Posts by james 68 638 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2009
I just miss having a phone that doesn't bend every time I sit down with it in a pocket (front or back). Can't keep it in the shirt pocket because I'm constantly lifting large objects often with pointy metal protuberances to chest height and that kills screens at a right rapid pace.
I guess someone made the challenge "Tell us you own shares in these companies*, without telling us you own shares in these companies".
And these two fools jumped right in.
* Add your South Korean memory makers names of choice here.
Wonderful how Dems and reps are loathe to be seen working together on anything, no matter how simple, which might benefit the American people, but they can openly band together to protect foreign companies.
"AI is a bullshit generator. This is excellent for a cyber criminal, but not actually important to the business of most corporations."
Have you ever met someone from HR or marketing? Perhaps a consultant? Anyone from management even? Biggest bullshit generators you're ever likely to meet, which is probably why they're scared of AI taking their jobs.
Incentive.
The russian crooks want to make money, as a tool, AI can help them do that.
The workers in the corporations are using it because they've been told to, and perhaps worry that if it works well it'll take their jobs. Being shit at AI (or at least making the AI seem shitty) helps them keep their job and the money that job supplies.
Latency springs to mind, though if the choice is security or waiting a few fractions of a second for data I would choose the latency, large scale providers may see things differently. Add to that the VPN itself must run on some brand of presumably compromised silicon and I guess the point may be moot.
I remember playing it many moons ago on pc may have been in the 386.or 486 era, but I am pretty sure I also played it in a browser at some long past moment.Or do I need to start taking dementia tests?
Edit: I can hold off on the dementia tests for a little while yet... https://dos.zone/nethack-1992/
Don't think it has been updated to the latest version yet however.
I'd imagine that there are many and that they are rightfully ticked off. Looking at the rest of the Trump administration I'd say that the whole mess was likely created by political appointees arranging a grift and giving the engineers the cold shoulder.
And now that the truth has come out, it's somehow even worse. It's just prettifying a 2d frame using a best guess and not even using any of the 3d data or materials data from the game engine.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-confirms-dlss-5-uses-a-2d-frame-plus-motion-vectors-as-input
When you can buy an equivalent of their "high end" model for 1/4 of the price, of course they're gonna lose the robo-rat race. The days of them being the only purveyors in the game are long gone but they still believe they can (over)charge a premium for nothing that can't be bought elsewhere for a fraction of the price.
Dyson are the same, and will likely follow suit.
@Pascal Monett
"I would venture that, in every country that delivers passports, having a second one is against the law.
Of course, in democratic, civilized countries, you most likely don't need one unless you are a foreign agent (aka spy) or a hardened criminal."
That's a load of old bollocks.
I have both a UK passport and an Irish passport, possession of both is perfectly legal (even in Japan where I currently live, where Japanese citizens cannot possess more than one passport) and their possession by myself doesn't make me a spy nor a hardened criminal. Possession of both simply offers me more options when traveling, for example I can use the Irish passport to quickly pass both myself and my Japanese family through customs in Europe and the UK passport for the same in any commonwealth countries.
Your statement is either profoundly ignorant based solely upon bad 60's Hollywood movies or pathetically poor trolling.
When will people realise that he's the Trump of the tech world?
He buys companies, slaps his name above the door, claims he invented/innovated the product and cashes in on gullible investors. All while stiffing contractors for the bills whilst spouting barely cognizant bullshit on the internet to rile up his supporters and distract from his grifting.
Sound familiar?
The first several times I got to play in an RAF flight simulator it had the pneumatic (hydraulic?) Cockpit, both fixed wing and Heli cockpits were available,but the interior view was provided by a tiny camera on an arm that moved throughout a rather large physical scale model of the Welsh mountains. I was given to believe that the army also had a not dissimilar setup for tank training.
Microwaves are a specific range of frequencies, it's right there in the name. Note that the emitter is microwave only, not longwave, shortwave, millimeter wave etc. other frequencies can pass through materials which block or reflect those microwave frequencies. Which is why the microwave oven analogy is not specious. GPS, cellular and many other wireless coms will happily keep working inside a microwave blocking layer or box. Now as to your actual specious suggestion, why don't you turn on your microwave at full power and place your phone right up next to any of the surfaces, you'll notice how the phone is perfectly safe and unaffected. Almost as if those microwave frequencies can by easily blocked. And yet a phone will still get signal inside a closed microwave oven.
Egads, what foul sorcery could this be? The magical mysterious microwaves have been defeated. Oh noes!
Not really.
You ever stand right in front of your microwave while you wait impatiently for your food to heat?
You ever do that and have your face right at the door watching the food?
You ever wonder why you don't get cooked and your eyeballs don't pop?
But you can see through the microwave door right? the metallic screen behind the glass has all those little holes after all.
Now, lets propose an experiment. Put your mobile phone in your microwave, and get a buddy to call you.
That fancy little box that blocks microwave leakage won't stop your mobile from ringing, why? It's the frequencies.
You can even take your microwave outside, load up GPStest and watch it run through the closed door, the signals will be attenuated but it will still connect to enough sats for a location.
Hell you could even leave the top of the drone uncovered and only wrap the sides and bottom - the weapon is directional and unless they mount it on a plane it will never be looking down on a drone.
A faraday cage is unnecessary when the microwaves aren't coming from every direction, they only need to be reflected away from the electronics and that doesn't require a sealed cage just a material which can reflect those particular frequencies covering the directions from which the "beam" could possibly strike.
You seem confused about what exactly a drone is.
A drone is a vehicle which can be controlled remotely and may or may not have autonomous functions.
You stated rotors, plural, inferring a quadcopter design, most of the drones used in conflict tend to be of the typical airplane design due to the fact that it is much more efficient for both range and loitering.
Regardless, either design could easily have the BODY wrapped in a tinfoil layer, note that I have used caps this time since apparantly that flew right over your head first time around, there would be zero need to cover the propeller or rotors in tinfoil.as if the drone is relying on electric motors (doubtful) the foil would only need to reach the motor casing. If the drone is using a gas engine (probable, because increased range and flying time) then the foil covering would only need to extend to and cover the bulkhead to which the engine is attached.
Pinholes in the foil layer which would allow wiring through for the aerial, camera etc would be functionally sealed by said wires filling the aperture.
Sure, any exposed camera would get borked, but that's not going to stop an explosive suicide drone from completing its mission by GPS.
Come to Japan where depending on where you live in the country you'll be supplied with power of a different frequency, Eastern Japan has one frequency and Western Japan has another, both are nominally 110 volts, plugs are the same for both areas. Whilst 90% of equipment doesn't really care and will work regardless the other 10% will have all kinds of issues from intermittent faults to releasing the magic smoke.
And sods law requires that the one item you really need to work is the one that'll crap it's guts out.
