Someone's (DuPont?) patent just ran out.
Posts by Dieter Haussmann
209 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2013
Freeze on refrigerants heats up search for replacements
Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi you, you're fired: Apple sacks staff secretly snapping shoppers
"Then Apple users are even sillier than I thought. They should be asked to REMOVE the passcode before any work takes place,"
- Impossible due to Filevault encryption, the password is required BEFORE boot to unlock the hard disk. They should reenable Guest login (which is enabled by default) or create a new admin user this will give the option of rebooting to a Guest partition and allowing access to web-browser, wifi settings etc....
Internal storage access is only neccessary for software problems, technicians should boot from their own external troubleshooting disk for testing hardware and running tests.
VW Dieselgate engineer sings like a canary: Entire design team was in on it – not just a few bad apples, allegedly
You should install smart meters even if they're dumb, says flack
Seeing that a cup of tea uses 3.1Kw for 90 seconds won't save anything unless I forgo the cup of tea.
That is not a saving, that is poverty.
These meters are not for the consumer, they are an AaaS (Austerity as a Service) device that allow remote cutting of power, snooping, tariff-shaping, rationing and other such nasties that will come in the post-democratic-era.
Tesla driver dies after Model S hits tree
Why is it that women are consistently paid less than men?
Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phablets recalled immediately
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn wants high speed broadband for all. Wow, original idea there
Apple is making life terrible in its factories – labor rights warriors
iPhone: Apple's Mac battle with Windows rebooted
CERN staff conduct 'human sacrifice' at supercollider site
BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it
HPE CEO Meg Whitman endorses Hillary Clinton, dumps on Trump
Give .gay to the gays, roars exiting ombudsman
GMB tests Uber 'self-employed drivers' claim at London tribunal
Since you love Flash so much, Adobe now has TWO versions for you
After taking it off my own and then all the ones I look after at work over a year ago, I now uninstall it from family and friends computers without telling them.
If they ask me to install an application or look why the printer doesn't work or some such, I fix that, uninstall Flash and then pass it back.
What's more, if you do find a page that requires Flash, change the UserAgent to iOS iPad and it almost always works fine. Why do BBC still demand flash but it still works fine if it thinks you are using an iPad.
Symantec cloud portal goes titsup after database crash
Kids’ shoes seller Start-rite suspends sales following breach
Smartphones aren't tiny PCs, but that's how we use them in the West
Re: Paying for fuel
It clearly states within the App and on the pump to REMAIN IN YOUR CAR AND SCAN THE QR CODE and LEAVE YOUR PHONE IN THE CAR AS MOBILE PHONES ARE PROHIBITED ON THE FORECOURT.
It is rubbish though, often the 'system' is down and you have to preselect the amount of fuel you want to dispense and if you dispense less, it takes 7 days to get a refund. It is much easier to use a pay at pump station or visit the kiosk, it is only useful if you are money laundering or forgot your wallet but have your phone.
The only use I have found for QR codes in recent years in enrolling mobile devices in Meraki Systems Manager MDM.
Drowning Dalek commands Siri in voice-rec hack attack
Bomb-disposal robot violently disposes of Dallas cop-killer gunman
EasyDoc malware adds Tor backdoor to Macs for botnet control
Mac users should periodically check the contents of:
/Users/yourself/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
Remove anything from these folders with a software name you don't recognise or that should not be starting up when you boot or log on without you knowing or asking it to.
Even if you delete something bona fide, it won't do any damage, it will just mean something like Adobe Autoupdater or Dropbox won't run automatically until manually run again.
Pollster who called the EU referendum right: No late Leave swing after all
UK digi strategy on ice post Brexit results - sources
Dev boss: What will Microsoft do with Windows 10 Mobile? Surprise – it's for work!
Thunder struck: Apple kills off display line
Ericsson: 5G migration won't be a terrifying slog. No. We have ‘plug-ins’
Beam-forming is great but mobile devices are too compact to incorporate beam-forming MIMO antennas. So, we have cell towers that can beamform to the device but a low powered device which also can't beamform it's reply and so I worry that the device can 'hear' the tower, but not the other way round. Increasing gain on the tower would just increase the SNR.. How would this work?
Maplin Electronics demands cash with menaces
Maplins used to be tiny shops where most stuff was behind the counter and you filled catalogue numbers from a catalogue and handed it to staff to pick from small drawers. Then they opened big stores at retail parks full of toys and rubbish tech, disco lights etc.. They have gone downhill ever since.
They should have stayed small and then gone web-only or click and collect from the small shops.
Google tribute to Jo Cox
Keep on trucking: Dropbox's Magic Pocket and the curse of the loading bay
Smut shaming: Anonymous fights Islamic State... with porn
The most searched for term in Pakistan is animal porn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342217/Pakistan-internet-users-Google-searches-gay-sex-despite-worlds-homophobic-countries.html
http://tribune.com.pk/story/823696/pakistan-tops-list-of-most-porn-searching-countries-google/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0dqnlPL3s
Wi-Fi hack disables Mitsubishi Outlander's theft alarm – white hats
Telegram in Iran crackdown
Surface Book nightmare: Microsoft won't fix 'Sleep of Death' bug
As US court bans smart meter blueprints from public, sysadmin tells of fight for security info
Dropbox gets all up in your kernel with Project Infinite. Cue uproar
You've patched that Flash hole, but have the users? Phone's ringing. It's for you
World goes SIM-free, leaving Sony and HTC trailing behind
Kill Flash now? Chrome may be about to do just that
Almost sage-like..
"On April 29, 2010, Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc., published an open letter called "Thoughts on Flash" explaining why Apple would not allow Flash on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. He cited the rapid energy consumption, poor performance on mobile devices, abysmal security, lack of touch suppor."
The Lonely Pirate MEP's Holocaust copyright stunt backfires
Iranian cyberspy phishing rod pulled from the waters and exposed
Daft draft anti-car-hack law could put innocent drivers away for life
Heathrow Airbus collision 'not a drone incident'
Trouble at t'spinning rust mill: Disk drive production is about to head south
Intel literally decimates workforce: 12,000 will be axed, CFO shifts to sales
UK authorities probe 'drone hitting plane at Heathrow'
I wouldn't go as far as to say these are staged or false flags (but there is definitely an agenda to stop the masses having access to such technology), but I have never seen a drone being flown in public and I'd like to think I get out a bit. It seems there are too many near misses to believe all of them and if someone said if you can fly this drone into that plane I'll give you £1m I still think you would be lucky to hit it. Is just the case that any time something bad happens they will pull out a smashed drone and blame them..
Also, I thought drones by definition were not flown by an operator but sent on a sortie and flew autonomously. These in the news being called drones are just radio controlled quadcopters.
Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked
I am tired of Flash aren't you?
We are living in the first year of the post-Flash era - doesn't it feel great I know I feel great.
We need to kick out Flash and make the internet great again.
Users are calling me up all the time and do you know what they are saying? they are saying thank you for uninstalling Flash from my computer it runs great now.