Posts by onefang 1954 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2017
"I recently had to setup a filter in email to junk stuff from LinkedIn. I deleted my effing account years ago. Why are you still sending me contact requests from people I've never known or herd of. Did you actually delete my stuff or not? I think not."
I recall I was getting contact requests from LinkdIn before I joined, mostly for people I've never heard of.
"Most companies, said Rick Echevarria, VP of Intel's software and services group, during a media call last week, are focused on four outcomes: preventing, detecting, and recovering from threats. and using technology like machine learning to predict where new ones will emerge."
Some of the new ones will emerge from Intel. That was easy, didn't need any machine learning.
"Is someone in third world network central in Russia trying to make a point?"
If I remember my high school politics lessons, Russia is / was a second world country. Ever wondered why there's a first world and a third world, but you never hear about the second world countries? They do exist. It's not just political types having such a hard time counting, they have to take their shoes off to count higher than two.
"How can they stop you taking a screen-grab of the e-mail and saving it? Or just grabbing a photo using another device?"
Ah the age old problem of copy protection, since legitimate users actually need to copy the bits around to actually use their copy protected thing in the way it was meant to be used, all copy protection schemes have a big flaw. You need to be able to copy it to actually use it.
Eventually the user of the email system needs to be able to copy the email into their head, usually via their eyes, and cameras work just as well as eyes do.
Google was already doing this with their Jabber / XMPP system (what ever it's called this year), dropping support for bits of the protocol, to try to lock in users to their walled garden.
Oh well, I've already setup my own email servers, and was just about to start the process of weaning every one off my gmail addresses.
"or Linux X...."
So that would be LinuXX, to be followed by LinuXXX.
Paris, coz I hear she likes being XXX sometimes.
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"Everything seems to be version 10 nowadays, so why not join the bandwagon"
And I noticed that after upvoting you, you now have 10 upvotes. You bandwagon jumper you.
'People need to have 10,000 "torch" apps and 50,000 "HD sexy wallpaper" apps AKA data harvesting, ad pushing malware, otherwise there is no point having it, after all quantity, not quality counts.'
I'm sure you could rig up a travesty generator to create thousands of torch apps, sexy wallpaper apps, and fart apps, to kick start the app ecosystem of a new phone OS.
"A shared telephone may spread germs. Hence the need for telephone sanitizers. As more people get mobiles, fewer of them will be shared."
Ah, you made the mistake of thinking stu was talking about germs. Probably stu meant cleaning private data slurping and other malware apps out of mobile phones.
"Choosing people just by the looks or gender means competence is irrelevant."
That's how most IT hiring seems to go as far as I can tell. My talent and competence has always been over ruled by my long finger nails, odd hair, lack of a business suit, etc. Doesn't even help that I'm a straight white male. On the other hand, I can't recall the issue of my sexual tastes ever coming up, they probably just assume that this white male is straight.
"Doctors, Lawyers and Politicians."
I've had both extremes with doctors.
My current doctor, until recently the only non medical technology in the office was the fax machine, now they have computers.
An old doctor, on my first visit to him, we quickly dealt with what ever medical problem I was visiting him about, then spent an hour chatting about the technical intricacies of the Ubuntu server he had installed by himself in his office. It was friendly geek chat, not "how do I fix this?".
"For example the other day cups and saned were arguing over who should control the network shared AIO printer and I had to shut cups down entirely (and systemd kept starting it again when printer was powered on again causing me to curse at it and move the cups binaries so it couldn't as systemctl disable didn't even stop it!!!!) to allow the printer to scan. This broke after an update, and seemingly adding udev rules no longer fixes the issue.
Working on it(tm) though. I've tried all the usual tricks."
Have you tried the usual trick of not using systemd? Sounds like it was at least part of the problem.
"Luckily touchscreens were invented and she can manage that ok."
Touch screens have their own problem. I was sitting at a large touch screen Dell computer, working on a document with my manager. I was busy typing away, and every now and then she would touch some part of the screen to indicate which part of the document she was talking about, which would move the text cursor, so my typing ended up spread at random parts all over the screen.
"US satellite operators should also be aware that, if operations using earth stations outside the United States are contemplated, regulatory authorities in other countries may decline to issue an earth station authorization until a US space station authorization is issued."
Does that ever actually happen?
"100% of the population has breasts. Just look down - you have nipples. Essentially men have breast tissue as well as women.
... The picture had breasts of a fuller nature on display and should not be sent on a mailing list due to the possibility of a minor seeing such a mail and asking awkward questions or causing offence."
Coz it's a proven scientific fact that some time between the time they stopped breast-feeding, and the age they become a legal adult in their country (age differs in different countries coz reasons) minors have bad reactions to seeing naked womens breasts. Bad reactions they don't have to seemingly identical mens breasts. It's science I tells ya! Here's the proof ... er wait a minute ... I'm sure I had it around here somewhere ... damn, must be magic then. Magic. It works, bitches! Though only if it's sufficiently advanced magic.
NURSE! Think I need my dried frog pills. No, not the sciency ones, the magicy ones.
"Unless your alternative can match the convenience of being able to cover both the first and last mile, your best bet is to manage the crush as best as possible, and one way is to remove control of the vehicle from capricious, error-prone humans."
Another way is to stop insisting that most of the population has to turn up at work at 9AM, in person.
"Well, in hot environments where refrigeration isn't a given, the only alternative to UHT milk is often powdered milk."
I lived in tropical Darwin for ten years, where most food had to be trucked in from other places. You get used to UHT milk, and I'm usually very fussy about my milk.
"The ticket said, "Thursday, 4th April". <facepalm>"
Well, since Australia's timezones are so far ahead of most other countries that it's often yesterday in those other countries, the Aussies where just being kind to the jet lagged.
Or as I always say, living in the future, just waiting for everyone else to catch up.
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