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Comment Re:Did Fluke request this? (Score -1) 653

Yellow is instinctively a high visibility warning sign to our minds, second only to red on the warning scale, yet brighter so more visible in the night or dark spaces. That why the most color of warning tape is 'bumblebee colors' (yellow and black), that is why Hi Visibility jackets for construction workers are bright yellow or acid green (i.e green with a high yellow content) and nearly all hardware used in and around places like construction sites are bright yellow.

As for what safety function it serves, the preservation and identification of the multimeter in the first place is a pretty big one. Leaving it somewhere it should not be (car engine, electrical substation, demolition plant) is a hazard in itself when you factor in that these are £400 a piece, professional pieces of equipment used in pretty much the most hazardous situations... and not your £20 model from the store.

Comment Smartphones. (Score -1) 193

Every single contact in your smartphone contacts list is scraped and delivered to Facebook, Google, your Cell provider, your hardware manufacturer (in the case of Apple) and the NSA/Gov't by extension. If 50 people have you in their contacts as Alvin the mechanic, and your email is attached by cross reference as well as your LinkedIn, Facebook and G+ that all give positive face recognition matches, you can bet your bottom dollar that all the gov't need is that meta data to know exactly who is doing what.

And your phone is always connected to the internet, just a small walled off subnet for all the dumbphones. It's still the same thing if you are a provider however, scraping that metadata is beyond easy.

Comment Re:Ain't no body got time for that (Score -1) 606

What he is referring to is the fact that in nearly all cities in THE WORLD - never mind the US - have a commercial core, where housing is very much unavailable or extremely expensive I.E apartments above the high streets, casinos, and shops. Then right outside that commercial core, sometimes even within walking distance, that's where all the bad areas reside. Of all the surrounding areas, you will have one or two that all public money has gone into, and that will be the one place that is not ridden with crime and social issues. In London that place is Belgravia and Chelsea, and they are currently trying to do that to an area called Camden with gentrification due to lots of poorly judged foreign investment from China causing London prices to become absolutely ridiculous.

Comment Re:It's a status thing (Score -1) 717

It's funny how the UK as a country believes that raising minimum wage would kill it's businesses.

If your business pays someone £6.20 an hour and can't afford to pay them £7.20 then you own a terribly fragile business, because ultimately there are many, many other factors that could have the same financial effect on your business as a 14% rise in bottom line wages and all the businesses that can't handle this are hiring from mainland Europe anyway. I meant that's the whole reason British industry sucks.

Comment Re:It's a status thing (Score -1) 717

Depends really. Clean up the gov't by removing the right for them to dictate their own wages/payment and the right to private lobbying.

Instead give all 'contestants' the ability to draw a fixed amount from the public pocket based on their or their family's wages. And then limit their budget in case they already have substantial private wealth.

Comment Re: Not Obsolete At All (Score -1) 365

Bear in mind that for every 1 meter of distance your wattage goes down by a factor of four, as its light falloff. That means a laser defense system is going to have a very small range at which it will be able to penetrate a thermally reinforced hypersonic missile vs a normal one. Every single time you put a little more plate on the missile you lower the range at which enemy defenses will be able to damage it at all.

With something as simple as new heat sinking and intel on the positions of laser AMS, you can see holes in AMS systems that your foe thinks are well guarded and send hundreds or thousands of targeted strikes the moment your heat sinking tech steps ahead of the laser defense system's TDP. If you keep your missile at range, that isn't even all that hard.

Comment Re:Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen (Score -1) 448

"Well then unfortunately you would not be able to make a purchase at all. In the interests of security, you have to login in order to buy over Paypal, so you would be stopped from making your purchase at the checkout if you are blocked from logging into PayPal at work. I'm sorry but there isn't much I can do for you at this end."

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