Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21371 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>who cares what language source code is written in ?
It does suggest that if your government IT is still running the same code from the 60s with layers of patches because it has always lacked the money, management and technical staff to update it.
Then switching the security model overnight to a post Quantum Computing world might be "challenging"
>...without having other aviation regulators check its homework.
>Believe me, after this: THEY WILL
Until they get the phone call from the Whitehouse asking if they still want that military aid and whether they would like 50% tariffs on their imports to the USA unless they agree that the plane is safe
>If I were the commanding general in charge, I swear that there would be a few demotions in order.
A number of gallic shrugs have been implemented
Of course if this was the USAF it would have led to many 1000s of Powerpoint presentations
The RAF would have initially blamed the crew, then when it was discovered they were inconveniently all alive, it would have been classified and never spoken of again
Nobody in the USA politic or military think China is planning to invade the USA to further global communism.
They do believe that China wants to have the ability to both spy on the USA for tactical and economic reasons and to have leverage over the USA in any trade/territorial dispute.
It's what every country does, Britain was spying on the Germans to get an edge in Eu agricultural polciy talks.
Not true, they have been very careful to follow advice from economists at think tanks with the word "liberty", "market" and "heritage" in the name.
Playing economic think tank bingo is a fun game. Guessing which words in their name mean they think the poor should be turned into fertilizer
Yes returning a satelite is almost never economic.
It was done twice IIRC for the shuttle, although that had the extra restrictions that the satelite had to have been originally designed for the shuttle (eg. no hypergolic fuel) and be in a low enough orbit (ie booster failed). The bigger issue was that a shuttle flight cost $1Bn so apart from something like Hubble it would never be cost effecive
The original USAF plan for the shuttle was to 'retrieve' enemy craft. But it was obvious that as soon as the shuttle was announced the opposition would fit all their interesting satellites with 100g of C4, a bag of nails and a pressure switch.
The first stage doesn't go to orbit, it accelerates straight up in the atmosphere and then falls back down, slowing in increasingly dense air until the engines stop it near the ground. Getting it back down is no harder than the bloke that "jumped from space".
The upper stage and payload are doing 10km/s horizontally, to get them to fall down you have to apply -10km/s. Yes you can use some aerodynamic braking if you want to carry the mass of a heatshield, and you can arrange to enclose the captured payload inside it safe from multi-1000 deg plasma.
It would still end up at the height and speed that the 1st stage released it - but that is the easy bit
> Then attach a small Payload Assist Module send it to the Sun
Although it seems to be "downhill" to the sun it is as hard to slow an object down from Earth's orbital velocity so it can "fall" into the sun as it would be to launch it from the sun to Earth orbital velocity.
That's the problem with returning stuff from orbit to Earth. You have to make stuff go really fast horizontally to make it to orbit and so you have to spend the same energy/fuel to get it to stop orbitting.
The Shuttle and Apollo capsules used friction with the atmosphere to dump this speed, but a returning SpaceX rocket (or that junkyard rocket from the 70s TV show) needs to carry 2x as much fuel to use engines slow down.
This means that the 2nd stage weighs 2x as much, and so the first stage needs to be bigger to lift it, then the first stage needs to be even bigger to lift that extra fuel, which takes more fuel - that way madness (and the Saturn V) lies
But WA police will have a letter in a locked filing cabinet somewhere in a disused basement saying they "embrace divertingly" and "dialogued with stakeholders" before deployment.
So when the police shoot some brown skinned looking chap for trying to get into Microsoft it will all be alright.
Shouldn't be a problem, if every site discovers that putting their product name 137 times in the header pushes them up the Google rankings then overall nothing changes.
(at least for me, I use DDG and piHole and Brave and frankly more software to block ads than I use to do my work)
Which is why you probably shouldn't fix this 'bug'
Simply require it to be powered down every 28days as part of the maintenance procedure.
I'm sure the engines need oil replacing every X 100 hours, nobody is demanding that the plane contains enough oil for a 50years service life.
It was Windows95/98 and it took years in the wild before anybody noticed for that very reason.
“ - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.”
The famous story about the 'CUBA' mutual fund Thaler-the-cuba-fund
tldr: a USA fund with the ticker symbol CUBA (nothing to do with the island) doubled in value when Obama talked about easing sanctions. It stayed high as everybody laughed about the story and then went up again when Castro died !
I worked with the ESA team that did the original european camera on Hubble
When it had its little optical problem there was an urgent push to release some pretty pictures to show it was still usable.
They press releases had both the Nasa logo and ESA logo. But printed the same width the square ESA logo looked bigger than the rectangular Nasa and so Nasa blocked the publication until they reached an agreement.
>SO NO !!!! The USA couldn't give a hoots toot about exports from Australia.
Rather my point old bean
But since exports to China have given Australia their miraculous 20 years without a recession economic record while close links to the USA merely gave them an opportunity to partake of Vietnam
They might have to decide which side of the prawn is on the barbie, or whatever they say down under
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