Re: I don't care
Yeah but nothing is actually going to happen. It's just empty words with no money or anything else to back them up.
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VP Mike Pence: I want Americans back on the Moon by 2024 (or before the Chinese get there)
100MW bit barn farm in Ireland faces planning appeal from – yep – same guy who helped sink Apple's application
FAANGs for the memories: Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when
Wednesday 27th March 2019 01:02 GMT 
Breakups don't mean shit
If the broken-up company isn't barred from just merging back together, then it's a waste of time.
The article mentions AT&T... look at https://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/att-merger-history/ to see how it all merged back together, and anyone can tell you that it's just as dickish as ever.
New Zealand cops cuff alleged jackasses who shared mosque murder video, messages online
Super Cali optimistic right-to-repair's negotious, even though Apple thought it was something quite atrocious
NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't!
Tuesday 19th March 2019 15:38 GMT
Boeing’s Starliner capsule not doing well either
It hasn't even done the pad abort test that SpaceX Crew Dragon did 4 years ago.
It appears the first Starliner uncrewed flight isn't going to happen until a month after Crew Dragon flies with actual crew.
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/with-crew-dragons-first-flight-complete-wheres-boeings-starliner/
Between SLS, Starliner, and the 737MAX... sheesh.
Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes
Tuesday 19th March 2019 15:29 GMT
Re: MCAS is being misportrayed
> why do we not hear about many failures
Because on the OG 737s, the AOA sensors aren't tied into a system that kills you if they fail, thus making the evening news.
In the OG models, they mainly run a display. The pilot notes it's wrong/disagrees with the copilot's display, and ignores it, logging a maintenance ticket. That does not make the evening news.
UK libraries dumped 11% of computers since 2010-11... everybody has one anyway, right?
Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report
College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system
Click here to see the New Zealand livestream mass-murder vid! This is the internet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter built!
Saturday 16th March 2019 01:12 GMT
Your "nutter on a rampage" is China's "Tiananmen Square"
I don't like this content, but I feel they have the right to rant. It's freedom of speech. I have the right not to listen as well, and I'm not going to.
I feel the moment we "clamp down on propaganda" we're no better than China or North Korea.
One moment the net can show something like this, but I also remember hearing about Tiananmen Square over IRC as it happened.
All good, leave it with you...? Chap is roped into tech support role for clueless customer
'Naut trio successfully dock at ISS after Soyuz rocket goes all the way
Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring
Wednesday 13th March 2019 14:01 GMT
How very Kerbal
“The dust close to the Sun just shows up in our observations, and generally, we have thrown it away,” — Russell Howard, US Naval Research Laboratory
"Pol was finally discovered when someone decided to write down the location of the pollen, after having given up on yet another failed attempt to be rid of the smudge." — Kerbal Astronomical Society
https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Pol
Strewth! Apoplectic Aussies threaten to blast noisy Google delivery drones out of the sky
Monday 11th March 2019 22:28 GMT
Shoot them down?
I thought Aussies had given up all their guns?
> government officials are still defiant
Are they *elected* government officials? Then the answer should be obvious. When they go for re-election, then there should be commercials and billboards reminding people "this is the drone man"
Hapless engineers leave UK cable landing station gate open, couple of journos waltz right in
It sounds like a new train line, but no: Compute Express Link is PCIe 5.0 server CPU-accelerator glue from Intel and pals
ICO, forgive me – it has been three weeks since I discovered my breach
Monday 11th March 2019 12:54 GMT
Re: What is the premise of this article?
This is noise. The article takes pains to say "discovering a breach" - the point at which someone technical turns to someone managerial and goes "oh shit, we've been haxz0red"
The point of the article is that management then goes on a CYA binge and tells everyone to keep schtum, until they're forced to come clean for some reason.
Liz Warren: I'll smash up Amazon, Google, and Facebook – if you elect me to the White House
Put down the cat, coffee, beer pint, martini, whatever you're holding, and make sure you've updated Chrome (unless you enjoy being hacked)
Champagne corks undocked as SpaceX brings the Crew Dragon back to Earth
IT guy at US govt fraud watchdog stole 16 computers from... US govt fraud watchdog
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ support to arrive in Linux 5.1
Google finally touts $150 pint-sized Linux dev board with Edge TPU AI math copro brains
Thursday 7th March 2019 10:15 GMT
Re: Another idea
Restaurants need to finally join the 19th century. For example, McDonald's food is horrible, and barely edible, but I go there because they've got an electronic ordering system where I don't need to stand in line for 10 minutes and then explain my order 4 times to the idiot at the register. "Yes, this is to-go. No, I don't want the meal, I just want the sandwich. No, I don't want the meal with any of that. No, I don't want fries. Yes, this is to-go. No, I don't want a drink. No, this is to-go. This. Is. To. Go. Not. Eat. In."
I can punch in what I want, pay, and sit down. Bonus is that the idiot at the register might lose her job.
Thursday 7th March 2019 09:55 GMT
Re: Another idea
Hey, here's an idea:
If your motherfucking online reservation system ACTUALLY WORKED, we wouldn't need this lash-up.
In the last 5 years, I've only used one restaurant reservation system that has worked. 90% of them fail in some technical way (e.g. a form getting a 404) and about 10% are where I show up and "what reservation? oh yeah sorry, our system doesn't actually work"
So these places deserve to lose business.
Silent Merc, holy e-car... Mflllwhmmmp! What is that terrible sound?
Hurrah for Apollo 9: It has been 50 years since 'nauts first took a Lunar Module out for a spin
Tuesday 5th March 2019 17:07 GMT
New IMAX Apollo 11 movie
I've heard several people, whose opinion on space stuff I respect highly, say that it's a magnificent movie and not to be missed.
Unfortunately, I'm nowhere near civilization (i.e. I live in Orlando) so there's no nearby IMAX theatres showing it. I guess it's time for a road trip.
I don't know if it's available on the other side of the pond. I hope so.
When 2FA means sweet FA privacy: Facebook admits it slurps mobe numbers for more than just profile security
SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown...
Monday 4th March 2019 15:09 GMT
Cool hatch shot from 2 views
One of the coolest things was showing the hatch opening with two views side-by-side. They had the view from ISS on one side, and the view from inside the capsule on the other.
That's the first time they've done that.
Also, it was strange how SpaceX sort of took over the NASA TV channel. Most of the show was done by SpaceX employees, and they even had the SpaceX jazz during pauses, which was unusual, as the NASA channel doesn't "do" music of any kind.
Sniff the love: Subaru's SUVs overwhelmed by scent of hair shampoo, recalls 2.2 million cars
'They took away our Cup-a-Soup!' Share your tales of bleak breakout areas with us
Saturday 2nd March 2019 00:55 GMT
Feminine sanitary supplies
I can't find the link now, but I remember reading an article by a female venture investor.
She'd check out the women's executive restroom, and if it didn't have a tampon dispenser (or it was empty) then she'd conclude the company was on the downswing and refuse to invest.
I seem to recall she said the test had something like a 95% success rate in predicting if the company went bust in the next 6-12 months.
Customer: We fancy changing a 25-year-old installation. C'mon, it's just one extra valve... Only wafer thin...
Saturday 2nd March 2019 00:30 GMT
Re: The dirtiest four-letter word...
For family emergencies like this, there's the ThinkGeek "No, I Will Not Fix Your Computer" t-shirt, backed up by "no, I mean it"
https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/388b/
And I'm in the "I'll convert it to Linux" camp, as it's far easier to ssh in from my phone when I'm 300 miles away on vacation and get "MAH COMPOOTER DIED" plus it's far less susceptible to the usual virus-laden emails from Nigeria.
Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace
Saturday 2nd March 2019 00:10 GMT
Yup. No different than the TSA here in the US.
People complain that security lines are 2-3 hours long (and recently I saw one stretching back to the parking lot, for god's sake) and they get their balls felt up, but they still insist on flying.
Here we have businesses use FB as their "website" then get pissy when I won't go there to check out their product.
Danger mouse! Potent rodents 'see' infrared after eyeballs injected with nanoparticles
We're not throttling you, says Vodafone, claiming slow vid streaming is down to the 'cards'
If at first you don't succeed, you may be trying to install that Slow Ring Windows 10 build
Nuisance call boss gets 8-year ban after trying to dodge firms' £700k fines
I say, that sucks! Crooks are harnessing hoovers to clean out parking meters in Chelsea
Thursday 28th February 2019 22:09 GMT
Loopholes
On this side of the pond, there's a loophole that since cashless parking meters don't involve cash, they aren't required to show time remaining. They only do so if you pay with cash.
So even though you paid for 30min and left after 10, the next guy has no way to see there's 20min remaining and is forced to pay.
And yes, the apps are equally as shite as the ones described above.
Foldables herald the beginning of the end of the smartphone fetish
Thursday 28th February 2019 10:37 GMT
Yeah I can see it
Well as you say, my rectangular phoneslab does most of what I need on a daily basis.
However, there are times when I'm wondering what restaurants are nearby, and my under-6" Moto G6 just doesn't do it. No matter how you cram the UI, listing 20-40 restaurants isn't going to fit, especially if you also want some sort of map.
It's just what a tablet is for, except a tablet doesn't fit in my pocket/on my bike and the need rarely crops up.
I sure as hell am skeptical of the technology though. I'm not only going to wait for v1.1, but possibly v2.0
Oh no, look out, Google, Facebook, and pals. You're doomed. Here comes another watchdog to, er, nip at your ankles
IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?
SpaceX's Demo-1 green lit for launch as Virgin enjoys a brief ménage à trois aboard VSS Unity
Monday 25th February 2019 22:21 GMT
Re: Spacex Fairing (as point of release) camera viewpoint is amazing.
> can we have the full landing video
That is probably all they have. Re-entry causes ionization of the atmosphere, which blocks radio transmissions. There are dodges such as trying to transmit to satellites through holes in the top of the ionization sheath, but I don't think SpaceX does that.
Monday 25th February 2019 22:18 GMT
Re: Virgin conducts its second flight to space
> I expect they'll continue to expand the flight envelope
No, because this was a full thrust flight, with the rocket "givin' it all she can, cap'n!" so there isn't anything to expand. Unless they fit a bigger rocket, this is as high as it goes.
Edit: if you look at pictures, you can see the rocket nozzle almost completely ablated (eroded away)
Nokia 9: HMD Global hauls PureView™ out of brand limbo
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