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'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries

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The Watchkeeper had a problem with it's altimeter on landing IIRC

One advantage of aircraft carriers is that they are pretty constantly at sea level (plus a bit)

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Apparently they were 'pleasantly surprised' at the idea of having a bar on warship.

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Will they understand our banter?

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Re: Phew!

>we didn't design an entire aircraft carrier so it could only fly this type of fighter

But then built a pair of aircraft carriers that couldn't actually fly this type of fighter

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>Finding enough ground staff for servicing might by tricky.

Which was solved by cancelling the landing gear option

ESA gives UK space an £8.5m Boost: Rocketeers eye a 2022 launch

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Re: That's a wad 'o bucks!

>Now winter in Newcastle is bitterly cold.

Naw, T-shirt weather, man

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Re: That's a wad 'o bucks!

That's why it's being launched from Scotland - the space kilt is much cheaper.

Of course a Geordie spacesuit is the simplest of all

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Re: "150kg to low earth orbit"

Aimed at beating a 2023 DLR mission which will put down towels in orbit

UK prime minister Boris Johnson reluctant to reveal his involvement in the OneWeb deal

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Re: When is he going to build a bridge

>Have Canadians taken over the NI chippies?

Canada managed to take a traditional NI delicacy and make it 'less healthy'

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Re: Clueless

>"We've had enough of so-called experts"

>UK Minister for the Cabinet Office

At the risk of being fair to the slithy Tove, he actually said this about experts from economic 'think tanks'.

I think we have had enough of 'experts' from the "Heritage Foundation of Liberty, Freedom and Market Forces" saying that tax cuts are needed to fight covid.

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Re: Clueless

The UK is a major international destination, London probably already had 1000s of cases before anyone had heard of Covid.

This govt naturally managed to make everything worse, but simply blocking all travel and putting a few dozen returning nationals in hotels for 2 weeks wasn't really on option like NZ.

Here in Vancouver everybody listened to the science, everyone wears a mask (half the population wear a mask in winter anyway) the health minister is an international poster-person of "doing the right thing" but we have the same rate as every other developed country and are 2-3 months behind the UK in vaccinations.

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Re: When is he going to build a bridge

>"The Irish sea often seems to act as a funnel to concentrate storm surges running up it."

Could this be solved by cutting some sort of relief channel, like a massive ship canal, from say Dundalk to Sligo ?

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Re: UTC and BST

Which as a proper British compromise will be 1/2 an hour from GMT all year round.

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Re: When is he going to build a bridge

The bridge is operation "Look Squirrel!"

When you have some bad news about Brexit and you can't immediately arrange a royal wedding you can give the tabloids a silly story to distract them

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Re: When is he going to build a bridge

>Why would anyone want to go to Northern Ireland?

Gravy chip

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Re: For too long, the UK has been left behind in the space race

> Conveniently forgetting the UK's membership of the ESA

Or simply demanding a rename to the "Global Britain and European Space Agency" - GBESA

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Re: Call the RAC?

That's only if you need Galileo type precision.

Reprogramming the onboard data link to broadcast "you're in Britain" while over the UK and "you're abroad" for the rest of the orbit shouldn't be too difficult.

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Re: Clueless

Being Prime minister is now a lifestyle goal and stepping stone to a career on the lecture / think-tank circuit.

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Re: Cheaper Skynet?

So you buy a LEO TDRS satellite network for 500M and propose to reuse that for GNSS while spending 6Bn on a separate TDRS satellite network ?

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Re: When is he going to build a bridge

Presumably the bridge to Northern Ireland will have to be a drawbridge (for security reasons) so when raised it will reach 45km, or halfway to space !

‘Radiation upset’ confused computers, caused false alarm on International Space Station

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Re: A pound of water

Confused about the difference between mass and weight?

Then just use the same unit for both and don't worry about it !

China added 300 million 5G subscribers and a million 5G base stations in 2020

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Re: Conspiracy

But they got covid first and then got 5g, so covid causes 5g

Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever

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Re: Magnanimity

>It wouldn't surprise me if chemical castration and persecution caused depression and lack of motivation.

Yes, was just pointing out that when suicide is still a major cause of death for men of his age. The govt saying: well we aren't publicly beastly to gays anymore and we remember to put a rainbow flag on our twitter feed once a year so we have solved this!

A bit like dealing with PTSD in the military by pardoning long dead WWI shell-shock victims

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Re: On current historical trajectory

It will have another 4 £50 notes sticking out of the back with bluetak holding them in place

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Because there is nothing interesting to say about Alonzo Church and Konrad Zuse was a hun.

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Re: £50 vs the 1000CHF note

>In Switzerland ... The big supermarkets accept them without batting an eyelid.

To be fair they also accept bars of gold with swastikas on them

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Re: Great! Super!

If it's like our colonial plastic notes - it would have to be a bloody hot dryer to damage them.

ps. ours even have holograms you can project with a laser - I only just discovered that !

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Re: Any idea where I get one of these

>As a USAian,... Turing is responsible for the principles behind the gadgets that have been my life's work. He deserves a place on my shelf, alongside Marconi (IT 100 lira note)

Do you think if the average American knew of Franklin's scientific work he would be removed from the $100 ?

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Re: Magnanimity

The newer biographies (after Hodges' classic) list entries from his diary suggesting the suicide was more depression that he thought his work was going nowhere than his personal life.

But as long as the government put up a pride flag once a year they can completely ignore worrying about mental health services.

Please stop leaking your own personal data online, Indonesia's COVID-19 taskforce tells citizens

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Re: No confidential data should be in QR codes

Requiring everyone who needs to validate the certificate to have access to the national secure database?

Having your name, address and dob on your drivers licence is obviously insecure. Instead it should just be an ID number and have every traffic cop, bartender, checkout assistant, check accepting corner shop have a terminal to access the database.

Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects

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Re: copyright assignments

>. if Canonical would go bust and parts would be snapped up by someone seeking to exploit the portfolio anyway they can.

So we should worry about Redhat being bought up by a failing IT business turning into a patent troll ?

Global tat supply line clogged as Suez Canal authorities come to aid of wedged 18-brontosaurus container ship

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Re: 6 million missing badgers

Is that African or European badgers ?

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Re: Maybe Elon...

As an alternative to the canal, all containers are unloaded into a fleet of Tesla cybertrucks which drive semi-autonomously along a tunnel to another port at the north end where they are loaded into another container and put on a ship.

Don't laugh this is roughly their plan for a subway in Las Vegas

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Re: Multiple Dimensions : in the Dark!!

>we have no unit of brightness!

There are two units. The main one is the total brightness of all blue LEDs on equipment in your bedroom while you are trying to sleep.

The other, equal to roughly 1 micro-blue_led_in_your_bedroom_while_you_are_trying_to_sleep (BLIYBWYATTS) is the light you have available while crawling behind a server rack trying to read port numbers

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Re: Old fashioned Egyptian way...

They tried but the slaves keep drowning.

Anybody know anyone in the neighbourhood that can do a quick water-parting?

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Re: Another one to propose

Arghh brain failure - I live next to Washington (State) at 123W, and my brain did an off-by-one error !

So normally the Washington monument is normal to the Suez canal ?

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Re: Another one to propose

You aren't taking into account the Spherical Earth hypothesis.

If the Canal is about 30deg east and Washington is 120deg W then they are facing in almost opposite directions so the ship currently stuck east-west is twice as long as a Washington monument is tall

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Re: Reality

> a lack of redundancy could easily result in an [...] catastrophe

Why don't they just switch the traffic to the secondary Suez canal?

Defence Industrial Strategy suggests the UK is ready to start taking its homegrown infosec industry seriously

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Re: Taking homegrown infosec seriously?

We all know the result will be a multi-million contract to Crapita to install McAffee

Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century

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Re: Name?

His mum's name was Battenburg (or at least she was a princess of Battenburg) his dad was Prince Andrew of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg - which must have been a bugger to pronounce for a Greek.

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Re: They can't really complain about the racist backlash

At least she's only black - it's not like she's Catholic !

US state AGs: How can Facebook, Google, Twitter say they tackle misinformation when *gestures wildly at COVID-19 BS everywhere*

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Re: Don't trust them

All these posts are written by people - people lie - don't trust people !

Only Magic 8 ball (and amanfromMars) speak the truth

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Re: Make them jointly liable for content

>Not when the President of France is actively spreading vaccine misinformation.

>the USA used to have an orange-coloured "gentleman" in the White House

And both these administrations would be in charge of prosecuting Facebook et.al.

- so what would they have to publish to stay on the right side of the law ?

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Re: Make them jointly liable for content

Then it wouldn't be possible to post any information - somebody somewhere would sue over it.

The only place you would then be able to get true reliable information would be from the President's press briefings. Perhaps these could be published in an official newspaper call Truth or something?

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A halo of light polarized by a gigantic black hole's magnetic field...

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Re: Black hole in 'has quite mundane magnetic field' shock!

And because the signal took so long to get here they are still in Gauss rather than Tesla

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

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Re: To stop using the GPL is a knee-jerk and bizzare reaction.

CSAIL is not the MediaLab that's the problem - it has poisoned the reputation of the rest of MIT.

You can't sell the rights to put 'MIT lab startup' on your prospectus and then claim it has no links to MIT when it goes bad.

For link's just put 'ito' (the director) and funding into your favourite search engine

Still at least it means everyone will forget about Aaron Schwartz

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Wait till they find out about Shockley - are they going to decide not to use transistors ?

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Re: To stop using the GPL is a knee-jerk and bizzare reaction.

>But MIT is much more than the media lab

That's the problem - you burn the reputation of MIT, and the value of MIT for all your students, staff, alumni to have a fancy institute that was mostly funded by a bunch of technology startups whose main "technology" was being able to claim a tenuous link to MIT. IIRC a couple of very Theranos-like biotechs

Epstein was a middle man taking a cut of donations he brought in - so MIT was happy to look the other way and let the Media Lab work with him even through they knew his reputation and had bans on him donating to MIT itself.

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Re: To stop using the GPL is a knee-jerk and bizzare reaction.

The whole media lab is "well dodgy" apart from it's Epstein links.

Basically attaching the MIT name to a bunch of celebs without looking too much into their motives

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