Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

And blown up.

They were special mil-spec tested batteries - specified for 6 hours use

The manufacturer tests them for an hour, then the importer, then the MOD procurement directorate, then the stores bloke tests them when they arrive, and again when they are issued and then the operator tests them for another hour before deployment.

A big enough bowl of rice and it'll be fine

Re: Would suspect the

>but I was told such survivors have back problems for the rest of their lives.

Less so on modern seats. Pilots are quite expensive to train. There is value in not only saving their lives but doing so in such a way that you can reuse the pilot.

So if they had thrown it faster it might have skipped across the water ?

Re: Ooops!

The bad news is that they are taking it out of your wages.

Re: Fake.

Have you seen the quality of the 'footage' it's obviously faked.

Still probably much cheaper to do it all in CGI rather than build a practical ship and aircraft set.

UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches

Re: Dan Dare

Just pointing out that historically, launcher programs (prior to SpaceX) had precisely 2 roles.

To hide/spread the cost of your ICBM program.

To demonstrate your national/economic/cultural superiority over the "other".

(And in the case of ISS - to give a funding to your defense companies now that WWIII wasn't on the cards and to stop the USSR's rocket scientists switching to Islam)

Re: first launchers gear up for a historic blast-off?

The Ariane launcher isn't ESA or Eu, it's a French company with 20% German and a bunch of minor partners. It started out a reused French ICBM vehicle and a reused French colony.

Re: Cash has been lobbed Cornwall's way to support a horizontal launch by Virgin Orbit

But if you launch eastwards from Cornwall you can hit Belgium

Re: Dan Dare

Back in t'day when I wor a young researcher (and dinosaurs roamed the Earth)

There was a French European plan to launch a couple of French European astronauts in a Apollo capsule with wings SpacePlane on top of a French European rocket to demonstrate the superiority of French European technology.

Suspicious that this was a French plot to engrandise France the Brits not only vetoed the program but introduced a law banning British involvement in any ESA manned mission

Among the UK scientists the mission, officially Hermes, was known as "Frogs in Spaaaaaaace"

Re: cheap publicity stunt

It's really, and I can't emphasise this enough, cheap.

For literally zero money the government is not only supporting SPACE RESEARCH but CHILDREN, EDUCATION, FLUFFY PUPPIES GLOBAL BRITAIN

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

Re: brilliant

That's why you need McAfee

Re: Bam!

Well obviously it's not meant to be taken literary - it applies to any sleepy equine animals

Re: Unfortunately...

I suspect, that like 98.7% of statistics, it was made up.

Re: Unfortunately...

Fortunately in this country we have a natural experiment, where for 1000 years we have been selectively breeding for superiority and leadership until we achieved the House Of Lords

Re: circular history

Ironically Prions are about as close to nanobots as we have got and they are fscking scary

Re: Prey

His Great Train Robbery novel (ie the Sean Connery film) is very good if you like that early Forsyth; Day of the Jackal/Dogs of War sort of journalistic fiction where every detail is gone into.

Re: Unfortunately...

>40% of UK medical students are creationists.

In my experience 40% of medical students are idiots. Idiots on the level of: if you need to work out the dose and you have mg/Kg you need to multiply by kg to get mg.

Seriously you don't need to memorise this for each drug - it's always the same, just look at the units and cross them out.

Makes sense

In the 70s we got lots more vaccines and that was because the chips weren't as integrated. The reason we had to have separate measles, mumps, rubella was that the nanobots had to use 6502 and Z80s

It would explain why we spent so much time watching crap TV - the nanobots forced people to like "On the Buses" and "Mind Your Language"

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

Re: Digital archeology

Unable to work out what the boxes were or why anyone would put them there the archaeologists decided they must be "ritual purpose"

Re: "temporary"

It's like tactical and strategic nuclear weapons - the only difference is the size of the bang when they go off

Re: COBOL in a nutshell.

If 4 digit years are your limit, you can probably retire without worrying about it.

Re: Rolls Royce solution

Our first interaction with American marketing people. They ask if we were a Cadillac or VW brand.

Oh definitely VW said the entirely European engineering team. Reliable, sporty , German engineering, (this was the era of Golf GTI not dieselgate)

Not some fat poorly handling, fuel burning American junk driven by old people.

You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?

Re: Screenshots

You can download a wooden background image from the Internet.

Print that out and stick it to the desk before photographing any spreadsheets

Re: Screenshots

Normal business procedure would be to print out the spreadsheet, put it on a wood table, take a phone photo, email it back to themselves, reducing size, and then insert the picture into Powerpoint

Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled

Re: Hands On

In mining you assume you are going to cause impact-related wear on anything less than a CAT 797

If you combine water, mud, grit, falling rocks and apes - gear doesn't last long

Re: At Gene Cash, re: wrong error message.

Unless you are a double jointed gymnast with arms like pipe cleaners the easiest way to change the right hand side headlamp on my Subaru is to keep the headlamp and just swap the rest of the car

Re: When is the same not the same.

Initial passwd configuration box accepts all characters

Login box sanitizes inputs and removes "dangerous" characters in the passwd without telling you

>(eg. a 25-way D RS232 connector rammed in upside down!)

USB plugs inserted in Ethernet sockets

Good tip, if the USB plug fits the right way up first time - it's in the wrong type of socket

Re: Elementary perhaps

Unless it's an Agatha Christie, in which case the 10 people are in on it with Mr Red

Re: At Gene Cash, re: wrong error message.

To be fair on a Subaru it's normal to remove the engine to refill the screen wash

Re: Hey Rob!

On a bike it's normally a faulty alarm/immobiliser

Britain might not make unreliable oil-leaking bikes anymore, but we do still make unreliable current leaking alarm systems.

Re: Hands On

There is a "miner's wrench" a 3ft long adjustable spanner with a hammer head on the fixed part of the jaws.

Even better for "user problems' is a "spud wrench", same thing but the handle ends in a steel spike for aligning bolt holes in girders.

Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK's Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech

So I sign my 5 year old up for "My Little Pony Online" and click TOS to agree that her messages are censored, but I can't have the system block dick pics until she opens them because it violates the privacy of the person sending the dick pics ?

Solution

Declare all children terrorists (personal experience of nephews confirms this) then you can spy on them all you want without any rules

UK.gov emits draft IoT and smartphone security law for Parliamentary scrutiny

Re: I think Guy Fawkes idea of a firewall was best

Proposal that Mr Fawkes name be added to all ballots. In the event that he gets most votes it is taken as a sign that the will of the people is to blow up parliament, or at least the local constituency office

Re: Alternatively...

This idea could be extended. If the fire brigade were equipped with flame throwers they could determine which houses were flammable and rapidly incentivise the owners to improve

Re: ASIDE: 'Footage'

We still use "colour timing" for adjustments to the colour balance of a movie scene done on a computer.

Because you used to change how long the film was in a particular chemical bath.

Academics tell Brit MPs to check the software used when considering reproducibility in science and tech research

The LIGO (gravitation wave detector) team actually have a separate group whose job is to inject false results into the system to check that they are detected and properly discarded.

Apparently when they turned it on and had that spectacular result almost immediately it took a lot of convincing that it wasn't an event injection.

Seaberry carrier board turns a Raspberry Pi into a desktop PC with 11 PCIe slots

Re: Not a surprise

Probably mostly useful for test. If I want to develop Pi compute + some random cards, I might want to test on a bench with existing cards before I build an integrated solution.

Or as an industrial control/capture. If I need 10 pciE cards to capture N inputs but don't need much processing, this might easier/cheaper/more reliable than a rack of 3-4 PCs with a few cards in each.

Thinking back to VME crates with a single CPU card and a dozen data I/O cards

Re: Phun and games

“your engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

Yeehaw, y'all! Texas done got itself a honkin' new Samsung semiconductor plant

Benefits package: Company will reimburse any ammunition used on company premises during office hours.

Re: Because companies like Samsung

Except this isn't a business, it's a plant. It doesn't make profit, it costs money.

Samsung will save by not paying property taxes, so no schools for the children of workers, minimal fire/library/social services - although the police will be well funded. There is no state income tax, so Samsung can pay workers proportionally less and they have the same take home.

The big difference is that this is an isolated plant, it will create (or relocate) a few well paid jobs. But when this nm is no longer cutting edge, the next plant will open somewhere else. This fab, or a Dell assembly plant, doesn't create the permanent local Silicon Valley they seem to think.

Re: Epic line

Don't worry it will be entirely staffed by Korean immigrants (except for security guards and janitors)

US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military

Re: One party one company

I thought we banned Tigger because he failed a drug test?

Personally I think he was stealing eeyore's meds

Re: Military / Encryption / Stone Age / SWIFT

>Hard to send China to the stone age when I think they have enough talent and knowledge on how to grow their own technology base.

But remember China are both ignorant peasants merely trying to steal western ideas that they will slavishly copy and cunningly miles ahead of us with Hypersonic Stargates and so we need at least another 3 aircraft carriers to protect ourselves

Lenovo doesn't sound chinese to voters

Apple, Amazon fined to the tune of €200m for colluding over Beats headphones sales

Re: Competition

Or perhaps in lieu of taxes ?

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Impressively average, which is how corporate buyers like it

Re: Hmm

It will need it's own special version of Windows.

And before installing a program you will need to know what year your British laptop is, whether it was built at the start of the year or the end, which plant it was built at, if it was one of the ones built during the strike when they used a totally different offset-flange-fibrulator because they were out of stock. if it was one of the ones Jim built because he did the trunnion-turbulators backwards