Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Bye bye BoJo: Liz Truss named new UK prime minister

Re: I want to be Prime Minister!

Truss's new plan, England threatens to leave UK unless Scotland pays more !

He called on the new prime minister to go further and also resign ?

Re: That's It I'm ....

Finland is also imaginary - and look at their PM !

All the engines are on fire and the pilots are currently battering each with axes - but we are 30,000ft away from having any idea whether this will be a good landing or bad

Re: she reminds me of another "Blonde Bombsite"

The headlines say she will "suceed" Boris.

I think we need a new terminology, perhaps "su-fail" ?

Re: Opinion polls are looking good.....

At least he "Got Brexit Done" - by exiting Britain with all his funds

> assuming of course that Labour don't manage to shoot themselves in the foot again.

It's a challenge, but who's to say Sir Keir isn't upto it ?

>Given the choice, there wasn't going to be a good outcome.

Was rather hoping for the more traditional "Gatorade Punchbown" ending to a cult

>the same selection process that produced Boris has produced Truss. Why would it do better this time ?

Given a choice between a woman and brown chappie, neither of whom went to Eton, I hoped that they would all give up.

Re: Trussed Up

Did we ever find out where the cheese was coming from ?

Cos here in abroad-land the cheese is expensive and bloody awful. I'd kill for even cathedral city.

Re: That's It I'm ....

Canada and Australia - you can get HP Sauce and Yorkshire Tea easily and the house prices will make you feel nostalgic for home.

New Zealand - is imaginary

USA - as long as you stick to Seattle (or possibly New England?) and never turn on the TV news it's not too bad.

Everywhere else you can't understand a thing they are saying - and they won't let you in anyway

Re: Trussed Up

You make it from Pork Markets, right?

Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site

>posting the addresses of three restaurants in Belfast, and calling for arrangements to be made for them to be bombed.

The IRA have an online booking service now ?

I thought traditionally they phoned the warnings to you, not you to them ?

NATO investigates after criminals claim to be selling its stolen missile plans

Re: I thought Trump Declassified all these documents

Rabbis don't bless things and salt is always kosher.

This is more like Transubstantiation. Through the power vested in him by the ineffable electoral college. Trump was able to miraculously convert the documents into unclassified paper, while to the unbeliever they retain the same mundane physical appearance of highly sensitive national secrets.

It's one of those mysteries of faith (like the popularity of Justin Beiber) that mankind are not meant to understand.

Mundane Espionage ?

Nothing to worry about really, just like an overdue library book

Nadine Dorries promotes 'Brexit rewards' of proposed UK data protection law

Re: Hmmm

It didn't need to be implemented widely.

You register your Eu office in the country with the lowest tax for US corporations and in return they ensure that all GDPR complaints are investigated fully - by the part-time assistant that comes in on the 3rd thursday of every month (unless her cat is sick).

Re: Small companies

You haven't taken advantage of the new trade links with the faroese and Pitcairn islands?

>then what will all affected businesses do?

Thank Brexit that they are free from pandering to Eu customers and embrace Global Britain

Re: "Look at me legislation"

Unfortunately it's Alan Cummings in Goldeneye

Re: Summary: abuse personal data as you wish

Corporations are people too. And although Global Megacorp is registered in Narnia in its heart it feels like a British person

Re: Good god...

Sa mère était un hamster et son père sentait les baies de sureau

NASA scrubs Artemis mission yet again because SLS just can't handle the pressure

Re: H2/O2 is what you use..make a rocket with no time, no budget but access to the NASA parts bin

Yea funny how starting a massive project by cutting corners makes it take longer and cost more on the long run.

Anyway we can now start HS2 cos we found some spare Brunel gauge engines in a museum so by designing around reusing them we assume the cost will be halved

Re: Hydrogen is HUGE

A new and unusual use of the word 'nice' I wasn't previously aware of

Re: Hydrogen is HUGE

> including 95% H2O2...

Highly Testy Peroxide ?

Re: Third time's a .... ?

>and that reason is...Oops.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is safe?

Re: Third time's a .... ?

>Boeing have a delivery model?

Yes it's 1/72nd scale and you can make it yourself !

Re: ... but it is pain to handle.

It didn't take the Tweetmeister to decide that H2/O2 first stage is pants, everyone with a copy of Rocketry for Dummies knows that and prefers methane, aga-fuel, or if you're feeling brave, UDMH or if you're suicidal, chlorine trifluoride+just about anything

H2/O2 is what you use if you're told to make a rocket with no time, no budget but access to the NASA parts bin

Re: Third time's a .... ?

Yep, nobody actually cares about the moon. SLS is going to the moon because putting persons on the moon is the simplest achievable goal that the public understands.

Cos wasn't JFK cool and weren't the 60s awesome (if you were a square-jawed white guy fighter pilot)

So we are going to do that again, only this time one of the persons will be an ethnic and one will be a women (although all will be squared-jawed ex-fighter pilots)

Mars has CO2 so we can make methane locally, there is no real advantage in landing on the moon and taking off again to get to Mars

Re: Hydrogen is HUGE

Solid hydrogen is a bit denser than liquid, but then you would need firemen/stokers to shovel the fuel into the engines.

Re: Recycling

Boosters are a really cheap way of getting extra-zoom, they just occasionally go kaboom.

The Shuttle used oxygen/hydrogen engines purely as a time+cost saving redesign. The statement at the time accepted that it would lead to higher launch costs but didn't mention any risks

Recycling

And the reason that the Shuttle main engines used hydrogen/oxygen is that they were based on the Saturn V 2nd stage engines.

Engines in space need to be Hydrogen/Oxygen cos it gets most zoom/blue-whale which is important if you have to lift all the fuel into space.

But you get less total zoom than oxygen/aga-fuel which is why the Shuttle needed the big fireworks, which fortunately caused no problems, and is the reason that everyone else uses oxygen/aga 1st stages (including the Saturn V)

NASA sees our space future as both government and privately run

"There is no dark side of the moon really; as a matter of fact it's all dark."

Re: WHY GO? Are you insane... MURICAN BLOWHARD IS AT STAKE!

But they did invent the terminal CAPS LOCK key

Errm it always was

The kit has always been built by Northrop, Lockheed, Boeing etc

And more than 50% of NASA's budget is still spent on supporting US commercial aircraft manufacturing

Revealed: US telcos admit to storing, handing over location data

Re: The obvious solution

>committing #crime.

Or queuing at a voting booth in a district that unpatriotically voted against the dear leader

Or visited a house of worship of the wrong G*d (or the wrong branch of 2nd convocation reformed Baptist)

Or were in the same park as an evnt by those sexual deviants dissaproved of by all right thinking voters

Re: necessary for the operation of its network and to provide services to customers.

>In what possible way does logging someone's location for longer than the duration of the call provide a service to the customer?

Depends who is the customer. If someone is prepared to pay for this data then aren't they customers too ?

Chances good for NASA Artemis SLS Moon launch on Saturday

Re: "Flight-Critical Data"

Unless you are launching from Australia

Re: Classic coding approach!

Leaving things like that to chance is too risky.

Instead since we know that the majority of Shuttle launches weren't catastrophically destroyed by falling ice we will install special ice cannons to launch lumps of ice at the aerodynamic surfaces, thus reducing the risk of destruction to <1%

Re: Rollbacks & Paranoia

>One bit I really don't understand is why they're not recovering the SRBs

Building a reusable Space Shuttle was an expensive, unreliable, dangerous project

So not reusing the stuff will make this not-expensive, not-unreliabe and not-dangerous

Simple !

Re: Chances middling for last min engine problems or unscheduled pyrotechnics.

>What other metric is there for SLS?

That it lands on some large public infrastructure project, destroying it and allowing a private enterprise replacement ?

US semiconductor industry has a lot of ideas about where CHIPS Act money should go

No there won't be any Executive bonuses - those are terribly tax inefficient.

There will be stock grants followed by buy-backs

EU proposes regulations for tablet battery life, spare parts

Re: Please do it.

>It depends on what you call "legitimate devices"

A manufacturer that existed last year and will exist next year, Lenovo or Dell.

Not saying that Apple wrote these laws, but it is likely to drive all the big name Android tablet makers out of the market. How many Lenovo/Samsung tablets is a store going to sell for 200€ when another no-name landfill Android tablet is 50€ ?

Re: Please do it.

Unintended consequences.

This increases the costs of legitimate devices so much that consumers end up buying no name Aliexpress specials that ignore these rules.

Terminal downgrade saves the day after a client/server heist

Re: Ah - being raided by thieves ....

Thieves break in and upgrade the RAM cos they feel sorry for you

Underwater datacenter will open for business this year

Re: Why the bleep dunk these things in salt water?

Yes, all you need is a large empty field near the centre of a capital city where the planning permission lets you dig a massive hole and fill it with water.

California asks people not to charge EVs during heatwave

Re: Cars are next, then your digital money

Special offer, cheaper electricity but we get to limit your use when we run out = great sign me up.

We ran out of electricity and reduced your use = surprised pichachu face

Re: Most EV chargers already support time based charging

It's a pity that people mainly need to use AC when it's hottest and sunniest - otherwise solar would be great

GM's Cruise revises self-driving software after San Francisco crash

Re: L plates

1, Kill all humans....

No longer prepared to svn commit: WebKit migrates to GitHub

Re: Weak

>Also, the hosted repo isn't really a critical distribution point for ANYTHING,

But it causes massive disruption.

We do stuff in a very regulated industry so we have to be totally on-prem. Atlassian cancelled their self-hosted version so we have spent 6months planning for a move to our own servers, along with proving all the build and test procedures will be exactly the same and meet all the regulations and that we documented all the tests, and we documented that we documented it etc

Putting a core bit of your OS out to Github suggests that you have an internal replacement and you are abandoning this bit