Posts by NoneSuch 2724 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2010
Apple and Google agreed to make their tracking devices more transparent by establishing a standard protocol to find out if you have one secreted in your home or vehicle without your knowledge.
Nice to see Google and Apple helping crims find airtags they don't own being in their houses after stealing the packages.
Well done. Well done...
I heard this before, except it involved a volcano lair in Japan.
American and Soviet spacecraft mysteriously hijacked in orbit, escalating tensions bring the world to the brink of World War III. MI6 fakes James Bond's death to allow him to investigate undercover. Bond is sent to Japan, where he teams up with the Japanese secret service
Bond discovers that the criminal organization SPECTRE, led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is behind the hijackings. SPECTRE's plan is to provoke war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union by capturing their space capsules using a larger spacecraft hidden in a dormant volcano in Japan. Bond infiltrates the volcano lair, disrupts the operation, and, with Tanaka’s ninjas, prevents the outbreak of nuclear war.
What worries me is the more hardware they rent out, the less will be available for sale.
Demand will drive up prices on a dwindling supply. In and of itself, that's manageable. However, another e-Coin price spike will deplete that inventory even more. Great news for nVidia, sucks if you are a consumer.
The strict rules are set by the CA/Browser Forum (CABF), the governing body establishing standards for Certificate Authorities (CAs) in issuing and managing SSL/TLS certificates. To obtain a certificate for a domain, a CA must verify the domain owner through methods like email or DNS record changes. If any error occurs during this domain validation process, the CABF mandates that the issued certificate be revoked within 24 hours to safeguard website security and maintain trust in SSL/TLS certificates.
That isn't something Digicert came up with; it's the agreed standard for being a CA.
"I don't believe this spacecraft is safe."
No spacecraft can ever be safe. Their designs are a string of risk mitigations to keeping a livable o2 environment within a small metal bubble. Meanwhile, outside that bubble, there's a total vacuum where the temps can swing from just over absolute zero to your oven on broil.
In space, you can only minimize risk to human space flight, you can never eliminate it.
Nedelin Disaster
Soyuz 1
Apollo 1
Soyuz 11
Apollo 13
Challenger
Columbia
It's a long list... Don't expect it to stop growing any time soon.
Am seeing a lot of 'holier than thou' posts on Twitter from Mac and Linux users castigating anyone with a Windows PC and laughing.
This sort of thing can happen to anyone and it's only a matter of time before it happens to you, regardless of what flavor OS you chose.
Stop being a d*ck.
"that the Russia-based antivirus developer could be forced or ordered by Putin to backdoor its products and hand over American individuals and organizations' sensitive information from their PCs to Kremlin intelligence."
Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook and a hundred other companies have turned over private info on US citizens to the US Gov.
Pot, meet kettle. Hypocrisy, meet reality.
A universal privacy law is needed. One that forces corporations to opt everyone out of their surveillance services and not force people in through one sided EULA.
"Hard truth but yes, it makes my skin crawl when I hear the lazy racism used by so many people who are blissfully ignorant of the fact that the device they're typing on is almost definitely made in China"
Which is why people need to be A) aware that China frequently abuses their own citizens and drives their economy forward with sticks rather than carrots. B) That their regime is focused on the expansion of the power base of the CCP and any opposition is brutally suppressed. C) People need to stop buying Chinese goods as long as A and B exist.
This post would be illegal in China as they have a law prohibiting any criticism of the government. Nor can you publicly display a photo of Winnie the Pooh.
Every component on my PC was not made in China.
I know it would be considered 'dead weight' and never make it past the design committee, but a pair of huge googly eyes stuck on the front would be an amazing addition.
Call them, "Superfluous Autonomously Articulated Lunar Observation Augmentation Apparatus" Primary A and Backup B. No power required.
"Should they rename Falcon to Pegasus?"
Lazarus would be more appropriate, but Phoenix has fiery aspirations.
With the FAA ticking off Elon as badly as the Governor of California, he might expand his company movement and fly over Texas to set up in French Guiana or the Democratic Republic of Congo. Places where his money will buy the influence he clearly demands.
"Microsoft treats its retail customers (and, only slightly less, their enterprise customers) with uncaring contempt."
As long as people pay them monthly, regardless of the quality of their software, there will be no improvements to anything. There is no incentive to improve if doing nothing for 30 days gives them another subscription fee in their account.
"Get-AppxPackage -Name "Copilot" | Remove-AppxPackage"
Do that and a nameless MS engineer will chuck in a piece of code on a future patch to reinstall it, because "You didn't REALLY mean to uninstall that brilliant piece of software, did you? We'll just put that back for you without actually telling you about it.
Install Windows today and you no longer own your PC. You just lease it from Microsoft and use it subject to their good graces.
Welcome to CoPilot and the Azure Cloud, the Tar-Babies of the Br'er Rabbit adventures. All you can hope for is to be shoved into the Briar patch.
"It's not entirely clear why the Paul Allen estate, which is run by his sister Jody Allen, decided to shut the museum, given no apparent cash shortage. We've asked for clarification."
Instead of having 20.30 billion in their bank account they can have 20.31 billion, with no on-going expenses to make it smaller over time.
Tell you what M.O.D. Next year, I'll answer any question you have for 99.99 million in calendar year 2025. You can report a 43% reduction in consultancy fees to the oversight committee and everyone is happy. If you agree to this non-negotiable agreement to take effect, stay silent and say nothing for the next 15 seconds; that implies consent.
Perfect, you agreed.
There will be a 25 million early cancellation fee regardless, but that's petty cash for you guys and gals. So basically, you now owe me 25 mil now or 99.99 million at the end of 2025. This consulting thing is easy.
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