Interest
"The disputed funds ... are held under a temporary restraining order"
So if Citibank loses, do they pay any sort of interest or other penalty to redress the time loss of the money?
Posts by Gene Cash
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Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone
Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan
Texas blacks out, freezes, and even stops sending juice to semiconductor plants. During a global silicon shortage
'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice team working on WebAssembly port
Forgot Valentine's Day? Never mind, today marks 75 years of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work
Monday 15th February 2021 07:39 GMT 
Re: It's a different world
Well, I usually go by by the SRI packet radio van at the end of '77 for the beginning of the Internet, and that TCP was split into TCP/IP in '78. Those are just my personal touchstones.
I was originally on BITNET during college, UUCP provided by the university afterwards and a little FIDONET, and then I got an actual dialup connection from a local provider.
Monday 15th February 2021 04:39 GMT
It's a different world
As I type this, I'm watching a live broadcast of the launch of an unmanned Russian space freighter to the International Space Station on YouTube.
When Voyager 2 was launched, there was no internet (there was ARPANET, but no TCP/IP), certainly no YouTube, and Soviet launches were usually observed live only by American spy satellites.
A permanent space station had been a fantasy since the mid-'60s, but nobody would have ever predicted it would have been assembled by an international effort, including a significant portion from the Russians.
I have a machine that can "print" 3D objects that I design in a CAD program. I have 2 high power long range electric motorcycles in my 3-car garage. I have home-made temperature sensors scattered about the house communicating wirelessly to a desktop running a UNIX-like OS developed by the world community. It's got 32 fricking gigabytes of memory, is water-cooled, and doesn't even have spinning disk drives or tapes.
I didn't even have my first computer until 1979 and it was a TRS-80 Model I Level 1 with 4K RAM.
I have a color laser printer that I bought for $300. In 1977, the new Xerox 9700 cost $500,000. The HP LaserJet wasn't until 1984, cost $3,500, and sure as hell didn't do color!
I have a small handheld computer that can talk to anyone in the world, and navigate me from place to place, as well as keeping track of my bank accounts and tons of other information. Plus it can play Solitaire.
Yeah, if you'd told me about all this in 1977, I probably would have decked you.
helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS
Microsoft's underwhelming, underpowered dual-screen Surface Duo phone arrives in the UK this month for £1,349
Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform
Friday 12th February 2021 06:43 GMT
Re: "potential buyers may want to check the privacy policy before purchase"
And what fucking good does that do when you really don't have much of a choice in vehicles to start with? And they ALL have shitty repair or privacy policies?
Hm, let's see... I can buy this Tesla but I can't get parts or have it serviced anywhere except a dealership... or I can buy this shitty VW and give all my data to Microsoft... or I can buy this shitty Ford and give all my data to Google... OR I CAN WALK!
Decisions, decisions.
Open Source Vulnerabilities database: Nice idea but too many Google-shaped hoops to jump through at present
The laptop you bought in 2020 may stop you buying a car in 2021: Chips are going short
Just 2020 things: Miscreants hit remote desktops 700% harder as world's IT teams try to support locked-down staff
Tuesday 9th February 2021 16:45 GMT
Re: RDP over the internet
> I would assume that a number of these would be management who would say "just get it done but there's no budget for it"
There's also "get it done right NOW because everyone's working at home due to covid" and not only is there no budget, but there's no time to do it right.
Web prank horror: Man shot dead while pretending to rob someone at knife-point for a YouTube video
Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks
How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use
Monday 8th February 2021 11:08 GMT
Re: Trust nothing, check your data, use various sources.
> The days of taught belief in "Authority" ended in 1964
Ha! I wish! It was still around at least when I was in school in the mid-'80s, with the single shining exception of one teacher who tried to teach us to think for ourselves. From listening to friend's children, it's still around.
Linus Torvalds labels Super Bowl 'violent version of egg-and-spoon race'
Sunday 7th February 2021 23:17 GMT
As an American, I can tell you some Super Bowl secrets
If a team "goes for it" on fourth down and succeeds, the coach's Special Bar recharges all the way and he can unleash his Ultimate Combo
There is a secret "fifth down" that can only be unlocked by a player wielding a piece of the True Cross
And then it's time for the kick off! Touch your battlefoot to the Pain Ellipsoid and let the cycle of violence begin anew!
This might be questionable content, however.
No ports, no borders, no hope: Xiaomi's cool but impractical all-screen concept phone
My bad! So you're saying that redacting an on-screen PDF with Tipp-Ex won't work?
How do you fix a problem like open-source security? Google has an idea, though constraints may not go down well
Thursday 4th February 2021 20:10 GMT
Lots of questions
* What is a "vulnerability database" and why do we need multiple ones? What's the difference between this and the list of vulnerabilities that CERT maintains?
* "A notification system for the actual discovery of vulnerabilities." - WTF? Isn't that CERT?
* "That no changes are made to critical open-source software" - who determines "critical software"?
* "an attested build system" means "a Google build system" right?
AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias
Google's cloud services lost $14.6bn over three years – and CEO Sundar Pichai likes that trajectory
ByteDance sues Tencent over lack of link love on its messaging services
Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down
ESA signs off on three more service modules for Moon mission – despite agency boss casting doubt on 2024 landing
NASA to have another go at firing Space Launch System engines because just over a minute of data won't cut it
Monday 1st February 2021 16:09 GMT
Can only load the stage with propellant 9 times
https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-perform-second-sls-green-run-test/
"the core stage was designed to be loaded with cryogenic propellants, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, only nine times. With two of those fuelings already used for the hotfire test and an earlier wet dress rehearsal, an additional static-fire test would cut into the margin used for tests at the Kennedy Space Center and launch attempts."
How do you save an ailing sales pitch? Just burn down the client's office with their own whiteboard
Remember life on Venus? One of the telescopes had 'an undesirable side effect' that could kill off the whole idea
Takes from the taxpayer, gives to the old – by squishing a bug in Thatcherite benefits system
Completed Netflix? Indulge your inner nerd with a virtual talk from a computer museum
Bothering to upgrade the iPhone 12 over older models has proven to be worth its weight in gold for Apple
Apple clinches Q4 smartphone shipments top spot as US sanctions elbow Huawei out of the major league
Thursday 28th January 2021 18:36 GMT
Re: Most iPhone upgraders ever, per the Q1 results call
> I guess the much smaller percentage of people who bother to upgrade
Are you kidding? All the Apple fanbois I know pretty much foamed at the mouth to get one of these.
"IT'S GOT 5G!!"
"Are there any 5G networks around here?"
"Well... um... er... no..."
Apple fanbois are nowhere near as technically informed as Android geeks. Most of them that I know are either upper management or artsy types like screen talent and writers.
The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'
North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google
What's a COVID-19 outbreak? Amazon gets all Trumpy over Alabama warehouse workers' mail-in vote to form a union
Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break
Monday 25th January 2021 20:17 GMT
Customization
I spend a lot of time and effort setting up my phone the way I want it. For example, I need to root my phone, because my garage door app needs to turn the GPS and cell data on/off when I leave or come back home.
A new phone means I have to redo that several weeks of work, and also with the new versions of Android means I might have to do it differently or not at all.
So I keep my phone as long as possible because it represents a not insignificant investment in something other than money.
Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community
Google's Alphabet sticks a pin in its Loon internet broadband service
Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
'We're storing how this material should behave': Boffins' 3cm 'm-bit' cubes demonstrate programmable wunderstuff
Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful
Screw you, gadget-menders! No really, you'll need loads of screwdrivers to fix Apple's AirPods Max headphones
You look for the largest objects in the universe and two come along at once: Astroboffins spot mega radio galaxies dwarfing Milky Way
Samsung tones down sticky stuff in the Galaxy S21 series, simplifying repairs massively
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