Re: Linux?
Why bother with getting an ARM machine, when a four year old laptop with an SSD upgrade will be faster, more useful, and most importantly for linux, there's a chance some of the hardware might be supported.
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Well, the nub of the problem is that the QE class doesn't have a catapult or arrestor system, and fitting one now would cost about as much as new carrier (we're told).
This means the only fixed wing aircraft that can be used on them are V/STOL aircraft, and that limits the choice to:
Yak-38 - Soviet design, out of production, Uncle Vlad probably won't sell us any.
(Sea) Harrier - 1960's design, out of production.
F-35B - Modern design, very pricey.
So, given that there's only one aircraft that is currently being produced that can actually be used on the QE, that's the one we're going to have to get.
(Whether or not this situation of being stuck with only one choice of plane could have been avoided is a separate rant for a different day)
But reading and (potentially) censoring the entire literary output of a country is almost feasible compared to going through the 300 hours of video that's added to youtube every minute.
Ten thousand people watching uploads twenty four hours a day would only see half of what was uploaded.
I think more companies would do it if they could, but SAP have the benefit of providing a very expensive product that takes years to integrate into a business, but once it has been, it's totally embedded. It would probably be cheaper for some companies to shut down and reopen under a new name than to remove SAP from their accounts department.
I guess there's not a huge amount of competition though (and at least moving to SAP got rid of our finance director's multi-GB Access database that he used for month-end, which invariably needed fixing every month)
In the last thirty seven years, Voyager 1 has 'lost' almost two whole seconds, compared to us on the earth due to relativistic velocity time dilation.
(not really 'lost time', more, 'experienced time at a rate very slightly slower than us')
(On the other hand, being in a smaller gravitational field, the Voyager probes will have 'gained' some time as well, but less than lost to velocity)
This is the US we're talking about, that sort of behaviour is considered laudable over there, or at least it is by the people that matter (ie the ones with all the money).
Shkreli just rocked the boat a little too much, if he'd only increased the price by ten times rather than twenty he might have stayed under the radar.
It's pretty much the same as if someone had used their ill-gotten gains to buy US dollars or any other foreign currency, the values of which go up and down compared to the pound.
It's not about the government gaining someone's money, it's about depriving a criminal of the proceeds of their crime After all, it's not like you'd expect a thief to be locked up, but still allowed to keep the things they'd nicked when they get out, is it?
I deal with a lot of, shall we say 'non-technical' users. My stance now is that no cable is plugged in unless someone competent has been on site to verify it, because I can't trust any of the users to answer the question correctly.
They'll tell you a hundred times that they've never touched the cables and that they're all plugged in correctly, just as I've asked, and yet when someone pops round to have a look...
I'm yet to find a way around them classifying cables by colour, rather than type. So a USB cable and an ethernet cable are assumed to be identical because they're both black, where as the red networking cable must be something different. I've tried focusing on the connectors but apparently they're too small to see properly.
I'd assumed that the child's toy of 'square block goes in square hole, round block goes in round hole' would have equipped most adults to correctly plug different cables into the correctly shaped sockets, but apparently the general population has forgotten the lessons they learnt as a child.
I think most people would agree that there's good reasons for spreading the thirteen root servers around the world. Ideally to such an extent that even if (for example) the US and Russia both decided to fiddle with them, there'd still be enough independent copies out there.
And that's ignoring all of the non-political problems that come with clustering services too closely together geographically.
I too was looking for a phone that is supported by Lineage OS, and had a 4.5" screen. I tried a Sony Z5 Compact, which was fine, but it turned out that I've got used to the 5" screen in my Swift, and the keyboard on the 4.5" screen felt slightly too small to use comfortably. (then I found the microphones in the Z5C were broken so that got returned). I haven't noticed my eyesight getting worse, but I suppose I am getting older. Maybe I'm going to have to stick to 5" screens from now on :(
So, now I'm going to try a Moto G5 and hope the unofficial Lineage rom works ok...
Given that this coin mining software will need to be run across millions of devices to be worthwhile, why would anyone take time out to find a way to secretly run it on a unix box, when the same amount of time and effort could be spent getting it to run on Windows machines, thus reaching an audience probably at least 100 times larger?
"you can't swap a drive with an active Windows install between PCs"
Since Vista this has been possible. It doesn't always work, and you'll want to update the drivers afterwards, but it does work most of the time.
The only problem I've come across is if you want to move to a machine that requires storage drivers that aren't a part of a default Windows install, but most machines are using an Intel SATA controller of some description so that's not a big problem.
"we aren't currently bombing the crap out of any third-world countries"
Does Syria not count as third-world? Because the RAF say that last year was their most intense in terms of combat missions in 25 years.
Of course, that's only busy for the manned aircraft. By the looks of it there's no useful role for the Watchkeeper, which begs the question, what's the bloody point of them?
You all thought that PARIS was just an attempt to get some PR with a world record attempt. Little did you all know that it's actually part of elReg's devious plan to destroy all print media by converting all newspapers and magazines into drones! (Evil drones of course, ones that will do their sinister bidding)
Mwahahahahha!
What's this? News about Uber being shitty? I've not heard the likes of this since, erm, about two hours ago...
"An enterprise, for the purposes of RICO is something like the Mafia, or ISIS; not a legally constituted company like Über."
So what you're saying is, if Uber's 'Strategic Services Group' was definitely part of Uber (same payroll etc.) then they can't be charged under RICO?
Correctly spelled sentences are easier to read than ones with a lot of errors.
There's someone I interact with at work who has a sub-GCSE level of writing and it takes me approximately twice as long to read thing's they've written because I mentally have to translate it 'into English'.
And trust me, you're much better off not having to read the first draft that my dyslexic brain comes out with.
Broadcasting the World Service to the yanks is a 'pearls before swine' effort, they just don't bother listening to anything they disagree with. Instead they seek out whichever broadcaster says the things they agree with, with none of those pesky uncomfortable truths.
Secure Boot isn't really a layer, its basically the modern equivalent of that BIOS option (which nobody used) which made the MBR read-only. It's part of the UEFI,
As for how you can patch, the Intel ME is part of the motherboard chipset, so it'll be your motherboard vendor you need to wait for (good luck with that). They'll get the updated code from Intel and will have to package in in the correct way to flash their own hardware.
As for how exactly the patch would be applied, I don't know, but I suspect in similar ways to the patches that server manufacturers release to update things like BMCs and RAID controllers. That is to say, you might be able to run a program from inside your OS, or you might have to boot from USB into DOS and patch that way.
As for your last suggestion, just because the Intel ME allows access to the OS, doesn't mean you have enough control over the ME to re-flash it.
The Intel Management Engine doesn't have anything to do with Secure Boot.
Secure Boot checks that the bootloader has been signed, so if it's been patched by malware, your computer won't boot (which is probably better than letting it boot and encrypt all your files).
It's mainly used to secure Windows, but can also be used by various Linux distributions. As far as I know there's no security pisses with it. It's available on both AMD and Intel CPUs (it's a function of the motherboard, not CPU).
Intel's Management Engine is effectively like an 'integrated lights out' controller (as found in most servers), but as part of the CPU, and so included in all of their products. The idea was to make it easier to manage large groups of PCs centrally (eg you could set them to all turn on overnight to install updates without affecting your users). It has several flaws which would allow an attacker with network access to a machine to do pretty much what every they want to it.
I say again, Secure Boot is nothing to do with Intel's Management Engine.
Building a new ship would mean more work for the shipyards, and therefore (the politicians hope) continued votes, so it's not completely out of the range of possibility.
Maybe we should sell these carriers to someone that's committed to the F-35B (the US Marines?) and build some proper ones with catapults on. Sure, it's a ridiculously massive waste of money, but we've known that right from the start.
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"Such an endeavour would have required a small automated science craft, atop of a very powerful rocket"
Either a very small probe indeed, or a more powerful rocket than we actually have. The only way we could get something up to similar speeds to this rock (or dormant spacecraft or whatever it is) would be with multiple gravity assists, which we don't have time for, and anyway, it's moving well outside the plane of the ecliptic, so you'll need a massive plane change manoeuvrer as well.
Basically, there was no way we could get anywhere near this, even if we'd know a couple of years in advance.
The live ISS video linked in the article (here) used to rely on UStream, but now seems to have changed names to "IBM Cloud Video"
Normally I'd decry this name as the worst sort of marketing codswallop, but in this case it's literally showing videos of clouds*, so for once, calling something "Cloud" (or 'cloud based', or 'cloudy') isn't a misnomer!
* most of the time, at least when the ISS is on the day-lit side of the Earth
I'd bet that the Chelsea Flower Show is a great place to be a pickpocket. Loads of people, and lots of them from affluent backgrounds, so they're likely to have expensive stuff in their pockets/bags.
Probably less violent crime than Notting Hill, but on the other hand people can get pretty worked up over their aspidistras...