Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Ahh but it does!

They had tests, the command to blow away the database was correctly formatted and had all the correct options and did precisely what it was supposed to do - test passed

Re: As for ...

Everything on MS is a database, Azure is a database, teams is a database, the filesystem is a database

Fortunately databases at scale are really trivial systems to understand and manage AND Microsoft has the best database

Re: Pissup/brewery

It's a good job that never played in SA, or you know SpaceX would launch from under a swimming pool

Re: Pissup/brewery

I think I saw the footage of the rocket landing in a hollowed out volcano. But some conspiracy nuts claim that was faked on a sound stage at Elstree

Re: Pissup/brewery

> I have no idea why there's no film of that landing on the Moon back then instead of those grainy black & white images of a spidery little lander thingy.

Obviously the whole Saturn V wouldn't fit vertically in the sound stage

A pure Oxygen atmosphere at 1.2 Bar. They wanted to test the leakage rate of 0.2 Bar in vacuum while on the ground so naturally just pumped it up

Re: building tribal knowledge

The picturesque ceremony of the changing of the TPS report covers

Re: This is a good way to conduct stealth layoffs

It's also better for the business. If you have redundancies it's upto idiot managers to choose who to let go, and these decisions are all based on age/race/who the manager doesn't like the look of.

By those who wfh quitting they are automatically self-selecting for the ones who are most confident they can get a job somewhere else. Since you don't want the sort of employees that other people would hire - you are automatically ahead

Re: Its geography

>Malaysia is about as far away from the Anglosphere as its possible to get

You mean they aren't rushing to rejoin British Empire 2.0 now the UK is free of the Eu ?

Re: I'd say it's ready for Wall Street

Its a completely regulatory captured agency that covers up the crimes of its chums on Wall st while being an example of an extremist communist government oppression of the hard working free marketeers who bring prosperity to all.

Re: What would be your free choice .... ::snip for posting space::

>Pulling the plug is still an option, and always will be.

Ed209 vibes

Re: Earlier test

>someone frantically pulls the plug before it turned 180 degrees and fired on the military brass

Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply. .....

Re: Cars kill about the same number as guns

>If you're shot with a legal gun it is likely you were in the process of committing a crime.

Or were a child who knocked on a neighbors door to ask for your ball back

Or opened the wrong car door in a supermarket parking lot

Or were a delivery driver who pulled into the wrong address

Or were a person or unfortunate albedo walking through a suburb with an armed security guard

Re: Cars kill about the same number as guns

>Need a gun is a self admission that America is full of murdering arseholes and the average American doesnt trust the average American.

Shit I've just realised I need a gun.

In fact I probably need something a bit bigger, are there still all those bureaucratic hurdles to owning nukes for personal use ?

Re: Cars kill about the same number as guns

Guns are their only defence against the dangerous Kinder Surprise

Re: I think I get it...

>This has happened many times. Citizens have even been deported.

>Americans just THINK they have rights. LOL! They don't.

<cough> windrush <cough>

Re: I think I get it...

> The Border Patrol also frequently pulls over motorists in "roving patrol" stops, often without any suspicion that an immigration violation has occurred.

If only 1/3 of Americans have a passport, and since you obviously can't trust birth certificates, doesn't this mean a lot of pickup truck driving white(*) American patriots will be inconveniently held in cages until their citizenship can be established ?

* - assuming most Africa-Americans can be assumed to be American, somebody probably still has the original receipt

Re: Don't get too contented.

Wearing a loud shirt in a built up area? Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing?

Re: I keep beating this horse...

You mean be given free government money launch aid, export-credit guarantees, allowed to bribe customers and have their friends in government threaten any country that doesn't agree to buy the product ?

Re: meet the new bagholder, same as the old bagholder

>For others, comments start comparing NSO to Nazis.

Really rather the opposite don't you think ? NSO's expertise is in breaking other people's 'unbreakable' wireless encryption.

Re: "The lenders are currently in a process of restructuring the shareholders."

Its more of a concern when the intelligence agency customers are restructuring journalists

Re: Tell me again why fusion is such a good idea.

That's the advantage of killing millions of people slowly over decades - nobody cares.

It might be the selling point for the new micro fission reactors everyone is excited about. If you put one in every highschool and every day one of them blew up and killed a dozen kids we wouldn't have to do anything to stop it, just send 'thoughts and prayers'.

Re: Tell me again why fusion is such a good idea.

To clarify, ITER will use existing Tritium stockpiles for it's fusion tests (from the UK at least before it left Euratom - hopefully that's still OK) it will generate Tritium in-situ as a test of the methods for a commercial reactor. And although the Tritium reaction only occurs with Li-6, you don't need pure Li-6. It's not like fusion where the wrong isotopes 'poison' the reaction. If you have 10% Li-6 you get 10% of the rate.

Note that 'newenergytimes' is founded by proponents of cold low-energy fusion and spends most of it's time attacking ITER. There's a lot wrong with ITER politically but that's life in multi-national multi-decade, multi-billion projectes

Re: Deja vu ?

Interesting that their breakthrough "high temperature" SC is still 20K, there are pure metal SC at around 10K since the first discovery

We've had "High temperature" SC at 80K for 40 years, still cold enough for a Geordie to wear a coat, but at least liquid Nitrogen rather than Liquid Helium/Hydrogen.

They were considered for ITER but it was impossible to make wires and tricky to even make these kind of tapes so ITER played it safe and used conventional liquid Helium temperatures

Re: Tell me again why fusion is such a good idea.

> Tritium is vanishingly rare and commensurately expensive and all the synthesis methods so far are even more expensive than extracting natural Tritium.

Because all the current synthesis methods are to produce vanishingly small quantities for nuclear weapons and research - that's why it costs a gadzillion $

ITER will breed Tritium in situ - almost by accident, neutrons from the magic pixies dust in the Tokomak will hit a cheap Lithium jacket and make Tritium. Extracting it is a bit tricky but they don't need the hyper-purity you need for research

Re: If you want a second unit of temperature ...

If you are discussing temperatures of liquid Helium then perhaps Rankine ?

Re: Emergeny Room? Free to use?

>in Oz it's called the Emergency Department or ED for short

An unfortunate medical acronym.

So if you took too many of the little blue pills to cure your ED you would go to the ED to have your E dealt with ?