Posts by Richard Boyce 370 posts • joined 8 Aug 2007
I specified WD Reds for a recent small business 4-drive NAS, having had no problems in the past. I now know the business got SMR drives. It's impractical to replace the working drives until failure. However, when that happens, the replacement drives wll not come from WD. WD are now blacklisted, as far as I'm concerned.
What a stupid way to gift future business to a rival.
So now we know who created the virus. It was NASA.
I was about to post the above on its own, but there are at least two possible pitfalls:
1. Someone will find the message with Google in the future, say "OMG, it all makes sense", and start sending this message to lots of people who have the same reaction, and it will be all be traced to me. Gulp.
2. Someone will find the message with Google, say "OMG, we're not going to employ this idiot / give this guy a visa".
So for the aforesaid people, this message is a joke. Laugh. Open your mouth and breath out in rapid pulses while making silly noises.
It's easy to laugh at Icke but the poor guy has a serious mental health problem.
What disturbs me the most is that someone making videos with crazy ideas can make a good living using YouTube etc. It encourages sane but ruthless people to spread disinformation to the gullible while laughing all the way to the bank. The damage done is just an externality.
I'm concerned about the long term consequencies. Poorer contries have lower life expectancies, and we're going to be a lot poorer as we pay back all the money the government has borrowed, plus interest. It was politically impossible to allow a huge peak of infected to overwhelm our health system, and maybe it has saved enough life-years this year to compensate for the reduced life expectancy in the next decade. We'll see.
FIDO is designed to require a commercial middleman. Then there's SQRL, which is (at long last) ready, unencumbered by IP rights, and gives no one secrets to keep. See grc.com/sqrl .
This is now supported by an increasing number of clients and platforms. What is really needed is for a major company to decide that it there is an indirect business benefit to endorse and use such a solution. Word of mouth, technical excellence, and use on private intranets is not sufficient.
"What better place could there be if you are researching Ebola or another dangerous virus?"
Earth orbit would be better than a lunar base for that. It's cheaper and more expendible. Plus we already have the ISS. I also think that a purpose-built level 4 containment lab on Earth would be better still.
There was no mention of how the concentration of CO changes during the seasons. That's unstable in the presence of oxygen, which suggests a chemical source for that too, and possibly a related one. I also note that the concentration of CO is lower than that of O2.
Haemoglobin comes to mind. There are a lot of iron compounds in Martial soil. Could there be some naturally-occuring compounds that loosely bind both CO2 and CO, and which are being heated and irradiated with UV to release some oxygen while continuing to bind some CO?
I suspect many families have quite a few mains gangs in the living toom. Those can be positioned close to the devices, and are usually less visible on the floor. So, it's not really the number of sockets, it's the visibility and immobility of them that's the main issue, especially for those who hate the sight of cables.
I'm glad that these people have been caught. Despite the bluster about the size of the operation, I suspect it was just a tip of an evil iceberg.
However, blaming Tor and Bitcoin is just blaming useful tools that the accusers have yet to make use of themselves, or cynically, because they know that the majority of listeners have yet to do so. The same people might have blamed the Internet a few years ago.
Well, below that individual electrons. You might call that digital, in a weird quantum way.
I guess whether it's digital depends on the resolution of the sensors. It's functionally digital if you are able to detect increments; if you're reading instead of just measuring.
SQRL is a decentralised authentication system that has now, after five years, reached the point where it's ready for widespread use. It trusts no government, no commercial interest, and gives the websites that use it for authentication no secrets to keep. It is not encumbered by IP rights. There is a reference client for Windows, and clients for other platforms. There is also a SQRL server API that can be used by existing websites to quickly add support. This should make FIDO dead in the water.
Details at sqrl dot grc dot com .
Apart from the fact that not everyone uses a screw fitting, you also have to consider that the bulb will have to remember without power that it has already reset itself, and you might want to reset that. The article's suggestion of electrocuting yourself with a paper clip is another good solution.
So many so-called privacy policies say at the begining that they will never take or sell any personal data without your permission. Many, many pages later, it will say that by using their software/service you're giving them permission to do anything they wish. That sort of professional dishonesty is still standard in many jurisdictions.
It's not unusual to recieve emails that attempt to download all or part of their content from a remote server, which implicitly gets to see all the IP addresses of the recipients, and to record the time when the email was read.
It's always good security and privacy practice to only use the plain text content of emails and to disable the fetching of new content.
The numbers are everything and, unfortunately, this article doesn't give us any.
We've had lunar rocks brought to Earth to study, so I would be surprised if we didn't have a pretty good idea about the level of hydration in the common minerals in areas that are exposed to sunlight, at least close to the surface. Perhaps a dedicated drilling mission would throw up some surprises. It would be fortunate if there were usable quantities of water in areas other than the poles.
I gave you a thumbs up because you're making people think and raising quality standards by playing devil's advocate.
If a lawyer defends a well-known criminal, the lawyer may strongly suspect that his/her client is guilty, but it would be in *everyone's* interest that the evidence be tested very carefully.
"The Planck constant, named after the physicist Max Planck, is incredibly small (it's 6.62607015 x 10-34 Js)"
I think we need to be careful about describing units as large or small, when the magnitude of the numerical parts of their value is a function of the units we've chosen to use.
For example, would it be reasonable to describe the speed of light as incredibly small because it's 9.71561e-9 parsecs per second?
If we deployed a large sunshade near Venus, large enough to put the whole planet into shadow, the planet would start to cool and begin absorbing CO2 by chemical weathering. After some millions years, maybe even Earth-like tectonics may begin. Teraforming Venus is definitely a long-term project.
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