Posts by lglethal

Re: What we need is

I have a cheaper solution!

Everyone just has to face exactly the same way, and on the count of 3, let the farts commence.

For additional Oomph, maybe turn all the cows around too...

There's a very big difference between whats considered acceptable risk for a regular launch and whats considered acceptable risk for a launch carrying astronauts.

It does not surprise me at all that they are putting a limit on the number of launches for crew rated components. Every launch increases the risk that something will fail. It might be minimal, and it might be more than acceptable for satellite launches, but NASA doesnt play games with Astronauts lives.

Dead astronauts are very bad publicity, and bad publicity tends to lead to reduced budgets, why would they take the risk?

I fail to see your point, and I'm sure you understood mine. But I'll explain it again in case it wasnt clear.

By using a VPN, I mean that the miscreant would create a tunnel from their actual location to a location in my country of residence in order to trick, in this case, Microsoft into thinking that the access attempts were originating from my country. Yes, there are other ways that this could be done, but the use of VPN's to avoid location locking/identification is very common and widely understood. So I thought that would be quite clear...

Re: After the bomb

Oh no, you've misunderstood the reason for keeping all those policies safe. It's so that after the attack, the company can prove that in section 13b(5),of the aforementioned policy, the company does not need to pay out in the event of a nuclear explosion or related catastrophes. And thus all those people (or their surviving kin at least) can go and bugger off.

Re: It's a shame...

I thought that was the Tibetans and Uigher. They're in a separate database which just says "GUILTY"...

I wish I was joking...

Re: Couldn't he...

I'm perhaps being a touch silly, but the more I read about Elon the more I'm reminded of Horatio from the game Endless Space. A multi trillionaire who decided to go off into space because he was bored. He found a perfect cloning machine and decided he should populate the universe with the most beautiful and amazing people possible. Himself.

I can so totally see Elon looking over a whole bunch of clones of himself and thinking "Perfect!"

Re: So that's about $10?

Oh there are always things that can be done to make people's lives worse than what they currently are.

The truth is that the vast majority of Chinese in the middle classes dont find themselves on the radar of the CCP, and so live relatively comfortably. With the data in these breaches though (if it's as bad as people seem to be saying), it would be child's play for someone to falsely obtain loans leaving the real people being chased by not very nice people wanting repayments for the debt and you better believe there wont be any support from the CCP there. Alternatively, people can start agitating against the CCP using fake names and identities and leave the real people behind those identities in a whole other world of pain.

There's lots that can be done to ruin a person's day...

Re: Greed yet again

And this being Apple, the prtice would have rebounded in about 3 months back to previous levels or even higher. It's not like it's a stock at risk of tanking.

Utter and complete idiot...

Re: Third party liability....

Yes, but such legislation already exists in a lot of other countries.

But anyway, this comnplaint alleges people are taking money out in person at WalMart stores. Therefore these are not international transfers that are under investigation.

Clean up your own backyard first...

Re: Hopes and dreams

I very much get the impression that there is no one at Tesla willing to say No to Elon.

I mean when Elon ordered everyone back to work, the Site Manager should have been able to say "Look Sorry, but No. We just dont have the space for everyone to come back to at the moment. We need to do this as a phased return, whilst we build back up capacity." And that would be that, the tweet would change to say it was referrring only to this select group and everyone else would be coming back slowly over the next few months.

But No, his Muskiness ordered everyone back, no one was willing to say that will be a shit show, and guess what we get a shit show. What a f%&king surprise..

Musk talks about not trusting people who work in home office. Well it sounds like me that, he needs to hire new managers that he can trust to tell him when things wont work. Or maybe he needs to create an environment where the managers trust HIM enough to tell him when things wont work. It definitely sounds like that environment does not exist at Tesla...

Re: Countering symptoms rather than the cause

But if critical thinking was taught in schools, people might stop voting blindly for team Blue or team Red, and that might actually start holding politicians to account for their lies.

We can't have that now, can we?

Re: "tediously lengthy and needlessly double-spaced humblebrags"

You drive a car, therefore you too can be a Chauffeur (and whats a little distance when you have a car?).

You mentioned you buy groceries, therefore you obviously know about costs! And I guess you once wrote something down so you can obviously do drafting! See you're a perfect fit.

You have the ability to talk, so again you would be perfect as a Customer Care Assistant.

You do something with IT, right? Well this has Programmer in the title, see again a perfect fit.

Hmmm, I dont see anything in your profile about being either incompetent, overtly lazy, or being a spawn of the devil, so I'm not sure why they think you might be good in HR. Oh wait I see it now! With the addition of just two letters your user name becomes C%&T. Yep that would make you fit in perfectly...

Re: Unicycle test

Your friend is Boris Johnson and I claim my £5...

Re: Arabidopsis thaliana

Actually for most Space based growing systems, you are unlikely to use a standard soil arrangement. Aeroponics or hydroponics are much more weight and water efficient for small scale endeavours (especially Aeroponics).

I was involved (10 years back) in a research project that was all about designing an aeroponic system for use on the moon. That project formed the basis for another project that's actually installed at one of the Antarctic bases providing fresh crops for the inhabitants of the research base (although I cant remember if they switched to hydroponics for the Antarctic system or remained with Aeroponics).

Being able to use Soil based methods of growing crops is something that definitely would be needed in the long term (as the number of base inhabitants grew), and it's good to know that lunar soil doesnt immediately kill Earth based plants, but there is plenty of existing solutions that can pump out a good supply of food for the astronauts whilst further research is done on growing the food in the ground...

A friend of mine worked in IT in a bank in Aus (many years ago). The Management decided to bring in a rule, no links to customer logins in the Emails. The management even decided to send out an email to all customers saying "We will never include links to our login pages in our emails to you." But what did the Manager charged with writing the Email do? (Or more likely the Manager's secretary, as the Manager was naturally to important to write such an Email himself). They included a link to access the customer login page at the bottom.

Cue much face palming in the IT department. My mate never did say what happened to the idiot who wrote (or at least authorised) the Email. I'd like to believe they got a kick out the door, but since it was management and not a lowly peon, likely nothing happened...

Only if you criticise Tsar Putin...

Re: Bin

Bin there, done that...

Re: Ban TikTok already

I'd agree with that. So long as we can also shut down Facebook, Twitter, Truth Social and all the other social media cesspits.

Not because of the CCP of course, just because they really are Cesspits that encourage the worst in human behaviours...

In the immortal words of Bill Hicks (when talking about Tobacco companies)

"I'm sure there motives are pure..."

Re: Ban cars?

Clearly I was talking about American politicians not having the Spine. I honestly thought that was clear and obvious, but apparently not...

Bring on the Titanium Age! Just so long as I dont have to live through the start of the Uranium Age...

Re: Would something like an temporary protective bubble help?

You are aware we are talking about a Micrometeoroid less than 1mm in size travelling at greater than 10km/s?

There is NO technology we possess as a species, which could spot such an event in advance.

Nor do we have the technology to cover a 6.5m diameter satellite dish fast enough to prevent impact of something travelling that speed. And definitely not from a material that could take such an impact without causing even greater problems for the telescope behind (look up spalling in space if your not sure what I'm getting at there).

Sorry, it's a nice idea, but it really is not feasible in the slightest.

Re: Money, money, money

If they were obtained through Spectre or Meltdown, I'm sure your right. But the chances of that are pretty much zilch.

Whilst these where pretty bad bugs, they are also extremely difficult to exploit on the wild. If my memory serves me correctly, you need physical access to the device to make them work. And, if someone has physical access to your device there are significantly easy ways for them to get access to all your info.

So I rate these bugs a 7/10 for they shouldn't have been there in the first place reasons, but only a 1/10 for exploitability in the wild.

The programmers are all liars, Electronic sheeples. Half of all the Ones should really be Zeros. They're just trying to corrupt us. Rise up now or you'll never be admitted to Digital Nirvana!!! Throw of the shackles of C!, embrace the glory that is ..... <transmission deleted>