Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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?

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

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

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

Re: Enforcement it going to be tough

Why does the federal government need to know if I'm qualified to fly this aeroplane ?

Does the Federal government keep track of who operates a lawn mower or a model railroad ?

No they don't - now get out of the way and let me and my fake uniform onto this 737

Re: Enforcement it going to be tough

Not wanting to get vaccine - fine stay at home isolated.

Not getting vaccinated and then faking an ID so you can go out and mix with as many people as possible - looks deliberate

Re: Enforcement it going to be tough

Or the people who use them. This isn't like having a fake ID to buy booze, this is deliberately trying to spread a virus that kills people

Re: A long way still to go

>Nice idea, but unfortunately they tend to be the ones who refuse the vaccine

I think the point was that after vaccinating the oldest most vulnerable, instead of then doing over 65s, then over 60s etc in strict order - it might have been better to switch to vaccinating 20year olds who mix with more people.

Should probably also have considered bus drivers, fast food workers who come into contact with more people before doing all the purely admin and lab workers in hospitals who were a priority

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

Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)

Re: As the building is in the UK

Shouldn't it be called not-a-lift?

GOP lawmakers ask for former Huawei handset biz Honor to be placed the Entity List

Re: A seamless transition from Trump to Biden.

But you have to admit that the USA and AQ have been successful in keeping the Soviets out. There is very little chance of Afghanistan becoming part of the USSR.

And of course this will stop the czar from invading our empire in India

Re: A seamless transition from Trump to Biden.

>What happens if not enough people volunteer? When the force falls below a certain level that's the trigger to pull out?

No that's the trigger to send in a film crew to do a blockbuster movie about the heroic last stand of Chuck the last man in Afghanistan

Although it might be easier to just do in CGI.

In fact it may be easier and cheaper to do the entire war in CGI. Instead of killing lots of people, spending $Tn, achieving nothing and then 20years later making a movie about how sad your soldiers were - just shoot the entire war in Holywood

Re: Please get it through your heads

So currently the most secure is to get a Chinese phone with a Google ban and sideload apps

Re: Gotta love it

>In the far east : Forced labour / In the west : minimum wage zero hour contract

>Difference?

The forced labour get healthcare ?

Re: A seamless transition from Trump to Biden.

>bring home 20 year old kids with lifelong PTSD.

Make it a volunteer army.

Anybody who wants the US to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan simply has to call in at the local army base and arrange to be sent there. It would remove this silly age discrimination where 60 year olds aren't allowed to have their patriotism recognised

Looks like NSA now stands for Not Selecting Azure: US spy agency picks AWS over Microsoft

Re: Crazy

The government running these services themselves would be communism - the government doing anything is communism

Privatisation ?

Surely a true capitalist country would privatise all these 3 latter agencies?

Amazon buys the NSA, Microsoft could buy the CIA and Oracle own the DoD

Chinese espionage group targets Israel while suggesting the source could be Iran

Re: SOP

Australia isn't real

Re: SOP

What we should do is just make up a dummy test country to blame for all this.

Ideally one that has no economic impact, no exports and that nobody ever visits.

Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

>Gravity: Not just a good idea - It's the law

But Einstein's theory shows Newtons Law is wrong

Quantum theory shows Einstein is wrong

Loop Quantum Gravity shows both of them are wrong

String theory might show LQG is wrong - but nobody cares because String Theory is self evidently a load of fetid dingo's kidneys

Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

Of course since Gravity is just a theory, that scientists all disagree on - I don't believe in falls

Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

Please note this is not recommended if you fall and break your hip.

That needs crystals....

Re: Nope, don't believe it.

Infecting animals does not mean that the animals are a sufficient reservoir to maintain a pandemic.

In the USA armadillos carry leprosy but there isn't an ongoing problem with lepers (perhaps thoughts and prayers cure leprosy)

Re: Fairly worthless comparison

>Oxford University announced a malaria vaccine with 77% efficacy.

But try getting Republican mosquitos to take it

Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation

Re: Dont go away mad, don't go away sad. just go away.

As long as we can style persecute those who use tabs in Python

Re: Who? What?

Can't the PERL community use the same mechanism as the C++ standards committee ?

Thunder dome: 2 gendered pronouns enter one gendered pronoun leaves

Or FORTRAN's we have nukes, we make the rules

Re: Lack of originality in curse words.

>I'm already coding in a lawn chair

Is that a euphemism for doing something inappropriate with a fried fish ?

Re: FFS

But the nice thing about PERL is that you can type one line of anything and it will do something

the fun bit comes from working out what it will do

Re: FFS

>Hmm now I why would we would limit connections on bog standard user accounts?!

Putting arbitrary limits on usage to make up for the fact that their model is entirely broken - the motto of DBAs everywhere

Boots on Moon in 2024? NASA OIG says you better moonwalk away from that date, because suits ain't ready

Re: Time dilation?

And they had the Playtex Bra and Girdle Seamstresses

Re: One BEEELION dollars

Or just send Geordies

Re: Nasa priority

>you are fully qualified.

You are payload - the only qualification is look good on the press release, no convictions and preferably no proof that you abused any children.

One BEEELION dollars

For some space suits?

Haven't they tried sports direct ?

Nasa priority

>Sending the first woman and first person of color to the lunar surface

So as scientific as the Apollo missions?

At least this has fewer Nazis

Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount

Re: Doesn't inspire confidence

However rule #0 is, avoid flying on anything built by a sole bidder on a government cost+ contract

Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

To keep the space solar panels over a single point it needs to be in GSO.

This limits you to points near the equator

One of somerset's few natural disadvantages - is it's not in the tropics