
> "Wires will never go away."
Of course they will. Just at the point that you need them.
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The video shows it getting off the runway in what appears to be a normal manner, but then the speed drops off (despite maintaining the angle-of-attack) meaning that it lost lift and thus altitude.
To me that points to engine problems. Probably a bird strike, but possibly fuel starvation (pump failure, gelling, etc)
A loud bang could be from the engines. We'll have to wait for the black box data analysis to know for sure.
Their "Master Stoat" (coffee stout) is very nice, but the relatively new Red Rascal is particularly apposite for this topic and also very nice.
Exactly this. And that's why the standard firefighting approach to electric vehicle fires is: disconnect the battery (to make it electrically safer), then get as much water as you can onto it.
The water is intended to cool things to the point of arresting the thermal runaway. Batteries are generally well enough sealed that you're not going to get water on the internal chemicals/plates anyway.
There's a lot of jobs that they have to do in order to deliver to an area.
They sometimes start with the residential area ducts as they don't know whether they'll be blocked or clear and therefore can't predict how long it will take to install.
In parallel, they'll start building the backbone etc.
Once it's all in place, they can test it. Only once tested will they make it available to order.
If they've installed cable to your chamber but you haven't seen anything else for a while, that probably means that your ducts were clear.
It's also entirely possible that the cable that was installed was for a private circuit, leased line, etc and nothing to do with a wider rollout.
They don't. But you just know some people will want the bragging rights.
From the ISP's point of view, the usage is unlikely to be much different than a 1Gb connection, but the revenue will be significantly higher. That makes it a win. Plus ISP bragging rights: "fastest consumer broadband in the country"
No no no. They're trying to get rid of control.exe and replace it with the abomination that is "Settings"
Sometimes you have to fight quite hard to get to the relevant control panel section to do the bits that you need to do and Settings completely omits. Print drivers, I'm looking at you.
"Intelligent" by who's definition?
I mean we have had some great thinkers over the years - Plato, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, etc. But we also have Trump and now Nawrocki elected into positions of power, so the balance is tipping away from the "intelligent" label.
I've told this one before on here, but not for a while.
Late one Friday afternoon (isn't it always‽‽) a university professor client rings up - computer is dead, he needs to submit something over the weekend.
I rushed over (10 miles away), walked in, pressed the power button and confirmed that the computer wouldn't turn on. I then turned on the switch on the mains extension lead it was plugged into. Turned the computer on. I hung around long enough for him to confirm that everything was OK (I think it was really just for his blood pressure to come down)
In fairness, he admitted that he should have been able to sort that himself but was flustered. He was even happy to pay the bill (for an hour on-site - our minimum charge for a visit)
Accept that the device manufacturer gets incentivised to include various things - not just MS crud, but antivirus, VPN, spotify, etc, etc.
As you're just going to wipe the drive anyway, that doesn't affect you beyond the fact that those vendors have paid something towards your device. It'll be a pittance, but it's something.
It's really not your money that's going to Microsoft (and it's definitely nowhere near $100 - closer to $10 for OEM) - all the other interested parties subsidise that so they can get their junk on more devices and therefore sell subscriptions.
Yes, but 2FA is not the solution to all security problems.
Discontented staff present a huge vulnerability. If a hacker says "I'll give you £10000 for access to your laptop", I expect a fair proportion of the workforce would take that and hand over the laptop fully logged in already.
And the same attack vector works in a corporate office but probably cheaper: "I'll give you £100 to let me in the door" - once inside they could just walk up to a desk and say "I'm from IT, I just need to check something on your computer. Won't take long" and they're unlikely to be questioned.
The carriage holds the paper and therefore when hitting "carriage return" (which was a big lever on the carriage itself) the carriage would move to the RIGHT ready for you to type on the left edge of the paper.
Unless you had a right-to-left typewriter, which I've never seen but can imagine they exist.
The only reason to use it will be that it's built-in and therefore available on the machine without you having to do anything. If you were to make your own version that would need to be installed (or placed somewhere you can run it) and at that point you might as well use your favourite third-party tool.
I've had similar, but with a client on the phone.
"Hello, my computer won't start"
"Move that folder off the keyboard and try again"
"What. Oh... Yes, that's got it. How did you know?"
"I recognised the beeps"
It being a folder was something of a lucky guess, just from familiarity with their desk layout.
> "And to steal data from email servers, the operatives like to use server data exchange protocols and APIs such as Exchange Web Services (EWS) and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)."
Wow, I'm astonished at the deviousness on show. Using email protocols to access emails. You'll be telling us next that they use HTTP to pilfer information from websites.
Unfortunately a lot of charities have a high staff/volunteer turnover, so the IT needs to be as standard as you can make it to ensure familiarity. If the computers are seen as hard to use (because people aren't familiar with that software) people will be more reluctant to work on them.
And the figures that some of these places work with, £10/user/month is nothing. For other places it's unaffordable. I work with charities in both camps.
My maths puts it at just under 2 years away as well.
But I haven't delved into the specifics such as how many times it will make that transition - with Earth's orbit, for part of the year the distance is actually decreasing, so it may cross the threshold, then get closer and cross it again.
Twisted pair has an inherent immunity to such things - the induced voltage applies to both legs and as such cancels out. The network interfaces are also galvanically isolated (each pair drives a small transformer)
It's not completely immune, but it's a lot better than you think without any shielding.