Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Legal Scholars?

Surely a government employee should be free to say whatever they want, irrespective of "facts" ?

And yet this simple first amendment stance got me fired as an air traffic controller

You mean Florida man "sues" people all the time

Re: The oxygen of publicity

In the words of the late great Linda smith:

"I don't really like you saying his name, because it gives him the oxygen of publicity and I'm not happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen."

Re: It is not skills..

I don't want to appear prejudiced but I don't think AWK should be acceptable behavior in public - won't somebody think of the children ?

Re: Ages of IT specialists

>I wonder who the 50 year old members are.

The grand-children of the previous committee.

Re: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour

> So I suppose BIPOC means "nearly everybody".

Except those bloody Anglo-Saxons and Normans

It's a perfect system - all us greybeards understand the maths and physics behind the problem we are working on and the millennials know about docker, build systems and package managers.

The maths and physics haven't changed much since Legendre wor a lad but the toy technologies change every 3 years - so we just replace the kiddies with each new fashion.

Re: Ages of IT specialists

The MCC looked around the committee room and discovered that women don't exist and so there is no reason to consider admitting them

Re: Electronics sector is the polar opposite.

>Nope no one is on anything as low as £30K. Are these for new grad positions? Or are you looking at jobs outside of the US/Europe?

Or just outside London

Re: It is not skills..

>Generally, the rule is that there's no obligation to fill the quota, but if you don't want to, you pay more taxes

There is no obligation to follow the law, but if you don't want to you pay more fines

Re: It is not skills..

>Also, although I am gay, I do get confused with all the letters after "LGBT" and what they mean.

Dear facist please report to your nearest re-education workshop for re-programming.

I think we will have training updates on new letters as often as we have mandatory GDPR compliance

Re: It is not skills..

And ensure the dept is 51% women, 15% non-white, 10% gay and 1% people-who-use-emacs

Re: It’s not 15 years

I can't really see the advantages of this for battleship guns - other than there is no other way that the Navy is going to get the DoD to pay for a new battleship after Pearl Harbor

For a close in defense system - ability to put a lot of metal between you and an incoming unwanted gift basket very very quickly, and the ability to not run out of ammunition this might be a good idea.

Re: It’s not 15 years

>but it's hard to compete with the energy density and "recharge speed" of chemical energy storage (a.k.a. chemical propellants).

But it is very easy to run out of 16inch shells, and Amazon delivery takes forever to Jutland. You can store a lot more steel ball bearings.

There is also the advantage that you don't have a big room full of explosive in the middle of your boat which can be an issue if you come up against a boat full of particularly belligerent Germans.

Re: Further cunning plans

The odd thing about defence stories is that, by contrast, amanfromMars makes sense

In the early 80s the USA blocked the import of Japanese LCD screens to protect the US manufacturers of this vital defence component.

So Sharp partnered with Toshiba to make laptops themselves to have a market for their screens - worked out rather well for them.

Re: Next to learn

The GNU Hurd kernel is still Perl though?

Re: Well done

>We shouldn't be giving a platform to countries with not exactly great human rights track record.

You might want to look at the history of the USA space program

Re: Well done!

>never realised space had to demonstrate a profit back then.

That's what's been holding it back - imagine how aircraft would be if only the US govt had been involved in their development.

We would be attempting to repeat the first crossing of the Atlantic with a new expensive disposable aeroplane

Re: Well done

While Apollo astronauts were chosen in a free capitalist manner by whoever bid the highest

The virgin is still an air launched missile once it gets dropped form the carrier

In a way it's riskier, you are relying on the carrier aircraft not having a bad day as well as the rocket gizmo working.

That's one of the issues the Pegasus system had

Re: Low hanging fruit

Although Yuri did actually orbit and re-enter, not just zoom up 100km and fall back down.

Amazing when you think we went from Wright Brothers to Earth orbit in <60years and in another 60years we have gone from Sputnik to grocers being able to not really get to space

Re: Low hanging fruit

And managing it only 60years after a hero of the Soviet union did it first

Re: Maximum weekly working hours

My partner does on-call weekends, fortunately its a union job so gets paid, but it does mean they have to be by their phone and computer all weekend - so can't go out anywhere unless you are sure the cell reception is good

Re: Maximum weekly working hours

Does it also mean that you can never have a drink because you might need to drive into the office/data-center, that you need to have child/pet care available 24x7 at no notice, that you can never travel more than 1 hour from the office/datacenter etc etc

Re: Outsource Email to Kyndryl

Free advice to global businesses intending to mostly do business with other serious global businesses and governments.

Don't rename yourself like a god from the Cthullu mythos that nobody can spell - it isn't big and it isn't clever.

Re: "laid the blame on IBM CFO James Kavanaugh"

>IBM does have a CTO, right

No, it turns out he was over 50 so they made him redundant and outsourced the job

Re: Bean counters?

More to the point if IBM can't use Notes because it would be insecure having their data on another companies servers - why would anyone else run Notes ?