Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch

Re: The Right Stuff

> aircraft are struck by lightning most days and survive without damage almost all of the time

They don't contain a few hundred tons of liquid oxygen

They aren't electrically connected to the ground by a stream of exhaust gas

Re: not a fan of Musk

People prefer colonel von Braun?

Chance of hitting a road barrier is rather low

Boeing brings back the 737 Max but also lays off thousands

>takeover of McDonnell Douglas by Boeing.

<sings> I believe that pigs and even DC-10s can fly ... </sings>

Re: Why ?

Production is up and customer complaints are down - what's the problem ?

Re: isit737max.com

>Unless all Ryanair flights are marked as "MAYBE - do you feel lucky?",

Free(*) lottery ticket with every 737-MAX flight

* Free tickets with a £10 service charge, £3 convenience charge for printing your own lottery ticket and a £5 credit card fee for not charging your card,

Re: Reservations outpacing cancellations ...

You're just looking for problems.

Late arrivals, lost luggage and passenger complaints are at an all-time low.

Re: They are to big to fail

So the current regime is going to let Boeing fail and have proud Rednecks being flown around the motherland on damn commie surrender-monkey built Airbuses ?

And where are they going to buy fighters from Lockheed-Martin (snigger)

Re: It still doesn't look good for air travel

>they're not 737-MAX's, they're 737-8200's - a completely different beast unrelated to the MAX

May I suggest 737-Sellafield ?

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

If only we could return to the perfect air safety record of 1918 instead of today when we have millions of aircraft crashing every day

Re: Crossing the International Date Line/Equator

Not going south of the equator this time of night

Isn't that a good thing ?

(at least compared to the opposite)

Re: Not so bad a function if you are on your way back into the UK...

Most aircraft these days are fitted with a Gatwick Proximity Warning System

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Somebody employs this person - hopefully for nothing critical

HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain

Revenue of $12.5bn

So they sold a cartridge ?

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

Re: You supported a system...

> And lets face it a two party system is absolutely no better than a one-party system

It's not a two party system.

You have a choice conservatives or conservatives+abortion rights.

Or at least that's what it used to be in the day of 'normal' sane republicans

Nope, still can't find them. Skullcandy slips Tile's gadget-tracking hardware into individual earbuds

Simple solution

I have mine attached by a string to the phone

cmd.exe is dead, long live PowerShell: Microsoft leads aged command-line interpreter out into 'maintenance mode'

>I wish Powershell would die sooner thather than later.

Next week it will be replaced by "Powershell365 Azure Service" which only works in the cloud.

Re: Bash

You can make a POSIX compliant system with a single header specifying that you don't support input/output/network/storage etc in a POSIX compliant way

US lawmakers get a second shot at forcing FBI agents to obtain a warrant before they leaf through web histories

Only for terrorists

Not, for example, if you accidentally shot somebody black and you had to find some dirt on them to leak to Fox News?

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC

Re: AMD vs. Intel: War Games v3.0

The difference is that Intel used to own the market for all the connecting chips.

So you could build a laptop around AMD but then Intel wouldn't sell you the SATA / WIFI / ethernet chips for your server product line - so only cheap crappy companies could risk upsetting intel.

Re: $$$

My first PC, an Olivetti from Morgans on TCR cost me 500 quid = a whole summer student wages

Re: mythical Year Of Linux On the Desktop comes

Teams already works well on Linux

Office365 is getting better, don't use sharepoitn anymore so don't know how well it's supported outside IE

The bits of Microsoft that make $$$ don't care what OS you are using as long as you pay your subscription and I think most of them weren't born when Balmer went on his linux=cancer rampage

BoJo buckles: UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023' after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam

Re: Security or politics or economic competition ?

So you benefit in the UK if you pay 2x as much for cell service because the kit got bought from people in America?

What if the American workers aren't even the same skin colour as you, or the same branch of christian - does that still count ?

Re: Security or politics or economic competition ?

>There are no WTO rules, the WTO doesn't have an army - the only way the WTO could enforce any rules was to make economics ministers feel guilty and with the US boycott of the WTO court they don't even have that.

If we ban Huawei then Western kit will be bought. At greater expense which will slow the rest of the economy. And the same rules will be applied everywhere else, France will insist on only buying French kit, so no Rolls Royce engines or BAe wings on Airbus. China will insist that any 3rd world country that is getting any Chinese investment doesn't buy any western kit.

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

I think when it comes to hacking, British Airways' approach could be described as "proactive"

Re: We are very sorry this has happened.

All Ryanair's customers got leaked int he sports direct hack

So we have flag carriers bailed out by their governments and all the cheap airlines go bust and we go back to paying £500 on 'British' Airways to fly to europe

Lawsuit klaxon: HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff in favor of cheaper, compliant youngsters

HP hiring younger staff

Is that grooming ?

To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it

That's the code on my luggage !

Re: I have been caught out....

I've been ignoring all these obviously fake company emails telling me to log into Microsoft Teams, now I get a new one telling me that we have switched form Teams to Yammer in order to be customer focussed synergy leveraged with dynamic upside while delighting stakeholders - so I'll ignore these as well.

As a bonus I don't have to go to any meetings

Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police

Bear in mind that to many of our dear "boys in blue" and 98% of home secretaries, believe the same thing about all blacks/indians/immigrants/irish/jews/muslims/PE teachers

Re: Why didn't they use s 49 RIPA?

Is it just me or does "(c)in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom." cover just about anything ?

It's the standard "resisting arrest", what was he arrested for ? Resisting arrest

Re: Was Miranda Read Her Rights?

Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain ?

Re: And the moral of this story is ...

>"oink oink bang bang" are certainly advocating violence.

I think their point is that it is the oinkers that are doing the bang bang

Re: He should be grateful he's British

That's why you must never criticise the government of this free country in anyway - because "you wouldn't be allowed to say that in Russia"

Re: And the moral of this story is ...

Or nice white middle class people now experienced the police in the same way as a black teenager - and didn't like it.

>What colour skin do you think the Irish have?

But since the GFA was negotiated we know they weren't terrorists - we don't negotiate with terrorists.

I think official policy is now that the IRA were merely Irish folk music enthusiasts that were misunderstood.

Re: Would never have happened in my day

Tricky to claim you are an impartial upholder of the law if the political party you belong to calls for a "final solution" to certain groups you might be policing.

I suspect the reason for the ban. The police don't mind being a racist in the police, but if you wear a badge saying so then defence lawyers will get every case against an ethnic suspect thrown out

Of course the same should apply to any member of the police belonging to a religion (except possibly Buddhist/ FSM).

I'm assuming he is white - since when do the police suspect anybody white of terrorism?

Would never have happened in my day

In the 80s the police arresting him would also have been members of the BNP

For the price tag, this iPad Pro keyboard better damn well be Magic: It isn't... but it's not completely useless either

RDP for OSx

Is there such a thing as a remote desktop in the iWorld?

Couldn't you just buy an old macbook air, sticky tape the iPad over the screen and use it's keyboard as a remote login to the iPad?

Re: Have I got to go the Middlesbrough?

>And it was closed.

You were lucky

IBM cuts deep into workforce – even its Watson and AI teams – as it 'pivots' to cloud

add high-value skills to our workforce

HR executives in charge of redundancies ?

Microsoft announces official Windows package manager. 'Not a package manager' users snap back

Re: One software manager to rule them all!

So they now have a crappy package downloader to match the crappy char selector = progress

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl

Re: retirement sentence

In this case it's difficult to see what more the company could do.

When the system is installed on site the installation tech 'helps' a customer enter their account details, and also entered his own.

Other than having a 2nd installer oversee the first, and another inspector inspecting that inspector....

They could send a message to the customer listing all the accounts but would a non technical customer notice if the tech was at all smart about picking a name?

Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?

Re: @Yet Another AC - Corporate masters require Outlook or VB app

Corporate security says that only corporate Windows machines (with bitlocker, secure boot, remote wipe etc) but enabling WSL on those machines is OK because it's just another Microsoft app

Remember logic and corporate security don't always go together. To be fair they are trying to protect the network against idiot salesdroids/managers that would install anything they see advertised in a inflight magazine