Better ship the product in cans then. I shall be very disappointed if I can not buy a can of lubri-can.
Posts by imanidiot
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Senior slippery sex stimulator sales exec sacked for shafting .org-asmic cyber-space place, a tribunal hears
Things that make you go .hm... Has a piece of the internet just sunk into the ocean? It appears so
El Reg interview time?
Might be interesting to have a chat and a pint with this man after this has blown over. Seems like an interesting story. How did he get to be running .hm. And why? How much time does he spend on it. What's the hardware involved. Does he have provisions taken to make sure .hm can be transferred to someone else in case of his untimely demise? Does it impress the ladies if you say you run one of the worlds Top Level Domain registrars? Inquiring minds need to know!
Clever girl: SpaceX's Mars-bound Raptor engine looks like it works just fine
Re: Green
If I understand correctly the copper is actually the direct lining of the combustion chamber and throat, so what is happening is probably a bit of engine rich combustion.
What can be done to fix it can involve many things. Among them: Changing fuel/oxidizer mixture ratios, changing the flow balance in the wall to improve cooling in the hotspots, altering wall thickness (either thinner or thicker, depending on what is happening), changing the injector pattern or slightly altering the flow in certain spots.
There is no TEA/TEB being used in the full size Raptor, so it's definitely not the starter system causing the tinge. On top of that the flame starts out yellow and then turns green. It'd be the other way around if it was ignition fluid.
I also doubt it's the camera as different angles show the same discoloration, and I'd find it strange if several cameras with different lenses, at different angles all showed exactly the same sensor saturation issue.
LibreOffice patches malicious code-execution bug, Apache OpenOffice – wait for it, wait for it – doesn't
Re: Tried Libre about 3 weeks ago....
I'm of the opinion that if you're using that many row in an excel sheet you shouldn't be using excel but something more adapt at handling massive data sets and complex math operations on those sets. Something like MatLab ($$$, great documentation and service) or SciLab (Free, open source, but terrible documentation) or something along those lines. Much faster, and allows all kinds of funky stuff that is sometimes hard to pull off in excel.
Boffin suggests Trappist monk approach for Spectre-Meltdown-grade processor flaws, other security holes: Don't say anything public – zip it
So? Responsible Disclosure?
Isn't what he's arguing for basically the ground rules for responsible disclosure? Keep schtum, report the problem to the company, give them enough time to fix it or at least give you a response and reasoned argument why they need more time or won't fix it. Then if the company is being an arsehat and only AFTER the previously set deadline has expired without action or response do you disclose to put pressure on the company.
I think the professor is being a bit naïeve in his thinking if he's arguing we should wait with disclosing until it's either patched or exploits are out there because the past has shown we won't know of many of the exploits in use until it's far, far too late.
El Reg talks to PornHub sister biz AgeID – and an indie pornographer – about age verification
Techies tinker with toilet-topper to turn it into ticker-tracker
Sysadmin's three-line 'annoyance-buster' busts painstakingly crafted, crucial policy
I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA boss after being caught giving folks' DNA data to FBI
Techie finds himself telling caller there is no safe depth of water for operating computers
Re: Design deficiencies
That's a very shitty thing to have happen. Bet your friend had a crap day when he returned.
It's also why you ALWAYS either leave something clearly unfinished or finish it completely. Or at the very least tape the bog lid shut with a very big notice on top that the pipes are not connected.
Ca-caw-caw: Pigeon poops on tot's face as tempers fray at siege of Lincoln flats
No wonder
No wonder the place is infested with the flying rats. Plenty of roosting opportunity and probably plenty of food sources around from people littering. Whomever thought it would be a good idea to mount those aircon units outside the flat like that deserves to live there for the rest of their lives. Only way to solve it now is to put proper boxes around them with steeply sloped tops and all access holes sealed up properly. The only other solution is to shoot the f%^kers, but that tends to get the treehugging crowd riled up and is difficult to do safely in a residential area.
Trying to log into Office 365 right now? It's a coin flip, says Microsoft: Service goes TITSUP as Azure portal wobbles
Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?
That would be a stupid move
I'm currently (reluctantly) still using WhatsApp because it's the only way I communicate with some relatives, but if Facebook does indeed pulls everything into the Borg that's ending immediately. Screw Facebook. They already know way too much about me. I'm not going to be using FaceBorg Messenger, EVER.
Japanese astronomers find tiniest Kuiper Belt object yet – using cheap 'scopes and off-the-shelf CMOS cameras
Underfunded HCI startup Maxta hits the buffers as VC cash runs out
Raspberry Pi Foundation says its final farewells to 40nm with release of Compute Module 3+
My chemical romance drowns tomorrow's money, warns TSMC: Chip maker's yields rocked by bad batch
Sounds a bit like a bad batch of resist resulting in poor litho performance. Or possibly something got contaminated with copper. That's a really insiduous contaminant in how it affects the chip. Could work fine for a while until higher temps allow the copper to diffuse somewhere it shouldn't be.
NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 15 years on Mars – by staying as dead as a doornail
SpaceX enjoys three whole seconds of fire and fury on Pad 39A
You heard the latest Chinese CRISPRs? They are real: Renegade bio-boffin did genetically modify baby twins
Re: non susceptible carriers (Typhoid Mary)
For a disease like AIDS thats not really all that big of a problem. With modern medicine most of those that carry HIV are at least asymptomatic carriers. (And with proper treatment the levels become so low they are not even in danger of passing it on anymore).
"Within a generation we have lost our unmodified seed stock. You can still get them, but not in a large enough quantity to feed our neighbors."
Citation needed.
I call bullshit on this one. Yes Monsanto delivers a scarily large portion of the worlds seed stock, but not all of it is modified (they sell more than one variety) and they don't deliver all of it. There's still a lot of it around. If a large proportion of farmers ever decides to switch back it'll probably be about a year to 2 years before a full switch can be made by all, but it's most certainly NOT out of the question.
Users fail to squeak through basic computer skills test. Well, it was the '90s
Data hackers are like toilet ninjas. This is not a clean crime, you know
It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos
Yes, the PNGC did most of the decent and Armstrong took control because of the boulders, but he flew Eagle down to the surface for a very soft landing when the procedure was basically "contact light on = Engine off, drop the rest of the way". I didn't say he took control just to make a soft landing. *pedantic mode off*
From what I can find most landings in the Apollo program happened under control of the guidance system, with the pilot or commander only moving the landing point around a bit by providing input to said guidance sytem. I seem to recall thr decent of Apollo 11 was also happening completely statisfactory under the control of the guidance system, apart from heading for the above mentioned rock filled crater field. I seem to recall Armstrong mentioning that he took manual control when the 1202 alarm went off as he mentioned the LM still responded to control input.
Re: Maybe due to lack of people onboard.
And I should add, the reason the Apollo LM's did the "drop like a brick for the last bit" landing was that the engine bell didn't have sufficient clearance if a stiff landing was made and could get damaged, which might be problematic if it's still providing thrust.
For the Chinese landing it was probably a matter of "crush tube shock absorbers are sufficient and lighter than slowing down under power". If you can survive hitting the surface at (what looks like) about 3 to 5 m/s, then that's a lot of slowing down you don't need to do any other way. And it makes sure you don't bounce. You can absorb all that energy in one go and stay where you plonk down much more assuredly than with a gentle touchdown (especially on a slope, where the vertical axis of the craft suddenly starts differing from vertical).
Finally for comparison, it seems Apollo 15 made the hardest landing of the program. Now compare this video of that landing with the Chinese vide. Keep in mind the Apollo video was shot with a much narrower angle lens from several meters above the surface and the Chinese lander video was filmed with a higher angle and ends up MUCH closer to the lunar surface. I dare say the Chinese pulled off a very smooth landing indeed based on this.
For those interested in LM landing gear design, references:
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LM_Landing%20Gear1973010151.pdf
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD6850LMLandingGearSubsytem.pdf
Look at some of the landing videos from other Apollo missions. The LM was designed to shut down it's engine 1.6 meters (a bit over 5 feet) above the surface and just drop the rest of the way. Armstrong however was a bit of a perfectionist and since he was manually controlling the decent anyway (because of the computer problems they were having) he set it down much more gently than some of the other landings. The landing gear incorporated some sizeable shock absorbers. I can't find the data now but I suspect Apollo 11 made (one of the) softest landings in the Apollo program.
Court orders moribund ZX Spectrum reboot firm's directors to stump up £38k legal costs bill
Core blimey... When is an AMD CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide
Uhhhmmmm
Or it can go to a jury trial in which members of the public (albeit likely tech-savvy ones since the case is taking place in Silicon Valley)
You guys seriously overestimate the tech-savvyness of the general public. Even those living in a supposedly "high tech" area are not that likely to be super tech savvy. Most people are idiots, independent of location or supposed level of education and intelligence.
Q. China just landed on its far side, the US woz there 50 years ago – now Europe wants to mine it? A. It's the Moon
French diplomat: Spies gonna spy – there aren't any magical cyberspace laws that can prevent it
Spying will happen, if not by nations then by high level criminals
So taking very good precautions is a necessity either way. Even if the nations themselves don't do the spying and/or hacking, there's plenty of criminals out there who benefit from doing such (possibly sponsored or at least purposely ignored by whatever nation they are in). And since no security is 100% hack proof, maybe it's better NOT to put everything on the internet...
I don't know what the temperature in hell currently is, but this politician is actually saying things that make sense. Yes he probably has a national interest too, as highlighted above, but it still makes sense.
Are you sure your disc drive has stopped rotating, or are you just ignoring the messages?
Re: Similar but different experience
With these sorts of issues, ALWAYS allow your boss a way to share in the credit. If your boss had been smart (or you explained how to appear smart to him) he'd have gone to his superiors binder in hand, and told them: "I had my underling work out some cost savings ideas, here's what he came up with". That way he gets to share in the credit instead of feeling stupid for not coming up with it himself.
ALWAYS give your boss (undeserved) credit. Just be sure to keep some evidence in hand of how much he ACTUALLY did in case he ever tries to screw you over with it.
The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins
Re: One ring to rule them all?
For Astronomy it's the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope obviously.
As for particle physicists, TeVer? (As in Tera electron Volt Fever?) Or Luminosity Fever?
What a cheep shot: Bird sorry after legal eagles fire DMCA takedown at scooter unlock blog
Spektr-R goes quiet, Dragon splashes down and SpaceX lays off
Nissan EV app password reset prompts user panic
Come mobile users, gather round and learn how to add up
Re: Better One Innit
I had all of the equations need and often some example sums in my TI-83 graphing calculator when finishing high school. We couldn't be forbidden from using that as it was an allowed aid by official rules :) Barely used it though, as it turned out I usually just did my homework and actually learned stuff. The programming cable paid for itself and some snacks though. Not all students bothered.