Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers

Re: But how?

I thought TCAS just used the tranponder data - it doesn't actively seek other aircraft?

Presumably on the basis that an aircraft isn't going to lie about it's position to other aircraft rushing toward it

The Great British anti-5G fruitcake Bakeoff: Group hugs, no guns, and David Icke

Re: They are the virus

Flock immunity ?

Youtube bans him because he was countering official WHO advice

The US president pulls out of the WHO claiming it is Chinese propaganda

You couldn't really do more to promote the conspiracy

Re: Income

He fills the O2 with paying punters - I don't

Re: Income

>It's easy to laugh at Icke but the poor guy has a serious mental health problem.

Is he mad or very very smart?

A lot of people have done very well telling their followers that the sky beard wants them to have a better private jet

UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends, MPs told

Re: Dreaming up barriers to adoption...

Even better, when they do have a vaccine and all the anti-vaxxers and 5G-causes-BillGates flat-earthers can point to the "totally secure and anonymous" compulsory NHS app and say - see, don't trust the government about covid.

As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother

Re: Wouldn't it be far, far easier....

Over here "we" have.

It did lead to the famous incident of the TV reporter asking Nelson Mandela about being the most famous African-American man

Evidence that Romania, and East German and Russia obviously didn't invest enough in the apparatus of state control = it failed.

Re: Political correctness gone mad

> Because they have a genuine power imbalance and accurately describing that is just talking accurately.

Which is why the appropriate terms are now "Bloated capitalist oppressor" and "zero hours contract worker" for the devices on an IDE chain

Re: Red v Blue

What if the USA never has a non-communist enemy ?

Are they going to have to change the bulb ?

Look squirrel

So this has nothing to do with distracting people from GCHQ Granted Access to NHS Data as Privacy Concerns Increase

Re: Are there no other people of colour that read this rag?

>I strive to use appropriate language all day everyday, swapping a few words shouldn’t be a problem for everyone else.

This is an organisation aimed at hunting down threats to the state (or at least to the current government)

They (and their predecessors) have managed to switch from opposing catholics to communists to muslims (via the bishop of Durham and Arthur Scargil) so color change shouldn't be an issue

A colorist is a person in Hollywood that makes $x000 /day for color grading movies = adjust the color balance so that the hero's eyes stand out at the right moment

Only if you don't want masses of graphic designers claiming that grey is not a colour

What does £55 get you in the noise-cancelling headphones world? Something like the Taotronics SoundSurge 85

Re: Where do I put the Oxygen-free cable?

Since they are bluetooth the cables are presumably oxygen free, copper free and insulator free

Just remember to install them the correct way round

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Dynetics in a three-horse lunar lander race

It's much harder to do rocket science without Nazis

Human intelligence may not be enough: US military turns to machine learning algos to predict food shortages

I'm not super sure you can rely on US numbers in the same way as for countries with a national health service (and a functional government)

Are they 100% testing homeless deaths or even people who die outside hospitals?

Is the coroner office / cause of death reporting in small towns as rigorous as in NY?

Once this breaks our of big cities into rural areas where fewer people have health care, the health care infrastructure isn't as great and people are less able/willing to stay at home - it could get a lot worse

The ultimate 4-wheel-drive: How ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond

Re: Worth a read of their website

The melon is the SI unit of angular extent.

Ps that pointing accuracy is about 100x worse than Hubble, but x-ray telescopes don't have high resolution

Pps for real wow look at the mirrors in xmm

Microsoft! Please, put down the rebrandogun. No one else needs to get hurt... But it's too late for Visual Studio Online

This is Microsoft

They will rename it "Office365 codespaces for workgroups internet edition"

Tesla sued over Tokyo biker's death in 'dozing driver' Autopilot crash

Re: @Brian 3 - Sorry, mate

Not just Tesla - though admittedly they made it worse by telling everyone it was auto-pilot

I got a hire car with "adaptive cruise control" but I didn't know that.

I pulled out onto the M25 and clicked it to 70mph (cos I don't want a ticket) but I'm stuck behind a truck doing 60. The truck pulled off and the car accelerated forward upto 70mph.

That's when I worked out what it was doing - but if I had been half asleep and the truck had pulled over to avoid a crash/debris/etc the car's cruise control would have driven me straight into it.

Worse than that - they weren't even driving Teslas......

Who's still using Webex? Not even Cisco: Judge orders IT giant to use rival Zoom for virtual patent trial

Re: As it happens I've got a Webex tomorrow morning

>Errr this case is really bad advertising for Webex / CISCO.

If it were zoom presumably the judge would have ordered them to use webex

He is just trying to avoid the retrial and accusations if the video had any problems that helped the defense

Re: Cisco have a point

>Why would the court proceedings by public???

Unless your country's leader has a bad moustache court proceedings are public, you can go in to watch them and they are reported in the press

Non-public court proceedings are normally the ones where the defendant knows the death sentence going in

India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps

Unfortunately

The Indian outsourcer tha got the job outsourced it to Capita

SpaceX's Elon Musk high on success after counting '420' Starlinks in orbit and Frosty the Starship survives cryo test

Re: This may be a really obvious question.

Does Murdoch still own cable companies in oz?

In which case I suspect this will be banned there because of <tabloid scare of the day>

Re: This may be a really obvious question.

Wait till the 5g nutters find out about neutrinos

Re: This may be a really obvious question.

>subsidized by the subscribers in wealthy countries.

Subsidized by the satellites being useless to American subscribers when they are over Africa, and with the cost being in the construction and launch the marginal cost of allowing a link in Africa is small

Re: This may be a really obvious question.

>"through-planet neutrino communication"

>Is that really a thing?

Transmitter = yes

Receiver = no

So 50% of target achieved

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

>I think you will find that someone resident in the UK and wanted on rape charges by the Spanish would be treated exactly the same.

When a Chilean dictator was resident in Britain and wanted by Spain for murder and war crimes we declined on the basis that he was a friend of the USA

I'm doing this to stop humans ripping off brilliant ideas by computers and aliens, says guy unsuccessfully filing patents 'invented' by his AI

Re: Plus ca change

That hits another patent rule. Typically it's perjury if you list yourself as an the inventor and aren't.

That's why you don't see the ceo of a big Corp listed on all their patents in the same way as some instutes put the head of dept on all papers.

UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API, insists on British control of data, promises to protect privacy

Re: Fingerprints

No you could request your records be deleted and the Police must comply unless they have a reason not to - such as they don't feel like it.

IIRC they were allowed to keep your records if you were a "person of interest", requesting that your records be deleted was cause for suspicion and made you a "person of interest"

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List of personnel cleared for access to NHS location data:

You and me, Darling, obviously. Field Marshal Haig, Field Marshal Haig's wife, all Field Marshal Haig's wife's friends, their families, their families' servants, their families' servants' tennis partners, and some chap I bumped into the mess the other day called Bernard."

Re: Here in Belgium...

>"UK plod don't do road-blocks"

Only for extreme threats - like striking miners

Re: Fear not people...

They put Chris Grayling in charge and the app actually gives you the virus.

Re: "Details" are irrelevant

>It's partly that I trust Google and Apple keeping an eye on each other

It's mostly that the Eu will crucify Apple and Google if they cheat and use this to steal people's data.

As in all their assets in Europe confiscated, all their Eu executives being led out in handcuffs

If the UK government choose to cheat and use it to track people - they will pass a law exempting themselves and it will be a small story in Private-eye

>then we could end up with as many at home on 14 day exclusion waiting for symptoms as currently off with the current lockdown measures?

But many of them will be on zero hour contracts so it doesn't cost the economy anything for them to lock themselves up

Re: Paranoid Android

> is going to result in HMG being taken to court for breach of privacy.

By whom ?

Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard

Re: No login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and search the live system

I think a new "punishment fits the crime"

Everytime a public body fscks up like this the chief whatsit gets all their data made public for the next year.

All their web site traffic, everywhere they drive, their kids school reports, all their phone calls, all the photos on their phone - then they can just say "there is no evidence anyone was harmed" / "lessons have been learned"

Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground

True but a lot of features debut on ludicrous hyper-cars and are then standard on a hatchback a decade later

Re: Standard engines + fuel vs fuel + gas turbine + electric?

Sorry was reading an earlier post where they said we could use the little electric engine on the ground to be quiet and only switch to the massive powerful jet in cruise

Re: Electric planes?

Aircraft are designed to be moved by tugs very slowly and carefully

If you wanted to tow a fully loaded and fuelled 747 at 30mph you would need a much stronger towing point - especially if you wanted the ability to stop quickly. F=ma is a bugger.

You would probably also need an interface to allow the tug to control the brakes on the main gear

So the airline would have to pay for heavier nose gear and carry the weight on every flight for the benefit of the airport. So unless a major continent made this mandatory at all airports you have a catch-22.

The APT project's problems were beyond anything to do with the turbine.

I wonder how practical a mass-produced turbine hybrid car engine would be?

A small 50-100Hp turbine with an integrated brushless type generator, so you don't have to make a 20,000rpm gearbox. It could run at a constant speed/load just charging the battery

Safety containment shouldn't be any harder than a turbo. Modern control is trivial (lab turbo molecular pumps run at 100K rpm safely) . They can burn pretty much any fuel and should be hot enough to have very little particle exhaust.

Re: Electric planes?

Virgin tested this at Heathrow as a green program.

It wasn't capable of towing at anything like taxi speed (max 30knts for the 737, 25knts for a 747).

IIRC it was abandoned because it was limited to little more than walking pace, a combination of a safety requirement (eg. stopping distance) and nose gear strength.

It would make a lot of sense from noise, cost, pollution, safety etc - but I suspect it's one of those things where the aircraft makers, airlines, airports, aviation authorities all have to align to enable the changes.

Re: Electric planes?

If you have passengers that can breathe engine exhaust

Re: Standard engines + fuel vs fuel + gas turbine + electric?

Unfortunately you need the other way around. Big noisy jet engines on maximum power (and afterburner ;-) on take off and minimum engines at cruise altitude.

Re: Electric planes?

>"It's a genuine question, I'm not an aero engineer but I struggle to see the benefits of electrical propulsion beyond the "look how clever my engine is" bragging rights."

For super small private planes it might be worthwhile. ie a Piper Telsa. Mainly if you can reduce the service costs over a regular engine.

I strongly suspect this project is a combination of Greenwashing and a way for RR to score some Eco grants/tax-credits to do R&D for their small turbine on-site generator business.

If you can have 2.5MW on a pallet, compared to their current container size powerplant then a lot of on-site diesels could be replaced.

Re: Electric planes?

It's economic when oil prices are high but abandoned as soon as oil prices drop.

Main problem is that you can't tow at very high speeds (tugs would be massive and you would have to strengthen front landing gear) so it really slows down your airport operations.

Unless you can guarantee such tugs are available at all airports that the aircraft type would ever serve you still need the engines to be able to run in taxi state so don't gain as much

Re: Electric planes?

Would you still fly 100 people to Atlanta so they can sit in the same room and all watch the same CEO give a Powerpoint about leveraging dynamic synergies?

US threatens to turf out four Chinese telcos amid concerns over national security... and COVID-19, doctors, schools, jobs, communists, etc

Re: We contacted each company

Not allowed to reach out to at the moment

Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Re: Cheers...

Call it "agresive sleep mode" in the documentation