Posts by phuzz 6732 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
"It's not entirely clear why the US feels that these sort of bully-boy tactics are going to work in its favor. Europe is a big-enough market by itself not to have to go along with whatever the US decides."
Of course, if there was a little country on the edge of Europe, that didn't have the rest of the continent backing it up, they might be easier to strong-arm into accepting whatever the US wanted them to.
Nah, no country would be stupid enough to put itself in that position though right?
There's something like 20 million containers worldwide, and I'm sure some of them are fitted with trackers, but several things make it tricky to roll out to all containers.
GPS signals don't go through water, and containers tend to 'float' with only about 1% of their body above the water. You can't have the antenna sticking out far, because it would get smashed during loading, so instead you've have to have multiple ones around the container so that at least one would be close enough to the surface to receive.
Then you need some kind of transmitter, and you'll have similar problems with the antenna for that, plus transmitting is going to use a whole lot more power than receiving GPS signals.
At the end of the day, containers are treated as only being semi-recyclable, sooner or later they get a bit too rusty and get dumped, or sold on for a hipster to build a restaurant in one or something.
To be honest I'm always surprised that Google haven't just banned ad blockers from their plugin store. Why would they make it so easy for their customers to bypass their main source of revenue?
Similarly, I'm surprised that they've never made it harder to block ads on Youtube, I'd have thought it would be easy to block the video from playing until an advert had been played (or at least sent to the customer), but instead adblockers just stop the ads, and the videos play as soon as you click.
I should probably shut up and stop giving them ideas.
£300 quid is a lot, but I could just about justify spending up to £100 on footwear if I felt sure they'd last me for years.
That's not likely with a pair of trainers though, and I expect these Nikes will be looking tatty and grubby within a year or so if they are actually used for running about.
I'd put money on the cancer risk being higher in the car park (all those exhaust fumes!), than if you spent eight hours a day stood next to those barrels.
In fact, if the ore came from the surrounding rocks, it's probably safer in a bucket where it won't be disturbed, than the rocks outside which will be getting slowly ground into dust by people's feet. That dust might be breathed into someone's lungs, which is something to be avoided.
Ah yes, the reset button (or power button in the pre-ACPI days) which only engages when you take your finger off the button.
I remember taping someone's finger to a switch after they pressed it at the wrong time, and as long as the finger was taped in place, the computer stayed up.
Ok, lets start at the beginning:
"Matter is composed of two sizelss particles"
NO. It's just not.
"one force, electric, electric propagates at infinity"
If you mean that the 'electric force' propagates at an infinite speed, NO. It's not even that hard to measure at home.
"there is no mass, no speed of light, no momentum, no inertia, no meaningful sense of time"
Wait a minute, this isn't a deranged attempt at misunderstanding physics, this is a trip report! It all makes sense now.
Look AC, perhaps you should reduce the dose a bit, and maybe share some with the rest of the class?
The irony is though, if (for example) Amazon moved their HQ to Buffalo, the increase in potential customers would start to bring in all the vegan coffee shops, and wellness clinics*, that the hipster staff could want. Eventually you'd get other tech companies moving into the area as well.
Of course they'd also start an increase in rents and prices, but hopefully not to SF levels.
* Am I doing ok at making up bullshit?
You know, I quite like Mint. I've even rolled it out to all the machines of one of our customers, but something about the sanctimonious cries of "I've been using linux since nineteen eighty six and it does everything I need much better than windows", that makes me want to switch them all over to Win10.
^^ This, a thousand times this.
Outlook was perfectly usable when I had to use it, but then I'd start archiving as soon as my mailbox got up to 100MB.
Which helpfully left more time for the users who insisted that they had to have online access to every email from the last 6 years because that one time they had to find something for a customer and it was in an email (and no, they weren't interested in using the knowledge base that we'd set up allowing everyone to have access to their secret insights). Or the recruiter who had so many emails he never shut down Outlook, because it was a gamble if it would ever restart...
I checked ours as soon as I read the article. It's not affected. Accordingly I didn't bother to post anything, and I'd guess neither did most people in the same position.
If you see ten people on a forum complaining about a problem, all it means is that those people have the problem, not that everyone does.
Wait, what else does TOTP stand for is not Top of the Pops?
"Time-based One-time Password"?! Aside from that being a really ugly sentence, surely the acronym would be TBOTP? Or if you are only taking the first letter of hyphenated words then it would be TOP. Honestly, who came up with that acronym?
"As a proportion of GDP, welfare spending is or higher than the level it was" [sic]
Yes, but 55% of the welfare budget is spent on pensions, which given the demographics of the UK (and most western countries), it's not surprising that most of the increase in the welfare budget has been increased spending on pensions.
Is anyone else cynical enough to point out that the natural constituency of the Tory party is pensioners?
I grew up in Cheltenham, and various of my friends' parents worked at GCHQ. Obviously they didn't talk about it, but they referred to their job as "I work for the civil service in Cheltenham".
Of course, back then there wasn't a Doughnut, and GCHQ was split between two sites on either side of town. There's still rumours that there is/was tunnels connecting them both.
"A world in which a hospital can’t pull up a patient’s GP record to see the reason for stopping and starting medications is downright dangerous," he said.
Fortunately due to years of cuts, the GP waiting list is so long that the patient probably had to go straight to A&E without ever seeing their GP, so there's no records to pull up.
Lets face it, harping on about a "digital NHS" is a waste of fscking time when we can't even afford to hire enough staff...
PBKDF2 was only recommended in 2017, which was when the first of the dumps came from, so I'd be surprised if any of them are using it. I'd expect it to start showing up in dumps in a couple of years, if not longer. Companies rarely move fast (and nobody is going to force all their existing customers to change their passwords, especially if it means admitting that the old ones might not have been secure).
Also, the sort of company that would use a bleeding edge crypto method, like PBKDF2, might be paying a bit more attention to their basic security, and would be less likely to end up in a dump like this.
It's good to know about the hack, but it does add some value to the hacker to have a reputable news outlet do the hard work of contacting firms and getting them to confirm that, yes indeed, that is their data.
Before, it was just a large, but untested dump, which may or may not have contained useful (to ner do wells) information. Now it's conformed, by at least some of the firms impacted, that the data and hashed passwords are legit.
For what it's worth, you can still download the installer for XP Mode, officially, from Microsoft here. If you open it as a .cab file, you can find the VHD, which can be imported into Virtualbox. Assuming you're running a Microsoft OS and are fully licensed of course.
Without hiring a massive crane, how exactly does one pick up a shed from the back patio of a terraced house and move it? I'd also be pretty surprised if it was big enough for even a half sized container to fit (assuming a big crane to lift it over the house and into the garden).
Terraced houses in the UK aren't that big, and neither are their back gardens (chances are the front door opens directly onto the pavement, so there's no front garden).
Think of an area not big enough to park two cars side by side, with the only access being through the house like these.
Some people seem to leave their nice booze until the end of the evening, which is totally the wrong way around.
Drink the nice stuff first, while you're still sober enough to enjoy it. After a few drinks you can move to progressive cheaper stuff, because you won't be able to tell the difference anyway.
"They been known to pay good money for salacious photos and videos in the past with regard to the veracity of the source. And they get nailed for it"
I'm going to guess that they've sat down and worked out that paying out $X million per year in false claims is worth the $Y millions they make from extra sales (where Y>X).
If you can pay the lawyer fees you can say what you want.
Why would they mention Airbus?
The first part is about Boeing and SpaceX's respective spacecraft, no Airbus involvement there.
The second part is about LRO taking pictures of Chang'e 4, again, neither built by Airbus.
The third part is about the ExoMars rover, that's being built by Thales.
The forth part is about Skyora, still no reason for Airbus to be name checked
And finally there's a few paragraphs about Virgin Galactic.
So which of these stories has an Airbus angle that elReg are cruelly censoring? The only space related Airbus news I can find is that they're building a satellite for a Japanese telecoms company, not really very interesting.
I'm surprised no-one has made a "SCSI emulator" out of an Arduino or RPi or something.
*EDIT* Of course someone has done it already
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Let's all take a moment to feel slightly sorry for the IT admin at the National Enquirer, who's just found out that his boss has decided to piss of the guy who runs their hosting. I'm guessing they're thinking about a migration plan right now. Although if it was me, I'd quit and go work for someone who's not an arsehole, and leave them in the shit.
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