Re: This makes some sense, I guess.
"Must be a lesson or two there somewhere."
IIRC, the main lesson learned was don't put your generators where they can get flooded, especially if in an area subject to earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Yeah, it seems many companies going with the "hot desking" fad are doing it wrong, or at least poorly. At least one of the client I visit has a desk booking web/phone app so teams tend to book desks together and that mostly seems to work. The only real downside is you can only book up to two weeks in advance. Most people seem to book the same desks but there are odd times when there's more people than desks so those left "deskless" get to use the little "booths".
"That's if they didn't just call the police to retrieve the server and let the police deal with any other aspects."
I'm sure the police would have taken exceptionally good care of the servers, very carefully transporting it to the evidence lock-up so as not to cause any damage to the very valuable and delicate system 'cos they are all aware of how to treat IT equipment, especially 20 years ago. And they'd have taken very good care to hold it in the evidence lock-up for a good few months until the case came up. And then after a paperwork mix-up, they'd have lost track of the rightful owners and auctioned it off for the Police Benevolent Fund.
"The company just shut up and delivered another server, full cost to themselves. That is more than generous."
I'm a little surprised the courier company delivered it to the address. This was 20 years ago, and sending kit like that would commonly be handled by a specialist delivery company, end even if not, I'd assume they used the same courier company for other similar delivery, probably also the backup tape collections. I'd like to think they may have spotted and "unusual" delivery address.
While you are correct to point that out, he was commenting on how the economy currently works. Public transport is based on numbers of users and frequency of service. If the number of users goes down, then the operator will reduce the service level so that each bus, train, tram whatever is running as close to full capacity as possible, at least during prime commute time and that discourages more people from using it . More so if the service is a "for profit" operation. Where it's socialised, it might survive longer while local government can subsidise it. There's a shift happening, the incumbents and interested parties don't want to accept the changes.
Yes, I keep hearing stories of sandwich/snack shops, bars and cafes struggling because of the lower footfall due to WFH. What I don't hear anything about is the likely uptick in grocery shopping or smaller local shops. pubs and cafes in the suburbs as they get used more by the people remaining in thoise suburbs during business hours. They money is still being spent, but in different ways and different places. Of course, some of that spend will be saved/banked, but in most cases will still be spent eventually. The economy is still going around, just not quite in the "traditional" way. And that seems to be upsetting some people. "Traditional" city centres have been declining for years now anyway, which is why there is so much re-development into residential in or close to the city centres nowadays.
I still though the iPad was too small until they finally joined the mainstream and started making them up to the larger sizes everyone else was making. Having said that, I can't see a use case for spending the premium on an iPad for me because I don't have the rest of the eco-system that would make it more useful. My brother, on the other hand swears by his iPad because he has Apple laptop and iphone and I will grant that they all work together pretty seamlessly. Android tablets in general don't interoperate so well, but I imagine you'd get a better experience if you went for, say Samsung laptop, phone and tablet, but that can cost up into similar regions as Apple these days.
"just for the timer app for holding her students' yoga poses."
If you do something often enough, you very quickly learn to quite accurately estimate time +/- a few seconds, especially short periods. There are many things people used to be able to do well through practice and experience which most are no longer able to do because the rely on tech to replace experience and even memory.
If you are in the UK or EU, the cattle should all be chipped so you can scan it for it's UUID and possibly other data. But then you can do that from a phone with NFC and, of course, if your at the cattle market, odds are you in or on the edge of a town so likely do have a signal for an internet connection. But anyone buying cattle already knows the breed just by looking at it can probably give a very good estimate of weight, health etc because you don't spend that kind of money unless you know what you are doing.
"This is an honest question, not simply a critique on Apple or the commentard above"
The word you are looking for is that abortion of a word/concept, "gameification". Marketing have created a competitive spirit to exercise and enough people have fallen for it that they now feel the need to tell others how well they are doing so they can feel good about being better than others. Even if it's just people in the office telling others how many steps their pedometer app/watch/phone/fitness band has recorded so far today.
Even kit that comes with a unique randomised password set in the device and printed on a sticker on the device should be changed. Odds are that is not the only record of that password. The manufacture probably keeps a database of which passwords are used on which device for support purposes and you can't be sure that database hasn't been compromised or if they used some sort algorithm based on a MAC address or something to calculate a unique default password. You can be sure there will always be support calls from new owners who've lost the factory password and few suppliers wants to be in the position of telling the new owner they just bricked it.
The UKs Prospero, launched to LEO in 1971 is expected to eventually decay enough to come down and burn up in about 2070. It's perigee is about the orbit of Starlink. Apogee is a quite a bit higher, hence it's much longer decay time. So yes, geostationary would be stay there for many orders of magnitudes longer.
On the other hand, the bandwidth reduction of a heavily degraded and spliced fibre could well still be more than enough for a remote location with few endpoints compared to a fibre feeding a large town or city that;s running at a much higher capacity. Is it something in the order of 350GB/s per fibre? That could be degraded quite a lot before the 30 people at the far end in the wilds of Alaska would start complaining that they were no longer getting their 100/100Mb/s :-)
Starlink seems to be the "perfect" filler for those outlying areas, although it does seem to be getting used quite a lot simply as a "local" competitor by many others, especially in the broken US market, I wonder if it will unintentionally act as a spur to the fibre build-out not just because fibre has better latency and more capacity, but because fibre, once laid, can be sweated for decades at almost no further cost whereas the current crop of Starlink sats have a, what? 5 to 7 year life? per sat at max and will need constant launches and replacement throughout the life of the network.
Yep, this is true.
From the article:
"sold US citizens' location data to Uncle Sam – including the Pentagon, its intelligence agencies, and defense contractor AELIUS Exploitation Technologies.
As recently as late last year, Near was still selling US residents' location data without their consent,
This makes the Government criminal in that they are buying data without carrying out due diligence that it was collected legally so any cases prosecuted using this data is contaminated with "fruit of the poisoned tree"
"And offering Seasons 3-5 of a given show but dropping 1 and 2 is ridiculous."
I've noticed that too. In at least some cases though, a series may be dropped by a broadcaster or even production house, and then picked again by another, so there's two or more lots of rights holders to deal with for differing seasons. I'm not defending the practice, mind :-)
I've seen the same happen on cable/satellite channels here in the UK too, more so on US owned and/or operated channels.
I've also noted that Channel 5 catch-up/streaming also has unskippable adverts now so I just record the live transmission of anything I might want to watch (increasingly few things) or find "other sources" rather than use their streaming service.
Yes, just because something is in the Ts&Cs doesn't mean it's fair or legal. This is very much worth challenging.
On the other hand, this is the USA and the courts will often side with the contract, even if it is weighted in favour in one party and therefore inherently unfair. I'd like to think this will go to trial, but experience tells me that it will be settled out of court because no $BigCorp wants' it Ts&Cs tested in court in case they lose.
or Black Sails. Arrrrrrrr!
In the case of at least the UK, it's rules/regulations employers must follow to show "proof of residence" and/or "right to work" in the UK. However, I don't think the regulations actually state that copies must be kept, just that they must be seen and examined. But as is commonly the case, the company (and company lawyers) will be in arse covering mode so if/when they are audited, they can show they not only did the job properly, but went above and beyond. If there are any legal comebacks, they want to demonstrate that they saw the documents, not just show a checklist. And so it results in large troves of extremely valuable personal data being lifted when in reality, not only should they not be keeping that data, but even if they do, it should be locked down tighter than a fishes arse, not on a system that is, however incidently, public facing.
Ditto by installing FS-UAE (multi-platform) or WinUAE (well, obv, Windows only) on whatever hardware one happens to have available. It's also useful to have FS-UAE in a desktop/laptop anyway, since you can build your Amiga HDD image on it with all the convenience that comes with it, then write the HDD image to the SD card prepped and ready to boot your real Amiga using an IDE to SD card interface as the Amigas local HDD.
"Or have I missed something?"
Yes, you have. The guy followed the *letter* of the edict from on high. He downloaded and installed the patches but didn't reboot because the edict didn't specify that. He did exactly and only what the edict specified. A reasonable person might assume that applying patches that required a reboot, then a reboot would be performed. But that's only in the "spirit" of the edict, not the letter ;-)
My solution is brilliant. It may cause a few hiccups in the short term, but long term it will solve all of our IPv4 issues for the foreseeable future.
ALL IPv4 addresses will be rescinded and taken back into central control. One and ONLY one IPv4 address will be provided irrevocably to each and every nation on planet Earth. Each nation can do what it wants internally, but ALL outside connections must be NATed via their official IPv4 address.
This will allow for expansion of the Internet in the future to cover other planets and solar systems for many, many years. I'm not sure yet what to call it when it goes interplanetary, or even interstellar, but for now we can call it National NAT or NatNAT for short
Problem solved. If you want to send me my Nobel prize, please contact ElReg with the above username which they can link to my email address to forward your communication.
NB. Anyone who paid for their IPv4 addresses can get stuffed. They were supposed to be free or at nominal admin cost, not a traded commodity. If this affects you, well, sucks to be you, eh?
"essentially water initially helped the creation of life after the planet stabilized in the early years."
Yes, and then some bloody upstart mutant came along and started spreading itself everywhere, sucking up all that lovely carbon dioxide, pumping out highly corrosive and poisonous oxygen, almost entirely destroying the whole ecosystem and creating another ecosystem in it's own image!
"I do know that NASA etc funding is to a large extent determined by politicians,"
Yes, and apart from anything else, missions like this don't usually just "happen" in a very few years. Most likely this mission was planned and started development under Trump or Obama or even earlier and has almost nothing to do with Bidens administration anyway. As you say, keep politics out of it :-)