Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Aviation overhaul bill passes US House... for the third time

An obvious solution

These notices need publishing on a daily basis

Distributing them electronically seems to be subject to fsck-ups and/or super-ninja-global-state-sponsored-hyper-cyber-something threats

Meanwhile the print journalism industries have been facing a sharp decline leaving a largely unused capacity for printing daily news sheets

Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery... this April

Re: "Houston, the locust has landed"

>Space is very, very big.

And getting bigger

Re: How does this work?

>to be able to refine materials to sufficient purity for them to be useful

Wasn't the whole point of doing this in space that the elements are already in their pure state unmolested by the processes of geology?

Re: How does this work?

Pay no attention to the reality behind the PowerPoint

Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health

Re: How the hell...

They are contracting out the redundancies to India, it's cheaper to make workers redundant there.

Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation

Re: @AC - 500+ million PC's obsolete in 2025 unable to run Windows 11...

>A massive increase in market share and user-base.

So if a billion obsolete office desktop Dells became Linux terminals running office365/teams/edge would that make advance our plans for world domination?

It might be more aecure

India uses emergency powers to order takedown of BBC documentary

Just business

India wants to replace China (see story about Apple living 25% of production). So Mr Modi had to catch up to Mr Xi.

Now which children's story character do we ban ?

Intel kills $700M liquid cooling lab amid chip slump

You're assuming it's compatible with non Intel-made cars

XenServer, split from Citrix, promises per-socket prices 'unlike certain other hypervisors'

Re: The same XenServer Citrix made free and then didn't?

Wasn't Xen originally an opensourse app from Cambridge computer Dept?

I seem to remember a fuss because they had an academic source license to Windows which made it possible. This was in the days when MSFT had less love for open source

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: plumbing

Or they refer to the diameter of lead pipes 100years ago which had the equivalent capacity.

Which is why 3/4 copper and 3/4 plastic pipe is different and neither is 3/4"

Until you add in something like eggs or teaspoons

Re: 1 calory heats 1 gramm (aka 1 cm³ at 4 °C) of water by 1 °C

Foot * Pound (force) would be the base unit of mechanical energy in an imperial system.

I assumed ovens in Germany would be in Kelvin and also operate as freezers if set to 250

Re: plumbing

And since it's plumbing the 3/4" won't actually be 3/4" and the 15mm won't be 15mm

Young people would switch but the old folks would carry on driving on the left

Re: Costly

I think making planes that flew on the left was a bigger problem

Re: US Survey Foot

They made the American inch (which they call English units) and the British inch (which they call imperial units) both the same 'metric' inch - defined as exactly 25.4mm

Re: Metric for precision. Imperial for sharing

Some GOP politico was tweeting about Sanders having to share his birthday cake, cos socialism, not because that's what you do with cake!

Re: We'll have to replace our clocks

But you would also have 100days in the year so get more Thanksgivings

Re: Godless heathens

In astronomy Pi would be 1, like c and G

>I feel most Americans don't see Metric being used in the the U.S. because we don't need it.

Unless you are being shot by a 9mm while dealing a gram of something

Re: a meter is 1/299,792,458ls

c is 1.8026 megafurlongs per microfortnight

Re: Godless heathens

Eminently sensible. If you are creating a universe from scratch then have Pi be a nice integer

Re: Metric for precision. Imperial for sharing

>Cake can only be sliced in powers of 2 (1/2, 1/4, 1/8) as God clearly intended.

Not in America - only a communist would share a cake

Re: Gammon's

>And, of course, a country can leave the EU too if it choose to :-p

So an empire would be one where the imperial capital refuses to allow countries in the empire to leave?

Godless heathens

The metric system isn't in the bible. A true American would only use cubits and talents

Re: "forced to glide the aircraft, containing 69 souls"

It's even more offensive. It dates from the days on ships where certain of the souls didn't count as "human resources"

There is a memorial at a ship museum here which lists "x passengers, y crew - not including lascars"

Re: NATO?

(yes, I know it's 0.3inch).

Even that isn't a standard. IIRC a 0.303 is smaller than a 7.62 (0.3) depending on how you measure the rifling

Re: US Survey Foot

The difference is very small, you could just make the border line around states a little thicker and it would cancel out

Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file

Re: NOTAM

>When God created Man, She was only joking.

It was an Alpha release to testing

Re: I'm grateful!

Slightly concerned that "a contractor" could just delete a file, what if they could also add or change a file?

Re: NOTAM

>God created man and woman. Democrats created all the other.

If G*d had meant us to fly he wouldn't have invented the FAA

Re: "Why did it take three hours to twig the cause"

The machine that goes ping !

We rent this machine back from the company we sold it to , that way it comes out of monthly expenses and not the capital account

Rounds of applause

Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer

Re: Jeez, this is just cringeworthy!

It would have been funnier if it had been BAe or Lockheed-Martin execs - maybe next year

26th Bond movie

An evil supervillian plans to blow up Davos, killing all the worlds plutocrats and finance ministers

Bond's mission is to make sure it all goes to plan

Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe

Re: Competition

Especially if you make somebody redundant claiming that you have no use for their particular skills

Re: Competition

But do you have an impressive resume showing your history of doing nothing ?

Re: 50% more staff in 3 years

Well there are all those new words to search for each year, it's all the fault of the liberal college-dictionary complex.

If we were sensible and got rid of words beginning with Q we could cut 1/26 of their workforce

Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text

Re: If it was truly "intelligent"

So you just have somebody tag toxic content so that it can detect toxic content and exclude it from the training set?

I certainly think US farm workers should earn Swiss wages

Just get Oxbridge graduates

Back in the days of the video nasty scare, James Ferman (bbfc censor) claimed it was OK for him to watch this content because he was educated. It was only a problem for the masses

No the magical abilities are based on maths.

Making sure that it hasn't learnt that people are nasty is based on pay "which is more than double the minimum wage in Kenya"

Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss

Re: Passive smoking? Let's investigate

>"I have done a scientific study and despite using several different types of cakes in several different office locations, at no point did the cake move towards me"

Well obviously not while you're watching at them.

They only disapear when not being observed - like leftover pizza in the fridge

Intel casts doubt on Italy for chip factory location

Airbus much ?

US sues Intel for receiving illegal state aid in Europe

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

Re: Texas has a university ?

> There is a constitutional requirement for a separation of church and state

Thank you, I'm only slightly familiar with the work of Hayek so I wasn't clear how making laws forcing women to cover their arms is fundamental to capitalism.

Re: Texas has a university ?

Yes I worked in Texas, we were trying to open an office there. But we made metrology equipment with LASERS and the office was in a business park near the airport - so we were blocked for several years because LASER + airport + foreigners = terrorist

And although this was post 9/11 it was pre MAGA so state politics hadn't gone full Taliban

Texas has a university ?

All studies either agree with the bible and so are unnecessary or disagree with the bible and so are heretical

Or am I being unfair? Is that Florida ?

FTX audit finds $415m in crypto mysteriously vanished

>How is he even permitted to use a computer and the internet as part of his bail conditions?

They didn't even make him do a pinkie-swear ?

But how is Area 51, Hunter Biden's laptop and Hillary's emails involved ?

Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots'

re: problem with using sensors to try to work out if one is in peril or not

We used to have lone worker alarms which trigger if you lie immobile for long enough

But we also had meetings with PowerPoint