Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

Re: A luddite writes... @scatter

>"That's a whole day saved on the round trip - definitely not insignificant to me."

Unless the added security takes longer than the flight

Re: A luddite writes...

>Who will use a supersonic airliner?

Nobody, this isn't about making an airliner

Nasa has to beg for money each year. This year it has to beg for money from republicans who think Nasa is full of godless commies who do science and global warming.

this shows Nasa is really about making America Great Again and therefore deserves funding

Northern Ireland bags £150m for broadband pipes in £1bn Tory bribe

Re: Racial slurp

>The "Irish people only eat potatos" slur only applies to Southern Irish catholics"

Is gravy-chip still the height of N Ireland cuisine ?

Re: Remember it's not a "Coalition" it's a "No-alition."

>And only £100m per seat in support.

Suddenly those expenses don't look too bad do they?

Couldn't they have just bought each DUP MP a duck island ?

Re: Be very afraid

>And thats before you look at the DUP's role in the recent and very expensive dodgy renewables scandal.

That's the good part - it shows that they are modern politicians that we can do business with

>for 1.8m people it's only £250/head per year.

Although I suspect it might be targeted at roughly half off the heads.

I'm guessing that not a lot of this infrastructure spend is going to the Falls Rd

Australian govt promises to push Five Eyes nations to break encryption

Re: Fight terrrism

Percentage where encryption was used in terrorist attacks in London / Paris / Germany = 0%

Percentage of attacks where a van was used = 100%

Fight terrrism

Force manufacturers to fit backdoors to transit vans

Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'

Re: Bah!

>These stickers contain no quantums of any kind.

Did you open the box?

Warning: wave function will collapse on observing contents

Re: joke?

She "starred" in Sliding Doors so obviously has a sense of irony.

Re: Why I'm a consultant.

>I've been told I have no morals - too right, I sold them years ago.

Then you aren't really a consultant.

A real consultant keeps their morals in a box and charges people to tel them about them

Re: Remind me...

Whereas in Britain (*) they could sue you for libel for daring to question the effectiveness, and would win unless you could prove that they were deliberately trying to trick people and weren't just idiots.

* until recently when Simon Singh spent a million quid trying to defend himself. But it's still the law in N Ireland.

FCC: LEO ISPs A-OK

Re: My guess is that they'll follow the Iridium model...

Costs have gone down a lot.

Getting to LEO is a lot cheaper than in the days of Iridium.

The cost of the satellites is going to be 0.1xbugger-all once you are mass producing 1000 of them

Since they are going into low earth orbit with a life of a few years you don't use space qualified milspec components and spend years in a clean room testing them - you use commercial grade parts with a standard design and if a few payloads fail - who cares you have a mesh of 1000 of them

Darkness to fall over North America from a total solar eclipse

Re: Darkness fell over America in November

It's a lot better having to cope with a few lone nutters than an efficient and organised group funded and armed by the Americans - thank you.

Ps how is today's school shooting? Have you ever thought of kicking all the white people out ?

Genoans flout terror ban with bumper basil hand baggage policy

Re: I'm confident I will regret this

A piquant delicacy certain to delight even the most jaded of palets

A perfect accompaniment to deep fried confectionery to be found at all the best weegie dinner tables

Breaking news, literally: Newspaper's quakebot rumbled for fake story

Re: Real time monitoring...

Presumably in a narrow range between "large enough to care about" and "destroyed the infrastructure to send the email"

York city council setup an expensive flood detection and warning system when the alternative was a web server in any riverside pub = "If you can't reach this page the river is flooded"

Canadian sniper makes kill shot at distance of 3.5 KILOMETRES

Re: More detail please - or maybe less

You hit one !

It wasn't the one I was aiming for

Nevermind

Tesla death smash probe: Neither driver nor autopilot saw the truck

Re: They still call it Autopilot?

>I'm also amazed to learn from this that the car didn't know it had crashed,

We need lawmakers to demand all cars have a "roof torn off by driving under truck" sensor

Re: Darwinian selection.

But he only died because he was sitting up in the front seat.

If he had been lying down asleep in the back he would have gone under the trailer safely.

'No decision' on Raytheon GPS landing system aboard Brit aircraft carriers

Available for weddings, Bar mizvahs ...

Note the useful addition of some nice marquees allowing the boat to be used for public functions and generate revenue while in dock.

Guess who's just locked up £1.5bn Australian prison mega-contract? Our very own Serco

Australia Mega Prison

Well it worked before

The Internet of Flying Thing: Reg man returns with explicit shots

Re: cover most of the Earth - except...unluckily for them, Iceland

The busy no electronic devices allowed Europe to N America route ?

Re: Interesting that South America is covered far better than North America

I think they are working on a plan to move N America to be over the equator,

IIRC It involves electing a president who can make the founding fathers spin in their graves fast enough to provide a torque to flip the axis

Intel: Joule's burned, Edison switched off, and Galileo – Galileo is no more

Re: rPi was never the competitor

I would outsource the manufactue of the low value chips to someone else.

There is no need to do everything inhouse.

In fact you don't need a foundary at all, do you ARM / AMD ?

Fancy buying our aircraft carrier satnav, Raytheon asks UK

Re: almost useless

Any navy with a chance of sinking your carrier is too big to have a war against.

Re: Does this mean

>But if they pay for this self-landing technology, you start to wonder why they bother with the meatsack at the sharp end of the aircraft.

Computers just can't understand the banter

Re: Himself? Herself?

>well I guess the F35s ought to be male to reflect their micro-aggression capabilities

And their complete inability to multi-task ?

Re: But.... Does it actually work?

>Well, seeing as the UK has bought them primarily for use on our carriers, I hope you're wrong about that.

These were the carriers without catapults with aircraft that couldn't take off vertically without melting the deck, with an arrester hook that didn't work and couldn't land verticaly with any fuel or weapons load ?

Even assuming you got enough of the software to work that the planes could fly at all

Re: But.... Does it actually work?

>Remember that "jitter" is injected into Civilian GPS

Not for the last 17 years it isn't. The current set of satelites don't even have the capability

Re: But.... Does it actually work?

>I witnessed the first trials of Harriers landing on Ark Royal

That's the beauty of the F35, by not having any carrier take off and landing capability a lot of stress on the airframe and pilots is reduced.

Our aircraft carriers will be perfectly able to carry aircraft around safely. A simple system of drawing chalk outlines around them when they are parked will allow them to be located to within inches

Report estimates cost of disruption to GPS in UK would be £1bn per day

Re: undead eLORAN

Unless they have a "you are here" notice on them

Re: I haven't seen the gov report, but

I believe the door system is called Human Augmented Non Directional Leveraged Exit (HANDLE)

Re: Why not..

Since GPS is pretty much line of sight and you need to be in site of 4 towers (3 if you don't need height) then you would need quite a lot of towers.

As an alternative, why not a national grid of towers with their OSGB grid coordinates painted in large friendly letters? Then you would know where you were exactly

Re: That said ..

Judging from the time it takes some people to decide at a junction - I think most beige Honda Accords are using sun sightings as a means of navigation.

Re: And why not?

A National Positioning System using British satelites that orbit the M25?

Like the man that goes into the map shop and asks for a globe.

No not one of those Earth ones - I just want a globe of London

Israel gets spooky with national quantum lab

Re: Put in front of hackers to see what they think

The quantum bit is completely unbreakable.

The terminals at both ends, the routing, the authentication, the machine you are displaying the message on however ...

Like HTTPS on ebay, it confirms that your credit card details are perfectly encrypted on their way to the scammer on the other end of the transaction

Oh, wow, Canada: No more carrier-locked phones for Canucks

Re: Land of the Free

I am a staunch Telus-denier, I believe that Telus is a hoax.

There is no reliable evidence that Telus ever provided a mobile phone signal

Re: Land of the Free

Canada still has among the highest cell prices in the world.

This is completely unrelated to the 2 providers having a near monopoly and any competition being effectively banned. Telcos are required to be Canadian owned, and any upstart is investigated for any trace of foreign investment and forced to sell out to one of the governments 2 golfing buddies

Look who's joined the anti-encryption posse: Germany, come on down

Re: Offline encryption ?

But as an effective means of communication that is up there with using a one time pad and leaving messages under stones in the park for George Smiley.

If you have a regular commercial phone or computer that is ever connected to the internet or GSM it could be logging any key you enter and sending it to the MMB

BAE accused of flogging mass-spying toolkits to assh*le autocrats

Re: Clearly BAe using what they learned being prime contractor on the UK ID Cards project

>So the German car industry may sell a lot of cars in the UK but the rest of the EU is 6 2/3:1x bigger.

The biggest exporters of cars from N America are BMW and MB, so the Germans just export cars made in the USA to UK while happily locking the UK out of the Eu.

Or do you think May is planning a simultaneous trade war with the USA ?

Crouching cyber, Hidden Cobra: Crack North Korean hack team ready to strike, says US-CERT

Re: and here I was ....

We need to hoard more vulnerabilities to keep them out of the hands of N Korea

There are no Russian hackers, the Russians didn't try and hack the election and anybody saying they did is fired.

The Russians are our friends, although we have never met them.

Don't touch that mail! London uni fears '0-day' used to cram network with ransomware

Re: Academic malware strain

No it's these people creating their own content. You should only use computers to view paid for content - and keep paying for the same content over and over.

Creating your own content for free is commie-terrorism

Five Eyes nations stare menacingly at tech biz and its encryption

Re: Making a deal with the Devil

RIGHT - phones Whitehouse, "Mr President can you pass the phone to your bosses from Goldman Sachs sitting opposite you?"

Hi this is Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google, we represent 45% of the stock market, we are moving to Canada. Hope you enjoy being a 3rd world country - bye

DUP site crashes after UK general election

Re: "As for Abbott, she's just not as good as Bojo about deflecting when she's forgotten something."

Maggie claimed that she was at a Washington briefing on Star Wars when a scientist said they would need 10^18 Watts of laser power to bring down a missile and their biggest ground based laser was 10^9 Watts.

Some other politician announced, "fantastic we are half way there"...

Some idea of numeracy might be a good idea in politics rather than just cheap debating tricks.

Re: Any upside to this ?

On the other hand Jonny Adair vs Boris Johnson leadership debate would be more entertaining

Re: Can somebody please explain ...

A couple of small points:

I suspect the DUP *really* don't like being called Irish.

From next week they have access to all those nice anti-terrorist data capture laws to track down people online

We're not saying we're living in a simulation but someone's simulated the universe in a computer

Re: "The universe is made up of about 23 per cent dark matter and 72 per cent dark energy"

Contents may have settled after packing

Intel to Qualcomm and Microsoft: Nice x86 emulation you've got there, shame if it got sued into oblivion

Re: Tough Times at Santa Clara

Or Microsoft / Apple / Softbank just buy ASML.

Hey Intel nice chip design you have there, be a shame if you couldn't build a fab wouldn't it !

Record number of non-EU techies coming to Blighty

Re: T.May - Net Migration less than 100,000 p/a

Not just foreign workers, the cost of foreign operating systems should be pushed up above the cost of hiring British workers to write British operating systems.

And they should run on British computers built with British Silicon, from British beaches