Posts by Eddy Ito

Re: Credit monitoring?

No doubt the problem is that all the notifications were sent to the identity thieves.

Re: To AC "7 years": A well thought out answer

This one request massively lowers the bar for the flood that follows.

The flood is already here

"Uh oh, the Linux fans are touchy today."

They're always bloody touchy...

All the fan boys are always touchy. In this instance it's the Windows variant that gets to hold the stick and thrash about like a six year old at a piñata party instead of getting on with work, plus ça change.

Re: Study?

It also doesn't mention the gender of the buyers. While I don't know if it translates to online behavior, I do know lots of gents, like me, who don't so much as shop as buy stuff where our wives/girlfriends love to shop.

My wife has her price trackers set up for several merchants and will wait until the deal she desires appears while I check the usual suspects, typically three but sometimes four online shops, and buy the cheapest at that very moment. When I go to the supermarket it takes me only a few minutes and I hit one store but when my wife does the shopping it's an adventure that lasts the better part of a day.

Maybe it's a chauvinist Neanderthal hunter/gatherer thing. "Look! There it is, kill it now!" vs. "These berries aren't ripe yet; there are probably better ones over the hill on the sunny side."

Hmm, you've got the Tenth Amendment but they've got the commerce clause. Historically we know which side the Supremes tend to favor but let's take it a step further, we typically don't know if any given message will cross state lines but we do know that most computers will have crossed state lines. Consider a computer that was made in Taiwan, imported through California shipped to an online sales company in Kentucky and ultimately used in Nebraska to tally medical billing data for clients around the country. Do you want some yeehaa in Nebraska to mandate that your medical and financial information be kept and transmitted in clear text? Hell, I don't want the Feds to be able to do that.

I'll agree that the Tenth Amendment should take precedence on the issue but only if we get to use the part of it that says the powers are reserved to the people.

Re: IT

IT angle? Isn't that about 37 1/2 degrees? Celsius of course.

Seriously, these poor folk are having terrible storage issues on their mesh network now that they've switched to cellulose fiber. I mean the back end of the farm just looks a horrible mess of tangled fibers. It could take days to get it all sorted. To top it all this is the very definition of IoT*

_{* Infestation of Tumbleweeds}

Re: AC There is a secondary problem here..

Well it seems Sen. Feinstein has finally joined Trump and company. Not that anyone here is surprised.

Re: Well played Apple

I don't understand. The FBI is essentially following his orders. I don't see how he could compel Apple any more than the judge who issued the order.

@LucreLout

I was not making any comment about what has transpired but responding to the OP's statement; which was

It's appalling that law enforcement types are having to get a court order to compel Apple to do this.

Re: Non sequitur of the week.

If mutations happen in the DNA of one of my skin cells however (and I hope I'm considered to be a bit more complex than a bacterium), the result will almost certainly be cell death or cancer.

Yes but we aren't talking about changing the DNA of a living, formed and already specialized cell. It isn't like you can take a skin cell and turn it into a brain cell by simply changing the DNA. This would be at a level where it's a tweak to the original building instructions for an entire organism. If it produces something really bad the organism isn't viable and is never born. If it's so slight it produces something as minor as better blood clotting or addiction it isn't clear that either is necessarily bad.

Frankly I find the statement "... but these days it's an issue with raising the possibility of blot clots and strokes" to be laughable without any evidence to back it up. For all we know it stemmed from a resistance to haemophilia in less genetically diverse populations. I also don't see any genetic resistance to strokes, clots or heart attacks based on the lack of Neanderthal DNA, or Denisovan for that matter, in any given population but rather it seems to be one dominated by diet and activity.

Blowing against your own sail does actually work if it's done right. The comic interpretation is to blow directly into the sail in an attempt to derive force from drag alone which obviously doesn't work. What does work is if the sail is angled and treated like an airfoil which provides force, effectively lift, in a direction largely orthogonal to the prevailing wind. Of course some of the wind has to actually fill the sail so it forms an airfoil but the principle is the same. It actually works a treat on wingsails of the type used in the America's Cup.

Sasktel may also have one thing working in their favor and that's that it's easier to feed high data rates to a few people than it is to feed high data rates to many. With 54% LTE coverage it seems pretty clear that not everyone is getting LTE speeds but the few that do are getting blistering speeds. I'd also wager they don't have their calls dropped as often as more population dense areas do.

Re: Translation lost across the pond

@AC Perhaps if the government wasn't bending the rules so frequently then lying to cover it up then it wouldn't breed so many conspiracies. Remember all those who said that the NSA were spying on everyone was only touted by so called conspiracy theorists?

I mean it's not like the U.S. Public Health Service ever intentionally infected people with syphilis for forty years. Oh wait. Well at least they didn't oversee gun running walking operations into Mexico or sell arms to Iran to fund Nicaraguan rebels.

Try to remember that most of the things we now call scandals were once dismissed as conspiracy theories.

Re: I note that America...

Oddly for wealthy non-USian individuals the opposite is true and they are sending their money to the US.

Re: I would gladly welcome our new link masters

Soooo, Google?

Re: The more, the merrier?

It's more than just pgp on windows, linux or mac since most folks have multiple devices which include phones and tablets where they expect to get things like email. Each of these need to be sync'd so it's more than just a question of how easy it is to install, configure and use on a device it has to work across devices which is going to be the ocean that needs to be crossed for the average user.

Re: Looks like a great idea...

So you're saying we need something that controls the user agent string? I think there's something for that.

Re: LOHAN

I understand the weather in Ulaanbaatar is lovely in May.

Re: Merkins say the darndest things

Actually we'd call this a tractor. It isn't a tractor trailer without the trailer bit. Then again I know a few folks who drive them who refer to it as a horse.

Re: So close...

It's partial because the zero applies only to evaporative emissions. The tailpipe emissions are equal to SULEV standards. Technically it's guaranteed for 15 years or 150k miles not the life of the car but there aren't many of us driving cars with 200k+ miles on the clock.

Edit: Here's a couple of links.

http://www.driveclean.ca.gov/Do_Your_Research/Glossary_of_Terms.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_zero-emissions_vehicle

Re: Its the camera, stupid.

I'd expect exactly the same reaction from my neighbor if I attached a camera to a long pole and used that to look at his yard. (Maybe not exactly the same reaction -- not all Americans shoot stuff on sight.)(Also, not all of them think that everyone's a perv after their kids.) You have to use a bit of common sense when you're flying these things.

Given my neighbor's size and temperament it's very likely that such a pole would wind up rather uncomfortably lodged in the lower anatomy or the original pole holder, camera and all. Given that, the drone pilot should consider himself lucky.

Re: One Way to Congress Critters to Act

It was the right thing to do then - and it is the right thing to do now.

You say that now but you know as well as I do that the NSA wasn't just spying on a few Rs sleeping with Netanyahu, they spied on everybody. They spied on Rs, Ds and everyone in between. It's only a matter of time before the shit hits the fan.

I might even feel bad for the guy they've set up to take the fall. Any guesses on who that might be?

Re: SSD?

My question is how long does glue outgassing continue? Sure, it does a lot at the beginning when it's applied but after a certain amount of time it's got to be pretty well depleted. Then there are other questions like, can you accelerate the process by baking it for a day/week/month in much the same fashion as paint? Somehow I think these questions will get answered pretty quickly as the criminal element usually has the means and certainly has the desire to mitigate the training of such canines.

Don't forget the service technician who is going to be replacing bad bearings, repairing broken wires or fixing leaking hydraulic fittings.