Posts by whoseyourdaddy 311 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2014
Apple has a goal of locking down parts so that people aren't getting held at gunpoint for an unbroken display panel. Especially for the Apple employees.
Always travel overseas with a not-my-main phone (current - 1) for walking about while my US daily use phone rests in my hotel room.
Never in my life will you get me to carry a phone opened by some rando in a mall kiosk onto an aircraft.
I work with these batteries. I will not make the news. My coworkers will never let it go.
I am old enough to remember the IBM binders containing a paper printout of their XT BIOS sourcecode. Or was it their EGA card? Don't remember.
Today, that would just create a honeypot for miscreants to wreck the lives of all users.
Be careful of what you are trying to legislate. Or, not.
So, since the whole reason for Google existing is to spy on me to sell me focused advertising, the short answer is I should stick with Apple?
"allowing users to shop where they wanted to for apps." so, isn't installing non-vetted apps part of Android's problem? And everyone expects those hard working software engineers to donate their time?
You're in luck! ElReg is filled with malware reports and a powerful search function. Spoiler alert though. Practically all of it has involved Android.
I am confident there are off-grid homes that it is nearly impossible to dig fiber to.
But, we must remember Starlink is an "easy" button that Telcos would love, love, love to resell instead of expanding their fiber network in rural areas.
The US Govt has no business funding sat connectivity if there isn't any infastructure to invest in.
Which has greater bandwidth, Starlink or fiber?
Ultimately, I'd rather see Comcast expand their network than throw billions at a social media mogul who also sells cars that allow people to run their high-beams during the day, blinding oncoming traffic.
Come on, Elon. Suns up. How do you guck that up?
The problem: encouraging investment when the profit margin will be less.
Do we build a fab or processing facility in a red state or do we build it in Viet Nam or India?
It's no secret the PPP act, a republican-written program, gave US loans that were well-documented pandemic-related business loans to several sitting members of the US congress.
I believe most people/publicly traded companies are complaining the CHIPS act can't be use to construct new facilities in China.
Most signage in muni areas are required to have an official city license sticker.
Had a beverage distributor across my alleyway in San Diego install the brightest security light fixture they could find above their loading dock so they could unload semi-trailers of food stuffs at 11pm to 3am and avoid traffic jams.
City took care of it within three days.
That's rich considering the world record holder for revenue is Prilosec, manufactured by Astra Zeneca (Britain and Sweden.)
..which is better known as Omeprazole, a molecule discovered in the late seventies. They added a well-patented time-release coating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omeprazole#History
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023326369679910840
World's largest consumer of pharmaceuticals by cost is... US Medicare.
"know...I am not a carrier".
You seem to be making assumptions on actual COVID test sensitivity. A negative result indicates you do not have an infection strong enough to show up on the test, which is why they are about 93% accurate, not 100%.
True, anyone who is vaccinated, they can contract and pass it to someone else while their body is dealing with the infection. But, being unvaccinated, your body will multiply this virus exponentially and spread... destroying vital tissue cells as it replicates...before you feel sick enough to do anything about it.
For your own sake, you need to understand a COVID infection leaves permanent scarring. Your choice of holding out for your preferred vaccine has me wondering if this isn't something you should keep to yourself as you maintain a distance away from me.
So, Mask wearing continues to be important even though it isn't 100%.
More than 6 Billion shots have been administrated. 99% of those in hospitals with COVID have not been vaccinated. The science is indisputable.
But, don't take my word for it. My second-worst grade was high school biology. So..
Check out an actual microbiologist/virologist:
https://www.tiktok.com/@scitimewithtracy?
If I am wrong on anything, I want to rectify that.
So, we want our national compute jobs not going to a software company but to a logistics company famous for maximizing profits and the occasional self-own.
JustTaxes Blog: "Amazon has Record-Breaking Profits in 2020, Avoids $2.3 Billion in Federal Income Taxes." paying jus 9.4% in taxes and not 21%.
So, Bezos started Blue Origin and blows a lot of big things up.
Weird flex for a logistics company but ok.
Why are we trying to send humans to Mars again?
For the writeoff?
Astra is UK, Zeneca is Swiss. They may have a US division as the US Medicare system is the world's single largest buyer of pharma ..in..the..world.
I'm up on this because I used to be obese and Prilosec kept my nighttime heartburn/gastro-reflux managed until I could drop 70 pound thus wean myself off a $10/day prescription until the patents ran out and it's OTC now.
I will be on my deathbed before I ever take another AstraZeneca prescription ever again.
"Hey, our new drug Prevacid works even better!"
Fuck off, scammers.
When I worked in the Chicago suburbs or western NY state, I'll never forget getting up at 6AM to scrape my car off so I can play bumper-cars on patches of black ice and other traffic headaches.
I hope to never face this at temps that frequently dropped to 20F deg below zero.
Dumb...
They were one of the pioneers for selling server-grade software direct to the customer. Wonder if COVID shrank their support group.
I still have to nag engineers to stop storing company-critical information as an email attachment (to disappear forever after they leave the company) and use the Confluence Wiki instead, this makes me smile.
My life sucks without Confluence. But... I need my plugins.
What I don't remember is if the licenses are considered perpetual (50 user level) or if you're held for ransom if you don't keep paying them.
... abandoned parallel printer cables above the ceiling tiles.
You can't cut them to length, so they rolled the excess up and left it sitting on the ceiling tiles. Over the years, the tiles would start to bulge downward in the middle from the weight of the cables. My predecessor apparently gave up and returned whatever multiplex box they tried to share an HP pen plotter.
As a bonus, this was also an L-shaped building with a 1.2kv green utility stepdown transformer on each end. Thicknet trunk in the ceiling running the length of the building in the Chicago suburbs. Which made thunderstorms interesting.
Lighting would strike a light fixture in the parking lot and the brief earth ground difference between the utility feeds would inject a whole lot of energy into that poor network. Vampire taps had to be replaced in the ceiling and a few Sun Sparcstation motherboards with the AUI connections blown.
Oh yeah, this was also the company where I had to buy extension cables with only ONE socket on the end as my coworkers would see the empty socket and plug in their desk fans and at one time, a coffee pot, blowing the APC UPS.
Had to convince the corporate "lords of the ERP Micro-Vax" into letting me replace that mess with 10-baseT and a DEC network bridge as the sacrificial lightning protector. A year later, they pulled the whole ThickNet out and put in shiny new DEC network hubs and 10-BaseT.
The problem is how do you almost-accurately measure your demand. You literally have to run the house wiring through a ferrite core and measure magnetic field strength that shows up.
Two things draw a significant amount of energy in homes that don't have pools/hot tubs/sex dungeons: your refrigerator(s) and your furnace/AC. Track run time? IMHO, I've added solar panels...twice and stopped keeping a "spare" refrigerator in the garage (which gets heat loading in the summer and is a retarded waste of electricity..) But, the biggest payoff on a new-ish house was replacing all the F*you-builder-grade aluminum frame windows with a few thousand dollars in name-brand double-paned with IR blocking film windows.
Massive savings and more comfortable too.
I agree. While Phablets have given me the freedom to argue politics for an entire weekend from my sofa, I have dropped conversations because if it's longer than two sentences, I'll wait and continue the debate when I'm sitting at my Dell. With a full Logitech mouse and keyboard.
Wait, why did I walk into the bathroom?
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