Posts by david 12

Re: The Conservative Party - Where the cruelty is the point (TM)

The Tories have always relied upon a "them and us" narrative

Mathew 7:5

Luke 6:42

If a human did half the dumb things a waymo has done, would they still have a license ?

You don't need a licence for an electric scooter or single-wheel.

Re: Alternative

But there's no way in a gazillion years that I will let M$ force me to bin perfectly functional hardware.

(In other news, Broadcom has taken over VMware).

Microsoft was a player when the Personal Computer created a space between Green Screen computers and Games machines. They aren't interested in that niche market anymore, and have not been for some time.

Answers on a postcard, please.

washing your Muskmobile in direct sunlight voids the warranty?

If you wash in direct sunlight, you will leave soap and hard-water residues on the item you are washing.

Hence the instructions for my car (not a Tesla), and my car-wash detergent (also not from Tesla).

Water marks on my car or glassware aren't covered by warranty. How you got from that to "voids warranty" is an open question. Answers on a postcard, please.

Re: Remind me

holding half the accelerator pedal and you can see the body starting to rust.

It will be interesting to see how this story develops in the next couple of years, but right now I don't believe it.

Rust marks on the panels will be environment iron chips. Fingerprints will be oils, not etching. Cosmetic pitting may be a problem for people who live within a couple of blocks of the ocean. If you wash it in bright sunshine, you will see soap and hard-water residues.

I assume there is some welding somewhere, so that should be watched for serious pitting.

I don't have a stainless steel refrigerator because I can't afford one, not because they show fingermarks worse than plastic or enamel, even though that is true, it's not a problem for any of the kitchen or industrial equipment I've used.

People are looking for a mirror finish on their new trucks. Those people should pay for the optional clear-coat. It's unrealistic and unmaintainable for exposed ss. It doesn't mean that ss is a bad choice for trucks though: there used to be a third-party option to replace the chassis of your Land Rover MKII with ss so you could run it in salt water.

The SS has dictated the strange shape of the truck, it will be interesting to see what the long-term opinion is about that too.

Windows only had the Control key, so just mapped everything over. And hence the conflicts.

All the easy DOS hot keys like [CNTRL][F1] were lost when IBM re-arranged the keyboard.

The new keyboard layout matched green-screen data entry better, but at the cost of making other stuff more difficult.

Re: Redundancy

But note that Airports are often sited in wide-open empty places, with limited surrounding infrastructure. It's not like they are surrounded by adjacent connection cables from other companies.

Re: If your chosen editor cannot convert tabs to spaces automatically

(some old typewriter convention or something), and still doesn’t.

The VT105 (1978) was a CRT ("Glass") serial terminal from DEC, important in the development and use of unix from AT&T and VMS from DEC. It implemented fixed 8 space tabs.

I don't think the VT52 (1974) had tab support at all.

Earlier mechanical TTY's didn't implement Horizontal TABS, or implemented TABs with optional extra hardware that provided typewriter / card-punch "programable" tabs

Re: Huh? That's Our Courts Dragging Themselves Into the Mud.

they would have had to pass through several earlier screens

The judge has never had to do application support, (of course), or critical-system support, but still, it's sad to see in a judgement that kind of ignorance about the way people and systems operate.

Users click through screens. Systems which cannot allow clicking through screens are built to prevent that by adding 2nd party or 2nd factor input -- repeated data entry is an example. Systems which do allow click-through should be backed up by systems to handle the inevitable errors.

Re: Goodbye to "Personal" computers

Those well known English Council software failures are tied to particular operating systems? SAP requires a specific OS? Oracle?

The problems the Germans will have moving away from MS software are unlikely to be because of server applications, and, as I asserted, less likely now to be because of bespoke PC applications. Any departments using Microsoft Dynamics are going to switch, but that's the whole point of the change -- not an unintended consequence that is going to derail the project.

Re: On another note

Learned that lesson at university. Why I make mistake typing, correct it, and then fat-finger exactly the same mistake, it's time to give up on the late-night assignment typing and go to bed.

Later on, when I was working fully-flexible hours as a developer (typically a mixture of 10-hour and 4-hour days), any hours after 12 I might just as well go home: I wasn't achieving anything useful.

Evidently KPMG Accountants NV, (the KPMG parent firm with franchises in other countries) is a PCAOB registered firm.

I don't know why KPMG Accountants NV choose to register with the PCAOB: perhaps they wanted to do work with American companies, or with NV companies working in America. But it was their choice, and they agreed (or pretended to agree) to abide by PCAOB rules, including PCAOB fines.

It's like F1 (motor sports) or Champions Cup (rugby). If you want to be in the game, the game has fines for cheating.

Re: Ha! Rust Is The Answer To All Our C Programming Security Issues?

The fix is not using RUST to run second-language scripts. Using multi-layered scripting like that always presents horrible attack surfaces.

Programmers do it because "it's the unix way" and they are used to it, but honestly, that's a terrible excuse.

Re: As an outside observer...

AMD CPU's aren't magically immune to speculative execution attacks. It's all just different for different processors.

Re: Two problems

American building codes are partially written by people ...representing people that would have to spend more money if the codes were more strict.

Land is cheap in a lot of the USA. You can get some tar paper and sticks and put up your own home, and it still cost more than the land did.

And it's not just the cost of materials: doing it yourself, there is a premium on complexity and additional rules.

Also, out of random curiosity, for all those who don't believe in divorce for religious reasons... if you marry someone who is using an assumed identity, does it still count? You agreed to marry someone named "Woods" not "Keirans" so are the vows still considered valid?

In the USA, laws vary state-by-state.

Here in Aus, the legal rules are more inclusive than the religious rules: in the Christian churches, (RC, Anglican, Lutheran, Brethren, Baptist etc), if your intention is to be married, you are married, even if you broke canon law or sinned in the method. According to the government, you are married even if you didn't intend to get married, if you've done the married things: living together, maybe joint accounts, certainly children.

In no case would "using a false name" invalidate a marriage here. It might be evidence that no marriage was intended (which could affect your religious status), and would certainly raise the suspicion of Bigamy or Rape (which would affect your civil status), but by common law (which still has some relevant effect), you can use any name you choose for anything other than opening a bank account or getting a drivers license.

Re: It wont be technical issues which sink this

10 year hardware refresh cycles cause far less of an issue with Linux than MS.

But in practice, that hasn't been the case where I work. The actual debian/bsd/ubunto distributions have been on long-term kernels, but the update channels have gone off line in a couple of years, unlike the "out of support" windows versions.

I'm just saying. "Could have been done different": real life is messy.

Re: "for businesses with fewer than 10 employees."

python3 needs round brackets around the arguments to print,

"Real" python is written in c, and at the time of the change from 2 to 3, language design was dominated by the c coders. Part of the aim was to clean up Python by removing features that had been inspired by BASIC and Pascal, and were strange to the c programmers.

The narrowness irritated me at the time, because they knew nothing about mathematics, and were convinced that the c math library design decisions were the only possible way to correctly handle floating point numbers

Re: off peak power

You really don't want to add time to that process. Also what do you do with all that expensive hardware during the time it's not training?

Quote: "If they really wanted to"

The same is pretty much true of off-peak hot water heating.

This is not a speculative execution hack. It's a DDR memory exploit.

It's specific to specific chipsets because it's a timing and addressing exploit, and timing and addressing is specific to MB design and processor design.

The problem arises because of the memory density of modern memory. The solution is to use secure memory, and there are and have been partially-successful attempts to make memory more secure, by doing things like increasing the refresh rate.

Not surprisingly, secure memory runs slower, hotter and more expensive. I guess you could design a memory system that had a small cache of secure memory, but that runs counter to current attempts at security which randomize location, so that critical code is more difficult to find in memory.

Re: Why anonymous?

Criminal record information is classed as ‘sensitive information’ in the Privacy Act 1988. You can go the other way -- given a name you can get a list of all pleas and convictions -- but apart from that, data held by the police about people is probably not generally releasable. In fact, even police members are not allowed to just go browsing the police records.

However, press releases about court convictions are probably non-identifiable to avoid problems when appeals are, or are likely to be, before the courts. (And there may also be other charges still before the courts)