Posts by Jonathon Desmond

Re: 8th Time

Jessie Anderson? Mundane and/or inane?

A million nerds just cried out in unison...... NEVER!

Re: NaN

That’s it! I’ve been searching for a house name for the new build.

NaN Railway Parade

Perfect! Thanks.

Re: Send for Jodie Foster

Sending Sean Bean all but guarantees the platform will fall onto the dish at the precise moment he is underneath looking up.

Re: Drill baby drill

“....natural gas...”

Given that Lunar natural gas requires the decomposition of Lunar Dinosaurs*, this does seem rather contraindicated by available evidence....

* - other Lunar based flora or fauna may (probably not) be substituted as you wish.

Are we still doing "Phrasing"?

Re: Missing tools?

"...I wonder if we will see MSDOS returning soon..."

Marketed as the all new, optimised for character mode operations, Microsoft CLI Interface?

Re: Argh!

But what if the capsule is going faster than light?

Time to invoke the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense.....

Actually I am pretty sure they would have reached the correct orbit.

They'd just be in the wrong orbital position in that orbit.....

Actually it’s very efficient - albeit only at generating licensing revenue.....

Re: What if the Cloud also catches Corona?

Romani ite domum

Re: Cascading collisions?

Helvética Scenario. Cool.

Re: one would think

Oh joy, the Microsoft version of systemd.

I thought systemd was the Microsoft version of systemd......

Re: Teams

"...it doesn't alert properly..."

Well they *are* trying to sell it as a Slack competitor, so feature parity is important!

Re: Dodgy ephemeris?

So you’re saying that it’s wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff going on?

Yeah, but 1.50 per minute to call (for example) Australia on Plusnet vs 2p on GiffGaff.

“What's the terminal velocity of such a spent rifle bullet...”

African or European bullet?

Re: Wondering

A quick glance at the github mirror appears to show that it uses the three clause BSD license.

FWIW, Wikipedia (I know!) waffles on about Chromium Browser being “tri-licenced”, including MIT and BSD.

Re: Shocked! Shocked I say!

Tabs vs Spaces is much harder to resolve......

Re: "Flew halfway around the world" = "Auckland to Sydney"?

AC is obviously deliberately combaiting.

Being combaitative.

Laying combait.

Etc

Don’t fall for it!

Re: Hypocrisy of dissent

Re: "Original wording"

On this, you may be misremembering the phrasing of the 2nd.

The exact text is:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Whilst it does mention 'Well regulated militia', it is more in the sense of a preamble. The money shot is the phrase "... , the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

If the framers had intended that "the people" should only be those who were members of a militia force (essentially a state army) they would have said so, something like:

"The right of the states to keep, arm and maintain well regulated militia forces shall not be impinged'.

But they didn't - they granted the right to "The People", without qualification.

To those of us on the outside looking in, it appears mad - but that's what it says and it isn't likely to change.

@no_handle_yet

Seriously, you gathered a dozen downvotes for working in those references? My sympathies, sad days indeed.

Although three Block 4 boosters appear to have been recovered twice, the main restriction is that it is apparently not economically feasible to reuse them for a third launch (i.e.: It is cheaper to build a new one than refurb)

Although some people accuse Musk of 'littering', the fact is everyone else is littering with every single booster they launch. Should SpaceX really be punished for doing it better than everyone else? By getting two launches out of one booster they have already cut their litter by 50%.

Re: 'Nuff Said

Already fixed, but thanks for pointing it out.

Matt (Asay) has articles on the Reg going back to at least 2012; in that time it looks like he has had about a million jobs (Sorry, Matt!) and was, for a short time, employed by Mongo/10Gen to run their community. He is now working for Adobe and there are stints for Alfresco, Canonical and others mixed in there somehow.

I think he highlights a good point regarding the revenue share of OSS DBs having a magnifier effect on the loss of revenue of Oracle. The NHS switched from Oracle on the Spine, for example, saving a whole bunch of money. Shame they went to Riak, but it’s easy to judge with 20/20 hindsight.

Re: Time Bomb?

I think you mean “mayan meetan con with doom willen on when”

One thing I’ve found useful - Although it costs - is that you can use a VPN service providing static IP addresses and incoming connections such as VPNUK (for example, although they only surface your endpoint in the UK, US or Italy at the moment) to work around inbound traffic restrictions.

So why let the "common ignorant rabble" vote at all?

I mean, surely picking the government is a pretty big decision.

Democracy - only for the elite. Right?

Re: "the self driving car has got itself into a position"

Ah, the Kobayashi Maru question!

Re: "...admins will have to edit a DNS record to prove..."

Digital Ocean provide free DNS hosting (well, it's good enough for me), and they have 2FA.

You can also automate the Let's Encrypt process using a DO API key.

Re: Musk really does see himself as the Saviour of Mankind

That would require a retcon; Moonbase 0 doesn't exist in the source material

Re: Is lies! Lies! All lies!

That is a myth. Even Wikipedia states that on that very same link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_(Aboriginals)

“It is also sometimes mistakenly stated that the 1967 referendum overturned a "Flora and Fauna Act", which supposedly mandated that indigenous Australians were governed and managed under the same portfolio as Australian wildlife – New South Wales state MP Linda Burney made mention of such an act in her maiden speech in 2003,[26] as did Mark Colvin in a 2007 ABC article.[27] A 2014 SBS article described the notion that "Indigenous people were classed as fauna" as a "myth", listing it as one of "four key misunderstandings persist[ing] about modern Indigenous history and the referendum"

Re: One wonders ...

But it’s not a random network. Satellites move in fixed and predictable ways and clients generally won’t be moving fast enough that tracking them would be too challenging.

At any given point in time, any given satellite will know Its own location, that of all the other sats in the constellation, and where the fixed ground stations (exit nodes) are. That would seem to me to make client to internet routing straightforward.

I imagine that clients would be assigned some kind of identifier or address that indicates their physical location, or that information would be wrapped in the protocol somewhere, so that responses can be directed to the nearest satellite for the downlink. Slight variations and outages would be handled because, as with GPS, the client nodes would likely be listening to multiple overhead sats at once, so would receive the data intended for them regardless of precisely which nearby bird down linked it.

Re: Money

I remember reading in an article on them a while ago that most BA flights are priced for and target one of two goals:

1) To completely fill first class

or

2) To completely fill business class

- either of these, by themselves, pay for the flight and costs. Everything else (i.e.: The cattle fares and the other 'up front' cabin) is cream.

Re: The closest thing to a . . .

I voted in both Mayoral elections that BoJo won and both times it was pencil on paper old fashioned style voting. Not electronic.

I understand that scanning was used to tally the counts, but that's hardly electronic voting.

Besides the competition was Red Ken - so, no competition to speak of.

Re: FFS!

My brain itch comes from people using 'crafts' as the plural of 'craft' in this context.

The plural of craft (as in a transportation device such as a sailing vessel or aeroplane) is also craft - there is no 's'

e.g.: 'On a Sunday, the busy waters of the Solent are packed with many craft such as pleasure vessels and sightseeing boats'

Conversely, the plural of craft (when referring to handicraft or ability) *is* crafts.

e.g.: 'He is skilled in the crafts of knitting and embroidery'

Re: Alarms

But the mechanical duplicate key won't have a transponder code recognised by the cars immobiliser, so the alarm will continue to sound and the car won't start, even though the key will mechanically unlock the steering.

That's why these guys had to pfaff around with the reprogramming I guess. A mechanical duplicate isn't enough to steal any remotely modern car.

Re: Big opportunity missed

At least I had the courtesy to quote some sources in my comment rather than 'I used to own...'

It's not twaddle. The point was that by building and deploying a system that did not use smart cards or encryption (and that was the main difference between Freeview and ITVDigital) there is an incredible amount of consumer inertia now built up making it almost impossible to switch to a BBC subscription model over DTV anytime soon. All those TVs with built in tuners that would suddenly become useless.....

Which was the whole idea. Greg Dyke admits it in his book. Go and read it if you don't believe me, but I did try to save you!

Re: Three Wishes

That would be *Tom* and Martha.

Maybe you do need to see it again? (Just kidding, no typo is worth that punishment!)

Re: I'm torn

I doubt it's the 'Big Four' as such, because the ANZ are already signed up to Apple Pay, so It seems unlikely they would be party to this action.....