Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: First step towards human colonisation

>The only useful pizza delivery system is pair of hands

The only useful pizza delivery system is the Deliverator.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. .... The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs.

Re: Where's the phone app

It;s the comcast long distance charges that really kill you.

the very-very small print, limits your included 4G data to Earth

Re: Coming to the 'net soon

They used the Nasa time machine from 2165

Re: First step towards human colonisation

It's an American mission, all their technology is aimed at high speed pizza delivery.

Re: Nothing to see

>Today's kernel devs seem to be more inclined

That's the thing with open source, the only way to get stuff you want into the kernel is to become a shareholder

Re: Covid 19 and hot desks

> is how are they going to CV19 clean each desk so its safe for a different person ?

BOFH solution = flamethrower. Why do you think it's called 'hot' desking ?

Re: "Maybe a handful of people can work remotely"

We had to go back into the office when the corporate sysadmins discovered the trick we were using to work from home on our non-approved Linux machines hooked into the corporate network with an unofficial VPN.

Since the official VPN uses RSA keys which are only approved on corporate laptops which are only issued to approved salespeople who are the only ones approved to be working outside the office.

Why were the sheep trying to sabotage the line ?

Is there some sort of Harrow liberation front ?

Are they deploying SOE (Special Ovine Executive) agents to attack the occupying forces ?

Re: As someone who has to make those decisions

>someone sued the company as a result of the actions I was told to perform.

If the fine was less than the financial benefit from the actions then you failed in your duty to the shareholders

Re: Who are they addressing?

>You might care to tell that to the Uighur population

But that's not a threat to me.

ISIS are definitely naughtier than my local police dept. But they aren't able to behead me at a traffic stop

Re: Banks across America test facial recognition cameras

Homeless aren't people.

The same law that made corporations people for political funding made people who earn less than 100K not people

Re: Communist Party of America

Without the public transport, ballet and shiny biceps presumably

Re: Hmmmm ..... It is somewhat mysterious indeed whenever help surely be so close to hand

>Has anyone worked out how Russia has still not collapsed?

>A tiny uncompetitive economy supporting superpower ambitions and a kleptocracy that makes the end of the Roman Empire look like an amateur dramatics production.

How very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!

Re: It does have a finite life

>they could also build it in an orbit more convenient to our launch facilities.

Closer to Florida ? No thanks

Re: It does have a finite life

>The point of a lunar outpost .... is to iron out any kinks in technologies and procedures

So there will be no flags, no square-jawed ex-test pilots, no token female / POC crew members, no Whitehouse lawn press conference?

Re: Vanity projects..

>It's an expensive experiment with very small returns.

I thought it was a way of funding Boeing during the arms cuts at the end of the cold war and a way of keeping Soviet rocket scientists employed so they didn't all move to the middle east and begin design rockets there.

Re: Unmanned space station == satellite?

It's roughly exponential with latitude (strictly magnetic latitude) with around a factor of 10x from equator to 45deg probably doubling by 60deg. It can also get several times higher in 'interesting' Solar cycles

Re: "Xerox didn't share their excitement about the project"

Woosh......

Re: $1.50/Hour

Except you are only getting back a small % of that as tax.

If the plan was for the state to entirely cover Foxconn's salary bill for 10years why not just pay the same people to work for the state and build infrastructure, or pick up litter, rather than make cheap TVs?

Or is that communism?

Re: Tell us it is not abused so ..... and be absolutely amazed whenever it both is and isn't.

Everybody won

The local politicians got votes for bringing in jobs and investment and then got more votes for saving the tax-payer $$$ even if they didn't get to cut a ribbon

President got votes for bringing jobs back from China and got to dig a nice hole with a silver shovel.

Foxconn got to head off any presidential anti-chinese sanctions.

Whoever sold the land and did the construction made $$$$

The only losers were the tax-payers who paid for all this, but they saved $2.7bn !

Re: The whole thing

And they had to abandon this project to free the $2.77Bn to 'invest' in new TSMC and Intel fabs in Wisconsin - which will bring millions of jobs

Re: Stop paying bribes to corporations

But $POLITICIAN brought a $2.77Bn investment in Wisconsin and thousands of jobs.

Vote $POLITICIAN now or you are killing these millions of jobs

Re: Proxima Centauri is a glimpse of our own future

> amoebas don't have tentacles, they have pseudopods.

That's just your opinion, they think we have pseudotentacles

Re: A satellite junk collector ...

>Did I miss the Americans starting testing again?

They do it in Detroit now so nobody notices and nobody cares

Re: Low earth orbits will be unusable ...

Barometric pressure switch, 100g of C4 and 200g of ball bearings.

That's why the USAF dropped out of the shuttle program - after ruining it with their requirements.

It would almost be worth launching worthless 'secret' satellites just to have the other side waste time and resources capturing them - especially if each capture resulted in the loss of an expensive capture vehicle.

The opposition could hardly complain that your satellite was booby-trapped and destroyed their spy mission trying to steal it.

Re: Welcome back

Back in my day when Abba roamed the Earth and Lego was for children - they didn't make olive green bricks. The reason was allegedly not to have children make army stuff - because Lego was all Scandinavian and hippy

Re: Why?

Because otherwise it couldn't connect to Alexa