Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater

They said I was daft to build a lander in a swamp, but I built it anyway and it fell over

SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now

Re: If the IT response is "it's always DNS"

That's the sort of brilliant innovative thinking that will make the-reg and Britain Great

Zeppelin being smug

Days since a catastrophic airship disaster increases to 32082 days

Re: If the IT response is "it's always DNS"

Well if you will insist on making your rockets out of long thin tubes that aren't rigid enough

Britain will launch (*) the Dibner - a proper rocket made out of cast iron with buttresses

* - not up obviously, it's far too heavy. But if we ever need to launch a rocket down, we will be world leaders

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

That makes about as much sense as digging some shiny metal out of the ground and burying it in another hole in the ground

Didn't some famous economist, rather tongue in cheekly, suggest making money out of a radioactive element so people wouldn't hoard it and would be keen to pass it along as quickly as possible

His password has been changed to "MAGA2024!"

Cheap 'n' simple sign trickery will bamboozle self-driving cars, fresh research claims

Re: madness

Self-driving trucks are here.

Driving is mostly on freeways from out-of-town warehouse across country non-stop to another out of town warehouse.

It's handy being able to drive 3000mi with no breaks (at least without taking ambitious amounts of amphetamines)

Re: Spatial memorization and "appearing" signs

You would hope it would have the sense to know that there aren't typically stop signs in the middle of motorways.

However, here in the land of continual road maintenance, it will have to interpret the vague gestures of bored teenagers working as flaggers around construction sites.

Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens

Re: How Soon We Forget.....More Misdirection in ElReg!

But Edward Snowden was an evil criminal so that must have been good monitoring

Re: Oh say can you see

Just claim it was burned down by Antifa

Except you will be denied entry if you don't use Facebook / TPFKAT and your Truth-Social-Credit score of number of likes of the Great Leader's posts isn't upto standard

Like whitebox servers, rent-a-crew crime 'affiliates' have commoditized ransomware

No artisanal criminals

Thank you for calling The Don today, on the day of his daughters wedding

We are dealing with a high volume of calls today, the day of his daughter's wedding.

Your request for a favour is very important to The Don and will be dealt with soon

Ex-NSA grandee says Trump's staff cuts will 'devastate' America's national security

>Why does it matter so much to you if men wear dresses?

Well it wasn't great under J Edgar Hoover and McCarthy - but I don't think that means all drag acts are right wing psychopaths

Re: Best Interests of the US

I imagine many of the organisations wishing to hire the former spooks for 'commercial ventures' have rather robust HR policies in place

Re: Not an issue

>4. Russia is pretty much culturally aligned and happy to work with the West if we let them.

They might be evil child-kidnapping civilian-murdering oligarchs, but at least their eyelids don't look weird

Raspberry Pi launches CM4 variant that laughs in the face of frostbite

Re: Negative 40 of course

Almost, it's degree because it's 2 fixed points divided into equal parts, like degrees of an arc.

Its from a Latin word for step via old French

Re: Negative 40 of course

>Why the ° is required is still beyond me.

It supports artisnal makers of Unicode fonts who were devastated by Germany dropping the double-S thing and a shortage of umlauts because of covid.

Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off

Re: To reiterate

It is nice that robots have taken over the art and science stuff, leaving humans free to clean toilets and pick fruit

Re: Generative AI models have passed the Turing Test ...

>demand some sane levels of consistency from one question to the next

AI for president?

Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'

Re: Hmm

Or he doesn't want to fly on an FAA 'certified' aircraft in a civilised country

Re: Nothing is ever new

>So a runway angled 270 degrees would be runway 70

Close enough for government work..

Re: Get it Effin' Done

> You'd think *someone* would make new cards to support old equipment ...

A company with a delightfully retro website makes PDP-11 emulator cards for PCs just in case your city's traffic lights, water treatment plant of nuclear power plant runs on the same extremely obsolete hardware that was cutting edge when it was built

Re: It's not just the FAA

"Move fast and break things" Facebook's motto until 2014,

The FAA's motto from 2025

Re: Hmm

<sings> Boeings keep falling on my head ....

Re: Hmm

>My first post on here is dated 14th June 2007, but on my profile, it says : 'You have been a member since 2013-02-01"

I remember upvoting your original announcement of your time machine

Re: Hmm

>If starlink is the best way to get the FAA upgraded for a useful purpose then great. But only if that is the case.

Remember most FAA controlled airports are in very remote desolate areas with no road, rail or communications links and satellite is the only way of servicing them.

From personal experience there is no practical way of getting to JFK or LAX

Re: I have an easy solution...

GDP is most meaningless, but change in GDP are very useful - assuming the figures don't get too much of a massage

Re: "Eminense grease"???

Éminence grise - we only speak American here now !

Re: DEI

Universities shouldn't base their admittance purely on SAT scores it should also consider your extra-curricula activities such as your rowing prowess and if you're the son of an alumni

Re: Is that the same FAA ...

One day an insect wakes up and finds it has been transformed into the President of the United states

Re: Nothing is ever new

According to the AI the answer is AI

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: Debt? HA!

>Every cent from the DOGE massacre and tariffs will go to tax cuts for the rich.

Not all of it - some will got to direct payments and buying the billionaire's bitcoin

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Re: they're not like us

>Wonder if it is worse than 50/60's british cars or 70's italian ones ?

They are both incredibly safe, while sitting on the hard shoulder with one pop-up headlight raised and a man in an anorak staring mournfully at an open bonnet.

It's an acheivement

Nobody felt like this about Porsche, VW, Mitsubishi or Lada

It takes a special sort of CEO to make SS-Oberführer Porsche and Brezhnev look good

Re: Don't forget your incel card

They have their mummy to clean up after them

Re: Courts to the rescue

But suppose somebody bought a cybertruck because they are automobile fans and just wanted the ultimate in vehicle style and engineering?

Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

Do you think the association with Musk is going to make Nazis look bad ?

US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs

Re: The problem with tarrifs

Depends who you are. If you are a big agro business or a Chinese billionaire wanting to acquire some land then bankrupting small is great. Especially if your company sells farmland and your boss can hand out subsidies to the new owners.

If you are a gazillionaire hoping to pick up some stocks, or the Island of Hawaii, cheap - then a recession is a good buying opportunity

And China doesn't even need to impose tariffs. It just signals that they shouldn't be buying American soybeans and the importers will get the message and buy from Brazil - like last time.

Re: It won't just be the rest of the world

But he won't be backing down, he will be "saving America from tariffs " by removing them and forcing the Canadians to remove their unfair tariffs that were destroying American jobs - all by being tough on Trudeau

Re: Why is it...

Or the scene where they all on the rope bridge and Musk is shouting to cut it - but they forget to hold on

Re: It won't just be the rest of the world

Don't the Chinese call Trump the great nation builder?

He has united Europe more successfully than Hitler or Napoleon and made Quebecois sing the Canadian national anthem in English !

Re: Heres

There are multiple electric grids with some resiliency - but are there pipelines to supply Russian natural gas from Texas ports to Oregon homes ?

Re: Heres

Trickier, there are a lot fewer LNG tankers around than old oil tankers and the filling / discharge terminals are a lot more complex - hard to do at sea with nobody noticing

Re: Candada is to the USA as Ukraine is to Russia ?

The President's electric car company has plants in China but not in Mexico or Canada

SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship

Re: SX runs better when he's around it.

So wouldn't it have been more cost effective to just auction the job with the money going directly to the government rather than indirectly to the ad agency's dealer ?

> what is the point of trying to 'colonise' Mars?

To get away from Trump and Musk ?

Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene

Re: Mega Cute

>Move over internet cats - you have a rival!

Are the mice going to be Mammoth sized ?

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

Why would TSMC care about tariffs?

They don't pay them !

They are the only supplier of these chips in the world. If their customers in the USA have to pay 25% -> inifinite % more it's no photo-resist off their nose, they have plenty of customers queued up elsewhere