me, and a lot of people in my immediate area in a small village, are lucky to get 0.5MB/Sec on a good day.

More UK broadband for bumpkins, but have-nots still ain’t happy

I'd still love to find out how they intend to upgrade my measly 256k to better then 2Mbps. Perhaps they've taken a course at Hogwarts?