Posts by NetMage

SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

I am surprised shareholders care about AI at SpaceX given they have actual profitable segments versus every other dedicated AI company which are just running on venture capital and stock sales.

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: Pedantry Central Calling...

You have some details wrong (as do most who claim to post the real story) - e.g. every 737 MAX has two AoA sensors.

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

Re: NASA doesn’t have to arrange for an MRAP crew to attend launches

Putting a slow moving vehicle and crew in harm’s way in case they are needed doesn’t seem very safe either. Why wouldn’t the astronauts drive themselves?

Re: Using a Cybertruck

What hydrogen is going to burn?

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

Re: Different pushbacks.

Was there really push back? Is the replacement of the IE monopoly with the Chrome monopoly really an improvement?

NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning

Re: turtles

Just try to capture a ride share on a Starlink mission, perhaps SpaceX would do it for free. But they’d need to get something like a Rocket Lab’s Photon as a booster to get them into the right orbit.

Re: Not easy at all.

Unfortunately it seems like the lessons learned will all be lessons other companies learned a long time ago. Perhaps NASA should have tried to tempt a company with actual space experience.

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Re: It was waiting to happen...

There was no need for security in 1981 since there was no Internet. You didn’t download documents from strangers halfway across the country back then.

The work around for that is to use a (colorblind) a human visual perception model and consider all insufficient contrast combinations suspect.

SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no

Re: No RSD*

There is an agreement regarding ITAR before Australia and the US already.

Re: RUD Please

SpaceX is not taking ride share contracts past 2028, there has been no reports of regular contracts being refused. Which makes sense, since ISS/Dragon require flights at least through 2030.

Companies are already working on designing satellite buses that will fit the Pez dispenser, and SpaceX has launched their flat pack satellites on Falcon 9, so they would work just as well on any other launcher.

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Things that have limited or no elasticity in supply like water and electricity should have rates that increase as you use more rather than decrease.

The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago

Re: Still wished NASA kept its own Space flight Capability

When NASA does development by designing and contracting out build and management and actual engineering we get things like Orion, SLS and the Shuttle, all incapable of sustained space flight because they cost far, far too much.

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

Something that is iconic and much beloved?

Re: Ahhh balance bikes...

Real bikes don’t really seemed designed to let your feet easily touch the ground, or if they did, they are too small to pedal normally unless you are a clown.

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

So the most reliable, most available and cheapest launch service provider in the history of the world is unable to meet the government’s needs? The one that has launched multiple government missions for the US and European countries, the one that has save (according to the DOD) the US billions in launch costs?

Ignorance is not a good look.

Re: Destack

NASA only changes their schedule when they can longer pretend it is possible to meet the schedule, well after everyone else knows that it can never be met.

Re: Artemis schedule is political nonsense

The didn’t break their rules, they changed their rules. And it wasn’t just because of SpaceX, but also because of the AI companies going public.

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

Re: Lisas were expensive AF

I’m pretty sure that box opened with the Apple II and Visicalc.

Re: Lisas were expensive AF

It was eventually cheap for some. I was at college when the following year’s incoming CS students were required to purchase a Lisa with a hard drive at a very steep discount. The University followed up this wise decision by offering the next CS class a purchase of an IBM PC jr.

Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist

Re: Confused Old Bunny Here..........

We had a real life issue where someone knew enough to pass the first level of proving themselves over the phone. We implemented CLEAR shortly after that to verify identity.

No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle

Re: On not owning what you pay for

That must be why they had longer support for

iPhones than an Android company for over a decade.

Re: On not owning what you pay for

Apple will provide security patches for at least a couple of years for the last version that supports Intel.

Re: The impact will only be felt in late September 2027...

Another year or two of security updates from Apple is sure to happen.

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

Do they think radio won’t work for these passengers? Artemis II was hardly isolated from anyone it’s entire mission.

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Re: General Failure

That would not be Cortana, that would be the accessibility screen reader, which has an enabled keyboard shortcut by default.

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

They have already made the decision to permanently keep the hatch closed.

Progress will dock with the port for fluid transfer but move to other ports for access by astronauts.

The vast majority of SaceX’s initial staff were individually approved by Musk and were all young and starting out or disillusioned with their current old space jobs.

The Artemis capsule where the heat shield has had to be changed three times, all the wiring had to be replaced due to misuse of flammable insulation, the heating system kept it so cold the astronauts stayed in their suits to sleep?

It was lucky it worked, and it didn’t work well at all.

SpaceX has been cheaper than Starliner all along, and Dragon has had multiple additional flights purchased because Starliner isn’t a viable competitor and there have only been minor price increases over time of about 8%. SpaceX has never been a company to charge all the market will bear.

We’ve seen the landing videos under parachutes at less than 5MPH. I don’t know why you are posting lies, but you should try some therapy.

Relatively inexpensive and Starliner don’t seem to go together, given how Boeing already had to be paid more than SpaceX and how Boeing had much larger development expense tied around Starliner’s neck. And why would anyone pick Starliner, which uses a rocket that is discontinued, versus F9+Dragon if that is cheaper and more reliable?

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

Seems like he should try an older Mac Studio supported by Asahi - and help the project out while he’s at it!

Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal

Iridium satellites are too heavy to be launched by Electron, so they will have to fit on Neutron, and will be space limited like they are on Falcon. It will be at least a couple of years (if everything goes smoothly) for Neutron to have a real launch cadence so SpaceX has at least five years to consolidate their lead, and that assume Iridium could provide Starlink some competition at their current constellation levels. Realistically to provide competition they will need new satellites and ten years.

Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad

Note that Starship has effectively reached orbit multiple times - SpaceX has shut the engines off slightly early and targeted a less than orbit reentry for safety reasons until they confirm in-orbit restart of engines for deorbit.

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

I took a switch chassis card for our network core across the street to our MDF under my arm in its antistatic bag one time. It was worth over three months salary.

Had a coworker installing a PC (to run our s/w) at a customer site and had to remove a card. He chose to replace the slot cover live and when it slipped out of his fingers, it fell over and shorted the motherboard.

Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch

Re: oh

Russia’s GPS blocking tests over Europe from a satellite and China’s satellites that have close approached other countries satellites says we are not alone but reacting to provocation.

Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit

If Access is file based, than so is MS SQL.

Access is a record based system no different from SQLite but with a different relational engine.

Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era

Why would someone think the best way to skip an extra space is a loop using a search function?

Also, aren’t the arguments to strchr backwards in that code?

NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit

Given where we are now, Berger’s law says it won’t launch until 2027.

Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day

Re: Diversity ?

The naivety in this comment is too much to bear.

Re: Apportioning the Pox On Their Houses

Are there any enterprises with system admins actually depending on Windows Defender for protection, especially in Windows Server? And does Defender have to be running for this exploit?

BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder

Re: At a previous orkplace..

Or just a laptop cable lock.

Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

Re: The elephant in the room

One reasonably assume he created the spreadsheet over time while working, so it seems perfectly reasonable that he planned for havoc for a long time.

LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

Given that Euro-office is OnlyOffice Desktop is essentially an Electron wrapper around the web version, this is doomed anyway. Even Microsoft has admitted that web everywhere is a recipe for slow applications that everyone complains about.

So every time they try to communicate with the immigrated users they have to do something special? That’s a recipe for migration failure.

Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet

Strange how launch service availability wasn’t their fault when they purchased launches on rockets that weren’t available and didn’t purchase launches with the most available, most reliable launch service provider until they were sued. But totally not their fault.

Somehow I don’t think they had six years of bad weather.

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

I was on the phone with our field installer who was at a small motel in rural country (I was lead developer for our hotel front desk software) helping him troubleshoot an issue when he said he had to hang up, a guy with a gun had entered the lobby and told him to get down behind the desk.

Turned out the police were raiding some of the rooms

being rented by bad guys.

Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule

Re: why don't they have doors?

No, that would be incredibly worse. You’d have no air since that is centralized. You’d have no way home since you have locked doors and vacuum between you and your return vehicle.

That’s like saying it makes sense to shelter in

your basement when your fire alarm goes off instead of getting to the nearest exit.