Posts by Goodwin Sands

SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship

Re: I wonder if this would work as a commenting system?

What a good idea!

Suggest you make same comment to a few other articles and see if it can gain traction.

It does though only address the irritation of unnecessary politicization of comments and it doesn't help at all with unnecessary politicization of actual articles. To fix that we'd need El Reg to add a facility for readers to up & down vote articles, not just comments, perhaps with separate scores for different aspects of the writing such as technical merit, political content, humour, etc.

Ariane 6

Seen reports in various MSM publications tdy about ydy's scrubbed starship launch that range from "seconds from disaster" to "major setback for musk". Journalists clearly more interested in spouting rubbish & slagging off than objective reporting. My fault too of course for looking at the MSM. I should have stuck with El Reg where no such biases are ever evident.

Anyway, an Ariane 6 was supposed to launch ydy teatime but appears not to have. Anyone know why it didn't go?

Almost seems like unless something involves Musk no one wants to write about it!

Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers

"Which is what you would want if you were being paid to push more users to using certain popular browsers."

Well if Cloudflare are being paid to discriminate against certain browsers (either money or just a scratch my back type arrangement) then they & whoever is paying them are squarely in breach of anti-competitive law in any number of jurisdictions.

Likely for starters

abuse of dominant market position

exploitative abuse / discriminatory behaviour

exclusionary tactics

and maybe collusion & vertical restraints as well.

If a regulator gets interested then Cloudflare will regret what they're doing.

UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters

Brownfields

"There are several species of wildlife here that would be negatively impacted by this development. What we have instead is this brownfield site..."

In Britain at least, it's almost always the other way round.

Thanks to the agri-chemical revolution of the last half century your typical field nowadays will be an agricultural desert, devoid of all life except for the crop which is being grown. Whereas your typical brownfield site will be an oasis of wildlife. The last refuge for all sorts of species of fauna & flora that until just a few decades ago will have been widespread across the land.

Might seem perverse but in modern overcrowded Britain if you want to do the least possible damage to the natural environment, and protect what little native wildlife we have left, it's often better to build on green fields and leave the brown field sites alone.

Submarine cable resilience board announced on same day maybe-cut-by-China Baltic cable repaired

Have a read

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/29/yi-peng-3-ship-submarine-cable-china-baltic-denmark-russia/

or same article on yahoo

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/curious-case-chinese-cargo-ship-133924629.html