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It's not just door bells, I see this sort of problem all the time, users install something incorrectly, often without reading the instructions, and then blame the problem on the supplier. And the product designers make everything easy to build and install without ever considering that people screw up occasionally because they failed to think about what they were doing. This is just normal these days - everything is "fixed" by releasing an update.
You got to go back in time, when I was a kid in the 50's Alan Turing was considered to be a criminal in Britain because he was gay. So nobody back then would have cared about his history being "stolen" - most likely if the items had not been removed then, in those days, they would all have just been thrown away and we would not have them any longer.
So we think that taking Turing's property was a crime, but keeping the Elgin Marbles is not? Effectively both "crimes" have resulted in the preservation of history.
One more reason to dump processors: Today's kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts... fixed it for you. We design processors and all systems these days to make them fast and easy to use. Security? Yea, we've heard of it. Is there anything out there that can't be hacked today? Do you really believe that you can build something that has Internet access and is perfectly safe?
Hacking is normal (and fun too).
I'm not going to downvote you but as a programmer or software application management boss you have to understand the environment that you are working in ... well, that's the way it used to be but the world has changed. These days it's not a pity that they didn't think it that important earlier because the standard is to get the app written and released - and "fix" the bugs with an update later.
"Only one sensor? No problem, I'll create a virtual one ...."
"If it is, indeed, in the closer range to Earth, scientists reckon the total X-ray energy generated during its outburst is equivalent to the same amount of energy produced by the Sun over a month."
Remember that e=mc2 ... so what happened, was it an internal event or did something circle and then strike the magnetar? Thanks El Reg for the story, it's making me think about incredible events out there in the universe! What would happen if a black hole approached a magnetar ... which one would survive or would we get something completely different? Sure, there's no way to actually know but it's fascinating to think about.
Back in the days, I thought that cable TV was selling all my watching habits so I cancelled my cable subscription and spent the subscription money on DVD's instead - I now have about 2,000 and the fun thing is that some of them are now worth about 20 times what I originally paid for them - LOL.
"those Iranians and Pakistanis at it again'
LOL, you think that just because the bitcoin request comes via an IP address in those countries that they did it? Maybe ... but it's quite easy to hack a system in one country and redirect your attack to another so unless you can walk back through every set of system logs you have very little chance of knowing where the attacks actually originated.
CEO Philip Jansen needs to keep working at the cost cutting program to protect his salary.
Our government policy is that strikes 'only cause damage' - David Cameron ... would Jansen go on strike if they abolished the cost cutting program or would he just move to a new CEO position?
If he had emailed the information to his Gmail account then everything would have been revealed ... and he would now be getting lot's of "recommendations" from google for November 5th fireworks.
But seriously - we have a conviction for doing something that would be a crime if he has Putins email address on his phone, but would sound more like needing some mental health care if he sent the information to Mother Jones and George Monbiot instead; that's hardly a crime, just stupidity - and stupidity is normal in government these days. Essentially he's been convicted of a crime that nobody is allowed to know the details about - that's injustice in action.
I have always seen Ed Snowden as Tech Saint Snowden - his "crime" was telling everyone that the US was breaking its own laws, whereupon the US tried to tie him to a post and shot arrows at him.
Just think what the world would look like if Snowden had just hidden everything, or if Peter had been paid by Pontius Pilate to act like the US today.
I'm confident that malware deliveries come from many different sources and that many deliveries are controlled by algorithms - I see big increases in infection attempts in Louisiana every time there's a hurricane or tropical storm in the area and the attempts started increasing significantly when the State started telling people to work from home.
This is not a coincidence - we're under attack, but the government hasn't noticed - our mail server gets a login attempt every 20 seconds 24/7 these days.
The issue is that the US exported all its tech talent to China starting about 20 years ago, I have friends who were sent to China to train their Chinese "colleagues" to design and build the technology in China, all of them were "retired" after a year or two and returned to the US, none work in the technology world these days. So Foxconn are going to have issues hiring high level technical talent in the US these days ... want to design a power supply? It's easy we'll use these connectors, they are only one ohm resistance, that's good.
But we're running twenty amps through the connector... (see icon, it's a joke).
This is a result of the corporate politics, moving everything to China made companies a lot of money, it's going to cost money to get US talent back to the levels of 30-40 years ago.
Remember the days before Google started deleting sites from the search database that didn't comply with their mobile friendly "standard"? Web sites in those days (and there are still a few out there) would contain pages and pages of text information about everything - nowadays all you see are pictures and a link that you have to register to download the stuff you used to read for free. The Google "mobile friendly" web site requirement has made them a hell of a lot of money.
OK, so they meet today's internet standards, if you use a phone (even if you don't have any apps on it) then you are being tracked. Meanwhile all of the five eyes countries are saying that all communications need to have backdoors - is this the problem, TikTok doesn't meet the backdoor standard yet?
This is a good illustration of the history of knowledge - go ask politicians or your average Joe and they will tell you that we know everything about the universe. But if you ask scientists they will tell you that there are some interesting observations and theories about the universe that suggest we have some good ideas about what might be out there.
400 years ago an apple (fruit not a phone) fell on Issac Newton's head and started a new view of the universe leading to a lot of new knowledge, so I think that we can assume that our current view might change in the next 400 years ... perhaps the kids in school will be laughing about a discovery back in 2024 when a scientist dropped his phone and suddenly thought that the light speed limit only applied to the visible universe?
Click OK to opt out of our tracking ...
OK ... click.
... one page down in the privacy agreement : If you have opted out of tracking then we will not track you.
... five pages down in the privacy agreement : By visiting our web site you agree that we can sell your data to a third party.
Move to Europe is the classical definition of Brexit, it was sold as UK exit from Europe but now we're seeing a lot of companies quietly moving abroad - this is achieving BR exit which has the potential to make a nice profit for the corporate owners, not the workers.
What will happen? Nobody knows, for us workers it's just Russian British Roulette.
Sure, it will never work but there is an easy fix - simply drop the national and international Internet access speed to 1200 baud. Remember those days? There was virtually zero hacking attacks, spam, QAnon, and pornography was just something that you bought at the newsagents.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this idea, but most people are OK with speed limits on the road so why not the Internet too? Or should we just raise the motorway speed limit to 700mph?
Our government is much better at saying things than doing things, even when they say the right things. When the UK joined the EU it did a huge amount of damage to the Australia and New Zealand farming economies, and the Tories pretty much ignored the effects of their decisions on all Commonwealth nations. But most of them have worked their way out of the messes we caused and now have decent economies again. They would have to be stupid to abandon their economies and jump into Johnson's toilet bowl.
So you click on "no don't track me but let me use the web site" and what does the web site do? It adds you to the secret tracking list with a note that you accepted their terms and then sells everything to the next site.
You would have to be a sucker to believe that websites actually follow guidelines, all everyone does these days is work around them.
While the YORP effect is a factor, I wold have thought that it's only a minor one because it would take so long to be effective and it's probably more likely that another clump of rocks could either strike, or pass close, to Bennu to sprinkle both sets of rocks around. But the chances are that, while a few might wander into the solar system, most of the rocks would simply party with other clumps.
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