Posts by Dr Patrick J R Harkin594 posts • joined Tuesday 22nd January 2008 09:03 GMT
As we Brits know, monarchy travels instantaneously. When the current monarch dies, the next in line becomes king (or queen) without any delay regardless of how far apart he/she is. Admittedly, you can only transmit one bit of information per royal, so we don't use it for signally much.
http://asof.me/2011/04/29/broadband-upgrade/
...is based on the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword". I searched Google Images using the phrase "pen is" and here is what I found.
The actual sentences, on the other hand...
Probably about half of that will be direct costs - they'll ship in a cardboard-backed envelope and will be classed as 'large' (as it'll have to be bigger than the FDC). I must admit, dealing with play.com and Amazon have made me start to query almost any postage costs!
...or does this ruling actually say "It's illegal to identify the users from their IP address and warn them before blocking their internet connection" but it DOESN'T say "You can't block their access", so what we've lost is the "three strikes", but not the "you're out".
But they happily specify its limits to 0.1 degree. I must rush off the check my current latitude.
No way! That would mean they were trying to Google "Google" and if you type "Google" into Google, you can break the internet. EVRYONE in IT knows that.
Beggars will be cleaner, tidier and more polite than now. Why has everyone assumed he's a beggar, rather than a charity fund raiser? Or a someone working for the chairty in the field, or at an organisation the charity supports?
Dare I suggest closet racism? "He's wearing funny clothes - must be a foreign beggar!"
...is a no-win area. It's possible to lock down records so nurse X can only read the records of patient Y - and then patient Y is transferred to another ward where nurse Z can't read his (medical) records until (patient status) record is updated. Or nurse X phones in sick and nurse W covers for her. Or (this is the NHS, remember) both of the above, plus sixteen other random confusing events all occur at once. So the usual compromise is: the records are open and readable by appropriate grades of staff (eg nurses, doctors, clerical, but not management, catering, security), but access is logged: read without just cause, and you'll be disciplined. Some data is "siloed"; GU medicine clinic records are kept apart from general records, but within the "silo", same access rules apply.
Who'd have thought it? I'd like to have seen a study with 1 group playing FPS, one perhaps playing computer puzzles, one doing paper-based puzzles and one watching the Discovery Channel, or soething else "innocuous".
Hell, I reckon a week baking bread will change your brain somehow, somewhere.
...the Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation (STIF) course - see http://www.bashh.org/education_training_and_careers/stif It's run by the Bristish Accociation of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH). I don't know if any of the members are bishops.
...that the X-Factor broadcast system is SCADA controlled?
But I have no idea what I'd do with it. I did have an idea for a variation of their chess game - my pieces would be real (with barcodes underneath), the computers would be images but look as similar as possible.
There was never a problem with the antenna on the 4. Apple told us so. It was a software thing, remember? The signal strength gauge wasn't showing the right number of blobs and would be fixed by an update.
I know it's real, it has "MOON" written all the way through.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-07-24/
I use the "Swype" input system and even it doesn't hit 70% accuracy some days...
That's quite a loooong fuse....
...and only 148 records accessed.
From that, I'd be tempted to assume that only Google or other spiders ever found it! Especially if there was no link from the live site.
Really? Wow. How does it make the unit stick? And doesn't it make a hell of a clang as it hits?
In space, no one can hear your attitude control thrusters. (At least I think that was the tag line).
Shame the re-enter, parachute, retro-rockets, pulley sequence fininshed so soon. I think a big white-gloved hand should have popped out from behind a panel a carefully placed the Rover on the Martian surface (after clearing the dust away with a handerchief first, of course).
I thought it said "train". Got my hopes up for nothing.
You gotta keep an eye on these Centaurans. Did we learn nothing on Babylon 5?
Is this the first time a captain has gone up with his ship?
...everybody dies of something. Prostate cancer isn'r great, but I'd rather have it than pancreatic cancer which, IIRC, is associted with heavy coffee drinking. Perhaps that's why the study found less prostatic disease - they were all dead from something else before they got it!
How long is that keyboard cable? (Or do you mean "US citizen"?)
Where's the pedantic icon - apologies, where's the icon for use by pedants? (The icon itself cannot be pedantic, after all.)
Give.
Now!
I think that would count as "social media"; it's social and it uses media! The mechanics - whether it was Skype, a live video feed, a hole in the wall, a T3 line or dial-up - aren't really the issue. I was in Australia when this broke and there was discussion in the papers about whether the concealed camera invalidated the consent and this should be charged as rape, but I left before I heard any more.
"This limitation was wildly unpopular with readers, who gave the Sports Illustrated, Time, and Fortune iPad apps overwhelmingly negative reviews."
And no one predicted that. People are just so fickle...
I DEMAND that this USEFUL and VITAL icon is institued IMMEDIATELY. I AM UNABLE to comment IN THE way I WaNT withoUT IT.
True - but in many places (no idea about China) it's artifically iodinated. Oddly, this forced mass medication with one halogen seems to cause no upset, whereas putting another one in drinking water causes rampant baying at the moon.
AFAIK it isn't a crime to open the combination lock on your locker - though it would be a crime to take anything out. Likewise, figuring out the password for the connection does no harm in itself. Actually USING the connection is a different matter.
I don't like it, but i can see the reasoning.
"App" is short for "Application" so just use a different abbreviation. Instead of the first three letters, use the firsr four and call it the ApplStore. All solved!
She's miming to a track by Stephen Hawking.
It sounds like it's inside, or under control - no wonder kids get confused. Let's start a campaign to call it the publicnet, no one could get confused about what's on publicnet. As long as your monitor clearly displays the "l"....
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
But actually, they've had two hours less than you think...
Only last week I was looking at my keyring wondering "What the hell do those ones open?" and thinking I was going senile. But if everyone is in the same boat, my memory is no worse than - what were we talking about?
I suggest you open that pot of pink gloss and the crate of PlayMobil figures and get painting!
The film producer lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping. What do you do?
Blue? Surely the only blue in McD's is when a bandage ends up in your burger (or someone chokes on a McGiblet)?
I was offered "up to " - can't remember, some silly figure. When they handed over the contract to sign, I carefully wrote "up to" in front of the monthly tariff.
"What's that for?"
"Well, that amount is a typical payment which many of my suppliers receive but obviously I can't guarantee that you'll get that every month or indeed, ever, as there are too many variables beyond my control." Oddly, they wouldn't accept that argument so we had to go our separate ways
Hmmm. We have a "Joke" icon - where's the "Awkward bugger" icon?
"Papers belonging to Alan Turing are to go on display at Bletchley Park where he worked during the war rather than go abroad."
I don't think that was his primary motivation, was it?
"increase was unlikely to be associated with heat from the handset because the activity occurred near the antenna, rather than where the phone touched the head." When I hold my phone, the bit nearest my brain IS where it touches my head. I don't know where the antenna is in mine, but it can't be closer than that. I'd have though a better control would an phone with the antenna disconnected so it doesn't broadcast, but the phone is still on, to generate the heat.
And they definitely should have had left/right crossovers.
My wife bought a drive (Seagte, I think) and it's virtually impossible to work out whether a backup has happened and trying to get stuff back is a nightmare. They've "streamlined" the software so much (complete with pretty pictures) that there's almost no user interface left!
What's a modem?
"...and swiped a pack of bacon, except for a single rasher left chillingly draped over the front door handle."
Does the CID have a Surreal Crimes Division?
"XXXXX is very bright, very fast, and as you saw, he has some weird little moments,"
Just fill in the blank.
Are they even allowed to believe in dinosaurs?
