I'm with the Chinese and many other people who argue that cryptocurrencies and NFT's are simply new Ponzi schemes.
Posts by aks
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US floats framework for international crypto regulations that cement its power
UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact
Intel demands $625m in interest from Europe on overturned antitrust fine
India seizes $725 million of Xiaomi's cash
Second Trojan asteroid confirmed to be leading our planet around the Sun
Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion
L2 Orbit versus second Langrange Point
The article's mention of the L2 Orbit made me wonder if orbit is the correct term. That goes of all of the Lagrange points.
L2, the second Lagrangian Point
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/L2_the_second_Lagrangian_Point
I wonder just how much stuff congregates at each of the points.
Offering Patreon subs in sterling or euros means you can be sued under GDPR, says Court of Appeal
Re: On the other hand...the corollary
On the other hand, the USA might be reluctant to make its currency less attractive as a medium of exchange. As I remember, moves by Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq under Sadaam Hussein were suggested as possible motives for his removal. China is moving to strengthen its own currency as a medium of exchange.
What do you mean, 'Microsoft doesn't care about Windows on Arm'? Here's a cheap, underpowered test rig
Existing WoA hardware
A simple and cheaper option is to perform the development work using existing Windows on Arm hardware.
My first choice would be the Microsoft Lumia 950xl phone which already runs Windows (no longer supported). You could even use the docking station.
Second hand 950xl hardware is easy to find on eBay. I still use this as my main phone.
You might find this existing Github project useful. https://woa-project.github.io/LumiaWOA/
140 million Chinese punters adopt Digital Yuan and spend up big
Exchange rate
"can greatly reduce the cost of transfers"
That's a nice theory that isn't and won't be true in practice.
The rest of the world already has an effective international currency system through Visa, MasterCard and others. Most providers of debit or credit cards allow payment cross-border but the exchange rate used is rarely the inter-bank rate (there are those rare exceptions).
ESA and JAXA release Mercury eyecandy, courtesy of spacecraft BepiColumbo
FYI: Catastrophic flooding helped carve Martian valleys, not just rivers of water
UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead
Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs
Zoom incompatible with GDPR, claims data protection watchdog for the German city of Hamburg
As far as I can read, the EU want all servers to be within the EU and no data to flow outside of it and its rules. Plenty of AWS/Azure/etc servers within the EU.
The second objective of Brussels is for the software (as well as the hardware) to be written in the EU.
It all reminds me of Apple's walled garden.
Taiwan president pokes the bear by saying the nation needs to lessen its supply chain dependency on China
Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?
Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall
Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: Sub-$600 midranger makes premium phones feel frivolous
Re: Spook Proof?
Maybe by default, but if you want to sell a product into a specific marketplace you will have to obey the rules of that jurisdiction. Many USA companies discovered that when selling into China.
My assumption has always been that Huawei refused to include USA Government spyware into their products and that was the major reason why it has been banned there.
What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps
Re: Windows
Windows 11 is explicitly *not* Windows 10 so you won't be pushed to use it. Windows 10 will remain supported for a number of years.
Don't threaten to switch to Linux, simply do it. It's relatively painless, especially if you use Linux Mint Cinnamon. The UI is familiar enough that you won't have a large learning curve.
We're now waiting to discover whether our compatible hardware will be charged to replace Windows 10 with 11 or be a free upgrade as it has been from Windows 7 onwards.
FYI: There's a human-less, AI robot Mayflower ship sailing from the UK to US right now
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Re: MS will probably nuke any x86 code too
Microsoft have previous form.
16-bit apps ended up being supported in their own sandbox on 32-bit windows.
The word I heard is that the next Windows will have 32-bit apps running in a sandbox, maybe 64-bit Windows apps in another, Linux in another and the overall Windows management OS will simply become a hypervisor. It may even be Linux based.
If it wasn't for the fact that Apple would throw *all* their toys out of the pram, various flavours of Apple would be capable of running in sandboxes, as they do currently in a VM on Windows.
I'm more interested in whether Android apps would be supported. It would certainly be possible for Xbox to merge into this scenario.
Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs
Google gets into the international money transfer business, one-way out of the USA
Known software issue grounds Ingenuity Mars copter as it attempted fourth flight
Re: Have you tried switching it off and on again?
AFAIR Ingenuity was always intended as an advanced prototype. It's there on this mission to learn what works and what doesn't. If it achieves any serious scientific results, that's a very welcome bonus.
Fingers firmly crossed that it does achieve those results, but it's already a tremendous success in this initial phase.
Microsoft demotes Calibri from default typeface gig, starts fling with five other fonts
UK's National Cyber Security Centre recommends password generation idea suggested by El Reg commenter
Amazon claims victory after warehouse workers in Alabama vote to reject union
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead
Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors
Sadly, the catastrophic impact with Apophis asteroid isn't going to happen in 2068
Re: Wish upon a star
A small array of high speed cameras could capture it as it flies by, whatever its speed is.
To take a sample, you'll need to start moving soon to be able to match speed. Apparently, the Chinese plan to shadow it and maybe sample it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands
Death Becomes It: Who put the Blue in the Blue Screen of Death?
Healthy 32-year-old offered COVID-19 vaccine because doctors had him down as 6.2cm tall with BMI of 28,000
Re: people replaced by algorithms ... or just poor coding...
The coding is the easy part. I discovered during my first job writing programs that the data validation code occupied at least as many lines of code and a lot more brainpower than coding to the algorithm.
Later, when doing support, I discovered plenty of examples of gaps (even in my own perfect code). I then immensely enjoyed testing code to destruction, especially common in edge-effect tests. Divide-by-zero exception anybody?
Australia facepalms as Facebook blocks bookstores, sport, health services instead of just news
Re: Screw Australia's clumsy attempt....
Facebook (which I don't use) have simply said that they can't guarantee to filter out news links from any other links and don't want to risk being sued for a link that is later judged to be news.
They will *not* pay for the privilege. If Australia succeeds in getting money from them then other countries will follow. Google have gone a different way by striking a deal with Rupert Murdoch.
Previous attempts to force money from Google exploded in their faces. Not linking meant that users did not follow the links and the website in question became invisible and therefore lost money. The website then asked Google to link to them with a simple headline and abstract.