A Life Of Grime
RIP Mr. Trebus.
The special they ran about Mr. Trebus' after his passing away was excellent.
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Matt Parker has debunked one of the allegations about voter fraud:
I'm always reminded of the Brunel's atmospheric railway.
In the UK, the new Crossrail trains are around 200m in length which can accommodate 1,500 passengers (With provision to extend to 240m). One of the reasons for that is that longer trains are more efficient than shorter trains. On urban/metro type services, the length of time to bring a train to a stop, allow passengers on & off and get back up to speed again is the limiting factor for the frequency of trains.
Of course all the vendors want "as a service" It keeps the money coming in when the end user would rather just stick with the five year old (or older) version of the software they were previously running. As to hardware, the pace of change/improvement has slowed over the past decade so there is less drive to upgrade. I've seen people running 10 year old network switches as they're "good enough". (Sure, there might be some security issues, but with a bit of skill you can block that off and the switch keeps running)
information they had obtained from an academic at Cambridge University, Dr Aleksandr Kogan
I hope El Reg have run that statement past their lawyers. Was Dr Kogan employed by the University for a period of time? Yes. Did he (or anyone else at the University) either collect or use that data? No.
The impression given by that sentence is that the University was involved in the collection or use of that data.
www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/04/13/dont-blame-cambridge-for-facebooks-privacy-crisis/
What's more, it has a plan to prime its automated communications pipeline to get outage information to customers within 15 minutes, so they spend less time in the dark
I've lost count of the number of times we've logged support calls with Microsoft and being told there are no service problems to suddenly seeing an announcement saying the issue (that we were having) has been resolved.
Can we move on from the playground "My CPU/OS/Application is better than yours". The joke's past it.
If you bother to look at MS' recent business decisions, products are moving to be online services. The only thing that MS then cares about is the browser. Guess which product MS are getting to run on multiple devices.
For a long time the Windows O/S hasn't been a money spinnner per-say. It's always been things like Office & Exchange. (OEMs were never paying anywhere near full price for their bundled copies of Windows)
With Windows 10 now getting updates/upgrade for free, it does make you wonder what Microsoft's long term plans are for Windows. I feel the obvious answer is that they're interested in the subscription services (e.g. Office 365) over perpetual licenses. There were reports several years ago that MS was pushing its resellers to sell subscription Office 365 over perpetual licenses.
When Microsoft employees turn up at my office with Macbooks & iPhones (soemthing BIll & Steve would never have allowed) it only confirms my suspicions that MS see their future as on-line only. So the thought that Windows may fade into the distance isn't totally radical.
I think the author is giving VMWare too much credit. VMware were late to market with a web interface (Flash) and when they did release it they'd based it on obsolete technology.
The Flash interface was VMWare's first web interface. Prior to that we had to use the Win32 client. And for a long while the Flash client still couldn't do everything. For once thing it was vCentre only. You still had to use the Windows client to manage individual hosts. Also VMWare tech support often told you to perform tasks with the Windows client rather than their Flash web UI.
But even whilst VMWare were working on the Flash interface the writting was already on the wall for Flash so they were working on a deadend product.
Thunderbird can really take the initiative here, and simply implement it. If two Thunderbird clients are emailing each other then it will automatically be encrypted after the first email exchange
PGP & Email does two things. It encrypts emails in transit but it also provides identity assurance.
You can't automatically provide the identity assurance without either a manual process or recourse to a trusted third party.
PGP never took off, because it requires a public key server to verify identity and identity simply has nothing to do with encryption
And the fact that Johnny Can't Encrypt.
PGP's usability is very poor.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I can see that these zero cost tariff options (e.g. Netflix, Facebook, Youtube traffic doesn't count) are good for the consumer and are a way for an ISP to differentiate itself in the market.
But I can also see that it could be seen as a slippery slope to only allowing blessed video streaming or social media companies.
The blip, which resembled four squiggles, lasted less than one-tenth of a second, and was created when two black holes with 66 and 85 solar masses smashed into one another
Everytime they announce a new find I'm amazed that they can tell so much from apparently so little data.
Beers all round.