Posts by JassMan 926 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Mar 2008
25 per cent of testees clicked on the email link and 43.5 per cent did the same for the Facebook message.
Then I realised the test was on students. I bet if they did the same test on Joe Public the clickees would have been much higher. The gullibility of the man in the street never ceases to amaze me.
Luckily the name is only a marketing ploy if the article is to be believed:
"air-filled 8TB drive has fewer heads and platters than WD's 8TB helium-filled drive."
I would be much more worried about the guarantee on the WD drives. Not only will the thermal properties of the drive change as the helium diffuses out but that same diffusion causes embrittlement (admittedly less than hydrogen) of most metals and alloys. I believe some copper and aluminium alloys are less susceptible but I wouldn't hold out much hope for the permanent magnets or the rust on the platters.
Hydrogen embrittlement is one reason I think pressurised hydrogen will never really catch on as a means of energy storage.
Who is going to feed the children of those poor lawyers who will no longer making a mint of of patent disputes if this sort of activity should spread? How did the boards of these companies become clever enough to work out that licencing a patent (however dubious) can sometimes be cheaper than paying a firm of lawyers to spend a decade fighting an unwinnable case? For the costs involved in some of these cases, it must surely be cheaper to buy^H^H^H lobby a few politicians to get the patent system fixed.
They see 1TB of full disk as £75 of assets which can't be used for any new project and is therefore a waste. What they don't realise is that it takes much more than 1 hour of a project managers time at £150/hr to sort though the data and kill off unnecessary files maybe gaining 25% of the space back because the rest will be required as stated in "Every time!"
I am sure that most cars still have a direct mechanical link in the steering. The SERVO may be controlled over a canbus but unless you are a 35Kg weakling you can overcome it. I know my car does because although it has electric steering, you can still steer it while pushing it unpowered. I am sure this is a matter of primary safety. I think that even cars with self drive capability still take the steering wheel position as the main control input and only self steer if you are not holding the wheel. Admittedly it would be rather unnerving and extremely distracting if the car tried to turn without your input.
The brakes are also physically linked to the mastercylinder as a matter of primary safety. It is only the servo system which is driven electrically rather than old fashioned vacuum assist.
Drive by wire accelerator is another matter since without power the engine will not be running so no need to have a physical link.
The main problem with having no security is the likelihood of theft. I am sure lots of script kiddies would think it a real hoot to be able to play GTA with real cars (especially someone else's).
On the grounds that the culprit was obviously a deviant one should be worried if any teabagging was involved in the adulteration of this classic drink. That white stuff may not have been just bovine lactate.
As for using a coffee pot for making tea, this should be grounds for instant dismissal. It may or may not change the quality of the tea but it sure as hell changes the flavour of the next coffee brew.
If the analysis is correct then maybe he should be licencing the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine). OK they still have a little way to go before full certification but this looks like a very promising way of pushing stuff up the walls of the gravity well.
I think the real answer where food in tins and cats are concerned, is that cats are telepathic and this is what they should have been testing, rather than whether gravity is affected by electromagnets. Our cat can be sound asleep in the most distant part of the house, and you only have to have the passing thought of "should I open the beef terrine or the fish in jelly for his next meal" and you find he has instantly teleported himself to his bowl and is making the special meow that means "give me my food now, and don't make those puny excuses about having to open the tin first"
Where can I get one of these time machines? I would happily sell my house just to rent one for long enough to go back in time and put £1000 on Leicester to win the premier league. Its a shame that the bookies won't make a mistake like that again. I'll even bet a fiver that Christine Jiaxin Lee would like to use some of her overdraft to do the same, just so that she can pay off her overdraft.
I know that "the land of the free is the US". I had assumed every else did as well, and that they had read the original article all the way to the end. This is why I didn't explicitly state that it would be a stupid idea to try to consider a move to Norway with big wide open spaces rather than staying in an embassy where the longest walk is from the couch to the nearest door and back. It is why I didn't explicitly state that Norway's only exception for extradition is where they consider the reasons for extradition to be the result of a political act.
Also, thanks to all the downvoters, I feel suitably chastised. I apologise for:
1) mistakenly believing that Reg readers were a cut above the general population in terms of ability to make an inference from literal shorthand;
2) assuming that Reg readers actually read an entire article before voting on the comments.
3) writing a comment having drunk a triple "Armorik" single malt from Bretagne having discovered that it is the equal of some of the best Scotch ever made. [for the hard of reading I have NOT stated that it is better, only the EQUAL OF SOME and you should note that sense of taste is a very personal thing]
I take solace that readers such as dan1980 understand the ways of the world.
Asus allow the FBI to look inside a router without a court order (OK the bad guys had a good look as well) and they fine Asus and force them to have in-house auditing. Apple don't allow the FBI to look inside iPhones and they try to get a court order to allow them to do this. The fact that IF they are successful and win in court, then iPhones will be open to all the bad guys seems to have escaped them. Maybe they need an irony transplant.
Surely it doesn't ring any bells at all. Snowden showed that the US were reading all the traffic for the whole of Europe and not just the UK, without any agreement and certainly not anything reciprocal. Apart from getting their fingers rapped for illegally exceeding their authorised snooping on their own citizens, there is nothing to suggest that the NSA has changed their attitude to the rest of the world. I don't think the UK has a very strong bargaining position since the US attitude is that their laws apply to the whole world whereas anyone else's laws have no effect on US citizens unless they are physically in another country at the time of infringement.
As a Vista user, count me in for an upgrade. I was so pissed off with Vista that I changed to LinuxMint XFCE as a disk share upgrade and never used Vista again.
However, I have just bought a GPS that REQUIRES Windows (or a Mac) to upgrade the maps. Imagine my disappointment when I found that I am now stuck with Vista.
I would be quite happy for MicroShite's spyware to know that I only use ONE and only ONE piece of software 4 times a year and never windows at any other time.
... to get people hooked onto Office365 as well. Once you have used Office 365 for a year and have loads of data stored on the cloud PLUS your restored 15GB of photos, are you really going to abandon M$. If you think pruning 10GB of photos is hard now, just think waht it will like trying to work out wherre to put all you other important documents from the space you got for free with Office. The plan is just a long term strategy to get people to pay for Office 365 12 months from now since htey can't get paying customers any other way.
The cop'copter only won 'cos it is a hexacopter against a quad. Just wait the civvies are armed with octocopters. Mwah haha.
Maybe someone could tie 2 quads together with the controls reversed on the second one and see if if works. These things seem to fly equally well upside down anyway so it should be possible.
Yup! Many car manufacturers have got together and created the GENIVI alliance to run a Linux core on CANBUS systems with just the display layer being tweaked by individual manufacturers to give branding.
Surely it would make sense for the banks to do something similar. If they used a cut down Linux system, it would give a new lease of life to all that creaking old hardware.
They should have done all their sales before the WHO told us that bacon was carcinogenic.
They may do better with a nice banana (easily reproducible odour), which could be served with appropriately placed plums. And to be really unsubtle they could add some custard (also easily reproducible odour)
IT? because it may be clever technology but it is not information technology.
"Can one install a distributed file system and make a cloud with free redundant storage": the answer is probably yes, but you would need more local storage to keep track of all the cloud stored bytes than keeping all your data locally. Especially since you would need massive redundancy to allow for devices being devices which someone may unplug. The only advantage is that you may be able to be able to create your own virtually uncrackable crypto system since the NSA would not know in which order you wrote or read individual bytes to which devices. The main drawback would be that you would not know if someone else had randomly selected the same devices for THEIR storage.
Yeah but!
The only way a filter can work is if there is a central government database. To use your copy of the government example: to find the owners of phones near to where three crimes were committed, requires that the data is on a common database since there is no way that EE can know that person A carrying phone X is, or is not, person A carrying phone Y on the Vodaphone network. Very few crims (unless they sit in Westminster) are stupid enough to carry the same phone to different jobs. Ergo, the common database must be held by the government (or a government appointed authority) since it would be illegal for anyone else to do so.
What they continually gloss over though is the fact that anyone can buy a cheap phone without any identity check and pop in a prepaid sim card, then throw it away once the job is one. Which gets us back to the real reason for this bill: to be able to retroactively go though the masses of data in order fit up any innocent person and so improve the crime statistics.
As they say, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear (except abuse of due process).
"He conceded that parliamentarians’ emails “may have been collected” by GCHQ in these operations, but claimed that, technically, this could not have been prevented because the data could not be understood."
So, if it couldn't be understood there would be no point in collecting it would there.
Berry explained the police's desire to The Times by saying "We want to police by consent, and we want to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place.
OK, so where is he going to display the checkbox saying "I consent to a total invasion of privacy"? And will he ensure you are not defaulted to giving consent unless you take a positive action?
It looks like Oracle are indulging in fraud and protectionism if they are preventing 3rd parties from from fixing bugs (which may or may not be deliberate) then charging said customers over the odds for a service which the support companies provide at a much lower cost before they are sued out of business.
You want to come to the Cevennes in France. There are plenty of small hills with a 1Km vertical climb averaging 1 in 12. I am sure they are easy compared to L'Alpe d'Huez, but you know it when you have been for a 30km run. Once you get back to London you won't even notice that little 135m climb.
Should be a good place to do a REAL test of of electric assistance, and the views if you cross the Gorge du Tarn, or climb the Corniche are spectacular.
By their own admission, clause 7F states " exemption 7F of the act, which states records do not have to be disclosed where release..." Well as it happens, the EFF aren't asking for any records, they are asking for the text of the SOP itself.
ianal but as I read 7F, it is a means for public servants to hide their responsabilty for actions such as the BART incident, not a means of hiding the predefined procedure.
Nice idea but I'm sure the UK gov will make it illegal to post messages such as yours once GCHQ notice a flurry of messages with double encryption. They may not know who the recipient is intended to be, but they will certainly be able to force el Reg to reveal your identity even if you had posted as AC.
I haven't bothered seeing if I can find your public key but I assume you only used your own key. To be able to send private messages, you need to also to use the public key of your recipient. This becomes a bit unwieldy as an email system, since everyone who knows you has to try to decrypt every message you post to see if any particular message is intended for them. Would anyone ever bother decrypting every AC post in case one was intended for them?
If you are having problems making a hardware version, do you have it available for ebooks? At that price I would happily pay the same for a Kobo version and presumably, you would then have more dosh to give to the charity.
I am sure a large percentage of reg readers would also welcome an ebook file.
I've always wondered why they don't have a backup power unit comprising a small "A" frame trailer with a single castor wheel and a small diesel generator which you could buy or rent when you are going on holiday. The advantage of an "A" frame trailer is that anyone can reverse them without struggling to remember the complicated method of steering a normal trailer, and also the 2 legs could carry the power so that you don't need a separate power cable. Control signals to stop and start the generator, switch on brake lights and indicators etc could also be injected as HF pulses onto one leg meaning that there is nothing to plug in.
Already we have architects making curved building which cook the paint off cars, sculptors making parabolic mirrors as "art" which almost vaporises pigeons before they fall out of the beam and now they want to use a microwave not contained inside a faraday cage. No matter how accurate they can beam to a given point on earth there will always things which can't read the signs before they fly through the restricted airspace above the receivers.
Since someone has already mentioned a space elevator, why not build 2, then they can use them as both conductors of a power cable. Send it as HVDC and you could achieve much lower losses than any micro wave.
Is it too late to patent a system of parachutes attached to the elevator cables such that in the event of the satellite becoming detached, the chutes act just like the drogue on a glider tow line.
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