Posts by Paul Hovnanian

In other words, Patch Tuesday.

"If ever you get the chance to watch 'Occupied'"

The plot doesn't make sense. Russia occupies Norway for refusing to produce oil and gas? Russia produces oil and gas and it would be grinning from ear to ear over the price spikes.

Re: Get out while and if you can

"then nicknamed 'Napoleon'"

Or Putin.

Re: English language fail

Obligatory Dilbert.

A lot of RT programming depends on allocating system resources to processes which must execute in a defined time vs ones that can be pushed into the background. I fear that the browser and app developers will make those decisions for us. And it will be the adware popups which will win out over the mouse response as it crawls toward the close winfow icon.

'Ahhh, this is obviously a new use of the term "Full Self Driving" that I was not familiar with.'

Just another version of the term "fully semi automatic" that we see on this side of the pond.

Re: "servers have a useful life of five years"

*for accounting purposes*

I suspect that is is behind the decision. If you assume too short of an expected lifetime, then when a server depreciates to zero (and keeps running), there is nothing more to be deducted. On the other hand, if the assumed lifetime is too long and the server craps out prematurely, a capital charge will be incurred when the unit is taken out of service.

Bean counters (legume enumerators) dislike either situation.

Re: F35 A, B & C models

This incident sounds like arresting gear failure. What with deck crew sustaining injuries. An arresting cable can do this. Or the tailhook may have broken and parts gone flying.

It's not really fair to put this on the F-35 since thatis all pretty well established technology.

Re: In the pilot's defense...

Pull back, cows get smaller. Push forward, cows get bigger.

"No one is hiring them, either. :("

So it's time to apply for unemployment benefits. It's what the finest people on this side of the pond do.

Re: The unanswered question is

But we'll gladly turn it back off. For a fee, of course.

Re: This is the right direction!

"I doubt it will make it to the states."

Some states will license UTVs for on-road use. The trick would be to keep these classified as motorcycles/UTVs, where safety is the consumers choice and concern. As automobiles, mommy government will step in and insist on the latest in protection technology to keep people from getting an owie.

Re: That Mugshot

"women and kids have had it DRUMMED INTO THEIR HEADS to never say no, never make a man feel uncomfortable, and always, always defer - but the fact is, they have. The perpetrator is the problem"

That's not the perpetrator. That's years later, when 'Chad', who has been socialized to spot victims, sees another one and applies the pressure. The problem is the initial upbringing. Bad parents. Perhaps a big dollop of religion and poorly supervised social learning very early in school. By the time a compliant girl (or boy) is handed their first phone with camera, it's far too late.

Go ahead and make people feel uncomfortable. It's happened to me many times at the hands of people I consider to be good friends. I can be a jerk, but I expect people to give me the thumbs down sign (or something) when I overstep their boundaries. Particularly when I was younger. But even now, I can't read minds and know each person's limits.

Re: is there a reason

But they do.

Be kind. He's probably in the IT biz. Let's turn it off and back on. And see if it does it again.

Re: Why are soldiers being monetised for profit like this?

"It sounds to me like you're speaking from first hand experience."

Yeah. Somebody has to stand duty in the guard towers while you folks are in the exercise yard.

Re: Back to horse-drawn buggies please!

"carelessly driven off a cliff"

But they don't explode in midair in a ball of fire like petrol powered cars do.

Re: "first read the fine forum thread until the end"

"Then when you actually find your language of choice,"

In a few millenia, the Rosetta Stone of our civilization will be the instruction manual for a VCR.

Re: Main reason for the US to be against Huawei

"in this case to keep selling overpriced US made equipment"

I am shocked. Shocked and surprised to learn that the US actually manufactures anything anymore.

Re: WTAF?

"around airports"

Until a medivac helicopter can't reach an accident scene because everyone uploading pictures of the wreck is messing up its terrain avoidance system.

Re: You seem to be having an emergency. Can I help you with that?

"And I imagine Google is busy rushing out a fix to prevent this from happening."

Good luck with that if some Microsoft app has inserted itself ahead of the voice calling service.

Re: not quite

"The vast majority of projects are not in that category."

You might be surprised.

"They also don't need to 'collect that information' at any other time, because they will have done so already when they hired the person"

Timing is the issue here. There is a grace period for submitting the immigration documentation for the permission to work. Not so if they have to set up access control (badging, etc.) for new employees to keep them out of secured areas.