* Posts by Aitor 1

1564 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009

SCOLD WAR: Kaspersky drags Uncle Sam into court to battle AV ban

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Re: Best of luck with that

My guess is that the us government will either win or drag to case so it wins by default... just my 2 cents.

Ugh, stupid power supplies hogging server density, who needs 'em?

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Re: Commodity ness is the problem

I agree, and then simple and efficient step down converters would suffice.

I have seen in some old datacentres that arrangement, I just dont remeber the machines that used that.

Also old Sun systems used 48v power supplies, etc.

There is an interesting article on step down converters here:

http://www.electronicdesign.com/power/aee-boosts-efficiency-lower-output-voltage-step-down-converters

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Doubts

I had my doubts, but the math seems legit.. it is a good idea and that number sold also means that they are easy to manage in big numbers.

Long live to Supermicro then, they seem to be able to beat ODMs.

Brit film board proposed as overlord of online pr0nz age checks

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Re: One to watch

But being anon would break the whole idea, this is, to know who is watching what.

Auto auto fleets to dodge British potholes in future

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Why?

What is the purpose of this?

As far as I understand the problem, there is not enough people/resources to fix the potholes, and finding potholes is not the main problem.

Seagate: Happy Xmas, staff – thanks for everyth... um, you 500. Can we have a word?

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Re: This is going to continue.

I would say there is plenty of life in HDD companies, as the memory is going up (before it busts, as usual), and HDDs are way cheaper for achiving.

My guess is that the HDDs will continue to gently go out of fashion tape style.. for example new 320TB LTO tapes are already working in the labs, for example.

'DJI Mavic' drone seen menacing London City airliner after takeoff

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Re: That is dangerous.

So 33m difference while flying probably at 250knots and going up at 200fpm at least, probably much more.

It is very difficult to judge that distance in my opinion. And the drone described is less than a kilo.. but the drone described CAN pull that.. it does a theoretical 984fpm, so as others have pointed out, three minutes to go up, about five to go down.. and 16 more to fly at most.

I agree in the principle of registered drones, so the idiots amongst us dont do these things, but please dont panic... the damage to the plane would be minimal, and birds continue to be a way greater risk.

IBM to expunge over 500 people in latest redundo round

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Re: The only way is down.

My guess is that there are still plenty of managers....

Drone collisions with airliners may not be fatal, US study suggests

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Re: Stating the obvious, much?

While I agree with you on principle, I don't think that being forbidden to fly near airports we are going to see flocks of drones, so at worst a single engine would be affected.

Now, if the drone is big enough to hit both engines at the same time, I would call that a full size aircraft.

UK government bans all Russian anti-virus software from Secret-rated systems

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Re: I guess NOFORN doesn't apply anymore?

A nick is not 100% reliable.

As you say, profiles get built, and at any point they might be able to link it with you, even after deleting the account. I still post most things in my name, even those that some ppl might find liebellous.

As for the whole anti-virus thing, I can only guess that it is mostly more embargo under pretenses.

I do think that having sw that always runs in your computer and is reading your files in computers that have secret data is a BAD idea, unless it is you who controls said software. So why run US based SW when it is as likely to spy on you as russian SW?

Google to crack down on apps that snoop

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Use a Xiaomi phone

One alternative is to use a Xiaomi phone with Gapps.

Now, only Xiaomi and google will collect your information, and that means plenty of battery saved.

Of course, your information is not safe, as these two companies still spy on you, but at least you can prevent the rest from spying quite a bit.

Crown Prosecution Service is coming for crooks' cryptocurrency

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Not in Spain

In Spain and many other countries, having stolen goods is illegal IF you know they are stolen or have/should have reasonable grounds to suspect that.

BUT if you adquire it in good faith and with an onerous transaction, the authorities cannot confiscate it in those grounds.

As far as I know, the same happens in the US, one of the reasons that they can buy stolen art at auctions and not return it.

Used iPhone Safari in 2011-12? You might qualify for Google bucks

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Re: Why bother ?

But the loss is clear.

Now you will receive a call from "London" that tells you that you had and accident, were missold PPI or had an Iphone.. so more junk calls.

The End of Abandondroid? Treble might rescue Google from OTA Hell

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Support

Charge money for support, say 5£ per major Android, and most people with a bit of sense would pay.

What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies?

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Using fuel

We can create fuel from plants etc. It is not the most economical way of using the energy from the sun, but can be done.

It will mean more expensive plane tickets, but no that more expensive.

For other uses, like trains, it will be more rational to use electricity. Mind you, it is more energy efficient (and cheaper) to use a diesel locomotive than an electric one, but the diesel one is dirtier.

As for changing batteries as other people are stating.... it makes no sense today.

The reason for it not making sense is battery density.

With todays technology, the best available batteries for vehicles are Lithium Iron Phosphate, and those have a slightly initial energy density than regular Lithium Ion, but way longer calendar and cycle life. Anyway both have way lower energy density per volume than gasoline or diesel.

This means you have to use more volume.. so the batteries are distributed over the chassis.

This smart way of distributing batteries is what makes cars like the Tesla have such nice ranges.

If you put them on single/dual modules, you end up with a car like an electgric vw golf. Forget about 500miles range, say hello to 150 mile range. Yes, you can change these pretty quickly should you design a standard system for doing so, but people would rather have 500mile range and wait 30 minutes at the charging station.

As for using Hidrogen.. well, hidrogen is not a fuel source but a vector, and either you burn it or use it inside a fuel cell. Burning it is not as efficient energy wise, but the fuel cell is extremely expensive.

On top of that, hidrogen is quite tricky to work with, and very expensive to produce. As the cheapest way of producing it is using natural gas, you might as well just burn said gas....

Finally people complain about the source of all that electricity. And well, we can have more eolic + hidraulic + megahidraulic storage: pumping in reverse, and also mega batteries to soothen the loads. Not ideal, but workable.

IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

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Margin and profit

It doesnt matter that much how many boxes you sell.

The important thing is how much money you make, and how much your competitors make.

As a brilliant example, look at apple: they take most of the profit!

IBM is doing the same: less sales, same or more profit.

The problem with this is, of course, that at some point you are irrelevant and your sales dont drop, they plummet.

Tesla reveals a less-long-legged truck, but a bigger reservation price

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Yep

Diesels are heavy mantenance engines.

Plus they consume not only diesel, but also adblue, need oild changes, filter changes, the turbos need replacing at least once, inyectors/high pressure pumps can go bad and a myriad of sensors get used up, en a lot of EGR valves. You also have to change bearings at certain mileage, and that is expensive.

On top of all that, the vibrations are not good for the rest of the engine components.

So it might be excellent TCO.. or maybe they break as much as tesla cars, and that is unacceptable for a semi.

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Re: Electricity vs Petrol/Diesel prices

Efficiency?

You car is what, 60% efficient?

Thou shalt use our drone app, UK.gov to tell quadcopter pilots

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Re: Could they perhaps...

The problem is

It will be required, but

A) Wont be ready to buy before it is mandatory

and or

B) will be overweight ue batteries like mad and or cost a fortune.

Also, this does prevent the law respecting ppl from using it, but not the not law abiding ones.

How do they plan to enforce this?

Munich council finds €49.3m for Windows 10 embrace

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Re: It's the software, not the OS!

+1

Browser based beats anything.

And you can use quite obsolete computers, on many many platforms.

But for that you need to redo everything, and many companies do not want to do that.

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Re: It's the software, not the OS!

The problem I see is that they dont seem to want to solve a problem, but to buy something.

IF 15 years was not time enough to make the software they needed, then they are doing the right thing switching to Windows, and given loads of money to accenture. After all, they don´t seem good at managing in general, so it is better to outsource decision making.

Increased level of rejections

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Re: Altor

Well, I calmed down, I was going to delete the account, but ok, I guess I will stick arround.

One I agree, the fraud.. while I do think what I said, I agree it is wrong to post it like that, as otherwise it could be considered libel...

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Re: Increased level of rejections

I do take it personally, as my reasons for going into the website are that, personal.

I have been in the reg since it was founded (although I lost the details for my first account) by Mike, and

I must say I am just fed up.

I had one comment rejected fairly, but today I had one that makes no sense.

The quality of the articles has gently declined, and it is the community that really makes me come back, including the authors, etc.

Time to move on,as if I want pollitically correct content there are better sources.

Best of lucks and see you elsewhere.

Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020

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Re: "When it's political, technology cannot do anything."

"800 or so total programs "

I dont think they are living in 2017.

While I do understand that there are quite a few software packages that need to be run locally (architectural ones, for example) I just dont understand how they can end up with 800 programs.

Maybe they should reign in their users, and instead of everyone running their own little IT kingdom

they should just focus on the job they have to do. I would love to see that

list and the justification.

Also, most local authorities I have been in contact with have such varied

needs because they are proving services outside their own responsability while

at the same time not providing correct services for the ones they should be

providing because of lack of funding.

Then again I might be wrong but when a large organization has such a varied sw list, something is wrong in the org itself... and workers are doing what they want, not what they should be doing.

Intel's super-secret Management Engine firmware now glimpsed, fingered via USB

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Hacking the processor

The horrible thing here is that you essentially hack the processor.. not the OS. So no defense is possible as of now.

they should have never included this in the processor.. it is horrible.

Stop worrying and let the machines take our jobs – report

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Re: Umm?

Cmon, be a bit more positive! on the whole, we are living in a better world every year!!

Qualcomm is shipping next chip it'll perhaps get sued for: ARM server processor Centriq 2400

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Ringbus

So it is a ringbus chip.. not for heavy loads but rather plenty of light loads....

Transparent algorithms? Here's why that's a bad idea, Google tells MPs

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Black box

"Many technologies in society operate as 'black boxes' to the user – microwaves, automobiles, and lights – and are largely trusted and relied upon without the need for the intricacies of these devices to be understood by the user."

So they are blatantly lying here.

Most of the users are unaware of how these work, true, but they know that many people understand how they work, and the knoledge is there for them to get them should they want to.

It is the same fundamental difference between google's unpublished algorithms and opensource.

Most people are going to use opensource programs and never bother to go into the insides.. unless they want or need to.

If the algorithm isnt publish you have a reasonable cause for suspicion, as these algorithms cannot be checked by the public.

So basically they made the wrong example.

A better one would be: "people are served by secret services as the MI6 and the CIA, and they have placed their trust in these fine institutions". But because they are seemingly unaccountable and black boxes, people have no trust in them!

Subsidy-guzzling Tesla's Model 3 volumes a huge problem – Wall St man

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Re: No change

While it is politicians distorting the market (and I agree with it being contrary to capitalism) the justification for this is being a compensation for the unaccounted for external costs.

Every time I start an ICE I create external costs for everyone, that are way way worse than those that come from an electric car.

39 episodes of 'CSI' used to build AI's natural language model

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Re: "I'll create a GUI interface...

I was just checking that this was in the comments, well done.

Punctual as ever, Equifax starts snail-mailing affected Brits about mega-breach

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Re: Time to

Err, no, prison.

Hey, you know why it's called the iPhone X? When you see Apple's repair bill, your response will be X-rated

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Re: OLEDs

I doubt the oled costs more than 120$, so at this price it is ridiculous.

UK.gov not quite done with e-cigs, announces launch of new inquiry

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Re: Smokers are net contributors to the welfare state

Many die out of cancer, and that costs up to hundreds of thousands of pounds. So not thar clear that they are on the positive.

Google India must pay back-taxes on $225m after cheekily funneling cash through Ireland

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Re: Double Dutch - Irish Twist

You must be joking. This kind of evil scam is what Trump wants to PROTECT.

Has he done anything about it? no? as I expected.

Forget One Windows, Microsoft says it's time to modernize your apps

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Re: Modernise apps?

Resizing, etc on forms was a big thing in 1996. That was solved a long time ago.

I dont need crap "non forms slick resizing, etc". If I wanted that, I would use one of the myriad js frameworks (and that is what I do), make web apps with a backend and charge by subscription or because that is the portal to our company services.

If we use .NET it is because it runs native on windows, if they break that, why bother? they seem keen on destroying their bread and butter in order to sell more azure.

Watership downtime: BadRabbit encrypts Russian media, Ukraine transport hub PCs

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Re: Ransom demands in BitCoin again

civil forfeiture is a mockery of justice.

IETF mulls adding geoblock info to 'Bradbury's code'

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Cant

As most connections SHOULD be https you can't unless you have forged certificates.

Of course most cert authorities WILL provide fake certs, but that is another problem.

AWS will be the last big cloud to add Skylake as Azure turns 'em on

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Re: >Microsoft has announced its first Azure instances running Intel's Skylake silicon

yep, they should be using vcores etc, and tne users sbould care about service, not iron.

Ubuntu 17.10: We're coming GNOME! Plenty that's Artful in Aardvark, with a few Wayland wails

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Re: Gun, meet foot.

I contribute to Mint with money.. not coding for the project.. and the cinnamon project is just dire, worse than unity.

It just doesnt work right at high resolutions and multimonitor. Memory leaks + bizarre problems.. and nvidia doesnt help much with the drivers, I can choose the crippling problems I prefer...

Apple Cook's half-baked defense of the Mac Mini: This kit ain't a leftover

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Shrinking market

You want to invest in desktops and workstations for the same reason the supermarket sells milk: so the customers only go to their shops.

Let's dig into how open source could KO the Silicon Valley chat silos

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Re: Why people herd themselves towards closed ecosystems

well, yeah but I want ease of use.. and slack is SO much better than IMAP, etc..

Linux kernel community tries to castrate GPL copyright troll

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Re: @Lee

You might not know it, but german law forbids you to renounce certain rights in your IP.

My guess (and this is a guess) is that yes, he did sign something like that, yet he is still entitled to the IP.

IBM: We're now a, what's not losing money? Ah, a cognitive cloud champ!

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Re: Power systems

There is little money to be gained with Power.

It makes perfect sense to not bet the company on hardware, as the competition is ahead, is investing a lot of money, and the prospect is razor thin margins.. the future looks more like SW defined than HW, and has been for the las 17 years at last.

The problem for IBM is that they failed to sell cloud (rent computers) at a decent price.

Europol cops lean on phone networks, ISPs to dump CGNAT walls that 'hide' cyber-crooks

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Fishing

So their complain is that they cant go fishing, and need a court order..

On top of that their current SW to create thought police databases needs to be improved..

Future of Misco UK hangs in the balance – sources

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Pricing

I dont understand how could they stay in business. I had a shop more than 20 years ago and I found them to be extremely expensive... yet NOW they are going bust?

Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada

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No drone

So there is no proof it was a drone except what the pilot said and we know they have been wrong before.

I would say "probable drone", but taking action on this seems ridiculous unless proven to be a drone.

Supreme Court to rule on whether US has right to data stored overseas

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Re: @d3vy ... WTF?

If you are in Ireland, the irish law should prevail, anything else is ridiculous.

Same way the other way arround.

The only thing to consider is that there are agreements to respect each others individuals and companies rights, but no obligations that would trump on local law.

WPA2 security in trouble as KRACK Belgian boffins tease key reinstallation bug

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Re: Should you really care.

I am actually concerned about going to prison when my neighbour decides to do something illegal and I am the one who is the "owner" of the line.

WPA2 KRACK attack smacks Wi-Fi security: Fundamental crypto crapto

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Re: Explanation Please?

This is also fundamentally broken and a problem for IoT and low power devices.

You will be forced to have a database of NONCEs associated to SSIDs, so you need permanent storage and a lookup table.

Microcontrollers with wifi capabilities are going to be seriously affected.

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Re: Explanation Please?

If following the standard it should be automatic, as your client device trsusts a forged message, that is the fundamental problem.. from there, you are just screwed.

It is essentially a MIM attack, and it can potentially be used to get you user/password to several services.