Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Munich Airport chaos after drone sightings spook air traffic control

Re: A peaceful use for drones?

Or you could just see a star/planet and report it as a drone and shut down the airport

Re: Banning drones

But if there is a (possibly imagined) drone sighting you can simply look up the address of the nearest Drone License holder and send the cops round

Re: Banning drones

So the government's new "make crimes illegal" plan isn't going to work ?

Re: Here we go...

And a 1000 people who see the story on Facebook and phone the police to report it,even though they live 1000km away ?

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

Re: Unless I'm hallucinating...

Or even better, just run the TBM from one project to the next - that way you get a free nationwide subway system as a bonus

Re: Virginia, Texas ?

And remember to attach it black side down

Re: Unless I'm hallucinating...

To be fair it could land from orbit and trundle along the road - it's just that the landing speed is rather high and so it's likely to be a bit exciting for any other road users.

Overhead line disassembly is included when however many tons of shuttle arrive at 200km/h

Re: Unless I'm hallucinating...

But the "Smith" in question wasn't even an American.

Re: Virginia, Texas ?

So you're saying we would have to build a hyperloop then?

Re: All that money

Why doesn't Texas just annex Virginia?

Then there's no need to move the Shuttle

UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

Re: Meanwhile

The caps lock? It's a jailbird sir. Anyway it deserved it

Re: Meanwhile

When your only tool is a truncheon, every key looks like a suspect

EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

But if they had official backdoors they wouldn't have to pay for all this spyware - it's a great saving to taxpayers

Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory

You're all freeloading on the backs of Bell Labs, until you rewrite all that C in Rust

Aren't computers supposed to go down in price ?

Unlike graphing calculators or for the more nerdy

California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

>Did it have a passenger? If so he's the person in charge,

Boeing lawyer> Hear me out, what if we divide the blame for the 737-max crash equally among all the passengers, then the fine would only be a few $1000 each and we wouldn't be on the hook for any of it.

Re: To ticket RoboTaxis

It's a pity the shark died at the end of Jaws or you could have had a sequel

To ticket RoboTaxis

You obviously need RoboCops

Specifically ED-209 by the great American company, Omni Consumer Products

SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13

Re: Indigenous People's Day

Some came over on a boat far to small to safely hold them - but they had import documentation and a commercial invoice

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

Re: Not the first time I've seen a video like that

Simply give cars priority at level crossings. Why should a bunch of cars all have to wait for a single train?

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again

Re: Ridiculous

>Er, before you can get to Space, you have to traverse the Air Space which in the US of A is the domain of the FAA

Even in Texas / Florida?

Re: Will China re-certify Boeing self-certified aircraft?

The NTSB (USA's accident investigation agency) was created because the FAA were in charge of promoting air travel and investigating accidents - leading to some "conflicts of interest"

Suppose the FAA are now in charge of promoting American aerospace companies AND regulating safety

Re: Ridiculous

Stoopid, there is no air in space so it's nothing to do with the Federal Air Administration

Ridiculous

How does the government get to tell this proud, patriotic, grate American company what it can do ?

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

>farms storing methane from rotting crop waste and animal shit. But I don't see that happening at any real world usable scale

If only we could achieve sufficient levels of bullshit.

>Didn't know that gas was a renewable energy source.

Of course it is, you just have to bury organic material and wait.

Software CEO tells Catholic uni panel AI won't take out jobs, but it could take out brains

Re: Get thee behind me, Satan

I think they are just happy to keep the words "kids" and "Intimacy" out of the headlines

Re: Question.

From a Turing test point of view, does an AI joining a religion prove that it is human-equivalent or prove that it isn't intelligent ?

Re: the 15th International Gathering of the International Association of Exorcists.

It's certainly a conference I would want the T-shirt from

800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive

Re: Getting the copper out is the hard bit.

I wonder if the same book/scrap value ratio applies to Britain in total ?

Assuming Indonesia's version of MSHA isn't quite as robust you can bet more than this number of workers die in accidents every year, possibly just in this mine alone. We aren't concerned about ordinary day-day fatalities when we are sourcing the copper

A cunning plan worthy of Baldrick himself

It certainly could be a problem for a country heading back to old testament Bronze age values.

Perhaps they should skip it and go straight back to the neolithic.

Good job its in a mine, they tend to have quite a lot of dirt moving stuff

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

Re: Oh no it won't...

>The US system requires all of your fingerprints.

And their Alabama mode also works for people from Norfolk

Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble

But did Pan-Am own a government willing to bail them out in return for a small share?

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump

>What do they need to amplify?

Teenagers don't watch Fox, we need to ensure correct-thought among the youth cadre.

It's OK it has the Murdochs on the editorial board so it will be "fair and balanced"

Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators

Re: Seems fair enough

No but it is slightly hard work to keep track of "edgy" teenage girls who want to be called zha/zhe.

Especially when you work with, and greatly admire, what trans-women colleagues went through

Bizarrely the parents of today's teens were themselves being rescued from satanic Dungeons&Dragons books and the moral destroying lyrics of the Beastie Boys

Now listen to me Bond. We have to think of the children, no drinking, no swearing, no touching ladies

Can I still shoot people in the face, M?

Of course - it's a free country !

Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

If you want to cut the grass from scratch - you must first invent the universe

>I can't figure out to this day how one can compare costs apples to apples

There is a whole, if slightly dismal, science of deciding this sort of stuff. It is called "reflected sound of underground spirits"

Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel

Re: its an excel world

Plug for "Patrick Boyle on finance" podcast/YouTube. Has almost an el'reg commenter grasp of sarcasm.

He describes getting ahead in the city, cos it was the 90s and he alone could do "clever stuff" in Excel

Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

Unfortunately the device that believes things for you - was connected to the internet

Looking forward to the crusade

Between those who believe the AI pope merely repeats the training set of the real Pope and those that believe that all intelligences are merely repeating what they have been trained on and so it represents the body of the real Pope

British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown

Re: I expected more from an Excel Master

Actually he won by 29March2000 but then they remembered to put a ` in front of the entry so it doesn't get autoformatted

Re: QA probs

What do you mean ?

Everyone knows that "(copy of) business_model - jan 2025, final backup (use this one) copy.xls" is the definitive file.

ps. use the one on the desktop, not the same name in Documents