Posts by Eddy Ito

Given the brief lifespan of a missile I'd expect the enclosure to do most of the radiation protection and it's unlikely to need much for brains either. It's not like it needs to sit in orbit for a year, head to the moon, or make it to Mars.

A bloody paper clip!? I'd think they'd charge extra for that kind of thing.

Re: Requires javascript

I also imagine a substantial portion of the code available for download is written in javascript.

Chrome had DNSSEC support but it has been removed. It seems to have suffered the chicken - egg problem.

My first reaction was how is this really different from Yammer? As you say, PITA.

Re: "printer manufacturers"

A quick check of printer list would find a large number of reasonable printers. Granted there are some makers who still don't support Linux but I expect that number to continue to shrink.

Re: Obvious bull

I think that's a point of confusion here. Chen was talking about "file system compression" but the article repeatedly says "file compression" which is a very different beast. As written, it makes it sound as if LZMA may only work on some platforms which is silly.

Re: Blocking ads remains a crucial tool in a security posture

The worst of the lot simply fail to work and won't mention the ad blocker. On the upshot, I now know that Citi has to go I think it's a personal record for shortest business relationship. There's simply no reason for a bank to be employing third party ads and trackers after one has "securely" logged in.

Re: Cheapies?

Huh? A Fire tablet goes for $50. They don't get much cheaper than that although Wally World has an RCA for $39.98. The catch is the ties to Prime and Kindle that some people love so much. There's also another hook I've noticed and it's that one can buy a few for cheap money and not worry about bringing along a computer. I know some retired folk who leave a Fire at both of their children's homes for when they visit so they can read or watch shows on Prime when the grandkids are at school and their kids are at work. Sure, they could do this with any tablet but it's a common interface and they come all set up for you which is what seals the deal.

Re: Comcast doesn't own the utility poles, does it?

They do own their cables and what they don't want is for Google to move them on the poles nor do they want the expense of moving the cables themselves. Can't really say I blame them since it means some of their customers connections will be disturbed even if Google does it's best not to. I'll add that in some places I've lived it wasn't unusual for the cable and phone guys to screw with each others lines forcing a service call.

Re: Thiel and the free press

But he's absolutely right, it's almost to the point where you need to be a triple-digit millionaire to have any standing in our legal system. It almost always comes down to who can survive the long slog and expense unless it's far, far cheaper to simply "settle" for pennies on the dollar most, if not all, of which winds up going to the lawyers anyway.

Re: Really?

Honestly Anon, I think the burden of proof would be on them. Personally I think Anonymous Coward is a fine name. To me it sounds of Latin origin, so I'm guessing some of your ancestors were Italian but from your picture I'd have to say it's dominated by Norman-French, no?

Re: @Marketing Hack ... This article doesn't tell some important points.

I don't recall any mention of the Hatch Act when Lawrence Walsh effectively did the same thing to George H.W. Bush on 30 October 1992. Can't see why this would really be different.

Re: IoT

That's the real question. It's bad enough that potentially sensitive data gets sent to Texas but I notice there's no mention of potential for data flowing the other way. And some are worried about the passenger's pilot's personal data?

Re: Only 96 batteries

Yes typical automotive IC engines are pretty poor in the efficiency department and while they can approach an efficiency near 40% the typical load case is far below that so overall 25% is actually pretty good. That said unless you're getting your electricity from wind or solar the typical power plant is only about 33% for coal or nuclear to close to 45% for natural gas so it's only better in the respect that it can be optimized for a particular burn rate while a car has to deal with much greater variability in load conditions. In the end, it's a bit of an apples - oranges comparison.

Also the battery capacity only counts the usable part which in a typical Li-ion is between about 2.4 and 4 volts so there is residual energy in the cell which isn't counted as part of the overall capacity. Of course the voltage isn't usually well behaved once it falls below about 2.5 volts.

Re: I'm confused

Well it couldn't be 15.5 years since it only left here in early 2006. But the data rate does vary as explained in this quick video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjEesn2TFBA

Re: One law for the rich and one for everyone else in italy it seems...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Now if I only had an updated program so I could tell who the players are.

Re: Commentards

Google have been collecting data from almost everyone via search, store and Android

Makes you wonder just how much dirt they have on Obama & Co. that it obliges him to be their lap dog.

Re: Seems prudent

I think the song was to express that this is a dark time as the car learns to drive and that it is doing so in California. It's clearly picked up the typical bad habits seen on Californian roadways.

@Big John, why would you say such things? Does this look like dislike and fear? Hell, when it's over I fully expect Ivanka or her husband to get a cushy appointment by Hillary, after the required donation to the Clinton Foundation by her father-in-law of course. Open your eyes and it will be quite clear that this whole thing is a sham and that Trump is a far better actor than people give him credit for.

Re: So...

You mean the server Colin Powell approved? And then hastily denied when leaned on?

How could Colin Powell approve anything? He wasn't in government service at the time. Also he had a personal email account, not a server, and this was before the rule was in place. He merely advised the same and as he had not been in government service for four years he may not have been aware of the then new rule.

The server she set up BEFORE the rule against them was brought in?

While the server may have been set up before the new rules it has no bearing as she wasn't Secretary of State at the time nor is any earlier data subject to FOIA requests. Note that the new rules were in place when she did become Secretary of State and rather than follow the rules to which she was then subject, she did not.

Re: Hang on...

Don't confuse the inventor with the assignee. The inventor has to be human, the assignee does not. In the US this is little different from any other property in that a house can be owned by a human, a company, a trust, a troll, etc.

Re: Heavy regulation

Don't sweat the school children, they're just stupid. I get the impression it isn't going to be long before the flabellum flails the feces.

Yeah, I guess I couldn't think of how to put it well. Normally they'd be all the shared libraries, e.g. the dll files typically in the System32 or SysWOW64 folders on Windows, but since the applications need to be a self contained package you get each one carrying along it's own bag of bits which may be unnecessarily duplicated by several applications because they aren't shared. Again, I'm not sure that really matters given terabyte capacity USB thumb drives.

Re: Jake

For those of us not of a British background, should we assume JCB is JC Bamford?

Re: business

Don't forget that half the value of Yahoo is the consumer data which Verizon can now likely buy much cheaper online from the hackers.

Re: Maybe

but it is also the same as saying "we want companies to pay less when they scr*w us up by paying even less attention to our safety".

Interesting logic you've got there AC. It doesn't get much cheaper than glue and a sealed shell. I'm fairly certain that a battery plug connector and a removable access plate are far more costly as that was the main driver to unitized and glued together units. Sure, they'll talk up the water resistance that comes along with it but that's a very minor freebee of a talking point they get.

Oh I almost forgot. It's so quaint that you actually think any of them are paying any attention whatsoever to our safety, a bit naive perhaps, but very quaint. Well, I suppose you could count rounded corners as a safety feature.

Re: Is wheel-spinning replacing nagware as the new Windows 10 incentive?

There is a fix here however if things are going to be rolled up into one giant ball of snot it's going to be a bit more difficult to fix when, not if, the slowdowns resume.