That doesn't sound quite right. You can take photos or videos, but can't share them without their permission.
In general, you can take photos of people in public spaces, but there are some exceptions...
If you share a photo of someone, you need their permission first...
That's not quite right, BO has put rockets into space, they've just lacked the ~6km/s delta-v to get into orbit. "Getting into space is easy, staying there is the hard part".
Yup, it was N in our house too. My dad still has his set (there's even a room in his house called the "Train Room"). Funnily enough I started looking into model trains recently (mainly because something jogged my memory and I was trying to work out what shunting loco my dad had).
The technology in them is astounding, as a programmer and a micro-electronics enthusiast I know how it's done but I hadn't realised to what extent digital trains had progressed. Everything we had was analogue, and digital was only just coming in when I was involved in them (25 years ago now). For example this HO scale DB V60 loco. The video is in German, but it made me want to buy one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Admittedly, it's more like 2.4% of the population, but as you say, nowhere close to the 40% that people like to bandy about. What's interesting is the vaccine snobbery coming out. People are apparently saying they only want the vaccine.
One upshot of the ridiculous vaccine jingoisim is that two colleagues who were vocally opposed to having a Covid vaccine (not vaccines in general) both have had their first dose. The moment the UK was ahead of the EU in vaccinations meant that vaccinating the population was a good thing.
What's interesting is when you compare how different countries are doing their vaccines. The UK has vaccinated far more people (26m; ~40%) than other EU countries, but that's only the first dose. When you look a the number of poeple who have received both doses, the UK has only managed about 2.4% of its population.
Source: https://www.euronews.com/2021/...
I guess this can be explained in two ways. First, UK policy was to get as many people with a single dose as soon as possible. Second, other vaccines appear to require both doses, and EU countries have less access to the AZ vaccine.
Personally, I think the UK approach has been better (the UK government was going to get something right at some stage). Fortunately for them, people will remember the success of the vaccination program and ignore the rest of their fuck-ups.
I use the KeeWeb website. You can link it to multiple back ends using OAuth, or use the local filesystem. The code is all client-side, and available on GitHub.
With a 5-digit UID, surely you remember VCRs with a remote control which was connected to the unit by a cable? We had a VHS VCR with one, but the cable was so short that you still had to get up to reach it.
Photos for you young whippersnappers that don't believe me.
Nature have the full paper which includes diagrams, rather than the dumbed down version on National Geographic. National Geo seemed more interested in bigging up the Frozen connection than the actual research.
I was going to say something along the lines of
seeing as people are willing to spend $84.6m on a 1981 Francis Bacon painting, surely somebody would be willing pay to have kudo of their name alongside 'the 1st car to break 1,000 mph' in history books, even if they're not the driver.
My uni named the business school after the man who donated 5 milllion GBP*
But then reality struck. people who have the money and the interest are (were) already doing these kind of things - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, et al. Others pile money into medical philanthropy - Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, et al.
People who are happy to buy art for their private collection so that they're the only people who can view it, will continue to do so. Plus, as impressive as land speed records are, they're pretty much an dead end. 1,000 mph is an arbitrary number, why not 2,000 km/h? It's only 24% faster. Don't get me wrong, I still hope to see it happen though.
* So the school had enough spare budget to put on wine & cheese events for students. Meanwhile the engineering department didn't have enough money to maintain a water tunnel. Not that I'm bitter!
Yes, it's called gravity. Starlink satellites will be in LEO (more specifically, at an altitude of 500 km). SpaceX plans are to deorbit them when they go EOL, so the "years" time only applies if the satellite dies before it can be deorbited. Each satellite weighs about 260kg, so 12,000 satellites is about 3,120 tonnes. To put that into perspective, 15,000 tonnes of meteoroids enter the atmosphere every year. However StarLink satellites will have a life expectancy of about 4 years [citation needed], so they will make up 5% of the mass entering the atmosphere.
Debris left in orbits below 370 miles (600 km) normally fall back to Earth within several years
I'll just leave this here - Star Trek: Confusion...
We have a Brother MFC- L8690CDW in our office. Works perfectly with CUPS (there was a bug with the PPDs) but they actually published a new version when told about the issue.
It accepts compatible toner, although the ones we bought were dumping toner everywhere (the build quality wasn't great) so we've stuck with genuine toner as we don't do much printing. The drum says it's needed replacing for about 4 months now, but it's still printing perfectly and I'm not convinced it will ever refuse to print. I'm holding off swapping it until I notice quality issues.
It scans to email, SSH, SMB, etc and the profiles mean each user has a shortcut to scan directly to their PC.
They also include free postage labels for returning old toner. This is in Europe, other continents may differ.
I know I sound like I'm shilling for Brother but after 15 years of using various printers, this one has come out tops.
The point of this method is that it's completely passive, all they use is a telescope and light sensor. A laser pointed at a window would be simple to detected, regardless of wavelength.
I'm struggling to understand how the burnt propellant from large early stage solid fuel boosters ends up in orbit. The Ariane boosters are discarded in a suborbital trajectory and fall into the sea.
I can understand the issue with small upper stage motors, but not with the large P238/24 and P120 SRBs that Ariane 5 and 6 use (will use).
Absolutely, I'd hope that many people fully support the police having body cameras as it protects officers from malicious complaints.
In theory they should also temper a heavy-handed officer's conduct, but as we've seen they can have a habit of failing in the most inopportune times. I guess this is the reason that so many people are filming their interactions with the police nowadays as testimony from the police is taken as gospel, with or without video evidence.
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
