Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists

Re: Expose

Did they have to be born in Manchester again? It seems a shame to be saved and yet still a Lancastrian

Re: Great fun.

Only if you chant at the same time.... Ohm....

Re: Huh

>Does that mean there was something "wrong" with the old ones?

God changes his(her) mind quite often

When the implementation was in stone tablets it was a real pain to do in-field updates. You had to send a bunch of crusading knights.

With software updates you can just roll out a quick patch to fix that whole "no-bacon+penis-snipping" bug

Re: Expose

> They’re copyrighted and only available for purchase.

Copyright: Life of author + 70 years.

Claims author is immortal - laughs at Disney corporation

Re: Expose

>Hint: The bible is free, The Koran is free, The Torah is free

Only the regular paperbacks.

The Sports Illustrated Bible - Swimsuit edition, the Rabbi edition Torah (with the answers in the back) and the pop-up Koran are all $$$$

Re: Scientologists and auto manufacturers

ba-dum-tish.wav

Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang

Re: the Test Ban Treaty will eventually be scuttled

Which is a shame, it's the thing England, India, Pakistan, Australia and the W Indies agree on.

If only we could have taught the Americans, we would have world peace

You believe the USA have WMDs? Based purely on some dodgy video you found on the internet which was obviously faked on a soundstage.

Those guys were obviously actors

Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tonnes of coke into Europe

Do you mean all the bodies locked up as a result as a result of the recent US insurrection,

Or the ones turned into bodies because the tightly regulated authorities got the data that the person was Jewish/Gay/Communist/Catholic/etc

Re: Every story like this is a godsend

>Nixon (defined by the icon) thought he was was only setting up an environment where black voters enjoying a puff of grass could be jailed to reduce people Nixon saw as voting against him.

That's not entirely true. He also wanted to attack white anti-establishment hippies and support central American dictators in their war against the communists cartels.

Getting rednecks in poor states to die from Oxycontin because "only hippies and N**** take drugs. I'm neither so what I take aren't drugs" was a bonus saving on welfare.

Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests

Re: Things are so bad...

Pigs are quite smart. Are we sure this isn't just propaganda put out by the pigs -through their secret control of the media - to stop people eating them ?

After all they managed to infiltrate two major religions to keep themselves off the menu.

Arm wrestles assembly language guru's domains away citing trademark issues

But they also took down "arm-exploitation.com" which is obviously a suppression of public interest journalism - something the legal system takes objection to.

Re: Pre-IPO theatre

Hope they remember to amend their "S-1" to include the statement, "we just started an intimidation suit against somebody for claiming that ARM has security flaws, which could open us upto a regulatory bitch slapping. And we are currently praying that Maria Markstedter isn't an Eu citizen"

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

Re: Expertise

>I want to put -1 in this children field

Checking what happens if you can put -1 in an uint field is a good test.

Wasn't there a story here about a POS that let you enter a negative number as a tip and get a free meal ?

Re: Expertise

Ryanair fly to the new "London ^C" airport

Europe's tough new rules for Big Tech start today. Is anyone ready?

Will this apply to car companies?

I hope they will stop all advertising showing cars driving faster than the speed limit in any Eu country and not driving in an unsafe manner. They will also have to restrict access to Lamborghini Countach and Porsche 911 posters to the age appropriate.

"detect, address and mitigate systemic risks, such as disinformation."

Does this apply to bus builders ?

Getting meshy: BAE scores £89m deal with MoD to build new battlefield network

Re: A network by another name would be as lucrative

IPoAC has been proven in combat for 150years

*Except for the unfortunate Speckled Jim incident

Re: no way unless repackaging

They just have to remove some armour from Nokia 3110s and paint them green

Re: "BAE and its partners [..] have yet to design the new system"

The presumably much simpler task of building an emergency services network in a friendly country (and Scotland) with nobody shooting at you (and S London) is 20years late and £NaN over budget

UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact'

Re: MORE MISDIRECTION -- BUT CLEARLY NOT "NEWS"

But it's nice that finally the UN can produce a resolution that the USA and USSRRussia, China and Korea, Britain and France, can all agree on

<sings> kumbaya .....,

Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment

Re: Doesn't make sense -- honest

Working in the USA I've even been to civilian suppliers. that wouldn't let me on-site as a customer because I wasn't a US citizen, because they did work for the USAF.

Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet

Re: Heat

Large metal cylinder tanks in the fuselage of the KC, because it couldn't mix it with its own JP4. I suspect most of the hoses and fittings would be stainless. Any gaskets or seals could be more easily replaced than the entire corroded lining of a built-in wing tank in the SR71

Re: This project must not be allowed to happen

>Boeing have already demonstrated their inability to build an SST, so thats OK.

Interesting conundrum.

We could give the money to CMOT Dibbler Aviation, but since he has no record of failing to build an SST - it's just possible that he will successfully build one.

So we have to give the handout to Boeing because they are the only ones with a proven ability to not produce a passenger plane.

Re: This project must not be allowed to happen

>Boeing is already dead.

Fortunately in centralised planned economies, strategic state assets can't be allowed to fail and will continue to be funded for the good of the people.

Re: This project must not be allowed to happen

>No, actually it's passengers who are too cheap to allow airports to run security efficiently.

The airports need you to spend 3hours waiting and shopping. It's what airports make all their money on - the aeroplanes are an expensive annoyance.

There have been a few attempts at business-class only UK-USA flights with no luggage, own security line, turn up 15minutes before and walk straight on - but the airports blocked them.

Re: The real problem with Concorde.....

Perhaps the confusion is that the SR71 took off with almost empty fuel load. It's a very heavy aircraft with the low speed aerodynamics of a brick so had a very high take-off speed. In case of an 'oops' you want the minimum fuel load and mass.

That means you then start flying with tanks full of highly flammable fuel vapour (not good). It had a N2 purge system but with limited capacity, so you want to get the tanks full of nice cold JP7 as soon as possible. This is fine since you are probably going to be doing multiple refuelling to get to the picnic spot to take the photos.

Re: The real problem with Concorde.....

In fact to even take the only photo of it in supersonic flight the RAF had to strip a Tornado down to the minimum weight, give it a head start and red-line the engines, while the Concorde had to throttle back to Mach 1.5

Re: The real problem with Concorde.....

Yes everyone knows it was Anglo-French. But the problem from the American point of view was that the French one went to France, the problem from the French point of view was that no Americans wanted to go to France, no French wanted to fly to America and the flagship of French technical prowess was being beaten by Le Rosbif

Re: The real problem with Concorde.....

>.....was that it wasn't an American product.

Worse, it was French.

After all the costs of the refit following the crash in France, Concorde was just getting back on its feet when 9/11 happened

The attacks killed a lot of Concorde's regular customers and disincentivized a bunch of others from air travel.

Then when we decided on Operation Dodgy Dossier, the "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" failed to see the intelligence in having a war with a country that had bugger-all to do with the attacks.

As a result even when BA Concordes returned to service, Air France were operating at 20%-25% capacity Paris-NY

Re: Heat

>It would also be topped up via mid-air refueling which isn't an option for passenger flights.

Not with that attitude !

Also the SR71 leaked fuel not just because of the expansion joints, but because it didn't have fuel tanks. The special fuel it needed dissolved the rubber tank lining material of the day so it had to run with a wet wing

Re: This project must not be allowed to happen

This project will be funded, but remember it is being funded NOT to build a SST

Boeing are in serious trouble. They announced they aren't even going to think about designing a new airplane for the next decade. All their engineers left, to keep their pensions in the MD takeover, Boeing had planned to buy Embraer to get a bunch of young cheap Brazilian engineers, when that fell through they opened a design center in Moscow to get all those cheap Russian engineers !

If US GovtNASA don't do something soon, Boeing are going to be reduced to half a dozen near-retirees doing 100 year updates on B52s and the next generation of US airliners are going to have to be bought from China - or worse - Airbus

Grumman are getting in on it because they lost out to Lockheed-Martin on the F35 and the US Govt is smart enough not to be reliant on a single seller of shiny new fighter jets

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

Re: re: How this is not monopolist behaviour?

> is it because MS don't have a monopoly?

You don't need to be a monopoly to be guilty of monopolistic behaviour

If Tesla bought the company running Golden Gate bridge and only allowed Teslas to use it, that would be monopolistic behaviour even though Tesla aren't the only car company.

India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole

Re: Tell me again

And the USA shouldn't have built any of those railroads and factories until everyone had their own log cabin

India Purchasing Power Parity (what you get for your $) is 24-25x the USA

I suspect that doesn't apply to paying rocket scientists - but India also has the advantage of not needing to build parts and operate duplicate facilities in 50 states.

Since manpower costs are likely the driver of the whole program, except for a few advanced semi-conductors that they have to buy in $, you can easily imagine how this can be done for 5% of the cost of a NASA or ESA mission

Re: Well, I'm guessing Roscosmos is keeping veeeery quiet now

Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

Re: Milestone moment

>With the lower gravity (1/6g)

But you will also fall over more slowly

Netflix flinging out DVDs like frisbees as night comes for legacy business

Re: DVDs beat the film

But is at least justified compared to his 3hours of video game levels in the middle of a 12 hour adaptation of a 100page children's book

Re: One advantage with DVD's

>[DISNEY HAS LEFT THE CHAT, HOPING NOBODY REMEMBERS SONG OF THE SOUTH AGAIN]

I'm mad at Disney because of attitudes in the 1940s

Now excuse me I have to drive my VolksWagon to the Hugo Boss store

Re: One advantage with DVD's

Not sure why the downvotes. Dogma isn't available on any streaming because director Kevin Smith has said he didn't want any money to go to Harvey Weinstein

Re: ...streaming rights are expensive and don't offer much of a return

>Unlikely. The most rented film are overwhelmingly new releases:

Historically, but those people will switch to streaming. Netflix's stated (excuse?) was that the demand was for disks that are out of print and they only had a handful of copies. And that's the top disks but it's not clear what % of total rentals those represent.

I suspect though that it is no longer profitable if the only users are enthusiast heavy users, it's the old - you don't want gym freaks to sign up for your gym membership.

Re: One advantage with DVD's

>which was editing out the smoke[*], cigarettes and pipes from old films.

There's an engineering textbook cover that has the famous picture of Brunel in front of the chains. But without the cigar.

Re: One advantage with DVD's

Or the film maker doesn't want any revenue going to a rapist and blocks the film themselves

Re: ...streaming rights are expensive and don't offer much of a return

IIRC they are running out of DVDs. Most of their DVD customers now are art film fans who want obscure criterion collection disks that are getting hard to get.

They other DVD customers are people that live in deeply rural areas with bad internet, and it's hard to profitably monetize people who watch Deliverance every night

bizarre state of affairs

That a small group of people have clung to the service to have access to movies that aren't on streaming, or without having to go through a dozen services to find out who owns the rights to something this week.

To watch a movie in Blueray rather than in the revolutionary compressor blocky format.

To have directors commentary rather than unskipable ads on a service they are paying for.

Neighbors angry as another North Korean 'satellite' launch attempt fails

Re: "the launch contravened UN resolutions"

UN resolutions are improving, they hope to get to 1920x1080 soon

Re: Quelle surprise

Direct hit on Ocean, medals all round

Lesson 1: Keep your mind on the ... why aren't the servers making any noise?

Re: Circuit Breakers - whose turn to be Igor?

Froderick ?

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data

Re: Ironic

Speaking as a former inhabitant of the Danelaw, and a former Eu citizen, can I pay to have the Danes in charge again?

Blaming Vikings

There is absolutely no evidence that iron age Northern European seafarers were responsible.

Vikings have always been big fans of IT services. In fact Loki, god if fsck-ups, is the patron saint of IT.

Controversial Chinese drone maker DJI debuts a cargo carrier

What? Clutched between the dorsal flight feathers?