* Posts by ravenviz

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Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

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Holmes

Il fait du vent

It seems there was an eventual eventful venting event.

Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected

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Re: But when life got going on earth ...

Isn't this more to do with the separation of hydrogen and oxygen in water ice by solar radiation? Lower oxygen means lower water ice, the actual ice being nitrogen or methane instead?

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

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Headmaster

Re: Do you think year 0 (zero) exists?

Re: Astronomers

You might be thinking of cosmologists.

India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability

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Boffin

Re: Practical reasons

leaving more mass available for equipment and are thus more resource efficient for the same brain power than men.

TFTFY.

Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

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Re: Woke mind virus meaning

“dismissive insult”

Also a symptom of a fear of difference.

Space exploitation vs space exploration: Humanity has much to learn from the Voyager probes

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Most of life is poor ROI, no need to focus on public projects!,

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

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Big Brother

Re: Unfortunately .....

10 PRINT “Ariston “

20 PRINT “And on. “;

30 GOTO 20

ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch

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Re: Curvature of Space-Time

The curvature of the Earth’s gravity well ought to be much easier to detect than any wholesale curvature over cosmological distances..

Akira ransomware gang says it stole passport scans from Lush in 110 GB data heist

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Re: I'm as human as the next girl

Lush secrets laid bare,

Bath bombs in a data stream,

Privacy dissolved.

- ChatGPT

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Personal data retention should be turned on its head and decentralised, instead stored in a local user wallet, accessible to organisations via secure API. Centralised records are not only duplicated endlessly, but also more likely to be targeted by attackers. Local records would require a monumental effort to retrieve at any sort of scale.

Microsoft hits $3 trillion as investors drink AI Kool-Aid

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Re: Diversifying Away From Windows

Apple used to only make computers. Then they made phones as well.

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more, but is still standing upright

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Re: Chopper gets the chop

Dear The Register,

Can we have have an option for half an upvote?

Thanks.

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“Air”

Interestingly the word “air” is defined as the gas that surrounds the Earth, but I see no reason why the definition cannot be extended to any atmosphere on any planet.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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Re: Tea

“nearly impossible”

So possible then.

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Re: Barbarians …

If people stopped putting milk in their tea, they might actually be able to taste it!

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Tea is fine taken as it is without adding anything, except using teabags which makes it far too strong and yes, bitter.

Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases

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“Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service”

Yeah right!

Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module

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Joke

They missed a trick there not calling it the UBURP Test!

US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050

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Re: Meanwhile in California...

THEY ARE NOT WINDMILLS FFS!

Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon

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Re: Upside down?

It is the Curse of Philae!

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

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But will it still play Hungry Horace?

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

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Re: Damm you Elite!

That was why I got a 2:2. That and nethack!

Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland

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Re: No Scottish jokes?

Deep fried battered Mars bars are actually very good! But not good ‘for you’!

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Re: Pedant? moi?

Not even the Austin Ambassador Y Reg?

After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients

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Re: A far better

Passing legislation for paid ransoms to be directly deducted from CEO and Executive Team bonuses could have a preferred outcome.

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

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Re: Alternatives to car use?

"It only works in dense urban settings"

QED the focus ought to be on those who can make a change but simply don't want to; why people enjoy sitting in endless traffic day in and day out is baffling.

Naysayers to active travel seem to cite "this weather" and "weekly shop" as applicable to every single short journey.

Even replacing one journey a week down the end of the road to pick up a prescription by walking there instead is a start.

Tell me that's not true without telling me you cannot be bothered.

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Megaphone

Alternatives to car use?

There has been only one comment so far on the subject of actually using cars less, thinking instead of public transport or active travel. Sure there are many for whom car travel is essential, but also many for whom car travel is a luxury; perhaps a working sustainable ecosystem is an essential rather than a luxury.

In 2021, 25% of trips were under 1 mile, and 72% under 5 miles.

National Travel Survey 2021: Mode share, journey lengths and public transport use

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Trollface

Re: UK govt, as usual, is totally irrelevant

dinosaur-powered car

At least coal for EV electricity is plant-based.

X reverses course on headlines in article links, kinda

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Re: Is It Even Worth That Much?

Any evaluation of an organisation is not just assets, it also includes a judgment on future earnings for the lifetime of the organisation. As such any potential purchasers are buying an improved future performance they are in control of, but also at their own risk.

Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep

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Re: It's not that we don't need 6G.

The use cases I see for fast connectivity services are people idiotically streaming rubbish on the train.

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Re: Pretty sure you can't change the laws of Physics...

G just means Generation.

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Re: Pretty sure you can't change the laws of Physics...

And as more cars get individually faster, more traffic gets wholly slower.

But at least you can get the internet in your car, oh hang on!

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“they will fix (2) when they need to”

They will fix (2) when they can convince people to pay for it.

TFTFY!

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Re: it would be great

“3G is inefficient and it's got to go”

Doubt it, I had to downgrade my connection from 4G to 3G in the Lake District today to get any connectivity whatsoever!

And it works just fine for message passing, short videos, images, etc.

NASA Juno probe to produce 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon

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Re: "firehose" ?

56k modem? You were lucky. In my day all we had was 28k.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

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Re: Three point one pints please

“Never bought a half then?”

No.

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Re: I guess the truth hurts.

I read that as nobody in France does anything on time!

Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then?

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Re: I don't get why this is so hard

“GREATEST plant and animal growth on Earth was during the Mesozoic period”

Only because they were allowed to, rather than being chopped down for livestock or livestock feed!

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Re: Deny, delay, doom laden dark crofts

Do you mean Chicken Licken?

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It’s amazing how good we are at measuring how fucked we are!

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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Terminator

Re: Excelent design - aliens must be proud

Federation Timeship Relativity NCV-474439-G

Ooh, tsssss!

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Re: Have they tried

"does anyone have an exciting new 2020's term"

Woke it off and on again.

NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract

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Men with hats.

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Re: Why can't they just...

It's like crashing a parking lot. And a small one at that!

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Re: Why can't they just...

While I appreciate the HHGTTG reference, we simply cannot move it out of the Earth's gravity well efficiently.

'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics

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Re: Oppenheim proposes to overcome the barrier with the idea of "wobbly spacetime"

What about second breakfast?

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Re: TBBT

I’m all up for the gravitational force constant varying with distance/time.

But in the end G is just a fiddle filling a gap between mathematics and observation.

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Re: Understanding

My 90 year old granny thought I said “green cushion”.

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Re: Suspected as much . . .

It seems the Planck length, black holes, and the confines of the Universe are all an event horizon, and I hypothesise they are all the same one.

And in the style of Fermat’s Last Theorem I hereby state that I have proved it mathematically, but omitted to show my workings!

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

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Flying cars had to be in the list!

And proper flying cars, like in films, not with all buzzy propellers!