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Comment Re:Don't know about Australia (Score 2) 87

You can tell this one spent his childhood expanding his spider collection.

Kids in suburbs "socialize" with great enthusiasm. They are constantly at one another's houses, or borrowing mom's crossover to go somewhere with their friends. Before they can drive, mom is wrecking the planet driving her progeny all over creation for every kind of sportsball you've ever heard of, and a number you haven't. The parents all have each others phones because they're constantly trying to figure out which friend their kid has absconded with, or which one gave them the pot they got caught with. Phone storage is permanently at 100% capacity because they're filled with stupid videos of their friends.

Honestly guy, the more you say here, the more painfully obvious it is that you have lived a sad, lonely life.

Comment Re:It was never about "the kids" (Score 2) 87

These laws have nothing to do with protecting kids, and everything to do with stripping adults of their privacy.

Maybe. I suppose that's a side benefit that some are excited about, and the worst of those will abuse it. Mostly these laws are symbolic: the ruling class doesn't really care about any of this. They're busy arranging government contracts for their spouse's private business, getting their kids no-show non-profit chairmanship jobs, etc. The "ban" is their sop to the latest moral panic, and enforcing it generally would be nasty, so they just enact it with no real enforcement plan and get back to lining their pockets. Whenever some kid causes a headline making outrage, the narrative will include accusations of negligence with regard to social media bans, and they'll persecute the kid's parents, but beyond that nothing of note changes.

Comment Re:Sardines (Score 2) 70

Im intimately familiar with range-payload charts.

You have to take my sentence as a whole - I say that its both low density and premium heavy. The low density is because of the range-payload drop off, the premium heavy is because Qantas will make more money with the premium cabin, so thats where the bulk of the weight allowance goes.

Comment Re:Sardines (Score 2) 70

The airlines reputation isnt going anywhere, DVT is a known risk on a lot of long haul currently in operation, yet you dont hear anything about airlines getting negative PR about it. This route will be no different. Its a bit longer, but not massively.

Qantas already have it set at around 40% premium seating, with around 140 economy or economy plus seating at 33 inch pitch, and 98 premium seats (first, business and premium economy).

Its a low density, premium heavy cabin precisely because thats what the route demands - they have structured it around what premium seating they can fill, and what economy they might fill. Its no secret that airlines make almost all of their passenger profit from premium seats, and economy is often just about break even, so theres no point in cramming more economy in for this route.

https://www.qantas.com/en-nz/o...

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 3, Informative) 70

Its a route proving flight, part of the A350-1000ULRs certification - and Toulouse is Airbuses biggest base of operations, where the A350 production line is based.

The aircraft was going there to be painted and handed over to Qantas after certification is granted.

When it goes into airline service, Qantas will be flying it from Melbourne and Sydney to London Heathrow.

Comment Re:Probably just AI (Score 1, Flamebait) 92

Kind of does not make the kernel much more secure in general

Ah yes. gweihir. The resident AI denialist.

This one has been lurking on any given firewalled network interface for 7 years: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/...
This one is a subtle race in openvpn: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/...

Two examples of either making the kernel demonstrably more secure, or identifying and correcting non-trivial problems. There are hundreds more, in case you'd like to get some of the shit out of your head.

Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 92

This is more than the average security/IT team can...

Don't care. You've had time: this is no surprise to anyone that's been paying the least bit of attention for several years now, and isn't still stupidly indulging AI denial. The excuse window has closed: if your business is security and you didn't know at least as 18 months ago that you could expect to see exactly what is happening today, you're a seat warmer and no one cares what you think. And you're going to be obsolete soon as well.

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