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isfield | 7 years ago | on: UK Airprox board says police drone and jet had 'near-miss'

Yup. A common sight at music festivals and the like now, too.

isfield | 8 years ago | on: Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

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.

isfield | 8 years ago | on: 1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End

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.

isfield | 8 years ago | on: SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt

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

isfield | 8 years ago | on: Formula E reveals second-generation car

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.

isfield | 8 years ago | on: Formula E reveals second-generation car

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

isfield | 8 years ago | on: Formula E reveals second-generation car

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.

isfield | 8 years ago | on: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

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...

isfield | 8 years ago | on: Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources?

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.

isfield | 8 years ago | on: CIA Releases Additional Files Recovered in Raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s Compound

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

isfield | 9 years ago | on: Thomas Edison’s Ambitious “To-Do” List from 1888

"Execution is everything" I salute your word-play...

isfield | 9 years ago | on: Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit

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...

isfield | 9 years ago | on: How to Create a Simple Hacker News Reader with Qt Network and JSON

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.

isfield | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft Delivers Another Broken Windows 10 Update

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.

isfield | 9 years ago | on: It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin

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.