Posts by Mark 85 12882 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Very true, but then Zuck wouldn't stand to make his billions or at least keep them. It's seems that this is basically because FB is headed the way of MySpace as they lose the kids and all that's remaining is the old folks who like to argue over politics and religion.
I'm patiently waiting for FB just end up a dead zone in the universe.
Possibly overloaded. The news articles on this outage mention that other services are being way overloaded. I guess people need their meme fixes and photos of granny's lunch.
There was on Yahoo! News... https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-outage-down-reactions-twitter-220806155.html
Time to think "what if?". What if this is intentional on FB's part? They've been taking a lot of crap from many corners lately. This would be a way to get all their users upset and demand that the critics leave them alone.
Wild speculation but after the last 4 years, I wouldn't put anything past them or anyone else.
So after the panic in offices, etc. folks might actually be more productive then? Or just so upset they can't do anything. Families will have actually have to talk to each other with whatever consequences result from actual conversation.
For a fleeting day or hours, we're back in the 90's.
all bad jokes aside an ice skater spins faster with arms pulled inwards. Something about centripetal force and rotational momentum.
That would seem to be the case. I vaguely remember my high school science teacher explaining it as a large storm system. But he wrote it off his explanation as just a "guess".
Is it possible the larger size of Jupiter compared to Earth not only makes the "storm" bigger but also last longer? Then we need to know why it is red? Is the planet covered in red soil?
Not sure how FB pulled it off, but back in the days of MySpace, most people avoided FB like the plaque. Then in a matter of year or so around the time MySpace started making major changes to it's layout before being sold, most users suddenly showed up on FB. I suspect if FB hadn't been around, we'd be disgusted with MySpace.
Disclaimer.. was a user of MySpace but never was or will be one of FB.
Valid points you and the article make on things going obsolete or being "upgraded". As long as there's companies that need to make a profit we'll have these problems. Yes it's ridiculous, it's expensive, and for us in IT it's tedious as hell many times.
No answers here. Companies like Apple, et al, like the "here's a new shiney" even if there's no real improvement. There are those of us who some consider luddites because we don't run out every couple of years and buy new equipment, new software, etc. By "new" these things really aren't but have more stuff and bloat added.
I guess I'm one of those as still running a Gateway PC with Win 7. It works, it's no longer a prime attack surface for miscreants. For the things I do at home, it's all I need.
I'll await the downvotes from those who advocate for "new", "shiney", and insane corporate profits.
The cheering came from SpaceX employees gathered to watch the launch. If you watch earlier launches of Falcon 9s and the Heavy you will hear a lot of the same cheering.
I've wondered about that in the past. Were they told to be there and cheer on cue or did they show up on their own. It almost sounded like someone waved a flag saying "cheer now"... rather inconsistent.
My ex- had a lot of issues with those black-on-black-on-black buttons. She only used her laptop at night sitting in bed or on a road trip. I found that a very small drop of CA (super glue) "thin" applied with a pointed toothpick to the button worked a charm. After than, never had an problem with her turning off wi-fi.
Back when the USMC ran operations at the old blimp base at Santa Ana, Calif., the door on each end of the blimp hangers were not permitted to be fully open on both ends. The reason was that pilots often saw it as a challenge to fly through them.
On the bright side... none ever crashed into the hangers. I did see an A-4 fly through one as the doors were wide open for some reason on both ends
The Goodyear blimp used to use the hangers for maintenance and was dwartfed by those hangers (they still stand).
I'm not so sure of that. It this case it's more like the normal military operational mode. They may have new toys but the mindset of senior officers is almost always "well the last war we fought we did it this way". I heard that one more than few times when I was in Marines in Vietnam.
When I worked in the defense industry after my 4 years in the military
, there was common phrase that we heard from the high ups..."What? We've never done that before!". Followed my much grumbling, refusal to think outside of their little box of experience.
Needless to say, I didn't stay working in defense very long.
Additional note: It was common to say the Marines operated under the rule of "200 years of tradition unhampered by progress". I think that actually applies (change number years as needed) to all branches of the military.
Wouldn't the computer operator and/or data entry person for the AI's algorithm be an "inventor" by using a tool to create it? I see no reason why those people can't put their names instead of the AI program name...
Dead on right. Just like someone gives an engineer a spec and tells them to design the object. AI is just glorified robot though as it doesn't come up with the ideas. I have worked at companies that let the engineer file the patent but the company not the engineer owns the design as the engineer is usually required to assign the rights to the company.
It's a Democrat inquiry called by Pelosi to distract from her own failings. She is after all responsible for Congress security.
Err... no. From various Googles as to who in incharge: "It is provided by the sergeants-at-arms of the House and Senate, and by the Capitol Police. The House sergeant-at-arms reports to the House speaker, or Pelosi at the time of the attack. The Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader — on Jan. 6, Sen. Mitch McConnell."
I've been watching this BS go on and on by many members of the Republican Party. The questions that no one has asked those leaders are "who are they protecting?" and "why are they fighting this?" Methinks the Republicans doth protest too much and they have much to fear even if it's just the wrath of Trump much less anything they may have done to enable the event of 1/6.
I too am sick of the politics here in the States. It used to be about issues, not personalities and news bites. Or perhaps before the Internet we didn't see the BS that went on?
I'm sorry, but how come this company has been operating for three years?
I'll probably set a record for downvotes but it's possible that the last administration didn't care or perhaps the party was using it for their purposes. With all the crap that's coming out, it seems possible since they had the say as to who was in charge of the FTC.
the hardware components on the aged Zvezda section [...] will be past their manufacturers' warranty period
All hardware in space has a limited life due to stresses and radiation from the sun and elsewhere. I suspect that this will be a long hard problem to solve especiailly if we're going to look at traveling great distances and taking decades to get there.
Good grief, couldn't we do with less stupid nationalistic willy waving?
No. The waving has been going on from very beginning. The space agencies use it to get more money. Even "joint" operations are about money such as the US paying Russia for too long to launch our guys to the ISS.
Sadly, hacking doesn't mean what it used to mean. In the not too distant past, a "hacker" was an IT wisz who could do things beyond the mere mortals who used computers.
Today, it's been demoted to general "not good people". I guess most folks don't understand the word "miscreant".
I've seen people sucked into the FB parallel universe and it isn't pretty.
It's going to get a lot worse instead of ever getting better. There's articles out there for "Zoom-like" meetings using animation instead of real faces. No one knows how much they're slurping from those meetings. I would hope that any business that values it's meetings and the info discussed stay the hell away from it.
Apparently, shutting down the accounts of anyone who might be checking
Or anyone questioning FB on anything. A friend got banned (and new accounts he tried were banned) for post links to negative articles about them. At least one was from El Reg. I think he's finally realized there's better things to do than post on Farcebook.
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