* Posts by bombastic bob

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Data centres are warm and designed to move air very efficiently. Are they safe to visit during the pandemic?

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Devil

Re: All the biometrics are annoying though

I prefer the RFID badges since you can put it in a pocket inside your briefcase, never touch the badge, never touch the reader, just hold your briefcase up to it with the badge-pocket nearest to the reader

(when I have to work on site at a company that uses badges like that, anyway)

yeah biometric entry systems become a vector for disease spread. who'd a thunk it?

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Devil

Re: "viruses don’t like the low humidity"

also if there are electrostatic precipitator air filters or just plain ionizers it should help a LOT. High voltage electricity, etc.

Seriously ANY place with this kind of filtration system should be good.

(my home air filters are old and wearing/worn out - I should get some new ones)

I was hearing earlier that warmer weather helps to kill of the viruses, and that LOW humidity is easier for them to live in. Conflicting information then...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, surely has no frozen water, right? Guess again: Solar winds form ice

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Devil

Re: So there is ice and fog in Mercury?

I would expect there to be a lot of heavier elements on Mercury, too - rare earths and gold and platinum and uranium and other such things, in higher concentrations than Earth. Proximity to the sun - outer planets are less rocky, inner planets more rocky. I expect the "rockiest" one to be Mercury.

The nights are long - you could land on the dark side and conduct mining operations during the night, when it's cold instead of roasting [easier to heat people and things than to cool them]. And apparently there'd be water there as well [like on the moon I guess].

I think the planet mercury in Japanese is 'Suisei' - 'liquid star', best understanding. So the Sailor Mercury reference to water, etc..

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Trollface

Re: When hell

"You've frozen EVERYTHING! Do you have any idea how long it takes to get the pilot lit?"

(from an Animaniacs cartoon - they went to hell, yeah - and froze it over)

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Coat

"Making Water"

couldn't help myself...

/me gives thumbs-up for interesting article on the way out - coat, please

Looming ventilator shortage amid pandemic sparks rise of open-source DIY medical kit. Good thinking – but safe?

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Devil

Re: It's not just the mechanicals that are needed

a positive pressure air system ventilator that's kitbashed together, and works acceptably, can help a less serious case and can be the difference between recovering at home and ending up in hospital.

I like your thinking. It's also LESS STRESSFUL TO THE PATIENT if you don't have to paralyze parts of his body to keep him alive, ya know??? And if I am paying for it myself [which I would be], I'd want the less expensive, less biologically stressful, 'does not require a hospital bed' version, thankyouverymuch [assuming it would be sufficient]. After all, who needs a BMW when a Ford will do [and the Ford is afFORDable - ha ha bad PUNishment].

There used to be these things called "iron lungs". They worked.

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Devil

Re: Apollo 13 anyone?

not so much a joke really. It's amazing what a hackish mind and some "odd stuff laying around" can make happen.

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Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

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Devil

Re: When you have nothing...

"stop anyone suing the health service should they feel"

Corona virus as a motivator for TORT REFORM? Sounds good to me!

(yeah that whole "*FEEL*" thing causes SO many problems...)

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Meh

Hospitals _will_ be overwhelmed.

"OK Doomer" /snark

Seriously though there's too much FEAR going on out there. Sure, hospitals will need ventilators for some of their patients, and the potential for overwhelming hospitals DOES exist. The thing is, only the _sickest_ patients are initially going in for treatment, which skews the numbers quite a bit. It causes an inaccurate picture of the situation which THEN prompts "the doomers" and "the panickers" to do what they do.

I would expect that within the next month you'll see a significant drop in the number of new cases for various reasons, just like has been the case in China already.

All that needs to happen is a _slowing_ _down_ of the spread, and some preparation [i.e. having the equipment available at the hospitals]. Older ventilators may not have all of the same features, but apparently they were good enough "back then" to help out. So yeah, you use what you have.

"DON'T PANIC!" <-- like it says in the Hitchhiker's Guide

Microsoft frees Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 from the shackles of, er, Windows?

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Devil

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

hopefully doesn't involve WAYLAND nor SYSTEMD, either...

(/me adds 'Devuan' and 'FreeBSD' to your list)

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WTF?

"an issue that could stop ActiveX content loading"

WHY in the HELL are they STILL SUPPORTING THIS?

WHY has it NOT been NUKED from HIGH ORBIT along with FLASH ???

(YES. STOP ActiveX CONTENT from LOADING - by STOPPING ActiveX !!!)

We checked in with the new Windows 10X build, and let's just say getting this ready for late 2020 will be a challenge

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Unhappy

Re: Sounds terrible

"the result is always awful"

you are being KIND with that description...

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Megaphone

Re: UWP

"Win32 apps just work"

and do NOT ridiculously LIMIT what you can do with YOUR application!

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Re: Please, no more.....

There are only THREE reasons why Linux desktops aren't generally replacing windows.

1. Software compatibility - WINE isn't quite ready for prime time.

2. the willingness for major commercial software houses to product Linux versions. Some do [like CAD software, databases], but most STILL do not.

3. Micro-shaft's past (evil) marketing practices, in which they strong-armed computer makers into pre-loading windows onto ALL of the computers they make. Yeah, a decade or so of THAT and even when they can't do it any MORE, they still benefit from having done it...

To reverse this, you have to do better than what IBM tried with OS/2. You have to put a LOT of money up against Micro-shaft's marketing engine.

Microshaft (in effect) sells CRAPPY ice to Eskimos, having convinced everyone that their ice is somehow better than the free stuff, when the OPPOSITE is actually true... (the power of 'marketing')

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FAIL

Re: Please, no more.....

Are you going to actually tell me that (almost) every man and his mother isn't wining about Windows 10's Tiles???

*NOT* 'whining'. Ranting. Lamenting. Venting. Complaining in the hopes that OTHERS will know, agree, and force it to go away. But Certainly Not 'Whining'.

Do you live in a society where going against what "big brother" wants to do TO you is somehow 'whining' ? Just curious... Because if you cannot get your grievances addressed somehow, the NEXT move is to "move on" (unless, by some quirk of fate or evil overlord take-over move, it's a MONOPOLY now and your at "the master's whims"). The whole BAD THING about Win-10-nic is centered on the FORCING of "CHANGE" upon the rest of us, becuase a small number of bureaucratially-minded Micro-shaft "engineers": *FEEL*...

And voicing our STRONG opposition to such "change" is _NOT_ 'whining'!!! (no matter how much you *FEEL* otherwise - and 'feel' to me is the 'F' word, and nearly always pejorative when I use it).

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Trollface

Re: I'm looking forward to Windows 10X

better bugs and security holes - because we can't just fix the existing bugs and security holes, we must make NEW ones, BETTER than before!!!

Yep, snark meter is pegged all the way to the right at the moment. I think the needle bent a bit, too. (it's what I get for having an old-school analog snark-meter)

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Mushroom

Re: Please, no more.....

no. "change" is not FEARED. "Change for the Worse" aka what MS has done with Win-10-nic is LOATHED, DESPISED, REVILED, and SPIT UPON! (and REBELLED against!)

"Change" does not mean "Better". "Change" does not mean it is a GOOD thing. "Change" can be a very BAD thing, and when FORCED upon us, is GUARANTEED to be VERY VERY BAD. Because, if it were GOOD, we would GLADLY embrace it. But when it is *UNWANTED* and even *FORCED*, it is like SLAVERY, or being CONQUERED, or having a bypass put in place of your house like with Arthur Dent...

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Trollface

Re: Please, no more.....

Agility = "So Agile it's FRAgile!"

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Gimp

Re: Please, no more.....

You're SUPPOSED to say (while bending over and grabbing your ankles): "Thank you SIR. May I have another???"

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will introduce a ton of changes that [snip] risk alienating traditional Windows users

WHAT! THE! *FEEL*! COULD! THEY! POSSIBLY! BE! "NOT-THINKING"! (*FEEL*ing) ???

This reminds me of a really BAD joke...

A truck driver gets to a truck stop, and ends his day of driving at the bar next door. He says "I'm Big Moe and I want to get SCREWED!" (ok didn't say 'SCREWED' but you get the idea). So the bartender slips him an address and he goes there. He knocks loudly on the door, "I'm Big Moe and I want to get SCREWED!" An angry male voice yells "slide $100 under the door". Big Moe does it. 5 minutes later he's POUNDING on the door. "What in the HELL do you want?" the male voice says. "I'm BIG MOE, AND I WANT TO GET SCREWED!" The angry male voice answers back "What, AGAIN???"

Only THIS time, it's Microsoft, Windows, and the latest Win-10-nic release FILLED with FEATURE CREEP. "What, AGAIN???"

How's this for a JEDI mind trick? AWS waves hand, has Uncle Sam 'reconsider' $10bn contract award to Microsoft

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Devil

overall savings... you DO have a point.

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"Job Security"

a cloud provider will no doubt work relentlessly to lock in any customer in a number of ways

Oracle has probably been doing this for YEARS with THEIR solutions...

and you've heard of "job security" with contractors, right?

What the Feds need to do is scope it out properly so that the risk of this is minimized, knowing it CAN (and probably WILL) happen if it is NOT in the contract.

Trump is a 'contract guy". I hope he and his people are involved enough in the process to address this very REAL concern.

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Happy

Re: WOT!

it is too late for the pebbles to vote

interesting analogy...

Firefox 74 slams Facebook in solitary confinement: Browser add-on stops social network stalking users across the web

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Devil

Re: No FB for me, ever

yeah I'd like those details published, please.

With more and more sites requiring script+cookies+whatever, I've resorted to running a "true sandbox" firefox for them. Log in as a non-priv user via 'su -', accessing my X11 desktop using a 'DISPLAY' environment variable in the context of that user (not the logged-in user for the desktop in other words), and close the browser completely when I'm done with it. Whenever I close that particular browser, it automatically WIPES ALL HISTORY AND COOKIES. So every time I run it, it is a "clean slate" with NO tracking data.

If I need multiple sites open at the same time, I can just have MULTIPLE USERS for this purpose.

IP address and browser fingerprints are still possible, though. If I cared enough I'd "genericize" the browser string, too, make ti say I'm running Win-10-nic and Edge or something.

and NO Faece-Bitch login for ME, *EVAR*

Microsoft throws a bone to those unable to leave the past behind: .NET 5 support on the way for Visual Basic

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Meh

I do not think that word means what you think it means, MS...

I stopped using VB after VB3 when it became obvious that the use of MS's shared components in ANY install would probably result in a "worse than DLL HELL" situation, even though it made a great front-end that could be designed by someone who wasn't much of a programmer [and then I'd fill in the blanks so to speak].

And as for "stability" - I do not think this word means what MS thinks it means.

VB1 was unique and interesting, and I hacked a few things to make stuff work - then VB2 broke my hacks but added some better ways of doing the same things, and then VB3 required a few more changes, yotta yotta to the point where I knew that EVERY incarnation of VB would require REAL effort and if VB2's shared DLLs wouldn't work on "THAT OS", so you HAD to "up"grade to VB3, yotta yotta, it showed me a path of CONSTANT "support the version changes" nightmare that I decided NO WAY VB! and I haven't really used it since.

And of course ".NOT" just made things THAT! MUCH! WORSE!

Microsoft nukes 9 million-strong Necurs botnet after unpicking domain name-generating algorithm

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Devil

Re: Financial analysis?

CAUCE has done a lot of analysis on this

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Devil

Re: MS at least try to be the good guys every now and then

agreed - "safe surfing" works, even on unpatched windows systems.

I'm sure the malware infections target people who aren't suspicious enough. And of course, windows is the big target. 'Droid seems to be attracting similar kinds of attention [and it's Linux under the hood] but at least the kernel side should be rock-solid. Userland applications, however...

(and isn't that USUALLY where the virus/trojan infections take place, in a vulnerable userland application?)

Meltdown and derivatives notwithstanding, you usually need some kind of entry vector. And it's probably a browser or someone getting tricked into "download this to view the content".

The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP

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Meh

Re: XP Updates

"That is not necessarily even REMOTELY close to an update."

fixed it for ya

(I happen to think that XP is _SUPERIOR_ to Win-10-nic in nearly EVERY way, except for any bug fixes that are still needed for XP)

Feature creep = BAD

stable and consistent = GOOD

Why coouldn't we JUST HAVE the stable/consistent windows and NOT be FORCED to accept the "feature creep" of Win-10-nic???

I miss XP. I liked XP. I think in MOST ways it was better than 7. Add multiple desktops and the bug fixes and hardware support [minus any REQUIREMENT-FOR-KERNEL-DRIVERS-TO-BE-SIGNED, *that* is *EVIL*] and XP would _DEFINITELY_ be SUPERIOR to Win-10-nic!

You've duked it out with OS/2 – but how to deal with these troublesome users? Nukem

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Unhappy

Re: Timing is off..

people knowing people. Looks like "the elitists" won. Looking at what MS excretes nowadays in the form of Win-10-nic, I'm NOT surprised.

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Devil

Re: Timing is off..

it's my understanding that the Phoenix BIOS was NEVER licensed in any way from IBM. Instead, the IBM BIOS was reverse engineered, then a new one was re-written from scratch by a different team (see article link). I'm pretty sure that THIS was the trigger that REALLY started the clones ("true clones" and not things IBM approved of, nor illegal copies). There were many OTHER BIOS makers besides them, and it was mostly done without IBM's blessing nor consent... because the hardware specs were essentially "open" and generic enough.

This was a reason for microchannel for PS/2 by the way...

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Meh

Re: Why reinstall Win3.1?

Warp was what OS/2 should have been in the first place. It's what happens when you get the market completely wrong (like IBM did, see my earlier post as to why) and they have to play "catch up" only everyone has ALREADY standardized on one thing, so why change?

reasons to migrate (back then):

DOS to Windows - makes sense

DOS to OS/2 - makes sense if you don't run windows stuff

Windows to OS/2 - why bother? NO compelling reason!

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Devil

Re: Timing is off..

OS/2 1.2 was in 1991-ish. I took a programming (night) class on it, shortly before Windows 3.0 released.

From the article: "OS/2 was a joint development project taken on by IBM and Microsoft back in the 1980s and was regarded as the future by evangelists of the time. Things turned sour as sales of Windows 3.0 took off ".

I'd like to add some history to that, VERY relevant to today.

At that time Windows 2.x was all "2D and FLATTY" (like some so-called "modern" windows versions are today). And, so was OS/2 until version 1.2. But then, OS/2 1.2 'Presentation Manager' added full color support [requiring VGA as I recall] and 3D Skeuomorphic appearance to all of the various 'control' windows (like buttons and checkboxes and list boxes and so on) and of course that intuitively understandable GUI we all know and love from the Windowx 3.x days. It was a design based on ease of use and a transition from text-based interfaces normally found on the PC.

IBM wanted OS/2 to be synomymous with PS/2, however, like a high-end OS for their high-end PC. They were VERY angry about "the clones", essentially driving them out of the low-end PC market. unfortunately this meant that NOBODY could buy OS/2 for a clone - you could ONLY buy it for a PS/2, unless the PC maker had "an OEM version" of OS/2 for their line of PCs. Good luck with that.

Enter Windows 3.0 which was a marketing success because it TARGETED THE MASSES, ran well (enough) on non-standard PC configurations, and had that (much covetred) 3D SKEUOMORPHIC APPEARANCE. It was TRULY SUPERIOR to EVERYTHING at that time, except maybe for OS/2, which Microsoft ALSO wrote.

IBM blew it because of their STUPID marketing of OS/2 + PS/2. Microsoft WON because they did what people WANTED, i.e. a 3D Skeuomorphic multi-tasking GUI add-on that ran on existing MS-DOS machines [and was still compatible with old MS-DOS programs].

(but of course NOWADAYS you have MS turning into something WORSE than what IBM was back then... and NOT listening to customer wants, and instead "millenial PHONE-Y FEELS")

Don't be fooled, experts warn, America's anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground

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Childcatcher

Re: Fucking idiots.

making coronavirus illegal. Hell, THAT will stop its spread!

(same logic applies to everything else that "pass a law making it illegal" would do to 'the thing' the politicians happen to be BLEATING about at the moment... from GUNS to ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY to "content they don't *FEEL* you should look at")

NOTE: by me, *FEEL* is always used as a PEJORATIVE.. stupid "feelies" need to STOP trying to run OUR lives!

Oh, and it's always "for the children": (see icon)

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'

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Trollface

Re: "...could I borrow $60 (US) via PayPal..."

you could always respond "I'll send you a check in the mail", get a mailing address, and then send a check, by registered mail, requiring ID and signature on the receiving end. Even sending it overnight express would work. Maybe worth it if you don't mind catching some "dumb crook" in the act of being, well, a "dumb crook".

Or, maybe you want proof it's someone you actually know. add "Please send me a photograph. So that I know it's legit, and not something you found online, hold up a sign that says 'I Am Sofa Kingdom!'"

You. Drop and give me 20... per cent IPv6 by 2023, 80% by 2025, Uncle Sam tells its IT admins after years of slacking

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Re: Crap

you should use a Linux or BSD server on your network, and set up DHCP (including DHCPv6) and DNS. Then you can use names and won't have to remember the numbers [and IPv6 will become naturally available, depending]. I've been doing this for my own LAN since the early 2000's.

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Devil

Re: @batfastad - Erm...

"millions of companies" = "straw man" [you assume they are making conscious 'we will NOT do IPv6' decisions when, in fact, it may simply be a lack of knowledge or even the unavailability of IPv6 blocks from their intarweb providers].

Besides, the "bandwagon technique" hardly proves ANYTHING. "Millions of people around the world eat bugs". Does not make me want to do it.

The biggest hurdle I have seen to general IPv6 adoption is a lack of direct support from ISPs. When the ISP gives you a router that has all of the IPv6 stuff working, and they officially support it (even via PPPoE), then you'll see a LOT more people using IPv6. Until then there are the free tunnels, for however long THAT will last. Setting them up requires at least some network knowledge beyond "average", in my opinion.

In any caae, anti-IPv6 FUD and "fake news" is (probably?) NOT helping.

Download this update from mybrowser.microsoft.com. Oh, sorry, that was malware on a hijacked sub-domain. Oops

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Devil

Re: Hands Up

How to get junior system admins interested in cleaning up DNS: put some "easter eggs" in there deliberately so they can be "found" and eliminated.. These can include amateur pr0n as well as "potential blackmail material" and other fun things. And don't announce the grand prize, let them FIND the thing within the matrix of unmaintained sub-domains. First to find it gets the prize. And have more than one available, evn simple things like a free beer, half-day off, etc.

Boeing didn't run end-to-end test on Calamity Capsule, DSCOVR up and running, and NASA buys a Falcon Heavy

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Devil

Re: Sounds like my workplace

well, I'm not convinced that NASA shouldn't subcontract more things out. If contractors can do it cheaper than "governmentium", WITHOUT sacrificing safety and/or reliability, then GO FOR IT!

From the article: study a metal asteroid between Mars and Jupiter to help humanity etc.

Seriously, to help humanity START THE NEXT GOLD RUSH! Droids first, then ultimately, individual space prospectors (or even corporate teams). SPACE PIONEERS! TRUE FREEDOM!

(if I could do it right now I would)

Amazon staffer based just a stone's throw away from Seattle HQ tests positive for COVID-19 coronavirus

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Meh

Re: "So there is a high number of undiagnosed cases in that region"

"The phillipines have also reported a 33% mortality rate, with one dead out of 3 total infectees."

If we had reliable numbers about the true number of infected people, I suspect this percentage would be closer to the W.H.O.'s ~3%.

But there's a lot to be said about being in a place that has a better medical system. I was in the P.I. a couple of times when I was in the Navy. When you have a river of sewage separating the Navy base from Olongopo, it says something about lack of public sanitation. And I suppose it gets worse from there.

"3rd world" vs "1st world". Worth pointing out.

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Pint

Re: "So there is a high number of undiagnosed cases in that region"

at least it's not 27,000

To the afflicted: keep warm, take vitamins, have some chicken soup, cold medicine of your favorite most effective type, and some adult beverages!

And viruses HATE capcaicin. Spicy foods like "chips and salsa", in a hot steamy bath, with some "corona" (beer). Get over that cold!

icon, because, part of the solution, heh

Drones must be constantly connected to the internet to give Feds real-time location data – new US govt proposal

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Devil

Re: You missed a bit

internet connectivity should not have to be "just cellular". A remote control within range of a wifi hotspot should be sufficient, with connectivity via the remote control's channels. that way the remote control does all of the extra work, doesn't add weight to the drone, etc..

Similarly, remote control wifi connect to a cell phone hotspot. No extra cost.

SANE solutions are available, I'm sure. I think FAA just wants you to stay out of 'no drone' zones, and to be able to see who it was that was invading their space.

Autonomous drones would be a different situation entirely [but we're headed there, too]

But you know, if drone operators in general had been "good boys and girls" and NOT invaded controlled airspace, apparently "a thing", this most likely wouldn't be discussed.

And I expect that drone-mounted transponders would weigh more...

Starship bloopers: Watch Elon Musk's Mars ferry prototype explode on the pad during liquid nitrogen test

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Mushroom

Re: They forgot the ping pong balls.

dry ice chunks work, too - slip 'em in quickly, cap the bottle, place inside dumpster, run...

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Devil

Re: Wasn't planned

yeah this stress test MIGHT have been "unscheduled" though.

But a TRUE engineer would use its data anyway. "The stress test on the prototype caused it to fail at a level that was below expectations" aka "good test, found design flaw".

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Happy

Re: Unsurprise.

I use it to view mine, see how many DOWN votes I'm gettnig. Heh.

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Trollface

Re: Unsurprise.

"after checking your post history, I think you just need a hug clue-bat"

heh

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Devil

Re: Unsurprise.

"bunch of dudes just milling about randomly while 'stuff' was supposedly happening"

uh, you don't do much engineering, do yah?

if you ever HAVE,. you would know that it very often consists of a bunch of egghead types standing around discussing beer or baseball [in lieu of work, while thinking about the problem to solve], and occasionally coming up with a stoke of brilliance.

Last such meeting I got inspired, sketched something, handed it to the manager, who then [along with a couple of others] implemented it. And I was just sitting nearby at the time (working on something else).

So yeah cardboard+tape prototypes, hacked together cables, re-purposed "things", all typical. And the "milling about randomly" is a regular part of that, too.

HP hostile takeover warms up: Xerox queues print job cash_and_shares.pdf, mails it to the board to mull over

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Trollface

Re: Bugger off raiders

being as they probably use Win-10-nic and run Adobe's PDF viewer, I'd say that's a fair bet!

(by comparison, IBM would use Atril and Linux, most likely)

I have to wonder what Xerox uses, but that might be Apple [in which case a plethora of PDF viewers are available]

UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own

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Devil

Re: No thanks, I'll go live on my boat...

I'm pretty sure there's a vaccine for ebola now... and soon one in trials for Corona.

All good. DON'T PANIC

(what is NOT so good is this "all eggs in one basket" mentality that has strangled the manufacturing industry, due to the supply bottleneck caused by non-strategically placing every egg into China's basket)

What, NOBODY out there ever heard of SECOND SOURCE? Oh, that one's in China, too. GOOD. JOB.

Microsoft's latest cloud innovation: Printing

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Trollface

Re: Support call

you forgot to ask if there was a child in the house (the '12:00' flasher - so-named because EVERYTHING! IN! THE! HOUSE! IS! ALWAYS! FLASHING! '12:00' !!!)

then again, I'd expect several more hours of typing on both ends before something this simple gets resolved.