Posts by Lt.Kije

That explains one failure

That explains one stage failure.

What about the other?

Anyway, Elon still rocks, even if he is a nutter, so props to Shotwell.

Agent

"... Put me through to a fluent English speaking and competent customer service agent now"

Never mind the quality...

And the shamification of news is complete as El Reg now publishes ads masquerading as articles

Brute force

So these marks allowed an unlimited number of failed login attempts without raising a flag or blocking the miscreants? Do I have that right?

El Reg, Fair And Balanced!

Hmm. If we're taking time over linguistic inexactitude, then I'd point out that "shooting fish in a a barrel" means "easy", not "commonplace.

And, is El Reg growing up? Placing nuance above cheapshots? Whodathunkit.

Punk

Yup, find something unpleasant for the punk, but fine clients also, fine them a lot, and watch this type of business evaporate

Civilty

Civility and empathy among the vultures. Verily, there is hope for us yet.

Fun

Well this should be best the sideshow in years.

Look forward to the the redditariat excercising their democratic rights and letting the self interested, and certainly not communist, grand pooh-bahs know what they think, complete with uncomfortable reminders of inconvenient facts.

As for El Registrites, we know they wouldn't ever stoop to that level.

Image search

Hmm, I'm going to do a Google image search. Bet I find some matches.

Names

Very seriously impressive Willy waving.

Glad to see the Douglas Adams school of machine names emerging ...

Sunway TaihuLight

Piz Daint Cray cluster

Power9

Volta GV100

Mellanox Infiniband

Epyc 7501

Sugon TC8600

Cavium ThunderX2

Then what??

... and there’s a high probability that it’ll stay in space for 50 years.

They're coming to take me away

Cell phones may becoming more civil but the infuriating gimmickry is migrating, showing up on toasters, washing machines and, worst of all, cars.

I long for the days when you turned these things ON and OFF without these elaborately choreographed Startup and Shutdown.

About time

A change that is long overdue.

An app opportunity

Full off-device backup.

Wipe

Show

Restore

So my data lives in the Solid environment which guarantees that I control which apps have access to which data and how often. (once only, on request, always, etc). The environment would have to guarantee that a group of apps could not share personal profile data or app activity data, and thatdata is deleted when an app is deleted. What else? Automatic expiration?

Never never never...

...give these agencies legislated access

They have a solid track record of misusing every dodgy right ever given to them. And of course it is never ever reciprocal, they always Stonewall any attempt to look at their ecrets.

The issue here is

Not this chap nor this movie.

Once they have a judgement in their favour they can leverage it against ip owners/leasees who have real money and lots of clients who don't like to pay to download cobblers.

Having Moved in the US from "fibre to the house", to "Cable to the house" to 6.0mb/s "DSL to the house" I am feeling the pain.

Access is no longer a fun pastime, it is now a utility and should be regulated as one. Makes you pine for the mindset that gave us the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to "to give rural Americans a 'fair chance.".

"REA crews traveled through the American countryside, bringing teams of electricians along with them. "The electricians added wiring to houses and barns to utilize the newly available power provided by the line crews."

Waveguide wizardry

Anyone care to enlighten me on how wave guides are used to form an image on the multiple focal plane plates??

Engineers???

It speaks volumes that the industry is so inept that it is unable to come up with a secure machine to expedite voting and counting.

Dilettantes, the lot of them,without exception.

RSS Rocks

MeToo, & all that.

Just the stories,thank you very much.

Shame RSS seems to be withering elsewhere.

Help

...or, they had help on the inside on who to target, and how.

How about ...

... a browser that let's the ad slingers do there thing in a tab you can't see then shows the actual content in a tab you can see?

The reason

Why? It's not complicated, it's about the money and only the money.

A gives B shares, B gives A money. A joins the ranks of high hubris billionaires who now believe they have the answer to life the universe and everything and that it is their sacred duty to foist that on us, the unwashed ignorami.

clowns to the left of me jokers to the right

Difficult to say who is the bigger dick.

A Prize For These Guys

So, I am honored to nominate theses chumps for the inaugural award of the Elizabeth Holmes Trophy.

Data Ownership

The underlying issue is who owns the data about us.

Once governments make it clear to these pickpockets that an individual's belongs to the individual the better.

And no, I don't care a ff that the collection companies spend time and money gathering and collating it. It no more belongs to them than physical assets in the ground belong to the companies who dig it up.

So no actual personal sanction for the dolt who did this??

Given airport security's penchant for finering the entirely wrong person, and face identification systems inability to identify a face in a crowd and the plod's readiness to rely on these tools our chap would do us all a favour by succeeding.

Snobs

Next up, the wine snobs.

So, in crashes per mile driven, does Tesla Autopilot have a better record than meatbags?

The data is out there fer sure.

45°? Pfft.

In the "Nothing New Under The Sun" department,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RkEUHawaAZ4

Gods

Since time mmemorial and in every field

1) Finding the answer is not the problem, finding the question is. (D.A. yes, I know)

2) The priests will always control access to their gods