Just link the virus checker to an AI
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It starts with a new chairman getting stuck into the snouts in the trough and then morphs into the organisation being stealthed.
What brought about the change in direction?
Unkind to consider that it might have been the realisation of just how much money was under the table and up for grabs.
"We've sorted out all the bad practices of the last lot. All new and shiny now! Proof? We'd love to but corporate best practice. Nothing to see here, just move along please."
Of the evolution of the office desk.
I have an old style desk in the shed which I hope to press back into service once the Tuit is sufficiently round.
Currently using an aircraft carrier sized multi level Ikea desk where at least half of the surface is unusable behind other bits of kit. Built like a brick walled shithouse though.
Conversely how do you establish that your really great idea is already buried somewhere in an obscure patent?
As far as I can tell in the USA software engineers patent everything they produce down to trivial levels including any interesting variance of their morning turds.
--> Just hanging my coat up before.....
HP was a skilled and ethical engineering company, enormously respected throughout the industry.
The "HP" of recent years was just a massive Borg of all sorts of once great companies including EDS which at the end was itself another massive Borg of once great companies.
Yeah, I'm cool about having a back door in my router so the manufacturer (they keep good secrets, no?) can overwrite the firmware any time they please.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
NB this does seem pretty standard for ISP supplied routers, but then again they don't seem to fix known problems anyway. Looking at you VM.
At least with anything less than W10 you get some notification that an update is pending with a choice of when/if. Much the same if you are lucky enough to still get updates for your phone. How will you decide if you want the update to your router?
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'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
Back when I was a lad the hostname was the leftmost part of the fully qualified domian name.
If your local computer was called wally (the host name) you could refer to it as "wally" in your local domain but had to refer to it as "wally.mydomain.co.uk" from elsewhere.
So I assume (without looking it up) that "wally.my_domain.co.uk" might also be valid?
Or has hostname (as with many other things) been changed to a more "modern" meaning?
IIRC the ticket inspectors (been to Sydney, bought an Opal card, used it loads) check that your card is valid by looking at it.
There are some special cards including those for pensioners which give cheaper travel. You have to have a valid gold card to use one though.
Perhaps they don't carry scanners to ID the chip?
Perhaps the physical card has anti-fraud measures built in?
Perhaps I'm just confusing it with the pre-Opal system?
So just the same as my Samsung Galaxy S3. Dead from a hardware fault and not really worth repairing, because you shell out a load of money and get a 4 year old phone with no OS support in return.
No mention in the article about OS updates either. I trust there is ongoing ethical support of the software for those who still have working hardware.
I didn't read in the report that these versions of the SOAP libraries were used ONLY in IoT devices.
It would be good to have a list of all the software which relies on the libraries.
Granted that IoT is one of the areas least likely to patch. Given that the pricing does not seem to allow for ongoing software maintenance. Much like the Android mobile phone and tablet market, amongst others.
Disclosure: posting from a Sony Xperia Z tablet which still seems to be going strong but hasn't had an OS update for years.
It would be nice if people who want bug fixes and software upgrades could subscribe to a support agreement. Which should of course reflect the true cost of support. Then anyone whinging that their 10 year old OS isn't being patched for free would have one less leg to stand on.
Isn't one of the main features of a public key that it is globally visible and so can be authenticated by a trusted global resource such as a signed certificate?
This seems to be using asymetric key pairs but there is no mention of how each end authenticates the identity of the other.
Unless one half of the asymetric key pair is encrypted using non quantum existing technology?
IIRC the business case for Ionica was based on a successful roll out in countries without an existing infrastructure.
Going up against an established Telco with a virtual monopoly turned out to be different.
This does sound hauntingly similar. South America for previous success?
Just because an adverse reaction to clouds of vape is held to be psychsomatic that doesn't automatically make it "not a problem".
The general concensus seems to be that vaping is not proven to be biologically harmful. However there is a feeling that obtrusive vaping is socially unacceptable in some locations.
From the anecdotal evidence in this discussion it seems that a blanket ban on vaping in public areas such as pubs and restaurants is achieving the desired effect. Undetectable unobtrusive vaping still takes place but the cloud factories are not allowed.
Given that, it seems to be a pragmatic solution.
I am against anything which encourages anti-social people to extend their personal space by pumping out visible clouds of {whatever}. Purely for reasons of personal comfort. It won't kill you is not IMHO the main issue. It will take a long time to break the link in the human mind between all the evils of smoking tobacco and people {not really} smoking a tobacco substitute. It is a very difficult line to tread between a legal ban and effective social pressure.
Whatever the underlying evidence, I am much more comfortable if I am not aware of people vaping.
Drink beer, a legal high ->
Hang on, scientifically it is actually a depressant....
Edit: vaping does need to be regulated to ensure that the liquids remain safe. Just food, drink, drugs common sense.
Context and hidden cues are important.
One fine example is Peter Kay who does part of his act telling you an alternative lyric to a song then lip syncing to the track. You hear the alternative lyric because your mind and eyes have been given misleading additional information.
Which leads me to conclude that a fine test for this kind of software would be the accurate transcription of pop song lyrics.
Releasing infected males to mate with wild females...hang on.....cold shower....aaahhh....now where was I?
Oh, yes.
I assume that they decided that releasing infected females to waste the efforts of wild males...{sploosh.....damn that's cold.....aaahhh} would be less effective although ISTR that has been tried with other species.
-> hanging my coat up to keep it dry
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with faint praise
I've seen a very sensible use of a drone by the emergency services.
Mind you, in Katooma, NSW, Australia.
There is a mahoosive stairway from the Echo Point viewing area down to the valley floor.
Someone was reported to be in trouble near the bottom.
They sent a drone down to check this out before commiting to sending someone down all those 800+ steps.