Yet another reason iThings are not for the corporate network....
Posts by EnviableOne
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Apple cracks down on iOS terminal apps because they can download code
H2? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen
Thursday 5th November 2020 16:54 GMT
Re: Plenty of problems - so who funds this work and why?
there are mainstream H2 powered cars, Buses and Trains.
The same three statements apply to P/D
P/D are becomming increasingly expensive to find and extract
Hydrogen delivery and creation Mechanisms are progressing fast and becoming cheaper
Hydrogen is re-usable, Carbon capture and storage is akin to alchemy at this stage, and can't provide a solution now to the problem of climate change, that H2 is neatly placed to do.
Thursday 5th November 2020 16:47 GMT
Re: Liquid hydrogen
Mole is a unit of 6.02214076×10^23 molecules of a substance
H2 is tiny, Petrol and Diesel are 7-8 chain hydrocarbons and huge, capacity wise in the size of 1 mol of P/D you could get containment, cooling and easily 4 mol of Hydrogen.
its a highly efficent transport mechanism.
there are working vehichles with H2, by honda, toyota and hyundai, the H2 containment and storage takes up less space than the Fuel tank, has a similar range, and can be filled in aboiut the same time.
Thursday 5th November 2020 16:36 GMT
TBF you can re-use most of the infrastructure that is used for Petrol and Diesel, adding csome more high pressure elements, it becomes pretty much a flamable liquid, but if you get it wrong cf hindenburg ----->
H2 is a good transport and storage medium for electricity, and its a lot better for the environment than Li-ion cells.
Apple on the hook for another $503m in decade-long VirnetX patent rip-off legal marathon
US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs
Tuesday 3rd November 2020 16:20 GMT
Re: The principle makes economic sense to me...
Fully agree the idea of a wage-level base, rather than a lottery makes sense, but I would say a points based system is even better, where the industries most in need get their higher paid staff first....
however the 30-50% premium to market rates is steep, an 10-15% would be appropriate (i.e. you tried paying above market, but still couldnt recruit, so will pay JF that much)
Mitsubishi grounds its attempt to crack the passenger jet market
Tuesday 3rd November 2020 15:48 GMT
Re: Not all bad...
OK so Bombardier sold the C-Series to Airbus, the CRJ to MHI, so all they have left is the small busJets and trains.
TBF the MRJ isnt a bad design, but regional jets has always been a crowded market that is hard to enter (cf rekkof,) and with the might of Airbus behind the C-Series, everyone else is going to suffer.
It's happened: AWS signs Memorandum of Understanding for fluffy white services with UK.gov
Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400
Huawei bid to move chip production in-house so it can survive US sanctions will start with a 45nm process – report
Tuesday 3rd November 2020 12:26 GMT
No Option
TBF they dont have a choice
They have the resources to rapidly, reach and surpass SMIC and possibly challenge TSMC, but untill now with access to TSMC, the investment needed would have been un-necesary, but with the loss of acess to TSMC, they have little other option.
Give it a couple of years and TSMC will have another rival
Vodafone bets big on OpenRAN as it replaces its Huawei estate in rural Wales and South West England
Cambodia launches blockchain-powered peer-to-peer payments, hopes it crushes cash
Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done
China sets itself 2035 goal for technology self-sufficiency and covets title as the world’s top innovator
Monday 2nd November 2020 17:59 GMT
Large populations lead to greater concentrations of inteligence
China and India being the two most populous nations in the world, also both persuing a home made is best policy, will be, if not are already, the two nations leading the world in all things.
I can see in the not to distant future India taking the UKs perminant seat on the UN security council
Palo Alto Networks threatens to sue security startup for comparison review, says it breaks software EULA
Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users
Linux Foundation projects on AI and data merge – because one of these concepts simply can't exist without the other
Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck
Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November
Zoom finally adds end-to-end encryption for all, for free – though there are caveats
After figuring out that hope is not a strategy, SAP has a new one: We're gonna shift on-prem customers to the cloud!
Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first
Thursday 29th October 2020 21:13 GMT
Re: @TheMeerkat
@codejunky
what difference does it make to Joe on the street that the "Stock Market is booming" and the economy is growing, this only lines the pockets of trump and billionaires.
Headline median wage rises were minimal and easily offset buy the actuall tax rises experienced by those who dont have billions.
The russians did not kick obama's arse, and its no excuse for trumps constant capitulation (Ukraine, Syria, the bounty issue, ...)
the deal wth Iran, as all negotiations both sides didnt like the deal, but could live with it. it stopped nuclear proliferation, and lengthend the time it would take them to produce a bomb, to a level were it could be detected and stopped before hand, it allowed a flow of wealth back into the country to allow ordinary iranians to escape harsher conditions, and it kept the peace.
The saudi's are agressors in the region and have tried to play all sides off against each other, their war against Yemen and cleansing of non-whabist muslims is an issue. but with the recent more worldly aims they have been sidling up to the world powers and Israel is little threat to them.
the whole situation in the area was created by the colonial war against the ottomans and subsequent displacement of jews from europe, who were later funded by americans who basically took control of the region. By moving the embasy the embassy from tel aviv, this legitamises the claim of the jewish state over jerusalem, which by UN mandate should be a neutral city un protection.
Trump twice signed the 6 month waiver to the move, before being wooed by the israelis into the act, which Clinton, Bush and Obama had avoided on security grounds, as it threatned to provoke all out war with hezbullah and other arab nations in the region.
However, with the iranian peace deal and the failiure of syria, it has not materialised, more through luck than judgement.
There is some sense to the moves that trump has made, but they all lead to enriching either himself or his ego, and have no regard for the US people or perception of its power abroad. The US state department used to wield a lot of power in back chanels, which the Trump administration has basically thrown away with moves like the embasy, pulling out of the iran deal, and the paris agreement.
NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly
Thursday 29th October 2020 19:54 GMT
Re: How do you avoid US spy gear, it is everywhere.
I'd rather steer clear of cisco's custom asics, you dont know what backdoors the NSA has put in them
NIce bit of Dell lowest commen denominator kit:
https://www.dell.com/ae/business/p/open-networking-switches/pd
they been selling these bare bones for a while
Another eBay exec pleads guilty after couple stalked, harassed for daring to criticize the internet tat bazaar
Brave browser first to nix CNAME deception, the sneaky DNS trick used by marketers to duck privacy controls
Thursday 29th October 2020 19:19 GMT 
Need a maintained Content list
for some reason Content securtiy policies aren't cutting it
there should be a part of the page that lists the cdns, alternate domains, that host the actual content of the site, so you can automagically allow just those connections for a specific page, I hate having to unblock <RandomString>.$CDN.com and about six variants of the hosting company, 3 more of the site owner and some random js library, just to get the page to actually load.
/me goes to write a web crawler and build a browser extension .....
Get outta Huawei! UK mobile network EE selects Ericsson's flat-packed 5G RAN kit to replace Chinese wares
Thursday 29th October 2020 19:07 GMT
Re: Benefit
oh the irony, that the only nation that has been proven to use hardware tampering as a spying technique is accusing others with no proof.
just because that there china is getting too big for its boots
I just keep going back to the HCSC report that says there code is so shoddy, they couldnt put a front door in let alone a back door
Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn
Wednesday 21st October 2020 15:36 GMT
Re: The default search on the default browser on the default operating system on every PC...
They have the mbile market stiched up as they pay apple and own android, forcing the defaults
they might be the best search option, but it doesnt mean they should be alloud to use this dominance to make them dominant in other markets, like advertising.
they might be the dominant browser, but is chrome the best?
I loved the age of AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, and my personal favourite alltheweb
I agree, if this suit reaches its outcome the only caualty will be Firefox, that rely on google's money to run, and are the only non-chromium browser with any kind of market share.
Remember insider threat? Old news now. Focus on malware detection, says EU infosec agency
Intel offloads NAND business to South Korea's SK Hynix for a cool $9bn
When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube
Linux 5.10 to make Year 2038 problem the Year 2486 problem
Notpetya, Olympics hacking, Novichok probe meddling... America throws the book at six alleged Kremlin hackers
Will there be no end to govt attempts to break encryption? Hand over your data or the kiddies get it, threaten Five Eyes spies
Tuesday 20th October 2020 12:02 GMT
JIANUSCUK OFF!
when will they learn, they cant do this, it just isnt possible
If they do the work, they just dont need to, as the french and Dutch proved.
Anyway, most of the gangs they bust are by getting someone to flip, and they can just give LEOs access to the system.
they just need to accept the decades where they could get away with lazy work of wire taps and transcripts are over, and they need to go back to intercepting the endpoints.
Atlassian pulls the plug on server licences, drags customers to the cloud
Tuesday 20th October 2020 11:48 GMT
CLOUD - Fail
Not everything can be run in the cloud, and not everything should be, i object to the "cloud" moniker anyway, as most people dont understand its origin,
Two TLAs that are better descriptors:
NYS - Not Your Server
OPT - Other People's Tin
I'm renamining OnPrem too
OMB - On My Box
DMS - Definatley My Server
To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever
Monday 19th October 2020 13:44 GMT
FAANG is missng an M & A
Facebook $757.59 billion Market Cap
Apple $2.06 trillion Market Cap
Amazon $1.64 trillion Market Cap
Alphabet $1.07 trillion Market Cap (Not google anymore)
Microsoft $1.67 trillion Market Cap
Netflix $234.09 billion Market Cap
Netflix is tiny, and seriously under threat from Disney+, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO, AppleTV+ all who are getting in on the action and restricting the content that they can provide.
UK's National Audit Office warns full-fibre rollout strategy is leaving rural Britain behind. Again
Monday 19th October 2020 13:08 GMT
not Al Cu here
Chances are you are not even on copper, for a period in the late 70s/early 80s BT was repairing/re-routing telephone connections with an AlCu alloy that was "good-enough" for voice, due to copper prices The problem is no-one kept track of exactly where it wwas deployed, and its some of the trunk cables too, so BT won't pull up and replace it, even when they find it....
the problem is the profile on the line needs to be tweaked a lot to get a decent speed, and it depends on where in the line and how long the Al sections are...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
