Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Boeing aircraft sales slump to historic lows after 737 Max annus horribilis

Because it might not be possible.

Classifying it as a new type might mean every part has to meet 2020 rules and regulations.

It's really a problem with all the certifications, FCC and FDA aswell as FAA. The rules are so strict that the only way is to work around them. So the response to this is to make the rules more strict.

I have had it happen with old university buildings. We couldn't add a fire alarm because it would trigger a new fire plan, which would mean new fire exits, disabled access, improved insulation standards etc etc. Adding a small amount of safety to an old high fire building is impossible because of all the new safety rules.

Re: Reverse take-overs

There was a north american alternative to the 737, but with better fuel efficiency

So Boeing had a chat with Washington and it earned a 300% tarrif

Re: Accountability

>the US government doesn't need the name Boeing to survive though

The purpose of Boeing isn't to support the USAF

The purpose of the USAF is to support Boeing shareholders

Re: "This is what happens when you scrimp on software dev, testing and docs"

Orders are almost always per plane - manufacturers don't announce they have 1 order and then in the small print point out that it was for 500 airframes

Re: Flying

>'I guess really the only think that sets us apart from chimps?'

From local observation the only difference is that chimps drink tea (specifically PG Tips) and our primates drink coffee

Re: It's not just the 737...

>The average military bod has a tad higher "acceptable risk" limit than the average holidaymaker.

I was hoping that nuclear weapons are built with slightly higher safety standards than a deckchair

Re: Military have higher standards....

The M16 was switched to the 'wrong' propellant because somebody insisted it had a better TopTrumps score than the opposition.

However they allowed manufacturer acceptance testing with the lower energy "proper" propellant because the one actually used used in the field (jungle) caused too many jams.

Eventually they agreed to upgrade the metalurgy for the "wrong" propellant

Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned

Re: Could a brexiter please explain...

It's a brilliant move by Dominic Cummings to bring "outside the box" thinking to running the country.

Introduce a national "chaos monkey" to test how resilient systems are.

Re: IT'll be fine!

>Deadwood, I'm looking at you...

It's all Lovejoy's fault ?

Re: Conservative and Unionist party

Northumbria independence is next.

Tek bak control, sithee

Problems at Oracle's DynDNS: Domain registration customers transferred at short notice, nameserver records changed

Re: Yet another reason Oracle sucks.

Remember that Oracle is a poor little underdog being ruthlessly extorted by evil corporate empires

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Re: Why some people keep on reinventing the ill-fated Palm Foleo?

I could use one rather than trying to carry a monitor+keyb+mouse + find enough power outlets for headless machines

Re: Bring back netbooks

Buy chromebook for $50-$100

Install GalliumOS

Cheap, plasticky, kid-proof, crappy screen

Or buy one of the many Atom-Z8350 chipped laptops. 1920x1080+4Mb for around $150, looks like a macbook air for 20% of the price

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

Unless you intend to scatter them over some pristine ecosystem to monitor it without having to build roads for people to go in and place /remove/ repair sensors

NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9

Specifically they can simulate the paperwork of having done the test

Tea tipplers are more likely to live longer, healthier lives than you triple venti pumpkin-syrup soy-milk latte-swilling fiends

So should be compared to beer drinkers

But with milk or lemon ?

Re: missing details

> trans-fatty hydrogenated vegetable shortening

I don't think that is an acceptable term anymore

They are flexible-gender body-positive special-educational persons of restricted height

Re: Yep.

Scientists here at the Institute of Studies, compared tea drinking monks in a Tibetan monastery with coffee drinkers in Syria and concluded that tea drinking protects you from nerve gas.

We are also investigating complaints that there have been no proper double-blind trials of the effectiveness of parachutes and intend to replace half the chutes in the Army Parachute display team with anvils.

UK data watchdog kicks £280m British Airways and Marriott GDPR fines into legal long grass

Re: What's the point?

The IRS (US tax office) got into trouble (well actually a few raised eyebrows) over that

They had a policy to target people making just under average wages on the basis that this minimised the capacity to fight any demand

It's your walkie-talkie Teams mate, over. 'You don't have to say Over, over'. Copy that. Stop making the static noise, over and out

Incredible

So we can now use smartphones to make direct voice "calls" indistinguishable from a rotary telephone - except for the initial 15minutes of "can you hear me?", "I can't hear you", "are you on mute?", "can everyone else mute, there is an echo" "I have to restart", "can you resend the invite", "I have updates", "you have to send me another invite I'm not in your group"

Alphabet's 'love rat' legal chief David Drummond ejects after 18 years at web goliath, no golden parachute attached

Re: Or Brooks, "It's good to be the king."

Is that any of the employer's business though?

I don't think St Jobbs is entirely squeaky clean when it comes to extra children - but that didn't call for Apple to fire him

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

>their *entire business* hinges on being beyond repute when it comes to safety

Their *entire business* hinges on being the only domestic aerospace supplier to a country with a $2Tn defense budget. At this point the USAF and "Space Force" are subsidiaries of Boeing corp

Flying taxis? That'll be AFTER you've launched light sabres and anti-gravity skateboards

Re: We have the technology

The silicon valley solution.

A set of pelaton bikes in the back of a bus where you can cycle in the warm and dry while keeping up with your stats on your mobile app - and get to your destination

Re: Uber Flaying Taxis

The same people would run up $100K in student debt followed by $50K learning to fly, then years of sub-minimum wage crop dusting or flight instructing - so that they can get their dream job of $25k/pa 1st officer with a regional airline

Re: Did I get this right?

No you misunderstood, because it would be too expensive to have TSA for every flying cab you have to feel your own bottom

Love T-shirts, but can't be bothered to wash them? We've seen just the thing!

Re: Post office smelly man

They are a rich part of our culture and should be paid for by English Heritage

BOFH: You brought nothing to the party but a six-pack of regret

Re: "Being employable in the motor industry as a speed bump"

That's nostalgia, the son of a boss being hired as an apprentice a a friends company - instead of being given the money to create his own blue-sky imagineering consultancy and games studio

The soap opera continues. HP again tells Xerox: Show us more money!

Re: $33bn 'significantly undervalue' the stock

The current value of HP is precisely known it is $30.7bn as of today

If we didn't have this communist interference with the free market, then Xerox would be able to simply logon to their Charles Schwab account and buy it.

Ministry of Justice bod jailed for stealing £1.7m with fake IT consulting contract

Re: Then again

A million quid lost is a fraud, a billion quid lost is a government IT project, a trillion quid is a too-big-too-fail bailout

5G signals won't make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster

Re: I'm immune to the effects of 5G

It's a quarter wave antenna

Re: All electromagnetic radiation harmful?

Or real radiation, other people are a big source of high energy radiation from all those bananas

effects on lab test animals and not on humans,

That's where they missed a trick.

If they had run an ad in Britain saying 5G harms animals - the whole of mobile phone technology would be banned overnight

Microsoft engineer caught up in sudden spate of entirely coincidental grilling of Iranian-Americans at US borders

Re: A nasty pattern of discrimination however!

You can't assume someone is a threat just because they work for Microsoft

Re: silly parents

I'll ask my boss what he thought as a child about not having any grandparents or why his dad had the cool number tattoo on his wrist

Re: When in America, say you're from ...

It's really going to confuse them when they work out where Aryan comes from

Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways

Re: What about the integrated standby instrument system

That was banned in the USA once they worked out the acronym

Re: Why is the company still alive?

>If it's a Boeing, I ain't going!

A view increasingly shared by the aircraft

Re: Why is the company still alive?

Ryanair are renaming them 737-8000 or something

Perhaps 737-sellafield?

Re: Why is the company still alive?

They can block any other other companies from the market <cough>Bombardier<cough>

Of course you can always drive to Washington to complain, or use their extensive network of advanced high speed trains

Reusing software 'interfaces' is fine, Google tells Supreme Court, pleads: Think of the devs

Re: Google and Copyright - Yet Another Anonymous Coward

Obviously they send me a pigeon to ask for permission to read the contact page to get my address....

Bell Labs should be in for a nice windfall for C

Re: Google and Copyright

No it's the Google that carried out the biggest copyright theft by storing copies of everyone's website.

If you want to view the content of my website you can write to me and ask permission - address is in the contact page

If at first you don't succeed, pry, pry again: Feds once again demand Apple unlock encrypted iPhones in yet another terrorism case

Apple should respond to the lawful request

And to the Saudl's request to unlock the phones of all the US officers on the base to see what their involvement was

I spy, with my little satellite AI, something beginning with 'North American image-analysis code embargo'

Re: Sounds like...

There is a campaign to demand encryption is classified as a munition going on now.

It would then guarantee peoples right to it

Ah the land of the free, where the only way to keep your selfies safe at a traffic shop is to pretend they are a gun

I'm the queen of Gibraltar and will never get a traffic ticket... just two of the things anyone could have written into country's laws thanks to unsanitised SQL input vuln

Re: 'Twas ever thus

civil servant lowest cost bidder (most closely related to senior politician)

GCHQ: A cyber-what-now? Rumours of our probe into London Stock Exchange 'cyberattack' have been greatly exaggerated

Why not ?

"The NCSC has not treated the LSE outage as a cyber security related incident and has not investigated it as such."

So without investigating they know that an event that knocked out the stock exchange for 90mins wasn't an attack?

That's some premium grade crystal balls you have there

EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott

Re: Few things jump out

I thought all the cool old people played games on their phones ?