Posts by Robert Carnegie 4557 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2009
I have an iPhone 7 and the Scottish contact app. iOS lets me view a log which shows when it's downloaded a list of exposure notifications, and that is about 5 times in 24 hours. So I suppose that if a contact reports a positive test in their app, then my app tells me that up to 5 hours later. Their app doesn't meanwhile shout out "Unclean, unclean" every sixty seconds, because if they do what they should then they should be self isolated, and if they aren't, then they probably leave their phone behind anyway.
Well, there's this.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/exposurenotification
"iOS 13.7 introduces a new method of calculating the user’s Exposure Risk Value, described in ENExposureConfiguration. Apps can implement this new method, or continue to use the calculation method introduced in earlier versions of iOS. To choose your app’s approach, add an entry to your app’s Info.plist file with a key of ENAPIVersion. To use the new approach, specify a value of 2. To use the original approach, specify a value of 1."
iOS 13.7 was released in September 2020 (current version is 14.4), and, as described, the way that an "Exposure Risk Value" was calculated was (optionally) altered. So that may be where Britain helped!
Ah, but today I'm seeing comment, then thick-ish horizontal black line, then an advertisement, then another black line, and more comments. I think that's a new change.
Comment to comment, no solid lines. Just the grey background and white background alternately.
Without adverts, how much would we be paying for The Register?
Have I got this right (ish ish), in absolute terms the cable is rated for power not for current... specifically for heat in the cable itself. And for insulation etc.
British mains cords kit have fuses in all the plugs, so all that happened when I used a 240 V, 5 A, extension to run an electric fan heater at 1 kW (4 A)... then one of my sisters, not well briefed, turned the heater up to 2 kW... is that the 5 A fuse in the extension's wall plug popped after a few seconds.
Here goes anyway. I'm not an expert, but, iPhone 6, doesn't run the latest iOS but might get patched for this, if it doesn't then, yes, use it as a coaster. Also, look at the battery saver / power use setting. You'll remember - legal action is ingoing in Italy - that Apple were low-powering devices with older batteries through the OS to extend the life of the battery charge... also making them run slower than a new phone. And this was insufficiently publicised. Now the function is optional, so you need to turn it on to use it, I think.
Also, installing iOS in full is recommended, though I don't always do it on my 6s or 7 or whichever one I got to replace my 6. If you don't like iCloud, this involves installing iTunes, updating iTunes, connecting your phone to the PC, backing up, then letting iTunes download about 3GB plus of update then install it on the phone. Both of the last two steps take a while - several hours to download for me. I don't know if that repeats for more than one phone you'd hope not.
I'm patching now; the patch for UK wasn't available when I read the story on Tuesday evening. If the patch isn't offered to you, then maybe it is time to retire the device. You can check existence on the phone and then do the iTunes thing to get it if you prefer, or just go to iTunes first if you're lax about the backups, which you and I should do anyway.
How was Donald Trump "using" bicycle messengers, exactly? It isn't specified.
I think that one of Douglas Adams's "Dirk Gently" novels mentions a fictional celebrity who regularly has live chickens (I think) delivered to his hotel room, of which (the chickens) no trace is seen afterwards.
Spoiler? Late in the book, we hear second hand from someone that the celebrity pays to discreetly and mysteriously take the chickens away again. The whole thing is an ongoing publicity stunt by the celebrity, who finds it advantageous to have a very weird reputation.
In 2021 it seems unduly hard on the chickens, but compared to how a lot of them live anyway, even "free range", is it much worse? There's room service.
Either you or they are meant to say "for that was not his name" in these cases.
On one project that the Fates may have disliked from the start, I had a need to substitute human names with different human names, consistently. So I made a lookup table, and I made it (1) preservative of binary gender, (2) limited to common names, and (3) changing any name in the first half of the alphabet to the second half, and vice versa. So no one got their own name back.
The Fates, or management, objected that my system could give people with different original names, the same new name. At least I think that's what they didn't like... I don't remember if I tried to argue that some people have the same names anyway, or that confusing the data was the actual point of my activity. At length, the project quietly died; I was doing other things anyway.
"A pharmacy had been burgled, and the officers who showed up had requested some eyes in the skies."
Excuse me, does that mean that the drone guy was a volunteer filming on behalf of the police? Or does it only refer to the police helicopter that he banged into?
Yes he pled guilty. Everyone in the United States has to plead guilty because of the consequences if you don't. It doesn't mean that you did it.
They do have a bit of trouble "censoring" social multimedia... can breastfeeding be shown? How close does the child have to be to the breast? What if the "child" looks suspiciously like an adult?
It's not a special interest of mine but I think one of their "censors" was on BBC radio the other day talking about these nuances and the head-spinning rate of changes to policy in exactly this area.
And whenever content is posted, it also has to be censored.
Another story elsewhere under "Technology": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55613452
"Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found."
Scientists! So it counts as science!
Pope Francis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55617851
is a Catholic. (Scientists find.)
The last that I heard, keeping a UK bank account from EU Europe was going to be no go in most cases, with customers already warned that they'd be cut off. Something about needing to set up a separate "Yorkshire Bank" or whichever in each EU country where service was to continue.
I suppose if you are already with Santander then you can't complain.
Actually, you can't complain. https://www.santander.co.uk/personal/support/customer-support/brexit-and-santander-uk-plc
Accidents happen. Sometimes expensive ones. And I don't think they're claiming that a delay in vaccination can be undone.
I hope that there isn't too much time lost by people attending the appointments which were cancelled. Apart from key health workers, the people currently being vaccinated don't have much on, being elderly or poorly.
I expect the vaccination site would like to have a surplus supply on site to avoid cancels, But as you say, it's a limited quantity available..
It could be cockup but I think these are all steps required before someone is let into a hospital in a white cost with Doctor printed on it. So that people like me with none of the qualifications don't do it for a prank. Look, it was just once, and almost no one died.
Are these photos or is it rendered?
I'm not alone evidently in suspecting that DC Comics' villain "Gentleman Ghost" has got involved. He being (usually) a dead dandy highwayman with no visible head but a visible monocle and top hat, you are correct in inferring that it's a... bother to pull this off in action figure modelling. Usually they give him an extremely high coat collar, and the hat is stuck to that, and the monocle to the front of the hat. He actually can be entirely invisible, and keeps his face invisible because he died about 200 years ago (give or take several history rewrites) and he isn't looking his best.
Referring to notes on Sainsbury's online shopping account, (1) the password must have big and little letters, numbers, and NO spaces, (2) I didn't know that when I went about setting it up, and (3) I've never yet used it.
Another service apparently doesn't work with a Yahoo e-mail account - I mean, yes, I know, but why shouldn't I. Nowhere does it say, while creating an account, that it won't work. This includes the account user authentication e-mail. Result, no usable account and a big waste of time.
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