Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Re: Do it the authoritarian way!

Or just use the shuttle crawler transport.

When you weigh 2700t you don't need no roads

Re: A vehicle which has carried a crew....

There's the rusting Buran. I'm sure his best friend would give him it for free (*)

Or at least in return for having an airforce base in the USA

Re: It must have been transported...

Sir I dispute your well researched facts and replace them with an easily chanted "verb the noun" slogan, as is my right as an idiot politician

Re: The answer is LEGO!

The Lego Shuttle kit says suitable for ages 12 and older. Where is Houston going to get the sort of skill level?

Get a crawler, drive it from Florida to Washington, attach Shuttle, drive it from Washington to Houston.

Re: Gemini says on the back of a 747

So a series of multiple sets of 7 cranes could be used to move it from static mount to another along the few 1000mi from Washington to Houston

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

Re: Fallback

But all those can be done manually locally at the plane/airport level. But shutting down the airline for 3days in a cascading failure because your loyalty card system was down and it's so tied into everything else.

Re: Fallback

And this wasn't another failure of ATC or weather or NOTAMs or any of the safety critical stuff. It was just the airline not knowing where this plane was going next - that shouldn't be beyond the wit of man, or a well trained monkey and a blackboard

Fallback

Given the number of these fsckups and the cost of having all the planes out of position, wouldn't it be worth having the day's movements and crew rostas printed out at the start of each day?

At least it would give them a day to fix the computer

But Alaska is just off the coast of Seattle, in a little box of its own

With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator

Re: How is the report to be generated?

It will run on AWS, so if the tool isn't spewing AI generated data then AWS is down = foolproof

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease

Re: If Apple want to try something really radical

>That goes for Samsung too.

You complained when they exploded, now you complain when they don't explode.

You can't please some people !

AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

Data wasn't hosted on east-1 but a bunch of services that other services relied on were

Re: What a great idea

Like the trend of having a computer on every desk that users are supposed to manage themselves rather than using a professional Data Service Bureau

Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%

A Breakthrough

Using AWS gets you 1000% more PR releases for your startup when Amazon have a bad day and their PR agency needs to flood the mediaszone with good news stories

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

> it is perhaps now more likely that China could be the first nation to go back to the Moon.

Would they bother ?

Unless they can do something really impressive like a permanent manned base, which is expensive to resupply, all they would be doing is spending billions to say to the world "China, only 60 years behind America!"

>Blue Origin has also delivered a mock up of their proposed moon lander

And what use is a mockup lander model on a sound stage?

You can do it in CGI these days

Re: Go Fever

Agreed, but it does show that the Apollo protect, and specifically the political deadline, cost a metric shit tonne

Re: Pray tell!

That's a relief, I thought the current administration's favourite was a bit more Cyrillic

Re: Go Fever

While the program to develop the rocket was started by Von Braun under, let's not go there

Re: Go Fever

Apollo cost 2.5% of US GDP in the 60s, as a comparison the US military all together is about 3.25% of GDP today

That's a lot of tariffs to collect

Re: a required part of all human rated rockets for NASA

>Didn't have one for Shuttle

But the Shuttle was only going to be crewed by flinty-eyed square-jawed test pilots. It's not like they were going to let just anybody fly on such a risky project.

Starship might have to take celebrity influences to the moon

When you skip double orbitals-mechanics on a Wednesday afternoon

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Too much in us-east-1

We only use West-Airstrip-1

Re: Too much in us-east-1

"I think "technical teams" is doing some heavy lifting there!"

Who else is going to turn it off and on again ?

Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow

Re: What about drive caddies?

We're making it Ü so it's 30% more metal

Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia

Blame Big Bicycle

It's all a Dutch plot to get rid of cars and make us ride ridiculous old-lady bicycles

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors

Unless you are the sort of cynic who thinks that Amazon, after making an "investment" roughly equal to their tea-money budget, are going to say. "We are fully committed to Patriotic American Nukular / Green Carbon-free Power (delete with current Whitehouse)" but while we are waiting we need to just install a few GW of "temporary" gas turbines on this site we already have power plant permitting for.

Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules

>The pope is worried about his job going to AI, isn't he?

So far all AI does is hallucinate meaningless unintelligible drivel

AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move

Re: Teach the objects to sing...

And make toast

US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025

Re: Green Power

That's why we need to burn as much oil as possible, as quickly as possible - before we're flooded with the new stuff being created.

F150 drivers 'rolling coal' are the saviours of the world

Re: Green Power

Americans feel a natural affinity for primitive single celled organisms and v.v.

Green Power

Fortunately all the US's new power production will come from organic, vegan captured carbon

Specifically carbon grown in the carboniferous and captured under a lot of rock until it was liberated in Pennsylvania

Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros

Isn't it IPads.Pro? Like Courts Martial

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building

Re: Shortsighted

Their DNA is probably closer to crabs than people

Re: "To put this in context, up to this point, he had donated quite a bit to the Democrats"

Presumably he was in New York politics for business reasons. There's no point in being a Republican if you want to get political power in NY

Then it occurred to him that there was a more profitable job than just being on the NY zoning board

Re: Brain drain

But the Germans lost the technology race to square-jawed American Germans

Who is America going to lose to - a bunch of Asiatics ?

We've done the skull measurements and they are obviously incapable of doing anything except copying Americans and making cheap t-shirts

Re: Shortsighted

Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it's scientific fact

Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

Extra points for using it as a debugger

Re: when the answer comes right out of nowhere

Phone listening to conversations, getting Raymond Chen to write a blog post about it and then having el'reg report on it is either extreme paranoia or you have root in the matrix

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Re: "introduced in 2013, and things have since moved on"

Valve amps? My DAC uses relays...

Re: "introduced in 2013, and things have since moved on"

My NAD3020i I bought with my first student job is still going strong, the classic NAD 3020 original I bought in a junk shop probably still works.

Of course I can only play 70s prog-rock on them until I install the 80s compatibly pack

Re: You'd be amazed...

>I own CDs and rip them

Aren't you supporting terrorism and funding drug smugglers?

Is the DMCA just a bunch of letters?

There's your problem. You buy a perfectly good aphorism and then the empire collapses and the legions depart, leaving your Latin totally useless

Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

Re: Benioff is wrong.

Isn't Benioff French? So none of this constitution rubbish applies to the filthy foreign immigrant anyway.

Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag

Don't count Intel out

Their processors will be used in the accounting dept desktops used to purchase these.

Re: Bitter laugh from down under

So chips from Taiwan are smuggled into China, presumably at drug-dealer type markups, then smuggled from China into Australia cheaper than official Oz pricing

Isn't global capitalism wonderful ?

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Re: When you have government subsidy - coal is cheap

The also own and operate one of the country's biggest coal fired powerplants -- which this coal is going to fuel.

Just because they are first nations doesn't mean they are hippies

UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details

Re: Oh the irony ..

Ooh - La La

Re: Oh the irony ..

>Sexual orientation: Teletubby

Which one ?

And do you get your own flag ?