Re: Fortunately Useless
Wounding instead of killing was the thought behind NATOs switch from 7.62mm to 5.56mm for infantry rifles in the late '80s/early '90s. You may be right, but the whole operation is now based on it.
Posts by Sven Coenye
233 posts • joined 29 Mar 2008
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone
ITC judge recommends banning toner imports that infringe Canon's IP
Photon fantastic: James Webb Space Telescope spies its first starlight
Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google
Thursday 13th January 2022 00:22 GMT
Re: And this is why
2000's and the argument is not about application dependencies. The RPM3 to RPM4 transition caused serious pain with Mandrake when RPM4 packages started making their way into the (official) "pressure cooker" repository. An RPM3 base OS would recognize the application upgrade but was unable to handle the RPM4 package. Pretty soon, the result was an irreparable mess.
Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked
Fugitive mafioso evaded cops for two decades until he was spotted on Google Street View
HCL accused of wage theft, underpaying H-1B workers by at least $95m a year
Wednesday 15th December 2021 03:21 GMT
Re: To fix this...
I held an H-1B visa through the mid-90s. The B does make a lot of difference. It did not have the "no displacement" clause attached. The main requirements were that the position needed at least a BA and wages had to be at or above "market rates" (only INS had no statistics on that - that is where the gaming started. By the time it was time for me to renew, that piece had been delegated to the Dept of Labor and they got lost in their own paperwork.) The rules have changed significantly since those days. The program has become unrecognizable and is now mostly a money printing machine for the Feds.
Alleged Brit SIM-swapper will kill himself if extradited to US for trial, London court told
As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode
Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule
We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools
Have you turned it off and on again? Russia's Nauka module just about makes it to the ISS
In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere
Friday 23rd July 2021 00:01 GMT
Re: Satellite Latency
Indeed. We did roughly the same thing. We had a Motorola Surfboard for ~10 years before that. The upgrade only happened because the Surfboard finally was unable to keep up with the base package's speed.
(OTOH, at least one large cableco will lobotomize your equipment so you may not quite get the features you expected.)
Engineers' Laurel and Hardy moment caused British Airways 787 to take an accidental knee
The M in M1 is for moans: How do you turn a new MacBook Pro into a desktop workhorse?
US House Rep on cyber committees tweets Gmail password, PIN in Capitol riot lawsuit outrage
Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant
Friday 4th June 2021 02:55 GMT
Re: location, location, location..
Someone lost track while writing TFA? The lead paragraph mentions a coal plant. I read that as a coal fired power plant, not the mine it turns into at the end. The former would make some sense as things like the hook-up to the grid are already in place, May even be able to reuse some of the turbine bits.
Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial-rec tech
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns
Comcast to impose 1.2TB-a-month broadband download limits across more of America from next year
Tuesday 24th November 2020 23:34 GMT 
Competition from Verizon
Bwahaha! That's a good one!
If you can draw a line on a map and one side has Comcast and the other side has Verizon, that is not what I call competition.
(And Verizon [and it's successor, FairPoint/Consolidated] used to sell 16 Mb/s packages in areas where they could only deliver 1.5 Mb/s off-peak. On if one complained, they would push a 20Mb/s package which the local exchange could not support. I have to consider myself lucky to be on the Comcast side of the map :-( )
HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink
Friday 13th November 2020 00:03 GMT
Re: Not to throw shade..
Next up ... "we have found that 1% of our customers are responsible for 99% of ink consumption. Going forward, in order to protect the interests of all customers, full page color prints are no longer included in the monthly allotment and will be billed at the low price of $4.99/page"
My life as a criminal cookie clearer: Register vulture writes Chrome extension, realizes it probably breaks US law
Here's why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware
Saturday 18th July 2020 23:53 GMT
Defnitely now
Samsung punted the home entertainment operation in 2019. Even with that, they acknowledged the problem almost immediately and do fix it for free (postage included) even out of warranty. Some should take that as an example. But samsungcloudsolutions.net is going on the NXDOMAIN list forever regardless. :-(
It's handbags at dawn: America to hit France with 25% tariffs on luxuries over digital tax on US tech titans
Remember when we warned in February Apple will crack down on long-life HTTPS certs? It's happening: Chrome, Firefox ready to join in, too
Sure is wild that Apple, Google app store monopolies are way worse than what Windows got up to, sniffs Microsoft prez
Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd
Wednesday 3rd June 2020 21:49 GMT
Re: "It solves a problem that people have."
Yes, let's adopt Poettering's shutdown strategy: change the event sequence in udev to suit systemd without giving a thought to anyone else. This had the lovely side effect of breaking shutdown completely if a LUKS partition was in use on SysV init.
(As in - upgrade from Debian Jessie to Stretch and find you can't shut down anymore. Lovely. I've used Debian since the 2.x days, but that was the last straw. Swicthed to Devuan and have not had a reason to look back. And Beowulf runs fine on a Raspberry Pi too.)
Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone
cmd.exe is dead, long live PowerShell: Microsoft leads aged command-line interpreter out into 'maintenance mode'
Thursday 28th May 2020 00:02 GMT
Powershell's one saving grace...
... interesting enough to tolerate its infantile syntax is the remoting capability. But then MS had to go out and neuter that when used against their own services because allowing it would crumple their servers*.
Want to set a simple property on all your O365 e-mail accounts? Sorry. Only on the 1st 100 or so. For the rest, you need to transport the entire collection to your side, change the property, then send the whole lot back. What should have taken a few seconds now takes an hour.
* anno 2018.
Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones
Want to own a bit of Concorde? Got £750k burning a hole in your pocket? We have just the thing
Friday 6th March 2020 23:36 GMT
Re: So close, yet so out of reach...
Growing up, Concorde made 2 ambassador flights to my local airport (Oostende).2nd time i was old enough to go see it on my own, The first thing of note was that it came with an Air France-liveried Renault R4 carrying a spare tire for the tail landing gear.
The crowd control barriers were only arms length from the undercarriage. When time came to depart, the ground crew pushed the barriers back to barely outside the intake line of the engines. I was standing under the left wingtip when the engines started spooling up. (Glorious days :-) Can't image that happening these days...)
Google's second stab at preserving both privacy and ad revenue draws fire
Outlook more like 'look out!' as Microsoft email decides everything is spam today
Use our stuff for free and sell your application? That's Qt. Time to give something back
Microsoft previews Visual Studio update with added Linux love, many new features
Curse of Boeing continues: Now a telly satellite it built may explode, will be pushed up to 500km from geo orbit
Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth
Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks
Tuesday 10th December 2019 12:43 GMT
Re: Can you trust FFox?
Sorry for the late response. I installed 71 (the day before this article) and that is what it says on two splash pages on its first run.
Looks like the change was introduced with 67, but 71 is the first one stating a Sync account is the only way to retain access to your information across versions.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profiles-firefox-installation
It may be possible to wrangle the Profile Manager to regain access, but for how long? And how many regular users even know that thing exists?
Thursday 5th December 2019 00:26 GMT
Re: Can you trust FFox?
Agent Tick does have a valid point. What is not mentioned in TFA is that with 71 (and beyond), each update will create a new profile. The only way to retain access to saved passwords, autofill, etc. is by handing your data to Mozilla. There is no provision to do a local import from an older FF version.
In your face! US Senate mulls bipartisan federal law on police facial recognition use
Complete with keyboard and actual, literal, 'physical' escape key: Apple emits new 16" $2.4k+ MacBook Pro
US customers kick up class-action stink over Epson's kyboshing of third-party ink
Wednesday 23rd October 2019 11:58 GMT
May not be just 3rd party ink
There are indications printers also reject genuine but out-of-region Epson cartridges. (Going by the eBay/Amazon comments of US based users of non-retail packaged cartridges of Asian origin. Of course, those may be fakes, but the one set I did end up with looked pretty convincing. No idea if they worked or not as I ended up returning them because the seller had misrepresented them as regular retail items.)
