Out of interest which laws require websites to work on Firefox?
Posts by Spazturtle
878 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jul 2012
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS
Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today
Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in
Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident
Airlines are responsible for ensuring that pilots get at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, if a pilot gets awoken in the middle of the night by their kid then this resets the clock. No matter how they spin it the airline is at fault. If incident like it repeatedly happen then other countries will revoke the airlines overflight permission, nobody wants a plane falling on their country.
Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction
Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout
Re: "Paper Trail ..."... "..paperwork..."
No they use two computer systems, one is the unofficial log which everyone has access to and the other is the official log which only Boeing staff can make entries in. This does create the issue that if contractors start and finish a job quickly Boeing staff might not know about it so it will won't be recorded on the official log.
HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts
Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries
What a surprise! Apple found a way to deliver browser engine and app store choice
Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works
HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales
Re: Makes sense not to sell to Russia...
Given Xi Jinping's behaviour it is pretty much a guarantee that there will be a war between the west and China within the next 15 years. When China's economy collapses due to their demographics the CCP will be overthrown, so they will start a war to invade Taiwan before that happens to try and distract the population.
German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx
Re: Paranoia Is Mandatory In 2024!!
"So why is anyone surprised when we learn that the Russians have figured out some of the Fort Meade "enhancements" to Cisco products?"
The Russians didn't hack in or intercept anything, the meeting was left open and a Russian agent simply joined it and left his camera off.
Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe
On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs
Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again
Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
Re: Fire in haste, regret at leisure
It doesn't need to be proven, if a judge asks you to provide the password and you don't then they can just throw you in prison for contempt.
UK courts do not accept forgetting a password as a valid excuse for not providing it.
The same applies if the police ask you to provide a password under a Section 49 notice of the Regulations of Investigatory Powers Act.
Just don't fuck around with this sort of thing to try and troll somebody, just tell them to fuck off and block their number.
Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite
Re: What the hell?
"Still not convinced it was cheaper than a steel or titanium tube."
It was because they purchased sheets of pre-impregnated carbon fibre that Boeing was getting rid of because they had expired (already cured too much waiting to be used).
When I first read about the sub I assumes that they had ring spun the whole tube as a single piece of carbon fibre, but no, they got a plastic tube and started sticking sheets of carbon fibre to it overlapping them. They might of well have used papier-mâché.
Re: What the hell?
In practice it wasn't made out of carbon fibre, it was made out of the glue holding the carbon fibre together.
The carbon fibres in carbon fibre composite provide no strength in compression. Like a piece of string when you push both ends together they just crumple up. The carbon fibres only add strength when it expansion, so when each end is being pulled. Which is why they are so good for compressed gas tanks where the pressure is on the inside.
Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple
Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed
Re: Long term care after the tech is declared obsolete
From what I have read it is highly unlikely that the patients selected for this trial will live beyond the length of the trail due to the nature of their illnesses.
The FDA requires that the device either last for the remainder of the patient's natural life or there be an approved process for removing it, since we have not seen Nuralink submit a process for removing it we can assume that they have gone for the first option. Once the patient is dead they will likely use the body to develop the removal process prior to testing it on living patients.
WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age
Re: Ingenuity also far outlived all expectations before its retirement.
Lasting longer than planned does have downsides.
Spirit and Opportunity had a listed mission of 90 days but engineers expected them to last 120 days before the solar panels got covered in dust. They didn't know about the wind being able to clean the solar panels until after landing. Spirit and Opportunity lasting years longer meant that extra staff and budget had to be allocated to them which meant that over projects got cancelled.
Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it
Re: This must rate as the most moronic management policy ...
"What's to stop a motherboard with a battery in it having the battery tracks / pins shorted?"
The little sticker or pull tab keeping the battery disconnected during shipping. Most motherboards also can survive quite a lot of shorting, good ones even give different errors codes/LEDs for different parts shorting. A lot of people forget to use the standoffs when installing the motherboard and short it against the case.
Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise
Re: To be fair…
The easiest way to get a Win 10 licence associated with a Microsoft account was to install Windows 7, activate it with KMS-Pico (which activates it with a generic OEM licence) and then download the Windows 10 upgrader and run it.
Upgrading a copy of Windows 7 that used a consumer licence key was much less reliable at getting a Win 10 licence added to your account.