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Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing

The thought presents itself...

...albeit too late to be of any help, and it still wouldn't have saved SN11.

Why are they pushing the envelope (quite literally) in all of the landing manoeuvre tests so far? What would you lose by simulating a landing burn with a target above ground level rather than at it and hoping everything just works? You would still identify the same problems, but have a chance to recover.

No doubt bigger minds than mine have considered this question in detail, but it would be interesting to know why.

Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return

Demanding him to be fired, killed, eaten, dereferenced and forgotten: a bit much

I agree.

what is happening right now, and also not OK

Ahh... no.

> Calling out someone for being a creep

> Ideological purification

Yeah righto.

Ship stranded in Suez Canal shifts, but not before spawning some choice tech memes

Memes

The Register of all places should understand that a meme is more than simply a photo with words on it.

Report: Microsoft is thinking about splashing $10bn on Discord to slot it next to Skype, Mixer...

Skype's business offering is also being replaced with Microsoft Teams.

And good riddance! Skype for Business, formerly Lync, was an absolutely bloody nightmare, even compared to Teams.

WiMAX? 'Dead with no known users': Linux tips code in the recycle bin

I remember all the hype

At the time I didn't understand exactly what the tech was for, but there was something about the extreme level of hype that had me thinking there wasn't likely to be much under the bonnet. And then they stopped talking about it and I never even noticed!

Australian police suggests app to record consent to sexual activity

Facepalm

It was a terrible idea when some cryptobro suggested recording consent (in that case, on a blockchain).

But that was funny because cryptobros are idiots that nobody takes seriously. The fucking chief of police!

Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them

I find most Hublots to be completely crass but this one is at least interesting. It looks like it replicates only a tiny proportion of the device's functions, though.

Youtube link

He's also contributed some research of his own which is nice

Å nei! Norway's Stortinget struck by Microsoft Exchange malware

"Swiss-cheese servers"

Jarlsberg, please.

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

Re: And this is where it goes ... pear shaped?

Is that directed at me or the author of the article?

Re: OGC - AHEM

Ahh, that must be the reason for the downvotes

OGC

There is also this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo-to-red-faces.html

Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine

This is not even a new problem with Macs

"Computer killing powered USB hub. (Mac murderer)"

Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it

It remains to be seen, however, if Australia’s publishers spend their new revenue streams on the kind of public interest journalism the nation’s government wants funded.

*coughABCcough*

Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US

Re: Dumping fuel

That was about all our F-111s got used for towards the end of their lives

The wastepaper basket is on the other side of the office – that must be why they put all these slots in the computer

Re: Whoops mind your head if there is a fire, and dont trip

I worked for a short time in an Asian country for my current employer and they moved offices while I was there. The lifts hadn't been installed and neither had the doors so the shafts were left open as the building was occupied. Fortunately I was only there for a few more days so I avoided the lift lobbies, but what a complete shitshow...

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

Re: It took a while but now it's finally happened

It's 100% satire, but as with all the best satire has a strong grounding in the truth.

The town of Betoota after which it's named is a ghost town in central-western Queensland.

Re: It took a while but now it's finally happened

You might be surprised... https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/facebook-changes-see-government-accountability-limited-to-1-hour-a-night-on-free-to-air-abc-tv/

Phishing awareness gone wrong: Facebook tries to seize websites set up for staff security training

"By using domain names similar to those of well-known companies, Proofpoint is able to execute a more effective training program because the workforce is more likely to learn to distinguish typo-squatted domains, which are commonly abused by bad actors to trick workers, from legitimate domain names."

and yet

the security biz maintains that no one is likely to confuse its similarly named domains to Facebook.com or Instagram.com

It's fair to say it's difficult to reconcile these two statements.

Bitcoin surges, exchanges flooded after Tesla says it bought $1.5bn in BTC, hopes to accept it as payment soon

It's not replacing anything while it's limited to ~3 transactions per second

Your $100 in 2009 would be worth a lot more than $9.2M if you'd picked the winning lottery numbers.

Re: I thought he was into the green thing?

It's all estimates based on the energy consumption of current mining hardware and the total network hashrate, but here's one source that has been tracking it for years: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

Bubbleception

A bubble buying into a bubble

So Jeff Bezos is stepping back from Amazon to play with his space rockets. Who's this Andy Jassy chap?

Jeff Bezos Resigns From Amazon, Citing Appalling Working Conditions

Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down

I have to assume that SpaceX is pretty lucky not to have the book thrown at them for launching in violation of the licence after being explicitly told not to.

NASA to have another go at firing Space Launch System engines because just over a minute of data won't cut it

Re: SpaceX

Looks like we might be getting a <10km hop from SN9 in a few hours.

Re: "will put further pressure on the already slim chance of a landing in 2024"

They really need to scrap the whole thing. Spend the money instead on another space telescope or something, at least that'll be useful.

The Fat iPhone, 11 years on: The iPad's over a decade old and we're still not sure what it's for

Re: Phone for the living room

Larger screen than a phone, more convenient and less bulky than a laptop.

I dislike web browsing on the things even more than on a phone. Full size screen being served limited mobile webpages by default.

What happens when the internet realizes the stock market is basically a casino? They go shopping at the Mall

The number one rule of internet investing

Never risk less than you can afford to lose.

SpaceX powers through bad case of wind to nail Falcon 9's eighth droneship landing

Re: 8th Time

Certainly SpaceX has set the standard when it comes to launch coverage. In stark contrast to Starlink L16, the live commentary on this morning's mission (Transporter 1) was excellent.

Re: 8th Time

The phrase "...as you just saw there" should never be used in live video commentary.

Re: 8th Time

The rocketry might now be "mundane" (never!) but unfortunately the commentary is inane.

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

Great! Off you pop.

It's not like there aren't alternatives.

Re: That's the Australian govt, always sticking up for the little guy...

The Greens! Hah! If they had their way News Corp would be broken up, and I'm all for it. It's the only major party that isn't cowed by Murdoch and there's nothing The Greens could do to gain his support without abandoning their principles. Quite unlike the other majors, I should note.

Hanson doesn't have to kowtow to them because she's [i]right[/i] up their alley. Palmer, while he was still remotely relevant, was a simple populist who happily flutters whichever way the News Corp wind is blowing if it means some support.

Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful

Re: Been there done that..

To be fair, human spaceflight is a very uneconomical way to do space exploration

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave

Fortunately...

...ZOMBO.COM lives on! I guess the next step is enabling HTTPS.

SpaceX wins UK regulator Ofcom's approval for its Starlink mobile broadband base stations

Oh ffs won't this meme die?

Re: Too Late ?

And you believe that?

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

Re: Unfortunately ...

Unfortunately (for them) I think it's far too late for that

Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin

Yes, when Bitfinex/Tether can no longer kick the can down the road, the music stops and the players realise the chairs themselves are imaginary. They've been printing exponentially more tethers to support each pump of the bitcoin price and that can only go on for so long. Or until they can no longer extract all the real dollars from the system, of course.

There is considerable speculation that the founder (who has previously been investigated by the SEC for fraud, settling without admitting wrongdoing) has used his company's money to buy his personal bitcoin stash. This one will be interesting when the crash comes.

$900bn coronavirus stimulus bill includes $600 for most Americans, $50 in monthly internet subsidies, $1.9bn to help rid the US of Huawei kit

So, err... where's the money for this coming from?

Will they borrow it from China, or Russia?

SpaceX Starship blows up on landing, Elon Musk says it's the data that matters and that landed just fine

Re: Passenger version

The flip manoeuvre did look excitingly violent didn't it

This was the best kind of rocket test

SpaceX is happy with its data AND we get an explosion. WHAT MORE DO YOU PEOPLE WANT?!

Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma Machine

Re: Old typewriter

The Germans were actively cracking Britain's codes at various points throughout WW2 but didn't have the resources to mount an equivalent codebreaking effort to Ultra.

Interestingly, the Germans considered Britain's apparent (as they saw it) carelessness in its own encryption to be evidence that they were unlikely to be reading Enigma.

China unleashes fearsome new cyber-weapon: A very provocative meme

A well written account of what's going on

I wish Australia's newspapers were more like this...

Glastonbury hippy shop Hemp in Avalon rapped for spouting 'plandemic' pseudoscience

Vehicular broadcasting

It's strange that people will object to overwhelming evidence from the world's top health organisations, but have no qualms about lapping up pseudoscience or the spittle-flecked rantings of a bloke sitting in a truck on YouTube.

Why are they always sitting in a vehicle?! Kleptocurrency kooks do it too.