Didn't they also take the other bit of advice and shorten the name to just the Islamic State (IS) back in June when they named a caliph? It seems Mr. Bong that your words were well heeded by these hipsterrorists.
Posts by Eddy Ito
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No, thank you. I will not code for the Caliphate
I’ve never paid for it in my life... we are talking Wi-Fi, right?
Best shot: Coffee - how do you brew?
Re: Instant vs Brewed
Coffee (As served in the US) so weak it should not be called Coffee.
There is a reason for that. Mostly it's because everyone is using the same recipe that was used during both the Great Depression and WWII. My grandmother fortunately predated both and knew how to make a real cup of coffee. Today with a pound of coffee weighing in at about 10 oz and most people grabbing their cup from the coffee shop down the street a good cup of coffee has fallen to the gods of profit margin and what the average Joe will pay for his (below average) cup of joe.
As for the brewing vessel and method, Chemex is nice.
iPhone owners EARN MORE THAN YOU, says mobile report
LOHAN packs bags for SPACEPORT AMERICA!
Apple's iWatch? They cannae do it ... they don't have the POWER
Re: Quick Reader Poll:
I ditched my previous watch because the battery only lasted a year, switched to an Eco-drive and haven't looked back. That said, if it was wireless and I could just drop it on a recharging pad at the end of the day then daily would probably be fine but I'd prefer a week or more for traveling.
The thing with a watch is that it shouldn't ever stop and people are creatures of habit so if it fits the daily routine it has a spot, likewise if it fits a weekly or monthly routine it is easy to work with. The real pain in the arse is when it lasts 3 or 4 days or less than a day and doesn't fit nicely into the routine. Whatever it does it has to work on a convenient and consistent schedule because battery gauges suck sewage through a straw because the use and power draw profiles are so varied.
Microsoft exits climate denier lobby group
Big deal, Microsoft quit the club. Google is still a member as are the four major mobile providers and - ah heck, go read the wiki-list for yourselves.
I was rather shocked to find that this "oil-funded lobby" has just as much pharmaceutical pull on its enterprise board but I suppose that doesn't fit with the evil dino-juice narrative. Maybe the author could put together a piece about big pharma killing children because drugs are too expensive and work in a tie the next time a tech company joins/drops ALEC.
Ballmer leaves Microsoft board to spend more time with his b-balls
Cops baffled by riddle of CHICKEN who crossed ROAD
Re: umm..
Ok, I still don't see how the chicken also meant to die. If it were a modern joke I'd understand given the amount of traffic and speeds it travels but when the joke appears to have originated, 1847, the invention of the automobile was still nearly 40 years distant and Lincoln wouldn't be elected for over a decade so crossing a road should have been trivial unless there happened to be a horse carriage at full gallop coming through. This whole chicken suicide sounds like some sort of new-age codswallop to me.
'Chinese crims' snatch 4.5 MILLION patient files from US hospitals
Equine phallus!
This first bit
... accessing names, addresses and social security numbers of millions of patients.
makes this second bit
But Community Health Systems (CHS) claims no medical records nor any financial data were grabbed by the miscreants.
irrelevant. As practiced by most corporate and governmental arsehats these days the keys to the data in the second bit is typically the data of the first bit.
Germany 'accidentally' snooped on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton
Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game
Boffins find hundreds of thousands of woefully insecure IoT devices
Once again proving that consumer grade kit isn't worth the hardware it's built from and I'd wager some "commercial grade" kit is just the same thing with a higher price. It's also why I keep a virtual BSD firewall on my laptop for when I'm traveling and don't know what kit I may need to connect through at the hotel or company I'm at.
Why your mum was WRONG about whiffy tattooed people
Face-recog tech spots US fugitive wanted for 14 years ... from a photo
Re: Wishes for a fair trial
governments all use the same excuse to spy on our every move
The worst part is that everyone else who has all the pictures of largely innocent people from passports in their facial rec. databases is now frantically importing all the pictures of felons and fugitives they have while saying to themselves "why didn't we think of putting the bad guys pictures into the database before?"
Arsehats, the lot of them.
Just to be clear
The FBI has every passport photo already in the facial recognition database but not wanted posters. I get they were looking for passport fraud but they missed this guy's fraudulent passport and only caught up when pictures of known fugitives were put in. Does that strike anyone else as a bit backward?
SpiderOak says you'll know it's secure because a little bird told you
Re: 6 months?
It seems to me that the easiest way to kill the canary would be for one of the geographically diverse signors to revoke their PGP signature so that the webpage which may still be "alive" because of the update frequency would be effectively dead. In using the signatures as a true indicator and it wouldn't even require looking at the webpage between updates. One merely checks the status of the three signatures and if the Tuvaluan signor (or anywhere outside of the offending jurisdiction) has revoked her signature it can be assumed that the canary is dead even though the webpage hasn't been updated. They could even work out a system where one signature would be revoked when the request for data was received and a second if they lost the decision for a proverbial threat level color code [Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Red]
Totes AMAZEBALLS! Side boob, binge-watch and clickbait added to Oxford Dictionary
Re: Each year we get the 'new words' announcement...
Pity about them removing cyclogiro as Seoul National University actually has one working. Of course in keeping with the times the university dutifully called it a cyclocopter.
No more turning over a USB thing, then turning it over again to plug it in: Reversible socket ready for lift off
WinPhone's Halo hottie Cortana to hit desktop in next Windows – report
Re: Prior Art
Even Siri is a relative newcomer and is one of many spin-offs of a Darpa project called CALO going back over a decade. Another implementation that is Siri's senior is SILVIA so it really has to be dependent on the implementation.
Microsoft: Just what the world needs – a $25 Nokia dumbphone
America's hot and cold spots for broadband revealed in new map
Re: @foxyshadis
I can tell you that being only 20 miles from downtown LA and you might get actual definition broadband but not more. Sure I can pay for the high speed up to 15 Mb/s package but can guarantee that you'll be luck to see the high 5 to low 6 Mb/s range because the infrastructure simply can't handle it. I dropped back to the cheapest net connection available and dropped from nearly 6 to about 3.5 Mb/s and saved a lot of money doing it. If I lived a little further away where the truly expensive new housing is I could get blistering speed over fiber but paying the associated Mello-Roos taxes (about $1000/month) simply isn't worth it.
Lawsuit claims SpaceX laid off hundreds without proper notice, pay
Re: Why?
It doesn't surprise me they were firings. One of the biggest problems here in SoCal is the lack of able talent. We're constantly hiring and about nine in ten are let go in the first six months because they simply can't or won't do the job they claimed they could. Frankly we had a better time of it at the depths of the recession as it was much easier to find good help even though it also increased the pool of inappropriate people to wade through as many folks were just applying for any job hoping to get lucky.
Ex-Apple man Sam Sung - for it is he - sticks namebadge on eBay
Americans to be guinea pigs in vast chip-and-PIN security experiment
Re: Unfounded concerns
Let's not forget that card theft is often grab and run. Actual muggings are also a time limited affair unless you really are at the far end of a dark alley so it isn't likely that someone will stand there waiting for you to try remembering your PIN. Besides, it's much easier to search through the wallet/purse later for the scrap of paper all the PINs are written down on.
Vulture 2 strapped to speeding van before delicate brain surgery
Re: As always, good work
Yes, the current setup isn't near optimal given the awkward airflow. I expect calibrating the airspeed indicator will give a low reading given the slipstream around the van will be faster than the actual speed of the van so it should be spaced off at least far enough to get reasonably clean air. Being in clean air will also allow for some rather interesting data collection as working a few load cells into the mounting hardware will give an idea of what you've got for lift and control forces. In a pinch you can borrow some load cells from a cheap digital scale.
Gmail gains support for non-ASCII email addresses
High five from AMD: New supercomputer GPU maxes out at 5.07 TFLOPS
Re: Where's the Fan?
From the specs tab on the website:
Cooling/Power/Form Factor-Max Power: 235W
-Bus Interface: PCIe® x16
-Slots: Two
-Form Factor: Full height/ Full length
-Cooling: Passive heat sink
Then below that:
System Requirements-20 CFM airflow cooling at 45° C maximum inlet temperature
Who will kill power companies? TESLA, says Morgan Stanley
Google on Gmail child abuse trawl: We're NOT looking for other crimes
As noble as their intentions may be, I see two problems right away. First, it only catches the dumb ones who don't encrypt their illegal activity, although that may very well be a large percentage. Second, if someone wanted to use the police to harass someone all they have to do is send them the appropriate image to produce the digital equivalent of swatting.
BANGKOK-BLOCKED: Thailand's dictators 'ban dictator sim Tropico 5'
Diablo locks down 'key' memory channel storage patent
It's War: Internet of things firms butt heads over talking-fridge tech standards
Windows 8 market share stalls, XP at record low
Re: Why won't they sort it out?
If the rumors of a 3 year major release cycle are true then with 8 having been released in 2012 that would put 9 on track for next year. Given the effort it will take, who knows maybe they will listen to the folks in the focus groups, for the next rev perhaps it's easier to just let the old 8.x wounds scab over than apply yet another bandage in the hope someone will find it attractive.
Mozilla gaffe exposed 76,000 email addresses, 4000 passwords
Re: Apathy
This web site would seem to indicate that a good number of Moz devs have been asleep until - well for another couple of hours.
It's official: You can now legally carrier-unlock your mobile in the US
Re: A glimmer of hope
Da gubbermint legislated GSM, that didn't turn out too badly.
Not in the US where this law applies. The transition from analog saw several different technologies being used and at one point it wouldn't matter if you could unlock your phone since it would only work on a single carrier. It's gotten better over here but that's only because smaller players got gobbled by the bigger ones who weren't interested in having six different systems in their network.
Now let's look at something the US gub't did legislate for a long time. Automotive sealed beam headlamps hamstrung automotive design in the US for quite some time but certainly made it simple to replace as you had a choice of manufacturers of your 7" hi/lo round lamps up until 1957 when 5-3/4" lamps were allowed which were available in hi/lo and hi only. Then in 1974 Uncle Sam authorized the unthinkable - rectangular lamps! I wonder what cars could have looked like if folks could have designed lighting systems to a functional requirement rather than being forced to use one of A, B, C or D.
Plug and PREY: Hackers reprogram USB drives to silently infect PCs
That's just it, the computer only knows it's a flash drive because the flash drive says it's a flash drive. If it says it's a video adapter, cdrom drive, ethernet port, etc. that's what the computer 'believes' and it's quite possible something else might need an update. Ask yourself what your grandmother would do when presented with the following;
"Windows has found a security update for your WiFi adapter. Click OK to install WPA3 and make your network more secure" [OK]
It only takes one
People will gladly pass it around and make copies if it includes the latest hit movie, probably named something like "Terminators VS Transformers 10: Tactical Take-down!", on it. Watch a free movie and infect all your friends. The sneaker-net is just as effective at spreading malware as it ever was.
Korean vendor launches wearable RPi clone
Re: What's great about it..
"Though not that cheap, when compared to a RPi B+, as you need the docking board for the Odroid-W to get the USB and ethernet"
It appears the board itself does have USB but it's unpopulated. My guess is that the physical connector was too large for their envisioned purpose and left it so the user can install one if they feel so inclined. A nice consideration IMHO as I've seen too many Daytona Beach type boards where it's tiny and low profile with a coastline packed with highrises.
Sneaker-maker Reebok cooks up performance-enhancing BACON
Twitter shares balloon on another quarter of ho-hum results
Microsoft bakes a bigger Pi to cook Windows slabs
Re: Looks much like an ITX board only much dearer
For similar or less money you can get any number of far more powerful computers/boards. Intel NUC, Asus VivoPC, etc. I suspect the reason things like the NUC board are frequently more expensive than the computer is because the big box discounters don't do bare boards. Given that most of those come with specs that easily outpace this one I think calling this "fat" is a bit of an overstatement especially when you consider they used the lightweight "G" variant of the atom instead of the "F" which has twice the memory bandwidth.
Russia: There is a SPACECRAFT full of LIZARDS in orbit above Earth and WE control it
Need a US visa, passport? Prepare for misery: Database crash strands thousands
ONE EMAIL costs mining company $300 MEEELION
Re: Headline wrong?
The market is a zero sum game - one idiots losses are another idiots gains
Let me guess, everything you know about the stock market you learned from the movie Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and now you're confused about between the difference between the stock market and the futures market.