Posts by Mark 85 12880 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
I'm well aware of what's happening in the Middle East and to France and other places. I'm also well aware of what's happening here in the States. I'm going to wait and see if Congress doesn't pull the funding on this launch since searching for life or life-supporting moons, planets, etc. goes against a bunch of the idiots beliefs. Politics and religion... strange bedfellows to say the least.
It would throw a massive spanner in the works of modern day understanding of religion for the masses, and hopefully make everyone play nice.
You're being too logical and humans, for the most part, don't seem to work that way. Given the nature of the "religious", there will probably be a series of holy wars of them vs. the scientists. Sort of like when anyone brings science to the table.. be it global warming, the age of the earth, gay marriage, etc., etc. And there's the fundies in the middle east who will take an even harsher stand.
One would think that if the advertisers were smart, they would clean up their act. Drop the flashing, color changing ads. Drop the large offensive crap that pops up on the page (not a pop-up, just a balloon ad).. If it were up to them, the content would be miniscule and their ads would take up most of the landscape on the monitor. But no, they want to scream, in-your-face, 24/7. They've done this to themselves.
Well... Charter will still suck.. competition (hahahahaha) among ISP's will decrease. Only now it will be a bigger and suckier company.
BTW El Reg, this basically the same article as was published yesterday but this time with the PR BS added in and price adjusted for hot air inflation. Why not just update the previous article?
Therein is a problem. I live in a subdivision here in the States and at any given time, I see 6 other routers on, 4 of which are wide open and unsecured. So, I install my shiny new wireless light bulb and it seeks a connection... Yes, I can get it to connect to my router, but what stops the other folks from connecting to it also? If the light bulb comes on "by itself" or via one of the other routers, I'd rip it out and forget about IoT. But what about other IoT things.. things that might be security related or health related?
At this point, any IoT coming into my house had best be cable connected or have some security associated with it that allow only me to talk to it. I hate to deal with the aggravation of some kiddie fiddling with my devices.
Go a step further. We're tech.. we're supposed to know. Yeah, right... But how the hell does "Joe I-have-a-router-at-home" know about these updates? Does "Joe" even care until suddenly he's hacked and takes his computer into the shiop? Would the tech in shop even ask "Joe" about his router.
It seems that information on these router issues isn't very well disseminated.
It may not be the powerhouse that Comcast would have become but it still going to take any semblance of "competition" out of the market place. I guess now we'll just have to wait and see if the regulators and the industry raises any eyebrows or questions.
And for those who don't know Charter either as a cable provider or ISP.. their customer service still stinks with first line support being a call center on a certain subcontinent where everyone seems to be named "Boob" or "Shoorley". Getting to a higher level of support or speaking to someone with less accent and better skills (i.e.: can ignore the script if you tell them you did the "reboot", re-checked the cabling), is pretty tough.
The last call I made for ISP support was for an outage after running tracert and finding the failure was in their system and the tech still insisted all was ok and that I needed to reboot. Another on cable TV support was that they could "see" my TV an all was well... no picture, no connection... dead feed at their end.
Anyone who believes there's competition and "choice" in the States lives in fantasyland....
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Very well-thought out and said, AC. Fanaticism and zealotry to point of a religious revelation will kill any product. The only one who has pulled this off was Jobs and I'm really not sure how he managed it. I imagine that if we locked RMS and LT in a room, there might be some serious blood-letting or a mutual pack for letting the blood out of others. Not sure on how that would play out.
Goncharov says one of the world's most sophisticated and dangerous bank-robbing trojans is now pointing to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). Goncharov says the Carbanak trojan's command and control servers now point to the FSB in what could be a joke or gaffe by malware authors.
It might be intentional to throw off anyone chasing them? Once you've made your haul and are now working on the getaway to exotic places, toss a bone down a false trail to confuse the bloodhounds.
And the tin-foil hatters and certain others will either blame Uber for somehow causing this accident, or claiming if they'd been in a Uber car, this wouldn't have happened.
It is a sad day for mathematics... the guy was a genius and as I understand it, a very pleasant gentleman, in every sense of being a gentleman.
I'm thinking they are giving up a bunch. Cell phones are an issue with NSA as far as monitoring. It's more accurate for them to the get the data from the Telco. The provision for the telephone data grab only covered line type phones which are a dying breed here in the States.
I suspect that the PATRIOT Act will be allowed to die. The so-called FREEDOM Act needs some serious tweaking if it has a chance of passing.
This all my surmising based upon various articles, interviews, etc. It won't surprise me to find I'm wrong and by the same token to find out I was right. It's politics and power and us mere mortals can't really begin to fathom what goes on in the halls of government.
Sorry.... go read again about the USS Forrestal. I dislike McCain's politics and certain other actions but the Forrestal fire wasn't his fault. The missile that started that came from across the deck and nailed the plane next to his....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
If you're going to slam, at least get the facts right....
Well, I'm not sure it worked.... this week alone I've had 5 from either these guys or someone using the same recorded messages. And a couple of "you've won a cruise to the Bahamas". OTOH, I've not received any Microsoft Technical Support offering to fix my computer viruses either. So either the same bastards are still calling (same recorded message as always) or it's a new group of bastards.
Exactly. And since the paperwork merely requires "certification" who verifies the credentials of the certifier? This is going to get really complex and expensive to monitor, real fast. Not saying it shouldn't be done, but there are those who will work the system against itself for personal profit.
And this would make me want to own one.... why???? Sorry, any appliance with 'Net connection will never see the 'Net in my house. And I sure as hell am not about to spend money for something like "maybe get a small chunk of Bitcoin" while the maker of said toaster/appliance reaps most of it.
Amen... These birds are on my bucket list to see along with one more trip to Dayton for the USAF museum. History you reach out and touch and for some of those planes, smell.
I also want to see Portsmouth (the Victory), Chatham and as much of the NMM as I can handle.
Maybe it is equal to those. The article says that two of these will be either gone or in big trouble by then. Do they know for certain that none of them are working on driverless cars? Historically, in the States, the Big 3 have been very secretive about future vehicles.. even ones come out in the next model year. GM, in the past has done a lot of work on electrics "in the quiet" but failed to bring it to market.
I wouldn't be surprised to see at least one of these hitting the market possibly before Google. Actually I would be surprised if they failed to hit the market at all.
Free or not, I've got a nasty feeling this isn't quite ethical. From the way the article reads, he's grabbing data hijacked from businesses like maybe SONY or Home Depot or Target. INAL, so I'm not even sure this is legal. Even if it is, it sure smells bad for those whose data is in that database.
I believe E-Bay is pulling the strings on this. Musk, as I understand it, hasn't been involved since E-Bay bought it. With their revenue dipping, E-Bay is grabbing at all the straws they can. This is just going to kill E-Bay's reputation even faster once someone in the media makes the connection.
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