Posts by FuzzyTheBear 317 posts • joined 25 Feb 2010
engineers no .. helicopter test pilot yes . Working on a touch panel design guy in charge for the buyer was an actual test pilot for the Apache .. guy had excellent requirements so what i was creating became easy to use with eyes closed . Much of what i learned then i still used in my latest designs for Crestron and AMX panels.
What haven't you understood ? This is not the time to go to work .. this is time to save lives. True the american system has no social net that's worthy of the name , true the USA dont have socialised medecine .. this is all costing you an arm and a leg .. but hey .. you just had to think forward and elect people that care about people .. tough
OK i preach for my own province being a programmer for amx and crestron but the shit works , been working for decades and wont let you down. plus it dosent spy on you . you can use the cell phone to do anything , control all your house , watch the front door cam .. open curtains , dim lights you name it . Sweet lord im tired of seeing Google Amazon and the likes taking you guys for fools and spying on you in your own home ! .. Seriously .. if you want to automate your life and home .. look at the well established hardware. im really sick and tired of hearing about their crap.
to Alun Taylor : wow grreat article . thank you for this most informative story.
Raises one question in my mind. Is ALL history and remains worth preserving ?
Test sites and installations and remains of a space program , what is worth and not preserving ?
Certainly all actual phisical remains of the rockets themselves qualify .. i think that even large pieces should be ,
but run down buildings and the roads and installations that were used around the vehicles leave me with big question marks.
This article is superbly written. Good work Alun ,that's the stuff that's keeping me here with the reg for over 10 years now
Thank you.
To those who haven't rerad up on HDMI recently it does carry ethernet as per " HDMI Ethernet Channel technology consolidates video, audio, and data streams into a single HDMI cable, and the HEC feature enables IP-based applications over HDMI and provides a bidirectional Ethernet communication at 100 Mbit/s.[43] The physical layer of the Ethernet implementation uses a hybrid to simultaneously send and receive attenuated 100BASE-TX type signals through a single twisted pair. " so yes . if HDMI is used with a suitably manufactured tv connected to a std ethernet port the bar SHOULD see the connection and communicate on the network.
There's kudos for India here .. getting in orbit , sending back images of earth , getting into orbit around the moon is already a major achievement. That the lander stopped responding ( reason x y z ) is just a detail. Would have been cool if it worked , but just to get a probe in that general direction , separation from orbiter etc is a sign of good science and a great achievement. This is not a failure by any means , it's an opportunity to learn and make things right in the next mission. Congrats are in order.
Worst thing left me with a head full of questions .. im used to just see ext4 doing it's job , computer booting back up and going back to business without a fuss .. so worst thing you could do ? really ? thought the idea behind all the work is to be reliable and without headaches. :)
How ridiculous can this " war " get ? I find it hard to believe Trump can destroy singlehandedly so much and contribute so little and still be POTUS . If they had proof the equipment was tampered with ( not their tampering which we know they do ) but the Chinese manufacturer tampering with key equipment i'd say ok fine ... but as long as they dont show evidence i dont see why Huawei should be the target of a war that's got nothing to do with com sec. Pathetic it is and how ridiculous can it get ? Well Trump ridiculous ..
The US is governed by corporate morons. Pirate radio is an essential free speech bastion. When all the media is in the hands of corporations , pirate radio is a defense against censorship applied by the corporations. Restricting free speech and ideas for decades had the effect we now see on America. There is very little free speech left at all ! We play music .. but only what we want you to hear : corporate wh**es that fit in the mold we established as being acceptable , we give you news .. but with a point of view that fits our corporate masters and benefit them by controlling what you think , we give you open airwaves by letting you call in .. with a 7 second delay to make sure our censors have the time to throw you offline if your comment dosen't suit us and/or goes contrary to what we want our listeners to think. We don't want them exposed to the naked truth. Free speech in the USA ? You got to be kidding me .. The only bastion of hope for true free speech in America is pirate radio. There should be a hell of alot more of it.
There's no point locking doors where i live. Crime is almost 0 / year. Never heard of a break-in anywhere in the area i lived in for a decade. So .. yes back door is opened .. come in . have a beer and if you care do the dishes while you're here .. i dont care :) BTW i do have a load of wash i'd be delighted to have done .. ill throw in an extra beer for that and since it's now legal .. ill leave a joint in the bottom of the basket for your trouble :)
Say that the board really has a chip and that the board is going to the USA in places the American services don't have access to ( Apple for example ) what better way to hide their doings than by having fingers pointing the Chinese as the evil country's wrongdoings ?
Really .. Denials by any US government agency or anyone else involved for that matter seems rather suspect that the true perpetrator is the US secret services and agencies.
Yeah .. i don't trust the US. For good reasons. And neither should anyone with a critical mind go pointing fingers to China when we know darn well the US can't be trusted just as the Chinese can't.
How can the military give out >>> any <<< defense contract to a foreign hostile nation ?
Would you trust Russia for nuclear missile guidance systems ? Seems obvious to me .. but it seems that some people have no trouble with it as long as they rake in the dosh. Now .. if the st00pid say " hey it will cost 10 cents less per unit if we subcontract production to China " for critical defense and government infrastructure , China that's proved to be a hostile regime over and over again ( China sea anyone ? Interpol head honcho missing ? ) then those people should be put on trial ( no, can't sue idiots for being idiots .. we'd all be rich by now ) and the cost of replacing the equipment should be taken out their pockets. ( I skipped the part about putting them on trial for being traitors ) Really ANY critical part for ANY system should be homemade. Those who pointed out the NSA in the US doing no better with Cisco kit and the rest , yes that's totally right , they're no better , but i'd rather have the NSA looking over my shoulder than the Chinese , the enemy , having a pass and taking home our trade secrets , and having a switch in my computer allowing them free access without my knowledge. I think that the story is indeed true , if not , highly plausible and that as such this should be a warning to every IT guy in the world not to trust kit for anything important coming out of China. No i dont trust China .. and yes they are the enemy to our economy and security and as such if i can , i avoid anything written China on it. It's a matter of principle , it's a matter of keeping our workers working , our security secure and our way of life alive.
I would like to point out that , at least in Quebec , jurors who have no choice in the matter , are exposed to , sometimes , unbelievable violence and prosecution tactics that leave them in pts and are given NO support whatsoever for their trouble. I know .. i was one in a gruesome murder. As far as companies go they should be required by law to provide counseling and support to the people they expose , even if that's the moderator choice to be there , and make sure they are well taken care of when they feel a need to. The job is insane because humans are insanely violent. I hope they get taken care of and that this judgment will favor them , favor support and create a precedent for society as a whole.
The Canadian government wanted to replace it's dated payroll with a new system. Couple 100 thousand employees , supposedly nothing to it .. After 1.5 billion CDN the system is still not complete , does not work right and they have the ba*** to ask for even more money to complete their job.Frankly .. before you recommend IBM , think twice.
I read the comments and gave this some thought.. ( some .. not much .. bear brain you know ) .. I am simply amazed that anyone would be stupid enough to keep any important information on a phone. A phone is a phone is a phone. So called smart technology is not smart at all security wise. People trusting such devices for anything important past making a date with Doris are in error. A) easily lost .. B) easily stolen C) can be broken into in various ways D) reveals your location E) Stingray anyone ? F) US Marshall Service with his planes knowing the location of ALL cell phones in the US .. need i go on ? Whatever way you look at it trusting a cell phone for privacy is foolish. Committing crimes using them even more so. Again , a phone is a phone is a phone. I know they're convenient but they can never be trusted.
There's more security in an encrypted text travelling on a microdot at the back of a stamp than a smartphone on a network.
Is to have web browsers that allow this to happen in the first place.
If i can't navigate without the browser sending back a shitton of info back to the servers maybe it's time firefox , chrome and safari be tossed in the fire along with it's design and admin staff.
Really. They're the ones engineering browsers that allows sites to gather our personal information after all ..
Imagine a city , ANY city's downtown area. Consider everything called infrastructure under there , including metro underground, the shopping , underground metro transport ( we call metro in Montreal what you call the tube in London and yes plenty stores and activity in Montreal's underground, it's like a second city layer ) , all the sewers and cables , not to mention high voltage power distribution to buildings etc etc .. you really think it's a good idea to even consider such a scheme ?
Toss the whole thing in the recycling bin. Ain't gonna happen
f a file name or image is seen that is suspicious I would investigate a little more and report if it is kiddie porn or similar ...
Where is your search warrant ?
What gives you the right to substitute yourself for the law ?
If i was your boss i'd fire you instantly this minute for just considering your actions which is that you put yourself above the law.
Hey .. if you're his boss : fire him , noone can trust him with anything like private documents files and folders full of trade secrets , he takes it on himself to access stuff he has no right to.
Instead of loosing time with speculative science , just trust well established science. In the 60's Marvin the Martian ( Bugs Bunny Show ) demonstrated how to grow Martians .. Just put a seed on the ground water it and there you have it .. Instant full grown martian. They had the right idea . They had the science and technique all worked out 50 years ago.
Only gun manufacturer's bottom line does.
They will do everything to protect the bottom line of their shareholders.
Lives dont matter. They wont give up a penny to save lives.
So stay tuned , Americans will suffer again and again.
But the shareholders wont and they wont frown at cashing the cheques even if it's covered by the blood of innocent kids.
Shareholders of those companies are the ones with the blood on their hands.
Bell Canada used to be a great company. Until the shareholders and profits became the only concern of theirs in late 80's early 90's , from then on they took the plunge into Niagara Falls , customer service was outsourced to people unable to understand us in either english nor french and from then on just got worse. We have two choices Bell or Videotron here and they're both in competition as to who charges the most giving the least services , and which is worst at customer support. Both are ripoffs, Simple telephone and DSL cost me 145 CDN a month with Bell .. no mobility in there , just land line. This is the second time they , on top of that , had data stolen. First time i had a notice " your data was stolen , sorry " that was the end of it. No compensation , not a rebate , nothing. Really .. if you can stay away from Bell , keep your distances. They went from good company to the worst in Canada.
It's all nice and good .. it's definitely not a resource ( cpu ) i want shared with anyone .. there's BOINC for that , but how do i make sure none of that mining code runs but a line of code on my machine, which i pay for and the bandwidth which i also pay for ? I'm running LinuxMint /Firefox and would like to be sure to totally block any unwanted software from running on my box and this is exactly it. Ideas ?
Come on bud , catch up with the times
MS hate is a long forgotten thing in the distant past , Totally out of fashion !
Now .. it's Oracle :)
Speaking of which , time for my Oracle Anonymous meeting ..
" i have admitted that Oracle is a problem , that i lost control of my database " LOL
Controlling governments are a danger to the free world. THEY are the enemy of the people. Break encryption and dissidence will be wiped out, it's authors jailed and for the rest of us we'll be under total control of the Governments and we know their intentions : no good. If the so called good guys , i use " good " very very loosely , can break our communications , so can the bad guys. It already is totally insecure and they want to make it worse .. bravo < clap , clap >
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