Posts by ravenviz

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates

Always be wary of 10000 year vendor lock ins!

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Re: Not really new

Or hidden in plain sight with scores of carriage returns and some innocuous bumph some considerable number of page scrolls at the bottom.

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one

Re: The big problem with Artemis

Just ask Donald Trump, he knows everything.

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

C-level robots like to be seen to be going with the latest trend, in this case cloud services.

What organisations usually lack is a comprehensive service and content management plan, and robust procurement and retention policies.

Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy

Re: Meek & submissive, never forward & assertive.

I think this is overstated, or simplistic; I agree with the idea, but the proportion of those unconsciously applying SEP is probably somewhat smaller than those simply disempowered to intervene.

Re: The article misses the main question...

Knee jerk /facepalm! ;)

Re: It's still not hard to do.

I used to swap out with my latest rock festival lanyard, I think some level of personal expression is acceptable!

Re: The article misses the main question...

I nearly used the downvote button as a kneejerk /facepalm emoji!

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation

Re: First Post from New Horizons .....

Just eat them* with paper on like we used to.

*and Pacers

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time

"The designers reckoned after a few years, they might develop their own emotional responses. You know, hate, love, fear, anger, envy."

- Blade Runner, 1982

GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code

ChatGPT wouldn't make a picture of Freddie Mercury looking like Geoffrey Chaucer for me as it said it contravened its rules, so I asked it to make a picture of someone who looks like Freddie Mercury and, voila, request fulfilled!

ChatGPT result

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Re: it strips all the BS formatting off

Twatt!

Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock

Indeed, we seem to spend most of our time maintaining the equipment we need to survive there, and ourselves.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

The digital transformation we never saw is now fulfilled by digital regurgitation.

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

MS already shot themselves in the foot with Clippy so anything Clippy-like is not going to fly.

"Sorry what?"

"Oh, young people"

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: I wonder...

Last time I looked there were no Saturn V's to dust off.

Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing

Re: The Varda W-6 capsule at Koonibba Test Range in South Australia

Looks like 1950’s sci-fi B movies predicted the future quite accurately!

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Re: OT: Stupid narrow layout... (and On Topic: Newsworthy?=

+1 for the RSA cards nostalgia blast!

Re: Have I Been Pwned ?

Re: Anyone here NOT using theregister as their password?

Phew, that was close, I have now changed mine to theregister1.

Biometric verification

The only problem with biometric verification is you can’t change it once compromised.

“Sorry but you have used that face before, please use a different one”.

The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time

Re: Oh FFS

Just be aware of where the weak point may be in any reset sequence, including that for your recovery email address.

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Re: Threatening tariffs eh?

I suspect that rump state is set to climb out of that pocket and realign with comparable states i.e. Europe.

This so-called "special relationship" is no longer.

Re: Greed and Imperialism ?

MAGA = Make America Greedy Again

Re: Heard and McDonald Islands

Re Falklands drilling, first oil is already targeted for the first half of 2028.

Re: Booting Spain out of NATO.

A worrying statistic is that Russia has ten times the nukes that NATO without the US has.

Re: FTFY?

When he’s not talking or posting.

Re: Threatening tariffs eh?

And what interest does Trump have in a rump state?

/rhetorical question

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ

Re: maneuver

A Koch up indeed!

Since a properly weighted mockup would still require functional attitude control, I suspect developing such a vehicle would only serve to delay the delivery of the real thing even further.

Great news about the heat shield.

What I’m wondering though is that if Artemis III and IV require a lander, and there isn’t even a working prototype yet, surely it’s going to take years to develop accurate simulators, and then train prospective crew, both in terms of LEO operations, and in terms of lunar injection with a new payload configuration, lunar orbit operations, landing, and then getting back again.

I’d be (pleasantly) surprised if we see a launch in 2028, let alone sooner.

I suspect NASA already knows this.

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one

Re: in my day, teachers regularly confiscated calculators, catapults and god knows what

“for some reason spoke French with a Yorkshire accent”

Is this a meme?

I heard some school kids on the train mention this literally yesterday!

Or maybe there is a French accent in France that sounds like you’re from Leeds!

Actually I’m going to Lille soon so I will be sure to have a listen out!

Re: Disjointed thinking

It’s where teachers hide before going home at night where their fat and psychopathic wives thrash them to within inches of their lives.

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

Re: Apple...Or Someone Else?

There are far too many TLA's in this world!

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Try Dublin during the horse fair.

Re corners, no doubt Waymo knows about vanishing points, and the adjustment of speed to be able to safely stop within the visible road distance.

Something many drivers seem to have forgotten about since their driving lessons.

Re Delhi, damn you trumped my Cairo!

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Re: Moon Reactor

Re: take years to travel between stars

Only in our reference frame, not theirs.

Mind you, they would have trouble actually visiting anything.

Re: RE: Will it work?

Radioactive thermal generators (RTG’s) used in space probes use radioactive decay rather than fission.

Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo

Re: The sphere of lunar influence?

What could possibly go wrong? Oh….!

While the ongoing NASA Artemis stream has been a privilege to watch, looking bottom right and seeing the various distances given in miles is somewhat irksome!

Re: The sphere of lunar influence?

r is the distance between the centres of gravity of m1 and m2.

F would only be zero if Integrity burrowed into the very core of the Moon.

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

It’s the opposite of that, when you join up you are already hated by the whole world, only then after that can you unhate people.

White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record

Bill Hicks: What are you reading for?

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Re: Movies eh?

There is some good stuff out there, but at the end of the day it is all about money.

A bit like food companies tricking peoples' brains with manufactured reward responses just to sell more unhealthy crap.

Re: Great to make netflix originals at lower cost, and also to alter history at will.

Maybe just answer some prompts about what type of film you’d like to watch and it makes it on the fly.

Perhaps you can even save it off and use even more energy storing it in the cloud syndicate for profit.

Either that or just watch WatchMeForever!

Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo

"slow-mo replays"

Which are an excellent way to wallow in the experience!

Re: Tanker flights

While the Shuttle programme really was a great effort in furthering human spaceflight, and really at the vanguard of the concept of reusable hardware, I see Artemis as the next logical continuation of Apollo, and this time with 21st century tech. I think we now know it is time to take the baton once more towards the vision that science fiction more than adequately provides the human imagination.

Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly'

"Elon, it's Donald"

"Trump?"

"No, Kessler"

NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers

Most classic sci-fi got nothing right, especially what we now know as optimistic timeframes.

Even much better informed ‘near future’ adventures being dished out now are wishful thinking.

The important bit is not the accuracy; the important bit is our imagination

Re: Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?

“the 96 hour life support is a bit strange”

It’s a TV show, calm down.

The current plans for Artemis however, now they’re a bit strange.

To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer

Re: F F U U U ?

Plus dodgy punctuation in the second one.