* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Russia: Forget about the Nauka incident. Who punched the hole in the Soyuz, hmm?

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Obviously

There's no evidence that Belgian hackers were responsible - isn't that suspicious?

Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more

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Re: Primary?

>Can't get more elitist than "head of country"

The prime minister, apart from being 'first among equals' isn't head of the country. They are head of the government - which is roughly equal to head floater in a blocked sewer

COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free

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Re: A long way still to go

> my wife, who does in-home elder care, was able to get vaccinated before it was widely available

Yes, the problem is that the government here was a little too rigid in their plans.

So "healthcare workers" were the priority - but this meant hospital sysadmins and medical billing office workers were being jabbed before transit or supermarket workers.

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Re: Bound to happen unless real certificates are used

> thus avoiding biometric information

At some point the bouncer at the club has to confirm that the drunk in front of them corresponds to the digital ID on the computer - that is biometric

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Re: A long way still to go

who votes ?

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Re: Easy to copy

>WTF? How the heck can that work?!? Surely it should have some additional factor of identity check with it?

Well weed is legal and you can drink beer in public in the NL, so obviously they are godless commies so I assume the government forces them all to have QR codes on their foreheads

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Re: Enforcement it going to be tough

Why does the federal government need to know if I'm qualified to fly this aeroplane ?

Does the Federal government keep track of who operates a lawn mower or a model railroad ?

No they don't - now get out of the way and let me and my fake uniform onto this 737

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Re: Enforcement it going to be tough

Not wanting to get vaccine - fine stay at home isolated.

Not getting vaccinated and then faking an ID so you can go out and mix with as many people as possible - looks deliberate

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Re: Enforcement it going to be tough

Or the people who use them. This isn't like having a fake ID to buy booze, this is deliberately trying to spread a virus that kills people

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Re: A long way still to go

>Nice idea, but unfortunately they tend to be the ones who refuse the vaccine

I think the point was that after vaccinating the oldest most vulnerable, instead of then doing over 65s, then over 60s etc in strict order - it might have been better to switch to vaccinating 20year olds who mix with more people.

Should probably also have considered bus drivers, fast food workers who come into contact with more people before doing all the purely admin and lab workers in hospitals who were a priority

Good news: There's a slightly increased chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth. Bad news: It's still really slight

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Re: Thar's gold in them thar astyroids

>By 2182 we may be looking at ways to hard-land it in an unpopulated area.

By 2182 that might be easier than we thought

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Re: doh!

>My best "slack jawed" moment was on TV - how to extract DNA using household ingredients.

Red wine, soft music and lingerie also work...

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We must take steps to protect Keith Richards

India's return to space fails after first locally built cryogenic engine experiences 'anomaly'

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Re: what doesn't go up must come down

It's on an island outside the environment

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But it is now a "middle income country" because it has a space program + nuclear weapons - which puts it in the same category as China's $12K GDP

Launching a rocket is much easier than creating jobs for 1.3Bn people

Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)

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Re: As the building is in the UK

Shouldn't it be called not-a-lift?

GOP lawmakers ask for former Huawei handset biz Honor to be placed the Entity List

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Re: A seamless transition from Trump to Biden.

But you have to admit that the USA and AQ have been successful in keeping the Soviets out. There is very little chance of Afghanistan becoming part of the USSR.

And of course this will stop the czar from invading our empire in India

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Re: A seamless transition from Trump to Biden.

>What happens if not enough people volunteer? When the force falls below a certain level that's the trigger to pull out?

No that's the trigger to send in a film crew to do a blockbuster movie about the heroic last stand of Chuck the last man in Afghanistan

Although it might be easier to just do in CGI.

In fact it may be easier and cheaper to do the entire war in CGI. Instead of killing lots of people, spending $Tn, achieving nothing and then 20years later making a movie about how sad your soldiers were - just shoot the entire war in Holywood

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Re: Please get it through your heads

So currently the most secure is to get a Chinese phone with a Google ban and sideload apps

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Re: Gotta love it

>In the far east : Forced labour / In the west : minimum wage zero hour contract

>Difference?

The forced labour get healthcare ?

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Re: A seamless transition from Trump to Biden.

>bring home 20 year old kids with lifelong PTSD.

Make it a volunteer army.

Anybody who wants the US to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan simply has to call in at the local army base and arrange to be sent there. It would remove this silly age discrimination where 60 year olds aren't allowed to have their patriotism recognised

Looks like NSA now stands for Not Selecting Azure: US spy agency picks AWS over Microsoft

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Re: Crazy

The government running these services themselves would be communism - the government doing anything is communism

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Privatisation ?

Surely a true capitalist country would privatise all these 3 latter agencies?

Amazon buys the NSA, Microsoft could buy the CIA and Oracle own the DoD

Chinese espionage group targets Israel while suggesting the source could be Iran

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Re: SOP

Australia isn't real

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Re: SOP

What we should do is just make up a dummy test country to blame for all this.

Ideally one that has no economic impact, no exports and that nobody ever visits.

Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

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Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

>Gravity: Not just a good idea - It's the law

But Einstein's theory shows Newtons Law is wrong

Quantum theory shows Einstein is wrong

Loop Quantum Gravity shows both of them are wrong

String theory might show LQG is wrong - but nobody cares because String Theory is self evidently a load of fetid dingo's kidneys

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Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

Of course since Gravity is just a theory, that scientists all disagree on - I don't believe in falls

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Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

Please note this is not recommended if you fall and break your hip.

That needs crystals....

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Re: Nope, don't believe it.

Infecting animals does not mean that the animals are a sufficient reservoir to maintain a pandemic.

In the USA armadillos carry leprosy but there isn't an ongoing problem with lepers (perhaps thoughts and prayers cure leprosy)

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Re: Fairly worthless comparison

>Oxford University announced a malaria vaccine with 77% efficacy.

But try getting Republican mosquitos to take it

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Re: Meaning what exactly?

So my plan to save money on the LHC by commissioning a poll of 1M people to ask them the mass of the Higgs boson (margin of error 0.01%) wasn't a good idea ?

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Well obviously the drug companies should have had vaccine plants, optomised for this particular novel vaccine, built and staffed and sitting idle ready for such a contingency.

The same way that the NHS should have had 10x as many ICU beds sitting empty waiting for such an outbreak.

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Re: eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio

>The Polio vaccine is mandatory, at least in the US. So is the Smallpox vaccine.

Really? I thought the Smallpox vaccine was heavily restricted and was only handed out to US medics recently when there was a political scare about a terrorist bio-weapons attack (from Al-Queda's secret underground biotechnology labs)

And the polio vaccine isn't mandatory - pretty much no vaccine is mandatory in the US. Unless you are a soldier, in which case being shot at is also mandatory, so a covid jab probably isn't your biggest worry.

Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation

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Re: Dont go away mad, don't go away sad. just go away.

As long as we can style persecute those who use tabs in Python

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Re: Who? What?

Can't the PERL community use the same mechanism as the C++ standards committee ?

Thunder dome: 2 gendered pronouns enter one gendered pronoun leaves

Or FORTRAN's we have nukes, we make the rules

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Re: Lack of originality in curse words.

>I'm already coding in a lawn chair

Is that a euphemism for doing something inappropriate with a fried fish ?

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Re: FFS

But the nice thing about PERL is that you can type one line of anything and it will do something

the fun bit comes from working out what it will do

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Re: FFS

>Hmm now I why would we would limit connections on bog standard user accounts?!

Putting arbitrary limits on usage to make up for the fact that their model is entirely broken - the motto of DBAs everywhere

Boots on Moon in 2024? NASA OIG says you better moonwalk away from that date, because suits ain't ready

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Re: Time dilation?

And they had the Playtex Bra and Girdle Seamstresses

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Re: One BEEELION dollars

Or just send Geordies

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Re: Nasa priority

>you are fully qualified.

You are payload - the only qualification is look good on the press release, no convictions and preferably no proof that you abused any children.

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One BEEELION dollars

For some space suits?

Haven't they tried sports direct ?

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Nasa priority

>Sending the first woman and first person of color to the lunar surface

So as scientific as the Apollo missions?

At least this has fewer Nazis

Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount

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Re: Doesn't inspire confidence

However rule #0 is, avoid flying on anything built by a sole bidder on a government cost+ contract

Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

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To keep the space solar panels over a single point it needs to be in GSO.

This limits you to points near the equator

One of somerset's few natural disadvantages - is it's not in the tropics

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Re: Tesla scams.

>In fact, they can't even manage 100% ...

Which is why you put 2 regen brake generators on each wheel then they only need to be 51% efficient

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> and that can become the same type of cash cow as oil is for the saudis.

Which is why the Saudi's favourite nation state will destroy it.

You can now live life like Paul Allen on Microsoft cofounder's luxury yacht for '£1m a week'

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Re: Scale

>They could easily pay more to the staff, but they chose greed

Yes this was built on the backs of 1000s of starving developers in Redmond

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Re: Feel Free To Contradict me...

>he had two identical Octopus yachts. One in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific to avoid unseemly transits.

With Unix he could have just had a symlink

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