Posts by Kevin McMurtrie 3560 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2007
It seems that late model MacBook Pro laptops have some critical boot code in their non-removable storage. After Migration Assistant did nothing of use, I booted two laptops into Network Recovery mode and streamed one laptop's storage device to the other laptop's using 'nc'. That bricked it to a spinning globe and it needed to be repaired. Think about that when you install freshly-released OS.
For a while I thought you were describing Google's own apps. I get about 4 spams a day that use Google services in some way. Hundreds more are rejected daily by mail source rules.
When I used Usenet, I recall Chinese crime gangs sending several hundred fake store spams per day, per hundreds of topics, for at least 6 years. Too bad Google didn't give a crap then.
I aborted a job interview when it began with several pages of Hireview disclosures, privacy policy, and terms of use. It was an hour of reading material e-mailed to me 25 minutes before the interview. I guess the first pass of the system is weeding out candidates that read contracts before agreeing to them.
It's probably a minimum of 5 years before 5G-standalone replaces 4G to any significant degree. Until then it's just a piggyback download booster for certain urban areas.
Lack of feature diversity is killing phone upgrades. Nearly all phones with a global radio have 4+ cameras, a sealed case with only a single USB-C port, and a big price tag. All of the features and variety taken for granted a few years ago are only available on some regional radio phones for India and China.
Some Asia-region phones work in the US on LTE Band 4 but it's a crowded band. Data will get throttled frequently.
Cell phones are an area where you never want to be using the first invention. Cell phone hardware and software support is, at best, non-existent. Typical 'technicians' will tell you its your fault then factory-reset your phone to make sure that you have nothing to complain about for at least another day. Maybe they just say it has "water ingress" or "physical damage" then illegally cancel the warranty. Phone manufacturers even run their own "support" message boards where moderators are instructed to spread misinformation.
Can there be anything more horrible than working with both a telco AND a phone maker to debug 5G problems? The best technical solution for a bad cell phone is usually a factory wipe and leaving on the sidewalk with a "FREE" sign.
My last few jobs have been creating professional web applications. JavaScript is quite powerful so it's possible to create some kinds of web applications with the same performance as desktop applications. JavaScript + WebSockets + a lean Java/Jetty backend (no Spring) makes a real-time application. As fussy as browsers are, supporting them is a breeze compared to thousands of old beater Mac and Windows systems with sketchy anti-virus and data leak protection software.
GoogleSoftwareUpdate used to interfere with MacOS power management so its daemon stalled. When the daemon finally aborted talking to GoogleSoftwareUpdate, it would become confused by the time jump and instantly put the system to sleep.
I'm sure it's not talking to the power management for data slurping. Google would never do that.
It sounds like he's trying to solve two problems without solving them.
First, a computer stolen while anything is decrypted is vulnerable. How does moving encryption to the user-level solve that? Assume the user decryption keys are tossed when the computer suspends. Now what at wakeup? All of every users' processes crash or lock up until each one logs in again? That seems worse than locking up the whole system in firmware until a password is provided.
Second, give user-level encryption. Why? Protect against an admin viewing everything? An admin could intercept your decryption keys just as easily. Nothing is safe if you can't trust the admin role.
The problem I've seen in the past with Python was when multiple people with different indentations were editing the same file. The lines looked right but they were all different mixes of tabs and spaces. Well, that and the "Python has threads" versus the "Python doesn't have threads" developers. It looks like Nim is starting off with a threading demo to set expectations.
Some would say Spring is legacy too. It's an incredibly heavy and tightly integrated framework that never works the way anyone wants it to. Its annotations and conventions spread into your entire codebase, making a horrible mess and causing lock-in. Forget about debugging any of it.
Newer architectures are more utility based. You use what you want and only when you want it. You start off writing a bit more code but it is eventually much cleaner and easier to maintain. DropWizard would be the newer model, though it's just a collection of other things with a bit of integration code. You can remove DropWizard from a DropWizard app, and I like that.
The new switch is nice.
The option to release memory to the OS quickly should help small devices, like cellphones. Hopefully Google hasn't forked the Android JVM innards so it's technologically stuck again.
Preparation for Project Loom (back to the old many:many ratio between Java and Kernel threads) is ambitious but I still need some convincing that the complexity is really worth it. I haven't run out of native threads since 1998. WebSockets involve massive numbers of idle TCP/IP connections but they're message-based so non-blocking I/O isn't too complex for them.
I can get along with people wanting a more free market or a smaller government. These are discussion points in a topic that will never have a perfect solution.
Trump is not that. Trump is hatred, ego, fear, lies, reckless waste, and pride in stupidity. White House employees rage-quitting doesn't count as a smaller government. McNealy might want to check the recent slope of the federal deficit.
It's a good start, but the two biggest reasons for me replacing cellphones is to get new LTE bands or having no maintained OS. Sign me up when I can select the radio bands. I'll even help develop if there's that and 3rd party OS support.
(T-Mobile has LTE bands 2, 4, 5, 12, 66, 71 in the US. International roaming is free in most countries so you'll want bands 1, 3, 7, 8, 11, 20, 41, and maybe others if you travel. At least some of those LTE bands will migrate to stand-alone 5G over the next few years.)
There's no room for a memory slot or a second port to allow for portable charging while using wired headphones, but it was no problem to add enough cameras to give you trypophobia. Still no USB-C port. Still a big ugly notch when other phone makers are shrinking theirs or switching to a mini-bezel.
Few people need a phone that's 20% faster. Phone apps are going to look the same until it's 2000% faster.
I'll immediately stop using Firefox if this can't be disabled.
I know The Reg is a Cloudflare customer, but Cloudflare also has quite a reputation for criminal bulletproof hosting. When you get a spam for a fake commerce site, odds are that Cloudflare is the bandwidth for it. And no, Cloudflare will not stop providing services simply because it's blatantly illegal, phishing for credit cards, and spoofing another business. I've phoned their abuse department and they said they told me to file a police report. (I did many times - hopefully enough to be a PITA to them)
OK, I'm a little disappointed that this little cruiser has a whopping 1500 HP but can't deploy a hydrofoil to sprint at ludicrous speeds. Or drive water cutting jets to slice open other boats as you pass by. I'd even settle for a reto laser over the periscope. There's a real lack of sinister gadget accessories on this sub. Hopefully there's a big space for DIY projects.
Don't mix up Java and Java EE. Java is a language, some standard classes, and a VM specification. Except for a few tasks where bulk structure allocation is needed, it can run at least as fast as C++. (I have coded similar systems in C++ and Java simultaneously)
Java EE is an enormous collection of frameworks designed to replace boring boilerplate coding with billions of lines of XML, YAML, magical annotations, class field inspection, strict design pattern implementations, component implementations, service workers, message handlers, delegates, RPC adapters, class re-writers, and all the bug workarounds needed for them. These frameworks don't always do exactly what you need so EE apps tend to be heavily de-optimized beyond the EE overhead itself.
I'm betting they're using 128 bit hashes or 122 bit type 4 UUIDs for image IDs. The odds say that they have no chance of colliding but number theory says they must collide. When you might accidentally lose all of your money or broadcast porn, go for what number theory says. (I have once witnessed type 4 UUIDs from different places colliding.)
PCs were momentarily declared dead because people choosing between a desktop and a laptop would choose a laptop. Now a cellphone or tablet can do most lightweight portable computing. The high-end ones even make pretty good remote terminals with a little USB-C docking station connecting them to Ethernet, mouse, keyboard, and monitor. It makes sense to buy the desktop for serious use and skip the laptop.
It's magnetized lengthwise and you only need to control the tip. It should be trivial to steer as long as the turns aren't too sharp. The lab tech seems to be doing it fine just by holding a magnet.
They might want to give it a slight spiral shape so they can help drive it forwards and backwards with a spin. I imagine it would get stuck very easily in squishy blood vessels that deform and kink under pressure.
I worry that those behind Homeland Security will comfortably grow old before there's a chance to put them in jail. The trillions of dollars wasted, all of the people harassed, the propaganda to make us distrust foreigners, massive damage to the travel and IT industries, and the tarnished image of the US - all as an excuse to spend money with no accountability.
It would be a miracle if America can get elected officials with the determination and ethics to take care of it.
If it's running at 3V, you'd need 5kA to reach 15kW. That makes me think that the socket for this chip is a giant hollow copper clamp where coolant and current must flow together. I'm not even sure what a 5kA power supply with +/- 0.05V or so regulation on a dynamic load would look like. I'm guessing lots of mid-sized synchronous buck regulators followed by low-dropout linear regulators, each with very precise current balancing.
Any other number/signal theory scams that haven't been used in the past few years? A revolutionary DSL/WiFi/6G/HDD codec that breaks theoretical bandwidth for a given spectrum and SNR? Imaging far beyond aperture limits? Incredible lossless compression? Projecting large holographic images directly into your eyes from a small source?
This person developed a long career out of being purely a criminal. The odds of him every being useful are slim.
He also had a large collection of stolen credit cards that he used for personal expenses. Elderly on small fixed incomes and families in financial hardship could end up worse than stabbed if they have trouble with the bank.
I predict that everyone - providers, telco customers, and phone buyers - will eventually be more realistic about 5G and treat it as an ordinary evolutionary equipment update. It's not like there's a new magical surge of money coming in to replace everything now. Nobody will see big benefits from using debt to speed up the transition.
The downside of the Chinese phones is that they usually don't support all of the US LTE bands. Every time some TV channels move, there's a new LTE band that your phone doesn't support. There are several low GHz bands for fast urban bandwidth, the 700-800 MHz bands for indoor penetration, and 600-700 MHz bands for ultra-long range. If that's not confusing enough, they are usually aggregated together. GSM coverage is no longer a priority so you'll need VoLTE working for each carrier.
It says:
The IP addresses listed in this SBL are used by 1&1 solely for delivering emails that have been internally (by 1&1) classified as SPAM.
You have been referred to this page for one of the following reasons:
a) Your own legitimate emails have been erroneously classified as SPAM by 1&1's systems. In this case please contact 1&1 directly using the following link to clear up the matter:
http://postmaster.1und1.de/en/blacklisting/?ip=82.165.159.10&c=sbl
b) You found non-delivery reports "bounces" in your mailbox for messages other than your own. This indicates that a third party has sent these emails through your mailbox without your consent. Please take the following steps to re-establish the security of your 1&1 mailbox:
i) Check your computer for viruses:
Perform a thorough anti-virus scan on all computers which have been used to access the mailbox.
ii) Choose a new password for the affected mailbox.
Please carefully note that if you contact Spamhaus regarding this SBL listing, you will not receive any answer and the listing will not be removed. Your only resolution path is through 1&1, as indicated above.
I checked some hosts mentioned in the comments and the RIPE records are inconsistent. Fixing that would be a good start.
Honestly, the Internet has been on a slow path to destruction when it's going to entirely blacklist itself. Dedicated cybercrime hosting is down (except for in China, Taiwan, and France) and apathy is taking its place. A lot of networks today have a bot reply that your complaint has been ignored and you need to fill out a 5 page form online that's behind a registration wall. China and Taiwan don't even list a valid abuse contact. Google isn't listening. That's not what you want to see when your machine is under attack.
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