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Re:UK Airprox board says police drone and jet had 'near-miss'
on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:19AM (#17195480)
Yup. A common sight at music festivals and the like now, too.
Re:Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room
on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:55AM (#16436242)
I see what you're saying. We all want to improve technology here right. But I don't find it a great deal of effort to leave my phone on a charging mat when I go bed already. I think we're already at an efficient cost of effort over financial cost of an even more effortless technology already.
Re:1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End
on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:53AM (#16365693)
The Stifford estate photo is my favorite. The 'new' brutalist architecture of social housing marching in over the old pre war landscape. It's hard to imagine the utopia it was supposed to represent. Roll forwards 20 years those sorts of buildings represented drugs crime and poverty.
Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:18PM (#16327184)
I think the people behind this launch would have given some thought to this. I mean they're quite thorough and intelligent people. As in so clever and interested in the subject that they could be ..... Rocket scientists... :P
Re:Formula E reveals second-generation car
on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:01PM (#16276504)
Sure. The voting aspect is my big gripe though. Without the voting they don't need the limiter. If the dumped the voting and allowed teams to innovate battery I'd be ALL OVER IT but they need dump the voting aspect like-right-now.
Re:Formula E reveals second-generation car
on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:46PM (#16275761)
Okay fine. Just don't call it motor racing then. Given that the cars are obviously running in some artificially crippled state compared to the 'boosted' car. Call it ... Car-big-brother or something instead :p
Re:Formula E reveals second-generation car
on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:30PM (#16275565)
THIS
I immediately stopped watching Formula E because of that. I like motor racing not popularity contests with cars. The tech involved in the cars is great though.
Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:48AM (#15912963)
In the event of long term catastrophic power failure. Books don't stop working ;) slightly tongue in cheek (I'm no Luddite) also slightly not...
Re:Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources?
on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:41AM (#15904813)
The constant use of "silly daddy". The show seems to attack the father figure whilst making the mother figure seem always right (in my personal opinion). Mummy pig is overweight too, nothing gets said about that though. It feels like a reverse gender bias in that show.
Re:CIA Releases Additional Files Recovered in Raid on Usama Bin Ladin’...
on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:38AM (#15608739)
Maybe download and copy to isolated vm view and nuke the vm. Or I'll just read what everyone else says is in there :D
Re:Thomas Edison’s Ambitious “To-Do” List from 1888
on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:22PM (#13195414)
"Execution is everything"
I salute your word-play...
Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:54AM (#13129204)
It's like the school playground arguments over which computer is better, the Amiga or Atari ST again. Only this time with planets. Imho Earth is better; it has a blitter... I mean liquid water oceans...
Re:How to Create a Simple Hacker News Reader with Qt Network and JSON
on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @10:56AM (#13014895)
Any idea's worthwhile as a personal learning project. From my perspective I wouldn't use it, simply because the web page is so efficient it even works great on my low powered windows phone.
Re:Microsoft Delivers Another Broken Windows 10 Update
on Saturday October 01, 2016 @10:11AM (#12617913)
I will say this. When it came time to upgrade my home laptop OS from win 7. I chose Elementary OS. As win 10 was seen to be full [edit: Of] MS spyware. That was the impression anyway. I haven't regretted that decision once. To be fair I was considering the move to Linux anyway.
Re:It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin
on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:40PM (#12607199)
I always felt the dream with BTC was to trade without the need to convert back. That BTC be a competing but decentralized currency - in its own right.