Posts by Richard 12

Re: Speaking as a fire marshal

Through the water, yes.

It doesn't magically conduct up the stream or through the firefighter, it goes to the other battery terminal or the nearest piece of earthed metal which is of course inside the rack that's currently on fire- so who cares?

The battery may dump its energy by venting-with-flame, but as the place was already burning...

Firefighters do use water in building fires. They don't check whether the mains supply is off before they start, because they don't need to - the breakers are going to trip it off soon enough anyway.

Well, you are trying to slow down and descend, and all that energy has to go *somewhere*.

It's not practicable to use regenerative airbrakes just yet...

Re: Sounds like

That statement is either obvious bollocks, or an admission that they are intending to illegally unencrypt and process images uploaded to iCloud.

Mere possession of CSAM is illegal, other than as part of an ongoing criminal investigation by the police or criminal trial. Therefore Apple are immediately guilty the moment an unencrypted image exists on an Apple server, and their human is also guilty if it's sent to their device.

There is no defence in law - which is of course one of the really stupid things about those laws, but politicians always were incapable of considering consequences.

Re: make way for other national priority missions.

No, but there are several missions that have already booked a slot and would be Most Displeased if Boeing prevented them from flying on time.

Toxic pearls

A small proportion of people are hate filled buckets of pus who just want to spatter over everyone they meet.

So it's absolutely certain that every community over a certain size has a few of them, and it generally takes a while before the admins bring out the banhammer.

So yeah, of course the Perl community has a few.

For an example of what happens when there is no moderator, look at Twitface.

An accusation will destroy you

It doesn't matter that you're totally innocent, your DBS record will include it so you can't work in your chosen profession again ("hearsay" is explicitly included), the media will report it and gossip will convict you.

A great many people have been driven to suicide by false allegations, and even more have had their entire career destroyed forever, losing their home and all their assets in the process.

Re: Historic

Obviously upper management had no idea this was happening, they had rules to make sure of that.

Re: Unfortunately...

Evidently poor lawyers.

Incredibly low turnout

And given that most of the tactics used were to prevent people voting, it's not exactly surprising.

The same tactics are being used by the Republican Party in all the states they control, and that should utterly terrify every US citizen, whether you support the GOP or not.

Re: SpaceX

That's one way of towing it outside the environment...

Re: Patience, my dear

Basically, yes.

As does TCP.

The key features of QUIC are:

1) Security negotiation is part of the standard, not bolted-on afterwards. So setting up a secured link is much faster.

2) Multiple streams by default, so you don't end up waiting for now-irrelevant data (head-of-line blocking).

The latter is of course easily done by opening multiple TCP streams, however each of TCP stream requires its own negotiation security and consumes a port.

Modern web pages might refer to hundreds of different resources, so being able to request multiple of them all at once over a single QUIC link and let the server deliver them in any order is valuable.

However, if the page resources come from many different servers, or there are only a small number then it makes no real difference.

Re: Wonder who it's for

Those places already use 100% in-the-browser solutions.

A full virtual Windows desktop is more expensive, slower, harder to set up, harder to use and far less secure.

So nope, try again.

Re: For the want of a competent search function...

Exactly.

I never, ever, under any circumstances want my launcher thingy to search the Internet.

So kill that with fire. If I wanted to search the Internet then I would have opened my Internet thing and searched in there.

Hence proving the fine is justified

How else would they be targeting those adverts for toilet seats at the specific individuals least likely to buy more of them?

Re: 'All this for .... nothing really

Mumps is 'ing deadly. So is measles.

They used to kill thousands of kids every year before there were effective vaccines, and these days they occasionally kill antivaxer's kids.

Covid is around 10 times deadlier than measles but far less transmissible, and of course measles tends to kill kids while covid tends to kill the elderly while maiming the young.

Go read some actual research papers, not the bollocks spouted by the dirty Facebook dozen.

Yes, some departments are using it as an excuse - but mostly for blatant and massive corruption.

If this actually bothers you, donate to The Good Law Project or your local equivalent.

Re: essentially a 25 years old software bug ...

At this point, if it doesn't leak then it's worth keeping.

More volume good.

Heck, even if it does leak, it's nothing a bit of gaffa tape won't fix.

Re: Europe does it better

There is a publishing overhead, so perhaps a fee should be payable to cover the cost of distribution etc.

Of around 10 cents, which still gives them a very healthy profit.

The vast majority of GPs think it's a terrible idea as currently proposed, so are doing everything they can.

Re: It Depends…

If half or more of the back office are WFH, that frees up a lot of nice, air-conditioned space to give to those on the line to use as a break room.

It's even got computers so they can surf the Internet, play games, watch Netflix shorts or whatever for fifteen minutes.

There you go, problem solved.

It's practically certain they don't have enough break room space at the moment because it's usually the last thing on the list.

Our production line have an entire (alcohol free) bar area. It's brilliant, and they absolutely deserve it.

Re: There's another reason Apple is linking camera modules to phones

In many cases there's no "legitimate" source for spare parts at all.

I should be able to call up a reseller and buy a replacement screen/camera/battery/whatever for my expensive gizmo.

If I can't do that, then buying a too-cheap, possibly nicked spare part or broken gizmo off ebay or the guy down the pub is not only very tempting, it's likely to be the only way I can afford to keep a working gizmo.

Total *idle* power consumption

I'm not quite sure what the reference assumptions are for active, long idle, short idle and soft-off hours/year though.

Re: 16GB should be enough for anybody...

Except the top spec M1 Macs don't have 16GB of RAM, because it's shared with the GPU.

So in fact they've got 4GB less than the Intel/AMD ones.

Far better than the Intelgrated of course, but that's rather like saying a sausage is better than a punch to the face.

Re: Fortunately for the rest of the world...

I dare say they ask you to go before you get in his massive rocket.

Re: Not a cyber attack?

Well, given that they fixed it, it's reasonable to assume they do know what broke.

I look forward to a report on the failure in the next couple of days. If we don't get one then at that point we start to assume the worst.

Re: "Tesla’s Autopilot [...] can drive in a single lane..."

Helicopters are just small mountains that are so ugly the ground repels them.

Re: Use early Microsoft formats where possible for interchange

Because of course nobody would ever maliciously change the file extension...

Re: What's that, London to Manchester?

Don't need in-flight entertainment on hops that short.

Can always ask passengers to dress warm. It probably won't be going all that high anyway.

Re: have trust and confidence in the protection of their personal data captured by CCTV

HASAWA places a duty of care within the workplace that he most definitely breached.

Snogging someone outside your household while at work would almost certainly be illegal under the specific covid laws too - that's not the kind of "grey area" like sitting on a bench or driving somewhere to exercise.

Re: QR codes?

Remember that they want as much crap as possible.

So the real measurement needed is whether it was a #1 or a #2, as #2s are worth far more.

Excess fat

Is there to fry the next slice.

One should always spread the joy.