Posts by XSV1 58 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Apr 2016
>> Locking should be banned.
I totally agree. I travel internationally extensively and my phone has two SIM card slots. I get a local SIM card for every country I visit. I wouldn't be able to do this if my phone was locked.
Network locking is a shocking practice. All it does is inconvenience the consumer... there is absolutely no benefit to the consumer. Weasels!
"Perpignan airport"
Sounds like a great idea. I want to propose the same idea to our local airports. I had a look at the Google Earth images of the Perpignan airport in southern France, but I don't see any solar panels on images that are dated 2022. Am I looking at the wrong airport?
Good question. I have 24 solar panels on the roof of my house as well as two solar geysers. We have had no breakages yet (still holding thumbs). I live in Joburg, an area with regular hail storms in the summer months. The nice thing about the storms is they wash all the dust off the panels... it helps improve the efficiency of the cells. In the dry months we have to manually clean the dust off.
That bit about harming "ordinary Ru citizens" is utter bullshit. The average Russian is only going to do something about their reigning lunatic when their own pockets start to hurt. Every single Russian bank must be disconnected from SWIFT, instead of this selective disconnection of banks.
Severe sanctions against the whole of South Africa was the only thing that brought around the end of Apartheid. (I am South African).
And the bit about letting the Russian Athletes compete at the Paralympics is equally garbage. South Africa was TOTALLY banned from the Olympics during Apartheid (and rightfully so).
We weren't even allowed to watch British TV/comedy... now THAT was a tragedy ;-)
A more comprehensive video with nauseating commentary by someone from the company's PR department is available here:
If they could modify the deflector array to emit a thoron pulse each time the vessel approached a piece of space debris, that would likely deflect debris away from the ship. Also, alternately polarising the warp nacelles could theoretically ensure that larger pieces would be transported into the delta quadrant with no loss of energy to the warp core.
Yes and the fuckers in the Boeing boardroom still get to take home handsome salaries. The fucker-in-chief makes US$30 million a year. It's fabulous to watch him squirm in this video below:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/30/boeing-ceo-grilled-over-salary-accountability-on-capitol-hill.html
where you just scan your boarding pass just before security checks
This is very common, especially for pax that fly without checked luggage.
That scan is just for the purposes a total head count and for a record showing that a pax is about to pass through security and will be entered a secure area. This also allows the airline to know if the pax has started to go through the security checks, or if the pax is going to be a "no-show".
The actual pax "identity verification" often occurs only at the boarding gate where the pax's passport/ID is checked against the name on the boarding pass.
A mate of mine kept the scammers going for half an hour. At the end of the process he told the scammer that a message had popped up on the screen. He asked the scammer if he had a pen and paper to write down the message.
He then spelled out the alleged message, “c u n t”.
“Now what does that spell?” he asked, “because that is what you are if you think that I am dumb enough to fall for your scam.”
> Might not look scripted, but they've prearranged the interviews and for how long in advance.
Actually you are partially right and wrong. I have worked in outside broadcast at F1. Only certain interviews are lined up. A lot is flown by the seat of the pants.
I am curious if the court would have given the same ruling if the company had informed its staff that keylogging software had been installed.
But then I suppose the situation wouldn't have arisen because the employee wouldn't have broken the rules he had known that he was being keylogged.
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