Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland

Always thought castle doors should open outwards.

Your besieging orc army looks a right bunch of eejits bashing against the door with Gronk and missing the "Pull" sign

Re: Is it possible to

Tell em to paint themselves blue and come back when they've learned an Oz accent

Re: Sumption is wrong

>The Church of England has a right to exist

Fscking far sighted for 1215

Boston Dynamics spends months training its Atlas robots to perform one minute of parkour almost perfectly

Re: It's difficult to overstate their ability to balance

Until they're batteries run out of they get caught in a simple trap, stripped down and sold for parts in the local market.

Of course it could be a cunning plan. Make your military tech so complex that when you lose and have to 'strategically withdraw' leaving all the kit behind, the locals can't reuse any of it.

Better hope that Toyota doesn't start making robot pickups

Re: When you can train it to do the housework....

>OR it was ED-209 from RoboCop

Unexpected item in bagging area - you have 10 seconds to comply

Meanwhile Amazon buy a couple of these robots and train them to dive through the court windows to serve papers sueing SpaceX for unfairly using engineering

Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space

Re: back in the day...

Yes but it would cause terrible inconvenience to physicists and electrical engineers if you lost your card and were forced to change 'e'

Re: Sorry to disappoint

>However a monkey with a typewriter is only fscking small

You wouldn't say that if you had to share a cubicle with one

Re: Secret messages?

> if you iterate through Pi long enough, you'll theoretically be able to pull any number sequence out of it,

Actually we can't prove that. There's a word for irrational numbers that contain all arbitrary sequences (that I can't remember) but we can't prove if pi is one of them.

Re: 7817924264

My pin is the last 4 digits of pi

Re: Engineering approximation

A physicist would approximate to 1

Green hydrogen 'transitioning from a shed-based industry' says researcher as the UK hedges its H₂ strategy

Re: KABOOM!

>I for one look forward to our hydrogen steampunk future

Never work, you can't get the urchins anymore

China reports local chipmaking boom with output up more than 40%

Re: Quality

>In my personal experience, chinese-made chips are inferior, both in design and manufacturing

In my experience Chinese made chips are the cutting edge of technology and production.

Of course you have to specify which "China'

A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh

A business opportunity

Sell advertising on BSODs

UK's Newport Wafer Fab now under Chinese ownership

Re: Economically Strategic?

Playing right into our hands.

We just parachute in a crack team of management consultants form Mckinsey who persuade the Chinese to stop making things, fire 10% of their workforce each quarter to improve the results, and pivot from industrial output into selling themselves financial instruments and taking in each others washing.

Re: A fortune for pennies

> who are to all intents and purposes rogue enemy state

Wales isn't that bad surely? A few burned holiday cottages and some grumpy local-shops for local people - but not as bad as Cornwall

Blue Origin sues NASA for awarding SpaceX $3bn contract to land next American boots on the Moon

C.o.D.

Simply pay whoever gets there first - that's capitalism isn't it ?

Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later

Re: Well that's just criminal!

>You have the right to remain silent.

Remember you can't just remain silent you have to state that you are remaining silent !

>You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions.

And don't say "I want a lawyer, dog" because the court will rule that you were demanding a lawyer of the species "Canis Lupus Familiaris" and since those don't exist - you weren't actually asking for a lawyer and so they can question you without one.

Re: This is why we still use tape libraries.

>" I wouldn't expect a DB migration (eg. MySQL -> Postgress) to impose a deletion of source data"

Unless you are planning on using the same system and the same storage before and after cos you don't have a spare

India makes a play to source rare earths – systematic scrapping of its old cars

> You think your Hinduphobic bigotry is a joke ?

More Modi-phobic. or do you think ultra-nationlist religous-bigot leaders are a joke?

Re: They need to learn from "cash for clunkers" in the US

>Why they were there in the first place is another puzzle.

To keep the Jewel of the empire safe from the Czar

Re: Lanthanides

I'm not sure most Indian cars have cats and they certainly don't have "advanced magnets"

But these are Hindu cars and are therefore all things great and wonderful.

Rare Earths are good and desirable

Therefore Hindu cars contain rare Earths.

Simple if you are a simple religious nationalist

Tired: What3Words. Wired: A clone location-tracking service based on FOUR words – and they are all extremely rude

Re: WHat Three Words - commercial algorithim that cant be shared without license payment

Even using the same idea would be allowed.

So long as you use your own algorithm for ordering sets of words and matching their order to numbers you can create w3w.

I think there is probably prior art for putting English words in an order based perhaps on the order their letters appear in some sort of alphabet ?

Of course the Caananites might have a patent on the specific order

Re: Not my kind of humor, but

The advantage of lat/long is just a simple number instead of some silly words. That's why we are going to replace web site names with their IP6 address

Re: Not my kind of humor, but

Latutude and longitude are two nice, simple numbers that give one's location to whatever precision is required

So long as both parties understand datums. Here local government maps for logging roads use NAD83 but government services use WGS84. Fortunately everyone understands the differences, just ask your local delivery driver

Re: WHat Three Words - commercial algorithim that cant be shared without license payment

actually £1.20 to use the number on my house. 1p for the tax and £1.19 maintenance and administration fee

So you're familiar with the Postal Address File?

World Intellectual Property Office settles dispute with CIO it previously ousted for 'criminal misconduct'

amicably resolved before the aforementioned process could be concluded,

Lift shaft, door error and power failure

or wheely chair, stairwell, roll of carpet and shovel ?

Apple's iPhone computer vision has the potential to preserve privacy but also break it completely

Re: Lovers or dolphins?

Don't worry, this system hasn't been trained on any child porn images. You think the police/feds/TLAs care about child porn?

It is however excellent at detecting photos of police (US edition) or Arabic writing (Euro edition) or HK flags (Chinese edition)

Starliner takes off ... back to the factory and not space

>Very successful business for printing money, but if I were an airline boss - or in military procurenent - I'd be looking elsewhere.

Where ?

They successfully shut down Bombardier's C series.

If you are an airline you can't buy Airbus without risking whose next in the Whitehouse

If you are military what's your alternative МиГ ?

Re: this is boeing

Or just get their congress person to call NASA and relax the testing requirements

Re: R2D2

Boeing is the worlds biggest weapons maker and essentially owns the DoD - but there is no way they are going to anger the Disney Corporation

Re: The problem

The requirement is that it passes the test and the test has to be carried out in a certified testing location. It doesn't say anything about the test having to be anything like the real conditions - it's all detailed in this 960 page PowerPoint we sent to the FAA

Re: The problem

In Liftoff, the book about the early days of SpaceX, they lose the 2nd or 3rd launch because of corrosion in the salt air of the little Pacific island they are working from - with no hanger.

Except they were new to this and Boeing have been launching from Alabama and Florida since the 1940s

Re-volting: AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization undone by electrical attack

Re: Really?

>eliminate the bleeding obvious commonplace ages-old vectors

Perhaps also by attaching wires and manipulating voltages?

Russia: Forget about the Nauka incident. Who punched the hole in the Soyuz, hmm?

Re: Space woodpeckers…

Might want to check the medical bay for any bleeding aliens

Obviously

There's no evidence that Belgian hackers were responsible - isn't that suspicious?

Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more

Re: Training

Carefull, I tried to show the examiner my primary piece and got arrested

>But I suppose you long for the days when people just banged rocks together.

You had rocks? Luxury .....

Re: Primary?

>Can't get more elitist than "head of country"

The prime minister, apart from being 'first among equals' isn't head of the country. They are head of the government - which is roughly equal to head floater in a blocked sewer

Fancy joining the SAS's secret hacker squad in Hereford as an electronics engineer for £33k?

Re: A prayer for those forced to use Teams

>You'd think they'd be paying a decent salary.

But this if for a tradesman, chap probably doesn't even speak Greek. Probably end up being a northerner aswell

COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free

Re: A long way still to go

> my wife, who does in-home elder care, was able to get vaccinated before it was widely available

Yes, the problem is that the government here was a little too rigid in their plans.

So "healthcare workers" were the priority - but this meant hospital sysadmins and medical billing office workers were being jabbed before transit or supermarket workers.

Re: Bound to happen unless real certificates are used

> thus avoiding biometric information

At some point the bouncer at the club has to confirm that the drunk in front of them corresponds to the digital ID on the computer - that is biometric

Re: A long way still to go

who votes ?

Re: Easy to copy

>WTF? How the heck can that work?!? Surely it should have some additional factor of identity check with it?

Well weed is legal and you can drink beer in public in the NL, so obviously they are godless commies so I assume the government forces them all to have QR codes on their foreheads

Good news: There's a slightly increased chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth. Bad news: It's still really slight

Re: Thar's gold in them thar astyroids

>By 2182 we may be looking at ways to hard-land it in an unpopulated area.

By 2182 that might be easier than we thought

Re: doh!

>My best "slack jawed" moment was on TV - how to extract DNA using household ingredients.

Red wine, soft music and lingerie also work...

We must take steps to protect Keith Richards

India's return to space fails after first locally built cryogenic engine experiences 'anomaly'

Re: what doesn't go up must come down

It's on an island outside the environment

But it is now a "middle income country" because it has a space program + nuclear weapons - which puts it in the same category as China's $12K GDP

Launching a rocket is much easier than creating jobs for 1.3Bn people