Posts by Number6 2293 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Probably not suited to catching squirrels, but for rats and mice, I have three of the best extermination devices Mother Nature can provide. They do have a few downsides, such as clawing the furniture and walking across (or sitting on) my keyboard as I type, but they're cute and that more than makes up for these problems. Not forgetting they're the reason we have such a good internet now (well, them and porn).
and 31-days to roll back to their old operating system.
Now if that would also restore the lost data then it might be a viable option.
I was properly sceptical about the process, I let it update a Win7 VM to Win10 just to see what it was like. I was ready to throw the whole thing out in under an hour. I still have the Win10 VM, but it only gets turned on occasionally to update it and see what other bad stuff MS has introduced.
I got caught by that on a machine recently. It wasn't mine, it was a 'generic lab PC' (running Win7) and obviously no one had turned off the feature (which I always did on 'my' machines) because I came in one morning and it had rebooted, proudly telling me that it had done so to install updates, totally trashing what I had it doing overnight.
I seem to have flummoxed my Win10 machine. It keeps telling me it's going to reboot to complete an update once I'm outside my safe 12-hour lockout window. Except I hibernate it while within that window and don't wake it up until the following day when I'm safely back within that window. It's managed a whole week being frustrated so far.
many do, at least in the SF Bay area, one place cricket is actually played.
Yes, I've seen cricket in progress on the local school playing field at weekends. I think most, if not all, of those playing are of Indian (or near neighbour) descent, which might explain it. There are quite a few people from the sub-continent in the Bay Area so they have enough interest to make teams. Probably less so in Kentucky.
It's a good response that highlights the approach nicely, but he'd fail if there was a legal challenge because he's only given them a week to respond. I suspect a court would consider that unreasonable, whereas a few months would probably be acceptable if there was also proof of adequate attempts to contact everyone. I don't know how long the OpenSSL team have given people to respond, or what attempts have been made, but I'm guessing longer than that. Rewriting stuff is a safer option, of course, if your code isn't in there then you can't complain about the licence.
I did wonder if the poor performance of the new LinkedIn website was due to an MS/Linux issue,but I think I've seen enough people complain about how dire it is that either there's a bug in the browser recognition code that screws everyone equally or it really is just awful.
That would make an interesting court case trying it with wiretapping laws. It comes back to what I mentioned below - if you've consented to it then they can do it. They also have to get your explicit consent and give you the option to change your mind easily without other penalty (such as "if you don't consent you can't have service")
If it's truly for the benefit of the American People, then they should have replaced it with an opt-in scheme, so we have to explicitly allow all these people to to share our data. Of course, this would take us back to something like the old telephone slamming days, where all sorts of small print would give that consent without us spotting it.
One odd thing is that NYO is owned by the family trust of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, also an advisor to the president. You'd have thought that may have put off NYO from running anti-Trump news, but OTOH perhaps the title has proper independence (which is a good thing). It did publicly back Donald as the Republican candidate, though.
The conspiracy theorist would expect the NYO in the next day or two to publish something along the lines of how all this fake news is ruining the good name of the guy in the White House and how they'd been taken in (alternatively, either made it up themselves or didn't spend five minutes to research it the way the comments section here has done). It is quite possible that someone did come up with the C&D letter in the correct format, which was presented to the NYO in support of an otherwise unverified claim.
If a few application vendors would just port their stuff to Linux and make it available at comparable cost to their Windows versions then I could ditch Windows completely. I reckon I wouldn't be the only one who'd do that either. At the moment I compromise by using VMs but it would be nice to be able to dispense with those on the desktop machine.
It's not always possible to work remotely either - some jobs require you to be in the same place as a large or expensive (or both) piece of equipment at least some days of the week. If you're doing stuff that can be done solely on computers then OK, it's going to work. If you need to connect an oscilloscope probe to a PCB or machine a few bits of metal and add them to the prototype then it gets harder.
I suspect a court would hold it in the same regard as shouting "fire!" in a crowded cinema and claiming that was free speech too.
Of course, the First Amendment just stops the government from prosecuting you for saying it. I don't believe it protects you from demonstrably criminal consequences thereof, in the same way that the Second Amendment allows gun possession but using that gun to maliciously kill or injure someone is not protected.
It wouldn't give me any information because I have javascript disabled by default. I enabled it for the site out of curiosity and so now it knowns my VPN endpoint address and the IP address assigned by the VPN too. Interestingly they claim to be able to get the IP addresses of all interfaces but if they have, they didn't tell me about it. Definitely doesn't tell me my MAC address though, but that could be because a VPN link doesn't really have one.
First of all, what's the definition of fake news? For some it's anything critical of Trump, for others it's anything Trump claims as fact. Who gets to decide? Taking down fake news should also oblige the German state to prosecute those who posted it in the first place, otherwise they'll just do it again. Then you run into the problem that if someone in the US posts it, the US First Amendment gives them the right to do that, so an attempt by Germany to prosecute won't get very far. Then you'll get Iran trying to gte everyone to take down pictures of inappropriately-clad women and so on...
I think I'd just stick a geolocation block on German IP addresses and solve the problem that way - if it isn't accessible in the country then they can't complain about it. I bet their citizens would complain about loss of access though.
Yes, it has some annoying quirks with sound like that. My favourite (given that it's my son's PC affected and not mine) is where his favoured USB audio device sometimes presents itself as stereo speakers, sometimes as mono microphone and sometimes as both. I've told him to bring up the config page and repeatedly unplug and plug it back in until it does what he wants. I suspect there's a weak point in the Linux USB stack for dealing with combo devices.
My solution is that I don't use OneDrive so disabling notifications from it is not a problem for me. I never registered an account so it can't even guess where to upload stuff. Not that I wouldn't put it past them to sync stuff to the cloud with a unique ID that can later be assigned if I ever did register.
While I have a wired system that lives behind a firewall (which actively blocks the camera IPs from the internet), I still positioned the cameras with some thought to what someone else might see if they did manage to hack in. So you get a set of fairly dull views of the outside of the house and cars passing in the street.
I could probably VPN in to get access, but I've never bothered to try.
Roll on the end of Flash. Perhaps the BBC will finally stop using it too. I think that's the only thing I have authorised to use it now, anyone else: too bad.
Mind you, perhaps they'll get IPv6 working too. (Although they're not the only laggards here, trying not to look at the vulture in the room.)
I find that as I get older, my eyesight isn't good enough to read small print on a watch so it's of limited use to me. If I have to faff around getting my reading glasses out then I might as well just pull out my phone too.
I do have an early model Pebble watch but it's been sat quietly on the shelf for the last year while my wrist develops a more even suntan.
Try watching Dr Who on BBC America and compare the experience to watching it on the BBC in the UK. The flow of the story is completely disrupted by ad breaks every few minutes, way more than you'll find on ITV and other UK commercial channels. A typical Dr Who is 45-50 minutes long, that's stretched to fill an hour slot on US TV, with the filler material consisting of adverts.
I'd be willing to pay to receive access to the BBC programming in the US to avoid all those adverts, but I guess that would cut into their US revenue stream as viewers (and then advertisers) deserted their US channels in droves. I don't watch much TV - Dr Who and occasionally a film if I want to play at couch potato, and that's it for a year.
However, I did spend several years in the UK without a TV (and didn't miss it) and was most unimpressed by the behaviour of the TV licence goons. No end of threatening letters that implied in large fonts that I was a criminal who would be prosecuted, with the "if you don't have a TV you don't need a licence" in very small print at the bottom. One letter looked pretty much like a final demand, in red and suggesting I pay within seven days or else. So I waited the seven days in an attempt to discover what the 'or else' was and sadly nothing happened. Fortunately for them they never sent an inspector round when I was at home - unsurprisingly I was never at home when they did knock on the door so only knew of their presence by the note pushed through the letterbox. I never, ever responded to any of their letters apart from the first one addressed to the previous occupants, which I returned as "moved away, return to sender", much as I wanted to tell them where to shove said bits of paper and I think that annoys them even more than someone contacting them to say "no TV here".
I mean sure, this guy has admitted intent - but in the real world people make mistakes - how does a 3rd party tell the difference between a mistake and malicious intent sans a confession?
Trump has expressed support for waterboarding.
When they manage to serve ads as plain (non-flashy) images or text, and not rely on client-side scripts from third party sites then I might consider removing my ad blocker. None of these sites would be prepared to indemnify me against loss or damage due to malware from an ad served by their site, so I take my own precautions.
Why can't they use server-side code to serve up the ads? Or do they want to rotate them while an otherwise-static page is displayed?
They may also demand you to hand over your private ssh key's passphrase,
I don't ever keep passphrases or passwords on laptops, the only exceptions being what I need to access my VPN server and even then, that is of limited use because it's an endpoint in the cloud. Chances are they know about it anyway, given that the IP address resolves to a hostname that can be traced back to me. No useful files are available, it's purely to keep me safer when connected via unknown WiFi.
While I'd tell HR what my Facebook account is (given that they could find it themselves if they were half-way competent), I wouldn't give them a password or other access to it so they'd be stuck with the public posts. If they insist on more access then clearly it's not the sort of place I'd want to work and I'd tell them that as I got up to walk out.
Unless the congressman is smart enough to specify US English, you could probably convince a judge that 'English' is by default what's found in the UK with the extra Us and a deficit of Z.
You'd need more than one DHS person at each embassy - there is already a visa interview for each applicant, so having to add an extra person would double the staff required to handle that part of visas. I guess they might have less background paperwork than the regular staff.
I look forward to all other countries requiring US visitors to disclose their social media passwords - that might have more effect than complaining - it was funny to hear US citizens complaining when Brazil decided it was going to fingerprint them on entry.
If we just kicked the Offshore Outsourcing companies out of the H-1b syste, we would have more than enough visas. Silicon Valley barely uses 1/3 of the available visas.
Yes, when you get a small company that may have a genuine need to bring in a specific person, they can't do it because all the visas are taken. Bumping up the fee per visa and possibly restricting the number of visas per company (or adding surcharges as the number increases) might help a bit, although I guess you'd have a holding company with a dozen smaller companies under it, each with a smaller number of visas. Increasing the minimum wage threshold would help, but then they'd be expected to work 100 hours instead of only 70 to make up for that.
The L-1 really is the serf visa. An H-1B can normally be transferred, for some value of 'yours' it belongs to you once granted. An L-1B only authorises you to work for the specific company that acquired the visa, and if you lose the job then you're expected to leave the country pretty shortly afterwards.
On the other hand, the L-1B can be really valuable if used correctly - it allows a short-term stint in the US with relatively little paperwork, and provided both the employer and employee agree the terms of reference, it can be fun.
I spent nine months working in the US for my company about eight years back, it was quite enjoyable. Now I'm here permanently with a blue passport and all.
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