Posts by seven of five

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: Dying in a fireball midway might be good. Less misery.

Can't remember when I last flew an airplane with more than two rows. 20+20, facing inwards... on the upside, you're REALLY quick through security :)

Re: "New"

Given the number of deaths, it wasn't "murder" but "statistics". Easy to get away with statistics.

(Also, it all happened in somewhereistan to foreigners, so why bother?)

Re: Stretching a dead horse

yes, but that is after ~45 years of work. We could add education years, but school usually starts around 6, soooo this is quite a dead horse they are flogging.

Re: Dying in a fireball midway might be good. Less misery.

sure, they couldn't care less. They'll be more concerned with more narrow aisle between the 3+3, which also increases turnaround time. Especially with a dozen more idiots fighting about their overhead and underseat luggage during boarding and exit.

Dying in a fireball midway might be good. Less misery.

>Boeing pitched the 737-7 as larger and longer-legged than the Airbus A319neo, [...]

While this is sort of true (the 737 is two metres longer) and therefore can theoretically fit two extra rows of seats (172 Self-loading-cargo vs 160 in the 319), it is also 15 cm smaller in Diameter, resulting in even less comfort than a minimum dignity version of the 319. And yes, the 737-7 goes a rounding difference further than the A319 (95 miles) but will lose this advantage on every turnaround - being a 737 from 1967, it still can't take AKHs [1] and has to load every piece of freight by hand.

[1] the freight version can, but that model is even more pointless than the passenger one.

Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages

Re: Dumb Ass

As are shaped Thermite charges.

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks

Re: I don't care if the USA bans Chinese imports of anything

> I've already got a Chinese car.

Volvo, Lotus or MG?

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Re: Noise cancelling headphones

Actually, there is a very easy solution to this - fly business class. This is obviously also a very costly option, but starting or ending a vacation in misery is not an option (to me). For flights the company books, Business is compulsory for everything longer than three hours anyway.

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

"Fortunately, unless the patches cause the bugs to multiply, they will all be exterminated soon."

Ever heard that song:

99 bugs in the code, patch one out, 104 bugs in the code, patch one ....

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

Re: 19MWh? are you sure?

While there are narrow gauge tracks in Switzerand, most rail is 1435mm

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander

Re: Without a lander, you can't land on the Moon. It's really that simple

Just duct tape him to the outside.

Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

Re: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

roughly translates to "the domain of House Mecklenburg, which is between here and Pommerania", with Mecklenburg being short for "the domain of House Mecklenburg", and vor goes as "which is between here and ". vor being ahead/previous to

The way things were named back then. I mean, there is a reason Smith and Carpenter are common surnames...

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

Re: man grok

quite sure first option is "-SS" rather than "-s"

scnr

Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

Re: "We are confident that God remains sovereign over every circumstance"

Ever struck your little toe? It will make you utter words believers start to feel the need for a lightning rod...

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Re: A nickname for IBM lawyers

They will find out.

British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems

Re: We used to call that kind of job..

That one is "green, bubbling and smoke rising, served by an Arch-Vizir" level of poisoned.

Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls

Re: Rotate your passwords

Depends on you appetite...

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: Roosting chickens return home

> Italian here, I know how to make lasagna.

Oh, great. Another question, please: The Pineapple on the Pizza - slices or cubes?

g,dnr(unlikehell)

Re: Roosting chickens return home

Hmmm, Lasagna...

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: indeed what the collective carbon footprint of Bezos and Space Karen is?

Could be, can't remember.

No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship

Re: Has Navantia heard of damage control?

In my experience (recreation vessels <60ft only), seagulls can -and will- hit even the most difficult to reach (and clean) spots with extreme precision.

mine, mine..

-seagull

Re: Has Navantia heard of damage control?

...or taking a couple of hits on the sensors by seagulls.

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

I really wish they could have an Oracle License audit.

Daily.

“We 100 percent prioritize this nation’s [USofA] security over any other variable,”

Well. Ok then.

I think I'll keep this at hand whenever anyone suggests buying from them.

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

Re: Does anyone remember the Intel 286 - hotel California ?

(paraphrasing "Ben" Kenobi)

Gate A20.

I haven't heard that name in a long time...

Server-room lock was nothing but a crock

Re: secure (doubtful)

Sure, it's just - we made those windows, that is how I know.

Re: The number of machine rooms I have seen …

Halon, not Halogen. And it is not allowed anymore for very good reasons. On the upside, you're already dead when the fire/smoke reaches you.

Related: the dispersal nozzles of fire suppression systems are capable of producing noise levels able to knock out disk arrays. Ask Rabobank (or was it ING?) how I know...

Re: secure (doubtful)

Depends on the window. I know of windows which could take an hours toil with a Pickaxe or an entire Magazine out of an HK G3 rifle at 20 Metres... multi-layered glass, foil and lexane. Still transparent and not that heavy nor thick (comparable to triple layer isolating).

Re: ISO certification VS security

> ISO 9001 is not a quality standard, it's a consistency standard, designed for people making widgets to a tolerance. It doesn't matter what the tolerance is, as long as you have a procedure for making the widgets and check that they are within the tolerance, even if the widgets (or a significant number of them) are so badly made that they are not fit for purpose.

This. You can make ISO 9001 compliant lifevests out of concrete. SOLAS will not like them, but ISO9001 is fine with it. I am not sure you could change them to a floating material without re-doing your 9001 certification...

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband

Re: Consumer protection, lack thereof

> I've been to the US (several times). Extremely diverse and beautiful country (Memphis aside!) with some of the most polite people I've ever met. As a westerner (and one at the service of Western interests, no less) I do not feel any more represented by the actions of my leaders than Citizens of the USA feel by theirs.

Re: Whatsaboutism USA

> Not talking about Iranian rivers running dry because of kleptocratic irrigation works.

Rio Grande.

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day

Re: Ah, Cisco

Yes, with friends like them, who needs enemies?

Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt

Re: If it's Boeing

So quite like a JLR product, just less lethal.

IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz

Re: The history of the USA would disagree

You want them BACK? Now, after two-and-a-half centuries of festering? No way!

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure

and if they can't undo the adhesive, they'll just run over the parcel with their truck.

WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support

Re: Foretold

Wrong kind of Oracle. You're probably refering to the original one, a cute (though blind) lady in a skimpy dress. But. As with "Budweiser Budvar" and "Budweiser", the current, US based one, isn't really that good as its namesake.

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

Re: Wrong.

Yeah, but that one nosedived pretty soon.

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Aha, THOSE kind of ethics. The "wink, wink nudge nudge special ethics".

"Lawyers [...] bound by professional ethics."

Lawyers.

Ethics.

Lawyers. Ethics.

... nah, sorry, that does not go into the same sentence. Or paragraph. Article must be wrong.

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

Re: How is this ban even possible?

> Then in practice, open up random containers to detect if 'tractor parts' are actually boxes of illicit routers..

Given John Deeres policy towards spares, thoses boxes will certainly be checked. And you'd better hope there are only illegal routers in it!

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Nah, that guy is all TX, no RX...

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

Re: Switzerland + Benalux...

Uh-hu. Ever been to Denmark?

Re: Switzerland + Benalux...

Yeah, I was asking for that question, wasn't I? Beers on you... because hydration.

Re: Switzerland + Benalux...

Switzerland is (very fiercely) not part of the EU.

It is part of Schengen and EFTA, though.

(Also, it is BeNeLux - BElgium, NEtherlands (not Holland!), LUXembourg). Don't get me started on how many EU cititzens get that wrong...

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

Re: Game

Tried to, the NPC suck.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: Zurich, Switzerland

easy: none.

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows

Re: Simple solution

The Swiss are armed to the teeth as well, and (almost) nothing happens. Must be something in the food.

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

Re: Centaur: tried and tested - good decision.

That won't stop todays NASA from messing up.

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

Re: Can't put me on the kill list

Arrr?

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Re: Ummm...

You certainly have to be up front with your (current) lack of ability. And then see what happens, some might take the risk of several years of training in order to have someone for the next twenty years.

When I have an apprentice who demonstrates interest and basic ability, I go out of my (usually very grumpy, think "25 years Unix") way and try to teach him. Worked once.