Posts by herman

SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground

Honda

That little Honda rocket won’t be able to beat this.

£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan

The Wall

A Pink Floyd solution would likely be much cheaper. Build a wall around it and spray the whole place with concrete. Then just leave it alone for a hundred years.

Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem

Basement

He said he started in the basement. That is usually where all the super heavy cancer scanners are, so I expected an issue with an MRI and X-ray crossing over a Positron beam coming from a 20 GeV Cyclotron…

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

He is making money selling Tesla short and again when it bounces back up.This is the normal way the Musks make money from Tesla.

Pretty soon it is real money

150 beelion smackers in 5 months, extrapolates to 360 beelion over a year. If they don’t like it, they can put the 360 bill in my bank account for a year - I will give it all back after one year - every last penny.

Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields

Re: Who built/supplied the drones?

In which case you target the mountain with an earthquake bomb - as NK learned during Donny’s first term.

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

Re: EIC

The big problem is that EU wide capital gains tax discourages any rapidly growing enterprise.

EIC

How does this fund fit in with the existing work of the European Innovation Council?

Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor

Re: Does not sound like any kind of fix to me

I got much stronger with age and can now pick up a 21 inch screen with one hand.

Re: Does not sound like any kind of fix to me

Yeah, I would expect the techy to come back and paint the door white.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

Border security

If they really want security then they can start with policing the borders properly, but that is real work and costs real money.

Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath

Re: Hmm, maybe not Amazon.

Amazon has customer service?

Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

Re: Better idea

Just rename Hong Kong to USA. Then everything can be made in USA again.

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

Re: Time for "artisinal code" ?

Maybe Free Range, Organic, Artisanal Code would work.

Re: AI = All Inclusive

Hmm, welcome to the AI Escapist Club. We operate at the All Inclusive resorts around the Med.

Re: AI = Another Indian

Usually, the problem is too many Chiefs and not enough Indians, but too many Indians also doesn't work.

Re: "to leverage AI tool"

Wow, that sounds like really superior manglement. I salute your ability to keep a straight face.

Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell

Re: "superseded Edlin"

There are indeed typewriters that work either way, to support Hebrew, Arabic and a few others.

Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops

Mexican ship crash

OK, so that explains it.

Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop

Well, I suppose that prematurely popping its load, may be a very Aussie thing to happen…

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Re: Had to think abute that ;)

Well, it is mostly the Newfies who say aboot and they are recent immigrants and would be excused, eh. OK, a real Newfie would likely respond with BOOACH!!! to that.

Re: If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't have started from here

That would be a painful public affair…

Re: Do they really spell archaeology like that over there?

You mean Hellas and Türkiye? You may mean the Bosphorus, but it is mostly the Mediterranean.

Re: Whoops

A car carrier.

Re: Whoops

Best is the Aussie Budgie Smugglers for Speedos.

My keyboard is QWERTY/Arabic and my wife’s is AZERTY. It is a remnant of the countries we used to live in.

Re: "Vincent Truck Gogh"

A van isn’t a truck.

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

Re: Brilliant

Last I checked, the sun was a pretty good and stable star.

Re: It's hard enough remote supporting kit from a few hundred or thousand miles away

Hmm, 15 beelion miles cannot fit in my imagination either.

Yeah, an actual movie about the return of Voyager VI, lost in a black hole, reappearing to study carbon units. It was quite dreadful.

Maybe that dreadful Star Trek episode about Vger will come true one day. :)

The first flybys of the big planets were really amazing and these two probes operating in vacuum with incredibly low temperatures is just astonishing. Even more incredible is that they still have thruster fuel.

Even more amazing than the Voyagers, is that someone went to the trouble to write a script that automatically gives me a thumb down for everything I post! :)

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Re: Market research needed

Note that there is a fast growing cohort of old and cranky people who are suffering from a variety of medical issues and who would very much like to have shortened and less torturous flights.

Re: It'll still take ages to...

The security theater in airports can be fixed.

Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India

iNdia

Well, I thought Apple and iNdia would be a great match.

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive

Robot Wars

AI Robot Wars competitions may revive an old pastime.

Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz

Re: Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

It is not paranoia if the countries really are shooting at each other.

ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts

Re: Lets restart Hermes...

The EU certainly has lots of dosh - it is a matter of priorities. If military satellites become deemed to be more important, then there will be more Euros on the table for space missions.

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

Re: Startbucks is dead

Starbucks in the EU is doing pretty good and there are much higher taxes than in the US.

Re: Too costly

Funny how I can get a down vote for stating a simple fact - did some grump make a down vote bot? :)

Re: Too costly

Where I live Starbucks do do refills. I think the quality of a coffee shop depends a lot on the staff and the manager.

Re: Fooled me.

A coffee shop is a place to sit, chat, watch people and devour a muffin - the coffee is optional.

You are supposed to be able to order light, medium or dark roast coffee. Some shops sell medium by default and some sell charcoal by default.

Re: Automated or not...

I go to Starbucks for their chocolate muffins. The coffee is secondary. However, I have found their coffee varies a lot from country to country. Where I live now, it is OK.

Short skirts

Short skirts and boobies sell more coffee than dirty machines do. I wonder why?

Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

Re: Phonetic Alphabets

Hmm, how about G for Jerusalem and J for Europe?

Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff

Re: Can we call it Chery Littlebottom?

Some on the Reg are so negative they can charge a Tesla truck! :)

Re: Can we call it Chery Littlebottom?

Some of those robots had a tough time and had to be carried off, though I don’t think I would have been able to outrun the winner.

Cherry

This is much, much better: https://youtu.be/_EBvXpjudf8

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

A s’nowt in the money trough that is.