* Posts by Fruit and Nutcase

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Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

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FAA Signoff...

"FAA chief will personally fly Boeing 737 MAX test flight to allay safety fears

Steve Dickson will not sign off plane’s return until he is ‘satisfied I would put my own family on it’"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/faa-steve-dickson-boeing-737-max-test-flight-crash-b617234.html

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

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Re: The Priestesses of Vesta

Vestal Virgin (retired) - - - >

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The Priestesses of Vesta

"In ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal_Virgin

Up Pompeii - "The Vestal Virgins"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJMgzvrTZA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJMgzvrTZA

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

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COVID-19 contact-tracing app + Truck Queue

If they implement "Operation Stack" for trucks on the M20 for trucks going to Dover, there is an increased chance of false positives from the app for any truckers on the queue

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KAPUT

When the KAP system goes TITSUP

Total Inability To Serve Usual Permits

UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

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GDPR Post Brexit...

The bogeyman of Downing St strikes again

"Dominic Cummings' data law shake-up a danger to trade, says EU"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/25/dominic-cummings-data-law-shake-up-a-danger-to-trade-says-eu

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

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Re: Scotland

"But Boris promised"

He would have crossed his fingers behind his back when he said it, and his nose would have increased in length ever so slightly, just like when he signs international treaties

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Re: Et tu Domte

"if Cummings gets caught again, he'll have to be sacked"

There is a simple solution. In the interest of the greater public safety and confidence, Cummings is hauled back up to the garden in Downing St, and in front of the assembled press/live TV coverage, is fitted with one of those ankle bracelet tracking devices. If he strays out of the designated area, the monitoring company (G4S?) are to be instructed to pass the information on his location to the press immediately

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Re: United? Kingdom

At least there is some cooperation in the "British Isles"

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Re: (thanks to Cummings)

There is more chance of Cummings telling Boris to get on his bike

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Re: United? Kingdom

Republic of Ireland's app

NearForm made a similar app for Gibraltar, which launched last month, and one for Northern Ireland, due to launch within weeks. “It’s the same core platform. It’s built on the Irish solution,” said Harte.

“An Irish solution to an Irish problem” is a derisive term in Ireland for attempted fixes that are daft or quixotic. In this case, though, there seems no need for self-deprecation.

Ireland has made a tool against the pandemic not only for Ireland but for part of the UK and for a British overseas territory – while Britain flounders in its own attempt to produce an app."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/cheap-popular-and-it-works-irelands-contact-tracing-app-success

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Re: Dodo Harding anyone?

Dodo?

"Now things took an even more surreal turn with Boris declaring any attack on Typhoid Dido to be both unjustified and unseemly. It was almost medieval in tone and probably the first time on record that Johnson has ever sought to defend a woman’s honour."

Paragraph 9...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/23/starmer-treats-johnson-as-a-toddler-but-he-has-regressed-to-being-a-baby

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

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Re: Perseverance is shooting x-rays at Mars?

We are only acquainted with "amanfromMars 1" - that moniker does imply that there are others in our midst. Are the others lurking about here? And are there any Women from Mars over here, and how does one make contact?

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Re: Perseverance is shooting x-rays at Mars?

Famous Men From...

The Man from Laramie

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man From Del Monte

The Man From Mars

Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

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Don't give Michael O'Leary of Ryanair ideas - he'll install pedals or hand cranks on each seat connected to electrical generators to provide power for auxiliary functions

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Re: FCS is not new.

For sure, I feel a lot safer on the M25 than US101, even in the Suburban

Not if Highways England rollout more SMARTDUMB Motorways

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51236375

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

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TV Detector Van

Openreach should procure one of the fabled TV Detector Vans of old from Aunty Beeb/Crapita and then drive around the streets,,,

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Makes a change

It's usually ADSL causing problems for Amateur Radio operators

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

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Sign us up!

Says UK Government Cabinet Office. First project will no doubt be to replace the Civil Service Permanent Secretaries with AI bots modelled on training data from "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" scripts of Sir Humphrey

A word of caution Mr Cummings - what goes round comes round, so, expect you to be replaced by the monster you created

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

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Re: Do nothing until there is no other choice

Answers on a pinhead please and send them to Downing St (for all the good it will do)

Sorry, but the print will be too small for Dominic Cummings to read and we don't want him to do a day trip up to Barnard Castle to check his eyesight again with an imminent Covid-19 second wave due

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

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Re: Downvote...

"(C'mon folks, let's see if I can break that downvote record!)"

Don't wake the giants! @amanfrommars1 and @bombasticbob have been getting decent upvotes and not many downvotes recently, so don't provoke them by trying to displace them

Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity

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Re: Is this an attemp to stop Scoland leaving the UK

"Requiring Sargent"

Bloody autocorrect. Just spotted it. It should of course be "Recruitment Sargent"

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Re: Is this an attemp to stop Scoland leaving the UK

The best Requiring Sargent for Scottish independence is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/18/welsh-and-scottish-leaders-johnson-hasnt-talked-to-us-for-months

India orders 180-day sprint to wire 46,000 villages

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Sprint

Does Openreach do Agile?

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"The Register suspects this piece of the self-reliance push will require a few imports."

Considering the military entanglements further north, it may be prudent to ensure the kit is not made in China. Lest certain members of the populace start smashing the kit whenever tensions rise at the border

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

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Re: Still, why anybody outside US should trust a US company handle their privacty?

"Tik-Oracle-Tok"

Tik-O-Tok ?

USA still hasn’t figured out details of WeChat ban but promises users won't be punished

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Governments on Social Media

YouChat, TheyListen. WeWantToListen.

One down, two to go: Astra's first attempt to reach orbit scuppered by iffy guidance

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"Resource Action" in IBM parlance

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They'll have success by the time they reach NT4, then the curse of W2K and W8 down the line

That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it

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Wireless audio - for stand-alone audio/phone calls are fine - the experience is less than optimal when video is involved. I just can't be bothered with the tweaking necessary for proper a/v synchronisation.

Mozilla says India's planned data harvest law is 'blunt' and should be caste aside

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Re: Data Harvesting

Ahem. Theresa May and her "Snoopers' Charter"

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/snoopers-charter-theresa-may-online-privacy-investigatory-powers-act-a7426461.html

With the services of a lot of public authorities being run by private entities, your statement applies to the TinPot Statethe model democracy that is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth

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Fantasy Nominations

Linus Torvalds

Lennart Poettering

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Steve Ballmer

Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive

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"...heavy emphasis on AI in all their press releases."

The cynic in me says that's a nod to post-Brexit state aid funding tap for tax breaks and the like, as AI is a big part of the JohnsonCummings plan for a Great British technological renaissance

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Re: BBC coverage is surprisingly ok

and is a US firm subject to the whims of the current administration - has the potential to be so much worse.

On the other hand...

"and is a UK based firm subject to the whims of the current administration, with it's cavalier approach to international treaty obligations, has the potential to be so much worse."

NASA is sending two small hand-luggage suitcase-sized spacecraft into the void to study binary asteroids

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Janus

The name always reminds me of...

Samantha Janus.

Pie in the Sky.

Quite so. Sigh.

Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election

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1vanka

India makes buying a used cow easier than buying a used car

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Re: As a farmer and IT bod...

...take their cows to a local bar with wifi.

"The Milky Bar"..?

AI in the Enterprise: How can we make analytics and stats sound less scary? Let's call it AI!

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You Can Call Me Al!

New old song by Paul Simon

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

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Sell FB (Europe)?

In the same way as POTUS wants TicTok's US operation to be sold to a US company, perhaps Facebook can be invited to divest itself from the European operation.

China blocks access to website hosting code-for-kids tool Scratch and its forums

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Re: @AC - Sorry!

And now it's China's turn to stitch them up with Belt and Road Initiative Debt Trap

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Re: "low cost"

"It's crazy I tells ya!!"

It's so crazy that one has to thank Trump of all people for ranting and raving about it...

https://time.com/5687134/trump-universal-postal-union-deal/

https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/publications/Option_V_factsheet.pdf

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

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Re: The next U-Turn?

BoJo will take us out without a deal then he'll quit as PM and then leave Parliament

...to Edit "The Evening Standard" for his chum Evgeny Lebedev, whom he ennobled recently.

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Re: State Aid to get a trillion-dollar company

simply choose a tech company by the highly scientific method of dart throwing"

...to a shortlist of 1 company which happens to be owned by a friend/relative/acquaintance of the PM or his master.

c.f. contracts awarded under Covid-19 emergency rules

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/dominic-cummings-allys-pr-firm-hanbury-strategy-given-covid-19-contracts-without-tenders

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"Its all foreign owned now."

Ah, yes - "The Great British Takeaway"

---> icon: I only wish it were a joke

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Laurel and Hardy

Cummings and Johnson.

"That's another fine mess we've gotten the country into"

At least Stan and Ollie were good at making us laugh

IBM’s Cloud just ruined a perfectly good lunchtime by losing power to a few racks in Australia

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NO-POWER Servers

The Register understands the advent of POWER servers is IBM’s big play for business in the region and beyond...

They were probably piloting a new line of "NO-POWER" Servers that defy laws of thermodynamics and dreamt up by the IBM Marketing people

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

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Re: I am sure Boris will be on holiday when the $h1T hits the fan

A fair point. The news trending at the moment does not bode well for a free trade deal.

Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel

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Risk Assessment

Linus scuba diving in Australia? Great Whites eat penguins.

Apple commits to support human rights - 'We believe in the critical importance of an open society'*

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Available on Apple Books?

Have Apple published their Human Rights Policy in Apple Books? Has it been categorised fiction or non-fiction?