Posts by Dav_Daddy

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Re: Vimes' Law

TOR would be a much tougher nut to crack. VPNs with their single point of attack in the provider and traffic is merely encrypted not routed in a way to prevent sender and receiver from being identified.

The only successful way to attack TOR so far has something like China did with the great firewall. Thankfully politicians haven't been willing yet to even propose going that far. Not that I'm ruling it out. Any nation dumb enough to reelect the orange turf gobbler, and vote for the oligarch party he represents nothing is truly off the table.

Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino

Well I stand corrected

It looks like I owe everyone I admonished for jumping to conclusions about what Qcom would do to Arduino an apology.

I was a big enough man to come on here and tell all of you that you were being ridiculous, hysterical and overreacting so I guess it's time to be a big enough man to come on here and say it appears that all of you were right.

Re: Yuck

Voltage sag maybe? What are you using for a power supply? Maybe try a higher amperage source?

Also check the length of your pcb traces. Maybe something funny is going on there?

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

Re: Seriously

What I PAID for and what I was SOLD, was that this was the LAST version of Windows. As in no more new versions to "upgrade" too.

I happen to think that when someone buys one thing and winds up with something entirely different they have every right to be upset. The only ridiculous thing here is we have sheep running around so used to getting bent over by these companies they are incredulous that other people dare to get upset when it happens to them!

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

Re: A few points.

That's the first time I've heard that term.

Previously I've heard that an AI model trained on AI generated content as being "lobotomized".

Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China

Re: Maybe Google should invest in better security rather than more lawyers

These are generic Android TV boxes straight from China. They are running a pre-compromised fork of Google's version of Android for smart TVs.

That means that "securing a set top box" in this context is impossible as it doesn't involve Google at any stage. This is the dark side of Open Source that everyone wants to pretend doesn't exist.

40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw

Re: So that year before mission was lucky!

If that would have happened they would have ejected the boosters and aborted the flight. Every time the shuttle launched they had abort runways standing by in either Europe, Africa or both depending on what orbit they were trying to reach and at what point in the launch the abort happened.

Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation

Re: May??

Here we go with the irrational fear of radiation!

The 50mSv limit is to prevent your odds of getting cancer from increasing by like 3.5%. If we set a limit of no greater than 8% you'd be allowed a dose of like 2,500mSv. If you're willing to accept a higher cancer risk your allowed exposure goes up exponentially. (The whole inverse square thing nature does so often.)

Also unless we choose a stupid transfer window flight time to Mars should be more like 3 months. Of course once you are there you're stuck for 2 years till the window opens again. Actually there is another transfer window which involves Venus that takes around 9 months if memory serves me? I really could only see us using that in some type of emergency however.

Re: May??

I think you are vastly underestimating the body's ability to adapt.

Microgravity has been shown to be quite hard on the body. There is nothing to backup the assertion that lower gravity is harmful at all.

The fact that teams of guys laying undersea pipeline spend weeks living and working at pressures over 4x those at sea level seem to indicate quite the opposite.