The space equivalent of the hand reaching out of a car window and casually dropping a McDonald's box.

Now they need to find not only a replacement chip of the same type but also a field service engineer willing to go out on a Saturday.

Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

Two megawatts of energy Doesn't anyone proofread this kind of thing?

Yes, I can see that having people fail to queue in an orderly fashion for the train would be even worse than being mugged.

Clearly you have never been on a French train - much less a TGV. They are very comfortable and pleasant and the French on the whole are civilised people.

I doubt it will "premiere on the Paris rail network". There would be no point in a TGV if it just ran around Paris. Their whole purpose is to cross France in as short a time as possible and the French government aims to eliminate short-haul flying in France.

It might premiere on routes to and from Paris, but then most TGVs are on those routes anyway.

Is that right? Whilst they were certainly in the same address space ISTR that the ROMs ran at only half the speed of the RAM. One speed-up technique was to copy crucial bits of the ROMs into RAM.

This reminded me of something which I read in the regulations about storing fuel in the UK the other day. There have been reports of people filling all sorts of containers with petrol at filling stations so I was checking up how much you are allowed. The answer is up to 30L in suitable containers (metal or plastic) but although you are allowed to store it you are not allowed to "dispense it into a vehicle".

Makes me wonder what you are allowed to do with it. Throw it over a bonfire perhaps? (My grandmother used to do this.)

Not particularly. My house is over 100 years old. Probably when built it didn't have much if any electrical wiring. It has however been steadily upgraded over the years. We moved in 25 years ago, at which point we had it completely rewired. 10 years ago we had the consumer unit replaced to bring it up to modern specs. The oldest thing is probably the connection coming in from the road, but that's still rated at 100A.

To have a 7kW car charger installed simply involved putting another breaker put in the consumer unit and then a cable from there to the car charger. (Although the installer did express unhappiness with the main board fuse - probably 1950s vintage - so that was replaced too.)

I find it very hard to believe that Samoan DST was proposed for the convenience of one person. In any case, it makes absolutely no difference to one person. If he wanted to get up earlier to study insects in daylight he could just have done it.

DST is just a convenient way of getting *everyone* to get up an hour earlier in the summer to make more use of the fact that the day gets longer at both ends but our natural habits aren't conducive to making use of it.

What's really loony is the idea of places stating on DST right through the winter. The UK tried it in the late sixties and it was a disaster. If you don't want DST then just stick to UTC+/-N.

I have been using a web browser (since Mosaic / Arena) for over 30 years. Never in that time have I wanted the URL bar (and by extension the tabs bar since they're intimately linked) to be any other place than right there at the top of the window in plain view. The URL-bar/swipe-control is a heinous change that ruins literal decades of muscle memory and expectation.

It is not a "good thing", from my perspective.

For similar reasons, I loathe tab groups as well. I like the way tabs worked *anyway*. I have yet to see a single use-case (for me, and how I use them) that works as well as leaving the frigging things alone and letting me manage them as I see fit.

And yes, hiding UI is bloody annoying. I still haven't managed to work out how to use the phone in portrait mode properly yet. Instead of instant availability and instant access to what I actually want to do, I now have to study the damn thing and figure out how the hell I'm supposed to do

This Safari redesign is the first time I'm genuinely thinking of ditching Safari. It's that bad.

Re-writing 10^82 as 1 followed by 83 zeroes does not "put that into context" - it's simply a different (and incorrect) way of writing it.

Google keeps telling me that one of my passwords has been compromised. When I ask for details it gives me:

Site: http://192.168.1.1/

User: admin
Password: admin

I'm not sure that counts as a proper compromise. It certainly isn't one of my routers.

I still have a Google Nexus One which I use every day.