Posts by WeeHeavy

Want to make a super-earth? Bring on the frikking lasers

Oh, my!

not as massive as Uranus

I couldn't help myself... It's Friday!

Bungling cops try to use dead chap's fingers to unlock his smartmobe

There's very little expectation of privacy while you're alive... After you're dead they can make up whatever they want, it would seem.

For fanbois only? Face ID is turning punters off picking up an iPhone X

Re: TouchID has same problem

I'll stick with an alphanumeric password I keep in my head. Though I can still be held in contempt of court for refusing to unlock the device, that's a bridge I can afford to worry about crossing some other time. This way makes it very expensive for others to unlock my phone without my help.

Seems to me that fingerprints and facial recognition are not good ways to secure a device that is carried with the keys in plain view and easily accessed.

We talk to Tron artist Syd Mead: On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy

Back in the mid 80's

I was fortunate enough to go to a class in Los Angeles that was instructed by some of the technical folks involved in the film (sadly I don't remember their names). It was 3 or 4 seminars that described the use of computers to generate the digital assets on frames of film. My recollection is that they were using first generation Cray computers to do the work. I was fascinated and eventually worked my way into a graphics career and then an IT career supporting modern video production workstations due to that experience. Thanks for the reminder of my origins. It is not often that I think of that excellent class!