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diddledanno warning. just suddenly gone00:00
zmoylan-pioverheat?00:00
diddledanmaybe?00:00
m0nkey_blame the gremlins00:01
m0nkey_or blame me. i h4ckerz y0u b0x3n00:02
diddledan:-p00:17
diddledanm0nkey_: that scares me, because you actually do know where I live :-p00:17
diddledanmind you I'm fairly open about my location00:17
diddledanmost the regulars in here prolly have a vague recollection of my location00:18
diddledanhint: roundabouts. and not swindon.00:18
penguin42I like Barnards star?00:18
* zmoylan-pi looks over diddledan's shoulder with drone...00:19
diddledanzmoylan-pi: be honest, you're perving at me from my wardrobe00:28
diddledanzmoylan-pi: you're gonna jump out later with a ski mask and a giant chopper00:29
diddledanand I'll say: "myy, what a big thingy you have"00:29
zmoylan-piDID YOU SEE MY NEW SKI MASK AND AXE??00:29
mapitomornning;]01:31
diddledanallo01:31
diddledandon't you love how hackers send each other viruses in public email chains? (I have numerous viruses that get flagged-up when downloading my gmail archive in thunderbird)02:56
diddledannot that I'm a hacker. I subscribe to the full-disclosure mailing list02:57
diddledanso I get them as a byproduct02:57
mapitohaha really03:09
diddledanI think I need a new cpufan03:16
diddledanor rather the heatsink03:16
diddledanmine is completely caked in dust. not sure I can clean it easily03:16
diddledanI think it's causing the system to shutdown due to overheat03:17
mapitohmm03:52
mapitofell aslee somewhere during true detectiv03:52
ballMornin'04:26
diddledanballs04:37
diddledan:-p04:37
diddledanello04:37
mapitomorning04:38
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.04:45
mapitofinised e2 of true detective;]05:47
diddledanwelldone06:02
diddledan:-p06:02
mapito;)06:02
mapitoyou seen any06:03
diddledannot yet06:03
diddledanI must add it to my list06:03
shaunouff, I really don't want to be awake today06:15
mapito;]06:16
mapitojust got iup06:16
mapito?06:16
shaunosorta.  just turned the lights back on  lol06:17
* brobostigon makes shauno an espresso injection.06:18
* shauno rolls up sleeve06:19
brobostigon:)06:19
knightwisemorning peeps06:21
brobostigonmorning knightwise06:21
knightwisehow are you guys doin today .06:23
* knightwise has 2 episodes of Mr Robot to catch up on for tomorrow : )06:23
* brobostigon is having trouble with his hay fever.06:23
knightwisedamn brobostigon :( that sucks06:24
knightwiseknow how that feels from time to time06:24
knightwiseall those trees ejaculating up your nose06:24
brobostigonyes, couldnt sleep, contanstly runny nose and sneeses, its horrid.06:25
shaunooh oh I got my letter through .. I have a postcode now!06:26
knightwiseHooked up my old Raspberry pi to the network last night.06:27
shauno9 years of trying to trick websites are finally over06:27
knightwiseRunning Nagios on :)06:27
brobostigonis it a place that didnt have a postcode previously, like antarctica?06:27
knightwiseshauno: underground nuclear bunker ?06:27
shaunomost of ireland (eg, outside of Dublin) didn't have postcodes until a week or two ago06:28
knightwiseshauno: where U at ?06:28
brobostigoninteresting.06:28
shaunoI guess they never needed them because the postman already knew everybody & everybody's business.  but now we've been brought kicking and screaming into the 20th century.06:29
knightwisesilly question : I'm on a ubuntu machine06:41
knightwisei am ssh'd into a headless raspberry pi (who just has a commandn line interface)06:42
knightwisei want to edit a file (i can do that with nano)06:42
knightwisebut what if i want to edit a config file on the remote raspberry pi with something like Gedit (that is only installed on my own machine ? )06:42
knightwisein essence : open a remote file (via ssh) with a local copy of gedit06:44
MooDoo:) morning all07:01
brobostigonmorning MooDoo :)07:03
MooDoo:)07:04
shaunooh boy.  it's mcaffee day :/07:11
MooDoomcaffee?07:13
shaunoonce a month it wants to do a full scan.  so I get to spend all day trying to catch every single defer dialog in the 15 seconds it gives me, before it takes my laptop back to the stone age07:15
MooDoobooooo07:18
knightwisemcaffee : like pouring frozen honey onto your harddrive platters07:44
MooDoobloomin kvm/ubuntu/webservers boooooooooooooooo07:57
MooDoorats can't connect to my webserver sigh!08:00
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davmor2Morning all08:09
bashrcmorning08:10
TwistedLucidityGood Evening (Alhpa release)08:17
MooDoomorning davmor208:20
MooDooet al08:20
davmor2MooDoo: morning head songs updated see if you can guess the film I'm watching tonight ;)08:21
* TwistedLucidity is wondering what MooDoo wants rats to access their webserver....08:22
davmor2TwistedLucidity: to stop the cats sleeping on them http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c41_138682293808:24
popeymorning08:25
davmor2popey: how's the email this morning?08:25
popeysuper08:25
popeysuper full :)08:25
davmor2super fun you were going for I know ;)08:26
MooDooTwistedLucidity: i'd love to be able to access it myself :(08:28
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy Monday, and happy Space Exploration Day! 😃09:08
davmor2JamesTait: man that explains that growth on your forehead, It's the final front ear, Thank you I'm here all week :D09:12
* JamesTait groans09:12
davmor2JamesTait: definitely a day for this too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE09:14
zmoylan-pithat joke is not up to spock...09:17
davmor2zmoylan-pi: I got up early, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :)09:22
zmoylan-piit's just such an old joke that it's barely klingon to life09:28
knightwisewell ,space exploration day is better then mcaffee day;09:32
zmoylan-picould you not let it run overnight to tame the beast?09:33
davmor2knightwise: You complain too much ;)10:12
ujjainAnybody here using aptly?10:16
ujjainI keep on getting issues with locked databases, because apparantly you can only run 1 command at a time. ERROR: can't open database: resource temporarily unavailable10:16
shaunopretty much anything that touches dpkg or apt has that though, no ?10:17
davmor2knightwise: just think it could be Norton week instead ;)10:17
foobarrywhy is wine still not 64 bit?10:19
davmor2foobarry: because the intergalatic overlord won't use 64bit?  I assume it is because nearly all windows apps are still actually 32bit10:27
foobarrythey are?10:28
davmor2foobarry: they are :)10:29
davmor2foobarry: and nearly all of the ones supported by wine are xp based so definitely 32bit :)10:29
davmor2foobarry: Windows struggled to get drivers for their 64bit OS till windows 7 I think and even then it was slow so devs targeted 32bit still10:30
foobarrythe summary is i need to install 600mb of 32bit packages jsut to install wine10:31
popey600m seems excessive10:40
popeymaybe exaggeration?10:40
popeyor poor packaging10:40
* popey hugs ncdu10:42
* popey considers a larger SSD for laptop10:42
shaunoyou see samsung have a 2tb one now?10:42
popeyblimey10:42
popeything is my laptop has ssd 7mm and msata ssd10:42
foobarry592mb10:43
shaunono kidding.  that's like .. twice as big as the last one I couldn't afford10:43
foobarryneed to get 171mb of archives, and after this 594mb will be used10:43
popeyso you have zero 32-bit apps on your system right now?10:44
foobarryi have a few10:46
foobarry6910:46
popeywonder what else it's pulling in then10:46
shaunolol, I just figured out why it's so quiet at work.  our ssl cert expired and someone's replaced it with a self-signed one.  so none of our appliances will connect.11:02
brobostigonwooops.11:04
* popey spies 500GB msata11:05
popeyonly problem is getting my data from one msata to the other11:05
shaunoI think I'm gonna go for a walk, since it's going to be very, very quiet for .. hopefully only hours  lol11:05
popeyooh, 9 quid msata to sata adapter.. could work11:05
diddledanshauno: lol11:07
diddledanshauno: that was a silly move by whomever11:07
shaunoway past silly, and into the realms of corporal punishment11:09
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diddledanI should eat something12:15
popeygood idea12:19
awilkinsshauno, DERP. If you control the domain you can get a class 1 cert for FREE.12:38
awilkinsshauno, Whoever did the self-signed one is a dufus12:38
shaunoindeed12:39
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diddledanshauno: still dead?13:41
daftykinsdirecthex: nah it was me using xbox one streaming from Windows 10 to play Batman: AK :)14:08
directhexthatsthejoke.gif14:13
daftykinsah my away log did not convey much of that kind :P14:13
daftykinsthe twitch streamer i watched play it had it running ace though14:14
daftykinsguy had an older GTX 77014:14
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diddledanWEEEE14:42
daftykinsdiddledan: 'lo sir, what's happening?14:43
shaunodan broked it14:43
diddledandaftykins: not much. just killing IRC servers :-p14:43
daftykins:D14:44
diddledanwhy does jamestait get more time till he times-out?14:44
* zmoylan-pi reels at the sensation of a 1000 geeks falling silent... ;-)14:44
diddledaneveryone else gets 248 seconds, he gets 620?!14:44
daftykinssuch bias ;)14:44
penguin42friendly peers14:48
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JamesTaitdiddledan, don't hate the player, hate the game. 😉15:17
diddledanJamesTait: dammit, now I just lost!15:17
* JamesTait does a little vistory dance.15:18
JamesTait*victory15:18
JamesTaitHistory victory - vistory.15:18
JamesTait*ahem*15:18
diddledanjust because of that, I'm going to link you all to http://www.losethegame.net/15:19
foobarryanyone ever work for a company who decided that wearing ID cards on lanyards is compulsory, but not for security reasons?15:25
diddledanwhat could be a valid reason that isn't security?15:26
foobarrycorporate branding to the rest of the company that you are part of teh marvellous IT team15:26
ali1234so that customers know the name of the person they are talking too15:27
diddledan\o/15:27
foobarrynope15:27
foobarryyou don't have to wear the ID card15:27
ali1234it always makes me cringe when people try to casually turn around their name badge15:27
foobarryits more important to wear the lanyard15:27
foobarrythey are getting a hard on about lanyards not the ID15:27
shaunothis is like an ultra-cheap version of startrek uniforms?15:27
shaunoyou're a red-shirt?15:28
shaunoerr .. red-lanyard15:28
penguin42so you mean you have to have the lanyard and not just stick it to your forehead?15:29
foobarryi would resign rather than wear a dehumanising lanyard15:29
daftykinsanother fine day in #ubuntu15:30
foobarryi would wear a uniform or a suit but not a lanyard15:30
daftykinsgotta help those youngsters get the max framerates in their pew pew games15:30
* penguin42 loves not having to work in an office any more15:30
shaunobut if you don't have a collar, anyone who finds you will take you to the stray shelter?15:30
daftykinsyou might have a chip!15:31
penguin42on your shoulder? Yes, most IT guys have15:31
shaunoI'm totally in favour of chipping humans15:31
daftykins:D15:31
penguin42shauno: with ketchup or mayo?15:32
daftykinsmy friend that's visiting just started work up in my office, as it's work time in Texas15:32
shaunoketchup I guess, I'm not belgian15:32
shaunobut a little subdermal one like we're quite happy to put in our dear pets.  in the hand, so the keyboard/laptop/doorhandle/etc can tell it's your hand.  that'd be neat15:32
daftykinspretty fancy HP laptop15:32
penguin42shauno: Could be useful if someone finds you wondering the streets15:34
diddledanshauno: the problem with that is a hand will now become a viable target for severance15:37
shaunoin scripts, sure.  in the real world, not so much15:37
diddledansee this is why I'm worried about microsoft hello. I could cope just about with losing my finger or hand, but losing my head is a bit terminal15:38
diddledandaftykins: yey for pewpew games15:38
daftykins;)15:39
penguin42diddledan: There are some ID things based on palm vain patterns, they require IR absorption from oxygenated blood15:39
zmoylan-piand if it becomes popular enough some smart sod will find a way to fake it to bypass it15:43
diddledanzmoylan-pi: all you need is a transfusion kit15:44
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Probably yes, but it might be easier to do it without extracting your hand15:45
zmoylan-pino no, you'd take the arm for making it so difficult for the crooks :-)15:45
zmoylan-piwhenever some goes on about biometrics i tell them to google malaysia machete mercedes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm15:47
diddledanyey for ancient bbc news webpage layout15:49
shaunothis is where humans are terrible at judging risks.  just because it happened once, somewhere, doesn't mean it's a real and ongoing concern for the vast, vast majority of us15:49
zmoylan-pibut it does stop the it'll never happen brigade15:49
shaunowell, don't worry, I'm sure no-one will chop your finger off for your nokia :)15:50
zmoylan-piand we know from incidents with pintos and ignitions and airbags that car companies will spend a lot of money paying of and hushing up bad news15:51
zmoylan-pimy nokia is my primary weapon :-)15:51
daftykinsdiddledan: yip, makes me cringe at MS advertising with kids saying their lives will be better with Windows 10 as they'll "never need to know the hassles of passwords"15:55
shaunowhy's that a bad thing?15:59
daftykinsthe tech they refer to is biometric in Windows Hello i think16:02
daftykinstotal joke16:02
zmoylan-pibut it's not explained to non technical people that way16:03
daftykinswhy does that bear any relevance?16:04
penguin42what does Hello use instead?16:06
daftykinspenguin42: sorry, got delayed - "With Windows Hello, you’ll be able to just show your face, or touch your finger, to new devices running Windows 10 and be immediately recognized.  And not only is Windows Hello more convenient than typing a password—it’s more secure!"16:17
bashrcso I just print out a photo of someone and show it to windows 10?16:18
awilkinsIt makes you blink16:19
awilkinsIt signals you to blink within a set interval16:19
awilkinsSo you'll at least need a Vine or Youtube vid of someone with a blink in it16:19
bashrcdo some photo editing16:20
awilkinsWell, yeah, that too16:20
bashrchow long before there's a utility which takes a photo and produces a blinking animation?16:20
bashrcread photo. Apply opencv face detector. Find eyes. Use skin colour to produce blink animation16:21
awilkinsIt is indeed, bloody stupid. But already a feature on Android (and probably iPhone) and no-one moans about that.16:21
awilkinsAnd as for lanyards... I always kept my ID card in my pocket16:22
bashrc...run blink animation on button press, so you can run it on a tablet16:22
awilkinsIn my train pass wallet.16:23
penguin42awilkins: Actually there was lots of moans about the android one when it came out16:24
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daftykinspenguin42: yeah i remember that was bypassed by facebook snaps easily enough16:30
penguin42but the blink idea isn't too bad - easy to fix though, I imagine it'll move onto things asking you to cringe or smile or the like16:32
daftykins:D16:32
daftykinsi don't even hugely want to touch peoples phones that have the fingerprint sensors on the home buttons16:32
zmoylan-pii hope they've tested the blink one on asian folk before releasing it this time... http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=495816:38
diddledanactually windows hello's face recognition requires an infrared depth-capable webcam16:44
diddledanso it requires a bust of the target rather than a photo16:44
daftykinswell hot-diggity-daym16:46
daftykins:D16:46
penguin42ok, that's not entirely insane16:46
zmoylan-piso project photo onto a 3d head form...16:46
penguin42a warm 3d head form - from a microwave16:46
diddledanzmoylan-pi: it needs to be the correct dimensions16:46
diddledani.e. you can't use a photo of me from facebook projected onto a random shop manequin16:47
zmoylan-piwhenever i hear about hi tech security i remind myself of the australian firewall.  millions spent on firewall to make a secure internet beaten in 5 minutes by horny teenager16:47
diddledano_O16:47
zmoylan-piat my last job they sent our security 'expert' on a course to secure windows networks connected to internet to stop staff browsing porn.  he came back set up a network.  the office perv stepped up to keyboard.  double clicked my computer and for drive letter typed in gayporn.com and bingo...16:49
penguin42haha16:50
* diddledan bookmarks16:50
zmoylan-piwhen we had dialup and only the 2 bosses had the password for internet he wrote a vb app that imitated dial up login. and had it send passwords to text file on network share.16:51
daftykinszmoylan-pi: i don't get what setting the drive label would've done o016:51
* penguin42 likes spotting the dumb physical mistakes in buildings - like lifts that go past swipe entry doors, or power switches to security locks on the outside of the area16:51
zmoylan-piwhere you type in c:\ in windows explorer.  if you type www.google.com it brings up a web page in explorer16:52
diddledanif the tech had done his job correctly that should be filtered by the internet proxy16:52
zmoylan-piexplorer used a whole different set of restrictions than internet explorer16:52
diddledani.e. if he set the internet explorer settings to point to a proxy then windows explorer will also use the same proxy16:53
diddledanzmoylan-pi: no16:53
zmoylan-pieach and every restriction they installed was bypassed in a few minutes16:53
diddledanzmoylan-pi: IE is too entrenched in windows that the proxy settings persist16:53
daftykinszmoylan-pi: oh the address bar in explorer, ok16:53
zmoylan-piif...16:53
diddledanIE's internet settings window is actually the system internet settings16:53
diddledanand also. if you're trying to filter the internet then you should at least block outgoing port 80 from anything except your poxy proxy16:54
diddledanbasically if this porn addict bypassed it so easily then that security expert isn't16:55
zmoylan-piit wasn't a porn addict.  we just hated seeing a half assed job done and like poking holes in bad solutions16:56
diddledandon't you love americans. I'm watching the visual studio 2015 launch keynote and they've got european footballers talking, in english, and they have put subtitles on the video, in english.16:56
zmoylan-piwhen my brother was in australia on honeymoon he went to see the commitments movie about a band in dublin there.  they handed out cards explaining the terms used...16:57
daftykins:D16:57
daftykinsdiddledan: but there are foreign devs too who might not handle the accent!16:57
davmor2diddledan: ah but did it translate the gibberish they come out with to English?16:57
diddledandavmor2: it was prebaked subtitles16:58
diddledani.e. they had someone who spoke english to listen to the english and translate it to english16:58
davmor2I bet it was translated to American not English :P16:59
zmoylan-pithe way things are going they'll someday start adding/removing the u in colour using cgi for american/european audiences...16:59
diddledanand then they use an indian with a much thicker accent to do the keynote live with no subtitles16:59
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daftykinshmm out of band Windows patch for some font issue or some such21:00
daftykinsoops :>21:00
shaunowhen you say "font issue" you mean "remote code execution"?21:10
daftykinsodd, it says shauno beside that comment and not zmoylan-pi :D21:11
shauno;)21:11
shaunohttps://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-07821:11
zmoylan-pithat's slander that is... i'd have said m$ :-)21:12
daftykinsXD21:12
shaunointeresting that they put it out before patch-tuesday.  I take it there must be some quite immediate concern if waiting one day wasn't do-able?21:14
daftykinsyeah out of band patch21:16
daftykinsmeans maybe just visiting a website could've exploited a system i think21:16
zmoylan-pidamn you comic sans!! :-D21:17
daftykinsugh :P21:19
daftykinsi still remember being asked by an English teacher in 2002 "which font is it everyone always uses?"21:20
daftykinsor typeface as my old man would have me call 'em21:20
* zmoylan-pi nods at use of term typeface...21:20
shaunonot sure you can blame comic sans, that's truetype not opentype :)  this one's Adobe's lol  (yeah, surprise!)21:21
daftykinsand i think he said font was truly size of text21:21
zmoylan-piso... adobe software being normal then...21:21
daftykinsseems about right21:21
daftykinshmm i probably still need to do the rounds again on pesky flash21:21
daftykinsprobably isn't quite so great looking to just email clients and say "hey guys, update this"21:22
daftykinsespecially considering one email'd to say she wanted her homepage changed...21:22
diddledanlooks like some fun times in ubuntu land coming up if you're on wily - they're changing gcc major-versions from 4 to 5, including an ABI change! expect breakage I guess22:07
zmoylan-piarch level breakage or normal level breakage? :-)22:12
brobostigonor debian sid/experimental breakage.22:16
ali1234it shouldn't be *that* bad22:20
ali1234you should be fine unless you have local C++ stuff you built yourself with the old C++11 ABI22:22
AzelphurAnyone know of any good, cheap projectors to use to project onto my bedroom ceiling? 1080p would be nice, using it for gaming, tv shows and movies.22:31
zmoylan-pinew argos catalog out... :-)22:32
penguin42zmoylan-pi: Small pleasures22:34
penguin42ali1234: I thought there was something cunning to keep the C++ abi compatible22:34
ali1234apparently not22:34
penguin42ali1234: Isn't that what this is supposed to solve: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html ?22:35
brobostigoni hate this, watching a prog about physics on bbc4, and then poking holes allover the place where they are plain wrong.22:40
penguin42which one and who is presenting?22:43
diddledanis it D-REAM COXY?22:44
diddledan:-p22:44
diddledanthings can only get better, yannow22:44
brobostigonpenguin42: horizon, cosmoology.22:45
brobostigoncosmology*22:45
diddledancosmopology!22:45
diddledan:-p22:45
brobostigonlol.22:45
penguin42brobostigon: Hmm and what did they screw up?22:46
ali1234horizon is really bad and has been for like 10 years22:47
brobostigoni was dumbass, i studied albert einstein when i was a child, i blame my aspergers.22:47
brobostigonpenguin42: where do i start, the interpretation of special reletivity, for example.22:47
* penguin42 doesn't see anything wrong with that :-)22:48
penguin42relativity always breaks my heads22:48
brobostigonit is really very simply.22:48
brobostigonit is really very simple.22:48
penguin42is that just the one where velocities don't add linearly?22:49
brobostigoninterpretation of speed is reletive, so therefore it is definatly not linear.22:50
diddledanI'm rather massive. does that mean time is going slower in my head than in the head of a smaller person? :-p22:52
zmoylan-pino it just means the universe revolves around you22:52
diddledanall of it?22:53
zmoylan-pithose bits not nailed down22:53
brobostigonno, you being on something massive, you percieve space-time as being normal.22:53
diddledanlol22:53
diddledanyeah, but, is my perceived timeline the same length as the perceived timeline of fred next-door22:53
* zmoylan-pi attempts gravitational slingshot on moped around diddledan to make it alive through red cow roundabout...22:54
diddledanlol22:54
brobostigondiddledan: nope, because someone outside of the syetm, ie as you put it, fred nextdoor will percieve space-time within you are inside differently compared to you.22:55
diddledannow. gravity slows down time. as does velocity. so if you're supermassive and going really fast, surely there must be a point where time starts going backasswards </troll> :-p22:57
* brobostigon ahds diddledan a book on general reletivity, that will explain it.22:57
ali1234the crux is that what you see is what actually happens22:58
brobostigonits a mathematical and logical flaw, space-time cannot flow backwards, only forwards inside the theories of reletivity.22:58
diddledanthen the theory needs adjusting :-p22:59
ali1234people say things like "when you see a supernova it actually happened millions of years ago"22:59
diddledanbecause I've seen clocks that go the wrong way22:59
ali1234this is an incorrect interpretation, it happened when you see it22:59
brobostigondiddledan: ie, if we had infinate gravity and speed, time would stop,22:59
diddledanali1234: that's a good point.22:59
ali1234the thing is that "now" is relative to the observer23:00
zmoylan-pii first heard of backward clocks in callahans bar series of stories by spider robinson.  got one years later.  quite easy to get used to it23:00
brobostigonali1234: incorrect, keep in mind, thw time light takes to travel and the distences,23:00
ali1234brobostigon: no, that is exactly the incorrect interpretation23:00
diddledanbrobostigon: but the light is travelling at light-speed, so time is effectively not moving23:01
ali1234the idea that there is a universal "now" and we only see it played back after some time is not logically consistent23:01
ali1234that is it doesn't work with the mathematics23:01
diddledanit's been proven that "time" isn't constant23:01
brobostigonali1234: i disagree, lets say, the light from an object, if one light year away, you see that object as it was a year ago,23:02
brobostigonali1234: i agree, there isnt a universal now, hence why the theories of reletivty describe space-time being able to be bent and changed.23:02
brobostigondiddledan: correct.23:03
ali1234brobostigon: that interpretation fails to account for time dilation23:04
diddledanI love that they took two cesium timepieces and flew one around a bit while the other one stayed where it was. and that when put back together again they were showing different atomic-times23:05
ali1234consider the twin paradox23:05
brobostigonali1234: not at all, i gave two seperate examples, one simplified and one where time dilation definatly applies.23:05
penguin42diddledan: Welcome to the GPS system23:06
brobostigonthats basic time dilation , diddledan23:06
diddledanpenguin42: indeed23:06
ali1234you you were to fly away from earth at near light speed for 1 year, and then look at the earth, you'd see it as it was just under a year ago23:06
ali1234however this is most definitely not what happens23:06
ali1234in fact what you see is the earth where more than 1 year has passed23:08
* brobostigon is bored now, for information he already knows, and goes to bed.23:09
* penguin42 tries to get his head around what ali1234 has just said23:10
penguin42ali1234: So when you say 'you were to fly away from earth at neat light speed' is that 'near light speed'' as measured in your reference frame?23:10
diddledanI really like the concept of the al qubiere propulsion system - in your reference frame you're moving at sub-light velocity but because space is distorting when you turn the drive off you're suddenly much further along your course than it would have seemed23:13
ali1234penguin42: wikipedia has a good explanation of what is actually seen by each twin23:23
Azelphurhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Technika-40-270-Black-40-Widescreen-LCD-TV-Full-HD-1080p-With-Freeview-/351430047530?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51d2dcf72a thinking of buying this for use with xbox/laptop, thoughts? :)23:28
penguin42 'technika'23:29
Azelphurpenguin42: *shrug* I have a "Furrion" in the front room that's 55" and is nice too23:30
Azelphurdon't care about smart, don't care about anything really besides having a nice big panel to plug a computer into.23:30
penguin42Azelphur: and if it'brand new how come it has a tesco outlet warranty23:30
Azelphurpenguin42: I noticed that too, but honestly I've been in the market for used anyway, £170 is the best price I've seen for a 40" 1080p23:30
penguin42yeh23:31
penguin42really should replace his CRT23:34
popeythe reviews don't look good23:35
Azelphurreally? I googled reviews and got 8.9 out of 10, what are you seeing?23:35
popeyloads of clueless people giving it 5 stars :)23:36
popeyand a bunch saying its unreliable23:36
popeyhttp://www.tesco.com/direct/technika-40-270-40-widescreen-full-hd-1080p-lcd-tv-with-freeview/210-1986.prd23:36
AzelphurInteresting23:36
AzelphurI suppose unreliability I can live with, by the time the 12 month warranty comes I'll be chucking it anyway most likely23:37
penguin42is that freeview not freeview-hd ?23:37
* penguin42 thinks he'd like to know where the tip is near Azelphur23:38
Azelphurnot using freeview so doesn't bother me23:38
Azelphurpenguin42: haha it'll probably go somewhere useful, but plan to get a raise at work and have a lot more disposable income sometime soon, so can buy nicer things, this is a stopgap :)23:38
AzelphurI can't find mention anywhere of this tvs latency lol23:43
penguin42it's a cheapo tesco tv - you'll be lucky the picture comes out sometime after you fed it in23:44
Azelphurlol23:45

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