Posts by Robert Carnegie 4545 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2009
I think Nematode is referring to the generation of I-things that won't be allowed to install iOS 13 - when the time comes, which isn't quite yet. I don't know, and I am asking, if those older devices like my iPhone 6 are now, meaning then, "old-person things" (OK for me) or "unpatched-vulnerability chew toy" (less satisfactory). Mine knows my credit card number...
Information about iOS 13 is here on Register and from Apple:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/03/apple_wwdc_macpro_itunes/
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/apple-previews-ios-13/
Anything cool in the "iPadOS" article that isn't mentioned in these places, evidently isn't coming to iPhones. Or perhaps wasn't exciting enough to mention. Window management and external disc drives may be the principal iPad differentiators, I think. Oh, and size.
I want to know where support is for devices that won't take iOS 13 or iPadOS 13 - in my case an iPhone 6. Do they stop updating iOS 12 and leave in place the GuyFawxx bug discovered next November where someone sends you a special text from Android and your Apple-thing catches fire and explodes... oh, well; I've had it about a year by fall (second hand store) and I did carefully buy the cheapest that actually could take iOS 12. Walking past the older, unsupported models as they popped and crackled...
I wondered "did she really ask for more intonation".
Was it here or elsewhere that I recently mentioned a fictional incident in rather-older-than-I-thought sci fi novel and publishing satire "Cyberbooks", where incidentally a voice-activated door lock requires the user to lose his temper and scream at it since that is the voice print that (presumably with some difficulty) he had set to unlock it.
You can set your search locale and language, and UI language, in your Google account separate from your current location - which of course it knows. I haven't tested this, but it should address your issue.
For instance, I typed "hello" into British Google, and I was offered a song by Adele and a photo-magazine about celebrities - British versions. I presume that in the U.S. you will see... maybe Lionel Ritchie? Or does that make me awfully, awfully old? How about dear Margarita Pracatan?
A novel I read recently, "Whispers Under Ground" (2012), has at one point an authorized (presumably) use by London police of a possi ly fictional car tracking gadget said IIRC to cost about as much as a holiday in Ibiza: it's magnetic and about the size of a shoe polish tin. So our hero just strolls up to the vehicle and reaches down to clip it on on the most appropriate place.
At which point, a story complication appears, as there is one there already.
Long story short, he puts his own one on a different part of the vehicle, and who else may be tracking the suspect is never officially admitted, but heavily implied.
Type "Translate" into Google, select English and French languages, type "What a surprise." Observe no accent, metaphorically related to making the statement with no emotional emphasis whatsoever. Poll for up or down votes: up to agree that you could just as well say it in English, down if you think French has je ne sais quoi and le mot juste.
I think the popular saying is a fallacy - that if Bill Gates walks past a wallet in the street, he loses money if he stops to pick it up, because it is taking time out of his existing activity of getting richer and richer every day. Actually, he gets richer even while he is doing something else. That is capitalism; ordinary people are employed by, in effect, a big pile of money. The big pile of money, and the person who owns it, are enriched by your laboring; the benefit to the person who does the work is secondary.
Likewise, taking time to drive the kids to school does not retard growth of Bill Gates' pile of money; it does it by itself (with help from various human beings who are not important, as I explained).
Her extremely rich husband perhaps could pay for a chauffeur?
This is an issue with calculating national productivity that I don't fully grasp myself: your own housework and child care don't count as economic activity, but if you hire someone to do that for you, it does. So the UK government wants to improve economic statistics by having both parents work while children attend out-of-home day care that is partly subsidised by non-parents' taxes and partly very expensive for the parents themselves, because mathematically this is much better than someone staying home with their own kids, but in real-life terms less obviously so. I'm not saying Bill Gates should have been forced into the full time househusband role; I'm saying it's complicated.
If it takes a village to raise a child then maybe put it onto the local tax...
If not by advertisements, how do you know where to buy stuff? There are few retailers that don't advertise. Sadie's Sandwiches may merely depend on you happening to walk by, but there probably is still a menu card of sandwich options available to you. I suppose that Sadie's Sex Toys probably doesn't have a window display...
Verbal big neon sign and all.
Advertising is just communication. What can make it bad is what is communicated, and to some extent how. If I pay The Register to display my advertisement came next to their news article - then that helps to reward journalists for their work. If the card promotes my app and the app is lousy - then that's too bad for you, but never mind. If I pay them to write a story on my behalf and offer it as unbiased news... I think they published a price list for that service, unless I'm thinking of Buzzcock.
I don't know the American system, but this action seems broadly unjustified, so can it actually be challenged? Like Trump arbitrarily but apparently officially designating inconvenient organisations as "terrorist" in order to invoke established sanctions against "terrorists"... however, those decisions appear to be allowed to stand. Martin Niemöller's theorem may apply.
I think "with" was meant to be "without" and most of us mentally auto corrected it - surely the Great Firewall of China won't let you use a non government approved app store, so unless Google runs a government-approved Google Play, it isn't an option. And wouldn't a Chinese censored Google Play mean that we'd be denouncing Google as the tool of communists instead of the tool of imperialists?
I say no. Ordinary text has about one bit's worth of variation per letter. And most password inputs would require that you are word and punctuation perfect. I'd predict you fluffing it even in a Shakespeare sonnet. "My mistress' eyes are nothing, like the sun."
My method is to take random generated letters and then invent a mnemonic for them. That makes them more memorable but not less random. Too bad if you get all X and Z, but you have that risk in Scrabble although there aren't so many of the tricky ones.
I think someone recently explained that the private tax companies' pet legislators were instructed to prevent attempts to simplify the tax laws into something that an ordinary person can deal with. It being complicated is a big part of how the tax software people make their money.
I have to use several different terminal emulators (...apparently) which have an inspiring array of different responses to copy-paste keystrokes or left and right mouse clicks. Such as right click = paste immediately. If you're expecting to drag-select text and then right-click to copy, the immediate paste comes as a disappointment.
If I overlooked someone mentioning "Write your destructive code so that it includes testing the condition that it is running where you intended it to run, before performing the destruction" - i.e. test server name, directory name, etc - then, excuse me. And anyway it's usually too much trouble, unless you can automate that.
The key words to look up basically seem to be "John Deere" and repair. Like the iPhone, it appears that if you try to fix your own tractor, its computer detects interference and refuses to work at all. "Right to repair" therefore apparently means that manufacturers would not be allowed to include a self-destruct function of that type in their product. (You can still set your own iPhone to overload if you are captured by the Talosians, of course.)
Suppose if A N Other web site also requires you to log in by saying "My voice is my password". Then... well, it's the same password obviously.
I wonder if it works if you say "My boss is a (cussword)" instead? And do it consistently.
And yet voice identification security worked fine in Gerry Anderson's "U.F.O." television series back in 1980. (Set in 1980, made in 1970.)
A minor detail in recent (...1989??) near future satirical science fiction novel "Cyberbooks" (someone invents an e-reader with colour and moving pictures; the paper publishing industry panics) was somebody's voice-print door lock that repeatedly and consistently doesn't recognise him until he loses his temper and starts yelling at it, which presumably is how he felt when he set it.
No evidence, but by me, "special" symbols are worthless in a password. They're harder to remember, harder to type, and occasionally not accepted at all. Each can be substituted with a hexadecimal code, for instance 0x21 for !
So, all my passwords are some upper and lower case letters and some numbers. For instance: Mow22fll (which isn't an actual password, for a start) is composed of initial letters of some words in an e-mail I just wrote (this actually isn't very random: there are better methods). I convert the letters into memorable words that I can mentally convert sack to the password text: The numerals just come along. Like the capital letter, they're mostly there just because some system security compels me to put them in, and if I always do then I don't have to remember where they're required and where not. And if some stupid system still says this is not passwordy enough, then I add... 0x21. And if you also block that then I WILL find and kill you. :-)
One: the warning of avalanches appears to mean avalanches ON APOPHIS. Anyone there reading this web site, get ready. That goes for "changing axis of rotation", too.
Two: "human satellites". That doesn't sound good actually. Are you predicting that the UK space industry WILL get going but will be mainly to expel illegal immigrants, upwards?
If the licence is granted, then both the licence and the new law run in the future, and you would have a licence for drinking at a recreation that wasn't legally a recreation any more.
I'm a bit puzzled that neither karaoke nor just drinking alcohol are considered recreations in Utah.
I also was puzzled why the karaoke singers were also called, or actually were, axe throwers too. I think I've got it now, it's two different groups.
So that just leaves converting karaoke into a religion, singing Psalms from the autocue, and being sure to include alcohol overindulgence as a sacrament. Where the axe throwing comes in, I'm not sure.
Some favour composing a short sentence to remember, and setting that as password.
I generate random letters, preferably consonants, and numbers, and then compose a sentence to remember most or all of the password.
For instance: Tfrydl50 - "Thanks for yodeling" (not real, generated as demonstration) and after a couple of repeats the numbers come up in my mind with the letters, and I don't have to look at the written copy hidden in my xxxxxx xxx xxx xxx xxxxxxx, which is awkward in the office environment.
The drawback of actual words is that one letter = one random bit approximately. My letters are fewer but randomer.
Consonants mean I generally don't run into a word filter, as if a password would be rejected because Mwsfukgst contains a three-letter rude word.
Each of my passwords is n1 random non-repeated consonants and n2 numerals. And if that isn't enough then ! at the end, which I tell you freely as you'll never guess the rest except by exhausting all combinations. And where I have them tattooed is a secret as well. I set a new unrelated random password whenever one expires
...except for my password for The Register, which I just can't be bothered about. vulturefan it is. (not.)
"If you showed up at my house wearing denim hot pants and a blouse cut low enough to show off your bra, I don't think it would be irrational or unreasonable of me to politely ask you to leave."
And when I have your electricity meter reading, sir, I shall.
Machinery can go wrong more efficiently, but a human being with lack of imagination or lack of commitment can ruin a customer's day without mechanical assistance. See "Not Always Working" i.e. https://notalwaysright.com/working/ See all the other "Not Always" articles, too. Then, see puppy and kitten pictures, because unaccustomed exposure to all that concentrated human fallibility leaves you in need of a corrective. The internet will provide; try "Cute Emergency" for instance. (Your workplace may consider this "social media", but it's the GOOD kind.)
I forget where, but I recently saw a plausible recent report of a horse that takes a daily walk by itself around its neighbourhood since its owner died, who used to follow the same route. This continues a tradition that also includes the horse and cart that regularly took their owner home from the pub already asleep. So... we have intelligent self-driving vehicles already. (But they do need looking after at bedtime.)
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