Re: TCP/IP?
The release version of TCP/IP on WFW3.11 was very good and 32bits. It wasn't installed by default on Win95 originally because NetBeui uses much less ram.
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Dark teal.
Also on XP you had to have an image of the blank background rather than setting colour or the shadow on icon text didn't exist.
I've now decided to train users to ONLY have mounted drives (local USB or LAN) on the desktop and use a panel (auto-hide) on each of the four edges. Top: Menus, Workspaces, open programs. Bottom: Status, keyboard state, Notifications etc. Left: Icons for local programs often used. Right: Icons for stuff that might need the Internet or LAN; such as mail, puTTY, Chat programs, Browsers, LAN browse, Package manager, Filezilla SFTP
Sadly still stuck on Thunderbird. It's getting worse as Mozilla "firefoxes" it. Also I had to install a plug-in for import / export. I used to be able to copy the profile directory from Windows to Linux and edit a file to migrate. Doesn't work now. Used to use Eudora. The only value of Outlook seemed to be the non-email aspects such as meetings. Perhaps clue in name, it's really a Calendar/Meeting application that happens to insecurely (on defaults anyway) do email.
I've tried other email clients.
Eliza did for untrained people. Lots of people thought it was real.
Anyway, the "Turing test" isn't at all a measure of AI and I'm not convinced Alan Turing thought it was. It was the idea that a well designed chat program might fool people into thinking the other teletype had a human at the keyboard.
I'm not sure that the Touring test idea wasn't a suggestion that AI could be eventually "faked" even if it wasn't possible. I think inspired by a parlour game?
"The Diamond Age" attempts to show that there can be faked AI, but not real AI.
I'll believe there is real AI when a spelling check and grammar check of a novel actually works without:
1) Having to reject many of the suggest corrections.
2) Doesn't leave hundreds of simple mistakes easily spotted by a human proofreader.
I'm not even talking about "real" grammar correction, rewriting such as reversing clauses of a sentence to remove a comma or conjunction etc and improve readability.
We have gone backwards with the adoption of brute force "Rosetta stone" type solutions and so called training with sample data (which may be selected with a bias) instead of actually trying to translate our understanding to algorithms. It might be impossible as many animals can have a large vocabulary (Parrots, crows, sign language and calls in primates, dolphins etc) but don't seem to have language (the ability to communicate entirely new ideas using the existing vocabulary).
The latest chatbots only better Eliza by having a bigger vocabulary and some more rules. They are still useless.
I envisaged a chatbot able to clarify what you want to search the internet for by engaging in conversation to better define the search. It seems impossible. Siri, Cortana, Ok Google and Alexa are basically simple speech matching (not real recognition) creating a text search. They are a pathetic waste of time compared to a keyboard. Apart from the privacy issues.
Alphabetically
Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft
Probably many others.
Also repeat after me, BIOMETRICS should NEVER be used as security. They are like a name tag, except you can change your name by deed pole (rules vary by Country) but you can't easily change your voice, fingerprints, retina, face, blood vessels etc.
You can't take away commercial, civil, privacy or other rights just because they are inconvenient to state security organisations. They have to keep the law.
Also even where there is a "right to snoop" the agencies should need a specific court order against an individual, with due cause. No fishing expeditions or entrapment. It's a democracy, not a dictatorship or evil regime.
Another example of a totally speculative un-original idea being approved by USPTO as that's how they make money and the philosophy is to keep lawyers employed, the procedure is to bring a court case.
So the system doesn't encourage innovation or give inventors a head start. It rewards corporates that spend a fortune on patents rather than real R & D (Research, then develop a product), Stifles innovation and locks out small companies.
Earth Final Conflict.
Also a real sort of roll up Philips phone using an eink type of display. Perhaps not one of Philips better ideas. Tech sold to someone Asian, then Amazon bought and buried it. It's not used in the Kindle.
Sony also had a roll up eink. Mysteriously not used for rolling up, though the Sony Digital Paper (for PDFs, not ebooks) is reputed to be plastic.
In theory AMOLED (which are really electroluminescent dots, not true LEDs) can be pretty flexible. The unsolved issue is suitably flexible wiring. Millions of nano sized strands in Litz type cables?
Wasn't proven that that they have been doing this for ages on phones, of EVERY user of ANY Facebook family app, not just facebook.
Bridge etc anyone thinks it's only 1.5M or an accident.
Fines work out at cents per user. Should be an additional $100 / £100 / €100 per user on top of the fine, paid to users. Home Office, Microsoft (inc LinkedIn pressure), Google, Facebook, etc.
Only the inferior USA kind, later called CDMA-one for data. They recycled ideas going back to 1930s (NOT Heidi Lamar) and used by Racal and others in Military Equipment.
Qualcomm did a lot on CDMA, the rubbish USA "2G", inferior to GSM. They got the worst bit (CDMA mechanism) included in 3G, making 3G less reliable than GSM. It was an already obsolete idea and disproportionately slows 3G as more users are added and shrinks cell range. The 3G used 5MHz channels. USA CDMA/CDMA-1 used 1MHz channels. GSM uses 200kHz channels, but can bond time slots in those or use multiple channels. LTE uses loads of multiple "channels" in the overall 5MHz, 10MHz or 20MHz channel, thus it's OFDMA like Flash-OFDMA and Wimax and related to how DAB and DTT (outside USA) works.
We'd have been better off without Qualcomm and some others in the 3G "patent pool". Politics. Then Qualcomm bought and buried companies like Flarion to ensure leverage and power in the 4G patent pool. I'm no Apple fan, but time someone stood up to Qualcomm's manipulation of patents.
They are trollish. They buy a lot of small companies to monetise the patents and bury the products. It will be bad if they get NXP.
They double dip. They want a % of the product price. Not just content to sell the chips. With other chip makers and companies developing chips (Texas, Intel, Analog Devices, Microchip etc) selling the chips is the aim.
With Qualcomm the aim is to licence, the chips aid that end and provide leverage.
It and Flash-OFDMA were doomed, but they are 4G, just not LTE 4G.
However most marketing and press about so called "5G" is hype. It's not even about the speed and capacity unless it's one of the new bands above 5GHz, which are only good for stadiums, auditoriums, open plan offices etc. Even most of the 4G marketing of speed is totally misleading, and in the same size channels there isn't much difference. Channel aggregation only works if few people are using the network and the signals are good. Adding more masts adds capacity and thus speed.
Cloud: Someone else's server you are renting with unknown security, unknown backups, unknown privacy from the Cloud operator and needs a massively fast & reliable broadband connection?
No, Cloud is for temporary collaboration and customer facing web sites (but not the databases). If you are big and distributed, then use co-location of your own servers in the "Cloud" operator datacentre. The Cloud isn't suitable for core systems and internal information. That's retro, going back to 1960s timesharing and an big obnoxious company having control/management of your data.
See "No Silver Lining" as to one future Cloud scenario.
Also why does the spring loaded main door usually open INWARDS, thusly you have to grasp the vertical rod that other people with unwashed hands have groped?
I'm tempted to avoid trips where at some stage I might have to use the loo. Check a restaurant toilet BEFORE you order. Hygiene is maybe more important than menu or culinary skill?
Simple, don't connect "smart TVs" to web (use a tablet/netbook/phone/laptop to stream, not a "stick"), don't buy any gadget with a microphone, especially so called "smart speakers", except laptop/tablet/phone.
Try and set suitable security on things that HAVE to have a microphone. Why is it enabled by default on most web browsers?
Don't have any toy that needs the Internet.
We know that big tech is about as honest, transparent and moral as your local drug dealer and quite like security agencies in behaviour.
Bagged ready-to-eat salad is easily avoided even if you are a Vegan or vegetarian. It's nasty, not as fresh, higher risk as well as expensive compared to regular salad vegetables. In countries with chlorinated chicken the alternative chicken is more expensive and harder to find. USA also has a much poorer track record over animal conditions and food safety.
Certainly no-one should be extradited anywhere for practising Journalism.
However why did he break bail and refuse to answer the Swedish charges? They would not have extradited him to USA on a dubious charge nor was it anything about journalism.
He's a coward and narcissist for spending seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Well, an advertising company harvesting private information wouldn't.
"and has instead allowed people to opt out of receiving calls from Duplex instead."
So WRONG. The default should be opted out, people should have to opt in. How on earth would opting out work anyway? You'd have have to give Google info, log in and do that on an Google account. Ah, that's why it's allowed by default.
Reminds me of USA CAN-SPAM and the fact that USA Robo callers and cold callers might sometimes get fined but little is collected.
This will also be a boon to those "offering support for windows" via phone. They won't have to employ probably unsuspecting Indian Call centre staff. The last one of those I got had a spoofed Caller ID in Iceland!
Indeed it's the only way in a vacuum. Car radiators, fridge & Freezer radiators, household radiators are, to the pedant, misnamed. They are transferring heat by conduction to the atmosphere, aided by either convection of the heated air or a forced airflow.
I was using radiate in the casual "wrong" everyday sense. A "radiator panel" on spacecraft will work very poorly as it can only radiate electromagnetic waves. A laser or Magnetron works better, but a lamp filament is maybe more efficient way to dump electrical energy considering the total system.
The problems INCLUDE the efficiency of the laser and the heat engine. A hot resistor or filament lamp in front of a mirror on the craft, but shaded from the sun will be more efficient at radiating energy than a laser and its electronics. Also dark side has a problem for the heat engine. That needs to radiate heat to stay cool, that's very difficult in a vacuum.
I'm not sure the cooling problems for spaceships has any simple solution.
Only N.I., England, Scotland and Wales are countries of the UK.
Cornwall is now an English Duchy, though was originally not part of England.
Gibraltar, Channel Is, Isle of Man are not part of the UK and never have been. They are territories controlled by the UK. They don't have the same status as Falklands, Cayman Is, Bermuda, Chagos Is, British Virgin Is or other Territories.
I think the change of status of Gibraltar from Colony in 1981 was to aid the removal of British Citizenship from people in Hong Kong.
I don't agree with the Spanish argument, but it's ironic it's fuelled by a change the UK made to Gibraltar to disenfranchise people in Hong Kong. BTW, did the lease run out on Hong Kong Island proper or ONLY on the mainland territories part of the Hong Kong Colony?
Gibraltar has a special, unique EU relationship. UK called it a colony till 1981. Only the name has changed, not status, it's not IN the UK, unlike Northern Ireland it returns no MPs.
The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands not only are not part of the UK, Gibraltar is not part of the UK either, but unlike Gibraltar which has full EU status, no other UK Crown Colony/Dependency is part of the EU. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are under something called Protocol Three, which allows them to be in the EU Customs Union and Single Market.
If the UK is serious that Gibraltar isn't a colony, then they should return MPs to Parliament, like Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Cornwall do.
Not only are Cayman Is, Bermuda and other UK Overseas territories not yet implementing EU laws on banking transparency, money laundering and Offshore accounts, but the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are in violation of EU law too. The EU has officially complained about UK tardiness on these laws which the UK agreed. Switzerland has implemented them and isn't even in the EU.
Luxembourg, Dutch and Irish tax and banking are now compliant, or in the process of becoming so. The Irish Corporate Tax Rate is perfectly legal, the problem was Companies not even paying that due to offshoring "royalties" (Starbucks, Microsoft, etc,) or even illegal special deals (Apple).
Is the real reason for the Hard Brexiteers that they want parasitic behaviour to continue in the City of London (which gives UK its 5th ranking) and continued secretive banking, money laundering and Offshore accounts on UK controlled territories that return no MPs to Parliament?
Is the solution to Brexit for some UK Territories (Islands in the West) to get full independence, England to leave UK, and for Isle Of Man, Channel Is. and Gibraltar to join the UK? Downgrade the devolved Assemblies and rotate Parliament every 4 months or so between N.I., Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Channel Is? Or have Parliament in Wales.
Also when will UK give back Cyprus territory and then there is their illegal action in the Indian Ocean?
The UK "bought" Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory. This was illegal. The Diego Garcia inhabitants were illegally deported.
How many USERS can use the Repeater with:
A) A commercial Rig not Icom.
B) A legal homebrew rig
Such a repeater is only really of value to Icom unless it ALWAYS supports any mode of transmission (technically possible on Duplex frequency pairs using linear amplifiers)
D-Star isn't encryption, but it's a closed, proprietary system used to sell Icom rigs. I can't understand why (a) It has support and (b) Why Comreg and Ofcom allow it and repeaters designed for it. It's inferior to FM and especially SSB for coverage and basically needs an Icom rig or an Icom licensed massively overpriced USB stick.
Yes, D-Star is just a scam to sell Icom radios. It doesn't even use a particularly good codec. But it's all patented, copyrighted and controlled by Icom.
Amateur radio historically wasn't private and in most countries it was a licence violation to use encrypted Morse or RTTY. Both possible in 1930s.
So two issues are PROPRIETARY modes, codecs, protocols and also ENCRYPTION. There should not be either. Especially in an Emergency situation as that limits those able to help to a rich elite.