Posts by quxinot

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

"even if its wrong, pirates sometimes give a better service. "

Sometimes?

Chrome's default-on ad blocker – which doesn't block adverts on 99% of websites – goes global

Re: less than one per cent of ads failed to meet ad industry standards, ad-giant Google says

>I can tolerate adverts.<

I can't. They're a terrible waste of my time at best, and attempted brainwashing at worst. And that's before they become vectors to screw up my computer.

If you really want to sell your product:

-Make a good product

-Price it reasonably

-Support it.

Word of mouth will do your advertising for you.

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing

Re: Any laws being broken?

Academics that aren't reliant on funding?

Tell me more. That is interesting, it means the ones I know are doing things very much wrong!

Could an AI android live forever? What, like your other IT devices?

>Is there any other kind? Apart, of course, from the wrong one.<

Don't be silly. There's many that work very well indeed!

Just look for the cord that isn't quite long enough. They're the ones on the ends of it.

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

https://xkcd.com/488/

Surprised no one else jumped up with the obvious link.

cPanel unleashes price hikes on its most dense customers

Re: Remember - The CLOUD

Easy conflation there.

cPanel is crap, and cloud is crap. So easy to get them mixed around.

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Yet another....

Instance of someone forgetting Windows ME.

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

>Yet I still get pushed to buy books which I bought already through Amazon. Their recommendations are still crap in books and other areas.<

I will agree that's annoying.

But imagine if they were 100% accurate. While convenient, it'd be so creepy as to be frightening!

Re: No, no, no, no, no!

Sign up for appropriate services and just pirate the content you want. Result, you get the content you paid for, and keep your privacy too.

Therefore it's probably not legal.

Not really. The idea of using tech to measure walking distance for health is pretty silly.

Are you fat? Then your activity is not adequate. Very easy to tell without tech.

Measuring some of the important metrics is very useful (say, blood glucose), and the tech is getting better but clearly has great strides left. Cardiac rhythms should be caught at routine physical assessments, and potentially tracked after incidents; again the tech isn't great yet (holter monitors are a hassle, pacemakers difficult to install).

Most people overthink being healthy and are looking for excuses or scapegoats, frankly.

Microsoft's Edge gang pops a head above the parapet to give Linux fans a strong 'maybe'

*herd

Lots of people think that way. It's a common mentality.

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Re: So...

Is it really symptomatic of a psychosis if it's necessary to retain your sanity and well-being?

Re: Reddit

>Or the current pretenders to be Prime Minister?

Congress would be a much better data set. Also, Parliment.

Remember, you need the biggest n value you can for these things.

Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org

Re: Not done with DNS

Why can't kids just get torrents for their porn, the old-fashioned way?

Anyone else find it weird that the bloke tasked with probing tech giants for antitrust abuses used to, um, work for the same tech giants?

Re: I'm shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on in this establishment!

To be fair, I cannot think of a government to which that statement does not apply.

Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

Re: Cyberstalking, in all its splendor!

Call it a million downloads, though it doesn't say how many people it was suspected of spying on, so let's assume all of them... Divide by 280k? Bargain.

Absolutely toothless. These fines need to shove companies into the red. Say, 100 % of turnover.

And I'm not remotely interested in football.

No Telegram today, protestors: Chinese boxes DDoS chat app amid Hong Kong protest

So like the album reference in the first line--that actually was out more than a decade ago?

Time flies, etc.

I really hope the Chinese people get a better democracy than that album.

Boffins stole our 3D files – and gave them all to Facebook's AI eggheads, claims Lithuanian biz

Re: FFS

Makes me think ESR is using a pseudonym here.

Someone slipped a vuln into crypto-wallets via an NPM package. Then someone else siphoned off $13m in coins to protect it from thieves

Re: Surely...

To be fair, gold only has value because we all agree it has, also.

Point taken about fiat currency, but if you get too nihilistic, it's all fiat currency.

Can't quite cram a working AI onto a $1 2KB microcontroller? Just get a PC to do it

Re: And I do wonder how this would work on a Pi Zero

Steers belong on the plate, not in the pasture.

Oh, the massive sky dong? Contrails from 'standard' F-35 training, US Air Force insists

Re: Admit it

^ Only because there's not a Blackbird up there anymore, sadly.

Chinese bogeyman gets Huawei with featuring in EE's 5G network launch thanks to bumbling BBC

Re: How ridiculous ?

>There are few moderates anymore on either side,

There are lots of moderates on both sides.

Who, precisely, are they supposed to vote for, again?

The loud noise is a vocal minority, same as it's always been.

In the living room, can Google Home hear you SCREAM? Well, that's what you'll need to do

Re: Poor helpless kid

Thank you.

If the TV is louder than average conversation, it's too loud.

Fine for the occasional movie, but for daily use? No.

It's the curious case of the vanishing iPhone sales as Huawei grabs second place off Apple in smartmobe stakes

Re: What ?

If they're blocking all of the Google services from install, then we need to get Facebook and the other usual pre-install can't-uninstall crap vendors on that list.

And then, I'll know precisely what my next phone will be! I'd happily order direct for a phone that I can trust!

(Hey, the Chinese government hasn't shown any inclination to show me ads yet!)

Intel unveils Project Athena: Chipzilla tells lappy makers how to build their own kit

No, this is far more expensive. Clearly it will be amazing.

Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much

Re: Is it time....

You do.

Running pfsense gives you flexibility to basically make it do whatever you want. It's absolutely lovely.

If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch

Shocking how many punny people are around here....

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

Re: Secure doors.

I had a coworker come to me one morning nearly in tears as she had borrowed her husband's truck to get to work that day, and locked the keys in it. She said, "Well, you know how to break into cars, don't you?" and I wasn't sure if I should be flattered or offended.

She was super cute and we got along well, so after some mock protestation, I of course asked where she parked, and brought her the offending keys a few minutes later. (Manual blood pressure cuff inflated at the top rear of the door gives enough room to get an unwound metal coat hanger in to hook on the ring of the keychain.)

I was assured that having a wide knowledge base was the rationale for being asked this sort of thing, rather than a presumption of a darker history. Still not entirely convinced my reputation there was entirely as I'd like it to have been!

Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall

Yes, the puns really sting!

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

Re: Nylon

It'd be interesting to see if there's recycling marks on it. You'd think they'd use something with a reasonably high temp rating to keep it from getting soft with heat.

Though, if it's taken this long to try to fix a poor design, I would not hold my breath over it.

Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?

Which is why they all need turbochargers and water/methanol injection systems--keeps the valve stems nice and clean.

Of course, there's other benefits.....

Facebook removes about as many fake accounts as it has actual monthly users (yes, billions) in effort to clean up online

Re: Verify users

>Social media sites above a certain size should be forced to verify user ID. (Good for targeted advertising too).

The poster could still remain anonymous to the public.<

Are you honestly that naive?

Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined

Re: Minecraft is dead, who cares?

Be nice.

They did Windows first.

Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder

Re: I tried to hold you under / But honey you kept breathing

If I was being lewd, I'd suggest a much easier and more pleasurable test....

Tesla big cheese Elon Musk warns staffers to tighten their belts in bid to cut expenses (again)

Re: Servicing

>They'll probably have plenty to do as leccy cars are generally heavy and the drive trains have comparatively large amounts of torque.

To be fair, despite the significant torque available, it's made continuously, not in the pulses of a piston engine. This means that the tires...tyres... round black things that touch the pavement.... have a much easier life than they otherwise would. It's the same reason that a motorcycle with two cylinders has better grip than a four does, less frequent disruption of the rubber by a "hit" of power.

Of course, that advantage goes immediately out the window if you allow the tire to slip at all. And it stays out the window when you're suddenly adding a huge amount of weight as a constant load, though that can be designed around to some extent (for a price, naturally).

Re: Servicing

Electric cars don't have tires that need inspection, inflation, nor rotation? They don't have brake pads and rotors that wear? They don't have suspension components that need lubrication? (I realize many modern cars are "permanently lubricated" in a number of ways... when you replace those parts, adding a zerk means that they last significantly longer...)

No, they still need service. They don't need engine oil changes nor air filter changes (though the cabin filter still needs done periodically). But servicing is something you do at a realistic rate despite what a manufacturer says, not strictly per the book. Sometimes that means more often, sometimes less often, depending on the service item.

CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked...

Re: team viewer

TeamViewer has been making their product worse with each version, so no surprise that the backend isn't any better.

Nvidia keeping mum on outlook for year as data centre slows, channel chokes on crypto crap

Am I the only one....?

Read article whilst laughing so hard that the tears rolled down my cheeks?

Poor NVidia. Poor, poor you. You may have to bring your prices in line with what a non-crypto market is willing to bear, and actually have enough worthwhile products available to buy! You know, like in the old days, when you made video cards that were used as display adapters.

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

Re: WiFi Routers can be anywhere; cell towers are generally in fixed locations

Sounds like a depth charge with a 9V instead of whiskey.

(Eww, also.)

Eggheads identify the last animal that will survive on Earth until the Sun dies

Re: The power

Depends on if there's still any atmosphere pressing on it.

Even saltwater can boil at very low temperatures when exposed to a near vacuum.

How much open source is too much when it's in Microsoft's clutches? Eclipse Foundation boss sounds note of alarm

The biggest question in my mind is:

Can MicroSoft do more damage to Linux than Lennart Poettering has?

Jury is still out.

UK Home Office: If we want Ofcom to break the law, that should be perfectly legal

Re: Ofcom declined to comment, while the Home Office had not responded by the time of publication

The real power is not the layer below the elected. It's the layer above; the ones who purchased them. This group too will not change during an election year, as the new ones are the same as the old, though the price may vary.

Panic as panic alarms meant to keep granny and little Timmy safe prove a privacy fiasco

Re: Somebody should ...

Identified in one fell swoop!

Firefox armagg-add-on: Lapsed security cert kills all browser extensions, from website password managers to ad blockers

Re: the only add-ons disabled on my Firefox (Linux) ...

Pihole is great.

It does not provide the same granularity for having different clients set to block different things, however. Mozilla should be ashamed and embarrassed of this cockup.

Tractors, not phones, will (maybe) get America a right-to-repair law at this rate: Bernie slams 'truly insane' situation

Re: Aussie solution

Probably not, honestly.

Tractors need torque more than HP. 200hp is a quite sizable tractor, and more importantly, it can produce all of that power endlessly--at very low rpm, meaning enormous torque is produced. Not only does it help prevent wear from less mechanical stress, but it helps the fuel bill, which is really important when running multiple pieces of farm equipment for 80hrs/wk during harvest/planting/etc.

Besides, powerful engines down under are apparently only used to spin their tires uselessly, and that's not a situation you want if you're racing against the weather, a delivery time, or a timer.

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

Re: Not Good Enough

^ Buy stock in rope manufacturers!

Gartner squints into its crystal ball: A pholdable phuture is very far away

"No, I'm sorry, I can't go out today. I have to stay home and charge my shirt."

The future is stupid.

Apple redesigns wireless AirPower charger to be world's smallest, thinnest, lightest, cheapest, invisible... OK, it doesn't exist anymore

Re: So-called "high standards"

Your high performance engine needs the idle turned up, not annoyingly blipped constantly. And most likely it's grossly overcammed.

Wondering why 'Devin Nunes herp-face' was trending online? Here's the 411: House rep sues Twitter for all the rude stuff tweeted about him

>You have now planted in my mind the image of 12 jurors with buckets of popcorn and gallon jugs of fizzy drinks loudly laughing and clapping at the various arguments bandied about in the courtroom, having great fun, and sometimes throwing some popcorn at the various participants.

I'd pay to see that film !<

Shame he's from the wrong state. If it was a little further east, it could be the Rockies Horror Picture Show.

My coat, yes.