* Posts by apalamarchuk

11 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2017

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

apalamarchuk
Mushroom

Re: Foot in mouth

Yeah, let's see if without NASA funding Russia will have any space launch capability in 5 years. Rotten through with corruption organization such as Roskosmos can't compete with efficient private enterprise.

Seriously, I'd wager a bet that in 5 years Russians will use instead SpaceX vehicles to launch their military satellites and will not have any launch capability on their own. Any takers?

Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit

apalamarchuk
Boffin

Look at the other comments here discussing using lasers for that purpose. One difficulty with this approach is that equipment can be easily used as a weapon. Historically manned and scientific space flights were a cover for and based on military programs to deliver nuclear weapons. Think about a newspaper headline tomorrow that North Korea or Iran launch a new space cleaning robot. Will that make you feel safer? :-)

Tata Consultancy Services tells staff to go to their rooms and stay there, even after the pandemic passes

apalamarchuk
Boffin

Re: WFH

That's probably why that person sits on the bed when working. How many years or even months of such work will result in some kind of back, hand and eye injuries?

NASA makes May 27 its US independence day from Russian rockets: America's back in the astronaut business after nearly nine years

apalamarchuk
Headmaster

Not Fair!

> It will be the company's first crewed mission since the firm's founding in 2002

Stop discriminating against SpaceX! Why you did not mention all those company's crewed missions before the firm's founding in 2002?

I hate the baitclick language "Best/worst/biggest/smallest/the most average since X!" In this case however it seems it works in the other direction.

Colombia accused of rigging .co contract for dot-org provider Afilias – is this document a smoking gun?

apalamarchuk

Re: Gatekeepers to the internet

Using a browser not controlled by a large corporation would be a good start.

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

apalamarchuk
Facepalm

What about drills? Does it have access to drills? Get popcorn for the second part of the "hole in ISS" story.

Truckers, prepare to lose your jobs as UPS buys into self-driving tech

apalamarchuk
Boffin

Re: Just another player in a big field

I assume the human in the cab is needed only during testing/development. The article does not actually say whether the car will be completely driverless during production usage but I assume this is what they are gunning for.

Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit

apalamarchuk
Gimp

Re: Action Man

If this was the case the robot would be much shorter and slower.

On Kaspersky’s 'transparency tour' the truth was clear as mud

apalamarchuk
Headmaster

Re: Only US?

Chris, the question of dependency of Ukraine on their allies is irrelevant here.

What's clear is that Kaspersky's guys lied through their teeth when they claimed that only US acted against them. It's not like anybody pulled their tongue to say that.

apalamarchuk
Holmes

Only US?

"Neumeier also said the fact that only the US has taken action against Kaspersky proves the geopolitical skulduggery theory."

Lying FSB agents. Ukraine also kicked their ass. From https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/390626.html :

"Subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab (Moscow) Kaspersky Lab Ukraine LLC (Kyiv) has announced its liquidation under the decision of its owner due to the sanctions against the company Ukraine introduced on September 2, 2015."

Happy birthday: Jimbo Wales' sweet 16 Wikipedia fails

apalamarchuk

Wikipedia used as a weapon

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the cesspool of the Russian Wikipedia and the trash the state-sponsored trolls put into the English version. The Russian state uses the open tools such as Wikipedia, Wikileaks and forums to their ends.