Posts by Kevin666

Wrong time to weaken encryption, UK IT chartered institute tells government

Sir Humphrey knew all about the Politician's Fallacy

We must do something.

This is something.

Therefore, we must do this.

Utterly pointless, anyone involved in child porn will be able to find a few pounds a month for a VPN. if they aren't using one already

NASA scrubs Artemis mission yet again because SLS just can't handle the pressure

The NASA boss was talking yesterday about this being all new technology. I thought the whole point is that it is a lot of cobbled together space shuttle parts.

ESA's Vega rocket crashes and burns after fourth-stage nozzle failure sinks two satellites

Crossed wires indeed. I thought that the rocket industry sorted this out 60 odd years ago when the wrong Saturn V 2nd stage engine was shut down because of a wiring fault.

Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future

All those new stations

We were promised that DAB would open the door to a flood of marvellous new stations. Surprisingly enough it has turned out that anything other than wall to wall music, or inane chit chat and phone-ins costs serious money and is never going to happen.