Posts by Roq D. Kasba 642 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2015
Cowell and co...
The rights position is interesting though - if a monkey isn't a natural person and so is unable to open copyright of a selfie, these tracks are automatically public domain I guess...
Let's see how long Sonybot keeps composing if they are...
Of course IoT security is a joke, that's partly because nobody has sat down and said "Of course IoT security is a joke". There are as many protocols racing ahead as there are devices. If they opted into a standard, any sensible standard would contain a pathway to update firmware and a basic security model so that my kettle isn't a peer of my laptop.
Standards would also mean being able to buy best of breed, so a Philips light bulb and a LG telly and a Samsung fridge and a GoPro/whoever CCTV and..., and... And that would mean a market for third party control interfaces and apps instead of the current buggers muddle. That's the dream all this IoT speculation relies upon. But as with every good standards war, everybody loses because consumers don't trust that they'll get long term support, so don't invest in case they back the wrong dog. And without consumer investment, manufacturers see no market.
There's nothing inherently difficult about IoT and making it good, just this isn't the place to start from. Instead, form a IoT Alliance, get some basic standards and patent pool out there and get an "IoT Ready" logo out there, and promote it across the board. Make it IP6 only, make it able to sign up to any IoT-nominated (partitioned) route to the internet securely, manage the virtual networks centrally so my light bulb isn't watching my online banking traffic...
I can't be the only one who thinks that doing a professional job of this is worthwhile? It's worked out ok for WiFi standardisation, or Bluetooth etc.
120V 60Hz limitation must be pretty arbitrary in such a system. It can't be relying on 60Hz for a reference frequency or anything, and indeed I'll bet the internal electrons are all nicely queued DC style so the IC's can work and speakers don't carry their own 60/120Hz hum.
We're honoured that you're sharing your great intellect with us by inspecting the rocket before the team get in there. To do it properly, you'll need to pull this door closed. No, of course there's no way it can take off without everyone in mission control office switching their keys all together
Holy cunting fuck, I thought you were probably mistaken or lying about the £819 pricepoint. Apparently not. There's even a model £81 shy of a grand.
iPhone 7 Price in UK (United Kingdom):
iPhone 7 Model: iPhone 7 Price: UK
iPhone 7 32GB £599
iPhone 7 128GB £699
iPhone 7 256GB £799
iPhone 7 Plus 32GB £719
iPhone 7 Plus 128GB £819
iPhone 7 Plus 256GB £919
Pitot Tube barometric pressure - I thought the pitot was specifically dynamic pressure, and you'd use the difference between it and the static (barometric) pressure to calculate airspeed. Always thought barometric pressure is from a ideways-facing sensor specifically to avoid dynamic pressure. Am I confused, or the author?
Because every other fucker is out to get us.
I get it, bitcoin is very clever and has some advantages for transfers and for its grey position as a currency making it harder to track and tax. A lot of people, though, seemed to speculate on the pseudocurrency using irrationality and lack of understanding to pump and dump leaving the tabloid money section investors in the shit. I'm wondering how many of the existing accounts and value is held by the same speculators, how much by money launderers, and how much by cyberextortion ransomware companies, how much by darknet child pornographers and addictive substance suppliers, and how much by the average Joe holding a few to pay for essential groceries.
My hunch is that almost everyone affected is someone I don't care was affected, and may they suffer their losses with good grace.
Congratulations, El Reg, for not just posting the Gartner press releases after the modest harrumphing in the comments of the "Gartner says DevOps are a thing" cycle of articles. Gartner seem to make up press releases for insecure managers to give them new boardroom buzzwords to chase, with no real grounding in technology.
Yes indeed - I can totally believe it with a UAE client, having dealt with projects in UAE before. If something is for the Royal Court, it's not impossible, for instance, for it to take 2-3 years to get paid.
Mind you I've dealt with some gold-plated shits in the UK, too. Credible threats help, but you have to pick your battles. And take comfort in any petty revenge you can take and spreading the word quietly with your contacts. I just forked a £1.5M investment deal an arsehole ex-client had lined up by letting the backer know just how how crappily I'd been treated in case it had any bearing on their idea how they'd be treated (people are consistent)
I'd imagine it'll be enforced along the lines of the way alcohol laws are enforced - with complete hypocrisy and as an excuse to collar you if they want to. It's technically illegal to consume alcohol without a personal licence, which you can get as a resident, but not as a visitor. That's right, those drinks you had on holiday in Dubai could have seen you get 70 lashes or a couple of years inside. Yet the hotels all sell booze. And it's not a problem for almost all people almost all of the time, but when it is a problem, it's a big one. Ask that honeymooning husband a couple of years back...
The VPN thing is going to be partly military driven (they listen in on walkie-talkie traffic and I'll bet a quid they could listen to your cellphone calls without problems, seeing as the only two networks are government ones) and partly financial (a penny going to Skype is one not going to Etisalat/Du - and that's a lot of pennies going on OTT).
Most likely you'll still watch your VPN mucky movies and Netflix just fine almost all of the time for almost everyone visiting, but if the police do want a chat with you for any reason it'll become another part of what you'll be fucked for.
How much of this is insurmountable? Considering the guy has developed space rockets and electric cars, let's assume he's probably able to put a lock on a glove box, or have an autonomous vehicle self-test/drive itself to service point for a sensor polish before switching over to the Tesla Taxis fleet insurance policy?
Do you really think airliners can't fly themselves, by the way? There's a classic aviation joke that modern planes are designed to have a pilot and a dog in the cockpit - the dog's there to make sure nobody touches the controls, and the pilot is there to feed the dog.
I used to think he was a big talker who'd got lucky with his dotcomboomandbust1.0 selloff , but he does seem to be more than that. He actually does actual business, and makes things happen, and has genuine vision.
USA, sack Trump off - this is the guy Trump pretends to be.
I don't think your analogy of the cars on the pitch with extra dimensions is a useful one. It's a constrained space with maneuverability issues, and no vortices, etc. Driving on the centre spot doesn't affect the penalty box, whereas with the huge downdrafts from the chopper and thermal updrafts from the hot land, plus localised eddies caused by the combination mean the bodies are loosely coupled if in proximity. Especially both are aiming towards the same area where the fire is. They are in contention for airspace, so the analogy is more like both cars being in the penalty box - on a trampoline/rubber sheet.
Another significant difference is that driving over a remote controlled car is a $100 annoyance, sucking a drone into your powerful helicopter jet at low altitude above fire is $1M, a life guaranteed lost, and the damage caused by trying to rescue the body, plus the extra aviation fuel exacerbating a fire you can no longer extinguish.
This is why I don't think it's a useful comparison.
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