Posts by katrinab

Re: And how would that work?

The current system *is* a load of middle-aged and boomer men trying to force their views down my throat though.

Re: Great news for bullies

In that respect, yes. They don't grow up, they just grow older.

The adults shouldn't have guns either though.

Re: So, smart meter joy is continuing

The only actual use-case I would consider for that is charging batteries of various descriptions.

If I could connect the charger to an interruptible supply and get it at a cheaper rate, then most of the time I would be OK with that, and I could connect it to a more expensive outlet for the times when I really need it to be charged ASAP.

"which IBM say will do 3:1 compression in the module"

Sorry, but claims about compression are BS, because you can do the exact same compression when writing to any device.

Also, if you are dealing with PB of data, it is likely to be the sort of data (images, videos, audio files) that you can't really compress, or has already been stored in a compressed format.

Re: More Information Needed!

Could I file divorce papers for Rishi Sunak without his permission?

Other than the prospect of going to prison for fraud, is there anything to stop me doing that?

Re: A solution?

Surely there would be some way for property taxes and mortgage interest to be automatically reported to the IRS though?

In the UK, Council Tax and mortgage interest aren't deductible, so that's how they deal with that.

Mortgage interest used to be deductible many years ago, but that was dealt with through MIRAS (Mortgage Interest Relief At Source) and worked by reducing your mortgage bill.

Re: Vardøgr

I had that with my speakers back in the 2G era. That was with a phone that had 3 AA batteries and made phone calls.

Re: Probably not exactly a bargain.

While China is nominally communist, and South Korea was nominally "not communist", is there any significant difference in the economic approach China is taking now and what South Korea did about 60 years ago?

What South Korea did worked for them, up to a point, then they changed their approach. China's economic approach seems to be working for now, but it looks like they will encounter similar problems to what South Korea did, and it remains to be seen how they will deal with them.

Re: Not interested

Firstly, the ads are mostly garbage as well. I do sometimes search for things because I want to buy it, and Google generally isn't much help there.

Secondly, I am very open to switching to another search engine because things have got so bad, and that means another company could do to Google what Google did to Alta Vista.

Thirdly, if a particular place gets a reputation for being mostly scam ads, the big legitimate companies, the ones with really big advertising budgets, won't want to be seen next to them.

Re: It’s about the use case

If your printout is likely to get wet, then you definitely want laser.

Re: "tragic for open source innovation"

The original OpenOffice is abandonware while LibreOffice is flourishing.

Re: Infosys

Mrs Sunak (Akshata Narayana Murty) and her father own Infosys.

AfD *are* actual nazis though.

Re: Bogus

FAT16 and FAT32 (Win95 OSR2) don't support links. NTFS supports junctions which are basically the same thing, but Windows 95 can't read NTFS volumes.

Crosslinked files happens when you have 2 or more different FAT entries pointing to the same cluster on the disk, which shouldn't happen, and means your data is corrupted and almost certainly lost anyway.

Re: Good, but...

I think you were missing this icon --->

The sanction for publishing an illegal ad is a sternly worded letter telling you not to do it again.

Re: 'Secured'

8 of them for $27.92 per hour means $3.49 per GPU per hour.

If they manage to rent them out 24 hours per day for 365 days, they get $30,572.40. In the following year, it is last year's model of GPU and they won't be able to charge so much for it.

That means in the best-case scenario, they can maybe earn back the cost of the GPU, not the computer it was attached to, bandwidth, transaction fees, data centre running costs, maintenance, electricity, cooling, sales staff, advertising, loan interest, etc, etc.

I would be expecting to see full investment pay-back at the end of year 1, then whatever you get in future years is profit.

Indeed. Intel were still on Gen 3 not that long ago.

Re: Upshot of the TikTok generations

And today's college students don't use Facebook because their parents are on there.

Those parents are no longer impoverished college students, so advertising at them is more lucrative.

Could the spam filter detect people who "encode the actual content of the email so that the text that you see on screen isn't visible to the spam filters", and just nuke it regardless of what that text is?

Re: Ransom attacks and associated gangs should be defined as terrorism and terrorist organisations

They most definitely do try to terrify people.

What makes it not "terrorism" under existing law is that they don't appear to be doing it for political reasons - the ransom is for money rather than for the government to do or not do some thing.

Re: App Store / Apple Pay authentication

No. The point about the 2 digit authentication is that the scammer would need to know what number appears on your screen to continue, so they would need to ask you it via a different communication channel. Or you need to know which number appears on the scammer's screen in order to actually let them in. I forget which way round it is.

Re: Version numbers...

Hasn't it always been the case that you wait for version 3 to get a minimum-viable product?

Windows 3.0 for example came out about 34 years ago.

"Late 2006" is about 18 years ago, so can hardly be described as "new-fangled".