So essentially they need a Linus Torvalds, that swears a lot and throws out crap commits...
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At 900k lines of code, ONOS is getting heavy. Can it go on a diet?
Are you sure your disc drive has stopped rotating, or are you just ignoring the messages?
Forget Finding Nemo: This AI can identify a single zebrafish out of a 100-strong shoal
Oh, SSH, IT please see this: Malicious servers can fsck with your PC's files during scp slurps
It's raining, then? Hallelujah. Big Blue super 'puter sharpens forecasts
Monday 14th January 2019 20:02 GMT 
Observations
So here in Orlando, we have I-4, which is a major road cutting from Tampa in the SW, to Daytona in the NE. It's one of the reasons Disney is here, as a matter of fact.
I ride a motorbike and we get lots of liquid sunshine in the summer, so I have a keen interest in the precipitation and have bought apps such as PYKL3 that even show the radar from the local international airport in addition to the usual Nat'l Weather Svc stuff.
Anyway... a lot of time the rains come from the west, hit "the I-4 corridor" and evaporate. You can see where the roadway is the hard edge of the rainstorm.
Makes me wonder if these models account for anything like that.
SpaceX sends Iridium-8 into space while Musk flaunts his retro rocket
Just for EU, just for EU, just for EU: Forget about enforcing Right To Be Forgotten outside member states
Windows 10 Insiders sent on quest deep into Registry to fetch goblet of Reserved Storage
The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit
IBM insists it's not deliberately axing older staff. Internal secret docs state otherwise...
Typical! You wait ages for a fast radio burst from outer space, and suddenly 13 show up
Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free
Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election
Thursday 10th January 2019 10:06 GMT
Don't believe ANY of it
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
— Michael Crichton
US trade watchdog, mobe makers queue to smack Qualcomm as antitrust trilogy opens
Huawei's 5G security scrutiny pain could be Cisco's gain – analysts
LA Times knocked out, HackerOne slips up and – amazingly – router security still sucks
I'm just not sure the computer works here – the energy is all wrong
Friday 4th January 2019 15:48 GMT
Re: No interference?
> If you have some time, take a few of those imported gems apart. You will have nightmares.
Check out Big Clive on YouTube. He specializes in disassembling such stuff and pointing out the nightmares with great understated humor. He's a Manx-man with a very large beard.
https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom
Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight
Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate
Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook
Thursday 3rd January 2019 16:25 GMT
Re: Surprising people still buy iPhones at all
> Unless somebody is locked into the Apple ecosystem
There's yer magic words.
I had to help a friend over Xmas, transferring from an old iPad (pro?) because Apple charges nearly $400 US to fix the dead battery, so he bought a new one instead. And the new one only does USB-C so I had to dig up an A-C cable for him so he could something-something itunes and transfer data.
His family can't use laptops... oh no, they've **got** to have iPads. Oh well, his money, not mine.
Open-source devs: Wget off your bloated festive behinds and patch this user cred-blabbing bug
New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?
DXC hit with sueball over layoff steamroller's share price dip
Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7
It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?
Wednesday 2nd January 2019 08:11 GMT
Re: Electric sheep
> 2) declutter
I got tired of my 2ft ball-'o-USB-cables, and finally sorted them into ziplock bags, labeled by connector types.
During Christmas dinner, it saved a friend who'd bought an Apple product that wouldn't speak to the USB-C port on his lowly non-Apple laptop. I had the appropriate A-C cable. He was impressed I was able to lay hands on it instantly.
Tuesday 1st January 2019 21:14 GMT
Re: Where we are vs. Sci Fi predictions
> If it were not for LBJ and 'The Great Society'
Sigh. Actually, LBJ was in great favor of the space program and did a lot to keep Apollo going after Kennedy was killed. He was fucked (along with the rest of the country) by the Vietnam war though, which was a money sink for everything.
Don't forget that Apollo 13 was not televised until after the accident because "people were already bored of it" * after 2 Moon flights.
* Not sure who/how that was determined.
Millennium Buggery: When things that shouldn't be shut down, shut down
Bored IT manager automates Millennium Eve checks to ditch snoozing for boozing
GDPR: Four letters that put fear into firms' hearts in 2018
Staff sacked after security sees 'suspect surfer' script of shame
Wednesday 26th December 2018 16:17 GMT
Re: The mistake was to use them for blackmailing intead of simply blocking the domains
> Here employees remote monitoring is explicitly forbidden
I don't see how you can forbid monitoring of company resources. Using the company's bandwidth to surf porn is not very different from using the expensive Haas CNC to machine something pornographic/offensive. Reading the access logs is no different from walking over to see what your employee is working on.
Could you speak up a bit? I didn't catch your password
An upset tummy and a sphincter-loosening blackout: Lunar spaceflight is all glamour
Monday 24th December 2018 19:56 GMT
Re: Lunch from both ends?
No. There isn't any military strength stuff... they just had basic over-the-counter Dramamine. Even after all the Shuttle research, there isn't really good anti-nausea medication that works on most people.
I did hear that Borman held his logs in the whole flight, as he really didn't want to use the onboard toilet "facilities" - if you've ever met Frank Borman, you'd see he's a guy that could say "I'm not going to shit for 5 days" and mean it.
Space sickness (aka space adaptation syndrome) was not really understood as a major problem until the Shuttle.
The astronauts (and fighter pilots) consider medics to be the enemy, since they have the power to instantly ground them, so there's an institutional prejudice against talking to doctors. Being astronauts, they hid being sick really well. Just how well was not appreciated for decades.
Rusty Schweickart was the first astronaut to openly mention space sickness during his stand-up EVA on Apollo 9 and it seriously harmed his career. It was seen as "how come he's the only one getting sick? whatta pussy!" when it was actually a case of "he's the only one to open his mouth"
Silicon Valley CEO thrown in the cooler for three years, ordered to pay back $1.5m for bullsh*tting investors
50 years ago: NASA blasts off the first humans to experience a lunar close encounter
Friday 21st December 2018 19:14 GMT
Re: Uhhh, huh??
> With STS, the plan was to detach the shuttle from the fuel tank during launch, and theoretically allow it to glide back to the launch site. This was not flight tested.
Only after the solids burned out. While they were lit, there was no abort scenario, and turning off a solid rocket is a violent procedure itself, so that's not possible.
Also, RTLS was an option, but there was about realistically only 30% chance you wouldn't get Shuttle confetti back. It was right at the limits for everything and had to go perfectly for things to stay in one piece.
> One of those (13) was a mission failure and almost lost the crew. That is a 9% failure rate. STS had 135 flights. Two of those were failures. That is a 1.5% failure rate
Or another way to look at it. Apollo killed 3 crew. Shuttle killed 14.
Now personally I would fly Shuttle, Soyuz, Apollo, or any damn thing, so I can't throw stones.
Friday 21st December 2018 19:08 GMT
One of the near-misses that would have killed a LOT of people, is if Apollo 13 happened on the pad.
Not only would the explosion have damaged lots of things, but a Service Module fire had the possibility of igniting the Launch Escape rocket above it, and that would have been a Bad Day At The Pad.
Friday 21st December 2018 18:53 GMT
Re: Remeber those heady days of the Apollo missions well
> Me too. Sad that in less than 60 years the US has gone gone from
Used to have a t-shirt saying "We went from landing on the Moon to "This bag is not a toy!" in 40 years"
It got a LOT of side-eye looks and disparaging comments, but no-one could argue it wasn't true.
EU politely asks if China could stop snaffling IP as precondition for doing business
Introducing 'Happy Quit', where Chinese smokers are text-spammed into nicotine abstinence
American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops 'cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport'
Tuesday 18th December 2018 22:02 GMT
"Citizen or alien, agents can rifle through your stuff if you're within 100 miles of the border, and without a warrant"
They say they can, but it's simply that nobody has actually contested it.
And "within 100 miles of the border" is a huge chunk of the population, too. For example, since they consider the coastline to be a border, that's almost 100% of Florida and 90% of the population of New York and California.
"asked if he was under arrest, and if he needed a lawyer [...] was told no" is what I've always been told means you're free to go in so many words. That's the legal question you're advised to ask the police or whoever is holding you, and it's very important. That's going to go a long way towards illegal detention there.
Scrubtastic end to 2018 as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace all opt for another day on Earth
The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones
Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight
Oh Deer! Poacher sentenced to 12 months of regular Bambi screenings in the cooler
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