Talk rhymes with Bork?
Eh?
In what English dialect does "talk" rhyme with "bork"?
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I think the router manufacturers might be on to something good IF they use a username and password that's randomly generated and put a tag on the front of the device.
No matter how many preachy articles tech journalists write, 99% of consumers are _never_ going to change admin/wifi passwords. That's not going to change. Ever. So the endless harping on this is pointless.
I think all of the new routers and APs I've seen in the last 7-8 years (even low-end consumer units) came with random admin passwords and random Wifi keys. However, the tag is always on the bottom or back not on the front. This is the only practical solution.
The results were [...] more hoppy than the control brew [...]
More importantly, there were no unpleasant flavours.
[I'm sure this will get plenty of downvotes, but...]
That's completely contradictory, since hoppy _is_ an unpleasant flavour!
Obviously I really, really don't get the whole IPA fad...
Surely he will be out on probation well before then
If you're talking about parole, that doesn't exist in the federal system. He could get up to 14% off his sentence for good behavior.
Probation is a sentence imposed by the judge. Sometimes a sentence involves both incarceration and then afterwards probation.
I have to admit that I always end up learning something from Dabbs's columns. Often it's a slang phrase or pop-culture reference unfamiliar to us USAins. This time it was "baked bean wrestling". Somehow, I've spent more than a half-century on this planet without knowing that baked bean wrestling was "a thing".
OK, it was funny at first, but now it's just tiresome. You need to come up with something new.
That "President Trump Show" show, OTOH, that's still pretty fresh with new twists every episode. I'll admit the plot has gotten increasingly hard to believe, and I can't figure why there aren't any dragons or zombies in it.
Guiney, who represented herself
Ouch.
Not all who represent themselves are kooks, but there does seem to be a pretty high correlation. Even if you're not a kook, it's still a good way to get your ass handed to you in court. At least in the US, it's usually possible to find a lawyer who will take this sort of case on a contingency basis.
But how do you make a phone call with it?
Now you're just being silly.
Nobody born since the last moon landing uses phones for making phone calls.
If "making phone calls" becomes "a thing", I'm sure somebody invent some small portable device that you can use to do that. Rumor has that Nokia used to make such things.
... adopt a different vocal register when talking to voice assistants, something analogous to the register one might have used 100 years ago when communicating with staff "below stairs".
I found that bit very interesting, but was hoping there might be links to further information for the benefit of those of us who grew up in the wrong century, in the wrong class, and on the wrong continent.
The security blunder will for many cryptocurrency speculators bring back unpleasant memories of the 2014 MtGox collapse.
What unpleasant memories?
I found the whole thing very interesting and somewhat amusing. Though it is somewhat disappointing that we never got to read the final couple chapters in the mystery...
I only found out about Wonderfalls (Pushing Daisies with fewer zombies and more weird) because I searched for things that got cancelled early.
Wonderfalls is one of my all-time favorites!
I happened to stumble across one of the episodes when it was being broadcast, and made a point to be home the next week. I think was cancelled a weeks later -- so I bought the DVD set.
And yet batteries continue to get better in real-world devices. How does that work?
Mostly it seems to be through continuous, incremental improvements rather than "breakthroughs" involving carbon nano-tubes or in-vivo-formed-membranes that provide a 2X-3X jumps in capacity.
It seems like every week or two for the past 5-10 years somebody announces some discovery/invention that "could" double/triple/quadruple battery capacity while simultaneously making them safer, smaller, cheaper, lighter, and fresher smelling.
Somehow "could" never turns into "does"...
Firefox is so slow and bloated on all my machines, that "30% faster" is still an order of magnitude slower than Chromium. Firefox sits for minutes at a time burning through gigabytes of RAM and 100% CPU while Chrome renders the same page in a fraction of a second. Even a 'shitload' faster may not be enough...
It very accurately monitors my calorie burn throughout the day
Can you outline the procedure you used to verify that? I presume you monitored O2 uptake throughout the day? Calculating calories burned from heart rate is famously bogus.
It would be pretty impressive if Apple watches did accurately monitor calories burned, since they don't have the sensors required to do that.
Azeria’s ARM Lab Environment, here, is a VM that offers a QEMU ARMv6 image on Ubuntu.
I don't get the "on Ubuntu" part of it.
Is the ARM VM image running an ARM port of Ubuntu?
Has Ubuntu done something stupid to it's build of QEMU so that images for it are Ubuntu-specific and won't run on QEMU hosted on Gentoo or CentOS or whatever?
Something must be done, and getting a law passed that the FBI can unlock iPhones is the least we can do.
I don't see why you got down-voted for this, since that's _exactly_ the sort of thing that happens in these cases. Any restrictions on military-grade firearms (the one thing that _would_ help) is right out, so the FBI might as well pick some totally unrelated goal they want to achieve and try to get some mileage towards that.
Somewhere, somebody is probably trying to use this mass shooting to justify passing a law to persecute LGBT people, immigrants, scientists, etc.
The author seems to be mistakenly conflating "AI" and "robot". While there are some applications where the two overlap, the industrial robots used on production lines often involve little or no AI -- and many big AI projects don't involve robotics at all.
One hopes this was an honest mistake and not one made intentionally to produce some synthetic drama for the story...
Right now, it appears they have someone inside during trips – either a passenger, a Waymo engineer, or both – but it's hoped they can be truly human-free in the near future.
The purpose of cars is to haul humans around. What's the point of hoping cars will soon be "truly human-free" (IOW sans passengers)?
> I really hate this "fake news" moniker. It was previously good enough to use the traditional terms "hoax", "inaccurate", "false" etc.
The problem with terms like "hoax", "inaccurate", and "false" is that they're used to describe things that aren't true or didn't really happen.
OTOH, the phrase "fake news" is generally used to describe things that _did_ happen and statements that _are_ true.
HTH
Why would Chrome have the privileges required to remove software?
Doesn't that require "root" (or whatever it's called on Windows)?
Do people run Chrome with root privileges?
Or by "software" do they mean just user-installed Chrome plugins?
[Seriously, I don't use Windows and am really asking this.]
"I'm ashamed to admit that I know two such people, with the one believing the toilet won't flush during a
power cut..."
Whether or not your toilet continues to flush during a power cut depends on what you use for a water source. I've lived places where it would flush a few times during a power cut, but eventually it wouldn't.
According to the OT:
"A disk drive's write head magnetises an area of grains (a bit) with either a north pole or a south pole using an electrical field."
Holy cow, they're creating magnetic monopoles!
How have I missed this news?
I assume it'll be champagne and Nobel prizes all-round at the next Western Digital company picnic.
Seriously?
Uber's been spewing obvious lies for years, they're world-famous for flaunting laws and regulations in multiple countries and municipalities, and their business model just doesn't make sense in the long run anyway: they lose money on every fare, and there doesn't seem to be any reason to expect that to change. I have little sympathy for anybody who tried to ride that bubble and then pretends to be surprised that they ended up sitting on the ground with nothing but a wet bum.
Uber is like the underpants gnomes. Except meaner. To _everybody_.
Even if DHS (or whoever) reviews the source code, that's no guarantee that what's installed was built from that source code. In order for the source code review to be meaningful, DHS would have to build the executables and installers from that source code and create an internal distribution. They would also have to review and host all virus pattern definition files (or whatever) that are pushed to the PCs periodically.
A project like that undertaken by the gubmint would take many years and cost thousands of lives....
"Isn't it cheaper to do the last mile wireless..."
Been there, done that, it sucked. For several years I used municipal "broadband" where the "last mile" was wireless. It was actually more like the "last couple hundred yards" and it was still awful. In the daytime, throughput maxed out at around 2Mbps. In the evening it dropped so close to zero as to be useless.
I switched to Comcast. The price was 3X, but at least I get consistent, reliable 20Mbps.
---- You know you suck when your ex-customers are happy with Comcast ----
> Chat to someone in an A&E department and you'll be amazed at the number of "naked vacuuming" and "I slipped coming out of the shower and somehow this courgette ended up in my..." type of injuries!
At first glance, I read that as "corgette" and was afraid it was some sort of miniature corgi.
In the US, I think it would be called a zucchini, which is an even funnier word.