Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
It's NASA they would call it a "Terrestrial Multiple Person Intra-Site Crew Transport Facilitation Module (Manned)"
Followed by a hastily added footnote from 2008 noting that manned refereed to persons of all sexes, genders and ethnicity.
Followed by a hasty crossing out dated 2024
If your Microsoft corporate login requires the Microsoft app - it goes beyond the regular 2FA.
Windows gives you a 2 digit number to enter in the app and it gives you the reply, and checks your location
I was using a regular Aegis 2FA + selecting "I can't use my app right now, enter verification code" but IT have cracked down on me
But it used to be a cheap place to fly to and stay at.
One conference switched from Vegas (bad optics of public money being spent sending civil servants to a den of sin and etc) to some random wholesome mid west city.
Which meant nowhere to stay except the single conference hotel who charged $$$ and it took 3 expensive flights for most people to get there
>One would imagine that Tesla's higher-ups would much rather have a slow bleedout so they can at least pad their pockets some more before it all goes under.
Tesla's board are entirely Musk's friends and family - possibly all his children by this point.
You would think a functioning government would be concerned about a $Tn company having no effective corporate governance - so they moved to Texas
And they were intending to sell cheap "Chinese" EVs like the rest of the world get - to compete with Tesla + a few crap EV the big US makers were grudgingly making to keep Californian politicians happy
If November had gone the other way - that would look like a reasonable bet.
Fields for Political General Announcements.
Trump 1.0 wanted huuuuge factories making American televisions for Americans and Foxconn were ready to invest $Bn of subsidies into an empty field.
Then Biden wanted EVs and Semiconductors, they were able to act like more fields would one day be factories making EVs and chips. If the right subsidies act acted in their favour
Now with Trump 2.0 they will promise fields will become (checks Chat-zeitgeist ) AI data centers
There is a tragic aircraft accident with a turboprop with wing icing. The autopilot silently increases engine+flap thingy to compensate, right up to the point where it can no longer generate lift and is about to stall - then disconnects, hands over to the pilots with the equivalent of a shrug and a "been nice knowing you"
Your choices; go out and compete with big cats to hunt deer, try and scratch a furrow with a stick and the pull weeds until dark, invent a job where you sit indoors and everyone else has to bring you food and do what you say or the sky fairy will get angry....
Give or take wearing silly hats and children that's history of religion 101
At least traditional media never did this. Now excuse me I have to go and watch TV where John Wayne shows me how I can be a true patriotic hero if I kill enough gooks.
Then Tom Cruise will show me how even a short-arse gay volleyball player can defeat the evil Soviets Iraqis Afghans Russians definitely not the Chinese Canadians if we spend enough on military tech.
Docking stations are one of the things I really don't miss.
Having a box smaller than a Cell phone that connects to just about any brand of laptop via a single USB-C and has multiple 4K display connectors, Gige cat5 and a couple of USB sockets to leave a flash drive in, is amazing.
Dell of course managed to make a Desktop Hub that is bigger and heavier than an old docking station and come with a power brick bigger than the laptop with a proprietary connector .
The worst are Dell. We buy the " Precision(tm) professional grade laptops for Precision professionals (tm)" models and they manage to be simultaneously; heavy, expensive, plasticky and flimsy feeling.
It does mean I got to "reuse" a bunch of out-of-service-warranty XPS-13s + Mint
It's unrealistic for the UK to compete with the USA, Germany and Japan in building cars, instead we must become world leaders in using cars. I call on the government to subsidise everyone in the UK to buy 3 pickups and demonstrate to the world their dynamic use in dynamically being dynamic.
T. Blair at the Future Of Road Development institute
The internal LAN that has the ATMs on it also hosts the mail server and presumably random wall ports around the branch and hands out DHCP to any random unauthorized box on the network ?
On the positive side:
1, My home LAN looks mil-spec secure by comparison
2, I'm going to wander down to the bank to see if they also leave the keys to the vault under the welcome mat
>the BIOS was in a couple of EPROMs and couldn't be updated by mere software
It made it so much harder for persistent virus authors:
1, Download naked_tennis_star.exe from dodgy link
2. Follow instructions to remove BIOS chip and peel off sticker covering window
3, Leave on window ledge in sun for 2-3 days to UV erase
4, Buy an EPROM programmer
5, Burn updated BIOS and repalce chip in motherboard
So nobody at Facebook is suggesting that verified advert-consumer ID and an effective ban on independent and community sites would be lead to a politician's future remunerative role as vice‑president of global affairs?
It's just a pure coincidence that Newer Labour's control freakery and Meta's corporate plans align so perfectly
