"the iPhone 12 was approved by the FCC before sale"
The FCC approves iPhone 12, the FAA approves the 737 Max, it's becoming clear that certification agencies in the US need a serious revamp.
16645 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
In the category of rogue planets or stars, the possibility of direct collision is almost zero. But you don't need a rogue star, or black hole, to collide with Earth in order to destroy Humanity (and possibly all life on Earth as well).
A star or black hole passing close enough to our Solar System will throw planetary orbits out of whack, likely ejecting several, if not all. That would logically depend on how close it gets. But one thing is sure : if Earth gets ejected, we're all on a timer to the deepest freeze we will ever know.
However, even if none of our planets are actually ejected, the outer planets' orbits will certainly be perturbed, which will very likely in turn perturb the orbits of the inner planets. Not to mention everything in the Kuiper Belt will go nuts, and whatever is beyond as well.
So, even if the Earth possibly stays in its actual orbit, the amount of asteroids being josled by all this will be enormous, and there's every chance that we might see a new Late Bombardment in the years that follow.
The only question is, at what distance are we doomed by a passing star or black hole ? If it is two light-years away, are we safe ?
No, you'll have enough for what you think you need to drive.
Any nasty surprise and your EV will not have enough juice to get where you need to go.
Frankly, to me an EV is already seriously limited as far as range is concerned. To give people an excuse to drain them for supplying power is the height of stupidity. There's already a waste of energy charging the damn things, now you want to waste more energy discharging them.
We don't have fusion yet, and too many countries are using coal. Stop the madness.
I sympathize, but that was a useless gesture.
If not Amazon, there's two other solutions. One of them will host this thing. Heck, in all probability they all bid for it. It's a long-term government contract.
It's money. For sure, and for a looong time.
You don't say no to that.
At this point in time, that sounds rather like wishful thinking to me.
It appears as if everything everyone is doing at the moment is geared toward siphoning my personal life to The CloudTM. If those portable whatchamacallits are going to become pervasive, I'm willing to bet that they'll happily lap up everything they can and send it to the mothership ASAP.
It's the contrary that would surprise me.
Is it really necessary to fly a seismograph to the Moon and go through the trouble of landing it ?
I would think it would be easier to send a satellite with ground penetrating radar and have it fly over multiple interesting sites to find out what we can.
Of course, a seismograph wouldn't be useless, but I would think GPR would give us an answer that would be more precise.
That's where the problem lies. Sure you can fire up another cloud, but transiting petabytes of data from one to the other will be difficult by the sole virtue of size.
Not to mention that, on the other cloud, there's almost certainly something that will be different enough for you to have a headache getting everything running like before.
So, after googling that, LibGen doesn't respond, neither does Sci-Hub. Bibliotik requires logging in, something I doubt OpenAI is capable of.
Of the four, only Z-Library allows you to freely search, but I did not try to download.
If that is their collection of sore points, I don't really see where the problem is.
Hang on, am I supposed to understand that, in the middle of the Grand Canyon, two hiking days out from civilization, I can still call 911 if I have an iPhone ?
Have they managed to include Iridium technology in a slab 8mm thick ?
Somehow I doubt that. Have you seen an Iridium phone ?
Or does Apple have a deal with Starlink ? Because if so, Apple might want to find a way to make sure that His Muskiness doesn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and shut them off.
If it were me, and my life of support and faithfulness was being upended like that, I would start every public speaker event by saying something along the line of :
"Let me be perfectly clear : we are talking about Arm, which is a trademark of Arm, not Leg. And it's those fuckers over there that are watching me right now, that want me to say that Arm is a trademark of those fuckers. Just to be clear. Thank you."
"this one requires victims to fall prey to both a phishing attempt via malicious advertising and questionable prompts"
Ooh, because you think that'll stop them ?
No, my friend, there will be idiots clueless users who will do whatever some random stranger tells them to do.
As someone wrote in these forums not long ago, it is strange how people completely forget real life and do things online that they would absolutely never do in the same situation in real life.
What's that, random stranger I just met in the street ? But of course I will give you the keys to my house so you can take pictures for your scrapbook. And, when you're done, just be nice and put them under the mat when you close the door. Have a nice day !
Just a minute there, because China is capable of making a fully home-grown phone, the US is going to impose new sanctions ?
That does not sound very fair.
Is the US also going to impose new sanctions because China has discovered how to burn coal ?
I mean, while they're at it . . .
And it wasn't until you started meddling in it.
You put up a vast comms network in the sky, which is good. Then, as usual, you start getting ideas on how it is supposed to be used and by who. You shouldn't.
A comms network will be used by nefarious people that are up to no good. If you can't hack it, then shut down Starlink and be done with it.
The Internet is rife with DDOS, scams, kiddie pr0n and other unsavory things. I don't hear anybody shutting off Russia because of any of that.
Oh go grow a pair already.
This nation is becoming a beacon of trustworthyness and making things better on the Internet.
Congratulations on showing the way, or at least confirming the way, to a better world.
It's good to see that the right decisions can be taken at high levels. Shame on the states that do not follow suit.
is the ability to get home when "smart" doorbell servers are offline.
Which is, of course, a million to one chance, so it happens nine times out of ten when you really need to get inside.
And I'm sorry, but I think there must be a mid-term between selling my personal data to all and sundry and living like a cave man.
It's called dumb terminals, dumb switches, dumb doorbells (get your fat ass off that couch and go see who's there), dumb shutters and a VPN for when you just can't help it.
Sure. Because it's always a good idea to go solo on a project that has already taken decades and multiple billions from an entire economical coalition.
Even better, go solo when actual advancements are being made.
Brilliant timing !
Just like Brexit.
Did I miss something ? Didn't we just have an article proving that not backdooring encryption does not prevent the law from doing its job ?
Can someone please take a cluebat and beat some sense into these people ?
I'd pay to see that.
A 70-year-old tech I had never heard of before is now the future of underwater communication and detection. And, obviously, the person having invented that tech had no idea that it would be used in that way.
If that's not upcycling, I don't know what is. Well done to the boffins who created this.
Now I await with anticipation the imminent posting somewhere stating that this Van Atta was actually a lizard man from Ceti Alpha Tau, who left this tech on stone tablets to be sure that Humanity would discover it, for . . reasons.
I'm not a DBA, but I do believe that those people keep an eye on that sort of thing, normally. And, if I'm not mistaken, there should be notifications about storage space, and regular reports. You don't just run out of space one morning.
So, if all of that is true (and I have no reason to believe that Toyota DBAs are incapable of using such tools), then how on Earth can this have happened ?
Could it be that the DBA was clamoring for the budget to augment storage and was being basically ignored ?
If so, I don't think they'll ignore him again.
Why should the EU bear the cost of that ?
The fact that German hospitals, who likely have just as tight a budget as any other hospital, have chosen SAP as their ERP provider is a choice that concerns German hospitals, not the EU.
Besides, it would not be the EU that could nationalise SAP, it would be Germany.
The EU is not yet a country, even though some people up there seem to believe that they can wield the power.
I do not find that that validates Putin in any way. It explains it, but it does not validate it.
It seems to me that it is the entire Russian elite that are pining for the days when their power was a reality.
Those days are long gone, erased by corruption, greed and power manipulation. The Soviet Union was already not a place that took kindly to reality, and that mindset has been carefully conserved in Russian minds today.
At least, those minds that talk of power.
Temporarily.
So, the next time there's a "power sag", you'll be in exactly the same position again ?
That's manglement for you. Always use the minimum resources until you hit the wall, then boost like crazy until you feel safe enough to go back to minimum.
What could possibly go wrong ?
Borkzilla doesn't know how to manage sleep.
My SOP when getting a new computer is to modify the standard power config to forbid sleep and hibernation.
As far as I'm concerned, when I need that PC, it is supposed to be awake and ready to roll. If I don't need it, I shut it down. Especially these days when boot times are livable.
Hmm. Doesn't that mean that you are guilty of terrorist hacking and computer abuse in the eye of the Home Office ?
Couldn't you get fined for that ?
I mean, people are apparently under risk of arrest for having accessed data that was publicly available, even if posted by mistake by some fat-fingered bobbie with a donut in his hand and another one in his mouth, so where does that put you ?
What a shame to have to use LinkedIn to publish anything about Ariane.
Can't you use your own site for official communication ? Is that not worthy enough anymore to communicate with people who actually give a damn ?
When are you going to start posting on sewer-data.whogivesashit.whocares ?
How's about going back to official channels ?
Does anyone know what official means anymore ?
I am waiting with baited breath to hear how the miscreants are going to abuse that kit.
Because I'm pretty sure it's going to happen.
Why BluTooth ? Don't shop merchants already have a sound system if that's what they want ? It's not difficult to put a CD player in a corner, and these days, you can probably find something that takes a USB key and has all the usual audio controls and speakers. Yeah, maybe it costs a bit more than 9 bucks, but it's already there. Adding BluTooth under the pretext of allowing music is really reaching for an excuse, as far as I'm concerned.
But hey, if they're happy with it . . .
Eh, The CloudTM came and took away all the servers. It'll be wonderful ! we were told. No more admin worries ! they said.
They lied. There is just as much administrative headache with cloud servers, but it's worse because IT'S NOT YOUR SERVER ANY MORE.
And now, icing on the cake, you get to pay to obtain the recordings of YOUR MEETINGS.
Ain't The CloudTM just wonderful ?
I think the professional certification industry is rife with this problem.
And, to start with, I have a problem with an exam that is supposed to prove my knowledge of a specific domain of programming, and it's a questionnaire of the pick-the-right-answer type. And the questions are the hardest to understand, because those who created the questionnaire did their damndest to make the question obscure and open to interpretation. There's always the obvious wrong answer, then the easy to eliminate answer, and you end up wrestling between two choices that could be acceptable if the question included such-and-such as a given. If you really know your domain, you can pull it off in spite of the odd mistake, but I don't see that such shenanigans prove my competence as a Lotus Notes developer.
You want to know if I know how to program ? Ask me to write the code to answer a specific problem. Then test the code. If it runs and it answers the problem, then I'm good.
But of course, that approach eliminates 100% of the certification industry of today.