Posts by lglethal 3904 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2007
You're assuming you can track down the owners/operators of the website in question and that the servers are located in the EU.
If this is some dodgy site, hosted in some Russian bit barn good luck getting them to even acknowledge the contact. In that case, getting Google and co to stop linking to it is the best you can achieve.
"I used to charge my phone from my stove."
Wow. Thats an... inefficient... way to charge your phone. I sincerely hope you weren't turning on your stove JUST to charge your phone. If you were cooking something else and just using the excess to charge you're phone fine, but turning heat into electricity anywhere outside of an actual power plant is hugely inefficient and wasteful...
This isnt a particularly new technique for space work (well maybe for NASA), but DLR (the German Space Agency) and the Swedish Space Agency have been running BEXUS (Balloon Experiments for University Students) since 2007.
OK BEXUS isnt so long lasting (its a day trip to ~30km), but it is aimed at Uni Students (and with the budget to match). There's quite a history of balloon based space research, it is signifcantly cheaper than rockets, and for a lot of things works just as well, as being all the way up.
Frankly, I really dont get this guy. If you're worried about being caught with documents and your willing to go to the effort of trying to find out how to delete them properly, why not just ditch the laptop completely and buy a new one?
Copy the family photos to a new USB stick, drop the laptop in the bin, and head to the local computer store and grab a new one. reload the programs you need want and if any cops come calling, you're in the clear.
Any other course of action is you being a dumba$$...
If those numbers are right, then just wow. I mean the Sun does manage to "hold" on to (for a given definition of hold) the Oort cloud which supposedly stretches beyond 100000 AU, but thats just small comets.
Gas Giants at 160 and 320AU must have only a relatively tentative grasp of their Suns gravity. I imagine it wouldnt take too much in the way of collisions or close encounters with other planetary bodies to send them hurtling away from their parent system.
The Universe never ceases to be amazing, does it?
The inner planet is 160AU and the outer 320AU???
For comparison, Jupiter is only 5AU from the Sun, Neptune is 30AU, Pluto at its furthest is only 49AU, heck the Heliopause kicks in at 123AU.
And this young Sun has two gas giants in its system massively beyond its Heliopause? There's not perhaps been an extra 0 mistakenly added on the end of those numbers, perhaps?
Why would the police take the risk of gathering this data and then having it thrown out by a judge later, when they could extremely easily just ask for a warrant from a judge in the first place. No judge is going to refuse a request along the lines of "We would like the tower dump for this day and this time, so that we can try and identify the possible robbers". So long as its for a specific time and place, it would be a reasonable search and every judge would allow it.
It just kind of beggars belief that they would take that risk...
Not necessarily, and frankly the fact that there were older human populations there also doesnt kill the human based megafauna extinction option. Just consider different groups had different hunting/gathering methods.
As a good example, the very first Australian Aborigines lived alongside Australian megafauna (think massive Wombats and kangaroos!), but at some point the Aborigines discovered the hunting technique of setting an area on fire and using that to drive the animals to their hunting areas. The fires affected what grew in Australia, leaving only fire hardened trees and plants, and thus removing the vital ecosystem that supported the Megafauna.
It's not necessary to physically kill off every last creature, affecting the environment to such an extent will have the same effect. Who knows, maybe those pre-Clovis civilisations had a minimal effect on their local environment and so lived alongside the American megafauna, whereas the Clovis changed things and brought about the end of the Megafauna.
As always, more great science like the research in this article will help us understand our history... :)
I'm just curious, how does one get on the Board of the Internet Society or PIR for that matter?
I have a desire to "serve" the community. For an appropriate fee of course...
More seriously, if these are actual society's with members and a voting structure to get people on to the board, then the voting community needs to take a good long look at themselves, and maybe actually pay attention at the next board election. Or if everyone is suitably outraged, then a recall ballot to sack the entire board and start over from scratch sounds like it should definitely be on the cards...
"... the Republican party he leads has endorsed candidates that openly espouse QAnon theories."
So the Party that has held the majority in both houses of Congress for the vast majority of the last 26 years (20 out of the last 26 years in the the house of representatives, and 18 out of the last 26 years in the senate) and controlled the Presidency for half of that time. Additionally, during that 26 years, the republicans had control of all 3 of the presidency, house of representatives and congress for 8 years (Democrats had that full control for only 2 years in that 26 year period), and yet they believe that there is a deep state that controls the world? And they believe that they're not the ones in charge???
If they truly believe that, then what the hell have they been doing throughout all those years they were in power????
I guess I'm going to be holding on to my phone for a long time to come. Seriously 6,5" is the normal for a phone these days? My Sony X Compact is 4,6". I cannot imagine having a larger phone then that. I dont need to carry a brick with me, everywhere I'm going.
Amazing how we used to laugh at the very first generation of mobile phones, "Oh how large and brick like they are! Hahaha"! Well it seems we've progressed from Brick to Tile phones, Jokes on us!
Anyone able to recommend a sensibly sized phone (say under 5")? Or do they just not exist anymore?
"Sounds like a well executed plan, and scary if the numbers are accurate as to how many people fell for it."
It is relatively common practice for scammers to seed the account with money before and during the scam. The more money people see in the pot, the more likely they are to think thatif so many other people are putting money in, it cant possibly be a scam.
Same sort of deal with Beggars seeding a few coins into the begging tray to make it look like other people are giving them money and thus encouraging others to also give.
So the $100k is definitely overstating it, but by how much is anybody's guess.
Back when I first moved to the UK fresh out of uni (2005 I think it was). I looked into seeing what jobs the F1 teams had available (being a mechanical engineer I thought I'd made sense). Jordan were advertising for a Junior CFD Analyst. Must have 10 years experience with CFD.
Sorry, but if I've got 10 years experience in something I'm certainly not going to consider myself a junior in that topic!
Not defending it completely, but it can have a benefit, by reducing the amount of dividends (i.e. profits) you have to pay out to shareholders each year. Therefore, increasing your future ability to invest in research R&D etc.
However, most of the time thats not the reason companies are doing it, I know...
Well done on spouting complete bollocks and not knowing what you're talking about. But dont let that get in the way of making up conspiracy theories.
When working for NASA or on NASA funded Human Spaceflight projects you need to be an American. Fullstop. I can point to procurement documents that say that. Try and outsource around that and get caught and you would lose your preferential status, costing Boeing potentially billions. Not too mention the media and political fallout that would accompany it, and frankly not even Boeing management are that stupid.
As for comparing this with the 737, civilian aircraft have zero nationality requirements. You can outsource you're design and construction work wherever you want and indeed aircraft companies do, because it encourages those nations where the work is being carried out to buy Boeing aircraft and support their own local industry. Airbus does the same thing.
Even with military aircraft there are usually no nationality requirements. It's entirely based on getting a certain level of security clearance. Of course at the higher levels, you wont get the security clearance without being of the right nationalities, but that only applies to a small percentage of positions in the aircraft design.
As for your statement that "an engine is engine; the sub-contractor is none the wiser". All i can say is thank god you're not in charge of anything security related. Security through obscurity is what you're advocating and when your opponents (other nations in this case) are actively trying to find out more about your aircraft designs (and military aircraft specs are very high on the list of every intelligence services wishlist!), you really think that outsourcing like that is going to remain a secret? Intelligence agencies would have a field day with such an approach.
Whilst Boeing are definitely infected with Beancounter disease at the moment - cutting corners, failing to test critical items, and dropping the ball on quality - their are some rules you cant get away with cutting if you want to keep your cash cows. But by all means if you've got evidence that Boeing have been outsourcing their space program by all means - post it here. It would absolutely be newsworthy and El Reg would love to report it. But frankly you're talking bollocks.
"And maybe bring software development back to the USA."
I think you can stop trying to lay the blame on "dirty foreigners", there tiger. Unless things have changed significantly in recent years, only Americans can work on Starliner (and most NASA funded programs but especially anything to do with Human Spaceflight).
So this is completely down to American programmers. Or more likely their bosses, refusing to allow additional resources to be wasted on little things like reviews, testing, and hardware/software testing.
Leave the Xenophobia out of it...
TFA describes him as a technology consultant. You'd think he'd know better.
Oh I dont know. Have you ever had a "Technology Consultant" come into your business before? They spout a bunch of bollocks and buzzwords to the PHB's, convince them that X is the new thing that they absolutely need to be doing. Provide a whole bunch of expensive, yet useless solutions that fix nothing and leave the entire thing a worse mess than it was previously, and then they bugger off with their excessive fee, and leave the IT team to clean up the mess afterwards...
In other words, they're just snake oil salesman with no actual Tech knowledge beyond buzzwords. So No i wouldnt think he'd know better.... Because Blockchain!
Well they've certainly ensured one thing - Chinese nationals or pretty much anyone who even has a Chinese sounding name wont be working in any high tech industry in the west in the future. I already know there is a ban on a number of nationalities working for my firm (China is on the list along with the likes of North Korea, and Iran), and thankfully this is backed up by our local government as we are a "sensitive" industry.
I'm a little surprised they got the jobs in the first place, as these sorts of bans have been in place for donkeys years, and i hate to say it but they've been backed up by such cases of IP theft on a regular basis. Still it's sad, that will severely dent regular Chinese people's ability to find work outside of China.
I wouldnt believe a call, no. but if i received a letter from my ISP on company letterhead. Stating that "We've detected traffic from your IP address being involved in an DDOS attack. this may mean your machine or a device on your network has been compromised. Please consider running a Virus scan across your entire network or take your computer to a specialist repair shop for diagnosis."
The number one rule with these types of communications is not to offer your own solutions, do not link to any online fixes and dont be accusatory. And frankly, dont do it over email.
If you send something with a "You can test your computer by using our free diagnostics tool here" then of course people are going to think your a scammer.
Not that difficult.
Can Akamai pass the IP addresses from which they got the attack to the various ISP's, so that the ISP's can contact the associated end user and suggest they give their machines a thorough cleaning?
Otherwise, I dont really see a difference to the police stopping a bank robbery in progress, identifying the perps, and then saying "Ah well, its too hard to go and grab these crooks at their home address. We stopped them from stealing anything, so we'll just forget this ever happened..."
That's not going to stop the next attack, now is it...
I propose a new class of objects falling between 2 and 5 solar masses that shall be called Neutron Holes! Wait... No, lets name them Black Stars, much cooler sounding.
And look we just spotted one! My proposal is validated! Where do i collect my Nobel prize?
Dont be confused by the share value compared to the ACTUAL value of the company's assets. The Share Value was as high as €26bn, but thats just what the investors think its worth. It only ever had assets worth €6.8bn. Maybe, it sounds like ti never actually had assets worth more than €4.9bn.
Just remember, according to share value, Tesla is a bigger company then General Motors despite the fact that General Motors produces 1000 of times as many cars as Tesla, has huge numbers of factories, workers, IP, and all the jazz.
Just because investors are delusional, doesnt change a firms ACTUAL value...
Have I understood this right? You can use external sets, but you need to get everyone's individual permissions before you can use it. But additionally, you can only use sets that other people can also use, which means if they wanted to use the same set, they would also need to get all the permissions. Which means technically all external sets aren't allowed. Because once you have all the permissions, that means you're set is different to the public available set, because the publically available at doesn't have all the permissions.
That's a brilliant Catch 22! You almost have to applaud the pure chicanery!
I'm still flabbergasted that drone footage from those flights hasnt emerged on youtube or some Toerag hasnt fessed up on 4chan (or wherever) with a "hrhrh it was me!".
People are crap at keeping secrets as a rule. Especially 2 years down the track when it keeps popping up in the news. That whoever was behind it hasnt let slip in the pub that "yeah ok it was me." is a big surprise.
Either the person has a lot more willpower than the vast majority of people or they got one hell of a scare from the amount of publicity it got. Still if its the second one, then eventually it will come out. Fear only keeps people quiet for so long...
So Intraparfum wanted to get rid of him in 2010 after losing a contract and not having enough work left. Fair enough. But instead of just doing the normal thing of offering compensation and making him redundant. They employed him at full pay for 4 years to do nothing. Now I'm well aware that France has some very employee friendly labour laws, but I'm pretty sure that the redundancy compensation does not equal 4 years of full time pay.
Now Intraparfum have been found guilty of breaching french labour laws, which is going to cause them all sorts of problems with the unions going forward. They have paid out 4 years worth of salaries, AND they have to pay another €50k on top of that as compensation. All because they wanted to try and force someone out illegally...
Foot meet Mr Shotgun...
It's a shame they cant or wont give these muppets some additional appropriate extra punishments. Add on that he's banned from the internet (since hes proven that hes a gullible idiot that can be talked into doing violent stupidity, removing him from the internet is for his own protection) or owning a phone that can use data for the next 10 years (since he was quite happy to take away other peoples data access). Maybe he would then actually get on and do something with his life.
You are aware that the recoverable resources from any satellite in low earth orbit would be massively dwarfed by the cost of sending up something to recapture them, right?
Or where you thinking that the satellites should all be designed with heat shields (massive weight add on - upping the amount of fuel you need to get into orbit), so that they can deorbit on their own? Yes because the thought of a satellite (even a cubesat) undergoing an uncontrolled deorbit and making it back to the surface of the Earth at Mach 10+ is not a truly terrifying thought.
OK this is the second article I've read on this, and i still havent quite understood this. Maybe someone with more of an understanding of the korean justice system can explain it.
It seems that the police have collected evidence of a potential crime, but they havent charged Lee yet. But they still wanted to put him in pre-trial detention? Unless there's a concern that he could do things like destroy further evidence, witness tampering, etc. I would have thought pre-trial detention was unlikely to be granted in any case. And if they have so much evidence, then why havent they charged him yet?
Maybe there is something specifically Korean i havent understood from the articles?
Whilst I can see the point of the arguments from my fellow commentards above, one point from the EFF stands out for me. The LA Department of Transport, claim they need this info to track where people are leaving the scooters, so they dont block paths, etc.
Why do they need the ride data? Surely more useful would be (if the data is really used for the stated purpose) would be data involving when the Scooters are stationary. A simple map of where all scooters are, no need for identifying details about individual scooters. Just a map of where all the scooters are when stationary. That would meet the stated requirements. If they want the full ride details for any other purposes, they should come clean and admit what they need/want the data for. And then people can decide if they really need that data.
You've misread the article a bit. The German firm isnt a maker of PPE equipment, but a large German firm which makes use of PPE equipment and hence has contacts and a supply train already in existence. They are now being asked to leverage that network to source PPE equipment for the German government.
My guess would be someone along the lines of Bayer or Merck.
More than possible that such a firm has its fingers in at least some vaccine pies...
Look this is all very important and very intriguing, but I need to step back a second. There's a team called X-Force!?!?!?! Where do i sign up?
"Nice to meet you, so what do you do for a living?"
"I work for the X-Force!"
*cue dramatic music*
(probably followed by a "huh?" "who?" "right..... I'm going to go over here now")...
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