Re: "...a local transformer which takes it up from the standard 50Hz to the carriers’ 60Hz..."
They'll be telling us it's only 120V next!
Maybe that's the current standard
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This is where UK's Navy will park its 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers
Marissa! Mayer! out! as! CEO! of! Yahoo! corpse! post-Verizon! gobble!
Family of technician slain by factory robot sues everyone involved
Saturday 11th March 2017 13:14 GMT 
Re: WTF?
"The Workers Compensation Disability Act prevents negligence claims against employers and coworkers across the country, in exchange for providing benefits to workers or their families in the case of injury or death.
I can hardly think of a better way to discourage employers to take an active interest in their employees' safety.
Saturday 11th March 2017 13:11 GMT
Robot manufacturer not integrator?
For a system like this wouldn't there be a company who integrates all the robots together and does the design? My work's robots (used for drug discovery) are usually setup this way. Assuming there was an integrator involved, wouldn't that company be at fault for this?
Happy to be corrected if this isn't how robots in this industry work.
Seagate dismounts Korean design center, fscks 300 workers
America's Marine Corp steamy selfies scandal, a Senate probe – and El Reg to the rescue
Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard
Germany to roll out €100bn gigabit internet network
Friday 10th March 2017 14:26 GMT
Re: The €100bn project
A few reasons:
* English speaking
* Time zone that works with Asia and America
* Nice shops and restaurants for the C Suite
* Fewish strikes
* Excellent universities (at the top end at least)
* Well-connected airports
The people making these decisions can probably afford to not worry about the crazy cost of living and taxis to avoid the public transport.
BT agrees to legal separation of Openreach
Oh my God, 911 is down. Quick, call… aaargh!
HPE unscrambles its services eggs, calls the results 'Pointnext'
Anti-TV Licensing petition gets May date for Parliament debate
Doctor Google stitches eyes, ears onto its cloudy learning monster
Thursday 9th March 2017 13:18 GMT
Re: Are they paying those people for the content they made
Did "those people" produce the content in the course of their employment, expecting payment?
YouTube pay almost an order of magnitude less for each video than some of the music streaming websites. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/07/14/youtube-apple-spotify-tidal-artists/ If anything I'd expect higher royalties for a video than for just the audio.
Microsoft: Can't wait for ARM to power MOST of our cloud data centers! Take that, Intel! Ha! Ha!
AMD does an Italian job on Intel, unveils 32-core, 64-thread 'Naples' CPU
Top tip: Unplug your WD My Cloud boxen – now
Q: How many IBMers need to volunteer for corporate guillotine?
Has your spouse stayed on after Mobile World Congress? This sex doll brothel might be why
Did your in-flight entertainment widget suck? It's Panasonic's fault, claims software biz
Java? Nah, I do JavaScript, man. Wise up, hipster, to the money
Intel's dying Atom chips strike again: Netgear recalls four ReadyNAS, Wi-Fi management lines
Dyson backs Britain plc with $2.5bn AI and robotics investment
TWO BILLION PCs to sell in next five years
Wednesday 1st March 2017 10:20 GMT
Re: Improvement?
Speed up Lightroom :) OK, I admit that Adobe could also do their part here and sort their code out!
Photo editing and gaming are the most demanding things I do on my home PC at the moment and faster clock speeds would help immensely. I also sometimes do some bioinformatics which is mostly single or poorly mutlithreaded.
This ferry is said to weigh 250 cows. We say that is actually 20,600 Lindisfarne Gospels
Wednesday 1st March 2017 14:43 GMT 
Docking in Milton Keynes
If you fancy another laugh at the IoW's ferries, then see if you can find a copy of Andy Stanford-Clark's story of how one of the companies borrowed his ferry tracking Twitter feed for their website without asking. Instead of engaging the m'learned friends; he made it tweet that it had docked in Milton Keynes took a screenshot and emailed it to them...
Boeing seeks patent for mobile device case with built-in fire extinguisher
Uber: Please don't give our London drivers English tests. You can work out the reason why
Wednesday 1st March 2017 14:29 GMT
Re: @Prst. V.Jeltz
GCSE isn't "advanced English", it is what everyone does at school.
In this case it probably means English as a foreign language. Assuming this is the case then a GCSE would equate to "A2" in the CEFR. Copying/pasting from the wikipedia article this means that you can:
* Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
* Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
* Can describe in simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
This would be enough for a cab driver I imagine.
AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world
NHS patient letters meant for GPs went undelivered for years
Tech contractors begin mass UK.gov exodus in wake of HMRC's IR35 income tax clampdown
Monday 27th February 2017 13:09 GMT
Re: Simple Answer
Merging NI and income tax seems like a mostly good idea; however...
Increase employer NI to 15% to cover the difference.
Employer NI is effectively a tax on employing people so it might actually lower employment, make offshoring seem more attractive and/or make the UK a less attractive place for multinationals.
Failed cancer data integration project means labs can't see patient histories
Engineer who blew lid on Uber's toxic sexist culture now menaced by creepy 'smear campaign'
Sunday 26th February 2017 17:13 GMT
Re: "You cannot just let a cable company shut down, "
IIRC the UK actually has about 150+ ISP's. Would it annoy a lot of people if Vermin or BT failed in the UK. Yes. But that leaves another 148.
If BT died then most of those 150 would be taken down too as they partially run over BT infrastructure.
Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file
Sunday 26th February 2017 17:11 GMT
Astonishingly, the Home Office stopped short of demanding the deletion of all images of innocent people no longer under investigation because, apparently, there are so many photos on file, it would be impractical to ask officers to go through all their databases and remove photographs of individuals who have never been convicted of an offence.
This almost makes it sound like the cops have no tracking of their photos and who they think are in them! I suspect almost everyone reading this could write some SQL to query a data base, then delete the file and update the DB (or use APIs).
BOFH: Elf of Safety? Orc of Admin. Pleased to meet you
Saturday 25th February 2017 17:27 GMT
Re: Reminds me
To be completely fair, the noise level in some server rooms is loud enough to do damage to your hearing over time
That is true. It was just odd that she picked on the Sun Fire and ignored my HPC cluster which was a lot louder; not to mention some of the big Sun Sparc boxen we had in the room too.
Friday 24th February 2017 13:44 GMT
Reminds me
We used to have a H&S lady like that working on our site... She decided to audit the datacentre, one of her findings was that one of the servers (a Sun Fire x4200 which liked to forget its HBAs) was a noise hazard - turns out she stuck her measuring device right up to the exhaust grill on the back...
She also once asked us what the bottle of oil for the shredder was and where its safety data sheets were. We prevented another "finding" by making sure it was kept in the cupboard below...
Safety googles because Health and Safety ->
Google rents out Nvidia Tesla GPUs in its cloud. If you ask nicely, that'll be 70 cents an hour, bud
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 10:20 GMT
Re: That's US$1152 a month for one VM
Rare is the workload that runs at the exact same utilization 24/7/365.
This is exactly how we run in HPC shops :) We've actually burnt out consumer cards running molecular simulations as they're not designed to run for days/weeks at a time...
This is ideal for bursting when you have a time critical job to run that can be run on many GPUs at once.
'Hey, Homeland Security. Don't you dare demand Twitter, Facebook passwords at the border'
You're doing Hadoop and Spark wrong and they will probably fail
Intel reveals Optane will need a 7th-gen core and a PC-centric launch
Connected car in the second-hand lot? Don't buy it if you're not hack-savvy
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