Posts by Kelli

All your base are belong to us: Strava exercise app maps military sites, reveals where spies jog

Re: Oooh Secret Alien landing sight perhaps?

That is just the Burning Man Festival.

https://www.google.com.my/maps/@40.7777659,-119.2250157,4261m/data=!3m1!1e3

This site in the sahel lights up. On google maps you see nothing. On satellite you see this.

Strava:

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#10.62/0.34080/27.99531/hot/all

Satellite:

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.1309163,0.2858375,6536m/data=!3m1!1e3

Don't know what it is, but they do jog alot.

GE goes with Apple: Not the Transformation you were looking for, Satya?

<<The only thing I miss in terms of software on the mac is Visio.>>

Give OmniGraffle a try.

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

Re: Delighted!

For those who cannot resist:

https://www.bing.com/az/hprichbg/rb/GoldenHorn_EN-US10994437217_1366x768.jpg

Disgraced US Secret Service agent coughs to second Bitcoin heist

"It's NOT YOUR PLANET!"

Since The Guano Islands Act of 1856 they assume it is their planet.

Apple celebrates soaring iPad sales: Put it on my tab, says CEO Tim Cook

Re: I'm baffled

Their margin is 38%. Which is huge.

You can find it in the press release https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apple-reports-third-quarter-results/

European Commission chucks cash at UR – the universal language of mind your own biz

VPN

Their "your data is safe because we are in the EU" point is debatable. Ur uses safervpn.com based in the USA. According to their EULA https://www.ur-browser.com/en-US/eula

Small but perfectly formed: Dailymotion's object storage odyssey

51 servers?

They have 51 HP servers for a total of 3660 disks. More than 70 disks per server. Which HPE servers would that be?

Dark net LinkedIn sale looks like the real deal

No info from LinkedIn itself

https://press.linkedin.com/news-releases

No sorry press release, nothing

Database man flown to Hong Kong to install forgotten patch spends week in pub

----- The first time I flew in I wasn't too bothered, having been well warned about it by a friend from HK. Then the same flight the next day overshot, went into the harbour and everybody drowned. Second time I flew in, definitely not so blasé. ----

What accident would that have been http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=HKG1

Video folk, you'll love the 96TB, 2.6GB/sec LaCie 12big HDD

Re: Noise on the desktop

12x8TB drives in RAID5, what could possibly go wrong...

Teen tricks leaky Valve into publishing hot new Steam game: Watching Paint Dry

There are/were fun lawnmower games, I played this one for hours!

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-lawn-zapper

Google wins High Court fight with StreetMap over search results self-pluggery

On the continent these are the best looking maps. They look different in the uk.

http://www.viamichelin.com/web/Maps

Europe wants end to anonymous Bitcoin transactions

Re: What about good old Cash

"Any transaction above 50Eu can be logged anyway - the high value notes have an NFC chip."

Do you have any proof of that?

Act of God damaged data on Google cloud disks

Europe-West1-B

Lazy journalism, a simple google search shows you that europe-west1-b is in Belgium. You could add that in the article instead of copy-pasting.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/zones?hl=en

Pluto Pic: Is it a DOG? Is it a HEART? Or is it ... is it ... BIGFOOT?

Pyramid

Why did NASA delete the pyramid before publishing the pictures?

A gold MacBook with just ONE USB port? Apple, you're DRUNK

Why put the USB port on the left side? If you connect a mouse, aren't most people right handed

HP busts out new ProLiant Gen9 servers

If you have an hour to kill, here they explain new features:

http://hpbroadband.com/mp.aspx?key=HPServerTV

Stephen Hawking: The creation of true AI could be the 'greatest event in human history'

Reading Asimov again is a good start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Yahoo! Mail! users! change! your! passwords! NOW!

Re: Keepass FTW

Nowhere in the article does it say that Yahoo gave out usernames and passwords to another company.

Another company was hacked where users were registered using their yahoo emailaddress and the same password as they use on Yahoo Mail.