Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

This drag sail could prevent spacecraft from turning into long-term orbiting junk. We spoke to its inventors ahead of launch

And the LEO number increasing with the swarms of internet platforms.

Plus the number of vehicles where the booster fails leaving it in LEO. It's easy to add this as a range safety feature to deploy and drag a failed rocket back

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

Re: I never get tired of saying it

>Fuck IBM.

I think that's their new ticker symbol

Remember nobody ever got hired for working for IBM

Re: Buh Buh Buh Diversity!

>Diversity in leadership ensures a better company, or so we're told.

I hope no-one tells Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, GOOGLE, ZOOM etc

A cunning and subtle plan

Problem:

Having riffed all the experienced engineers and replaced them with offshore call centres working from a script, IBM has a problem with unhappy customers

Soln:

Get rid of all the sale-persons - so no more customers

Triples and bonuses all round !

Re: Just

The ideal salesman is a coke addict with a big car lease and at least 2 ex-wives with support payments.

Volkswagen to stop making its best-selling product for Wolfsburg workers: VW-branded sausages

Re: Alternatively...

The software at the VW canteen says they are zero calorie, fat free, 100% RDA of all vitamins and vegan

But considering green policies and food miles you would need to harvest locals for VW SoylentWurst(tm)

Re: But factory farmed meat

No merely large Teutonic boars with an attitude problem and unresolved anger management issues (probably just in need of a hug)

Re: But factory farmed meat

There are free range boar near VWs plant - but they have a very uncooperative attitude to being turned into sausages.

>That'll be 50 Wurst per soylent person.

You haven't seen many southern Germans - or you are planning some serious sized sausages

Re: Everything has an end

But the idea is to not make both ends meat

Does that have better emissions than currywurst ?

>Caught with your fingers in the till by the eco-nazis

Not an ideal phrase given that this is the 'strength through joy' car built for noted 1930s German Chaplin impersonator

Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow

Re: Old fart rant inside...

It's not upto WD how much space your OS filesystem reserves for it's own use.

If I install VMS and reserve 50% of the space for previous file versions that isn't really the drive makers problem

Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match

Re: Responsibility

I'm imagining a city center with self-driving cars/buses/delivery vehicles and being able to cause all of them to do an emergency stop by standing at a crossing and moving your foot in/out of the roadway.

And the effect that this power might have on the typical group of teens

Re: Responsibility

Because knowing that some drivers won't stop is what makes pedestrians cooperate.

If you are a group of kids and you know you can stop a whole street of traffic by putting your foot on the road - what are your mates going to be egging you on to to do?

Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth

Re: "British Association for Shooting and Conservation"

Well obviously not if you shoot them in time - before they get too close to you.

Re: No surprises here

Those damn photosynthesizers really screwed up the atmosphere and even did a lot of damage to most rocks.

Re: Hopefully some good

But what if you don't have a pet dog for them to shoot ?

>I was flabbergasted by this at the time, how could guns be so freely traded and NOT tracked?

In case the redcoats turn up at the door - how else are you going to prevent the Queen taking over ?

Re: amanfrommars's regular nonsensical ramblings"

No it's a matrix red-pill test - if it makes sense you are still in the simulation.

Re: No surprises here

Air fryers are a really quick healthy way to cook vegan sausage.

And you can make a lot of sausages from one vegan.

Re: On the other hand...

>really don't mind if you pour the breast-milk of farm animals in your coffee. It is your right and I would not attempt to prevent you.

And yet if you try and consume it directly there is a big fuss and you get kicked out of the field

Possible loophole., a combined gun and beer shop.

You sell the assault rifle to the schoolkids and then they rob you at gunpoint and take the beer - everybody is happy.

Re: Why?

It's much cheaper to outsource.

If the plod did it they would need extra staff who could read, others who could write, some special branch to keep on eye on these two groups of groups of dangerous intellectuals, somebody to leave the database in a winebar - and an intern who knew how to upload it to an unsecured AWS folder.

Much cheaper to let the commercial sector do this for you

Re: "British Association for Shooting and Conservation"

>controlled culling is an unavoidable necessity of maintaining healthy ecosystems.

What is the natural preditor of people who shoot grouse -

A crowd of revolting peasants with a portable guillotine ?

Re: Storage

>muzzle-loading pistols are legal

Any limits on definition of pistol ?

Swords? No, Sir we duel with cannon

Re: Storage

So if the villains keep the bits they saw off the shotguns and glue then on the front of the pistol everything is ok?

Re: section 58

See also Crawley and the M25

Re: section 58

That's why as a simple precaution the bus timetable bears no resemblance to the actual position of the bus.

It has been suggested that all bus timetables are a deliberate counter-terrorist disinformation program, similar to the fake 'D-Day' army in Dover heading for Calais

Re: No surprises here

> vegan is just a slightly different variant of sociopath from serial killer.

You forgot to compare anyone to Hitler.

Lose 10 internet points, return to 4chan

SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere

Re: Who had something to gain from continuing this charade?

No but the point is that either the MSFT dealers believed this, or had bene briefed by somebody to say this. And how many of our potential customers believed this, or had lawyers who were prepared to 'raise concerns' about this ?

There is no "Reality" in FUD

Re: Am confused

A multi-$Bn IBM government sale may be held up because of a due-diligence office causes some auditor to delay contracts where there is an ongoing legal dispute.

If there is a 1.4% chance of this happening it's cheaper to pay the $14M

Re: This will run and run because...

>No, it's a spinoff from the American Dodgeball Association of America

Do they also hold the American World Series of American Dodgeball ?

>Does anyone know which components form this dispute?

The forward slashes in paths.

Microsoft are a dynamically innovative company who were able to invent the new improved backslash (probably by leveraging synergies) while Linux just slavishly copied SCO forward slash.

Re: Who had something to gain from continuing this charade?

In the early 2000s we sold Linux versions of our software and regularly had Microsoft VARs tell us that our customers would be sued because Linux had been "pirated" from SCO

When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds

Re: huh ?

<inevitable 4 Yorkshiremen>

You got a cubicle ..... luxury ....

</inevitable 4 Yorkshiremen>

Bonkers rocket launch sees craft slip sideways, barely climb and tear up terrain

Per ardua ad terra

British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

>As for WWII kit doing well today, I don't think so.

I believe Atomic bombs are still rather snazzy

Re: Join The Navy, See The World

Just so I don't sound like a complete idiot.......

The deleted post referred to the 3rd traditional naval activity

Re: All Very Blairite

PPI navy is traditional - I believe it was known as 'letters of marque'

Re: Join The Navy, See The World

Well since Rum and the Lash are no longer allowed.....

Re: Join The Navy, See The World

Not sure daily rum and Lime juice is an essential part of patrolling the south coast looking for rubber dinghys full of refugees

TSMC to hike some chip prices 'by as much as 20%'

Re: Arizona?

That goes without saying - but fortunately applies to all states

Re: Arizona?

Where to put a semiconductor fab.

You need somewhere with cheap land and an accommodating planning office - that's the West coast and the North East out of the question.

You need somewhere where the locals and politicians aren't too insane - that's Texas and Florida out.

You need a small number of very scarce and expensive staff, who need to live somewhere habitable - so that's the frozen north out.

Ideally somewhere that doesn't get; hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires, ice storms or 6 months of -40C weather.

Re: The Wealth of Nations

But they cheated by hiring more semiconductor engineers than MBAs, accountants and marketing executives - how are Intel supposed to compete with that ?

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

You young wipper-snappers never owned British cars of the 70s

I need a flange-mangler for a 1975 Austin XYZ

Early plate 1975 or late?

Which site was in built at ?

Did it use the spares bin flange-mangler left over from the strike?

Was that one of the ones that Ron built ?

This way up: James Webb Space Telescope gets ready for shipment after final tests

For most visible-band science ground based telescopes now beat Hubble