The (New) Coffee Song
They've Got an Awful LotShortage of Coffee in Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbJBnkRkFo
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/thecoffeesong.html
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The silicon supply chain crunch is worrying. Now comes a critical concern: A coffee shortage
Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century
Thursday 25th March 2021 09:20 GMT 
Hobby
Dutch King Willem-Alexander co-piloted commercial KLM flights twice a month...
Thank you Sir. Long may you live and get to keep enjoying your hobby.
Wednesday 24th March 2021 11:34 GMT
There was an article by Simon Jenkins recently -
"Britain’s royal family is an accident waiting to happen. Prince Charles should dismantle it"
In it he compares the post WW2 role of European Royal Families against that of the House of Windsor -
"No other European royal family took Britain’s monarchical route to A-list celebrity."
I'm not a republican - I am against a politically appointed/anointed/shortlisted head of state - better the European model. Hopefully, the British Royal Family will move on and become smaller and set more of the junior members free - and hopefully, so too will the media and the public - they can find enough and more wannabe celebrities to sate their appetites - those born into monarchy are still entitled to a life ordinary, outside of a gilded cage.
Wednesday 24th March 2021 04:56 GMT
Re: During my decade in the military,
Harry and his brother had short careers as Helicopter pilots in the Army and RAF respectively. Harry's training as an Apache pilot would have cost a significant amount, and his active duty had to be cut short due to both media and enemy interest in him. I always think if those positions were awarded to non-royals, then those individuals may have served longer than these two, and the country had a better return on the investment
Global tat supply line clogged as Suez Canal authorities come to aid of wedged 18-brontosaurus container ship
Wednesday 24th March 2021 19:20 GMT 
What a relief!
The government won't have to resort to getting the RAF to ferry over Union Flags produced in China over on Boris Force One. The minor delays due to the incident should not cause a supply problem with their imminent demand...
"All government buildings in England, Wales and Scotland will fly the Union flag every day, following new guidance from the culture department."
Your hardware is end-of-life... and it's in space. Worry not, Anglo-Japanese sat to test new orbital cleanup method
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 19:30 GMT
Re: Satellite Capture
It was in Moonraker that 'Q' remarked Bond was "attempting re-entry"
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 10:18 GMT 
Satellite Capture
First demonstrated over 50 years ago. IIRC, there was some Anglo-Japanese collaboration then.
https://youtu.be/_qixtjMoMUA?t=67
In terms of actual technology, the landing is very much like what SpaceX do routinely these days
Chairman, CEO of Nominet ousted as member rebellion drives .uk registry back to non-commercial roots
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 08:47 GMT
Who Me?
"What could be worse than killing a golden goose? Killing someone else's golden goose"
This week's "Who Me?" feature.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/22/who_me/
A future article will feature how, "Simon" (not his real name!) halted the gravy train at a UK not-for-profit public benefit organisation
John Cleese ‘has a bridge to sell you’, suggests $69,346,250.50 price to top Beeple's virtual art record
OVH writes off another data centre – SBG1 – and reveals new smoking battery incident
Ministry of Defence tells contractors not to answer certain UK census questions over security fears
Monday 22nd March 2021 03:27 GMT 
Cookies
https://www.ons.gov.uk/help/cookies
We use Google Analytics and Hotjar software to collect anonymised information about how you use ons.gov.uk. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements to the site.
We do not allow Google or Hotjar to use or share the data about how you use this site.
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That means Google and Hotjar know the answers you give. Information that they do not need to know, and it is none of ONS' business to know if I have participated in a Hotjar survey.
We do not allow Google or Hotjar to use or share the data about how you use this site.
It still means they have given Google and Hotjar access to your answers, if not directly, then by inference
Watch it go: World's smallest self-folding origami bird that reminds us we were promised nanobots at some point
Grotesque soundbyte alert: UK government opens wallet to help rural areas get 'gigafit'
Move aside, Technoking: All hail the Sweat Master and his many inspirational job titles
Listen to The Sound of Perseverance: Not the death metal album, but NASA's Mars rover on the move
Where did the water go on Mars? Maybe it's right under our noses: Up to 99% may still be in planet's crust
Australian police suggests app to record consent to sexual activity
Thursday 18th March 2021 17:38 GMT
Threesomes
Or we could have some independent class of notary available who could take part in threesomes, they would also be able to stamp to approve their consent.
Alexa/Cortana/Google Assistant/Siri could "actively" take part - they could affirm consent and monitor the activities and if they detect coercion or change during proceedings that go unheeded, call the authorities, giving the location of the participants.
Something fishy is going on in Taiwan as folk change name to include 'salmon' for free sushi
Thursday 18th March 2021 17:28 GMT 
Rainbow Trout - something fishy
Over the other side of the Taiwan Straight in China, Rainbow Trout can be labelled and sold as "Salmon"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45178638
New rules introduced in China mean rainbow trout can now be labelled and sold domestically as salmon.
Why? Because a media report earlier this year caused a splash by revealing that rainbow trout had for years been labelled as the similar-looking fish.
Authorities decided that instead of banning the practice, the best solution would be to legitimise it.
Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API
OVH says burned data centre’s UPS, batteries, fuses in the hands of insurers and police
Wednesday 17th March 2021 14:20 GMT
Re: “Some customers do not understand what they bought”
+1 for the link to the paper. An interesting read.
The author of the paper is none other than the founder of APC!
"Neil Rasmussen is a Senior VP of Innovation for Schneider Electric"
"Prior to founding APC in 1981, Neil received his bachelors and masters degrees from MIT in electrical engineering, where he did his thesis on the analysis of a 200MW power supply for a tokamak fusion reactor...."
Desperate Nominet chairman claims member vote to fire him would spark British government intervention
Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft
Tuesday 16th March 2021 08:52 GMT
That's a nice electric car factory you have
Mr Musk. Please hand over control of the factory to these people. You know it makes sense.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/16/china_concerned_about_alibabas_portfolio/
UK taxman plonks £23bn (sorry HMRC meant £23m) on the table, asks vendors: OK, so what can you do for us in terms of 'mobility services'?
Monday 15th March 2021 19:38 GMT
TUPE
"Suppliers should assume that TUPE will apply, further details will be released during the full tender process. Prior TUPE experience is important as there will likely be a significant level of TUPE transition of resources from the existing supplier managing these environments to new arrangements."
So, that's what "mobility" stands for
Monday 15th March 2021 19:35 GMT
https://find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004966-2021
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £23,100,000,000
Monday 15th March 2021 16:34 GMT
Too small
£23.1bn? £900m IT Budget?
Baroness Harding has raised the bar with respect to blowing away money on IT projects, and the "usual suspect" recipients of government contracts would be expecting to trouser that much more. Double or triple those figures for good measure. And factor in something for paying the lawyers for when the wrangling starts well before delivery
Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness
Monday 15th March 2021 08:56 GMT
Re: Brontosaurus
The BBC article has a graphic that shows the length of the carrier as 300m.
That according to the standards converter is 13.64 brontosauruses (2142 linguine).
The Devon Fatberg gives the nearest numerical reg unit value of 4.65
Just wondering if there was a mixup in the original article with 2100 linguine being transcribed incorrectly and assigned to brontosaurus.
Google’s site reliability senseis offer to train you in their mystical ways
Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them
A borked bit of code sent the Hubble Space Telescope into safe mode, revealing a bunch of other glitches
'No' does not mean 'yes'... unless you are a scriptwriter for software user interfaces
Sunday 14th March 2021 20:25 GMT
Re: Diarrhee of a Wimpy Kid
Years ago, I read somewhere that said "cow-pat" like is good. So, if your efforts results in something that looks like a cow-pat, then all the better. Do you go "moo" when you go?
Joking aside, I think whatever is "normal" for you is what is more important - and a (permanent?) change in bowel habit is the one to watch out for/time to consult a professional.
Sunday 14th March 2021 16:19 GMT
Re: Diarrhee of a Wimpy Kid
That would be a Type 6 or 7 in the Bristol Stool Chart...
How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs
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