* Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Trouts on a plane: Utah drops fish into lakes from aircraft and circa 95% survive

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Yes but there would only be a few actual fish.

People aren't going to go fishing when there are only 6 fish in the lake

There needs to be lots of fish to attract lots of fisherpersons - to feed the bears

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Re: Only trout ?

fetchez la vache

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Only trout ?

Idaho did this with beavers - although they were given parachutes

Utah does have a program to re-introduce wolves - doesn't say if they are planning to catapult them

Facial-recognition technology gets a smack in the chops from civil rights campaigners

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What's the problem?

You don't like being face-scanned at High St store X = don't shop on High St at store X !

Hey High St Store X - you know how the high street is fscked and everyone is shopping online and you are going bust?

You know how you are now driving your few remaining customers to boycott you ?

Yeah, perhaps don't do that !

Hubble, Hubble, toil and trouble: NASA pores over moth-eaten manuals ahead of switch to backup hardware

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And if you are going to get into a limo with a drunk driver and recreate Ronin - wear a seat belt

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Re: Sounds Like...

>can't they just make a new Hubble and launch it?

Hubble was super-compromised by it's need to work with Shuttle, and be built from a KH-11 spy satelite. It's not what you would build today.

Arguably neither is JWST, if you assume launches are now relatively cheap and regular you might go for a production line of 2-3 year launch cycle with new instrument technology on a common bus.

For all it's whizzy space technology - the best thing Hubble did in terms of research/$ was the whole Space Telescope Science Institute, the IRAF software infrastructure, the data archive and the funding for post-docs.

It led to a much more efficient processing and publishing than typical astronomy of the time - although ground based has learned a lot from it.

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Re: Sounds Like...

>Could an astronaut wearing a EVA suit exit and enter the Dragon? Is there space to dress and undress the suit?

Couldn't we just send Geordies astronauts ?

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Re: Sounds Like...

Mar a Lago = 26.67N

Hubble orbit inclination = 28.5 deg

So yes, Cthullu willing, it could hit Florida man

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Re: Sounds Like...

NASA fitted an attachment point at the last Shuttle servicing mission - but there is no plan to use it.

The current plan is to let it reenter and not worry because it can't hit the continental USA (except for bits of Florida that nobody cares about)

Boffins find an 'actionable clock' hiding in your blood, ticking away to your death

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Re: Open access

In case people didn't get the joke: city_of_london_police_sci_hub_warning

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Re: Cool...

Still better than systemd

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Re: Is this a good thing?

Or in the short term - they identify the gene and then refuse to sell medical insurance to the people without it, or life insurance and pensions to those with it.

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Re: Open access

Obligatory Police Warning: open access journal sites offering free access to tax payer funded research support terrorism and drug smuggling (probably)

G20 finance ministers agree plan to make multinationals pay their 'fair share' of tax

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Re: Realities?

No in the USA not-Fox == communist

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Re: EU backs it...

>" Even the Unionists in NI have been sold down the river by the Brexit fundamentalists.

Well obviously an Independant Scotland would be split into separate Rangers/Celtic states - that way everyone will be happy there won't be any problems in future

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Re: Surely they knew?

Because they need to pay duty and tariffs on the stuff from China, they just get away with it on your $1 phone case - they wouldn't if Tencent was selling $Bn of software in the Eu

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Re: EU backs it...

How screwed is Ireland when Scotland gets independance and joins the Eu?

It offers even lower corporate tax rates to US corporations and has whisky and golf courses.

How many "Irish" voters in Boston offset the number of voters with "their" own tartan?

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Re: EU backs it...

> if HMRC called IP fees within the connected group of companies as non-deductible.

So if a movie or music or software company sells in the UK they pay 100% tax because they can't count the costs of the movie/music/software production because it was all IP ?

Lenovo says it’s crammed a workstation into a litre of space – less than three cans of beer

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Before USB-C it was worse, as the laptops got thinner the PSU brick got bigger.

Dell had these 80W power bricks the size of desktops - and it gave you a snotty BIOS message if you tried to use a smaller one.

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Re: Work from home

And more importantly the secret plans for the death star are held centrally rather than copied to a dozen peoples random home machines

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Work from home

Animators and similar creators are unlikely to be able to take the 'assets' they are working on home. If they are working from home they are remote desktop-ing into their workstation at work where all the work is.

Western Approaches Museum: WRENs, wargames, and victory in the Atlantic

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Re: Seems a security risk

>Either there was a mole high up in German Intelligence, or Bletchley Park etc tipped them off to trap them when they landed, or find them if they were native, either way then taking control of them.

Generally they were just totally incompetent.

German high command wasn't really into spying - except on each other. The nice thing about paranoid personality cult dictatorships is that they don't really encourage secretive plots among their underlings.

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Seems a security risk

You have a wall size map showing where all your convoys are and a staff of 100s who can see it everyday.

You are rather trusting that all these people are 100% on your side

NASA signs $1bn deal with Northrop Grumman to build studio apartment in lunar orbit with room for 3 vehicles

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Re: $187 million for a "small studio apartment"

Mostly ocean view and no neighbours

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Re: Should have SpaceX do it

But the point is that Northrop Grumman haven't had a new fighter contract for a while and we need to keep them in business so that they will keep funding my election campaign /we have some competition to Boeing-Lockheed

Desktop PC sales bounce back – but only because of laptop component shortages

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Re: Not a fan of fans

You just put the laptop out of the way on a shelf under the desk and use a monitor and USB mouse/keyboard

Richard Branson uses two planes to make 170km round trip

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Re: Uses two planes...

No it isn't stunning.

SpaceX is stunning -landing on legs on a barge to reuse the 1st stage is stunning.

The NZ company that is trying to use electric motors to run the turbo pumps to simplify the insanely complex engineering in a rocket engine is stunning.

Doing little more than a 1950s X15 rocket plane just to claim you have "been to space" is not stunning because it doesn't lead anywhere. If you want a highly supersonic trans pacific aeroplane you don't start with a suborbital not-really-spaceflight.

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Re: Is that it?

>That could have been said about Yuri Gagarins first flight, or that of Alan Shepherd.

You can definitely say that about Shepherd's.

The Rooskies have put a man into orbit - can we do that?

No Mr President, but we can shoot a man up and come back down - that's much easier

Do the voters understand the difference?

No Mr President, we made sure our public education really sucks - that's the problem with building our own rockets

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Re: Indeed

Especially since their rocket is a similarly pointless project: get to an arbitrary height and fall back and hope the people reading the press release don't realise the difference between getting to space and getting to orbit.

Musk would have more right to smirk, but understands how to do PR effectively

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Re: Uses two planes...

And a rail replacement bus service ?

South Korean uni installs lavatory that pays out when you spend a penny

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Re: How does it verify the "goods"?

Smile for the camera !

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Just don't ask for a refund

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Wanna feel old? It is 10 years since the Space Shuttle left the launchpad for the last time

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Re: The food and water and air scales with the mass of astronauts

All the space shuttle next-generation crew would need to do is to press a button to launch a satelite and you could have the button on the ground.

The purpose of the astronauts is mostly to justify having a manned space program cos that's some Buck Rogers shit for men while launching space telescopes on Ariane is like nerd science stuff

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Re: Still feel bad about it

The food and water and air scales with the mass of astronauts - and so does the HVAC to support them.

So either umpa-lumpas or better still supermodels, them you save the food entirely

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Re: Still feel bad about it

And breed tiny astronauts.

The problem with the Space shuttle was the need to have 7 massively heavy squared jawed test pilots to unload each satelite.

If you started with eg. jockeys and gymnasts and started breeding ever smaller astronauts then you could substantially reduce the mass of the crew and associated life support systems.

So long as you used the same Peter Jackson + Hobbits camera trickery to make them look like 6ft6 Space Marines for the publicity shots they would be just as effective while saving a massive amount of launch mass

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Re: Good.

>Imagine instead that the USSR had "won" the space race

Then Russia and China would be the only governments capable of launching people into orbit

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Coat

I was on set when we filmed it

Revealed: Perfect timings for creation of exemplary full English breakfast

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Re: add condiments to taste.

Not with that attitude

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Re: add condiments to taste.

Mobius plates?

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add condiments to taste.

So el'reg is too chicken to get involved in the great brown sauce vs ketchup wars ?

Suck on this: El Reg forces dog hair, biscuit crumbs, and disconcertingly sticky stains down two mini vacuums

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Re: Why an app for the upright?

>because it usually needs rescuing at least once.

What would be awesome is a fleet of household robot thunderbirds that come out and automatically rescue it

That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews

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Re: Current par for the present course of future event horizons

>they have the appearance of English, but without semantic meaning

So a management consultant then?

OK, you're paying data charges in the EU, but you can still roam free in, er, Iceland

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Re: We're slashing red tape!

You'd trust this government with duct tape ?

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Re: We're slashing red tape!

We're slashing red tape by introducing new rules that say you can't charge for roaming.

The new rules are blue tape, or perhaps turquoise at worst, definitely not red

Focus on the camera, mobile devs: 48MP shooters about to become the sweet spot

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Re: "35mm film is equivalent to about 8.6MP"

Except with color film you got the results of what could be achieved by the chemistry after passing through the previous 2 layers of chemistry.

Digital imagers have much better color gamut than film and much better control of the result - when done right. Movies aren't just shot on digital now because the millennials like iPhones

Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest

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That's a very sexist comment! Just because I have a physics PhD doesn't mean I'm not a attractive young women or 6ft of ripped beef cake.

(Rather than a balding 40 something trying to hold my gut in at the gym)

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And what's wrong with a wet t-shirt? Mine normally has wet coffee on it at some point

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