Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

NASA sets a date to begin lunar tuning

Re: Massive Stack

That explains why ISS suddenly started spinning

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

Re: Am I a 'snowflake'?

Yes my great-grandfather downed more German aircraft than anyone else in the Battle of Britain.

Opa Karl - the worst mechanic in the Luftwaffe

Re: How many impossible things do we have to believe at the same time?

"If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways,"

Re: Alt-history

>Holland / Netherlands (pick your name of choice)

You are aware that these aren't synonyms?

Cancel the anti-dutch fascist oppressor, oppress the heretic !

Re: Incitement to violence

But finding out about MPs expenses could make people angry and so would threaten MPs.

So their expenses must be kept secret for 'security reasons'

Re: Am I a 'snowflake'?

>What are the BBC to do ?

Obviously only mention their heritage if they are a brown (*) Muslim person or immigrant

* Sorry Ms Patel

Re: Addicts

Careful, they might be offended by that statement

Re: Am I a 'snowflake'?

Or in the words of Mr Brown: I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London

But in the 70s and 80s, before the internet, we didn't have any violence from religious extremists targeted at MPs

Re: Make a start with . . .

Like the 3 screens full of warnings about spreading covid misinformation that you need to scroll past before reading any post on a reddit about transit delays

Re: Alt-history

But there wouldn't be el'reg because the British Internet Corporation would already have a site about computers run by some ex-Tomorrows world producer. Of course David Icke would have a site because of balance.

Re: Am I a 'snowflake'?

It might sometimes be relevant in order for the public to understand possible motives.

eg. Boris Johnson a politician of American heritage is a lying incompetent idiot only concerned with his public image and twitter following

Re: Equal opportunity bile

Although most left wing attacks are aimed at other left wing groups - which is typical of those basterds in the Judean Peoples Front

Re: Re:Source

Anyone else read that as:

Laura Kuenssberg if she leaves her role as a senior Conservative MP

But where will they find enough pedophiles?

To continue the analogy

If they are going to replace the "pirate" internet with an official government approved service playing a watered down censored version of the stuff "the youth" like, but entirely staffed by pedophiles - where can they possibly recruit them from ?

Fortunately Britain doesn't have any problems from medieval religious attitudes

We have an international reade deal hung up in religious rows from the C16

Re: Well apparently the BBC needs to hire "Pro Brexit" staff now

Some tory mp suggested that the replacement for a certain BBC boss so pro tory she should have a cabinet post had to be pro brexit to represent the people

Tesla slams into reverse, pulls latest beta of Full Self-Driving software from participating car owners

Re: This statement needs soem clarification...

We could even recruit redundant HGV drivers now that autonomous vehicles have taken their jobs

Re: This statement needs soem clarification...

If we mandated cars to drive in straight line between cities, with a 5mi separation and 1000ft difference in height, while having a pair of professional drivers and a Road Traffic Controller - driving would be really safe

Re: This statement needs soem clarification...

> that of the average driver

Can we have a new standard?

Level 1 is better than an octogenarian Volvo driver in a hat.

Level 2 is equal to a teenager in a fiesta

Level 3 is a top gear presenter

Level 4 is the stig

Fully self driving

Does not make the vehicle autonomous and requires careful driver supervision

Anyone want to buy my Fully Profitable investment product (does not make money and requires continual input of new capital)

Non-profit's IT manager accused of embezzling $400k by buying gear, services from his own fake companies

Enterprise IT solutions provider

All he had to do was actually deliver some equipment

ie. buy pallet loads of surplus junk Cisco/EMC kit on Ebay, resell it to the non-profit at original retail price + 30% and deliver it - before replacing it a year later because of cyber-security

UK watchdog launches full probe of Motorola Solutions' cop-comms deals on Emergency Services Network

Re: About fucking time

Dino: My brother and I have got a little proposition for you Colonel.

Luigi: Well suppose some of your tanks was to get broken and troops started getting lost,

Colonel: Are you threatening me?

Dino: Oh, no, no, no.

Luigi: We can guarantee you that not a single armored division will get done over for fifteen bob a week.

In 10years there will be a contract extension to support legacy 5G

Electronic Frontier Foundation ousts co-founder John Gilmore from its board

Re: Sounds like something both the EFF and Gilmore would prefer not to elaborate upon

I prefer the old days - when you simply had to battle Stallman in single combat, with Katanas

Poor data sharing is holding back the UK court system's pandemic recovery, says National Audit Office

>One of the main problems here is the elderly judges who don't want tech in "their" courtrooms.

Given the state of most government IT projects I can't say I blame them.

Cleanup on aisle C: Tesco app back online after attack led to shopping app outages

Re: Bald Tony - What a twat!

Belgium is the biggest state actor threat to the UK - that's why it was targeted by MI5 hacking operations.

Re: Bald Tony - What a twat!

Or he's a Russian / n Korean / Belgian bot that generates outrage at anything. Like the daily mail

Orders wrong, resellers receiving wrong items? Must be a programming error and certainly not a rushing techie

Re: Punch cards?

IBM wouldn't have called them simply cards, they would have been rectilinear data input units

Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it

Whereas the post-Oracle Delphi just advises that you buy more site licenses

Re: Smart bombs

Give the likes of the British Public the vote and we'll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner

Re: Ask Delphi<...>; no one is actually using it to make decisions.

Classically asking Delphi for answers was a losing proposition.

As Dennis the peasant might have said "Stoned tarts in caves gibbering is no basis for sound political strategy"

Re: Silly censorship

Interesting question though.

Is a description of dangly bits obscene?

What about the HPGL vectors for a line drawing ?

What about the CGI shader code for a computer generated dong?

What about the matrix for deep-fake generated Mary Hinge ?

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Would the very stable genius ?

A, Name his free-speech site after the Soviet Union's propaganda red top

B, Make the account creation URL trivial to guess allowing anybody to create accounts named after Famous Floridonians

C, Get sued for copyright violation by the software creators

D, All of the above

Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year

Re: Controlled stupidity

capable of taking a stream of .50 caliber shells and continuing to function

That's the tricky bit, building kit to take incoming .50 cal is easy enough

Re: Controlled stupidity

I once spent a whole weekend practicing dropping a piece of equipment from desk height in a way that didn't break it - so it could pass a required CE test on Monday

Re: Is that why bomb canceled its firefighter/seaplane line?

Don't know what happened to them re Covid - but a company in Vancouver took over the good bits of Bombardier.

They were going to build an improved version of the waterbomber, and the Dash8 turboprop commuter

Re: Where is Feynman?

But the many of the valves didn't fail - so it's worth launching anyway.

You just have to change the requirements to 50%(+/-5%) operational valves.

So all they have to do is get a 300% tariff put on SpaceX and they are set.

Fortunately congressmen are much cheaper than rocket scientists and you only need to pay one of them.

Re: Getting hot and sticky ...

Ariane no longer uses oh shit hypergolic fuel - the 1st and 2nd stage are cryo O2+H2

BOFH: So you want to have your computer switched out for something faster? It's time to learn from the master

Here it's "N" plated Lambos

Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks

Re: The elephant in the room

But then require you to have your own, presumably consumer grade, Android/iPhone to run the Microsoft 2FA app to get onto the corporate network

So if the corporate firewall works why does it matter that we have Nest thermostats and entryphone cameras rather than corporate grade ones?

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

Re: Who's Who

Some line about not spotting the sucker at the card table?

Re: Who's Who

They were very careful to avoid bio-savy investors but targeted celebrities.

That should have been a red flag for any investors who aren't idiots

China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids

Re: Modus operandi

It's not slavery, it's 'lifetime internship'

With the bonus that you don't have to feed or house the slaves gig-workers

Informatica UKI veep was rightfully sacked over Highways England $5k golf jolly, says tribunal

But with no foreigners anymore there are vast (but limited) career opportunities for home grown scapegoats

After more than a decade of development, South Korea has a near miss with Nuri rocket test

A plan

1, 50years of unease with a nuclear armed neighbour

2, Develop a rocket

3, Get a space program

Tories very much playing the long game