Posts by Mayday 633 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2012
Not entirely sure what that is. You can get a hell of a lot of computer (yes, whatever your preference is here applies) for that kind of $£¥€. I think it "looks cool" and I'm sure I'd like one for novelty value. But not for north of $5k aussie worth of novelty. Sure looks like it would be a ripper when it comes to porn though.
Is a glorified predictive text generator. That is all.
The first time we saw the new logo we had a lot more of it and we had a little more than that and it is now the same.
The preceding sentence was brought to you by my iPad’s text predictor. Doesn’t look too much different from what this lawyer used tbh.
They let people chill for a bit before they have to voluntarily turn up at the joint and start their sentence. Here (in Aussie) you get sentenced and they take you from the court down to the van in the basement which takes you straight there. Too bad if you have affairs such as a house/family etc to deal with. Granted you might know it's coming before the actual sentencing, but once the sentence is passed, or if bail is revoked sooner, you're gone. None of this "I have to sign into the clink in a few weeks, gives me time get my shit sorted, possibly including a one way ticket to Antiextraditionistan".
I know this isnt blanket, but I know myself a few people who have had to get locked up in USA for minor offences (drink driving etc) and they were allowed to make their own way there pretty much as they saw fit. I'm guessing violent crimes wouldn't get this luxury.
Guessing we’ll see this process:
Store owners block IMEIs of all stolen devices (probably other Apple specific/proprietary blocking methods too) through carriers
Crooks post to Craiglist or similar lots of phones for only $500 or more/less
People buy “cheap phones”, because of course everyone verifies the source before purchase when too good to be true
Crooks keep cash
Buyers have a $500 brick
Insurers pay store whatever the retail price is
"The allegation here is that users aren't being given the information to allow them to make an informed decision“
This actually implies that users actually read (and understand) the conditions prior to clicking the “I have read and agree to the terms and conditions” checkbox.
The international distress frequency (normally on listening watch in oceanic regions because VHF is out of range and the radios are set to this because there’s nothing else of value to listen to, plus someone might need a hand) and 123.45 is inter pilot comms (proper usage of this one is a little more ambiguous). Now realistically these two are the only VHF frequencies in any sort of use over the oceans (which is probably why they’re being messed with).
Either way it’s a shit act.
“ GPS is useful but no aircraft relies on this exclusively because there are places where its unreliable”
Bulldust. I’m an IFR pilot and I use GNSS all the bloody time. There are error checking systems which kick in automatically if the system isn’t working for whatever reason. It’s also a requirement to do a manual GNSS RAIM during certain flight phases (including approaches which require RNP). Other approaches and ground based navigation systems are available, but discussions of when you would use these in preference to GNSS or when you’d use GNSS in preference to them are outside the scope of this post.
GNSS -Global navigation satellite system, IFR - Instrument Flight Rules, RAIM - Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring, RNP - Required navigation performance
Lane keeping, and all sorts of other robot shit, _is_ on by default in my 2023 model Mazda. I can enter a cruise control speed, and the thing will almost drive itself along the road, including negotiating bends and braking if a car is in front. It will read a stop sign and show it on the HUD but won’t stop at one - that’s one thing it graciously allows me to manage. It doesn’t (as far as I know anyway) claim to be “self driving”. Unlike other marques.
“Who gets the blame”
It’s always the driver. Regardless of what “driver aids/inhibitors/distractions are in the car. It’s the individual in charge of driving it.
I’m taking about “blame” - maybe it’s a legal concept. Not the merit or shortcomings of in-vehicle systems. Icon for half the sci-fi shit that’s in my Mazda that I wish would STFU and leave me alone so I could actually drive the bloody car.
I’d like my key to be able to open my car. I’d also like it to be _only_ my key which can open my car. Not someone else’s key. I also have little interest in opening someone elses car.
This is unless you drive a HQ Holden which had 7 different keys for the entire production run. A mate locked his keys in the car at a large even one day and was a little lost as a result. A fellow HQ owner walked past and thought he’d talk this other HQ owner having a concern with his car. Explaining that he locked the keys inside, the other bloke said, “I’ve got a HQ too, let’s see if the 1 in 7 chance of us having the same key is in effect here.” Sure enough, the key worked and my mate was able to get inside without having to break in.
“ Sorry, are you talking about NFTs, Instagram, or Facebook?”
True. Good point. I don’t have any of the above.
*not entirely true. I won an NFT in some online poker tournament once and I have NFI what it looks like or even where it is now. For all I know it might be worth as much as all the other NFTs - $0.00
Long time Cisco guy here - certified for 25 years (WTF), CCIE for 15, CCSI (delivering certification training) for a bit too.
It’s always been a bit of a roller coaster trying to keep up to date/certified. Back in the day it was as simple as “do an associate/professional/expert level exam to keep your certification at that and all lower levels active. Then exams got more and more crap and less coherent, so in comes the CE credit system. The CE system has merit and avoids exams. Costs a bit to achieve though. Now there’s this. Who knows what’s next? I keep myself active for partner certification reasons, but if it weren’t for that I’ll go emeritus and forget about it. You’d think Cisco would encourage people to be certified and find a relevant product stream (instead of ACI, SDA and other stuff which doesn’t really help anyone) instead of making it hard all the time.
“ vice chairman Gary Cohn some $8.95 million”
Struth! That’s not bad. Non-executive (seems to be - initial searches don’t show some other IBM related job besides the board) and he pockets that for a dozen or so meetings per year. Not to mention his other interests. I need to get a Delorean and have a chat with 10yo me and tell myself what not do so I can get on this wagon.
I’m guessing the “external” reset is done by some out of band method. Ie a secondary system on the probe can tell the thing to reboot, independent of the operating system. Just like in your data centre for whatever host you have in there. “Internal” reset would be where the operating system itself tells it to shutdown such as a shutdown command.
I’d be surprised if space probes didn’t have some kind of OOB/LOM/DRAC/ILO/CIMC or similar on them
Icon for effect. Old boss story. (Really).
Weekend change window to change some card in a customer data centre router. Brings his 3yo in for the quick 5 minute swap job. Boss (yes, boss) doing his thing then all of a sudden there was a disturbance in The Force. Hundreds of racks, initially crying out in terror and were suddenly silenced (all of the devices in the DC all went quiet).
3yo boy decides the facility emergency power off button was pretty and needed to be pressed.
Exceptions include: "the need to protect human life or avert serious injury; the prevention of the imminent destruction of evidence; the hot pursuit of a fleeing felon; or the prevention of escape by a suspect or convicted fugitive from justice."
So any reason including “because we feel like it” then?
Yes. We know.
I like Apple stuff myself, but this guy does other things too. Plus it is ruggedised and suitable for use in harsh environments. I’d consider something like this if I were going out bush/going somewhere remote. My iPhone would be rather shiny and also rather useless in such an environment.
As to what jobs at a place such as HPE pay $60k, and what ones are so hideously below that to offset the boss’ pay bring the average down that far.
Guessing BDMs/AMs, solutions architects and the like would hover around $200k as “senior professionals”. Service desk types based in emerging markets would probably be doing their best to reduce the average pay across the board. Any idea on what one would get?
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