Posts by Andrew Kirch

Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving

Aren't Ingress Controllers fundamentally flawed?

They expose the outside edge of the Kubernetes cluster to the Kubernetes control plane. The reason for this existing has always baffled me.

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

Cut my shuttle into pieces

this is my last orbit...

I don't give a flying fornication if they take all three orbiters and throw them in the ocean, or fire them into the sun. The space shuttle is one of the most vile things EVER invented. The shuttle was less than 99% successful (2 orbiter losses in 135 missions) in a way that got a lot of people killed. Every shuttle launch had to be manned, unnecessarily increasing risk to human life. Covering up its myriad shortcomings became NASA management policy, which destroyed their safety culture, and again got a lot of people killed https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19860015255 and https://sma.nasa.gov/SignificantIncidents/assets/columbia-accident-investigation-board-report-volume-1.pdf. The number of near disasters that aren't remembered is also staggering, missing tiles, engine failures, foam flying everywhere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZptbxaHBIA. I've seen kerbal players more responsible with the lives of their kerbals than the NASA administration was with their astronauts.

It gets worse. Not only was the shuttle unsafe at every speed (including many multiples of mach), it was overly complicated, disgustingly expensive to refurbish after each launch, and set the American space program back by about 20 years. Congress forced the US Government to use the Space Shuttle exclusively for launches until after the Challenger Disaster, which was essentially a snuff film pumped into every American grade school classroom. The mind-blowing expense of a shuttle launch drastically reduced the science payloads that could be sent to orbit because of the cost of the launch, which REDUCED scientific discovery.

Without the shuttle we probably would have reached Falcon 9 levels of reusability in the 1990's, and, according to NASA's own numbers, this slashed the cost to take cool things to orbit by over 95%. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200001093. This means we could have done more and cooler science, and sent more and cooler things to orbit decades ago.

Taxing times for Hungary's porn inspectors

prudes

You blacked out the navel?! Puritanical bastards!

El Reg celebrates 10th birthday

photographic evidence

of the old saying: if you don't have a face for TV, try radio, if you don't have the voice for radio, try print journalism. An uglier group I've never seen! Happy Birthday

Microsoft-loving (former) security czar calls for closed internet

more than one amendment

Just in case this guy has forgotten the first, fourth, ninth, tenth, and fourteenth amendments. Fortunate then that I have not forgotten the second.

Reader succumbs to apostrophe apoplexy

"Compleat" is still misspelled on all links to BOFH 94-99

I mean, seriously, readers, relax, enjoy, The, Register, or, STFU. (Should I have comma's between those too? YOU DECIDE!) I want news, and humor from this site, and I therefore neither expect, nor demand the same careful attention to spelling and punctuation that I would from say the Wall Street Journal (odd that I don't read that rag, and do read this one... ooh well)

DHS calls in sci-fi writers as consultants

Executive Decision

The suicide 747 Attack was in Executive Decision at the beginning.

Spam King arrested in Seattle

bye bye, Bobby

We'll miss you, don't bother to write us.

Home Office discusses thief-proof phones

Duh.

The Register figured out the solution to this problem years ago. Make them big, make them heavy, make them ugly, make them sound like crap and plaster a big logo on the front. If this doesn't do it, toss on a 18" whippy antenna, that'll do it. Thanks Simon for solving society's problems before they occur.