Posts by HamsterNet

Re: everyone replaces their PCs

There is these newfangled Firewalls thingies, in which you can block IP ranges, sites and software from talking to the web. Once you master them, windows can easily be totally blocked from chatting back to MS, with or without updates. Turns out MS include such a firewall in Windows 10 and folks have written scripts for PowerShell that add in all the blocks you need.

Thus MS collecting your data, like Google, Apple, Amazon etc, is completely optional for anybody with a scrap of IT knowledge.

Worryingly MS base now their decisions off just idiots without any IT knowledge.

Re: Fake money

BANKS ARE HACKED ALL THE TIME.

If you are in IT please go back to school.

June http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40728447 with 400,000 customers done over.

October https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/hackers_swift_taiwan/

That's just the first two google results of thousands.

Re: It does give back to the environment

Not all life, just most. Whole communities living around deep-sea vents would be just fine.

Re: Perhaps ..

But Kims rockets came from Russia, sorry correction an Old Soviet factory located in Ukraine and nothign to do with Russia at all!!

Re: Research fail

Yet you can just pop a new battery in it for a few grand and be dandy. Brushless motors, single gear drive chains and quality controllers last for decades.

Forget the scrapage cost, the battery, in any state, is worth a pretty penny for recycling.

Re: 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

It's illegal for any foreign government to donate time, money or other advantages to any part in a US election. Quite a sensible law really.

Re: Safety?

The prices don't come down, but punters will be willing to pay more for guaranteed quality, the ability to browse the wares in a nice shop, pay by card, all whilst avoiding the classical nefarious and unreliable distributors.

Re: What can you spend the tokens on?

The beauty of an open blockchain is you can see exactly how many trades are occurring. 200,000 to 350,000 transactions per day. Still small compared to fiat currencies. But that is just BTX, and not including Eth, at 400k per day. Litecoin 25k per day.

Cryptonight - Unknown as it's anonymous. and many others that can all be swapped about for each other. Then cashed out back to US$ or such.

Yes, they are useful, Steam accepts them but the main reason they will not go away, is simply that they are the default currencies of modern black markets.

Re: Pressure suits?

Please use this new google think to look up the basics of how these systems work. The whole principle is to avoid friction in all forms, be that breaks or propulsion or air resistance.

Both systems use electricity to generate velocity and regenerate said velocity back into electricity for breaking, it's a rather efficient way of propulsion. Friction braking is an utter wasteful exercise

Also, you can Radiate heat, you know just like stars manage to radiate heat across the vacuum of space.

Re: Was about to say the same thing

NO

Its innocent UNLESS proven guilty. The "until" is an assumption of guilt.

This is exactly the point

This isn't about Earth or traffic at all. This is actually about Mars and asteroids.

If people colonise mars we won't live on the surface at all. The surface is bathed in radiation, dust and has no viable atmosphere.

To colonise you need to be able to automatically and remotely dig BIG tunnels to create your underground, pressurised work spaces and gardens.

To mine an asteroid you need to automatically dig it under low or spin gravity.

Musk is clearly using the immediate issue of transport on earth (an idea investors can get behind) to create the tech needed for his grander plans of getting humans off just one vulnerable rock.

Re: Contractor or employee

But why own your own autonomous car? When you can simply app one that will arrive fully charged, take you to your designation and then go off to another job.

If you do own your own Autonomous car, why not let Uber borrow it and make some money for you whilst you are not using it?

Re: Going stone-age

Have you any idea how easy it is to steel an old VW? Bet more of them are stollen each day than all Tesla stolen ever.

Re: what's the problem?

Yer just the same!

Our government snoop on your meta data to see work out who's in who's networks, then who should be surveyed. Then if enough evidence of law breaking can be gathered to pass to the CPS to arrest and go through the public courts.

They don't come to your house and put you in a concentration camp for posting online comments about Mrs May. You won't end up publicly executed along with all your family for suggesting there should be a different goverment.

You are free to get any job you like, Yak shaver included.

You can own things, property, say anything you like, you can VOTE . You can google images of shaved yacks, even male versions if that peaks your interest. In fact you have a huge amount of personal freedoms and rights.

Shesh what kind of third world mud hut do you live in?

So you can change the colour and brightness of your kid's bedroom and dim it for his night light.

So your hall lights come on as you move through the house, but only if its dark and very dimmer after midnight.

So you can dim the office light from working to movie time without getting up.

So you can set timers on your lights for when you are away (don't want the burglars tripping in the dark do we).

So your lights turn off if nobody is in the room, along with the heating in that room. No point heating the toy room when nobody is in there.

Seems the safest thing in relation to this security issue is to have your neighbours at least 400m away from your house.

Re: Tesla "400 kWh of free 'leccy credits"

Never been to the Artic then?

Plenty of them have no off road parking, but they still have their cars plugged into the mains to keep them warm / warm them up for the commute.

Nope,

Just take the Neutrinos flowing from just our local tiny Sun. Right now around 65 billion neutrinos per cubic CM per second flow through you.

Re: Big picture

Its blackmail. Very common and well know against Online gambling sites, where downtime is loss of both direct profits and customers to competitors. Normally the gambling companies pay up, but sometimes the attack comes first and the ransom demand second.

Re: 80%

Probably already is and the 20% are all miscarriages of justice.

Re: Extension

Its malware, Throw your standard knowledge of what needs to happen with opening, then executing a program out the door. In reality all it will need is a simple click on it to start the infection process.

Re: Speaking as a consumer ...

Route it.

Re: And that ...

The 2000 are calling. Office has had past options, including the the ability to set the default to Plane text, Match style or Keep original formatting for over a decade.

Re: 2000 hour inspection cycle

Its not a Civilian Aircraft.

The Military can fly to failure if they like. Have you seen the switchblade drone?

Also lithium batteries at ~2000 charged hold ~80% (chemistry dependent) of their new power. Each charge discharge cycle effectively holds very slightly less than the previous one.

Re: Sad times

Evidence: GTC Keynote March 2015. The Pascal GPU will be "10X faster than Maxwell".

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/83801-nvidia-tsmc-allegedly-tape-next-gen-14nm-pascal-gpu/

Re: Missed opportunity?

WAY too late. ASIC came out for bitcons 2013, ASIC then came out for the other coins shortly afterwards.

Until this point AMD sales where driven by having the best mining cards, but ASIC killed that overnight.

Havent tried it then?

Windows 10 is an updated Win 7 done right but with some data collection added. Since FB, Google, Apple, GCHQ already know ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about you already there not much hassle with another player getting some data on you is there :)

Personally Windows 10 runs quicker, uses less resources and plays games better, thus myself and everybody on steam is using it. However it really doesnt need new hardware to run at all. This is one version of Windows that takes up less than the last two versions did.

Re: VR makes me want to hurl

I've seen it done, its call Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), Totally non invasive and works very well for stimulating neurons. Unfortunately its a little crude at the moment, stimulating a way too large an area of the brain to simulate complex signals, can make peoples arms wave around.

But give it a decade or so, some serious computing power and we get to the holoband from Caprica (Battlestar Galactica prequel).

Re: These Days...

The Terminal

That's why people dont use Linux and use Windows instead.

If you dont understand then just stop using the terminal and see how you get on with your Linux installation (hoe you don't have AMD graphic or processors), set up, drivers or almost anything else.

Re: Morons

TV Broadcast, is just like DVDs, CDs, printed papers, Ceefax...

All tech dust, blown away by the great wind of the internet. You can still find the grains if you look, but they are insignificant bygones in a new IP era.

You can have all the worlds TV (not just your local patch) without an areal. It all comes down The Pipe.

Re: What Lies (LOL) didn't complain about ...

VW built a new engine that they said didn't need Urea injection. Despite the fact that All other manufactures need urea to pass the emission standard on diesels. VW decided to do without it. The only way this works is by Cheating. The map required to pass the NOx standard results in so much lower power and worse fuel economy.

A company doesn't just build a new engine in a day. Its a MAJOR board sign off on project, They must have done a lot of testing to make this cheat work reliably. It will all be recorded.

The entire VW engine development team must have known about this.

Re: Why do we keep doing this?

Yes let one of thoese major world players do it!

By GDP that just leaves Germany, Japan, China and the USA above the UK.

Turns out little old blighty is quite well developed