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Londoners will be trialling driverless cars in pedestrianised area
OK... Red wire or black... *Clickety* You've emailed the schematic? Yes, got it! It's opening. And... WHAT? NO!
Re: Wi-Fi
True that. I had a friend with no WiFi, so I did a frequency analysis of WiFi in the area. A neighbour was blasting out on every channel over 2.4GHz, and it must have been genuine WiFi as there was a proper structure to the signal. I set her up with a network of 5GHz access points, which took a few due to the crap range.
At home, I get 26 competing signals in the 2.4GHz band, and 6 in the 5GHz, but I've invested in a proper business class access point and firewall/VPN, and it seems to work just fine. I've got line speed to all my handhelds, 75Mbps, and it only starts dropping off in the toilet which is the room with the most walls between me and the AP.
I wonder if the neighbours have good WiFi? Or have I wiped them out?
I find that...
most of my work desktop connectivity issues are 14 second outages caused by ISE. And some weird DNS issue that kicks in a few times each day. Along with some sort of throttling on the firewall I suspect. Very annoying actually, and it must surely be 100% down to the new network design here. It's only the last 6 months it's been so bad, which coincides with when they started arseing around with the wired network and merging it with the wireless address space.
It's sometimes faster to work from home where my download speed is now approaching that I get from being on JANET.
Pong, anyone? How about Pong on a vintage oscilloscope?
Re: Awesome
Close, but I don't think these sisters are trans.
Mac Pro update: Apple promises another pricey thing it will no doubt abandon after a year
Apple, so disappointing now.
Once upon a time, you couldn't get a PC of equivalent spec as a Mac Pro for the price of a Mac Pro.
Once upon a time, you couldn't get a 1u server with the power of the Xserve, well, at all.
Once upon a time, you could buy a pre-configured 24 node bioinformatics hardware/software HPC bundle running UNIX, plug and play, from a single vendor, including rack.
Once upon a time, you could buy a nonlinear editing system, music composition system, CGI workstation, or digital compositing powerhouse as a 15" laptop.
Once upon a time, Apple gave a shit about the professional market.
Once upon a time, Apple broke new ground, created new opportunities for creatives, scientists, creative scientists, etc.
BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'
... my sole output for two months a couple of years ago is in fact just over 500 lines of code - the majority of which was cut-and-pasted from a web example. I think I knocked the whole thing off in one afternoon ...
This. I didn't think I had it in me to become a BOFH, but ... this.
Also, I think they've employed the same security system on the DevOps here. AGILE seems to be, somehow, the wrong word.
Uber wasn't to blame for robo-ride crash – or was it? Witness said car tried to 'beat the lights'
Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users
Nuns left in limbo after phone line transfer hell
As of today, iThings are even harder for police to probe
DevOps hype? Sometimes a pizza really is just a pizza
So... really... you want it plain and simple.
Ah! You're asking for a Margherita then. Excellent. Well, if you take the 9" you can get a second one for half price. Or opt for a 12" for £7 but that's collect only. Unless you take The Works (tm) and then use the customise option to delete the peppers, olives, pepperoni etc. That could work out a little more though.
Brit telcos will waive early termination fees for military personnel
UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud
Re: Colour me surprised
Well, as the private key is presumably held within the WhatsApp application within Bob's phone, then WhatsApp have the power to have that key copied to them given some order from a judge or court or something. I'm not saying it's an acceptable way to behave, it's just all this talk of over-egging the pudding with multiple encryption etc etc when all they need to do is send a command message to the client app to shove the private key back up the pipe, no? I've never trusted any end-to-end encryption to be secure and I wouldn't ever expect it to be for exactly that reason.You need to decrypt it somewhere, and there's absolutely nothing to stop the app writer copying the key used to decrypt it to somewhere else, or to copy the decrypted message somewhere. Now, if it dumped the message into a file on the local storage in a sandboxed directory and I had a second app which held the keys... But even then I'm relying on the integrity of the author of the second app.
UK digital minister Matt Hancock praises 'crucial role' of encryption
Boffins name 12 new types of cloud in first Cloud Atlas since 1986
Robo-Uber T-boned, rolls onto side, self-driving rides halted
Disney plotting 15 more years of Star Wars
Rogue 10
You'll be forced to watch it whether you want to or not. The first two weeks you walk past the cinema and they try to coax you inside, "no" will mean "no". Then they'll subtly change the way the pavement works so that putting one foot in front of the other will still lead you into the foyer where heading for the door labelled "Exit" will actually lead you into the theatre. You should have faked an asthma attack and been carried out by an ambulance crew.
Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay
Murder in space: NASA orders astronauts to KILL cripples – then fire bodies back to Earth
Re: More research needed
They'll repeat the experiment with rats...
Staring out into the cold, dark, endless void of space, two pinholes of bright blue reflected back from the cupola window. A skeletal horse whinnied in impatience and stamped on the outside of the capsule; the shockwave broke the fragile wire holding the leg together, sending a foreleg spinning gently off into the cold infinity. Death sighed. "HUMANITY REALLY OUGHT TO LEARN TO KEEP ITS FEET ON THE GROUND" he muttered. His flesh and blood horse, Binky, would certainly perish on a job like this. Death knew about that sort of thing - it was, after all, his area of expertise.
A voice like fingernails on a blackboard, floated up from floor level, wherever that might be in this gravity less environment and interrupted his train of thought.
"SQUEAK?"
"DONE? GOOD. YES WE CAN GO NOW."
NASA to fire 1Gbps laser 'Wi-Fi' ... into spaaaaace
Microsoft cloud TITSUP: Skype, Outlook, Xbox, OneDrive, Hotmail down
Adobe buddies up with Microsoft for new ways to mine your data
Outgoing HPE workers stripped of gym cards and cushy remnants
DNS lookups can reveal every web page you visit, says German boffin
'Sorry, I've forgotten my decryption password' is contempt of court, pal – US appeal judges
Beijing deploys facial scanners to counter public toilet abuse
Have they initiated...
BOFH: Don't back up in anger
Dr Hannah Fry: We need to be wary of algorithms behind closed doors
The most obvious one for me...
would be in the stock market. Trying to predict all those volatile markets based on news reports and quarterly data and the way other brokers are buying and selling. And the speed with which it can all happen too. Wipe out money equivalent to the GDP of a country like Luxembourg within a few milliseconds.
A router with a fear of heights? Yup. It's a thing
Norfolk County Council sent filing cabinet filled with kids' info to a second-hand shop
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