Posts by Cookie 8

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

Re: here's an idea

"engineering reason why weighing a plane using its wheels is not practical or accurate enough?"

airflow over the wings generates lift, meaning the load through the wheels varies with the breeze / passing wind aircraft

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

Re: Scotland

"Garden of England" soon to be renamed "Cordon of England"

TomTom bill bomb: Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year, rages Reg reader

Re: Lifetime?

Waze is AN answer, providing you don't mind sharing your data with an arm of Google

Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?

Electricians

Having had some recent work done (sockets moved) I tested my tester plug only to find a fault. Very worrying to receive an electrical certificate covering swapping neutral and live in a socket

Brit boffins build 'quantum compass'... say goodbye to those old GPS gizmos, possibly

Re: It's not a compass.

If the French were off, wouldn't it be by a few centimetres?

HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days

Re: Using COTS instead of rad-hard devices.

>Unfortunately, science has yet to find a way to create Cosmic Rays on Earth

Have a look into the ChipIr instrument at the UK science and technology facilities council (stfc.ac.uk)