Posts by Ordinary Donkey 329 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2019
Is it true that UEFI secure boot standard means that an American company has the final say over what is allowed to boot on any PC with it enabled? And that there is a lot of pressure for hardware to prevent people from turning it off?
I'm never sure about these things but you'd think people would be discussing that right now.
This reminds me of wondering aloud what would happen on my father's old telephone switchboard if somebody set multiple phones to redirect in a loop and called one of them from another phone.
Boringly the answer was that if a phone diverted to a phone that the call had already diverted from then it rang instead of diverting.
how about no unnecessary features whatsoever?
Things which require windows features to run can request to enable them. If I want to spend three hours bashing my head against the wall trying to get something I never asked for to stop fucking up in the most idiotic way possible then insert joke about taking to $family_member here.
Just to clarify, does calling the new law an unworkable mess violate the new law? What about calling ofcom underfunded?
It sounds a lot like this law is intended to impose hefty prison sentences for claiming to have seen the emperor's hairy arse cheeks.
It's in the MIT link.
The material is then soaked in a standard electrolyte material, such as potassium chloride, a kind of salt, which provides the charged particles that accumulate on the carbon structures. Two electrodes made of this material, separated by a thin space or an insulating layer, form a very powerful supercapacitor, the researchers found.
As I understand it, each concrete block's carbon is one electrode, with huge surface area because it spreads through the concrete in tiny rivulets as it's formed. Then they place the two concrete blocks into some sort of container with electrolyte and an insulator.
The breakthrough here is the huge surface area, because capacitance is a function of electrode surface area.
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