Re: Silver Bullet
All the technical measures in the world won't protect your OS if the malware can just get the user to click "run".
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When I go into McD's it's not because I want food, it's because I want filth.
A BurgerKing burger tastes like a really bad beefburger, a BigMac tastes like fast food, containing no organic matter whatsoever.
I don't often get the urge, but when I want fast food, I want something that tastes like it's never been near a living creature.
Shit, I'm hungry now :(
From the police spokeman's own words:
"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting," he said. "We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story; if there's some way that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."
Not "the way that they're acting", but "the way that you're acting". And this is how they talk to the media.
It seems like the assumption of guilt is completely ingrained.
If you're installing Cyanogenmod, you already have to download the Google apps (Google Play, GMail, Maps etc.) separately, so I guess it'll more more of the same.
The commercial Cyaonogen OS will probably buy into GMS like any other manufacturer. Or they'll try and set up their own ecosystem which will almost certainly fail.
There's a good background here. on how just a single problem in one part of the system puts so much stress on the surrounding parts that have to take up the load that it swiftly spreads and, well, takes down the electricity grid for millions of people.
The short version is that unless every part of the system can cope with that 3.5% change in load, then candle prices will rise.
Does everyone else just get to close tickets when you think it's fixed then?
I have to wait for the customer to confirm that a fix works, and I assumed that's what MS were doing here. (Fortunately I'm not judged for the fact that I'm waiting on a customer to confirm that about twenty different tickets can be closed)
Tinfoil hats actually amplify the frequencies that the US military uses for mind control satellite communications.
I can imagine that being trapped in a building with no access to a loo would be pretty bad, because at some point you're going to have to pick which corner to wee in.
However, at least in an office you might have the relative luxury of a bin or pot plant, in a data hall you're going to have to pick a spot that won't end up with you getting an electric shock in a very painful part of the body.
And while you're there, try and find your way to the Flight gallery on the top floor where they have the actual Schneider Trophy, one of Frank Whittle's original jet engines, and Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy (that made the first non-stop transatlantic flight) among many other things, all seemingly hidden away in an attic.
Pretty much ever computer now uses UEFI so there's no BIOS in the traditional sense, so no.
Also, AFAIK, no manufacturer has ever tried to store programs in either BIOS or EFI, so, still no.
I suspect you mean the recovery partition which is on the harddrive/SSD, and yes, that recovery image probably contains at least some of the crapware, but as other have pointed out, if you do a clean install you won't have that problem, and no, it can't automatically install software from the recovery partition.
"Give me a wearable that I didn't ever have to recharge, or only needed to recharge once a month, that cost under £20, and that gave reliable notifications of calls or messages received on my phone, and instantly gave me a zoomable map - and maybe then we're talking"
That's not really the most realistic request now is it?
But hey, if you find that magic infinite battery that never needs charging and costs less than £20, let me know, I might have a few uses for it.
I've always thought of myself as a European for what it's worth.
And what's all this about not making many rules but sticking to them? That's not the British way! We have many rules and laws, but there's a tacit understanding of whether they'll be enforced or not, which varies according to the time and place.
Or maybe that's just the impression I got from growing up in the countryside, where things like licensing hours for pubs were regarded more as a guideline rather than a hard and fast rule.
To be fair I doubt anyone thinks it's a good idea to wheel a fully armed warhead through the streets. And as for showing off a weapons system that's not really operational, well, pretty much every arms company ever has done that (the F-35 has been being pimped out as a photo op since 2007 at least and it's not operational yet).
Given how we've gone from pretty much no-one having a mobile phone thirty years ago, to pretty much everyone having one by about ten years ago, if there is a link between mobile phones and cancer then we'd expect to see a massive uptick in the number of cancers across the entire population.
That no increase in cancer rates has been seen shows that there are no effects within ten years, and so if there are any cancers being caused, they must be taking a long time to form, because there's no sign of them yet.
SpaceX are saying there'll be a 30% discount for flying on a second-hand booster.
Lets face it, that's 'only' $40M for a flight, they're practically giving it away!
If you're happy using scp/sftp, why even consider Dropbox? The whole point of Dropbox is making internet based file storage really easy to use, so people don't need to learn what rsync is, or have to set up their own file server.
You might as well complain that Cbeebies doesn't contain enough gritty realism for you.
Actually, I'd take the Swedish prison please. You'd be allowed some time out of doors, even if it would just be shuffling round a yard. There'd be more interaction with other human beings, and most importantly, you would know the maximum time that you'd have to be in there for.
It's also worth noting that re-offending rates in Sweden are low, so they must be doing something right overall.
It's not just about competition. Gallileo is technically very similar to GPS (and GLONASS and BeiDou), to it's entirely feasible for one device to use all the satellites it can 'see' for navigation, regardless of which network they're part of.
This means that if you're (eg) in a deep valley, there's more likely to be enough satellites to calculate your position, and the more satellites you're using, the more accurate the position will be.
Pretty much every possible choice of fuel for a rocket is generally unpleasant to be around at best because it takes a lot of energy to lob a satellite into orbit, and all that energy has to be locked up in the fuel somehow.
The reason the SupeDraco thrusters use hypergolic propellants (not hydrazine) is so they don't need to have an igniter, the fuels will spontaneously ignite as soon as they mix. This also means they can be restarted, and fired multiple times.
If you think that lighting a rocket sounds easy, here's some actual rocket scientists explaining some of the difficulties.
Is it considered a great hardship to live without any of those things?
I grew up in a village with none of them (except the pub was a ten minute walk away, across some fields, and you can get anything delivered to anywhere in the mainland UK pretty much).
There's plenty of small villages that also have none of these things, but crucially, everyone living there has access to a car, and once you have a car, you can drive to the nearest town to get food, education, public services etc. Otherwise, it's possible to get most things delivered now.
This is what rural life is like, and really, it's not that much of a hardship.
That said, 1MB ADSL would be a nice upgrade for the part of the world I grew up in.
It's not impossible to extract helium from the air, just very inefficient.
Exeter Uni (for example) have their own gas liquefying plant out the back of the physics department, in order to produce the liquid helium and nitrogen for their MRI machines. Of course, this produces much, much more liquid nitrogen than anything else, so there was always a ready supply for student high-jinks :)
Well, four people have been arrested over alleged corruption, so I wouldn't call it rumours, I'd call it an ongoing investigation.
(Link to Russia Today to avoid claims of anti-Russian bias)