Posts by onefang 1954 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2017
"There is much software out there and yet to be written for IoT that doesn't need anything more than 32-bit, also given what was achieved with 16-bit architectures 32-bit for some is an overkill, it would seem the time has come to separate the architectures and have 32-bit only and 64-bit only chip families."
8 bit CPUs work fine for much of the stuff IoT tries to do. How many bits do you really need to switch a light bulb on and off? Or even for dimming the light bulb?
"When laser printers came in there was a move to these. But laser printers work by baking a carbon dust ON TOP OF the paper, and the hard carbon ink shell can easily be shattered with a scalpel blade and a delicate hand. "
It's way easier to get toner off paper. I have to wash my hands after handling laser printed paper.
'“Laughter is a special, higher-order function that only humans possess,” they wrote in a paper emitted online this week. It’s something that is difficult to quantitatively measure, but they gave it a shot anyway.'
I'm always annoyed at "X is something that only humans do" nonsense. Especially for something that is "difficult to quantitatively measure". Almost all boil down to "we never bothered to check if any other animal can do X, but we state without a doubt that only human animals does X". You can often find research that shows that other animals do indeed do X.
"pay 500$ to every android user"
I have an Android phone with no FB on it, an Android partition on my test computer with FB installed, and both ARM and x86 Android on SD cards, so I can boot various devices into Android as needed. I could use a couple thousand dollars.
Earlier this week dnsbl.cyberlogic.net started reporting that some, then all of my servers are blacklisted, then it gave them the all clear, then bl.spamcannibal.org "blacklisted" them. I've removed them both from my nagios checks. I did double check my logs, nothing bad going on with my email servers. The other 70 odd black listing sites nagios checks are still reporting I'm good, as they have always done.
Well, I've not actually watched TV for over a decade, and only iView for Dr Who these days, so I didn't notice the change. Is it all part of ABC tightening their belts, that the names and logo's have to be shortened to save money? Will 730 soon be reduced to 420, then we have to start wondering what they are smoking?
"I wonder how long it took them to memorize the other 431 police alarms?"
Coincidentally enough, I was in an office yesterday, while they where testing out the alarm system, which resulted in a very annoying very high pitched tone. The lady I was seeing told me there's 52 of these alarms, and they all sound exactly the same. So I asked how you are supposed to tell the difference and know which way to run? And then I noticed that each desk has a button under it, for each staff member to hit when it's a security alarm, that disables the alarm once every staff member has confirmed there's no security problem at their desk. I noticed this coz the people running the tests went around each desk asking "Is it you that forgot to push the button?" and seeing some go "Oops" and pressing their button.
Still wondering why they picked that very high pitched tone, that some older people just wont hear.
"fire alarms were AC-connected horns that went BZZZT!-BZZZT!-BZZZT!, and were absolutely impossible to ignore."
There's an alarm that regularly goes off, for fire drills I assume, that I can hear from my home. It's quite a distinctive alarm. It wasn't until I was walking past the building, when it went off again and people started pouring out, that I figured out where it is. In the next suburb, on the other side of a busy street, with two sky scrapers and a train line between my home and it.
'Nutrition biz Vitl – which pushes "tailor-made" diet and liefstyle plans'
The innerwebs tells me that "lief" is indeed an English word, but asks me "Did you mean: lifestyle" when I tried searching for "liefstyle". My own spell checkers underline "liefstyle" with a red squiggly line, but are happy with "lief". Maybe El Reg editors are colour blind, and don't spot the red squiggly lines? Or perhaps Vitl customers would just as lief have a tailor made diet?
Yep, dad was fully a German citizen at my birth, I was born in Australia, my mother had always been an Aussie. Dad got his Australian citizenship after my birth.
I'll go back to waiting for the GDPR dust to settle to see if becoming a dual citizen is possible and useful.
Many years ago I was at the airport, with my friend who was off for a holiday in Singapore. Singapore government had a guy there that was checking if all people on the way to their country where "suitable". I had a bit of a chat with him. Apparently I would have been turned back had I attempted to go there, due to my unix beard.
That'll be why they have this sort of technical problem, lack of proper beards.
I'll get my coat, though it wont cover my beard.
I'll put my hand up as a non watch wearer, as you can clearly see if you look at my bare* wrist as I wave it in the air. Last time I wore a watch was late last century. I stopped when it broke and I figured I can use my mobile phone instead.
* OK, it's not entirely bare, I wear some medibling, a very shiny titanium medical ID, but that's only a recent addition. I guess I could weld a watch to it.
"That, plus they'll sell the data to advertisers. Though for your example, you might suddenly start seeing ads for various drugs or even firearms."
If the carbon monoxide levels are ramping up, they better get their adverts in quick, coz soon the adverts will be useless, nothings gonna get bought.
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