Posts by AIBailey 385 posts • joined 29 Jul 2014
Twitter haven't suppressed what Trump has been able to say, they've merely added a flag to point out that what he's spouting may not be grounded in any kind of fact at all.
He's still free to say what he wants, but that doesn't meant that anyone else has to take it as gospel. What's really wound him up is that he might not be able to post a bunch of lies any more without it being openly called into question.
Your memory does you credit - taken from ST-Amiga Format, issue 13 (1989), an article on software piracy:
"There is a story doing the rounds of a lad who hacked into Ocean's Operation Wolf, which in ST format comes on three disks, removed a bug on level five which caused the game to crash when a particular object is shot and compressed all the code to fit on one disk. Disks aren't cheap - Ocean would have been extremely happy to have left two disks out."
Of course, the original ST version would have been on single-sided floppies, where the cracked version would be double sided.
It's great to see the scale of performance numbers being floated around, and the idea of supercomputers has always held a mystique, but I can't help but feel disappointed that this continues the trend set many years ago, where supercomputers are just rack mount machines in rows and rows, where the only distinguishing features are the design on the doors and side panels.
Bring back the spirit of the 70's and 80's, supercomputers looked other-worldly, instead of looking like any other data centre.
Google cannot supply the code for Google Mobile Services to Huawei in China for them to include in their phone build. There's nothing that says that a user of a Huawei phone in another country (e.g. Australia) can't use US-centric apps though.
Netflix (to use another example) may not be able to provide code directly to Huawei, so the Netflix app can't be embedded in the phone from the factory, but again, nothing prevents a user in another country from installing the app.
If I was to suddenly become the owner of a Huawei phone without Google, installing the Amazon App store and F-Droid would probably get me 95% of the apps that I have on my current phone. *
*- ...at a guess. I already have some apps that I've obtained from the two sources above, and know that a great deal of others that I've downloaded from from the Play store are available in at least one of the alternatives.
Simply place the backup tape next to the drive array, and wait for some kind of data-osmosis to occur.
Of course, verifying the backup will be difficult, but I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time that backup integrity checks have basically consisted of crossing your fingers and hoping really hard.
...some of which can be used for both legal & illegal purposes,"
So almost any software development tools are right out then, as they could be used to create all manner of nefarious tools.
Or yet another calculator app.
"Tools" could even apply in a literal sense to things like screwdrivers and hammers. If my kids can use a screwdriver to open a PC case and change a graphics card (they can), should I also assume they will go and commit an assault with it as well?
95% approval in the Republican party...
95% approval amongst career politicians that have realised that the best, in fact the only way to get ahead and remain in a job is to back the orangeutan leader?
Occasionally a few of the Republicans show a bit of backbone and actually resist (Romney being a recent example), but a public dressing down from the comedian in chief usually reminds them not to misbehave again.
THAT says a lot, you know...
So is this an admission by the US government that they were expecting other countries to a) deny their markets to Huawei, and then b) turn to the US (primarily Cisco and Juniper) to supply their equipment.
They've suddenly discovered that there are actually other network manufacturers that are neither Chinese or American, and have suddenly realised that they might not be raking in the millions after all. (Because let's not forget that the real reason for going after Huawei is to stifle the competition for US products)
From the article - ...child sex abuse images the FBI claimed it had found on a server he ran.
This wasn't a picture, rather multiple images. And they were (allegedly) on a server that Schulte ran, nothing to do with the CIA.
Edit : from the earlier article : " Schulte was in charge of a server that contained 54GB of illegal content"
I've got a couple of double sockets in the kitchen that have 3 x USB-A connectors built in, rated at 3.1A total.
They're really useful for charging most devices, and save having to dig out a multitude of plugs to charge the family's' phones at the end of the day.
The exception is the wife's phone, that somehow tries to draw as much power as the national grid can supply to the whole estate. This means that after about 10 minutes, all the devices that are plugged into the USB sockets periodically stop charging for a few seconds as the circuit inside the plug has got hot enough to trip the thermal cutout. The socket itself gets too hot to keep a finger against it for more than a second or so.
How about right click, Properties?
That works if you want to see how much space a given folder is taking up, but if you want to know, at a glance, which of the 50 folders in your directory holds the most data then you'll need a pen, paper and patience.
Hence the reference to TreeSize Free, which is an incredibly useful tool.
This is probably the most useful tool on the Amiga once you have a HDD (and even for floppy disk file management).
I still have it on my real and virtual Amiga's, though I never got on with version 5, which was almost a replacement for Workbench, and hence stick with version 4.something.
For the creators of all versions of Directory Opus -->
Considering the number of reviews that seem to focus on this nowadays, Micro-USB is surely still more prevalent. In the drawer of cables at home, there are only 3 USB-C's , plus a couple of extra in the car, but at least 10 Micro-USB.
USB-C is more convenient by far, but I certainly wouldn't write off a product just because it's using a cable that's been an established standard for well over a decade.
No, simply "ban it" because it doesn't bloody work.
The fact that this moron thought he could sort out a dog in the back seat of his car, leaving the driving of said car to a souped up cruise control, is the reason. Give people too much automation and they forget that the need to keep their brain engaged.
Presumably, yes.
Or at the very least, if a piece of the machine falls off, it'll try and file it away. There's something a little bit "wrong" about that however, kind of like someone knitting, not realising they're using wool from their own gradually unravelling jumper.
That apart, this is quite possibly the greatest use of AI I've heard about so far.
Come on 'Reg, surely you can wave the flag for common sense aspect ratios?
...an aspect ratio of 32:10 (imagine a pair of 16:10 monitors side by side)
Can't you use basic mathematics and put this into more sensible values?
"an aspect ratio of 16:5 (imagine a pair of 8:5 monitors side by side)"
I could just about understand keeping things as ??:9, but even that might confuse some people (i.e.is a 16:9 screen the same as 4:3? Why isn't 4:3 referred to as 12:9?). But even that got bloody stupid once 19.5:9 started to be used.
-> Mine's the one with the 80:45 phone in the pocket
Exactly.
This is the push that Huawei needed to reduce their reliance on US businesses in their products down to zero, and I suspect other foreign telecoms manufacturers will be watching before considering whether they could make the same leap.
The reviews of the new Huawei Mate 30 Pro have praised the hardware, however the lack of Google Play services is the killer if you're not in China. Again, if Huawei can figure out how to get a high percentage of play store apps to load (perhaps by curating an alternative app store), then other phone makers may follow suit.
Trump's plan to help US businesses only works while the non-US companies haven't developed a better solution.
So by your argument, a safe state is one that allows you to carry a concealed weapon?
Taking that thought further, if you can assume that everyone has a concealed weapon, and nobody starts any trouble* then surely NOBODY needs to actually own a gun?
Just the thought that someone might own a gun is enough.
* - it depends on what your initial definition of "safe" truly means. Low crime overall, low number of gun related crimes, low homicide rate?
Genuinely.
Their smartphone business is another victim of the protectionist racket being run by the US administration. I've been impressed with Huawei's recent handsets, and hope that they can find some way to make this still work for them, and stick two fingers up to Trump's international game playing.
If they do make it work, and break the stranglehold that Google holds over most of the Android ecosystem, I can see a few other phone manufacturers, maybe even Samsung, offering their own alternatives to the multitude of Google apps. This in turn will cause much hand wringing by the US government as Google lobbies hard to stop the loss of all that lovely data.
We need to make sure our networks won't harm our national security, threaten our economic security, or undermine our values. The ChineseUnited States government has shown repeatedly that it is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to do just that
FTFY.
It's not like Cisco kit isn't also full of bugs and backdoors, and the US government has, on many occasions, demonstrated that it's prepared to (often illegally) snoop on networks. 'cos, security or something.
Offering to buy back Huawei kit demonstrates a push towards their policy of Buy USA. Leave 'em to it, and let the rest of the world get on with better or cheaper providers.
This is a protectionist racket to ensure that Cisco gets as big a slice of the pie as possible, nothing more.
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