Posts by Voland's right hand

Passing is temporary

This has the distinct smell of an ARM CPU coming to a Macbook near you in the immediate future.

Re: Seeking independence

All you need to know about it is that the cannons on the Spanish fortress in Barcelona do not point at the sea - they were not guarding the city from Arabian pirates, French or British. They are pointed AT the city. Why - exercise to the reader.

Re: How many people believe Sheryl?

Slightly more complicated.

The moment F***book, Tw*tter, etc starts to police their populace properly they will run afoul of the CDA which gives them neutral publisher protection.

So, rather unsurprisingly, they have very little interest in doing so.

Re: Business as usual in the Land of the Free...

As long you're a CORPORATION

Just the opposite in this case. The act protects only the consumer. If you are a security company, it offers you little or no protection and the whole interaction with the vendor falls under other laws on the statute books.

You might as well drive a Peugeot or something where you have to dismantle the rear axle.

Renault, not Peugeot. From some point after Renault Clio Mk2 they went nuts. While an old Renault could be repaired by a barely literate bush mechanic armed with hammer and spanners, on anything after around 2003-4 you need specialized tools, service manual and you need to remove the front bumper to change a light bulb. PSV while also a known offender is not anywhere near as bad.

In any case, while most early phones were repairable, their repairability has dropped across the board to nearly zero over the last 2 years.

It started with the IP6X and IP5X ratings. In order to have the phone water and dustproof they started gluing and sealing them. At that point I stopped trying to fix them myself. I started buying spares and waiting until my next trip to Eastern Europe so they can be fixed somewhere where labor is cheap.

With the new curved bezel-less designs I do not see how it can be repaired at all. The thing is held by glue (if not even epoxy). Chances to changing or fixing anything are near zero.

Re: Ben Hur Moment.......

Apart from most (all?) uber drivers in the UK use their own cars.

Nope, they do not. At least in London. The majority are leased.

Walk into any Eastern European shop. There is a big poster advertising leasing out a Prius or other Uber compliant vehicle in the local language. Polish shop - poster in Polish. Romanian shop - poster in Romanian. Bulgarian shop - poster in Bulgarian. And so on. The same lease house offers other services assisting in you joining the race to the bottom on the London streets - insurance brokerage, etc. It is usually a full service affair and there is a whole cottage industry doing just that.

I do not go into other regional ones (Asian, etc), I suspect they are no different.

The ones worst off will be the couple of lease companies which lease 50% of the bloody Priuses you see in London.

Re: Can we eliminate operator cruft this way ?

No WiFi calling

If you are referring to WiFi calling using the operator assigned number - sorry, I do not see why I should be sponsoring cost savings for the operator. If they want to put less masts at my expense and provide less coverage using WiFi as an excuse, the only answer I am incline to give is - NO PASARAN.

If you are referring to VOIP and WiFi calling in general, my phones have been perfectly capable of that feat for nearly a decade now and it has been nearly a decade since I bought the last operator phone. They are all unlocked, SIM-free and all of them very happily hook up back to my SIP PBX using SIP TLS and sRTP over WiFi.

Re: This article is just....

It stinks

Come on, the old stinker is a classic English cheese, not a Quebecois.

Re: Editorial correction?

They should have been described as "with a street value of". The way the press reports drug busts.

Re: The killer app for glass appeared several years later

They cost $1500 and were in limited release,

That was exactly because they were a limited release. A few games and apps like Pokemon Go would have allowed mass production and reduction of the price down into the high end smartphone bracket.

Re: Yeah yeah yeah - the usual bollocks @batfink

It's the only way to protect our freedoms, our children, our democracy ...

Is Lark Hill. The Wachovskis got it right with one mistake. They kept the Great Chancellor character from the comics as male.

Re: $300M!!

It is "holy crap", but from a different department - the "find excuses for a write-off/declare losses" department.

So, actually, the reaction at board level was: "Holy crap, why we did not get infected too, we should reduce the security spend".

Re: Typos a Gogo!

Probably typed on an iPad using IOS 11.

Re: New Labour's biggest con on the young

Which is exactly why I nearly ROFL-ed at the career presentation for Junior in his high school.

There was the usual wankaton from the local apprenticeship coordinator, the teachers, a couple of 6-form reps, etc. They were extolling the pros and cons of 60K debt versus money now and so on. The same as we do in this discussion. I nearly felt asleep and seriously considered opening my laptop to do some coding.

Then, came the school deputy head in charge of this with his slides on what students do when they graduate out of the 6 form. There was a clearly visible 7% slice on his chart. Guess what did that slice say. It said:

EMIGRATED

Nothing really more to say here.

Re: Doesn't go far enough on nuisance calls

And there should be an easy way to report the last caller as a nuisance call, eg dial #7726

This will only be effective if it is forwarded to the nuclear deterrent targeting system.

Re: EU must be joking

You mean like Porsche (VW) Group.

Check where Porsche obtains:

1. Gearboxes - 60%+ are contract manufactured

2. ECU - 100% contract manufactured

3. Bumpers and plastic body parts - 100% contract manufactured, some of the processing is done in UK

These are just the bits I know, I suspect it is 70%+ contract manufactured across the board.

It was not the size of the organisation,

Size != full vertical integration. What Eu has enabled (and what Leavangelicals fail to grok) is the demise of the verticals in favour of lean/contract manufacturing across the board. Leyland sucked so bad not only because of mismanagement, but because it sourced so much stuff internally including some seriously inferior parts - f.e. electrics. If you compare Leyland to today's Porsche, Leyland had 70%+ vertical integration. Porsche is the exact opposite - under 30%.

Leaving the Eu erects the small, but sufficient trade and business barrier to stop participating in this. This is jobs and LOTS of blue collar jobs - most of the few that are still around.

Re: If only abit of photoshop working in all cases...

Counterfeiting U.S. currency is allegedly working well for North Korea.

It did well for Saddam as well - it was one of his real weapons of mass destruction and real reasons why he got invaded. Food for thought... On both sides...

Re: It's been done before

Attenborough has a clip in one of his old movies as well. It was also with a big one (one big enough to kill you if you are not careful).

It's not really rocket science: ensure that people doing the same job get paid the same.

Not the issue here. The ladies claim they are given DIFFERENT jobs which are low paid just because they are ladies.

I have said it before, I will say it again. The amount of profiling against STEM as a professional choice endured by a woman in USA (and to a lesser, but still significant extent UK) ensures that only the most stubborn or the best remain. The more "basement dwelling" an area is, the more prevalent it is. Security is probably the worst here. There are a few that closely follows.

There are a few corollaries to that which follow straight out of basic probability and statistics:

1. If you are hiring off the local job market and you are hiring strictly on merit you will have a predominantly male population. You have to go global and import from countries where STEM has lesser or even inverse gender bias to offset it.

2. If you have not imported to offset the gender bias, and you have hired solely on merit and you are paying solely on merit, the "surviving" ladies are likely to have higher than average rank. That, in turn, unless you are discriminating, should be fetching higher than average salary.

The result may look paradoxical, but that is what it should be if the hiring policy is FAIR and MERIT based, because high school and university have already skewed your sample. That, however is extremely rare (especially in large companies).

Re: Playing with fire, Dabbsy?

They'll be calling for your head on a pike before noon at Greenwich

What was that about the dog which is all bark and no bite...

Re: Their latest hardware is damn good, pity there are so few models.

The model I used for tests is a HP 15-ba047na. Unfortunately, there are only 2-3 models to chose from on the market - this one is with the best video subsystem.

I would suggest replacing the ridiculously slow spinner HP put into it for it to really shine.

For instructions on how to change/add memory and replace the spinner search for "HP 15 AMD Service Manual". It is significantly easier than the equivalent Intel models which use a different case design (so make sure you have the one for AMD models). While the case design for Intel gives you easier access to the memory and WiFi modules, changing the drive on that requires complete disassembly.

Tools needed for the AMD version are a car trim pry tool (or a plastic kitchen "knife" for baking) and a cross-head screwdriver. It is not even using hex screws or something else like that - fully serviceable as long as you know (or guess) how to open it.

Re: How about some balance?

I doubt all that much; let's face it, those people were locked in Leave voters.

You are missing a couple of points:

1. Associating leave with the pet hate and keeping it that way.

2. Voter mobilization for the election day.

Especially the latter. While campaigns like this do not do a lot as far as changing voter orientation, they are essential to ensure that all that can vote for you do so. That is exactly what happened in the USA. And UK too. It will also continue happening now as everyone has wised up to this particular use of f***book and social media.

Someone thinking better of 123? They need to share whatever they are smoking.

Re: Biometrics

Bit of paper with a full-page photo, held over the attackers own face.

Every sign printing shop has a printer which can print on vinyl sticky film.

Similarly, every sign shop bod knows how to apply said film to a curved surface. All you need is a hair drier.

Unless the phone scans in UV and IR as well I do not quite see how you can defeat that.

Re: the Apparatus is much bigger than the US Gov

The apparatus is self-feeding and self-sustaining too.

A good example here would be the operation of said apparatus in Eastern Europe and ex-USSR in the 1990-es and 2000s. The wall, fell, mission accomplished, right?

Yes, but if mission is accomplished, then that means that agent Doe is without a job and all those precious kiddie college funds are at risk. So what does agent Doe do - continue as if nothing has happened financing any and every possible lunatic on the Russian periphery as well as recurring "regime change operations" in ex-Soviet block countries. Rinse, repeat until it backfires in the face, then more some.

Forever war is essential in feeding the monster and it will take an economic and/or political crisis of proportions USA (and other western nations) has never seen for it to be dismantled.