Posts by quxinot

Re: Why did they do it?

Personally, I'd want the option, mostly. If i'm too cheap or otherwise CBA to set up my own storage box, I can use theirs; fine. But when theirs inevitably goes down, or they decide to kill the service entirely (Here's looking at you, Google!), or my internet provider decides to take a week off?

I'm genuinely baffled why the manufacturers are trying to sell devices to people who are obviously security-concious and/or paranoid--and then not baking in secure options. You'd think that'd be like selling cars for people interested in personal transportation that cannot be started without having two neighbors and a representative from the company seated within?

Re: it if it’s being run as an ad.

They also are banning the wind from blowing.

We'll see just how well this goes for them.

Re: Deja-Vu All Over Again

Yep! It makes people think they're safer from spying if the feds are plainly having so much difficulty cracking a phone open to get at the data that they collected at a network level anyway.

Honestly it's just embarrassing. I wish they'd at least put a veneer of competence on. It's an awful feeling knowing that your taxes go to people that are that crap at their jobs.

Re: Please...

I can't seem to get more than a couple of videos on Youtube before an ad (uninterruptable, natch)

YouTube has ads? Ublock Origin fixes that.

Re: Santa's Hat caused offence.

Not punny.

You owe me a keyboard, sir.

Re: Capitulating?

"Crapitulating"

FTFY.

Re: Bloody Adverts!

Ditto.

And no, I'm not feeding them, either. Stupid bastards ruin all they touch.

Re: Hmm, Google or chips...

Given a choice between those options, I'd go mad and become a chicken.

I'll live at your place. Bwaaaak!

Re: Most people have nothing interesting to say on a regular basis.

Sturgeons law is optimistic.

Re: Rock

I only see the one. Doesn't it take two to tango?

(Or more, if you're having an epic night!)

Re: No it's not. The Earth is a sphere.

I believe then that we must all agree that the Earth is in fact, cow-shaped.

Re: 50 years from now...

The tampons will be packaged in a durable, aerodynamic casing. The effect I'd imagine would be similar to what Parisians experienced in the early '40s....

(Hopefully the tampons aren't the exploding prank style?)

(Further, that's an example of an item that really, really does require waterproof packaging. )

Re: will the user be able to uninstall Russian made software

To be completely honest, I suspect the entire thing is a redirect. Make a big show and a fuss, then back away from the proposed law.

In the meantime, it's already been done in another form, more quietly--I'd imagine network level, but possibly also at the device itself. And now everyone is more convinced that their phone is 'safe'. Gotcha!

Re: "Remediate"????

Jesus saves, all others roll 4d8 for fire damage.

>When can I get a laptop with a buckling spring keyboard?

It's a "b", and there's an "l" in that word.

I had to read it several times before I saw that.

To be more serious, I'd think some of the mid 80's luggables might qualify, though I couldn't find any in my comprehensive 18-second search.

Re: Tiptoeing around the elephant in the room

Imagine the articles if Trump starts a Brexit-themed Storage-as-a-service startup, using Agile Devops for implementation.

Or not. I have a headache already.

>Only for editions from the previous decade?

I was going to say... the ones necessary to supply said locales have already been printed.

In the 90's.

Re: Sign me up!

A true BOFH would collect the fee first, then cause the infection.

Fixed.

Re: Unsubscribes

If it's a one-shot account, just make a new mail rule.

Upon incoming, fwd to all contacts.

Then just keep adding the contacts as they email you. (Clearly, don't do this on anything with repercussions, e.g., don't crash your own mail server, but still... spam for me? Spam for you!)

Re: I had a narrow escape once

With the recent example of 'Do you want to upgrade to Windows 10?" showing that this is still the convention...

Re: "no requirement of 'registration' for deactivated firearms"

If it's deactivated, it's no longer a weapon.

Well, outside of being used as a bludgeon, say.

WTAF?

Re: But fuck it. It's £499. You could do worse

> they can ship with dodgy software. It's best to reflash them with an OEM image.

So....er.... install the dodgy software you're already aware of?

Screw that. LinneageOS or you're being a bit silly.

Re: And at £449, it's nothing short of a bargain.

I would love to know what the reviewer was drinking when this article was written.

Re: "Microsoft scammers"

Said it before, will say it again:

Once you've gotten them that far, ensure that you get their ip address so you can 'open the firewall' or similar excuse.....

... Don't those DDoS-as-a-service folks do free trials? :)

The worst I've done to one was allow him to play around in a specially-built VM, which was running a small script that bumped the mouse and hit tab fairly regularly. Sadly I started giggling after a few minutes and the game was over :(

Re: Could this reduce friction?

>Depends how often you can sweep back with more lasers. In fact, forget the hydrophobia, just blast a plasma field in front of you through the water... shouldn't take more than a few terrawatts per meter of travel. ;)

That would (briefly, perhaps) also solve rising sea levels. Though we'd have dramatically more clouds in the sky.

Re: hahahah Intel 9282

Doesn't matter, they won't be hitting significant yields with it anyhow.

It's the same reason that a car manufacturer produces halo cars with insane power while knowing that they may wind up losing money on them--produce very limited numbers for bragging rights, and then the marketdroids can make comparisons which make zero sense to anyone with a whit of common sense. Sadly, common sense and purchasing power are seemingly inversely proprotional, so this does work.

I'd love to see comparisons based on initial cost, TCO at a given load, or even per-cycle over time (or for a given wattage, both specified and measured). That's a lot, lot more difficult to do well, and can wind up putting you in the weird place that AMD was with their rating system a few years ago--the chips didn't clock for a damn, but they had great performance per-cycle, so an Athlon 3000+ clocked at 2167 and average punters assumed 3ghz, the slightly knowlegeable were annoyed at the marketing, and enthusiasts only saw those speeds when their overclocks failed and the BIOS reverted to stock settings.

When I migrate to a new computer, honestly I don't want to bring along the old stuff exactly how it was. Part of the joy of a new machine is getting some of the cruft cleaned out, and tweaking things to work differently (which, in fairness, is not always the 'better' at which I was aiming!).

I've had to rely on a NAS for so very long that there's not much on my computers though. With Win9x's legendary stability and a penchant for slightly sketchy overclocking, I learned early on to store everything remotely if possible. It means that swapping machines or OS installs is significantly easier, though.

Re: Gravity shmavity

Missed the easy one there.

If you've placed magnets into a bag, the clumping force is attracting them--it's coming from the bag. If you did the same thing with say, glass marbles, they would be clumped at the bottom of the bag as well, as they can't get out of the bag. Using a large (flat) table or the like would be more accurate way to demonstrate 3D space in 2D.

Of course, if you did it without a bag or table, what you'd end up with is just a mess. And then you'd have to clean up all the magnets.

Re: Doom and gloom and somewhat slanted

>However Sprint has been teetering on bankruptcy for a long time, and SoftBank has been looking to offload it because of the cash burning for a while. T-Mobile USA hasn't actually been flush with cash either.<

That's what competition does. The alternative is both companies doing really well and having buckets of available capital---which came from where? Yep.

Companies should be lean and mean. It means they have competition. When they don't, it's the customers getting soaked and generally getting poor service.

Re: From experience ...

Gardyloo!

Re: Experimenting with Low Frequencies

For loud bass sonic exposure, go to a dragstrip when there is a supercharged ('blown') nitromethane class running--either Funny Car or Top Fuel. There are louder man-made things in the world, but it's a very, very short list.

It feels as if the sound grabs you by the air in your lungs and gives you a good shaking. Engineering sorts and people who like interesting experiences should definitely go and see the show.

Re: Snouts in the Trough

Rather than drawing our politicans by party lines, it'd be nice if we could get it enshrined in law that they simply have to wear shirts displaying their sponsorship, with larger logos based on larger funding. I have a mental image of congress looking like a NASCAR driver's meeting...

(I also have an image of Ajit Pai unable to stand under the weight of a billboard strapped to him.)

Re: Oh dear

There's a joke someplace here about adding a small (lowercase) 'i', too, but it's not coming up for me....

I thought we had to stop calling it GIMP because it was offensive to cripples?

So clearly it's not been gimped. It's been glimpsed. (Sigh.)