Posts by The Man Who Fell To Earth

Re: Waaah!

Makes sense on a lot of levels to only allow rideshares & airlines to own them:

1. Retail customers suck up of a lot more resources per dollar generated than fleet customers at the sales & marketing levels.

2. Aircraft maintenance is always a big deal. The more regular use also means incipient failures are more likely to be spotted. Organizations with fleets tend to adhere to FAA (or equivalent) requirements better than individuals due to the more regular use of the equipment.

3. The fleet customer gets sued first in the even of a mishap, with the manufacturer next in line. In retail, the manufacturer gets sued first.

@Stuart Burns

That is why in the US, such convictions usually get you banned for life from those those endeavors. An example would be Michael Milken, who as part of his 1990 securities fraud plea deal, had to accept a lifetime ban from any involvement in the securities industry.

Re: Regulatory Oversight

If you are a US company, the answer is yes regardless of where the launch occurred. Not hard to understand.

contribution to the overall health of the public conversation

Is negative. Nothing will change that. Its use will probably fade away with time.

More than two words.

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” - George Orwell (From 1984) EU Court of Justice

Re: Not Surprised

It's Georgia. Has almost as many loopy family trees as West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama & Arkansas.

It's a law that is a white supremacists wet dream. You can set up a website, have the TOS require that only white people can use the site, and then file criminal charges against any non-white people who access the site.

Re: It doesn't take a flashy report with pretty graphs...

To understand that if you want to increase productivity in the workplace, set the damn firewall to block all social media connections during working hours. Especially connections to Facebook, Tinder, Snapchat, Instagram & Twitter.

Re: Food and booze

You wants ants bugs? Because that's how you get ants bugs.

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Re: Didn't Intel tell China though?

Since Intel has facilities in China, more likely the Chinese government could have known because it's undoubtedly thoroughly infiltrated Intel's corporate network.

Re: Pink Unicorn?

"...its certainly no worse than hitting a bird."

Clearly you aren't qualified to do more than sweep floors. By 2009, birds strikes caused $600M in damage per year. According to the FAA, about 500 planes were damaged by collisions with birds from 2000-2009, and 166 of those planes had to make emergency landings such as the one in the Hudson river in 2009. The worst U.S. plane crash blamed on birds came on April 10, 1960, when an Eastern Airlines aircraft crashed into Boston Harbor, killing 62 passengers. So yes a drone being "certainly no worse than hitting a bird" is a f*cking big deal.

Idiot.

More to the point

Can the Chinese obey International Law? Ever?

Re: Kettle, black courtesy phone

"Huawei has told an Australian parliamentary committee it believes national security is sometimes being used to hide protectionist trade policies."

As you imply, Huawei's statement clearly applies to China's own policies more than any other country in the world.

Yet another example

Of why any government mandated backdoors will make everyone insecure in short order. The NSA's tools eventually got exposed, Microsoft's Windows code eventually got exposed, Apple's code eventually got exposed, ...

The real queston for our age

Now that the Falcon Heavy launched Musk's Tesla into space, is "How many flat earthers own Tesla's?"

Great Headline, Register

The fact that no one commented on it (or recognized it) makes me feel old.

Compartimentalize

Smart people, if they want to use this "service", would use the Idiot of Things (IoT) lock on a box/cabinet/closet on their porch, rather than on a door into the house.

It's kind of odd that Amazon hasn't already marketed a cooler size bolt-down IoT lock box for the porch. Sell crap to have your crap delivered into.

Facebook summed up in one quote

"Facebook is life clutter." - John C. Dvorak

(https://me.pcmag.com/consumer/5191/opinion/a-look-ahead-my-2016-gripe-list)

What do people expect?

When the fox is running the hen house, they are going to view other foxes as enemy just as a true farmer would.

Re: How well does this attack work

The worst part is most of these voice recognition devices are always on & listening even when set to "off". We have a smart thermostat whose settings are set with voice commands "off", yet about once a month it just belts out a "I didn't understand that". When I check to see if it's voice command feature got turned on by someone, the settings always show it "off". Be afraid, very afraid.

Or better yet, get rid of the thing.

Re: My car

Subaru

Re: And by my calculations

£2,000 for a nanodegree means £2,000,000,000,000 for the one degree. That's almost x2600 Britain's £772 billion budget.

Re: Reporting ...

More to the point, you can't download it from the MS Store without an account who's EULA has you sign away your first born.

Re: Endurance != Reliability?

With regards to Samsungs reliability, well we sell Samsung, Crucial, Hynix, and SanDisk SSDs and the return rate on just Samsung drives is higher than the other three put together.

Interesting. I moved to Samsung's exclusively after having a bunch of SanDisk's fail within their first year. Have not had a Samsung fail yet. Have not tried Crucial or Intel. SanDisk replaced them, and we have nightly backups so data loss was minimal, but the experience was disconcerting.

VC's

After decades in SV, my observation is that to become a VC, that in addition to having been lucky (as opposed to merely smart, which SV is full of nonrich people smarter that any of the VC's), you need to develop an oversized ego & early stage dementia. This is yet just another data point.

Re: Not Surprised

Why use 2FA on a system that hands your emails over to anyone who asks?

Name3 Re: To be honest

"...with a modern GMail UI..."

Excuse me? The Gmail UI is the very definition of lipstick on a pig.

Re: Management Consultants

My wife worked for McKinsey & Company for many years. According to her, the whole management consulting business is predicated on finger pointing at straw men.

Basically, management hires someone like McKinsey or Bain to pretty much tell them what they already should know but are too chicken to tell the board. But with an external management report in hand, they can point to it and say "these experts say..." (ignoring the fact that if the company's management aren't already the best experts about the company & its business, they should probably be replaced).

If the results of (mis)implementing the advice turns out bad, management can point the finger at "those experts". If the results of (mis)implementing the advice turns out well, then management can extol it's brilliance for hiring the consultants.

So the bottom line is that management consultants get the big bucks to be straw men.

Re: But..

"The more interesting bit is that Russia actually has privacy of all communications as a constitutional right."

Which means nothing as Russia does not have Rule of Law anymore today than they did under the Soviet system. Trials of anything the State deems important are just for show, regardless of what the trolls from Olgino post here.

"Suddenly, your thermostat looked cool, it automatically figured out your best settings and saved you money yet didn't save you money over your old 7-day programmable to boot."

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