Posts by Jacob's Elevator

Oh no, Twitter's gone down. How can we get the word out? Ah yeah, that's right. We have a website that works

" ... tweeter-in-chief President Trump's so-called social media summit today that doesn't actually involve any social media networks, just an unsettling mix of right-wingers, extremists and .."

(and a number of hugs handed out by POTUS Trump to his token people of colour, perhaps?).

Well considering the outage occurred according to talk-radio reports, at the very moment the summit went live, you won't have had the option of switching-off then, would you!

Yet you're still ranting??!! You're still ranting. Do you want an off-switch, or do you want censorship?

I did catch it, live, as there was no outage here in Scotland. Mr Trump did announce that (paraphrasing):

"I have instructed my administration to hold a summit, inviting members of all the digital tech companies and members of the media to attend at The Whitehouse, later this month ..."

"And of both sides, democrats too, since they know now too, how quickly ..." (the censorship. 'hate-speech', and pro candidates posting) "...can turn against them too, very quickly"

You're not FAKE NEWS, are you? Yes you are, go on admit it.

We regret to inform you the massive asteroid NASA's all excited about probably won't hit Earth

"WE REGRET ..."

Which in 2-words, alone, goes to show that 'El-Reg' , another hint, has turned to, or has always been an anti-human, aka pro tech-head, NIHILIST platform.

I don't much care for 'El-reg's turn of attitude, as reflected recently in language.

And your best-case scenario, as your readers wither away, is to be found in the advice:

"When you cynically become that which you are parodying, you're in trouble."

Hey! Look! I'm in your face. I studied Math, Physics, Computer-science

I work in Electronics, DC- thru microwaves, to this day. Every-day.

I studied a software-dev degree at age of 49 or so, in 2004/5. I have learned to not only stand-up for myself but also for my species. Well enough said. You may all be just sitting there playing with yourselves and your consoles; - 'having a laugh'.

Go push a button!

How d'ya like them apples!?

Science says death metal fans delightful and intelligent people, great at dinner parties

'Science says' ...

77 of 79 scientists (95%) agreed with a pole on AGW/CC; 'gave the correct answer' and kept their jobs.

That's actually where the official 95% came from.

The death metal fans I've met were bankers from Germany.

Convivial and perfectly nice chaps ... but I was sharing the room with them to go see 'Prince'.

Not really my thing, Nihilism.

Crew Dragon returns to dry land as NASA promises new space station for the Moon

PARIS: 'Hey, every one of these knobs and levers is fully functional.'

TUVOK: "And completely superfluous."

ST Voyager:

'Extreme Risk'

Stardate: Unknown..

Thought you'd get a boost from this.

Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

XP still flying here ... and I'm building a Vista system.

I have, let's see: 8 functional PC's. This one we're on now is XP SP3. I have a BSOD about three-times a year. No more and that's when I overload it, in 32-bit with only 3Gb mem allowance, of course. My 'event viewer' has only 2 error msgs from a printer server & a non-connected ODN (StarTrek for) Fibre-Channel. Never been hacked by SpeCtre or etc. And I have this PC on 364 days, upto 12hrs/day -¹

You get to this point, by making all possible mistakes and never repeating them, and a fact that at age 47 I studied for a Bsc in Software-Development lends nothing to me other than a keen instinct.

I have 64-bit SuSe Linux too of course to run on the 8Gb of memory but that's a horse of a different colour.

They're BAAACK: Windows 10 nagware team loads trebuchet with annoying reminders to GTFO Windows 7

I will never pilot your fondleware.

Hands off my Win7 you freakin' fondlers, I will never fly your Win10 Spyware. Posted on WinXP SP3..

A once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity: NASA bids emotional farewell to its cocky, hardworking RC science car on Mars

And what of BEAGLE II ...?

I got an email from Colin Pilinger, founder of the UK's little MARS project.

I don't have it here but I kind of feel I made a connection with the nice man.

It wasn't so long after this, that he left us.

I still think we should aim to get Beagle going; since the Americans found it a couple years back.

Can it be reached and for good-wills' sake reactivated?

I think it's a cool idea, anyway.

Dutch boyband hopes to reverse Brexit through the power of music

This will not be the low-country's lowest moment.

'Hello Rotterdam. Good evening. Can we have your Eurovision totals please ...'

"Thank-you and good-evening Den Haage. ; here are our results at present: -

"Great Britain ... minus 273·16 points ...."

'Thank-you Holland.'

'Hello Berlin; are you receiving us?'

London Gatwick Airport reopens but drone chaos perps still not found

Re: Latest news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6522089/Two-people-arrested-criminal-use-drones-Gatwick-Airport.html

'He couldn't have been flying a drone over Gatwick, he was fitting windows at the time!'

Yeah, it may not have been he but who's out fitting windows between 9pm and Midnight?

I suppose that would infer extra-spectacular eyesight and perhaps the deployment of robots?

Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip

Reinvest in a small nuclear powered engines program. NOW!

Surely, a sign that the NASA explorations & others around the world may need to re-investigate or indeed reinvest in small nuclear powered engines. Nuclear powered rocket motors could surely, now, in this age of extreme Health and Safety margins be built which will pass the tests of endurance, resilience and safety. The USA had a huge R&D program in the very early 1960's thru early 70's; which endured the Kennedy Presidency.

Project Nerva and the Phoebus nuclear-rocket motors, just by example.

There was much done, with several motors from a handful of major engineering players at that time,

I would revisit it, without hesitancy.

We are unnecessarily, now, holding ourselves back from the very urgent business of exploration of space, both near-field and deep.

The long & short of it is, intelligently & ethically motivated humans must succeed in space and stop tinkering. Start taking bold-steps. And stop talking a strong space-program down. NOW!

Read the History.

https://www.lanl.gov/science/NSS/issue1_2011/story4full.shtml

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https://www.lanl.gov/science/NSS/issue1_2011/story4a.shtml

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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19920005899.pdf

It liiives! Sorta. Gentle azure glow of Windows XP clocked in Tesco's self-checkouts, no less

Stay Calm and Carry-on Browsing.

So ..?

I still use XP on 6 of my home's 9 PC's. Ah, you think, now you know who I am: I'm the guy you met on Archer's seat Edinburgh Tuesday putting the world to right on top of one of Scotland's 400M year-old volcano stumps. It's me alright. I divert, I wander, I meander ...

XP is OK, Dirt cheap on eBay. Still activates, and runs. The scare stories are for those running businesses whose data could theoretically be hacked due to the rather convoluted hack weaknesses of this legacy OS.

And Microsoft Essentials Security/Antivirus scanner still runs with weekly updates, though one has to do a manual (from website) download of the latest pattern-file(s).

Don't worry about it. Nobody Manic Captain Painwaring. It's going to be OK .. for me.

And if you listen to my lifetime of experience and advice ... it maybe will be OK for you too.

What else is there to know?

This is the way.

This is the Dao.

Pass on The Dharma, barmy army.

Kremlin hacking crew went on a 'Roman Holiday' – researchers

RUSSIA covertly acquiring information about Italian Marine Border security?

Interesting perhaps, in that the ITALIAN Marine Militaire are likely involved in overseeing their EUROpean guarded sea-frontiers vis-a-viz SYRIAN (or other) refugee/asylum-seekers, legal or not.

Why would RUSSIA be interested in acquiring covert information about Italian Marine Border security?

Loose .zips sink chips: How poisoned archives can hack your computer

Neurosis ... Eternal chuffin' Neurosis.

That will be the legacy of the interweb.

Visa Europe fscks up Friday night with other GDPR: 'God Dammit, Payment Refused'

Like a MORON, touched for the very first time ....

This is REALLY a warning about the dangers of a CASHLESS economy.

Use it or lose it; cash that is.

As for the pun.

Try MASSIVE OSCILLATORS RADIATING OBJECTIONABLE NOISE SIGNALS as a euphemism for the eastern EU and sometimes Northern UK factory based High-Frequency Power oscillators used in Wood and Plastic factories for quick fixing industrial Glues. I came up with that one, after I found a discarded MORON down my local scrap-yard in Yorkshire. I disassembled it and built a legal limit Amateur Radio HF amplifier from some of the parts. I mean high power, like several Kilowatts these MORONS.

Enjoy your cashless weekend ...