Posts by Gideon 1

Re: Triple processing

If the 737 Max was safe without MCAS, why did they need to add it?

Re: Lifestyle change

Smaller helicopters have a lower blade-disc rotational inertia, giving less time for the pilot to react to a power failure or air turbulence . For example the Robinson R44 has about 4 seconds of rotor inertia available rather than 1.6 seconds for the Robinson R22, before the incident becomes unrecoverable. Smaller helicopters also are more likely to have teeter-totter blade disc attachment, with it's risk of mast bumping or tail chop off. Smaller helicopters are not necessarily safer.

Re: Other escalator laws

"Dogs" is plural.

Re: None issue

" It was a selling point AMD pushed for cloud and off-prem platforms."

Meh. Cloud customers often don't know what iron they are running on, or even then if security protections are enabled. You have to assume cloud is insecure, because encryption (other then 1 time pads) only ever slows down an attacker.

Re: Getting strike through HTML to work in comment.

Use s and /s in <>

Re: Wonderful

Some outlets/papers don't do ANY journalism now, simply quoting Wikipedia, PR, adverts and wire services The Register.

TFIFY

Re: Mobile as the emergency option?

There won't be POTS, instead fibre to the premises with a battery backed Optical Termination Unit.

Re: Now lets get technical.

All very good, but not the nub.

The problem is that speculative executions can load from forbidden memory locations, and only cause a violation exception if their results are committed. Loading - processing - throwing the data leaks the contents through clever timing analysis.

Fixing it is hard. Lessons need to be learnt from the cipher/encryption community, that complete separation between userland and kernel is required for true security.

Re: Well knock me down with a feather

"One wrinkle is that I've read some patent license agreements mandate that no reimbursement is made if patents are later declared invalid."

If Qualcommm acted illegally then these terms could also be invalid and unenforceable.

Re: The as yet unknown authors of the malware were familiar with industrial control systems.

Do you wear a tinfoil hat?

Real Ale

The microbreweries across the pond do some pretty good brews these days.

Re: Quimitchin

"Quimitchin" were Aztec spies, apparently, though it could be just another hilarious Wikipedia hoax.

You're watching 4k TV on your main set in the living room. The kids don't want to watch what you are watching so go watch 4k TV in their bedrooms, separately from each other. Then your partner watches more 4k TV in the kitchen while making the dinner... Apparently there is simply no need or use for 1Gbps.

Re: No point in protecting against this

It's not just voltage you have to protect against, it's current and power too.

50kV might be a little hazardous to the perp as well as the port.

Arms Race

Everybody will eventually have to start wearing body cams to counter the crooked cops. We're already half way there with dash cams.

Re: Numbers in the title and article look a bit off...

The NPR article they referenced said 1,100 years.

Re: Journalists or Churnalists?

Dutch Safety Board report, Page 146:

http://www.webcitation.org/6cFSGnsRg

Re: Most Behind the Times

"Since when did a microcontroller have cache, TLBs, an MMU, and all the other gubbins needed by an application CPU."

Microcontrollers have had these features, and more (e.g. graphics accelerators), for many years. It is a microcontroller if it has built-in peripherals to control things.

Re: Why only IT?

What, only tax stupid people?

Re: Vaporware

So TL;DR, meh, they need to invent a better polarisation receiver.

Re: Anyone who puts the milk in tea whilst the bag is still in the cup

>You can count me as one of the weirdos that puts milk in Earl Grey though.

Likewise ;o)

...and proud.

Re: Flexibility Doesn't Give Strength

Reminds me of the time I was interviewing a structural engineer for my self build, and trying to impress me with his knowledge, he said that my 1860 stone staircase was 'cantilevered' and the iron and wood balustrade takes most of the load. Suffice to say he didn't get hired.

Re: I live in a rural area

The cellular carriers are not going to install expensive LTE base-stations in rural areas because there will be too few LTE capable handsets there to justify the investment.

The only currently viable option is satellite broadband.