Re: Ugh, Vegas
If you don't want to get ripped off in Vegas, study math.
Posts by Jeroen Braamhaar
203 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Oct 2007
DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on
Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists
EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources
Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget
What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots? It would look like this
Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce
Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device
The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups
Big Tech revenues under threat from EU law proposals
Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
Things that are not PogChamp: Amazon's Twitch has its source code, streamer payout data leaked
Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps
Latest Windows 11 Preview a well-rounded update – literally
IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos
Robots that take out your garbage? Oh What A Feeling, says Toyota as it opens its very own smart city
Beagleboard peeps tease dual-core 64-bit RISC-V computer with GPU, AI acceleration, more for $119
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
Trello! It is me... you locked the door? User warns of single sign-on risk after barring self from own account
Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030
I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch
The April 2018 Update is so 1803, snort Windows 10 faithful as more settle down in 1903 town
Don't press the red b-... Windows Insiders' rings hit by surprise Microsoft emission
Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data
Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits
LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers
Wednesday 21st November 2018 08:49 GMT 
Moral of the story:
Put nothing in "the cloud"
- that you don't have a certified, current and regularly checked, usable and updated (local) backup of.
- that is too important to lose (for whatever reason)
- that you must have access to at critical moments.
Completely
Lost
Our
Unmissable
Data
;-)
Google vows to take claims of sexual assault, harassment seriously, just like privacy
UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections
Some of you really don't want Windows 10's April 2018 update on your rigs
Friday 27th July 2018 12:19 GMT
Re: Why so traumatic?
Because MS insists on shoveling features they haven't fully tested (if at all) at their hapless victims (otherwise known as "users") in a desperate bid to prove their OS is ready for primetime.
And rather than STOP and fix the mess they made last update (or any of the previous ones), they happily/blissfully move on to the new flavor of the day insisting that this time, they'll get it right!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results ... making the institutional mental health of the Microsoft edifice questionable at best, mythical at worst. Take your pick.
Skype Classic headed for the chopping block on September 1
Forking hell. It's summer, and Windows 10 is already thinking about autumn
Sysadmin cracked military PC’s security by reading the manual
Have I been paid, Sage? Cloudy wage service locks out users
Um, excuse me. Do you have clearance to patch that MRI scanner?
How to stealthily poison neural network chips in the supply chain
Which? calls for compensation for users hit by Windows 10 woes
How could the Facebook data slurping scandal get worse? Glad you asked
Best thing about a smart toilet? You can take your mobile in without polluting it
GCHQ boss calls out Russia for 'industrial scale disinformation'
Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg
Least realistic New Year’s resolution ever: Fix Facebook in 365 days
FBI tells Jo(e) Sixpack to become an expert in IoT security
YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven
US intelligence blabs classified Linux VM to world via leaky S3 silo
Windows Update borks elderly printers in typical Patch Tuesday style
Saturday 18th November 2017 16:00 GMT
Because VueScan's business model relies on them supporting the hardware.
MS's business model relies on locking people in and then pumping out as many useless brittle features people didn't ask for and can't control, all the while only caring that that the customer's computer supports the downloading of the latest version, and the customer's wallet supports paying for it.
American upstart seeks hotshot guinea pig for Concorde-a-like airliner
Tuesday 7th November 2017 19:44 GMT
Hmmm
Interesting how the XB-70 Valkyrie has been completely forgotten.
This was a plane contemporary with (and similarly sized as) both Concorde and the Tu-144 ... yet was capable of cruising at Mach 3.
Only 2 prototypes were ever built, and the 1960's emphasis on ballistic missiles (plus a fatal midair crash on a photo op flight of all things) put an end to the program before it ever had the chance to fully develop.
AFAIK, the second prototype achieved Mach 3.4 on a test flight ...
both planes were turned over to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center where they conclusively proved that sonic booms and population centers were an incredibly poor mixture :D
http://xb70.interceptor.com/ for its intriguing story!
Storms blow away 2017 Solar Challenge field
Monday 16th October 2017 07:57 GMT
If the idea is to get these contraptions ready for actual real world use, wouldn't testing them under real world conditions make more sense ?
Which they just ran into. And complained bitterly about.
The Wright Brothers had brass balls of steel to venture into largely unknown territory with things nobody had even tried before. Electric and solar power hass been tried for the better part of 25-30 years and it still doesn't work (and if you believe it does, I'd gleefully remind you of South Australia's ability to keep the lights on), and barring a shift to an absolutist world government decreeing it the winner, it won't (something to do with lack of energy density, overly large dependency on 'just the right' environmental conditions etc)
But I admit, it makes a wonderful festival parade.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
