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Woman calls cops on shadowy baddie barricaded in bathroom... to discover: Roomba gone rogue
King's College London internal memo cops to account 'compromise' as uni resets passwords
US boffins tangle with quantum entanglement in spooky rack-mounted networking hardware
BT Tower broadcasts error message to the nation as Windows displays admin's shame
Overzealous n00b takes out point-of-sale terminals across the UK on a Saturday afternoon
Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi
Monday 8th April 2019 11:49 GMT 
Re: A learning experience.
True that. I've got Cat 6A running all over the show in my gaff. I figure, PoE for the doorbell & camera in the doorbell, PoE to the PTZ cameras on the underside of the soffits, PoE to all the extra WAPs that you need in a stone cottage with walls made of two feet of granite and flint. It's not too difficult to get the camera modules that run off PoE, and even if the one you want doesn't have PoE, just Palin old ethernet, you can get little PoE modules now - just match the voltage required and bingo!
Back to drawing board as Google cans AI ethics council amid complaints over right-wing member
You don't need a PhD to phish a Brit university: Nonprofit claims 100% hit rate is easy peasy
Mystery of the Chinese woman who allegedly tried to sneak into Trump's Mar-a-Lago with a USB stick of malware
FYI: You could make Tesla's Autopilot swerve into traffic with a few stickers on the road
Tuesday 2nd April 2019 09:42 GMT
Re: Stickers?
If you read the road signs, then you're bound to fall foul. For example there's a spot on the A1 at the junction of Tollington Road and Camden Road, where the signage is perfectly OK to a rational, thinking person who understands that the people who put the signs up make mistakes, and that can process the conflicting information, but when you sit down and analyse what the signs are ACTUALLY telling you, all northbound traffic is directed left onto Camden Road by the proceed left (sign 606) on the central reservation and on the left hand kerb and some of that traffic is then directed onto the wide pavement, because they have to keep left (sign 610) of the low level bollard on the far pavement.
And rinse and repeat across hundreds of junctions nationwide where they didn't get it right. The very worst road sign of all is 611. They use that all over the place to mean "Routes pass either side of this divider", whereas it actually means, "Pass either side to REACH THE SAME DESTINATION", i.e. it should not be used on a diverging route, only on, e.g. the ends of an island between lanes of a multi-lane one-way road. The correct sign to use in that instance is a plain faced bollard, illuminated or retroreflective. Thankfully, an autopilot shouldn't be using sign 611 for route information, as the correct lane to be in is usually included in the data from another source. The issue comes where the programmed route information conflicts with the signage, as it would do on the A1 example. I expect in this case the green arrow plus the sat nav data would override the signage instruction, but green arrows don't show all the time!
Bit nippy, is it? Hive smart home users find themselves tweaking thermostat BY HAND
Tuesday 2nd April 2019 15:33 GMT
Re: Smart heating systems do have their uses.
I have one of those too. It only gets used for HW and the 1 hr CH boost. There's an overriding programmable thermostat which does most of the work. Three set point temperatures which can be allocated to any 15 minute slot of the whole 24 hours of 7, 5, 2 or 1 day patterns. Day, Night and Frostguard temperatures.
It was all Yellow: Mass email about a Coldplay CD breaks the internet
How do you sing 'We're jamming and we hope you like jamming, too' in Russian? Kremlin's sat-nav spoofing revealed
Cop watchers to probe UK police sharing data on witnesses' migration status with Home Office
How'd your servers get that baby-smooth look? Dutch and Brit cool kids dunk Supermicro systems in synthetic oil
BOFH: Tick tick BOOM. It's B-day! No we're not eating Brussels flouts...
Friday 29th March 2019 13:12 GMT
One does wonder if Simon has been to my building...
You see, it happens to be constructed over one of London's infamous "lost rivers". These waterways once criss-crossed the capital and over time have been culverted, then capped over, then built-on-top-of and then built-on-top-of again and again and forgotten to all but a few people who, say, have ever been inquisitive enough to have ventured behind that locked door in the sub-sub-basement (you know, the one next to the plant that's below the server room and which has to be checked semi-annually) and found a locked, modern trap door which can be lifted out to reveal a concrete lined pit, at the bottom of which is an ancient wooden trap door which, with a liberal application of WD40 and elbow grease, has opened into a pitch black, water filled river. Or "Well" as we used to call them.
Any "Wellness" consultant should, upon making any initial fact-finding inquiry into the state of "Wellness" in the building, be taken and SHOWN the state of the wellness in the sub- sub-sub-basement. Very closely indeed. With extreme prejudice.
Lip-reading smart speakers: Just what no one always wanted
Cops use bread and riot shields in desperate bid to contain crazed swan running amok in streets
Thursday 28th March 2019 17:41 GMT
Re: Swan on toast
Well the eating of swans was removed from the Treason Act (1351) in an amendment in 1998, but the killing of a swan comes under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act anyway. As the Crown owns all unmarked swans, it's only legal to eat one with a swan mark, and as the swans on the Thames at least are owned by either the Queen or the Vintners and Dyers city livery companies, you would have to be a member or guest of one of those guilds to sample the delicacy. There are other privately owned swans elsewhere in the UK. Makes me wonder what happens when the birds move around.
100MW bit barn farm in Ireland faces planning appeal from – yep – same guy who helped sink Apple's application
Wednesday 27th March 2019 01:21 GMT
My calculation is based on a design target average power per cabinet of ~6kW, includes ~26% unit power uncertainty and a managed power rate of 80%. The space calculation works out at 200 rooms with 10 pods per room and 10-12 cabinets per pod. 1 pod per room is reserved for staging, 5% of the racks are for ancillary systems and 30% of space is reserved for egress, circulation space, robotics, ramps, support columns etc. The cabinet numbers are given for the maximum capability of the facility - the expected occupancy would be 20,000 racks.
As I said, it's only a rough estimate based on the kind of mixed architecture typical to an enterprise DC. Cloud storage and HPC are much denser architectures. I might have lied when I said it was worked out on the back of an envelope... it was worked out on the back of some calculation sheets I picked up from the APC & Schneider stands at Data Centre World a couple of weeks ago.
Tuesday 26th March 2019 16:30 GMT
Mixed feelings
Good on him for trying to make better use of low grade heat that would otherwise be wasted. Makes me fume when I see DCs and freezer farms just chucking hot air out whilst a hundred yards away they’re burning gas and oil to heat a building.
On the OTHER hand, who’s he to f*** up other players and block inward investment? There’s a need for DCs, and yay if they’re efficient and a smart design, but he’s not building his.
Either crap or get off the pot, man.
The completely rational take you need on Europe approving Article 13: An ill-defined copyright regime to tame US tech
Tuesday 26th March 2019 23:37 GMT
"and that group makes all the decisions on copying and sale."
A committee with 1000 heads and no brains. Can one preemptively contract all eventualities? Remove the need for reactive decision making once the creative work has been completed? And wherein the creative act does the relative contribution come in? With that many people having decision making powers and such a nuanced range of possibilities, getting a definitive decision might be problematic. When you get so many people trying to push their own agenda you get... well... articles 15 & 17 or is that 13 and 15?
Techies take turns at shut-down top trumps
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
