Its funny - these guys have done more than Bezos and Branston combined yet get barely any press attention. Snub or deliberate act of Rocket Lab to keep things on the QT?
Posts by Gordon 10
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Everyone's going to Mars: Rocket Lab joins the Red Planet Fan Club
Asahi Linux progress: Apple Silicon OS works – though it's 'rough around the edges' and has no GUI acceleration
Friday 20th August 2021 15:26 GMT
Re: Good to see that the old saw about arguing with an idiot is still true.
"Yeah, if all those rational rebuttals like "did you knock your head?" and "Smash up your computer" don't work then just take the piss some more, eh?"
You're not a regular visitor to these parts are you? If you were you'd know taking the piss is why TheRegister exists and that includes the forums too.
Tesla promises to build robot you could beat up – or beat in a race
UK's Newport Wafer Fab now under Chinese ownership
China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules
Monday 16th August 2021 13:17 GMT
Re: I long for the days of yore...
Leaving aside the temp and altitude - the main point was that failure to start was historically ridiculously common. Noone sane wants to go back to the days of a choke.
Failure of electronic starting cars has banished this to virtually non-existent in comparison.
Branson sews cash parachute for Virgin Atlantic with $300m Virgin Galactic share sale
GOP lawmakers ask for former Huawei handset biz Honor to be placed the Entity List
Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount
Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?
Monday 9th August 2021 15:50 GMT
Actually its been done in SciFi books several times. The Troy Rising trilogy by John Ringo is the most recent example that springs to mind, albeit with sunlight and solar mirrors but that's just a wavelength difference.
Just like in Elite - anything powerful enough to use for mining makes a hell of an expedient weapons system.
(American MilSciFi warning re Ringo)
SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff
Monday 9th August 2021 13:43 GMT
The difference is that there's a host of small satellite slingers and Branson's doesnt appear any better than the rest, so by that measure he's a dilettante at best.
No-one appears to be coming close to SpaceX's cost per tonne to orbit. I doubt many people like Musk for sheer gobbiness alone, but he appears to be at least 2-3 years ahead of everyone else in capability and more in terms of cost to orbit.
Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after 'significant lapse in communication'
Dang vaccines dented our bottom line in the connected home sector, says Netgear
NSO Group 'will no longer be responding to inquiries' about misuse of its software
Thursday 22nd July 2021 13:01 GMT
SWaaS
The key lesson here. Just because you can offer SWaaS. (SpyWare as a Service) doesn't mean you should. I bet this all started with some suit ordering their techies to do it over their objections.
Sometimes arm's length is best. Seldom do arms dealers hang around near a war zone. NSO should take a lesson from them.
Windows 11 gets chatty as Teams integration turns up
The old New: Windows veteran explains that menu item
South Korea tables law to remove app stores' in-app purchase monopolies
Wednesday 21st July 2021 16:44 GMT
Re: Five per cent
They (Apple, Google) should be landed with a flat fee approach. The app stores costs are fixed and have no relation to the price of the app. In app payment via alternative channels should be explicitly protected by law, and contractual ways of working around them explicitly made unenforceable.
AWS gave Parler a chance, won't say if it talked to NSO before axing spyware biz's backend systems
Wednesday 21st July 2021 12:20 GMT
Re: Is that good enough for mission-critical operations?
Define mission critical in this case. If you mean grey/black hat stuff needs to spread between clouds I agree with you. OR if you mean borderline illegal content I agree with you.
If you mean run of the mill corporate business I don't in this context - which is Vendor takedowns. If you mean for true-cost-no-object resiliencey I agree but that's besides the point of this article.
Wednesday 21st July 2021 12:16 GMT
Re: So they're all working with NSO
Errr except AWS now. Did you even read the article? Azure or GCP werent mentioned either.
And how do you expect them to assess their clients morals proactively?
Do you really want AWS pro-actively blocking usage ala Apples App Store if it doesn't comply to their self selected prudery?
So apart from everything you say being wrong I agree with you.
Impromptu game of Robot Wars sparks fire in warehouse at UK e-tailer Ocado
Monday 19th July 2021 08:54 GMT 
Is there a design flaw in their warehouses?
Since this is at least the second in a few short years, I'm wondering if there is either something wrong with the physical design or their processes - maybe they hesitate to hit the sprinklers too long?
Since they only have 5 of these centres (quick google could be wrong) 40% of them catching fire seems a bit worrying.
Euro space boffins hatch comms satellite hijack plan to save Earth from extinction
Wednesday 14th July 2021 09:36 GMT
Re: Launchers?
I think the more interesting question is given a 3 month lead time whether the number of available Falcon stacks of either type would exceed the number of available launch sites (including turnaround time).
Edit : Interestingly enough SpaceX "only" appears to have ~23 Falcon Block5 boosters due to their high refurbishment rates. One booster has had 10 launches! Still I guess even in the low teens they have more active boosters than anyone outside of US and Russian military ICBM's.
I was fired for telling ICO of Serco track and trace data breach, claims sacked worker
Monday 28th June 2021 17:12 GMT 
Schoolgirl Error
Unfortunately this lady appears to have made several schoolgirl errors in bringing her case which Im guessing will make it doomed to failure, albeit its not clear what elements of her case remain from quick skim of the judgement.
It looks like the initial judgement for "interim relief" was for a stay execution.
2 obvious errors :
1. She is confusing or attempting to conflate "worked for" with "employed by"
2. You never ever send 116 "stream of consciousness" emails to a tribunal, you make limited and deliberate updates of material evidence.
3. Those 116 mails suggest she is taking it personally. No matter how personal it is losing your objectivity is a recipe for disaster. By all means be angry - but dont let that stop you acting with a clear head with the tribunal.
I dont hold out much hope for her no matter how justified or not her case might be.
She might be better off researching her agency employer who is using the mini-umbrella's and dobbing them into HMRC. She may not get much satisfaction from that route either but it would have been worth a punt at less cost and effort to her.
Deutsche Bank stuffs Oracle systems in on-prem cloud while Google scoops lion's share of white fluffy workloads
Saturday 26th June 2021 21:00 GMT
Re: I wonder what Oracle has on Deutsche Bank?
I doubt it. The simple matter is that if you have mission critical or simply important brown field Oracle workloads then Oracle Cloud is by far the simplest and cheapest migration path. It’s not even particularly expensive compared to a huge migration to another DB. Also their cloud charges are pretty low (for now).
Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack
Friday 25th June 2021 16:20 GMT
Stop using whataboutery to justify a data monetisation grab.
Firstly your chance of actually being unconscious in A&E are small, secondly they already have protocols to deal with those scenarios. Thirdly if that was actually what they are doing with it it would probably get broad support.
What they are actually doing is a vast data grab with assumed opt-in and no right to delete at a later date and some questionable pseudo-anonymisation and then letting the fucking Nazgul to name just one grey actor at it. Each one of those is a red flag in its own right. All together it’s riskier than Matt Hancock discharging your granny to a care home in early 2020.
The chances of it ending in disaster are approximately equal to those of Matt Hancock hooking up with one of his Aides.
BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves
Dozens of Iranian media websites devoured by the Great Satan, apparently
Wednesday 23rd June 2021 08:40 GMT 
Under what basis was this performed?
I know Iran is under US and other sanctions but under what authority were these websites taken down - apart from Might makes Right of course.? Were they US hosted? Or is the US abusing its control/influence over TLD's, and applying their own censorship rules?
To be clear I could care less about the Iranians - more about whether this is a potentially illegal act by the USA.
Vissles V84: Mechanical keyboard hits all the right buttons for Mac power users
Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures
Thursday 17th June 2021 17:15 GMT
Re: Rich playground
"How are they going to differentiate classic pump and dump schemes from a legitimate company that is doing well?"
Its part of the design that they are not. Their cronies will pump and leave innocent investors with the dump. Just another way of politicians shitting over their electorate.
Thursday 17th June 2021 17:13 GMT
Re: Brexit bollocks
Well said sir!
This is just the usual bunch of overly opinionated ideologically inflexible fuckwits on a charge to see what else they can fuck up whilst the consequences from Brexit still play out like a slow motion car crash.
What galls me is these wankers always refuse to take responsibility for their actions and refuse to act consistently in their actions, then act fake surprised when the world calls them on it. The current sausage war being a prime example of them being hoist on their own petard. See also the DUP.
No surprise when they are led by the adulterer in chief and one of the biggest liars ever to hold office.
Davis may be a brexit supporting prick but at least on data he had some sane opinions.
UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets
$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight
BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England
Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec
Ubuntu, Wikimedia jump ship to the Libera Chat IRC network after Freenode channel confiscations
AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'
Friday 28th May 2021 11:08 GMT 
spending limit cannot be applied to pay as you go ...in production,
For the above I think this is reasonable of MS here.
By definition the act of releasing your code into Production should include impact analysis of the changes which should include a pretty robust assessment of the charging/scaling expectations, followed up by a period of aftercare where things like resource utlliization are monitored more closely than usual.
TL:DR. - Dont use the production tier if you dont use/understand SDLC.
SDLC along with real robust test plans are what separates software professionals from gifted* amateurs imo. Just because you have the job title and the pay grade don't mean you are, and lets face it we've all met even some very senior people who fall in this bucket - and take their colleagues/teams down with them.
* I leave it the reader to define what this means.
Snowden was right, rules human rights court as it declares UK spy laws broke ECHR
Let us Play: Smartphone brand Honor lets slip it has gained access to Google Mobile Services licences
UK data watchdog fines 'pandemic partner' biz £8k: It sent 84,000 marketing emails to people who'd given info for track and trace
Wednesday 19th May 2021 17:03 GMT
Re: "it had faced technical difficulties"
Whilst I dont disagree with your point I came here full of the same piss and vinegar only to discover reading between the lines that these guys had effectively set themselves up as a MITM generating QR codes to be passed along to the NHS.
So this was essentially a MITMA *on* NHS Track and Trace not *by* Track and Trace. I leave it to the reader to decide if the enabling of a MITM is a deliberate action by the Govt to enable some arms length Pork Barrelling.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
