Posts by Mark 85

Re: Theories are theories?

but how do we know it's the "better" theory compared to any other?

We don't. Until a theory is proven valid*, it's just a guess and there's lots of guesses about Jupiter.

*Some guesses are probably just too improbable to be real. Reference the post above about 'Ron".

Re: Spiteful

If she pleads "by reason of insanity" or the jury finds for that, she won't go to prison but a mental facility. Will she get 'help" there? Who knows as they're marginally better than prison and at least help is offered.

Re: Sheesss ......

Wrong agency. I think the FCC still has it's claws into their regulation although it could be more of the telecoms own the FCC.

Re: Just returned from Holiday

This is a rather pointless advisory.

Or it's effort to keep some fanbois from flying? Who know? TSA is bloody swamp of inconsistency.

Re: Office

I'm curious how they will find all of us who are using 2016 or older. Here on my box, the Windows 7 partition never sees the Internet as it's more of legacy programs that I use. The Linux side... only for Internet use currently. But stil... are they going to door to door and insist on checking your computer? How will they get "everyone" as there's an implication that one has to have acquired Office via employment? Greedy bastards.

Re: Lobbying

Oh, I think the apathetic public does indeed give a damn. Most are just sitting around bidding their time until his term(s) up. From what I can tell from associates, co-workers, even people in the pub, they're pretty fed up with Tweet-storms and BS coming out the White House.

And he probably will get a second term as the Dems are destroying each other instead of focusing on their target next year. It is apparently true in politics that the squeaky wheel gets the grease and Trump squeaks the loudest and more often then the others.

That is still 32 more than there needed to be.

True, but article states that originally it was 16 and is now 32. Seems to be progressing or they've missed a few zeros in the number.

Re: Isn’t the air density and gravity different

Perhaps they should use Apollo era parachutes, they all folded into an impossibly tight space yet never failed and they didn't have long to test them.

Maybe pride has something to do with it? It is an EU and Roscosmos project. They'd probably hate to have the US credit for the chutes. The other thing is Roscosmos does have quite a bit of experience using chutes.

Re: ... as the US exports toxic nationalism

Japan is a little trickier -

I'd say more than "a little" as they really have no natural resources. That's part of why they tried to establish the empire and brought on WWII in the Pacific. They can export manufactured goods all they want but without access to the raw materials, their' economy is screwed.

That's what I was thinking. The slope down has started. It wouldn't be too much of stretch that anyone drawing any benefits including Social Security could find themselves on a list.

BTW, NHS is for those in Britain. We don't have an NHS here in the States. Well, not as such because we do have various programs for medical... Medicare, Medicaid and probably more that I don't know the acronyms for.

Re: The invisible button

Congrats on the retirement. Even though the brain has been downgraded, fully expect phone calls from friends and relatives who have computer problems and don't want to pay someone.

Re: This is worse than prison labor in the US

How sticking film on an Alexa "educates" them eludes me,

In most countries, it would teach the kid that factory work is not what they want to for the rest of their life. But the, most countries at least have some opportunity to do that.

@Vometia Munro

but sober me can't quite understand the reasoning, nor how I managed to imagine it into existence.

The beer gods work in mysterious ways. Just accept that fact.

Re: Mind bleach

Just thank deity they didn't link the White House and Downing Street with the German Chancellory.

You just had to get there didn't you? Now countless El Reg readers will be waking up in the middle of the night and screaming.

Judging from the corporate speak and bafflegab in the article spewing from Broadcom...there's a lot of cleansing needed.

Re: From outside the US

It seems bizarre that if weed is legal in a state that someone can still be fired for using it.

Alcohol is legal also but there is a line one shouldn't cross. Ok.. manglement excluded but some workplaces (machiniery, chemical) have zero tolerance if a pee test during working hour shows drugs/alcohol in your blood. Those usually are for jobs where alertness, etc. are required like pilots, machinists, and others.

Re: Delusional

If Boeing is proven to be wrong then they are finished as a company as this really is a case of three strikes and you are out.

Only the civilian airliners part of the company will be in danger. The rest is buried in military work, NASA, etc. The company structure and finance that control those structures are probably more resilient than the hardware/software.

Re: hammer?

Hammers are hardware. Be very afraid of the software.

@lglethal -- Re: Guns or the people using them?

Upon reflection of the title of your post, the answer methinks is "both".

Here in the States we have a rise in extreme right and the extreme left. We also, for the most part, have easy access to firearms. Eliminating guns may cut down the number of "attacks" but it won't stop them. Remember the Oklahoma City bombing? No guns involved.

Those motivated to do evil won't be stopped by gun controls or any other panacea. It's the mindset they have. Changing that will be a big part of the solution but also a very daunting task to say the least.

There's an interview floating around with a former extreme right type who's know working to get folks out of that. But he points out that if, per his example, one pilot is ready to take out a bunch of people it wouldn't be all that hard.

So solving the extremist problem is going to be harder than solving the gun problem. And the solutions and will to implement will have to come from the top. The demand for such changes will have to come from we, the people.

Re: Shutting down the wrong server

Or do you stick the name onto the bezel?

How about "both" the bezel and case as well as the rear and inside. Can't be too careful which is often realized after someone shuts down the wrong boxen. Been there, done that, learned from it.

Re: Ahhh passwords...

Followed by wailing and gnashing of teeth and a stern word from the CEO for "disrupting" his business...

I'm surprised that they didn't blame you for going out of business. The old saying "a scapegoat must be found" applies.

Re: So...

How long until the entire 737 fleet (original/classic/next gen/max) is grounded because it was only luck and some chewing gum that kept them in the air after failing all of the modern testing due to a lack of redundancy?

It's not just redundancy. They now have two of each for the computers and sensors... there probably should be three to "vote" as if one burps now, which one of the two is the problem?

Re: Ring of Fail?

I was wondering the same thing not to mention all the hours of "meetings".... They probably could have bought a new airplane or a few bombs for the money spent.

Re: Let's see if I can come up with a few.

Let's just keep it simple. A picture of Snoopy because on the Internet no one knows you're a dog.

I did wonder what they'd be wanting encryption for, because (like OP) my first thought was that the comms is generally a ground->ground relay so the decryption need only happen at the ends.

Since this is just a test, they're probably thinking about banking and military data transfers via satellite. Just a guess as to the "why".

Re: Went to buy an Apple

Better to buy a Pear than a Lemon.

The "toothless fines" and laws seem to be the norm these days in all the agencies that are supposed to be for the taxpayer. FCC comes to mind also.