Re: "incompatible with the culture and mission of higher education and our national ideals.”
America to Be White And Republican Again
Err don't you mean America to Be Orange And Republican Again
Posts by Dagg
698 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2010
Harvard freshman kicked out of US over OTHER people's posts on his social media
Thursday 29th August 2019 00:00 GMT 
Re: So to gain entry into America you MUST......
I have to say that the USA is a damn fine place to visit and most folk that you'll meet there are damn fine people
NOT in Texas I felt extremely unsafe, wall to wall guns. I've been through Europe, Asia, Africa, parts of the Middle East and the Pacific. The states are the only place I've been in the world where you walk into a club and there is sign check your guns and knifes here.
Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones
Monday 26th August 2019 03:53 GMT
Re: Where in "keep and bear arms" does it say anything about them not being attached to an aircraft?
The word "bear". The moment you're not touching the arm, you are not bearing it.
So if the gun is in the gun rack in the back window of your truck it is now illegal?
I would love to see that one enforced in TX...
Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something
Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android
Dry patch? Have you considered peppering your flirts with emojis?
One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego
Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities
Tuesday 13th August 2019 05:24 GMT
Re: Well, you're leaving
When a similar situation happened in Australia not so long ago, one reason was because the windmill operators hadn't RTFM
No wrong, the problem was the whole grid collapsed and I mean collapsed there was a whole line of power pylons twisted and lying on the ground. Bit difficult to continue when a large chuck of your gird is missing.
Attempting to blame everything on renewables just doesn't cut it, just recently in Indonesia they had a total shutdown of the power grid after a single gas powered turbine failed. And incidentally the whole gird is gas turbine powered!
Sleeping Tesla driver wonders why his car ploughed into 11 traffic cones on a motorway
Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again
Friday 19th July 2019 04:23 GMT
Re: C / C++ compilers and libc could do this too
But if I've allocated a and b and already verified that they are the same size, whats wrong with using strcpy?
The elephant in the middle of table table isn't when you first create this beautiful piece of software it is years down the track as it is maintained.
Some future developer changes the allocation of either a or b as they need to store a longer string. Your use of strcpy may several calls below where the change has been made and difficult to spot.
The single biggest cost with software is in the maintenance.
Big Purple Hat is on as IBM closes acquisition of enterprise Linux firm
Metropolitan Police's facial recognition tech not only crap, but also of dubious legality – report
Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity
Friday 21st June 2019 03:15 GMT
Re: Designed by SW engineers
"This sounds exactly like something software engineers come up with"
Yep, I done that a few times as a joke / attempt to push for a requirement. Especially when a dumb ass BA / point haired one won't get their sh*t together. And a couple of these have actually made it into production.
Dilbert is so close to reality sometimes... Wally is my hero.
Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g
That's a hell of Huawei to run a business, Chinese giant scolds FedEx after internal files routed via America
Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?
Monday 27th May 2019 06:44 GMT
Re: better way to dish out the dosh
>>Apparently the reason you don't just hand out real cash to people is because that isn't reversible.
The Australian labor party did just that during the last GFC they gave everyone a handout. Conservative opposition whined about how all the poor would be buying big screen TV etc.
But hey, it worked and australia rode thought the GFC with bugger all problems.
No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences
The plane, it's 'splained, falls mainly without the brain: We chat to boffins who've found a way to disrupt landings using off-the-shelf radio kit
US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
Rocket Lab picks up the pace while SpaceX sends a Dragon to the Space Station
Eggheads confirm it's not a bug – the universe really is expanding 9% faster than expected
Wednesday 1st May 2019 03:57 GMT
Re: Problems, problems
So not faster than the speed of light then.
You don't appear to understand what the speed of light actually is!
There exists an absolute maximum velocity similar to absolute zero (which by definition is the absolute minimum velocity). With our current understanding nothing is able to travel faster than this absolute maximum velocity (AMV) in the same way all motion ceases at absolute zero.
Now light is also governed by the AMV and being basically mass-less it is the thing that we perceive as the fastest thing that we are able to observe hence we have come up with a value for the speed of light which will actually be slightly slower than AMV. It is highly there are things (particles / waves) traveling faster that light and much closer to the AMV but we are at the moment not able to observe them.
The speed of light is NOT the AMV the speed of light is relative, in a vacuum deep in a gravity well it travels considerably slower than in a vacuum say between stars. The issues we have with the GPS systems shows that.
In any medium the speed of light will be different. Therefore in water with Cherenkov radiation the electrons are traveling faster than the speed of light.
Compare high speed electrons from a reactor in free space to light in a vacuum chamber on the surface of the earth. The free space electrons will be faster.
Tuesday 30th April 2019 06:59 GMT
Re: Woosh
While it's pretty well established that faster than light travel is an impossibility
Incorrect, it is just that we have not succeeded yet therefore nothing can be established. All we can say <u>at the moment</u> is that we have not been able to exceed the speed of light in vacuum.
Just think of things in the past that have been considered impossible or in the realm of magic. Heart transplants, faster than sound travel, landing on the moon. Nuclear power etc.
Never say never....
Tuesday 30th April 2019 06:40 GMT
Re: Problems, problems
faster than the speed of light - Because not possible in our universe
Cherenkov radiation anyone.... not faster than the speed of light in a vacuum but faster than the speed of light on water.
Just consider what the medium that our early universe was expanding through. Also just consider that we consider as a vacuum may be like water outside our little space time.
Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone
Wednesday 1st May 2019 03:26 GMT
"... It would not have been accessible from the internet," said the telco in a statement to The Register
Yep, but it is accessible to something internal and that something may have a hidden backdoor that is accessible to the internet.
Consider also that Telnet may just be a terminal interface but remember in days gone by many of us old farts used glass TTY terminals to access systems, write, compile and run software we could also open / close ports change configuration and basically manage the whole system via telnet. Custom coded backdoor anyone....
Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years
Fed up with 72-hour, six-day working weeks, IT workers emit cries for help via GitHub repo
Wednesday 24th April 2019 06:07 GMT
How on earth do you think emergency services personnel manage then, who do that constantly for years?
They bloody burn out! Just like my wife did. Little things like late shifts followed by early shifts because the pointy haired ones stuff up staffing levels and they end up with problems when staff stress and take sick/stress leave.
Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch
Tuesday 16th April 2019 03:32 GMT
Re: Budget limits time
Testing is part of the Agile 'methodology'?
So is requirements gathering. And you can only test to the small set of requirements. Anything outside the requirements is not important and can be sorted out next release.
Little requirements like a soft landing. Hey, we only need that right at the end so we will throw what we have over the fence and then start of developing the soft landing requirement.
Amazon Prime Air flight crashes in Texas after 6,000ft nosedive
Samsung pulls sheets off costly phone-cum-fondleslab Galaxy Fold – and a hefty 5G monster
Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone
Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey
Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams
How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way
US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again)
Wow, what a lovely early Christmas present for Australians: A crypto-busting super-snoop law passes just in time
Friday 7th December 2018 04:29 GMT 
Idiots
I now feel less secure with the passing of the new legislation designed to allow the government security agencies to access encrypted internet communications.
No matter what the government says the only way to implement this is to weaken encryption and once the encryption has been weakened this will also allow other foreign governments, tech savvy criminal groups and unscrupulous companies to also intercept your private communications.
No matter what “protections” such as warrants that the government puts in place mandating how the security agencies can access this information the other entities are not controlled by these protections. And the argument that “if you haven’t done anything wrong you have nothing to fear” means nothing when your personal details / banking details / health information / etc are stolen by 3rd parties not answerable to the Australian government.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
