Re: Marketing
Isn't the implication that it would also produce "friendly fire" and take down our drones too?
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We have a load of stuff that is stored encrypted already with tools that don't have back-doors.
We already have the tools that will encrypt without back doors.
How are "they" going to make us give up on the old tools? Will we have to decrypt and re-encrypt everything - if we even can (eg shaddow credential stores...)
Even if "they" say that all of the communications products have to have back doors (and that they won't talk to "old" versions that don't), then if I can send a file, I can send a file encrypted with the old tools that the authorities won't be able to read.
Even PGP for email has been around since 1991
My work laptop has TPMS 2.0, but "only" a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7600U CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2901 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) - which is not on the approved list. It works fine in Win10, so I don't doubt it also would on 11.
Wonder if they will give it to me when I retire (which will probably be before September) so I can just put a distro of Linux on it that takes my fancy (maybe even more than one!)? (or maybe bodge it so that Win11 installs...)
I feel a lot of hardware waste coming along - how does that play with WEEE?
1915Mhz in the UK has the entry
1.9149 - 1.92 GHz Mobile Spectrum Access Hutchison 3G
in the OFCOM allocation tables.
I'm sure there would be similar allocations in other countries that the Musklink uplinks would interfere with (or that would interfere with the uplink)
My wife's 10 year old Prius Plug-in still does about 9 miles on battery only (if the weather is reasonably warm - the ICE cuts in if you want the heater or if it decides the drive is too cold...)
Its almost enough to get into town and back home again but not quite.
The newer versions do 20+ miles on electric only
Not sure what the processor(s) will be, but many of that generation (I'm thinking Z80, as that's what I learnt) traded "jump" space with functionality. Eg, the Z80 had a JR instruction was 2 bytes and could jump +-128 bytes. Whereas the JP instruction took 3 bytes - but could jump anywhere in the 64kb address space.
JR was your friend if you had either limited memory or code that needed to relocate as it didn't contain an absolute address
It has been reported that there are spare parts problems with some of the Chinese-made vehicles - to the extent that insurance companies are not wanting to insure them!
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-insurance/362519/exclusive-some-chinese-cars-almost-uninsurable-parts-and-repair-support
But the vehicles knowing usage and reporting back to who knows whom might be an issue in some countries - what is sauce for Huawei is sauce for BYD too...
I believe people born on the island of Ireland or who are first generation descendants of people born on the island of Ireland are automatically Irish citizens. They can apply for a passport proving that they are.
Second generation of people born on the island of Ireland can apply to be Irish citizens. I can't remember if their parents have to have claimed their passports for their application.
My mother-in-law was born in Ireland and my other half has claimed her Irish passport a couple of years ago in addition to her British one - so now she uses whichever is the more convenient!
Don't forget Xenix - which was a System III. We did have one machine that ran it...
Personality, I cut my teeth on Edition VII then System V on Interdata/Perkin Elmer/Concurrent minis rather than desktops. Then Masscomp came into the fold with more desktops running RTU ((Real Time Unix) which was a System V / BSD blend as far as superstructure
I'm sure, with appropriate negotiation and some funding, they could do a real-world test on one of the heritage railways that have reasonable lengths of line...
(it probably wouldn't be safety critical either as the signals and points are usually controlled by people rather than automation on heritage railways!)
Will sellers of second-hand kit (eg eBay or its advertisers) have to perform these background checks?
Will the checks have to made by a seller in, say, New Jersey before they send a kit of parts for a 3D printer to an address in New York? Lots of people in that area do "inter-state" shopping often because of the variations in sales taxes...
I'm surprised that they haven't already got AI in the office....
- detect someone being escorted towards a high window
- erase all the CCTV and other movements within the building automatically
- automatically open the window so as to not leave pesky fingerprints
- call the cleanup crew
Could you play "unlock door" to an ultrasonic transducer stuck onto a window so that people in the room wouldn't know the door was unlocked?
Seems a bit risky because I guess even a normal speaker set so that it would vibrate the glass to transmit sound would make a door very vulnerable
We have noticed it when we have been trying to have 2x Zoom/Teams/Skype/Webex/... calls at the same time for work/volunteering/etc. My wife has spent A LOT of time on Teams calls for work in the last 2 years
Up to now I've had to schedule round her meetings or participate on Zoom by phoning in (stopping my phone using WiFi). A single video-capable call uses 0.4 - 0.7Mbs upload and that's all we had and even then it wasn't very reliable.
Something that has come up locally is the inability of FTTP to support an emergency phone in the event of a power cut...
The area in question is in a valley and doesn't get mobile coverage (on any network) reliably - so that isn't a reliable alternative.
There are stories that "someone" - don't know if it is the fibre provider or the phone service provider - has to provide a battery-backed solution (that's assuming that the fibre hasn't broken as well!), but I've not seen any evidence of it...
(I admit our new ONT and router are both plugged into a UPS which will keep them running for a few hours!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59564480 has reported the issue in the North East with Storm Arwen
We have an "XO" phone line, so no fibre to the cabinet as the exchange is about a mile away - but we have just had FTTP installed by OpenReach : so much better than 6Mbs/0.5Mbs!
Only problem has been keeping our 25-year old phone number (Vodafone sales got it wrong and suggested getting a new number then porting the old to the line when its all working - which technically they can't manage to do) - but changing numbers will drop all the spam calls about our solar panels, insulation, domestic appliance insurance etc (not to mention unexpected internet activity being flagged up!)
I started the project for the 42 premises involved in October 2020. We had the relevant number signed up by the end of Jan 2021 with vouchers issued. OpenReach came and strung the fibre between the poles and dug up the drives of the 3 houses that were fed underground by direct buried cables (including mine!) and a section of the verge to connect up a couple of poles that were again fed by direct-buried feeder... Just after Christmas they were pretty much finished (give or take one rotten pole that still hasn't been replaced - so the people off that pole still can't order!) and we could order. Order placed and installed and working on 20Jan2022.
Not sure how the grant situation will play out as I'm pretty sure there were 2x voucher holders served by the "still not working" pole. It does have the fibre distribution hubs tied to the bottom of it, so at least when they replace the pole, it'll all be installed and good to go