Posts by Baldy50 511 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2016
I too recycle any plastic bags I get but also the plastic carrier for beer tins gets ripped apart and recycled too, if you’ve ever seen a pic of a turtle stuck in one and crushing pet food cans and alike which most people don't do.
Lived abroad for a while and I have plenty of scars rescuing feral cats heads out of tins, so It's not just plastic bags that are a problem to wildlife.
CFL's and batteries still get thrown into the trash and with the heavy metal content of these items a real danger to the environment.
Got three people interested in a Linux distro already this week.
What would happen if the open source world could get hold of XP off MS and support it all patched up and secure?
Never going to happen but if they did I'd still be using it cos it worked and on a modern fast machine runs almost as quick as Linux.
With the shambles that was Vista (spits on floor), extending support for XP IMHO saved MS's bacon and although 7, 8 10 are prettier it really isn't necessary to get the job done is it and hogs system resources all this prettiness.
Back in days when everything was CLI and an adequate word processor could be run from a floppy, it just seems every time we get advances in processing power and faster machines Windows seemed to eat it.
TRV's (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) could be made to be a little more sensitive but work just fine in shutting the valve down when the room reaches the set temperature and need no power to do this, if in combination with a main room thermostat correctly placed, a standard domestic heating system is quite efficient and the main problem is the KW output of the radiators not collectively sufficient to the boiler output.
I know it works for devices like mast head amplifiers as the DC power is decoupled at each end by a small capacitor and thus rejects the DC but allows the RF through, CAT5 cables are rated at around 100 MHz so It's transmission characteristics put in the high to very high frequency bandwidth.
With regards to your CCTV system your cameras must be very old, 720/1080 pixels are the norm now and if the quality is so poor most courts would not entertain the footage, It may be useful to prove a crime had been committed at your property and not an insurance fraud but that's probably all and regardless of the trouble with cabling it is still the best option for power and signal quality.
I do hope your DVR is in safe place so as not to be nicked along with your chattels.
As for electric door locks they're ok in hospitals and schools where the electromagnet releases the door so it closes to prevent smoke and feeding a fire but can still be pushed open to get through.
Some of the companies I've worked for do install AV wall plates in each room with CAT5 as well but normally in more prestige builds, so you could have a NAS system somewhere in the house accessible from every room.
The main problem with modern builds is the floor being usually 8" by 2" T&G boards ring nailed and sometimes glued down as well, so getting them up to run cables is a nightmare compared to normal floorboards and laminate flooring too.
Although I'm not, It's a brilliant place for a night out.
A youngish man had become very drunk, he'd become separated from the group he was with and unable to stand.
I was nearby and heard some of the conversation about what to do with him, from ambulance to going through his contact list on his mobile, the latter was chosen all the while keeping him upright and lots of water.
They'd got through to a few of his friends and found out that nobody would be at the house he shared for a couple of hours, so they took turns making sure he was ok even some food till they got a call back and sent him off in a taxi by this stage looking a lot better.
Absolutely brilliant to catch some of what went on, they were superb!
Eye movement tracking needed at least for now until the system is a fully fledged AI.
Legally the person driving with assistance should still actually be driving or ready to and paying attention as John Tserkezis quite rightly points out.
If it couldn't spot a truck could it spot a pram under the same conditions, nice new beige stroller and mother in her lightly coloured outfit cos it's a hot day?
Driver education goes a fair way but complacency would still set in to a degree as the person using this system for a long time would increasingly trust it more and more if it constantly performed with no dramas, human nature being what it is.
If that Raspberry Pi AI can beat a trained fighter pilot surely with better sensors there should be no problem.
Small low powered radio transmitters are not that expensive and could be retro fitted to older vehicles and mandatory on new sending an 'I'm' here signal out.
On a sunny day going through a junction where I had right of way was nearly hit in the side door in front of a local passing Policeman and because she was so angry at me he came over, her defence was "his cars the same colour as the road" it was! She got back in her car and drove off in a huff, I got a number plate as a souvenir jammed in the wheel arch. Old junker so wasn't worth the hassle taking it any farther.
Anyone on here who's used a motorcycle will tell you plenty of tales of near misses or worse through car drivers ability to not notice a brightly coloured bike, rider and helmet.
If the new version of Tor comes to fruition it will be more secure for sure but the problem with the Tor network is the amount of entry and exit nodes and the geographical placement of them to a degree, which determines your new ID.
Tor would be enhanced by more servers available and the ability to automatically reload the (whatever you are looking at) then refresh you through a new set of servers frequently giving you new identities constantly working in the background seamlessly.
I was thinking too maybe It's a 60's type of mentality with this sort, anti establishment, fucking the system and being different, free love too of course.
Tor works so maybe they’re just bored out of there fucking minds, if I were stuck in a office staying off the radar so to speak trying to make something better that works great if every gov wasn't after you, 'she' (the female geek) could have a moustache, mono brow and hairy legs but I'd still do it, nice personality a must though.
Then I thought men (especially) in a position of power or influence etc get a bit hungrier, don't they!
Carr and Boyle fan NOTE! Not Susan.
Lots of upvotes for you guys tonight very entertaining on loads of subjects, tin foil hat and all any chance of discrediting anyone involved in encryption or Tor project would be given maximum attention and bad press by those against them.
Havn't the same methods toppled world leaders in the past, well except for the med countries?
Working away most of the time so I watched telly at my cousins house two doors up the road and ate most meals there too, so I'd bought a new telly and transported it to Spain for my mum one Christmas and of course the shop gave my details to the licensing authorities.
On the sixth visit by them, three times with police in tow cos I wouldn't let them in on the other occasions I finally told the truth.
The copper can I borrow your step ladders? Yep, sure look around all you like!
Always had a lovely WPC with them, love a woman in uniform.
I think electric vehicles are a fantastic idea and eventually will save significant amounts of pollution but when it's a cold damp day what keeps the people inside warm and the windows demisted?
The info on fuel cells was interesting by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken and at least these would give out some heat when in use, don't know about the solid oxide types a bit on the toasty side.
I think for now we have to carry on using petrol and diesel but could be used more efficiently as in the development of High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle engines, similar to the Wankel design which combines the features of the Otto, Diesel, Rankine, and Atkinson cycles, are more efficient and produce less heat.
The hybrids using a diesel or petrol engine to provide extra power or charging on most are low tech mostly using piston engines?
Hydrogen would be a good choice of fuel if it were cheaper and they reckon there might be oceans of the stuff under the sea bed, researchers from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment claims to have found an abundant source of hydrogen in serpentinized rocks that form from spreading tectonic plates.
Fracking moves off shore, we don't get many earthquakes here well so far.
The US is a massive country so for long journeys I think for the foreseeable future gas guzzlers are still king!
"The Catholic Church, on the other hand, is taking a far more benign view of the phenomenon. According to Rome Reports, players have been merrily tracking Pokemon around the Vatican, with the little sprites spotted in the fountains at St Peter’s Square."
"and while the world is full of dangers for children, “Pokemon Go isn't one of them."
Add the usual taking the piss out of Catholic priests and the RCC's cover ups HERE____________________
Nice rant!
The cost of repairs at Apple approved specialists is quite prohibitive if the device is getting on a bit or not, but I don't see the qualm, they gave back a working device, be fooking grateful they Honoured their contractual obligations and didn't make up a stupid excuse not to.
What if your in a country where there is no approved repair facility locally, do you hop on a plane to "civilisation" to get it repaired?
How many of the jury use Apple devices I wonder?
If the device in question is no longer manufactured what other option is there?
They have so many broken devices repaired and around to replace customers broken shit, gives no faith at all!
So much tech goes straight into the garbage skip right off the production line, no tests, no f all, cheaper to just bin it and is part of the cost of the tech we buy today, think of the analogy of the car finished Friday afternoon or Monday morning!
It's manufactured cheap and nasty regardless of the complexity of the device and should be sold as such, a throw away world is what we live in now and as long as there's a recycling option mobile devices should be treated as such, but should be proportionately cheap because of this and not screwing us at every turn.
Deleted the rest of the rant.
http://thehackernews.com/2016/07/iphone-hack-exploit.html
Old Nokia suits me just fine, not very popular so up to a week between recharges, gave the iphone away donks ago to a friends child.
So don't use social media that much although judging by the way people use it maybe it should be renamed social voyeurism.
'the EU tries very hard not to waste money'
"Official auditors have found that the costs of three quarters of the farm projects to protect the landscape and protect biodiversity are “either unreasonably high or insufficiently justified.”
The EU spent around £860million of public money on the schemes between 2007-13 from its multi-billion pound budget, to which the UK is the second biggest contributor after Germany.
The findings fuels claims by campaigners for voters to back a Brexit in the forthcoming in/out referendum that Britain’s £8.5billion net contribution to the EU is being wasted on vanity projects and incompetent bureaucracy."
After visiting 80 per cent of the projects in four different EU states, auditors found only five of the 28 schemes they saw were cost effective.
It was found that schemes funded in Portugal, Denmark, Italy and the UK did not check whether costs were reasonable or they even accepted the most expensive offer for carrying out work.
Projects ineligible for funding were also given cash because officials didn’t properly vet proposals.
This included work on hedging or the restoration of wetlands, while other projects given cash through the scheme included the restoration of dry-stone walls.
"But Brussels funding for the EU scheme is continuing until 2020 despite the likelihood of more waste because the European Commission and member states are yet to take action to tackle misspending."
Just a few not including 300 million moving back and to from Brussels to Luxenbourg.
£155,000 for a top Portuguese golf resort, Monte da Quinta Club.
£2,200 towards a Bavarian hunting lodge used by Wolfgang Porsche, chairman of Porsche, as part of rural development funds
£89,000 for an upmarket Spanish hotel chain, Tils Curt, as part of the EU's Regional Development Fund
£6.3m for the 'Year of Intercultural Dialogue' initiative, which included the Donkeypedia project
£72,000 to create a virtual Malmo on Second Life
£760,000 for a 'gender equal' cultural centre, which was never built
£358,000 for a 'Marathon for a United Europe' to "promote and support European citizen ideals"
£179 towards a hemp farm
£358,000 for a project to get children to draw pictures of each other "to develop active European citizenship"
£178,000 towards a Baltic puppet theatre project.
The EU would be foolish in to hamper using the resources the UK has to offer with regards to science projects by blocking funding in this country and not include us in collaborative projects.
Wouldn't that be poke a mong?
Have two people fell off a cliff and another crashed into a tree playing this fad, Tamagotchi are they still going?
Next step in the evolution of the malware could be bricking the device or installing ransomeware till you pay up.
Any of you lot out there with the skills fancy creating a pokemon character that eats every pokemon character they have collected and change the screensaver to a steaming turd with bits of undigested pokemon sticking out of it.
I do however enjoy the youtube vids of people walking into shit when texting.
'The United States Government has been an active participant in protecting the rights of copyright owners. When the Business Software Alliance (BSA) conducts a raid, Federal Marshals or local law enforcement officers also participate. Federal Judges have shown their intolerance of copyright violators by handling down increasingly large damage awards against infringer’s.'
'United States law prohibits duplicating software for profit, making multiple copies for use by different users within an organization, and giving an unauthorized copy to another individual. If caught with pirated software, you or your company may be tried under both civil and criminal law.'
'A civil action may be instituted for injunction, actual damages (including infringer's profits), or statutory damages up to $100,000 per infringement. Criminal penalties for copyright infringement include fines up to $250,000 and jail terms up to five years, or both.'
Smart TV's run OS's, web APIs and would not have the processing power to run AV suites, add on boxes too.
With the capability to browse the Internet and online streaming how can this ever more popular device be protected?
Some of the TV manufacturers have written their own versions of popular mobile OS's and from some of your comments on here I wonder how sloppy the coding might be.
Use any of the 377 key words the NSA check for alongside Allua hakba in the email title, find a Muslim person on FB and add them to your list, constantly talk about middle eastern issues using derogatory comments about western views to Islam etc... Do this on all social networks, you your friends and family and if enough people did this it would completely F up there attempts to monitor anyone realistically as they would simply not have the resources to cope.
A few thousand snoopers can't deal with billions of pissed off users!
Of course in true gov style they'd let the keys be leaked and then make the usual pathetic response trying to sound apologetic blaming whomever for the transgression and saying resoundingly that this type of technology could save lives identifying terrorists and learning the plans they have etc...
I already have a good tool for screen shots etc, but found this nice one for Linux it's open source and GPL v3. lots of features too, easy to use and definitely worth a look.
http://shutter-project.org/about/?utm_source=Tiger+Computing&utm_campaign=15a02ea613-TTT_10_SNAP&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_39417e1d4a-15a02ea613-93251965
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