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Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters?

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And the non-centralised approach

Means that if my phone detects that I walked passed a railway line and somebody on the train flagged as positive - I will phone my boss, tell them to fire me and go and voluntarily spend 14days living in the shed away from the family.

Or I will uninstall the app, and reinstall to get a new "clean" id

Tor Project loses a third of staff in coronavirus cuts: Unlucky 13 out as nonprofit hacks back to core ops

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Re: TOR sacking people...

TOR is funded by donations from big corps a few ordinary users.

Big corps are now locking down and not spending money on anything, ordinary users are either unemployed or staring unemployment in the face.

There is no reasonable chance of these factors being reversed in the next few months.

As a nonprofit they can't run up a massive overdraft or get VC funding or print their own cryptocoins - they have very strict rules about their accounts

US judge puts Amazon's challenge to Pentagon JEDI deal into force stasis

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Inconceivable

Bill is now The Donald's BFF ?

Intelsat orbital comms satellite is back online after first robo-recovery mounting and tug job gets it back into position

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Re: Makes me wonder...

Not indefinitely. It still has to have stuff to throw out the back, it simply uses electricity to accelerate the stuff instead of chemistry

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Re: I wonder what it really does?

Is it being controlled by major league baseball?

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The 2nd coolest woman on LV426 would disagree

NASA makes May 27 its US independence day from Russian rockets: America's back in the astronaut business after nearly nine years

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Re: Retro Progress

Arguably the shuttle was the legacy of Apollo.

A single megaproject to do all USA commercial, scientific and military launches. With construction, launch and operation spread over different sites.

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Re: Retro Progress

Apollo was also the worst thing to happen to NASA. The whole program was a crash money-no-object bodge job to meet an arbitrary deadline. Achieved by the mother of all deathmarch engineering efforts

It was left the with a huge expensive sites and workforce but no technology or infrastructure or plan to go forward.

Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal

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Re: Basic Salary

So if a company says 'people are our greatest asset' do they have to pay the HR more than the chief engineer?

Iran military manages to keep a straight face while waggling miracle widget that 'can detect coronavirus from 100m away'

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Re: re. Was it the Iranians who were caught out by the mine detector a few years back

If they didn't work, would you still be allowed to sell them to Iran?

A philosophical point, if a weapon doesn't work in the woods - does it still violate sanctions?

As nice as Pai: FCC chairman comes out in favour of Ligado Networks' 5G proposal, despite criticism from airlines and military

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Re: Who needs Huawei....

Famous story about Cray being given a hard time by a customer:

You aren't our only fscking customer you know.

True, but we are the only one with nuclear strike capabilities

Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property

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Re: Less than you'd think?

Dress that up with a fancy logo and you are basically a management consultancy

In case you need more proof the world's gone mad: Behold, Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels

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Re: Re Cycle Wheels

But don't you change the Nitrogen mix in your road bike tyres depending on the humidity?

UK govt probes Brit chip biz Imagination after growing Chinese ownership sparks national security fears

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Re: Transfer of IP

If the company is that vital to national security presumably you nationalise it

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Re: It is very good that the Secretary of State is intervening

But ARM got sold to a Japanese con man respected businessman backed by those nice Saudi chappies.

Pentagon watchdog sets phasers to none, clears $10bn JEDI contract process but leaves door open for lawsuits

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Re: So even the report thinks they lied

That's the beauty of USA political investigations, you get to find out the truth by who refuses to answer and yet nobody actually gets punished.

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Re: I can’t get too worked up

Possibly worth getting worked up on $10Bn defence contracts being handed out based on who the great leader likes.

IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process

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Re: (IN)Justice has prevailed!

I think it's just an Americanism.

Trunk = Boot

Hood=Bonnet

We are willing to settle your claim in full out of court = Guilty

Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum

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>One upon a time we locked these sort of people up for their own good.

Turns out putting them on TV is cheaper and more entertaining

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Re: Calm down people...

We don't have fluoridated water here because a shadowy cabal of dentists block it

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>Before you downvote, is a place that protects the right of people to call for murder civilised?

What if they had found a dossier on the internet ?

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Re: Viruses are tiny, microscopic, organic entities.

>The minds of the arsonists are similar in all respects...

Unfortunately viruses evolve

Idiots don't

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You know how stupid the average person is ?

Half the people are more stupid than that.

SE's baaaack: Apple flings out iPhone SE 2020, priced at £419

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Re: Only took Apple 2 years...

Considering that it will probably be supported by Apple for 5+years then it doesn't look too bad compared to a noname £200 Android with zero updates.

(says somebody with a £50 jailbroken Lineageos with updates)

Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot – but will it work?

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Paula, brillant! <ok> (sigh)

Gender specifc name detected, <moderator pearls clutched = true>

Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing

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Re: Scary and Scarier

>Not everybody has a mobile phone.

You mean terrorists/pedophiles/people_who_leave_the_teabag_in ?

>Not everybody with a mobile phone runs google or iphone OS.

Bans Huawei

>Not everybody with a phone has it with them 24/7

A new offense of "going un-equipped during the hours of daylight"

From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard

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Re: Way out of date

When the government manages to get rid of the BBC, this will be the best TV journalism available

You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'

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Re: I'm looking forward to Eamonn Holmes

Or the Donald decrying UNicode as a UN effort to force us all to use China characters

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Re: Hieroglyphics

>cavemen ... used to draw pictures, but we all moved on from that.

What if they were just the Powerpoint presentations of their day?

Ugg will give presentation on value proposition of hunting mammoth

Although without transitions they presumably had to all move to the next cave for each slide

So how do the coronavirus smartphone tracking apps actually work and should you download one to help?

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Re: False positives could be off the scale.

>you live on a busy street in a house with the living room at the front and you leave your phone next to say the window

You line your window with aluminium foil of course

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British soln

Have your phone attached to the wall of your house by a wire. Then you can be assured that people with phones are isolated at home.

Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

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Re: 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast

Brady Heywood, an Irish forensic engineer, also did a series on Apollo13 as part of his podcast on engineering fsck-ups

brady-heywood-podcast

Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!

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In other news

Yahoo USA has signed a deal to track the whereabouts of its US user. The anonymized data refers to the subject only as, that loser in his mom's basement, which it locates precisely

Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...

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Re: Fun fact. #1 result from JPL analysis of "lessons learned" in payload design.

It's always connectors or power supplies

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Re: WTF

Also if a fuse blows inside the oxygen tank after launch, all you have to do is pull over to the side of space and take the tank apart to replace it.

Interesting story:

One of the power supplies for the original European camera on Hubble had a front panel fuse.

Why everybody asked? - Who is going to replace the fuse ? (this was before resetting polyfuses)

Because the PSU is being built by a small european country and required approval by their aviation agency who said that a flight PSU must have a fuse !

It was subsequently replaced by a PSU built by a competent larger European company.

The fused unit probably sits on a shelf in a clean room to this day

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Re: Why O-rings

Famously to the width of a horse's arse

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Re: 13 Minutes To The Moon

Particularly the 15mins when the crew-cut "failure is not an option" types in the control room try and convince themselves it is a faulty gauge - after their astronauts have told them they felt a massive bang.

An explosion would be an inconceivable disaster, therefore we can't conceive of an explosion. Looks like nothing changed for the Space Shuttle program

Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme: This website tracks which shares US senators are unloading mid-pandemic

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Re: Mark Twain

Ironically it would be best for everyone if they were exempt. The trades are public so act like a giant lie detector

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Re: Not selling airline or hotel stocks when this spread from Wuhan...

>Cruise bookings are apparently up.

Probably 'we will rebook in 6months for free' emails. I imagine a few travel insurance policies will be checked when the cruise companies look shaky

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Re: Not selling airline or hotel stocks when this spread from Wuhan...

Some big airlines/hotels could do very well.

All the budget airlines (especially the long haul ones) go bust.

Giant US airlines and foreign flag carriers get bailed out

So next year there is still United, Air France and Etihad but no Norwegian/GermanWings/Zoom/Westjet

Same with hotels. If Airbnb dies and a bunch of small franchise motels go under

People have to travel for work, however much video conferencing improves - so now your airfare costs more and there are only mid-range hotels left.

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Re: Good example

>(b)You pick up a document from the next seat that says P&C all over it and read it and it says 'oops our top secret factory has burnt down and no-one knows' - not public information.

Over here it's defined more in your role. So that would be perfectly fine unless I was eg a cleaner for the train company, then my 'privileged position' gave me access to the document.

I have to sit through the same pointless training, but you can make them more fun by trying to think up examples to ask the trainer that would confuse a Jesuit.

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The SEC claim was that an employee was pretty much automatically insider trading. The case was overturned but there is a complaint that the sec likes insider trading by low end employees as a cheap win.

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Re: Shock

Or a few $Bn for each airline and fracker, then a handful of magic beans to any small business in a swing state

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Re: Shock

That was one of the holdups in passing the bill. A special $500Bn fund for the Republican speaker to use to directly assist specific companies he felt were special.

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Good luck with that. The SEC have quite broad opinions on what constitutes insider trading.

Famous case was a train driver who noticed a lot of cars in the visitor parking lot with plates from the state where their much larger competitor was HQ'ed, decided there was probably going to be a takeover and bought stock.

Of course the SEC also has a long history of not wanting to go after the rich and powerful

BepiColombo probe swings by Earth on way to Mercury – the Solar System's must-visit coronavirus-free resort

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Re: So you haven't heard the news?

And Benedict cumberbatch plays mercury

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Re: It is incredible

And then it blows up on the pad.

Or in my case jettisoned its lens cap early while still pointing at earth and boiled off the 3year supply of cooling in a few minutes

Linux fans thrown a bone in one Windows 10 build while Peppa Pig may fly if another is ready in time for this year

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Re: The Matrix 4?

What if the people who were still in the Matrix were fed memories of 2 matrix sequels?

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