Re: "tended to use “templated or generic” reasons"
Being self authorising why would anyone expect anything different?
Authorisation should go through a magistrate from a different police region/s.
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Well done indeed China.
In addition to the success of the mission as a scientific endeavour, it will provide impetus to the rest of the world to keep up with or surpass China.
I am sure this has not been solely about collecting moon rocks either, as missions like this provide info for manned missions too. It wouldn't surprise me to wake up one morning to a rock collecting mission turning out to be Chinese astronauts playing golf on the regolith.
You never know, there could be some new rules waiting in the wings, ready for the New Year when Britain will be back in control.
I wonder if Boris and Matt will have offices next to Cleggy?
They'll be able to chat over old times in parliament by the water cooler.
Looks as though Matt Hancock's private meeting in Paris a couple of years back, with Zuck has paid dividends, for Zuck.
Hancock was digi-minister then and Zuck threatened him with dropping all investment in the UK, then six months later this enquiry takes off with these relatively light results.
What I don't see in the article is where the teeth are for the enforcement of a 10% of revenue fine on a company like FB, who are well kown for sticking lawyers and endless appeals onto anything they dislike.
It's all very well to say " You owe us ten percent of your revenue but what is the UK government going to do, send bailiffs tothe States to bang o Zuck's door?
Frankly, I think our own politicians with a modicum of input from favoured corporations, are a far greater threat to mankind and life as we know it, than any space dust borne bug the universe cares to throw at us.
If anything was alive in that dust, it won't be for long and if it should survive it will be trying to hitch a ride back into space.
No, nothing like Georgian or Armenian script and little similarity to cyrillic. My guess is he took the English alphabet, added a few common symbols including maths and flipped them around or reoriented them.
e.g. the Plimsoll line symbol is shown both horizontal and vertical.
While I was watching the My Friend Dario video, my wife remarked that the bikini girls dancing was rubbish.
Got a really dirty look when I replied that I hadn't noticed they were dancing:-)
I was wondering if the lifetime use of an allegedly green Hummer EV would offset the carbon footprint related to it's manufacture and production of all those 1000HP's worth of electrons?
"What are they actually after then?"
Perhaps what they are doing is compiling a list of people who have abilities that can get them added to a list.
One would think that intensive efforts to penetrate military security by friendly actors would be helpful in mitigating intensive efforts by those who are less than friendly.
@jon, From your third setence on, you are mostly correct. However I doubt the engines are being mass produced, that would imply cosumer market levels of production and I doubt that such a market exists.
Perhaps standardised would describe it better.
For what it is worth, the style and tone of The Register is what makes it stand out and what makes it worth reading as opposed to others with similar content.
Anyone who has read Ignition would know that RUDs are part and parcel of the learning process.
Fireworks now help to avoid future unwanted fireworks involving passengers.
I like the way SpaceX consistently think outside of the usual boxes and deliver the goods.
Impressed by the skydiving and flip!
There is no need for AI/ML or anyone/thing else to read those pages, the mere fact that someone has paid lawyers to write those multiple pages, is an assurance that there is nothing good for you in them.
Even in Europe with GDPR, many companies on their sites still make opting out as difficult as possible, in spite of the requirements that it should be clear and simple.
Aside from various national security issues it is obvious there is so much to be gained from hoovering personal data that commerce is against full protectiobas much as the TLAs are.
Is that you relinquish your privacy to Google, Faecebook et al who sell it to advertisers who then reimburse their costs by charging you for their unwanted ads when you purchase goods.
I wonder what proportion of that money the consumer parts with actually supports the internet rather than simply going into the pockets of the privacy robbers who are at liberty to sell your info again and again.
As an aside, see the article at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism re a meeting between zuck and Matt Hancock.
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. —Tolstoy"
I would go along with that sentiment.
The contemporary exhibitions I have been to have a fair percentage of art that fits that quote but a lot of the 'art' seems to be the 'artist' testing the extent of taking the piss and getting away with it.
Or there are some very troubled artists exhibiting.
Having been involved in an art project for a client a few years back, I discovered that in the contemporary art world, if your work provokes a reaction, it qualifies as art.
Whether the viewer or observer reacts in a good, bad or neutral manner, it is still art.
Accordingly, a fresh pile of poo on a podium each day would qualify, fortunately these attempts at monotonous monolithic art are slightly less objectionable. Re the copycats, Picasso always maintained that " Good artists copy, but great artists steal."
Fully autonomous self driving cars will be a thing around the same time I get a fully functioning Robo-butler™.
There would be more chances to achieve driverless cars with all vehicles under a central control that was glitch free, even that is not currently achievable and likely not very appealing to most people.
Some time back, my local council was flogging off all their prefabs as holiday homes, until a mate of mine pointed out they were mostly made of asbestos. Cue a panic to have them removed safely by teams of hazmat costumed demolition guys and desperately trying to track down those that were sold.
I blame what I call Sony-Phillips syndrome; all of these 'innovators' want to be the standard for their given niche so come up with some proprietry aspect that is protected by lawyers and only available to others under punishing licence deals, if at all.
Hence back in the day, various video tape formats, followed by laser disc formats etc etc.
IoT promises to be worse by several orders of magnitude.
If some genius comes out with 'One system to rule them all' whereby an app on your phone for example, can communicate/control all of the other Nests, Rings and Hues, he will be buried and suffocated by the pile of writs that will appear instantly.
The innovators of the world don't want to be part of the standard, they want to be The Standard and force everyone else to bow down to it.
This year's US defence budget was $934billion,
Arecibo's budget for 2019: $3.6million.
For the price of a couple of flying white elephants each year (F35), Arecibo could have been maintained at an adequate level.
But you can't project power with a big telescope as much as you can with a shiny warplane.
If you ate seventeen packets of cheese and onion crisps or a dozen packs of peanuts, I defy anyone to deny that is not a substantial meal.
The cops ought to be embarrassed at even attempting to police such unclear and undefined regulations.
All I can say, is thank his noodlyness FSM that I live in Spain and have no such problems.