Posts by The Man Who Fell To Earth

Re: This months of work from home showed too....

Wired my house a few years ago with cheap singlemode SC fiber from Amazon & never looked back. WiFi, on a VLAN isolated from "the computer stuff", is used for IoT. Entertainment on a hardwired VLAN isolated from "the computer stuff".

Amazingly inexpensive.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072J39LLQ/

Even armored outdoor singlemode fiber is cheap, about $1 per meter.

http://www.ecablemart.com/outdoor_drop_cable/outdoor-drop-fiber-cable-scapc-scapc-9125-g657a1-singlemode-simplex-35-m-p-123717.html

Re: If You Have Done Nothing Wrong

Until we change the definition of "wrong" and apply it retroactively.

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A cut

"Putin agrees to do something about ransomware coming out of Russia"

He'll take a cut, like he does of eveything else.

Re: "Fronking "

The big scam these days are the companies conducting personality tests on applicants. My company used them for a while until we back analyzed everything and found zero benefit. But the testing companies got boat loads of innocent folks personal info.

Re: Irrelevant

"While the insistence on TPM is understandable to a certain extent..."

No it's not.

Re: What - no generator?

The whole product looks like a solution in search of a problem.

Re: What is an OS for?

"I can still watch movies, play games, use Office tools -- all at zero cost." - RegGuy1

If you had a job, you'd know it's a Microsoft Office universe. It just "is". No one cares if I like it. My job requires reality based thinking and a lot of collaboration.

Re: Sell the shares.

You'd be surprised at how many people don't have a clue that the share price only indirectly affects the company, if at all, and can even help the company if, for example, it has a buy back program.

Re: Predictions are like arseholes...

I've come across a lot of customer service chat bots quite as capable of wasting my time running in scripted circles no different than outsourced to India customer service drones. That is why in the US, so many companies advertise that their useless customer service is based in the US.

Re: There still remains......

I own a Chevy Bolt EV. I have only seen as high as Level 3 chargers, and those are 35kW. My Level 2 at home (or Chargepoint at work) is 7kW. The Level 1 that I carry in the car is about 1.5kW.

Re: Being a high-roller is a lot of fun

All financial institutions in the US, including brokerages, require your Social Security number (or EIN number if you are claiming to be a business) and report everything to the IRS. The only way you could attempt to hide these types of shenanigans would be to enlist other people to open brokerage accounts in their own names (and pay taxes on those gains) and give you a cut of the net profits in cash. The bottom line is even if you are completely amoral, the risk/reward usually doesn't work out in your favor and a smart person would conclude there are better legal ways to make money.

Re: Out IBM'ing IBM

And yet Oracle isn't suing eBay. Go figure...

https://www.ebay.com/b/Sun-Microsystems-PC-Desktops-All-In-One-Computers/179/bn_732028

Allow one to disable a core

One band-aide would be to simply stop using a core found to be mercurial, ideally by switching it off, less ideally by having the OS avoid using it.

Not a library csrd

Apparently you neither know how to read nor drive.

Re: Two meetings a day? That's still crazy.

Just use "Where's My Cellphone". You can program it to call you up to 5 minutes ahead.

http://www.wheresmycellphone.com/

It expired in 2015

One would have thought it was a steal in 2014.

Re: "Say it ain't so, Joe..."

When you are arrogant enough, you don't need to show up to court.

Re: not just umn.edu

"It will be difficult for UNM to recruit new CS students with this ban in place and hopefully it will also impact their ability to garner financial support. One can only hope!"

No CS student worth their salt will give a crap, and it will have zero effect on their careers. No US funding agency will give a crap. None. Nada.

Just confirms

That no one at Microsoft on the Office Team ever creates documents or presentation using Office.

Re: Or, don't use Oracle

Of course. If Oracle was really in the databaee business, their software wouldn't be so awful to use.

The iDiots are at Tesla

The iDiots are at Tesla, for making their "safety systems" so trivial to defeat. Youtube is full on clowns driving like this guy, and most of them show how trivial & low-tech the defeats are.

Re: "Ride sharing"

Ride Sharecropping.*

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*With apologies to real sharecropping which isn't as abusive since in real sharecropping the landlord at least as some skin in the game in the form of substantial capital assets. By contrast, in the modern Sharecropper Economy the sharecropper has all of the capitalization risk and the companies just skim the cashflow with the bare minimum capital investment needed to do the skimming.

Re: Inclusive must mean that we only include things that we like...

"Outsiders who know nothing about Silicon Valley think I'm terrible. Insiders who know the game well think I'm actually honest, self-deprecating, and funny, and actually tame by Valley standards."

I spent a large part of my career in SV, including 3 startups that had successful exits. The most accurate book every written on the subject is Chaos Monkeys.

Re: Hmmm

I remember fondly my -1258G phone that I got just before the Black Death of 1346-1353.

More than a coincidence?

Welcome to the 21st Century

Recomplie using QB64. Then you can compile your Quickbasic 4.5 code to Windows 32 & 64 bit, MacOS, or Linux. ( https://github.com/QB64Team/qb64/releases/tag/v1.5 )

https://www.qb64.org/portal/

Evolving

“We believe it’s time to evolve,” says a post by Microsoft’s design team, which reckons it’s time for a change because: “Without pointless changes to fonts, ribbons and the like every once in a while, we'd be out of jobs."

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Re: Identured Servitude Agreement

It always amazes me how these new business just dust off an ancient and predatory practice and claim it's new & innovative.

Income Share Agreement = Identured Servitude Agreement

Sharing economy "gig" worker = Sharecropper

I can't wait to see what Slavery will be modernized euphemistically into by these clowns.

Re: There is a high chance that there is prior art out there....

Despite the myth that everything has been digitized & put on the Internet by now, it can be hard to find prior art. My own company, which has made a large number of acquisitions over the decades, had a recent patent scare where one of our competitors filed a patent on something we were also about to use in a product about to be released. Yet it was one of those things that in the more general technology was conceived 100+ years ago, and in the modern implementation in our field, still expected to have been patented (but not implemented due to economics) decades ago. Long story short, after over a year of us & our lawyers searching for prior art as part of our freedom to operate due diligence before product release, we found the idea had been patented in the 70's (and expired in the '90's) by a company we'd acquired in the '80's. Why did all of the searches across many patent and journal databases come up empty? Because the old patent didn't contain a single keyword that any searcher used, even by those of us who were working in the '70's. And why was that? Partly because terminology had changed, and partly simply because the patent was written using first principles descriptions rather than assuming the reader knew the buzz words. It was a wonderfully well written patent from a robustness standpoint. Unfortunately, it was also way ahead of it's time to have been put into production way back when. But it did allow us to have as kryptonite in our back pocket if the competitor ever went after us. (i.e. Thank you for your cease and desist letter. We are just using an implementation of our own expired patent ####### from the 1970's. We'll let all of your competitors know about it as well. Have a nice day.)

Re: Low earth orbits will be unusable ...

Because in Space, if you can see what you are doing, so can everyone else.

Re: Why?

To go with one's IoT Fire Extinguisher.

In case one is on the other side of the planet and want to put out the fire caused by using the air fryer from the other side of the planet.

Re: Again, again

"Law enforcement agencies claim that locks on doors would make it more difficult for them to investigate crimes at all levels."

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