Posts by Toni the terrible

Wyoming's would-be ban on sale of electric vehicles veers off road

Well they could try legislating Pi to be 3.4 again

Re: It's nearly impossible to ban consumer products in the US

Roof top Solar cells and Windmills, gotta clean the sniow off butt you should do that anyway...

Re: I just had to do it...

Forget it, why would the Amish move to that state?

Re: Why stop there? Go full "cowboy" and ban any vehicle with an engine

Weird Al Yankovitch says Yeah

How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker

Re: The future

Book Tokens?

Amazon, Games Workshop announce Warhammer 40k film deal

Heavy, metal?

US Air Force signs $344m deal for hypersonic Mayhem aircraft

Re: Expendable

As a meatbag I resemble that.

But note female meat bags are physically better than male meatbags for high speed fighters( smaller, lighter can take more Gs) but Western Govs tend not to use them.

Re: Expendable

You mix and match to the mission, e.g., have loads of cheap drones and hidden amongst them are the more costly ones

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

Re: Don't know.

My Smartspeaker, Amazon ver, doesnt let me play BBC Radio except the World Service - which is why I still have actual radios.

Re: "... they serve their makers more than they help users"

I have had a smartphone for years, I do not buy anything or do banking on it - it is not that convenient to do so. I do however use my PC to do that, with added security and only because getting to the increasingly rare bank is more difficult for me.

Cloudflare finds a way through China's network defences

Cloudfare - and China

Given the problems Cloudfare caused me in the past, possibly due to websites being not confugured properly (and not cloudfare per se I admit), I can only wish that China does not suddenlly find customers outside China cannot do any business with the world inside the Greal IT wall of China.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: Tuits

I'll get around tuit eventually

BOFH: Don't be nervous, Mr Consultant. Come right this way …

Is Elon Musk taking over Vulture Central as well as Twitter? and what will the BOFH do to him?

This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all

Re: "the so-called Population III stars"

...and upside down in mine

All the US midterm-related lies to expect when you're electing

Re: Hung parliament

The SNP would disagree, they lost but are going for Scotexit again

Re: Dems preparing for loss?

Republican tolatarian rule, it fell that way after Bush Snr

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

Re: Systemd and it's team is more than a pile of bad code

Windoze anyone?

Porsche wants to sell you a rusty tailpipe soundbar for $12k

You forgot the gold coated connectors

Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds

Nonetheless, I and many others vote - just for the least worst candidate - which we more often than not we dont get anyway.

'None of the above' is an abrogation of the citizens duty to vote. Perhaps, we should be fined if we dont vote? or be given a cupcake if our man fails, Yes they do know how you vote...

in the UK we have an elective dictatorship (after May, Boris, Truss and Sunak) not a democracy

Indeed it is Thor's Day

India's – and Infosys's – favorite son-in-law Rishi Sunak is next UK PM

Re: Talking points

I dont like Sunak as PM because he is a Tory and didn't suceed in heading off this avoidable econiomic/fuel etc crisis in his previous job. There is no reason to believe he will be more succesful than Boris Or Truss.

Then again I blame shiny headed gammon Cameron for all the consequences of his Brexit failure.

Re: Talking points

Oh Diana.... (White princess)

YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

Good or Bad

If you do something evil or good you will have a greater chance of doing more of the same, so much like youtube recommendations. Nothing new there.

Then again, it was also said that improved communications tends to lead to greater and improved errors. If only on the basis that a lie spreads around the world faster than the truth can get its boots on

Anything / any person who proposes/supports harming anyone else should be ignored at worst and be considered suspicious at all times. Most coercian is evil etc. etc etc

So, I do not use YouTube/Twitter etc

Re: Left or right

Which is why I gave up reading newspapers some years ago, the are very obvious in their leanings.

Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built

Re: Compare this to JRM's Mister Fusion demonstration plant...

...before fusion power occurs?

Well make a giant MSR then!

Manifest Destiny Rules over patents

If you can use it it isn't waste its a profitable byproduct

Not easy to steal? but you know someone would try - if not Crims then State Actors etc

You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

Re: "You own, at most, a serial number"

Mold is a type of organisim, Mould is something you use to cast (etc) into

India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable'

Why not send a fuel tanker, I am sure there are many such bits of kit that could be revived?

Yes, why does India get Foreign Aid from the UK, Bangaladesh I understand with all that flooding, but India isn't any longer 'underdevloped' (excecpt like the USA in parts).

I understand India's point of view, I wouldnt be upset any receiving foreign aid myself

Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks?

Re: Waiting period...

they are in a race to be the cheapest for them, not you

China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)

Re: Curly -- or Straight?

A double Fist Full (or hand full) of shell pasta is just enough for one

Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move

Re: Just wondering

Ask the Fremen from Dune how they did it?

Re: another problem

Invest in dust busters!

Learn to love the Nukes

Re: The cruel realities of conservation of energy.

In deserts, any excess solar power generated; the H2 is then a energy storage medium

Re: Storage ? Transport ?

Ammonia cooled rerefrigeration?

Re: Storage ? Transport ?

I luv diluted ethanol

Re: Storage ? Transport ?

During WWII on the domestic front some vehicles were run on coal gas and could be run on CH4 easily enough (no magic required but sone engineering), not so long ago cars did have the option for conversion to run on propane as well. A H2 storage unit for a auto or fueling station really isnt out of current engineering practice - although regs may need to be tightened. There will always be risks, as there is for petrol/diesel, just are you willing to accept them?

Re: Storage ? Transport ?

As with propane/butane (and fuel oil) H2 could be supplied to a domestic tank, outside of the house/garage by tanker truck - no need for H2 to be delivered by piping

Terminal downgrade saves the day after a client/server heist

Re: Teletubbies

A salute to you for dong thjat

Improved Truck-kun

Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid

Re: Degrees F

or minibells, or is that too cheesy

Ke(l)vin Watts is one of my neighbours - he wont like getting downvoted

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Re: Costs and Corrosion

wooden you know it

Re: 13GW from four thousand miles of solar panels...

Not all irrigation canals are sized for barges.

Re: Isn't this a good "shady" idea in general?

As far I can see my solar panels are an inch or two above the roof tiles fixed to the joists through the roof proper, I know this cos pigeons get in there to make nests sometimes (yes must be a squeeze), so do I have a double roof? Its been there for 10 yrs so far no problems - except for the WIFI montoring which wont connect to my (sob) eero6 network