Re: Cryptocurrencies should be banned.
...but it might be able to play metal...
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Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia
Thursday 18th March 2021 20:20 GMT 
Re: Gamers also have to contend with bots and scalpers looking to make a profit
Is it really necessary to have the new hardware the very minute it is released? Or am I just not in touch with the current zeitgeist?
No, you're just not a magpie1.
1A bird with a reputation for stealing and hoarding all things shiny.
Where did the water go on Mars? Maybe it's right under our noses: Up to 99% may still be in planet's crust
Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed
Microsoft fixes the thing it broke via another dose of out-of-band patching to deal with BSOD printing problems
Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death
A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it
Friday 12th March 2021 16:31 GMT
Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt
I'd like to see you build embedded software, or code that must run in a resource-limited environment with a high-level language.
I don't know who the elliptical "you" is in your statement, but try this: Piece of medical equipment written for an 80186 in C++ (OK, with a small BSP written in assembler), hand-written multitasking kernel (also written in C++), full 20-color GUI (this was the middle 90's; screens that would support this were not ubiquitous), multiple languages and fonts. So, let's see now:
--> Embedded software: Check
--> Resource limited environment: Check
--> High-level language: Check
--> Gov't regulated market: Check
--> A metric buttload of oversight, review, and team and individual discipline: Check, Check and Check.
--> Wrong way to do it: Definitively NOT check.
So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'
Tuesday 9th March 2021 15:02 GMT
Re: 'If 'lifehack' isn't pejorative, 'hack' shouldn't be either.
"Lifehack" isn't pejorative? All those smarmy, holisticker-than-thou, practitioners of the "art" are only interested in separating the gullible from their money. And yet referring to them and thier "art" is not pejorative?
Guess you learn something new every day....
While Reg readers know the difference between a true hacker and cyber-crook, for everyone else, hacking means illegal activity
Friday 5th March 2021 23:15 GMT
Sometimes, the language doesn't change....
Since the 18th century, authors have used the word 'hack' to refer to a scribe who could write to order, the term evolving to mean someone willing to knock out sub-standard work for a fast buck [Emphasis added]
Pretty much what it refers to today, in this arena of endeavor, too.!
Oh, and "brilliant hack" is an oxymoron.
Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web
President Biden weighs in on Amazon unionization efforts, warns giant to steer clear of threats, coercion
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 15:34 GMT
How tRump is that?
[...] whether that is arguing over what the right the virus infection rate to use is, whether mail-in rules were applicable to warehouses, claiming that a mail-in vote would lead to an inaccurate vote, and even arguing over the definition of what a virus "outbreak" is. [Emphasis added]
Gee, I didn't know the Loser-in Chief had found gainful employment after his last gig. And working for Bezos to boot!
Something about politics and strange bedfellows....
Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?
Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?
Thursday 25th February 2021 17:48 GMT
@ genghis_uk -- Re: All recorded music is shit
Hey...What kind of cab (and amp) are you using? As a bassist, one of my goals is to find a rig that, when I play my low E string, it knocks my feet out from underneath me. Sounds (pun intended) that you may have found that rig.
All you have to do, it seems, is turn it up a bit...
Thursday 25th February 2021 00:30 GMT
Re: All recorded music is shit
There was a time in my misspent yout' where I would play rock records through my Fender Bassman amplifier (input wye'd between the two channels) connected to a '69 vintage Bassman cab (the bigger ones, 2 x 12") and a Fender Showman cab (1 x 15"). No, it was not stereo. But put out on the balcony of my dorm at 7:30a on a Saturday morning, playing Grand Funk Railroad's Live Album full-out, after a hard night of partying...it was Reverie for the Gods!
I would concur with said rock musician! (At least, back then I would...)
Thursday 25th February 2021 00:16 GMT
Re: Analog kid in a digital world...
You know, this discussion of Nyquist frequencies is fascinating and enlightening. but it seems to be ignoring one point: The beat frequencies between inaudible harmonics is (or can be) audible. The beat frequency between 30kHz and 31kHz is 1kHz, and that is audible even by a long-past-his-prime rocker like me. Yes, it is true that the amplitude of that beat frequency might be very low; perhaps below the amplitude necessary to hear it in and of itself. But that beat frequency will subtly affect the signal of other frequencies around 1kHz, and all those interactions is what makes symphonic music (and even electronic music) have all that "nuance", "life" and "warmth" that the audiophiles rave on about.
Thursday 25th February 2021 00:08 GMT
Re: Analog kid in a digital world...
Wow is low frequency changes in turntable speed; the best way to remove it is perhaps lots of mass in the turntable.
Correct, but wow is also caused by off-center cut spindle holes, and by warped vinyl...both of which have infected my vinyl collection in the late 70s and early eighties.
Thursday 25th February 2021 00:00 GMT
Re: "it reduces the quality for discerning listeners"
The discerning listener can go buy vinyl.
Have you not been paying attention? The best vinyl can put out something like 63 dB dynamic range. Even the worst CD can put out 90dB dynamic range. (Whether they are allowed to is another story; cf. discussions on uber-compression on this forum). So with vinyl, you start out with a high level of effective compression, and go downhill from there.
And I guess "discerning listeners" like pops, crackles, and wow?
New FCC boss leaps into action by… creating three committees to look at longstanding problems and come back at some point
Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
Friday 5th February 2021 22:38 GMT
Re: Go for it
From the article:
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
From AC's post:
Whilst that is running, I would be asking to see the testing (including coverage data) and code review results that Cybergenetics must have - they must have this, or else there is no way they can claim their code can be trusted.
If a proper code review would take 8.5 Person-years to complete, it's likely that Cybergenetics didn't do it. (Answer this: when was the last time you or one of your colleagues spent a day doing code reviews? Or asked another way, how many calendar days has it been since you or a colleague, amassed 8 hours of code review work?) It would be enlightening, indeed, to get the results that AC wants...what are the chances that the code review logs show 8.5 person-years of work?
From Someone Else:
You can write FORTRAN in any language.
170,000 lines of MATLAB?!? One can only imagine the amount and different varieties of pasta in that pile of "code". And they wanna claim it's bug free? Hey, buddy! I got this 'ere bridge....
(Oh and a small note about this Mark Perlin fellow: Seems that most of the published work validating TrueAllele's accuracy was conducted and published by -- wait for it -- Mark Perlin. So, "the program works because we (the program's vendors) say so!" Where have I heard that before...?)
Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election
Amazon coughs up $62m to shoo away claims it stole driver tips, cut pay rates without telling them
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 21:29 GMT
There's a reason for all this, of course...
The FTC is great and all for this - but it took them 3 years (almost 4).
The only reason it's not still going on is that tRump had/has an ongoing feud with Bezos, as Bezos, being the publisher of WaPo (until just now), has been calling out the (former) Asshat-in-Chief since before said Asshat was elected. If Fuckerberg was running Amazon, all would be roses and chocolate for them.
What happens when the internet realizes the stock market is basically a casino? They go shopping at the Mall
Project Ticino: Microsoft's Erich Gamma on Visual Studio Code past, present, and future
Thursday 28th January 2021 23:33 GMT
Contrarian?
Gamma spoke at the virtual VS Code Day yesterday on how the world's favourite [sic] programmer's editor (or is it an IDE?) came about.
Being old enough to remember (or forget) edlin, the Visual C++ 6.0 "editor", and the abomination known a QuickC, I find myself comforted that I have not and continue not to drink the Micros~1 Kool-Aid, and that regardless of "favo(u)rite-ism", VSCode does not grace any of my desktops.
JetBrains FTW! (Did you notice that VSCode is one keystroke away from truth in advertising, identifying itself as a Disease of the Venereal (not Venerable) kind?)
Now take yer damn editor and git offa my lawn!
Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop
Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague
Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president
Thursday 21st January 2021 16:37 GMT
At the very least, it would seem sensible to *not* allow this to be used after losing an election, [...]
The trouble with that is that such a constraint (or any of the other discussed here and elsewhere) would require a change t the Constitution. Amendments are hard (ref. the Equal Rights Amendment), and opening up the entire Constitution is harder -- and fraught with much danger (especially now that some 35% of the electorate are certifiable morons).
Thursday 21st January 2021 16:25 GMT
What I meantersay is...
Explaining Levandowski's full pardon, the White House press secretary said he "has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good". It was noted the sentencing judge described him as a "brilliant, groundbreaking engineer that our country needs".
Translation from tRump bullshit to English:
Explaining Levandowski's full pardon, the White House press secretary said he "has done something to fuck Google, and since the the former Asswipe-in Chief is pissed off a Google for shutting down one of his Liar's Megaphones, I'm all in to let him off".
Oh and about the "brilliant, groundbreaking engineer that our country needs" bit: I'm not really sure that this country needs engineers that want to fatten their ass by stealing trade secrets and building a company on using them. Didn't that self-same Asswipe-in Chief spend 4 years whining/whingeing about China doing the exact same thing? I guess stealing trade secrets is OK if one of ours does it....
President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
Thursday 21st January 2021 16:12 GMT
Re: Landing on his feet..
I'm sure Pai, like so many incompetent, self-serving idiots with a resume that looks good on paper, will go on to become CEO or CIO of somepoor befuddled company that should have known better than to hire himfat-ass telecoms or cable company to reward him for his years of ass-licking service.
There. FTFY.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
