Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation

Re: Risk assessment

But there as a very small amount of radiation - so anybody susceptible to homeopathy might have received a critical dose

Re: Another mountain, another huge hole in the ground

Obviously you fill it in with rock you quarry from a new mine next to it.

.... and repeat ....

How do you solve a problem like Galileo? With a strap-on L-band payload, of course!

Re: Harumph. Away with all this satellite malarkey....

Unfortunately Johnny foreigner tends to object to you installing transmitters around his capital city immediately before you bomb it.

So it becomes necessary to make the vans rather more robust (with armour and tracks and big guns).

Once you have gained sufficient on-the-ground control to install the e-loran system at your target it seems rather churlish to then drop precision guided munitions on it.

Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin

Re: They're great!

>more of a conversation piece than a practical timekeeper.

Why? You just need to move your desktop out into the garden if you need to know the time

Re: four unambiguous numbers

That is one advantage of sundials - they do detect nighttime unambiguously (solar eclipses excepted)

Australian prime minister blames 'state level' baddies for Oz parliament breach

But who would benefit from the overthrow of Australian democracy (other than the Australian people) ?

The Kiwi's that's who .....

The chinese are just pawns of Aukland

Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey

Re: I did that once too...

>Hydrochloride acid won’t dissolve the bone,...... Standard school procedures in 1950ish labs.

Bloody hell - I thought I went to a rough school, but we never did acid bath body disposal

You had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends.

Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app

Re: I would like to show you my bank site redesign...

Yep, missed a credit card bill because they changed the big "NOW" button from sending the payment, you know, now - to simply selecting "now" as the date when you swipe the hidden portal three times widershins to actually make the payment

Re: I would like to show you my bank site redesign...

You forgot the page each employee gets for their own internal company blog where they are encouraged to "share" about their work

So your git status window is mixed in with update announcements from some HR idiot in des-Moines blogging about their cat.

Amazon throws toys out of pram, ditches plans for New York HQ2 after big trouble in Big Apple

Re: This happens all the time

>Because IBM was a lifetime employer

Things are different now.

If I move to work in Flint Mi, I am stuck with you, I have to be very sure of the future to put down roots in a one job town. If I'm in SF or NY, or Austin/Portland/Seattle I can job switch every 18 months for a 25% raise or if I don't like the coffee.

IBM also did this in the days when only the husband worked. I take the job in Idaho what does my wife do? Whereas in NY/SF/etc we can both get a job.

Re: Ditched

>both in property costs and salary costs,

Same reason that NY didn't need to make a deal.

Come to Queens and have a local market of a million programmers or open your new AWS development office in des Moines, and see how much more than $45K/job it costs you to recruit and lure programmers away from the coasts.

Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline

But does amanfromMars ?

Pandas so useless they just look at delicious kid who fell into enclosure

Re: Their choice

No it's all body image shaming.

Those fascists at the WWF plaster the image of a chubby panda around and all the other pandas are body shamed into eating fsckign bamboo until they can look good in a bikini again.

Re: Bamboo and pandas

6, And WSL should really be called Gnu/Windows

Re: In other news

>than by lions and leopard combined

Is that because of poor organisation between teams of lions and leopards preventing them working together ?

A once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity: NASA bids emotional farewell to its cocky, hardworking RC science car on Mars

You need somewhere for the sand to go otherwise it just falls back down, SLRs have double sided sticky tape next to the sensor. You can't really do that in the open.

Although now we know more about the amount of dust and the nature of the wind it might be worth considering the aerodynamics to generate dust shedding vortexes on the panels. Although this might mean SPOILERS

As an even older non-Nasa IR astronomer. The original SIRTF was Shuttle Infrared Telescope facility and was the idea that the telescope would be mounted in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle and be used there, by a visiting astronomer for the few days of a mission and then returned. Since Space Shuttles would fly as often and as cheaply as a South Western flight this would make sense.

An original proposal I saw for the Hubble Space Telescope had it manned by 2 astronauts who would operate the telescope, develop photograph plates, etc.

ps. The only thing less surprising than NASA's "issues" with getting anything built is the identical farce ESA had in their own part in Hubble

Re: Opportunity---NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

> brush off Opportunity's solar panels and orient it towards the sun?

Downloading update 1 of 32768.....

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

Re: Goodbye Youtube?

Following Brexit all the signposts will be removed to confuse foreign visitors

If you want a vision of the future, imagine not a boot stamping on a face, but keystroke logging on govt contractors' PCs

Re: Back in the real real world

>Are they going to fit EEGs next?

No because then they wouldn't be able to monitor time in brain dead meetings

Following their latest little tantrum when they stopped paying contractors I'm surprised they can get any to work for them, at least without a 25% hike in rates

Never mind that naked selfie scandal... Brazil lights the, er, kindling, dot-Amazon saga roars back into life

Re: An Indonesian island next?

Sun, or their lawyers, did send a cease and decist to the island about using java.

Scott managed to spin it into a famous joke about hunting down the owners of the big bright light in the sky

An Indonesian island next?

Pity Sun aren't still around, sending the ICANN board there for a meeting appeals

Not heard owt bad about Huawei, says EU Commish infosec bod

Re: THIS

>chances of a conflict between the US and any EU members during the lifetime of Cisco equipment is pretty small.

Shooty war no, trade war - less small

Might it be in the interest of a patriotic American intelligence agency that Boeing got all of Airbus's sales leads in advance, or had access to the cell phones of the negotiators in the next round of agricultural quotas.

Or it might be worth a Stuxnet type attack to shut down a gas pipeline from Russia to make sure Europe relies on the Saudis more than the Putins

Hold horror stories: Chief, we've got a f*cking idiot on line 1. Oh, you heard all that

Re: I live in fear of the day…

First law of politics - all microphones are live microphones

Hungover this morning? Thought 'beer before wine and you'll be fine'? Boffins prove old adage just isn't true

Re: Indeed

>He might just have learned to avoid bagpipes after drinking.

Or before drinking.

In general, avoidance of bagpipes might be a logical reason to take up drinking.

Big trouble Down Under as Australian MPs told to reset their passwords amid hack attack fears

Re: How is that even possible?

But the backdoors haven't been implemented yet and so haven't been secured

Once you have a secure backdoor, as well as a secure front door, you are twice as secure - obvious really

US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again)

Re: To our members

A few years ago the AA (Note to Americans and other Aliens = Automobile Association, not Alcoholics Anonymous) ran a series of ads describing themselves as such.

A certain amount of justified splutterage arose from those organisations

To our members

Facebook is the 4th emergency service !

Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains

"problematic "?

That's a lot of syllables. You some sort of intellektual trouble causer ?

Sounds like double plus ungood speech to me

Fujitsu pitched stalker-y AI that can read your social media posts as solution to Irish border, apparently

Back in the days of the euphamisms it was common for farms to have large barns stradling the border.

Tankers and large trucks would go in both sides and come out of the same sides - I'm sure nothing crossed the border without the necessary paperwork

Who are the last people you'd expect to spill thousands of student records? A computer science dept? What a fantastic guess

Confidential?

In my day your degree marks were nailed up in the town square for anyone to read (and in those days many graduates could read!)

I won't bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I'd get is a lousy t-shirt

Re: The shirts can be trouble.

Some street theatre group did that with BestBuy in New York

They dresses people up in blue polo shirts (without logos) and khakis and had them walk into the store a few at a time until the store had 100 apparent employees.

It got even weirder when the police were called and tried to work out who/what/why to arrest

Re: Really? A shirt?

>Still have my Windows 2000 System Builders t-shirt around somewhere..... Covered in paint and oil....

I think you might ave been building it wrong.

Or I'm parsing it wrong and MS delivered a version of their best OS for the construction industry - did it come with a bum crack ?

London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial

Re: Fined for covering your face?

I would be more worried abut people making movies taking the piss out of Thor and Loki

While Thor could be said to be a little over enthusiastic at times, Loki can be a right bastard

Re: A police spokesman said

>you can buy pixelated masks all over t’internet.

Or QR codes that redirect to goats.cx

Fined for covering your face?

Isn't that going to cause difficulties for lady followers of Judaism# and motorcyclists ?

Of course the police will be culturally sensitive on this matter - I'm sure they aren't going to go all Jeremy Clarkson on bikers.

(Christianity is presumably Judaism++ so the next release should be J#)

Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs

Re: Comparison

Perhaps the copies could be distributed to schools?

Make the text a set book, and write your (un)critical essays about it on the blank side

Re: It was outsourced

>...and Deutsche Post

Her Maj's stationary cupboard is infiltrated by the Boche ?

Retired colonel splutters cornflakes all over his copy of the Telegraph

Amateurs

Over here in the offshore-colonies there is a law that amendments to some act need to be printed with the original text strike-through

An entire squillion page law got overturned in some complicated way which meant they had to reprint it with every single character in strike through.

And then distribute copies to all the official libraries

Thanks for all those data-flow warnings, UK.gov. Now let's talk about your own Brexit prep. Yep, just as we thought

Re: There is a solution!

Anyone old enough to remember Steve Bell's "armoured punts" in the Falklands War ?

Re: physically move servers and storage on the backs of lorries...

If the data is only UK citizens no problem, the Eu allows you to process foreigner's data there.

But if the system also includes confidential medical data on Eu nationals then they aren't going to allow it to be sent to some 3rd world country with no adequate data protection laws - like the UK and USA.

Fake fuse: Bloke admits selling counterfeit chips for use in B-1 bomber, other US military gear

Re: So is this somehow worse than selling a complete weaponry system that doesn't work?

In what way does the F35 not work ?

For the congressman - it transfers money from peasants to hard working voters in my congressional district.

For the treasury it transfers money from any ally dumb enough to buy it to the treasury

It provides a steady commission for arms salesmen and supports many others in the hookers and blow industries.

It makes red necks at hand-egg games scream Amerciaaaaaaa when they fly over and so forget they are watching a crap sport

It makes ex-fighter pilots in congress go all "teen girl at Justin Beiber concert" wen they see it and so approve funding even if it isn't built in their district

For no-good peacenik commie do-gooders, they can be assured it is extremely unlikely that this expensive delicate gadget would be used anywhere that would put it in danger. And even if it was is unlikely to be able to take off and do any damage.

Grumble Pai: FCC boss told by House Dems to try the novel concept of putting US folks first, big biz second

Re: Sounds like ...

Probably not - he is a toxic asset, why risk it once he has outlived his usefullness ?

Any telco trying to operate in California with Pai on their board is in for a world of hurt

Re: Big biz first, surely...

Obviously if the people cared so much about the FCC they would have bought their own chairman

It also applies to "nice" agencies and "naughty" congress

How would the EPA have done under a Trump congress if it is ruled by tweet?

Oh dear! Amazon's facial recognition is racist and sexist – and there's a JLaw deep fake that will make you want to tear out your eyes

>If you show me an EM field that discriminates between black and white electrons,

We do live in a world incredibly hostile to "differently charged" electrons

Positive electrons need our support, at the moment they can only live isolated from the main stream.

Remember anti-matter particles matter !

You got a smart speaker but you're worried about privacy. First off, why'd you buy one? Secondly, check out Project Alias

Re: @batfink - you could simply not put the creepy things in your home

>I only see young attracting females

Like Nanny Ogg with a bag of sweeties ?

Re: Why not just

>mine's the Tesco meal-for-one and a QI rerun on Dave)

Luxury.....

Some people don't live that sort of Dabbs-Bond lifestyle