Posts by DryBones

Re: "This code has been deleted by a exploiter"

Reads more like it's a common error, to me. It's basically saying that they're traveling the same route too often and so someone put a bomb where they're going to pass.

Erm... You kind of have to send the data to Google. That's what's called a cloud service. That's what lets you access it from anywhere. That's what ChromeOS IS.

So... EFF discovers that cloud storage takes place in the cloud? Next week, they find their ass with both hands? Shee.

Erm...

To possibly derail the thread, can you not turn off AutoCorrect on an iThing? My Android devices let me set it to give word suggestions and to flag words that it thinks are misspelled, but not actually take it upon itself to change them for me I'd kind of expect similar on iOS...

The funny part is that's an infrastructure problem (only providing one outlet in a server room, what?), not the problem of the cleaner.

Re: Oh boy. Yet another sounding rocket.

Upvote for remembering that. Also, just checked the Wiki page for it, tickled to find that some of the engineers that worked Clipper are on with Blue Origin now.

Bezos and Musk weren't first to anything, including the concept of reusability. Wake me when they figure out what it actually costs (inspections, repairs, servicing, paperwork) to convince customers that it's ready to go again.

Re: Every few days without the option to permanently silence it isn't acceptable

Seriously? You're refusing OS updates... for your phone. And have done so... hundreds of times? I'm going to presume you're engaging in some serious hyperbole, because that's just absurd. I mean, the voice guidance alone works better than Garmin's entire mapping suite if you ask me. Just... swipe the notification away once and update when you arrive? It's not hard.

As for Windows, I'm not sure what to say. I can understand the positive effects of the updated codebase, and they really have straightened most of their GUI screwups out... But the heavy handed tactics have got to be well on the way to eclipsing all of that. It may be that they've pretty much decided that they're going to have holdouts or losses to other OS no matter what they do (pretty sure there've been a good number on these boards, of course), so they're just going for maximum upgrade numbers any way they can get them.

Re: Jailbreak - not just for the young

Moto E or a laptop with appropriate app/software? Some routers (Cisco at least) also map the channel space. Ah well.

Re: MUA

That poses an interesting question. It sounds like the lights are from a list that's maintained, not any automated security check for encryption being present, etc. I presume it'll get political pretty fast.

Re: Oh the irony..

Well, generally because if the purchase was an improvement, what were all those people doing using that crap in the first place?

But it's not their fault.

I too am wondering if it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission at this point. Cripes.

Re: What to do...

Nexus 5X.

2GB RAM is not a major concern, you can get 32GB storage if you pay a little more.

Wireless charging is pretty darn inefficient, not to mention slow. It can still be accomplished via a case with it built in if you really need it (they totally will have them, someone in Korea is updating their design to use the USB-C instead of the micro-USB as we type). And they make the camera flush with the case.

I love how people knock Google's choices on battery and expandable storage then fawn over Apple for the exact same stuff. Not everyone mind, kudos to those that are consistent.

Re: Yeah, I noticed The Register is in Apple Hate Mode

@Dave 126: Aren't the biggest battery users the screen and radios?

Re: Jumped the Shark

Try it sometime. Being able to reach up and tap or swipe an annoying window out of the way is a nice compliment to the normal touchpad. Not all the time, but when optimal. Asus makes a really fine one for $500.

Re: Regress

NoScript, Malware Bytes, Windows Defender, and a limited W10 account.

To get in, first it has to manage to even get access. The OS is as secure as the user.

Re: The question nobody is asking...

@Chris: To my mind, if you have a seal or line or interface fail on the helium tank and it's outside the LOX tank there's at least the chance the helium will just vent to the interior and then the exterior of the rocket through the pressure equalization vents, and the other tanks will pick up the slack. Yes, if it goes off like a bomb or your valve sticks open and your reg fails you're still pretty well done, but the chance of a failure resulting in LoM seems smaller to me. I'm still weighing chances/results of structural insufficiency for external vs internal, and wondering if bad steel grain is something that can be tested for acoustically.

@Cray: I was wondering if anyone knew how much more capacity it bought them, versus being outside but near the LOX tank. Something to put on the "put them inside" side of my mental scales. Since the helium is needed for pressurizing the RP-1 tank as well, it seems it still needs at least 1 route out of the LOX tank, so I think the "reduction in penetrations" point doesn't seem valid. I'd imagine they make a single penetration of a certain size, weld a single-piece assembly with multiple penetrations in it there, and route reactants and purges and sensors as designed/needed.

Re: Who needs a walled garden, anyway?

Quality control issue, pretty universal in potential.

Sounds like they need to tighten things up a bit. Possibly the thumbscrews on the late shift supervisors to tell them where that stuff came from.

Re: how about gasket material?

Try Dap 686 for a start...

"Has this demonstration of the lack of proper ad inspection and sanitization prompted you to re-evaluate your choice of ad network?"

Mine fits quite well, but I suppose it's more in the crossover / son-of-a-wagon category.

Is there a number you can call to report them for booting/towing?

Re: Then there is the Whitespace everywhere

Google Calendar did the same thing, absurd use of whitespace. They backtracked after getting excoriated in the reviews page. I plan to do similar as required with Microsoft Feedback. This is something they have needed for a while (for all meanings).

Re: Physics Says...

The upper stage tanks tend to have a bladder to help push the reactants to the pipes so the engine can run, they don't like to stay put in the absence of gravity. These bladders are filled with helium as it's neutral and won't freeze. If the helium is supplied at the wrong time and rather excessive pressure though...

Re: All the balls have left the bar

@AC: I think you parsed the wrong meaning there. I meant of those who become vegetarians, it seems like more and more are changing to such a diet because they cannot bear the thought that an animal died for their food.

Not sure, but we may have a generation growing up with little concept of where their meat comes from. Ask, and get "The store."

Might I suggest uninstalling the apps, then? If you put crap on the phone, there will be crap on the phone.