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Posts by DanceMan
651 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Aug 2009
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
Börk returns to its spiritual home of Sweden as duff disks take down Stockholm signage
Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting
United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted
Thursday 7th January 2021 05:53 GMT
Having recently watched a detailed doc on Hitler/s rise to power I was waiting for the Reichstag fire, but Trump couldn't even get that right. You burn or blow up Congress at night and blame it on the opposition, not incite a bunch of losers to invade it. Thankfully Trumpolini can preen like Il Duce, but he's neither as smart or as capable as his predecessors.
Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97
Wednesday 9th December 2020 05:50 GMT
from the PBS documentary “Chasing The Moon”:
”Chasing the Moon’s discussions of astronaut selection and early PR campaigns for Apollo highlight the overlooked story of Ed Dwight, a fighter pilot who nearly became the first African American astronaut. Dwight had an outstanding military record, and the Kennedy administration was keen for NASA to have an African American astronaut. After passing his medical exam, Dwight was sent to Chuck Yeager’s flight school, the testing ground for potential astronauts. According to Dwight and a later investigation from the White House, Yeager pulled all the instructors into a room and ordered them not to speak to Dwight, not to interact or provide advice to him, and not to socialize with him outside of the base. Yeager’s reason was that he didn’t want ‘a colored guy’ to be an astronaut.”
UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China
Shine on you crazy diamond: We don't know who needs to hear it but NASA's explained the weird shape of the Bennu asteroid
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
Tuesday 11th August 2020 19:23 GMT
Re: The House of Lords
@ Simon Hobson
Agree completely. In Canada there was a movement among Conservatives to elect our presently appointed Senate. As with many ideas of the right imported from down south and unable to learn from history, this does not work. The US Senate was originally appointed and only later elected. It is now the area of gov't where lobbyists have their greatest impact. And in a rapidly changing world it's an impediment to gov't being able to move quickly and react to that change.
China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US
Google allowed to remember search results to news articles it was asked to forget. Good
After banning Chinese comms bogeyman, UK asks: Huawei in this mess? It was a failure of capitalism, MPs told
Thursday 23rd July 2020 22:37 GMT 
Huawei
I don't think the real issue is backdoors, or cost. If you look at the imprisonment of the two Canadians and the Chinese violation of the "two systems" agreement in Hong Kong, the real issue should be handing vital 5T infrastructure to a company with such close ties to a gov't that will not respect agreements or international norms. For that matter the same might be said of Cisco as long as Trump remains in power.
After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good
Saturday 27th June 2020 02:35 GMT
Olympus were special
For me it was not in the way pretty much everyone here has written about. I went from Miranda to budget Nikon in SLR in the years I developed and printed my own B&W but I bought an Olympus 35RC to have a compact camera I could keep with me, and later the wonderful Olympus Stylus. Full frame 35mm in a small package that had no competition now has understandably been wiped out by camera phones. Technology has destroyed their niche.
Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps
Lenovo certifies all desktop and mobile workstations for Linux – and will even upstream driver updates
Wednesday 3rd June 2020 23:40 GMT 
It may not be be TYOLOTD, but it''s been my year since I discovered MX linux, and interestingly the main two are on a Thinkpad T410 and a Lenovo M58 SFF. I'd tried linux occasionally for 10 or 15 years on old hardware but Win 8 and 10 pushed me harder. Linux handles wireless and ethernet drivers better than Windows these days. I don't game and thus don't have experience with video gpu's other than the chipset versions. I'm very happy and learning to deal with the occasional command line tasks.
My reading tells me that for linux to make the big jump, it has to have a Domain and Exchange alternative and a way to run actual MS Office. For one example, my union used to use a spreadsheet with complex macros for estimating payrolls that would never have run in Open Office. The vast majority of people will run whatever came on their machine. I note tv ads recently promoting Chromebooks. As long as linux support remains at the current level, I'm quite happy running a somewhat obscure OS.
You're not getting Huawei that easily: Canadian judge rules CFO's extradition proceedings to US can continue
Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch
Somewhere, way out there, two black holes, one large and one small, merged. And here on Earth, we detected the gravitational wave blast
As nice as Pai: FCC chairman comes out in favour of Ligado Networks' 5G proposal, despite criticism from airlines and military
Upstart Americans brandish alligators at the almighty Reg Standards Soviet
Bad news: Coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the world. Good news: Nitrogen dioxide levels are decreasing and the air on Earth is cleaner
Tencent is now bigger than Cisco and Lenovo – and predicts this virus thingy will help it get bigger still
What's inside a tech freelancer's backpack? That's right, EVERYTHING
FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked 'limited contact info', it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses and more
RIP Freeman Dyson: The super-boffin who applied his mathematical brain to nuclear magic, quantum physics, space travel, and more
Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick
Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers
Your mobile network broke the law by selling location data and may be fined millions... or maybe not, shrugs FCC
The BlackBerry in your junk drawer is now a collectors' item: TCL says no more new keyboard-clad phones
Protesters backing Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou during her US extradition hearings were 'duped paid actors'
Friday 24th January 2020 21:58 GMT
Meanwhile in Richmond
Earlier during the HK protests a grandfather in Richmond (Vancouver suburb heavily Chinese) passed around a loyalty to the regime paper for the younger family members to sign. The community has always been divided. Years ago the Chinese Benevolent Association was known to be allied with the Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist faction.
The older Vancouver Chinese community was primarily Cantonese from Quandong province.
Microsoft engineer caught up in sudden spate of entirely coincidental grilling of Iranian-Americans at US borders
Friday 10th January 2020 01:54 GMT
Not just Iranian-Americans
There's an Iranian-Canadian community locally, many in North Vancouver, They were also detained at the border (made the local news) for about 7 hours for daring to want to take a family outing to Seattle. Ever occur to the brainless CBP that these people may have wanted to get the hell out of Iran given it's current gpv't? Some of these people were among the dead in the 737 crash.
Medical biz LifeLabs fesses up: Hackers slurped 15 million customer records – and we paid them to hand it all back
Tuesday 7th January 2020 04:18 GMT 
Fire the CEO
This idiot could not say, two or three weeks after the incident, whether the data had been encrypted. I'm sure the IT guys had some idea about how to safeguard data, but the responsibility for this lies with management, the head of IT and those above him. If the CEO is so clueless he doesn't know this that long after the hack, he needs to go. First for incompetence and second to begin sending a message to others to take this seriously. The frequency of these losses is a stark reminder that CEO's have learned nothing to date.
Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room
Wednesday 18th December 2019 07:55 GMT
Re: unprotected master shut down buttons
A small arena used for rock shows I work in had a new led house light system installed. As a backup for the mini-controller hidden in a room under the seating there were two ordinary wall switches located in a vomitory* just above head height. They could instantly kill or bring up the house lights. Said vom also led to the only men's washroom in the building, They were enclosed in a box maybe a year later, thankfully without incident.
*Definition of vomitory
: an entrance piercing the banks of seats of a theater, amphitheater, or stadium
Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war
Close the windows, it's coming through the walls: Copper Cthulu invades Dabbsy's living room
Sunday 24th November 2019 02:05 GMT
The Impermanence of wiring
The ex and I had a house built around 1984 and I did a bunch of low-voltage wiring before the walls were drywalled (covered.) By now all of it has been super-ceded by newer standards. The 75 ohm coax for cable tv is now a heavier gauge, cat5 has replaced the old untwisted telephone wire, and surround sound arrived after I'd run zip cord for speaker wiring, so no rear speaker wires. The zip cord for alarm and intercom has become cat5 standard.
A short note to say I'm off: Vulture taps claws on Reg keyboard for last time
Email! HUH! Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing...
Bloodhound gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record
WhatsApp slaps app hacker chaps on the rack for booby-trapped chat: NSO Group accused of illegal hacking by Facebook
Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe
Multitasking is a myth: It means doing lots of things equally badly
Can you download it to me – in an envelope with a stamp?
Tuesday 10th September 2019 22:24 GMT
Re: last-mile-people are getting bad
Here in Vancouver and the neighbouring Burnaby the north-south streets begin numbering at the north end. but there are a couple of bubbles further north of the zero start cross street, so those addresses are 123 XXX Avenue North (Canada Post mandated order). When I began getting Newegg deliveries by Purolater, the tracking would show "querying address" several times then back to the depot, where I would have to pick it up. The inexperienced driver was seaching for 123 XXX Avenue a block away, unaware of the north-south divide. I had to change my address with Newegg to 123 North XXX Avenue to solve the issue.
That issue solved, even with a notice taped to the door saying "I'm home, okay to drop, but please ring the bell," the bell is never rung.
Divert the power to the shields. 'I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!'
Monday 2nd September 2019 22:59 GMT
Re: Wires held together with toothpaste tube caps
Called "Marrettes" locally. They have a copper spiral inside and when properly installed the wires being joined are wound around each other tightly as well as all being in contact with the copper spiral of the marrette.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist-on_wire_connector
Biting the hand that feeds IT
