Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: They abuse RIPA and now want Contact Tracing?

It does reduce crime

Paying a police officer for this data would be illegal. Obtaining it yourself because you work for the council dog walking office is perfectly fine

Re: And yet

Not me, I always go for the leader chosen by the lady of the lake wielding Excalibur

Moistened tarts are a way better system than this lot

Re: Hoped for more

It depends what astronomers you ask.

The sexy stuff in astronomy is very faint stuff from the beginning of the universe.

These satelites don't really affect that - they are only visible near dawn/dusk because they have to be in sunlight for them to be a problem. The time when the sky is still glowing is useless for deep faint objects.

it may be a pain for people doing full sky surveys of variable objects - but the Noble committee doesn't care about a bunch of stamp collectors so meh.

Radio are going to be pissed if these things aren't well designed not to leak in other bands.

Re: Space the final Frontier - allegedly

> I DO however, happen to believe that the idea of building a massive deep space telescope on the far side of the moon has massive potential

You are aware that, in the words of the PinkFloyd: "there is no dark side of the moon".

The moon orbits the earth, for half of its 28 day orbit the other side of the moon would point toward the sun.

There are are way better places to put a space telescope if you don''t need it to be in LEO

>Security doubtful,

Parliament is public

>owned by Chinese.

Public owned, listed on the Nasdaq

(Of course that's what the lizard people want you to think......)

To be honest since we are all locked down and stuck in front of Netflix we are all binge watching the new series of "The America" even though the new characters are completely unbelievable.

Re: What will Trump do

Are we blaming Carter now?

Makes sense, he was behind 5G - part of his plan to turn us all metric

Indeed, if women want to protest for the right to vote they should do it quietly, in private, in their own homes..

Re: Factually incorrect

Similarly here it is killing men:women 55:45% but the median age of those deaths is 86

And 86 is a lot older in "man years" than "women years"

And >86 year old men have a lot more other illnesses than old women

Re: With Trump & Co. still apparently on a suicide mission

>whoever is best able to get the vote out will win

Not getting the vote out benefits the Republicans.

So if you were a totally unscrupulous incumbent you could arrange that mail-in votes were allowed for old people (covid safety) while requiring spacing in queues and only one voter at a time in NY/Ca and any cities with lots of black people.

That does pre-suppose something...

Also betting that just before he leaves office all the Trump empire gets sold to some sucker - otherwise there are going to be a lot of nations gunning for it once its CEO no longer has a Navy

Re: With Trump & Co. still apparently on a suicide mission

>He's on course for a Landslide in November.

Sadly probably true.

No campaign rallies, no big convention events, no tours of roadside diners in Iowa

Trump is on TV for hours everyday while his opponent 'whats-his-name' gets a paragraph in the Washington Post politics section once a week.

Re: A dentistry question

>So what teeth do they have, in terms of following up, identifying and shutting down?

The UK national ninja-cyber secret security agency can employ a range of active counter-measures culminating in the ultimate deterrent of .... A stiffly worded letter

(the agency is not currently funded to permit overseas letters in the event of a foreign enemy)

>Pissing these people off with deliberate false reports is probably not the wisest idea going.

So if I work for Putin or Pooh-bear and I use this to get them to block a bunch of pro-democracy or anti-government sites, what are GCHQ going to do - send a gunboat ?

Re: 56!

Could have been much worse: the system returns -1 as an error code and the pizza place come round and take away your pizza

Re: "Hopefully he also added a bit of text along the lines"

>That's not how humans function. We are designed to seek confirmation feed back.

Unix is designed to allow you to string simple commands together.

That's tricky if the output of '2+2' = "The answer is 4 and 4 is the answer, 3 is not the answer unless the answer continues to 4, 5 is right out. "

Re: @AC - Personal convenience

So is it going to be like the government ID cards that were only going to be required to be carried by criminals, illegal immigrants and terrorists ?

Re: And the non-centralised approach

No it may mean I live in a country with no paid sick leave, where I may become homeless if I l lose my "essential but minimum wage" job

Re: And the non-centralised approach

The point remains though:

If the system detects I might have been exposed - but only I know that result and the risk to me of revealing it (extended quarantine, job loss etc) is greater than the risk of being seriously ill (I'm <80 with no medical issues) then I'm going to ignore/delete it

Pity the virus is transmitted by 5G rather than bluetooth, we would all be safe

Re: This was the second attempt

>*it has an IT angle!

Very specifically an angle iirc

catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18/18

Re: Activate Omega-13.

And if all else fails, turn it off and on again every day

Re: This was the second attempt

> it's why the payloads must always be insured

Generally not for scientific payloads like this one.

Dear insurer we would like to launch an irreplaceable scientific payload on the first launch of a brand new Ariane rocket that we are getting for free because they aren't too sure about it.

I can picture the nice little bulldog cocking his leg up at that one.

Re: How ESA keeps Cluster flying ... the original VAX VMS hardware

>"Sousa explained that the original VAX VMS hardware was long gone"

That's what they think - until they realise that thing in the back of the storage cupboard is a microvax that has been quietly running everything all along

Re: Management speak

At least post-Brexit we will be self-sufficient in proper British clichés

Re: Next? The Mall Owners go bust

>However, they seemed to not understand the concept that it would destroy other areas.

Yes they did, but it's easier to get re-elected with pictures in the local paper of you cutting the ribbon on a new out of town shopping center that "creates 1000 new jobs" than a report of a council meeting where you deny the planning application in order to preserve a few corner shops.

>They were markets. We've had markets a long time

I for one will miss my annual trek to Troyes for the cloth faire and start buying my $2 black T-shirts online.

Re: I wonder what it really does?

Is it being controlled by major league baseball?