Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: ZTE

Lenovo and Motorla are also companies subject to evil Chinese Govt (tm) interference

However they both have lots of US shareholders so it would be inappropriate to mention this.

Re: Fair trading

They are standards patents that you need to use to implement 5g standards.

Just like video codecs, everyone involved makes sure that the standard requires that you use their patents, they then all cross license them to make sure nobody new can get in the club

Unfortunately we now have governments who think that they are above industry cartels

Re: Windows xp

Ntml passwords used a very weak hashing function and iirc only used the first 8chars

It was also trivial to edit the password store and write a null password

Re: Whistled passwords

Biometric passwords in the form of interpretative dance?

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

>You need to make it longer for security. What about prefixing it with “sudo”?

Real programmers are logged in as root,

Re: "who wondered whether Thompson might somehow have used uppercase or special characters"

No just a bigger search space.

The number of possible 8 letter strings of 26 lower case letters is much (6000x) smaller than the combinations of 8 of 95 printable ASCII character symbols

Re: Well, there's your problem

GPU crackers run in parralel there isn't much advantage in using zzzz

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

If your passwd is "rm -rf /" make sure the correct window has focus before typing it....

Re: Technological advance is not the point here

3, Donny wants to go around saying "space: remember the 60s when America was great and China was poor and women and minorities knew their place? "Vote Donny"

You don't actually have to bother with any details like an actual plan or budget once the tweet has landed

Re: here we go again...

But the space program diverted all of our brightest graduates into science and engineering for 20 years.

It was only in the late 90s and mid 2000s once they switched to Wall St that we saw the amazing gains when you have all the brightest people competing to sell shares to each other faster and faster.

Because the soviet union was also faked.

Have you seen the footage of anything built in Russia in the 60s/70s/80s?

It was all such low budget crap it was obviously knocked together on a backlot for cheap.

Do you know any friends / neighbors who visited the USSR? No - because it was all faked....

Re: Another Option

>Either way, a trip to the Moon would be genuinely useful.

Not necessarily, if it just developed throw away technology to meet some arbitrary time/budget deadline.

Making a single use Concorde which could fly from London to Ireland where it would crash land after jettisoning its single use rocket engines wouldn't be a useful first step in making transatlantic flights routine.

Re: Let's start with the basics and then work forward from there.

Clean drinking water in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd world comes from the invention of concrete - and a reduction in wars which allow you to build and keep the pipes

Apollo's water purifiers (electronic ion release) doesn't have a big role in an African village

Re: "To simply go and come back and say that we've been there again is highly unsatisfactory,"

>While fitting within the time that Trump hopes to be in office -- no prior landing test of the lunar module before it's full of astronauts...

So Trump wants the glory of going to the moon,

We have a rocket that will probably blow up or crash.

A solution presents itself.....

Re: "To simply go and come back and say that we've been there again is highly unsatisfactory,"

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is hard

but because it is easiest and will maximize media attention while fitting within the budget model

Although it probably has a single .22 bullet onboard, because that makes it a fighter - which allows you to get funding from the RAF.

You're new to defense procurement !

It would have an explosive charge which would ensure that all the ground support equipement was also destroyed

Re: "There are over 200 roads that cross the border."

So the solution is to make the border an Indian reservation ?

I was thinking of a deal where we swap the population of NI with say Gaza

Re: Not sure we're "likeminded countries"

>Almost a violation of sovereignty.

I don't think British people are all that bothered about some foreign court have over-rulling jurisdiction over their own national instituions. Certainly nothing to get all worked up about

And if it meant a trade deal that reduced the 25% duty on Scotch I'm sure they would be happy to roll over

Re: I can think of one.

>Scuba gear. Stops people from inhaling liquid every day. Keeps them breathing too.

Although it does work by ensuring that the pressure inside your lungs is equal to the pressure outside your body.

At the point where the pressure outside your body is zero, as in the proposed unpressurised space suit - it is apt to get rather untidy.

Re: You won't see the bunny hopping and falls like those seen in the Apollo videos.

Not even in the blooper reel on the special edition DVD ?

>There's probably a million reasons why this won't work in reality,

Because there is no way you are going to get USA Space Command (tm) to smear KY jelly all over the bodies (*) of their intrepid USA Space Command (tm) Space Heroes before they boldly go doing whatever it is that USA Space Command (tm) Space Heroes do

* the USAF on the other hand .....

Re: 2 things MS have never understood

>Hmmmm....I'm out, anyone else got anything?

Their keyboards used to be nice, next desk over swears by the weird split in the middle ergonomic thing

Re: Could it be the One?

2 x Kobo readers on ebay for $20 each

1 roll of duct tape $5

Re: If you can't beat 'em

Sue them for imagined patent violations and have your salesforce go around telling their customers that they could all be sued if they use this open source stuff.

Re: Surely it's just a bit of civility

>If he/she wants to be referred to as she/he - then why is it such a big issue to go along with it?

In day-to-day conversation with someone - no.

Having to check their profile first before answering a technical question for free on a programming site - fsck off

Re: Is this just an English thing ?

>For job descriptions you are supposed to use both in German as well, in a similar manner.

Whereas in English (or at least in American) you are supposed to NOT use gendered form.

Actor rather than Actor/Actress