I was luckier, there were just a few wispy clouds that didn't block the view. I live just inside the path of totality, so it only lasted about a minute, but it was still very interesting.
Posts by RM Myers
637 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2012
Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic
How to improve Chinese TV? Better censorship, says top tellie-maker
Before you go away for Xmas: You've patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right?
Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download
Canada goosed as attackers shutter hospitals and China deepfakes its politicians
NASA just patched Voyager 2's software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite
I have windows 10 running on a computer I built using an ABIT motherboard bought in 2008 for USD $30. With an SSD replacing the hard drive originally used, it is actually more responsive than when I built it. It wasn't my oldest computer running windows 10, but my HP 17" laptop from 2007 died last year (the GPU had an issue caused by HP's crappy cooling system. The CPU is socketed, but the GPU is soldered and needs reballed).
Ex-Fugees star accuses his lawyer of going full robot in corruption trial
iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards
University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu
Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut
Re: Wow, 65 whole Dollars!
I've had 2 class action payments that were less than $1 USD, and 1 class action which gave me a discount off of "full fare" on airline tickets. I never used the later, since you could get tickets cheaper without the discount as long as you didn't wait until the last minute. Almost no one actually used the airline "discounts", but the attorneys pocketed well over $100 million USD
Another redesign on the cards for iPhone as EU rules call for removable batteries
Identity thieves can hunt us for 'rest of our lives,' claims suit after university data leak
Re: OK, I'll bite
Mercer filed the breach letter with a number of different states (probably every state that has a legal requirement), since they would have alumni living in every state. Maine nicely posted the information on their website, and since they only require the data breach notice IF there is unencrypted data, the author was able to infer that some data was unencrypted.
Logitech, iFixit to offer parts to stop folks binning their computer mouse
Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park
Re: Doctor?
They are a very common thing in academia in the US. I'm on the mailing list for the math department newsletter from the university where I went to graduate school, and they always profile the students getting their Phd's, including their post graduation employment, if known. Post doctoral researcher/fellowship is probably the single most common job description.
Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration
Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid
Baidu sues Apple and anyone else in sight over ERNIE chatbot fakes
Cry Havoc and let slip dogs of war ... there's an upgraded malware server in town
White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake
Just follow the instructions … no wait, not that instruction to lock everyone out of everything
Nvidia unveils RTX 4090 – but it's the 4080 to watch out for
The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback
Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators
Bogus cryptocurrency apps steal millions in mere months
You can liquid cool this Linux laptop to let the GPU soar
Many laptops already use liquid cooling
I large number of laptops already use heat pipes, which contain small amounts of liquid which transfers heat from the CPU/GPU to other cooler areas by first turning the liquid into steam, and then the steam back into a liquid at the cooler areas (near the fans/vents). The quantity of liquid may be small, but it is still critical to cooling the laptop.
Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones
Indian tax authorities raid offices of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo
Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
Weird Coincidence
I'm listening to some old musical and reading El Reg, and what is playing now? Of course, "I Heard It on the Grapevine" - the old fashion way to leak private information.
But the grapevine never leaked private information on a billion people at one shot. Finally, real progress courtesy of "The Cloud".
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles
Re: Ever get the sense...
Current models describe some of what we see (measure) very accurately; others not so accurately (dark matter and dark energies are basically placeholders for the unknown). Besides, infinity is a neat if somewhat mind blowing concept in math, but I doubt many physicists believe it really exists, despite showing up in relativity theory.
China-linked Twisted Panda caught spying on Russian defense R&D
LIDAR in iPhones is not about better photos – it's about the future of low-cost augmented reality
Sorry to disagree, but giving Apple credit for bringing another product to the consumer market seems only appropriate. After all, this was the company that invented the personal computer, the graphical user interface, the portable music player, the tablet computer, and the smart phone among many others products for individual comsumers.
Besides, their founder was rightly famous for augmenting reality from Apple's earliest days, so adding Augmented Reality to the list is only to be expected.
Critical bug allows attacker to remotely control medical robot
Re: Worrying
Good news - the server was running Ubuntu and Apache. From a cursory review of the actual security report(sorry, sometimes I can't help myself), this seems to primarily be configuration errors and design issues, rather than coding issues. For example, they left open ports on the webserver and ran javascript on the client rather than the server, as the reg article mentioned.
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims
Re: Tell me
Ah yes, the old "you get what you measure, so you damn well better make sure that is what you really want". It doesn't just apply to senior executives either. Measure your programmers on lines of code produced, and you will get lots of code, whether needed or not. Measure your project managers on meeting schedules and budgets only, and your projects will meet schedules and be on time, customer requirements be damned.
Cyclops Blink malware sets up shop in ASUS routers
Re: Eejit guide to detection...?
"...just like everything else that allows remote admin by defaul..."
At least for these routers, remote administration is turned off by default. The only legitimate reason I could see for turning it on would be the situation where someone tech savvy is maintaining the router for a less savvy owner who lives far away. It that case, hopefully they would know enough to reset the username and password to something very strong.
Apple, Google urge monopoly watchdog to leave them alone
Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline
Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments
Re: 20m, 5 years stir, 250k fine
This is from the United States Department of Justice website (https://www.justice.gov/criminal-vns/restitution-process)
"In federal court, a convicted offender may be ordered to reimburse victims for financial losses incurred due to the offender's crime. This reimbursement is called "restitution," and it may be ordered for lost income, property damage, counseling, medical expenses, funeral costs or other financial costs directly related to the crime."
This restitution to the legitimate copyright owners would be in addition to the $250K fines per offense.
Running on empty, out of battery, power draining... three things the UK government definitely isn't. Oh no
BrakTooth vulnerabilities put Bluetooth users at risk – and some devices are going unpatched
Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
Remember Google Plus? Remember its privacy blunder? Remember applying for a slice of a settlement?
$1.875m for the plaintiff lawyers; $2.15 for the regular plaintiffs
That seems like a fair settlement. Evidently the judge was looking out for the class member interests. Otherwise the plaintiff lawyers might have sold their own clients down the river so they could get big fees without having to go to trial.
Remember folks, it is he best justice system money can buy. And guess who has the money.
'Prophetic' Steve Jobs autograph telling kid to 'go change the world!' among Apple memorabilia at auction
Re: Go change the world
Steve Jobs had Islet Cell pancreatic cancer, which is a rare and "milder" form that can be cured if caught early, which his was when he had a CAT scan for a kidney stone.However, he ignored his doctor's advise to have surgery immediately, and instead tried alternative treatments. By the time he agreed to have surgery, the cancer had progressed. Had he had surgery when initially advised, his survival chances would have been much better.