Posts by lglethal 3901 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2007
So is this why they changed the ending of Fight Club? Just a bit of Spring Cleaning? Didnt want anyone having to clean up the digital mess from all of those buildings falling down?
For those that arent aware, Fight Club just got a new release in China, it cuts away before the ending to declare that the Police intervened, prevented the plot before it could be activated, everyone went to prison, and Tyler Durdan ended up in a lunatic asylum. THE END. The Police in a Police state always win after all...
"Then Tether warms up the printer and creates several million USDT out of thin air to bump the price back up."
That only works if people are willing to by those Tether millions. If no one is wanting to buy the crypto, and everyone wants to sell than the value goes to 0... And there is bugger all that the Scammers - Sorry Crypto experts - can do about it except try to drum up some more spin...
"No one will even need more than 640k Memory for a personal computer" - Bill Gates.
Not to argue with you too much, but I guarantee on newer models there would be quality of life improvements you wouldnt mind having. At the very least, new models should be far more fuel efficient, which would save you significant money over a full year. Is it enough for you to change over? Well that's up to you to decide, but just because you're happy with 70's tech, doesnt mean that others have no need for the newer capabilities.
John Deere needs to be taken around the back of the barn and said goodnight to, permanently, for it's operating practices, but that's not the fault of the new Tech. That's purely a business decision, one that needs to be fought strongly... And finally it looks like that fight is starting...
I dont really want to support anybody using Ransomware, but it is refreshing to see it being used to try and affect some good, rather than the usual Greedy, thieving shite. Still it would have been better if the Belarussian "Hacktavists" had gone after something from the Belarussian Military, Police, or Government rather than something thousands of people use daily for their regular lives, and which if they happen to f%ck up too badly could cause crashes and the loss of innocent civilian's lives!
People are able to talk and think about multiple things at the same time, you know. Multi-tasking is not just for computers. The folks in Defence Forces, NATO, etc. are doing the thinking about the tanks, those of us who work in IT and technology tend to think more about the stuff related to IT.
And you know what, a Tech/IT site focusing on the IT stuff, should not really surprise you? If you want to focus on the other stuff, try a military forum somewhere, perhaps?
I hate being a cynic sometime, but my first thought on reading that was, "Wow, you are well and truly screwed after the first data breach!"
Second thought was something along the lines of "And how much pfaff to sort things out inside your Solid Pod so that Firm A can only access some of your phtots, but not those one over there, but B can access both, and C can only access that one photo of your dog, and ...."
I dont know, yes having control sounds good, but it also feels like painting a giant target on your own back for all of the Scum out there...
SatNav: Turn left in 100m
Driver: But there's nothing there but a field and some sheep. And is that a Cliff?
Tesla: Turning left in 100m
Driver: No, it's obviously a mistake in the SatNav.
Tesla: I'm turning Dave.
Driver: Stop it. No I'm taking back control.
Tesla: I'm sorry Dave, but I cant let you do that...
Driver: Ahhhhh......
I'm a little bit confused here - so the car left the Highway, but since the "Autopilot" has that lane keeping system, that must mean the Driver either turned off the highway deliberately (which should have disabled the "Autopilot", no?), or the Driver was so oblivious he failed to notice his car leaving the highway (due to the lane keeping system obviously failing).
Something makes me lean towards the latter because how on Earth, do you go off a highway at speed, not slow down, run a red light and then crash into another car all without thinking to intervene if your paying even the minutest amount of attention? They should definitely throw the book at this guy.
By the way can we start renaming the Tesla Autopilot to something more appropriate? Murderpilot, perhaps? It wont kill you everytime, but it's quietly waiting for the opportunity! Or how about Chancepilot, becauses chances are you will be fine, but gambling is gambling and one day you might come up snake eyes...
If, and it's a big "if", he really did invent Bitcoin (original BTC), then he can prove that by a) telling people he's going to move a bit from that 4.5bn he claims to own; b) transferring a minor wedge into another wallet that he owns and to which other people can see, and c) transfer it back if he wants. Do that, on video if you must, and boom everyone will believe him. The fact that he hasnt done something that simple, says he's a liar.
So ok Hackers stole his "keys" to this forked Bitcoin, which I assume was forked 1:1, so he's claiming the same ownership as in original Bitcoin. Is he also claiming that Hackers stole his keys to the original Bitcoin wallet too?
If so, well frankly then he's an idiot for not having everything offline and backed up. If Hackers had really stolen the keys to his bitcoin, those bitcoins would be making their way through tumblers, etc. and into bank accounts somewhere else. That they havent moved at all, says to me he's talking bollocks. More likely (again making the rather reaching assumption that he really does own them), he's simply forgotten the passwords, or lost the keys on an old harddrive that went to the tip. No back-ups and bye bye.
But then again, I'm willing to bet he's talking out his arse... But as always, let see what the courts decide...
Your missing the point entirely. Yes this wont stop the Cybercrims moving to other VPN services, BUT the people behind this VPN have just lost a lot of money (especially since they were hosting in lots of different countries). Other VPN operators will look at this and sweat a little bit. And when the Police come knocking on their door asking for access to the logs, most will happily open their doors in order to not lose all of their equipment.
When the Police have access to the VPN logs, they can go after the actual Cybercrims. Well, those that arent located and protected in Russia, China, NK, etc.
The Police dont go around shutting down the phone companies, because they simply need to ask for the records, and they get handed over (maybe with a court order if your lucky). VPN's will begin to operate the same way, and those that refuse will find themselves on the end of such co-ordinated raids...
generator [ jen-uh-rey-ter ]
noun
1. A device used to generate back-up power, that will work flawlessly through any testing, but will fail instantly when actually required.
(see also UPS, Spare cables (always the wrong one), and any equipment featuring the word Back-up in the title)
... was point out to his Boss, that he could perform an internal charge at Callout rates (plus plus plus...) to the Infrastructure Team for fixing their Failure. If the Infrastructure Team objected, pointing out to the CEO that had the failure not been corrected when it was, the loss of production would have cost $X (almost certainly multiple factors of 10 higher than the Charge on the Infrastructure Team). Of course the Boss could also then request additional resources for his department as reward for keeping the wheels spinning when other teams where letting the company down...
Solidarity in management only extends to the point where one's own department could get a leg up...
I partially agree, I mean if you are stupid enough to invest in Crypto then you get what your deserve.
BUT, if these scammers really did do a pump and dump scheme, and do it so badly that they've been caught doing it. Then by all means they should also get taken to the cleaners.
Is there a way they can both lose their money???
When the borders are closed and to try to leave is to be killed (and China happily sends back anyone trying to leave through their border, in order to be shot in NK). People in NK have to make the most of what they can in NK.
If someone has a modicium of Talent, then they have the choice of working for the regime or starving to death working some frozen field. So they go to work for the regime.
If you work for the regime, you get to live in a bit of comfort (compared to those starving to death in the frozen fields), but if you fail in your appointed task you will be shot. That provides a significant motivation to work really hard and find solutions.
If you're working for the regime's weapons programs, then you have the best comfort, the best funding the regime can provide, and the absolute knowledge that if you fail, you, and likely all of your family, will pay the consequences.
Based on just that level of motivation, NK dont really need China's help for any of this stuff. Maybe for some specific materials, training and hardware, but most of it they can do themselves.
If the rest of the world, wanted to really see the Kim Regime fall (so basically everyone other than China), then the best thing they could do would be to work out a way to create a relatively safe and porous border across and out of NK. The first people across it would be those that make up the scientific and engineering brains of the regime...
You're opening up a real can of worms though by taking control of someone else's property (and it is their code after all) just because they do something you might not like.
What if they just added a 5 second interrupt to the code, where it displayed the author's name and the, for example, Patreon site where you could donate to help out the author. That's going to annoy a lot of people - might even ruin a few packages which require it to operate without an interrupt. Is it still "sabotaging" the code?
What about an author who removes a bit of functionality (because it was proving too tricky to maintain or whatever reason to be honest - it's their code), but which some other people rely on, is that sabotaging the package? Should they lose their access rights to their code just because some people make use of something they dont want to maintain anymore?
What this guy did, sure sounds like he's a bit of a wanker. But taking away someone's rights to their own code, because they did something that upset other people really doesnt sit well with me. That way leads to big corporations pushing for someone to lose access to their code, because they use it and they dont want any changes being made that might impact their products. And dont tell me that would not happen, because we've all seen that sort of predatory behaviour lots of times...
"We will seek further review and continue to defend ourselves against Sonos’ frivolous claims about our partnership and intellectual property,” a Google spokesperson told us"
I have to say that if the ITC has declared that you clearly broke the patents in question to the point where you have to redesign your product, removing functionality in order to no longer utilise the products of those patents, then you can no longer declare them to be a "frivolous claim"...
Ok to give you some personal experience, I do use smart thermostats on our radiators. They're Bosch ones and don't as far as I can tell phone home. We use quite regularly the timer functionality and the boost functionality that allows you to open it up on full gas for 5 minutes. Being able to give the bedrooms a temperature boost before bed from the living room is quite nice in these cold winter evenings.
Do we really need them? Probably not, but the old ones were shit and we have actually dropped our oil usage a noticeable margin since they were installed. So I'm happy enough to use them.
We did also try some smart lights because we wanted to add a dimmer function to any area of our house without rewiring that circuit. But to be honest we've only changed the light level maybe 3-4 times in total. It's just too much faff to sort out on the phone. We will probably get a dimmer switch installed next time we're doing some electrical work, as that would likely get more usage. Still for €10 for a pack of 3 bulbs, it was not exactly an expensive test.
So there you go a couple of examples of real world use. One useful, one, at least in our case, not so much...
I would like to think that had I been in "John's" place, I would have after realising what the Problem was, cleaned a portion of the screen, then taken the monitor back with a pack of wipes, and an admonishen that "This was not an IT issue but a Healthy and Safety Issue, and they should either take care of it themselves, or invite the H&S bods to come and take care of it...".
Then again, if I was just an apprentice at the time like John supposedly was, I might have delegated the taking it back to the Boss and let him have that discussion with the Beancounters. Actually, fixing the issue in the way John and his Boss did, just means that all of the monitors would eventually arrive back in such a condition. Making them aware of the issue would mean they would hopefully take care of it themselves...
It depends a bit if they own the land or are leasing.
If they own the land, once the car park is built its a sunk cost with a very minimal maintenance budget (maybe every 5 years they'll replace the worst looking area), and some minimal land taxes.
If they lease the land, then yes they are paying yearly rent, but the cost for the parking lot would be dwarfed by the building costs. So it's really not a great cost.
For me, the only time they can really justify adding a charge is if they have a quite small parking lot which regularly gets filled. A filled car park does mean shoppers will go elsewhere. However, that's really rare.most of the time they're just trying to scam more money off their customers.
I'm guessing it was an attempt to pretend they did not have the backstage pass they actually had (so to speak). The SEC's monitoring system is apparently very good. If someone was achieving 100% success rates on their trades, then that would definitely be raising a lot of flags.
My guess is that the 66% ensured massive gains, whilst the losses on the 33% were magically only very small drops...
If they were claiming a water leak and saying they couldnt stay there because of it, well I can think of a few steps to take before checking phone records.
Talking to the Plumber who stopped the leak, about how much damage there was, and whether someone could still live there (and only the dodgies of dodgy plumber is going to lie to the insurance companies and risk finding themselves blacklisted).
Sending someone around to see if the flat was occupied.
Talking to the neighbours.
List seems pretty long and easy (and cheap) compared to paying for some lawyers to get a court order to get some, maybe useful-maybe not, phone data.
I once worked on a concept project for a greenhouse in space. We named it GRASS. (the acronym was something like Greenhouse Aboard Space Station or something, absolutely nothing to do with the alternative name for Marijuana, no, no, no...), however, once we actually started attracting some interest and potential funding, the bosses ordered a name change - and we changed it to something inoffensive and totally non-memorable (so much so, i cant actually remember what it was anymore). It did get its funding and evolved away from space, developed a new name (EDEN), and is actually installed in Antarctica.
Moral of the story, internal names can be as fun as you like, but as soon as it goes external you'll probably have to change it.
Second Moral of the Story, funny names tend to be the most memorable.... ;)
What I'm shocked about is that this interview was actually carried by a State-Owned National Newspaper. That means the CCP backed this woman going public! Obviously Alibaba is in the bad books at the moment, but even so, that this will get any State media coverage is truly shocking!
What next? Going after the Ex-VP for sexually assaulting the Tennis Star Peng Shuai?
Hey give Biden credit, he's protecting American companies! If Whitman is off acting as an Ambassador in Africa (Ambassadors dont actually do much except attend parties and sign documents written by their staff), then she cant destroy any more American companies by being appointed as their CEO!
Biden protecting American companies since the last election! :P
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