The rocket itself called the abort, not any controllers. The rocket also seems to have called its flight termination when it hovered off-shore.

That is, the rocket called the off-shore abort because something about the system that calculates the exact location of the rocket, and directs it to where it should be, was wrong. A problem with the rocket and the tower communicating would match this, but it could be any number of other things.

There were suggestions that it could have been not enough methane remaining, but that wouldn't match the new information. We did get a flash of green indicating oxygen rich combustion at the end, but that could have just been a rapid engine shutdown - that is, when the booster catch didn't happen (because there was no tower out in the ocean), the booster called a flight termination, which means a slam shutdown of the engines followed by a detonation of the flight termination chargers.

They boost the ISS every few months. It would come back by itself in a year or two if they stopped.

The reason to stop is that it is wearing out. Corrosion and cracks keep cropping up.

..Because MS Office has been designed from the ground up to be challenging to be compatible with. It started with a file format that was in essence the internal memory state of the program written out to disk. When they went to XML, all they really did was record that internal memory state in XML

Anyone wanting to be compatible with Office 'properly' need to implement pretty much all of the office program to render the document, and then convert the resulting render to their format.

What we need to do is to somehow make this Microsoft's problem. Make the cleanest open source office renderer the standard, define that rendering as the correct one, and if Word or Excel renders it differently, then that's a bug in Word or Excel. Or even better, make ODF the standard, and judge Office on its rendering and creating ODF formats.

Microsoft is selling business onto their software stack in the name of security. Making it so in order to access emails you have to use the outlook app, and making that app block copy/paste, and refuse to open links in anything but Edge.

Of course, people will instead access their mail through a secure browser, because no one wants Edge, so MS is trying to push businesses to lock other browsers out of outlook.com.

That will be the direct flights from Perth to Sri Lanka, flown using stripped down Catalina flying boats. They were able to carry 3 passengers and 70kg of essential mail. The single-hop flights took up to 33 hours.

Dimensions 591 × 461 × 392 m

Most of the carbon used in steelmaking is consumed reducing the iron oxides to iron in the smelting process. That job can be done with hydrogen, if you have excess energy to electrolyse it from water.

Then you can use a small amount of carbon as an alloying agent - likely from coal but it could be from CO2 of we were working to capture it at the time.

This all doesn't make sense now, of course. Iron smelting is one place that coal use remains logical.

One specie of mosquito means nothing - there are just so many other ones.

That said, this does not even do that. Mosquitoes with wolbachia still survive and breed - but they don't live as long, and when the mosquito infected the dengue virus can't survive in the mozzie, so it doesn't get infected and so it can't spread the disease.

It is done pretty much everywhere - I'm a little surprised it isn't standard procedure in the US too.

I'm sure they are adding a bunch of other stuff, but at it's heart, it's just chromium.

Really wish we had a more healthy market for browser engines.

... Or so simple there are obviously no problems. It seems we have lost the ability to do the latter.

I mean, a computers Bios should be an exceedingly simple thing, with only enough smarts to initialise storage, copy bytes into ram, check that those bytes are properly signed and then pass execution to them. Instead it is a full environment that never gets patched. This means that no one can build a secure system, because it's built on series cheese.

Do you think we can get someone to make a rom chip containing a private key, securely?

Alt-key, key works in Libreoffice, and any app with a menu.

The letters you use are underlined whenever you hold down the alt key, and the shortcuts are there in the menu too, on the right hand side.

The only difference is that Word's ribbons overlay the key's letter over the button, and libreoffice (and any other menu-driven program) underlines them. Programs used to always display the underlining, which made things more discoverable, but I guess it did look slightly messy.

Yes, Base doesn't get a lot of love. The main audience for Libreoffice, and certainly its developers, would prefer to implement a database directly on their choice of SQL server and use whatever scripting languages and graphics libraries they are familiar with for an interface, instead of learning things like Access or Base.

The 'best of both worlds' approach, which is the standard interface, is to have a context sensitive icon bar, and the menu structure with everything. And everything is available with alt-*n* *y* keystrikes.