Posts by imanidiot 4427 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2012
The problem with the current generation of parents as I see it is that they've never actually been shown/taught how to BE good parents. Their parents already didn't give a good example (silent generation traumatised by being raised in war-time, babyboomer being raised by those who experienced that war-time). GenX then continued that bad parenting trend and millenials will continue it further.
DougS:
it is anonyomized before it is uploaded.
Huh, this "anonymous" line ends and starts at this particular location every single day. *Crossreference data sets* -> Must be DougS.
Anonymizing location data doesn't exist unless you first store certain location data to filter the home location of a person. Which is hardly more secure.
I've said it before, simply don't take your girlfriend/wife/SWMBO*. I've posted this 12 step plan before:
Step 1: Convince the girlfriend/wife/SWMBO* that going on a weekend is a bad idea and it's better to take an afternoon off when it's sunny out
Step 2: Convince the girlfriend/wife/SWMBO* that you got this and she doesn't need to come along.
Step 3: Use the website to locate all items and their locations at your Ikea location
Step 4: Go to the store
Step 5: STUDY THE MAP at the entrance. Locate where your items are and where the shortcuts are located, they're not all marked but they are all on the map. Plan a route
Step 6: Pick up your items
Step 7: Use the self checkout tills to minimize friendly chitchat and old folks trying to pay with haypennies
Step 8: Load up the car and go home
Step 9: Argue with the girlfriend/wife/SWMBO* over the stuff you "forgot" to add on the list and didn't bring
Step 10: Piss off girlfriend/wife/SWMBO* enough that she won't try to help assemble the stuff
Step 11: Assemble the stuff correctly, first time, without problem
Step 12: Show new furniture to girlfriend/wife/SWMBO* and make up for arguing.
*Strike through as appropriate.
Same with Ziggo in the Netherlands. They got taken over by Liberty Global and their customer service took a nose-dive from "not very good" to horrendous.
I also think it's important we start calling companies by their correct name. It's not Virgin Media, it's Liberty Global UK. It's not Ziggo, it's Liberty Global NL. Putting the correct name on things let's people put 2 and 2 together, instead of allowing the company to hind behind the 20 or so different brands it uses worldwide.
Somehow people in the Netherlands are STILL surprised when I tell them Ziggo isn't a small dutch Telco but part of a massive global cable company that is doing it's very best lobbying for the right to take advantage of us.
One of the reasons I bought a cheap "off-brand" made-in-china mid-range phone instead of one of the high end phones is exactly because it lacks all of this crap. I don't WANT to talk to my phone apart from using it to talk through the phone to another human being. I don't WANT my phone to understand me since there is no need for it to. I can use my own brain.
Your arguments on reducing the service branches seems to display quite a bit of ignorance over the raison d'etre of certain branches. Other forces having their own air wing isn't a good reason NOT to have an air force. There's plenty of air operations that have no connector to either ground or naval operations, thus having a separate air force makes sense. The ground forces having an air wing that is directly and closely tied to their ground operations (like helicopters for inserting and removing troops, provide close air support, etc) also makes sense and doesn't have to detract from the air forces as long as the tasks of each is taken into account. Same for the naval forces and their air operations. Naval air forces are closely tied to their own operations.
The marines are a different matter. Theoretically they are just another branch of the ground forces, but the formation history of marine corps across the world shows their operational premise (amphibious assault) is a universal one that many armed forces around the world have in use. The US marine corp is a bit bloated beyond this premise, but that is not an argument to abolish it completely.
Coast guard IS an armed force and was traditionally operated as a "navy in littoral waters", having different focus and operation from the normal naval forces because of this. While it's modern role might be a bit more "Homeland Security" it really doesn't quite fit in that group.
Don't get me wrong, I'd easily agree the US armed forces are a bloated mess with a lack of focus, but this seems more about Generals and Admirals having to be good politicians instead of good officers to keep their job.
According the the judges at the EU court of justice a hyperlink can very well be a breach of copyright law: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2016/09/95247-2/
According to them (and contravening the opinion of most experts that advised them) a hyperlink CAN be considered a republication of copyrighted material and thus an infringement.
AC:
<blockquote:What if you can't find the copyright holder? Are you supposed to just not use an image in case there is a copyright?</blockquote>
Yes! That is how the law works. If you can't find the copyright owner you can't use the work. So called Orphaned works are a massive hot potato in the digital rights world, but this is the basic premise. You CAN you an orphaned work, after you've made exhaustive (documented) searches for the copyright owner, but be prepared to pay compensation to any copyright owner that shows up.
Why not have a system in place where copyright holders can put their images somewhere where they can be searched by image and term? I think it unfair to put it on the person (in this case a school project taking it from a website with no indication of copyright) if they have searched and had been unable to find the copyright holder.
A system like that is also likely to allow large scale ripping of images and can lead to trolling and people claiming works that are NOT theirs as their own. It doesn't work and so far most artists/photographers have actively resisted such a system.
I think it is unfair to put it on the content creator to have to put in a lot of effort to get protection for his work (Especially since the law already grants this protection to him, regardless of whether or not he puts in the effort to protect it or not). BTW, the school didn't bother searching for the copyright holder, they just published the picture without thinking about it. I find it distasteful of the school to do that. NOT sueing the school could also set a precedent. Previous cases have already sort of led to a de-facto standard where failure to pursue copyright in one case can lead to losing the claim in a different case. It would have been poor taste to sue the child. It's perfectly alright to sue the school. They should have known better!
App is free to play, meaning the app itself would still be $0,00. In-app purchases would suddenly have to run over the google in-app purchase API if running from the play store, which would mean implementing entirely different code just for that version. I doubt Epic would want the epic clusterfuckery that comes with running 2 versions of the same software. Thus it'll be EITHER running through google play store OR running from a side-loaded APK.
I do have to make one point. Intel and AMD have different ways of measuring their feature size. What AMD has dubbed their 7nm node is pretty comparable to Intels 10 nm products.
Intels was banking very heavily on ASML getting EUV working 2 or 3 years ago which in reality is only getting ready for volume manufacture now. When it became obvious that EUV wouldn't be ready when planned Intel was sent scrambling to come up with the needed techniques to do it on immersion DUV litho systems giving competitors time to catch up. First missing their traditional Tick-Tock schedule and inserting an extra tock, and possibly now needing even more time. It remains to be seen if Global Foundries/AMD has managed to fully catch up or if they will still be a step behind. I know GF is also looking heavily at EUV for the next node, so we'll see whats going to happen.
I reuse the same password or a variation thereof on multiple sites. None of them critical ofcourse. Thing like my spam email, fora like El Reg, etc, that don't contain payment info and the like all use the same password. Banking and work accounts ofcouse get their own passwords
Well, yes and no. The "watersnood ramp" was the result of a combination of factors. A lot of which have been tackled by the "delta plan". Flood defences aren't and will never be 100% fail safe but the Dutch system works pretty dang well. I also seem to recall the Brits where warned the Thames barrier was under-sized even in the design phase.
Maybe I'm just slightly autistic, but I LIKE the rigid website design. I don't want the editor to make a giant masthead of breaking news that I find completely unimportant (actually, to be fair, I just dislike giant waste-of-space mastheads in general).
Most-read sections are also utterly pointless imho. I have my own likes and dislikes. I don't care what others read.
If you're going to steal your employers tech, do so BEFORE you announce you are leaving. Do it slow and only for data you have access to, a bit at a time. Preferably in a way that isn't noticeably different from your normal job flow. Don't steal anything you don't have normal access to.
It's not hard.
Or, alternatively, make an honest living and just be competent as an engineer without resorting to theft.
I'll just leave this short doc here.
As usual it's a story of taking a great idea and completely missing the point.
Having worked in a few designs of cubicle and open offices, I prefer the (semi-open) cubicles to the true open office. Open offices are noisy and busy. I'm a very visually oriented person, so lots of foot traffic is very distracting, as is lots of background chatter. The high partitions help shield the visibility of general office traffic and the padded panels help absorb noise, meaning hushed conversation doesn't get distractingly reverberated around the room.
@Adam Foxton,
I don't think you disagree with me actually. Breakers SHOULD be clearly labelled that's not what I'm saying. But even with clearly labelled breakers, it shouldn't be an outside contractor unfamiliar with your setup that does the actual switching. If it's YOUR mission critical stuff, YOU should be doing the switching.
I'm absolutely NOT advocating for "security by obfuscation" or anything. Even people familiar with how stuff works that could find the right breakers in their sleep shouldn't have to rely on memory to find the correct switch at 3am on a monday morning (or any other time of any day).
The $30 dollar ones work for flat surfaces, not in direct sunlight, in relatively constant temperatures. For anything else (or when business critical) add a zero and get the real stuff, especially for cable labels. The pro printed labels really make all the difference. The $30 cheapo labels will have disappeared from the cable after a year and end up in a pile on the floor (or in the cleaners vacuum). The pro ones last the lifetime of the device.
The general Reg readership and the people they will usually have most contact with are in a layer of the populace that is aware of the risks and problems with AIs and will probably give a firm Hell NO answer. Unfortunately many non-tech people (even the smart ones) are inclined to believe the sci-fi image of super-smart and super-intelligent AIs and that they are far less fallible than humans.
When I hear stories like this I mostly think about a "dystopian" sci-fi story about the slow and insidious introduction of AI to manage everything. Manna, by Marshall Brain. It's applicable up to chapter 4.
People have been complaining about the butterfly keyboards ever since they appeared in products.
An (i feel) clear explanation featured here:
Youtube: Louis Rossman - We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks
added to that a breakdown of all the shit they've been pulling for a LONG time. This engineering failing isn't a new thing, the summation here begins with the 2007 macbook. The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures
And keep in mind, this is the OWNER of a shop focussing on board level repair of Apple products! It's his business to fix the shit design and even HE'S complaining about the level of workmanship.
Btw, if you're interested in board level repair, SMD/SMC rework, etc, then you could do worse than watch some of his video's.
I'm not affiliated, I just enjoy hearing him rip into Apple while showing great repair skills every now and then. It's like watching Bob Ross make a painting, just for the hell of it.
@John Smith 19
GPS uses 24 for full time coverage over the entire globe, the current constellation consists of 30 with a few spares planned to launch in the coming years, in polar orbits, with 3 to 4 per orbit, and orbital planes separated by about 60 degrees. Galileo will also consist of 30 operational sats, in 3 orbital planes. For both of these systems you'd be able to lose about half of them without losing coverage completely. You might have a gap in guidance every now and then, but that's about it.
About the size of a smallish bus/largeish van, not including the solar panels but can probably be built smaller
Launch costs depends largely on the launch provider. I'd expect to pay something around 15 to 20 million per sat for a launch on SpaceX vehicle. With some smart mission planning you could probably go for a multi-sat launch so you'd need one launcher per orbital plane. If using Ariane, Soyuz or a ULA offering probably about another 5 to 10 million per sat extra. With a similar constellation to Galileo, launch cost could thus be between 450 and 900 million. In other words, not shockingly expensive compared to the rest of the project cost. Not really a fuckload of money for a government nowadays.
I agree with the statement on implementation though.
Future SSTs are not very likely. Overland even less. They are simply not economic enough for commercial service and I doubt any sort of boom mitigation is going to be enough to appease most of us ground dwellers enough.
As NASA has proven in the past, these large flying wing designs might indeed work very well as a sort of "low altitude satellite". As the end of the NASA projects showed however, the problem with these crafts is getting them on and off station. Anything except ideal conditions is going to cause difficulty for a craft of this span, aspect ratio and slenderness. Facebooks crash of it's first drone goes to prove the same point. The advantage of a lighter than air craft is that is allows for longer on station time without power draw, and thus makes it more likely it's possible to stay on station for a little longer if weather conditions at the landing site are unfavourable. If weather IS unfavourable however, they are probably more difficult to land than a heavier-than-air craft
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
