Posts by Khaptain 4039 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008
"It would not be possible for him to hijack the aircraft's core control systems, though, as these are kept strictly separate and locked down. "
Should we therefore "presume" that none of the control systems use SATCOM, not even as a redundant backup for reason a, b or c.....
Scary stuff
"The researchers believe that activating the caudate nucleus drove the animals to focus more on the negative consequences of the reward, and made them more apathetic about the value of the juice.""
And how do they know that stimulating the caudate nucleus did not make the blast of air more painful, disagreeable, etc...
The cause and effect seems highly debatable here....I think if I had a choice between having my brain "stimulated" with electric probes might actually put me off a lot of things when the other choice is not to have the brain stimulated....
Regardless of the score, it must be one of the most scathing reviews that I have read on El Reg. Even thought the device is crap, the review made me laugh, so at least it will end my otherwise boring day on a good note...
I agree that 4/10 appears to be a little over generous...
Crappy feedback on the buttons : he he.
Overall look : Ha ha ha ha ha.
Painted buttons : Hey guys come over and see this article, its a killer...
Thinking about those who invested in this : Rolls on floor, splutters, coughs, tears roll down cheeks and belly starts to ache...
"I've been told the ADB backup system is not that reliable"
I have recent experience of trying to take/make full backups in order to clone company phones ( 24 of them). I can confirm that after several hours of trying many variations of ADB parameters and switches that none of them successfully managed to make a complete backup. It definitely creates backup files but it never seems to fully restore everything on the new device.
It might depend on specific needs but I certainly couldn't get ADB to make me a backup of what I wanted on an un-rooted phone. We ended up just doing everything manually, a la Production Chain...
Personally I would not trust it without having 100% managed a full backup / restore on different devices ( same model of telephone).. It might work on the exact same device on which the backup was made , but I don't know as that wasn't useful for our needs.
Exactly the same as Frank Ly, RSS feeds for me.
The feeds represent zero publicity and leads me directly to the article that interests me. It's far easier than on the eyes to read some basic text without having all the surrounding HTML fluff..
I almost never go to the Front Page as it doesn't offer me anything more than the feeds already offer.
It seems as though every updates is perfectly executed to break something.
The OEMs are definately not following at the same rate, todays adventure, the last updates f**k around with cheap intel G45 cards and high resolution ( 1920*1080, cough) no longer appears in the list of available options. Intel does not have native G45 drivers for Windows 10 but up until the latest batch things were working just fine...
Result 2 hours spent doing nothing but desperately trying old drivers until one of them worked.
Do updates and remain safe from security exploits : OK. When it breaks your damned system obviously you are safe because you cant get any work done anyway.... gggggrrrrrrr..
And I see no reason that W7 runs fine on older equipement whereas W10 can be a dog to "keep" running correctly...
The eternal problem of how to test outside of production, just in case everything gets borked whilst needing testing to be done in production, where the real data resides...
* Sandboxing wont help because the data is usally on another device.
* Complete and exact copies of production environments are almost impossible to keep up to date without having the budget of MS behind you.
* Some of these bugs are only for extremely rare cases and would be damned hard to test without spending the entire IT budget on testing.....
And these are only the OS bugs, when we add O365 into the affaire then things really
become fun....not.
Sighs in despair as IT never seems to evolve, it just repeats Ad Infinitum..
<Rant coming up>
Parmi nous il y a quelques-uns qui parle plusieurs langues...
When someone tries their best to speak or write English when it is their second or third language then I think that they should be welcomed rather than scorned.
Grammar Nazis are Ok when it is obvious that the person writing is a native English speaker, but it's far less necessary for the others.
A little bit of understanding/forgiving can make us all better people...even on El Reg...
<end rant>
I always read this column due to it's lighthearted, yet terribly real, content. It's always refreshing to know that the Mad Bosses and Psychos that we encouter on a daily basis are not just within our own offices...
Thanks for all the good work and best of luck for the new adventure...
Horse Piss probably has more taste.
Like a lot of American Food and Beverages, the wrapper might look pretty but the contents are severely lacking in taste, unless "synthetic" is considered a taste. ( The Americans don't care though as evolution has left them devoid of taste buds)
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Beer is like sex, there are days when it is great and days when it is not... A lot depends on the person, environment, what you had to eat the night before, etc etc etc etc
Having "algorithms" test beer is like having a Blow Up Doll" being used to test candidates for porn movies. He might have the meat but not necessarily the talent but the doll wouldn’t know the difference.
Also. robots don’t drink beer and neither do algorithms, they might be able to do a chemical analysis but I doubt that they would appreciate a damned cold beer on a hot day like today and therefore determine if that beer was really exciting to your taste buds or not…
Pseudo Code:
Case ( Beer Origine)
English : Return "poor, lacks taste, almost fizzy water"
German : Return "Not bad, Pilsners can be fine as long as cold"
Belgian : Return "Excellent flavor, great selection and usually very strong".
EndCase
Like everyone on the planet I hate spam(the electronic kind).. So if this results in even a 5% reduction I am more than happy.
What I don't understand though is why it takes so long to get the wheels moving as proof would appear to be relatively simple to obtain.
Anyway cheers to the AntiSpammers of this world..
"The US tax authority – the Internal Revenue Service – is looking at how AI can secure and protect taxpayers’ data held on its servers."
And they are most certainely looking at how they can "protect" the corporates and drug barons that finance things on the darker side whilst ensuring that Joe Schmoe on his pitance has the book thrown at him...
Since we are all considered as potential terrorist/mafioso or illegal activists then we can safely presume that the Govts are not going to stop this activity any time soon.....
Alternative solution : Give us access to the politicians/ministers/governing persons private phone calls, whereabouts and all online/offline activity in order that we too may make judgement on activities performed. We pay for the politicians, wouldn't it be the correct thing to allow us some insight into how they execute their well payed tasks, both in and behind the scenes.....
After all they too might actually be involved potential terrorist/mafioso or illegal activiities....
Autoexec.bat, Config.sys,
SET SOUND=C:\PROGRAM~1\CREATIVE\CTSOUND
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SETBLASTER=A 220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620
REM= By HiSpeed CD-ROM Drive Installation Program 8/5/101
REM= device=C\ CD-ROM\CDTECH.SYS /d: mscd001/udma2 /v
DEVICE= C:\HXCD-ROM\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001
LAST DRIVE=M
At least some of the Greybeards here, must remember the battles that arose from IRQ confilicts...
"Like the Europeans they mostly are?"
People from Iran, Iraq, Egypt are far from being just White Europeans.
Having lived in Israel for a few years I can easily tell you that there are two main groups, Ashkenazi and Spheradic. ( There are also others, indigenous or not)
Ashkenazi could be grouped as Caucasian European
Spheradic could be grouped vaguely as "Middle eastern", some of which are very white, some are not.
It's a huge and very diverse mixture of backgrounds, ethnicity and culture..
There is no such thing as a typical Israeli, other than the fact that they all speak Hebrew ( Modern Hebrew)...
For around 25000 you can get one of these
https://int.piaget.com/watches/rose-gold-ultra-thin-automatic-watch-g0a43120
Personally, I find the stock Android interfaces pretty well done, outside of aesthetics I don't see the need for another layer..
On top of that it usually slows down the firmware update refresh because the Samsung UX has to be re-done/re-validated by Samsung...
I gave up on Samsung because of bloat, looks like they are continuing down the same path....
Typical of many people in a position of responsability. They neither respect nor adhere to the practices or procedures that they expect from others.
It's sad to imagine how much these kind of investigations cost the law abiding tax payer. Why does there also appear to be a severe lack of honest people in these roles....
It's Friday, it's warm outside and the lake front is where I am going for my beer/wine/appero...
Cheers to all the honest people....
"I actually enjoy the Ribbon Interface"
I'm with you here, the most common commands are always available muscle memory makes it very easy...
I never understood why people dont like it.. I undrstand that it might not be the best choice for all applications but for Office it is great.
Horses for courses.
Are pilots actually trained, and forced to constantly keep their training up to date, for exactly these kinds of situations.... One of the reasons that Pilots are well paid is to ensure that they are capable of keeping the head cool and retaining their capacity to handle these situations.
I do like when the media use the word "hero" for someone that is performing his job....
I do not want to discredit pilots or their jobs, I have great admiration for what they do, they should be congratulated for handling these kinds of situations, but to go to the point of calling them heros is just plain wrong and does injustice to those who truly merit that denomination.
In my book a hero is someone that goes was over and above his call of duty often performing tasks that they were not prepared for..
This would undoubtedly save the hackers some much time. So would no longer need to try to hack different sites, as they would now have a single site against which they could throw endless rainbow attacks from one of their botnets.
Example First off a slew of passwords for Facebook. Even though the password was wrong for facebook, the Password Similitude engine (sic) would allow them to know that it was the good password for another site because it would also be interesting X other sites..
It a theory looking for a buyout..
"Did you really say that as an argument? If you only want a light high, only smoke a little. Every stoner I know figured that out without much trouble."
I've been about and I am no stranger to much worse than a little bit of weed...I know how to take a hit, lol.
I've smoked quite a bit of pot/hash/weed for test purposes obviously ;-) and I can confirm without a doubt that high THC content knocks me on the floor.
The Swiss stuff, high CBD content definitely does not knock me over.. and yet the high content THC that I tested on my last trip to Amsterdam absolutely blew me away.
"Only smoke a little " : That's like saying it's not worth buying alcohol at any less than 80% ( Stroe Rum comes to mind) and only taking little sips. No thanks...
It's all horses for courses but I like the option of having choice.
Selling cannabis is now legal in Switzerland, the only constraint is that it must have a THC content of lower than 1%..
Even In Geneva's main train station their is a shop "Marry Janes" in the sub gallery ( The double R is intentional).. The products are well presented and things are done professionally, on top of that it is relatively cheap...
The low THC content means you can have a smoke without having to get utterly stoned.
High THC content does nothing more than get one seriously wasted and can remove the pleasure from desiring no more than a light high.. It also means that there is need need to hank out with shady people....
I think the Swiss are doing this correctly, in an adult manner.
Pedantically; Mother relates to being a parent which in and of itself relates to one or more children. Therefore, the plural would not be incorrect.
More importantly , why suggest Mother Nature rather than just Pure Chance and/or simply Chemistry/Physics and Biology, commonly known as Science... or the laws of Science.
Not to be confused with Scientology which has its own doctrine concerning the creative process.... ;-)
"Germany/France rollout is concentrated around the cities, and far less out into the country. And both Germany and France have oodles of Middle-of-Nowhere."
Agreed, in France it's definitely the larger cities that have the best coverage. On saying that FTTH will be available for me round about July... Oh happy days....
Fibre is obviously introduced on a "concentration basis".... Although most homes receive 20 Mbs without problem and where xDSL is not available, Orange and SFR can provide 4G boxes that at least allow for a reasonable link... ( obviously you have to be in a 4G zone but France has pretty good coverage)...
If your car has a GPS which has fault and the car manufacturer has to rewire your car I think it is safe to safe to mention that the problems are due to the faulty GPS the manufacturer.
This doesn't completely excuse the car maker from having dodgy wiring but it is understandable.
Personally I wouldn't like to be in Microsofts shoes at the moment having Meltdown looming over my head.
Intel have a lot to answer for...
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