Posts by Tuomas Hosia

Re: Pointless

" if a rise in CO2 in the order of a fraction of a part per million can produce such dramatic effects as have been observed"

It can't, obviously. First: CO2 is *weak* greenhouse gas, even common and simple stuff like water vapour is 100* nore efficient. (IPCC tries to revert this right now, BTW:They do not like reality)

Second: There's >100* more water vapour in air than CO2, so the ratio in effectiveness is at least 1:10 000. IPCC doesn't say a word about water vapour: Can't tax it.

But now barely measurable changes in CO2 are causing percentage -level of changes to global average, according to IPCC. Fummy thing is that they've zero proof for it. Or formula. Ot eve actually correct climate model aftger 30 years of trying.

Where's the slowly vanishing ice age? Universal warming in 1995-2005 which didn't happen on Earth? Greenland and VIkings? (Don't exist in any IPCC material).

As a hard scientist (do 100 lab tests, analyze, repeat if results don't match) these guys are only world class thieves with zero actual science behind the claims. Most obvious is lack of formula: Temp versus CO2 concentration. A correct one I mean, with precitable results, every time.

Re: Don't forget mischief

EU, in their great wisdom (i.e. blatant and massive bribery to Commission) classified them as pedestrians.

So: No insurance, 25km/h speed limit, be as drunk as you want, not a crime.

And of course *no-one could see any problems with that* ... of course not, no no. You don't see problems when you've your pockets stuffed full of cash.

"are largely obsolete after cars/trucks have gone electric."

How many new fuel stations have you seen lately?

~30 years is what the undeground tanks last and then it's refresh or demolish anyway.

Also, electric cars are and will be *very expensive*. Average car purchase here in North is 3k euros.

You don't buy *any* electric car, even very used one, with that amount. Not in long time or possibly ever.

Re: hydrogen engines?

"So hydrogen is where aviation finds itself when looking for a power source which is not based on hydrocarbons (which make global warming worse)."

Cooling H2 to -240C (33K) isn't going to be easy and you know, aluminium is brittle as glass at -240C. Pressure container, cooling equipment, insulation: All of those *weight*. And cost money, a lot of money.

Too bad. Planes aren't going to fly with H2 unless someone invents a way to store it as easily as kerosene.

Water vapour is 100* worse greenhouse gas than CO2 and spreading it into upper athmosphere is really a move from a genius. Right?

Re: Unpopular opinion here

"However, they are small drips that add up."

Assumption that's based on nothing but will to control of what other people say or think.

Basically, fascism. Of course none of these neo-fascists will *ever admit that*.

Re: "amps from the mains" (?)

"The amps referred to in the original article aren't mains voltage amps. "

Irrelevant as getting 11kV outlet just for you won't happen in any foreseeable reality.

Re: There can only be one standard

"You can't have different standards depending on the race of the poster for the simple reason that you can't possible know the poster's actual race"

And even if you knew, that would be literal racism: Different and arbitary rules based on skin colour.

Re: @Jeeves Need more court challenges

"... even recommend them for certain undemocratic authoritarian countries, like say, the USA, UK,"

.. and Soviet Union when it was still existing. Probably applies to Russia as well.

Anyway, I had passport full of border control stamps and visas to SU and before trip in US I was strongly advised to get a new passport, by Police.

Applies to other way round too, of course, but less problems: The US people are even more paranoid/bullies at border than SU people were. Russian border control is very formal but no intentional bullying like this if papers are OK, these guys are professionals.

Re: Really?

"BitLocker DOES allow you to CHOOSE whether or not to use the drive's own on-board encryption. "

No it doesn't, that's false. Actually you can't even see what encryption it is using, if any.

And of course defaults to one drive offers.

Re: Perhaps developers should work offline

"From a statistical probability perspective, my reasoning stands."

False. It doesn't as a company is not only likely to offer BS, it's economically bound to offer BS as it's the cheapest they can get.

"(b) the customer base to make them care"

Semi-false: Customers are other companies buying the details of the users, i.e. cannon food. They care only about if users have too much privacy (or sacurity) and the users themselves are totally irrelevant: They aren't customers but the product for sale.

Case in hand: Windows 10.

Re: People in glass houses.....

[UPNP]" It allows an attacker to open up arbitrary listening ports through a firewall."

Yup. To me it's a tool specifially designed to make firewall totally useless. Only a total idiot would create such a tool and protocol it uses.

"Ease of use" isn't an argument when firewall is full of holes every time you surf 10 minutes without user's knowledge as of course upnp "service" doesn't even log the changes it has done to anywhere.

Re: first things first...

"THAT is how i know that salaries are based on social expectations and Empire stroking their technokrats, NOT some sort of meritocracy..."

Banksters, who are getting paid most for least value, aren't technokrats at all, but 'economists'. That's as far as you can get from technology. These people live in a fantasy world where money rains from the sky and there are hundreds of conflicting theories, none of which can ever be proven. It's not even science by any sensible measurement.

"... as an aside, regarding men vs woman pay; excepting a -literal- percent or two of knuckledraggers, WHO disagrees that woman and men shouldn't get equal pay for equal work ? ? ?"

Not many ... but claiming that your job is the same as someone elses ("equal") and they are getting paid better because they are men, is just greedyness when it isn't the same work.

Men doing actually equal work are getting paid the same, so no problem here.

Re: Bigger Government is never the answer

"and PREVENTING independent providers from offering competitive services for an extra fee (as one example)."

I call bullshit on this. It exists solely to guarantee that everyone gets what they paid for and if you claim otherwise, you haven't even read the damn paper.

Yet another paid shill, I see.

Re: "secure ... air-gapped"

".. not only does it have neither wireless connectivity nor a USB socket,"

Remote locking is enough: Radio/infra access point and those listen to commands. If it doesn't even those then it's getting difficult, I admit that.

But even a RDS radio receiver is enough if and when it's connected to CAN, like it is in modern cars.

Re: They control the hardware

This is what happens when the project size exceeds the capability of the company/management to manage a project.

Add some random cost cutting within company to increase profits (competent people tend to be expensive) and you'll get the picture.

But one thing is sure: LM is making record profits from this project. In the end, that's the only thing that matters for LM.

Re: Down vote this

"No, I think everyone should pay the amount of tax that they are due to pay, "

Yes, but this is only small part of the whole truth: When you have a lot of money you buy laws which guarantee that you don't have to pay anything at all.

Much cheaper than actually paying taxes. And that is the norm, not an exception nowadays.

When bribery on top (EU Commission/US Congress) is legal, only those who bribe the most, are successful.

Re: Why would someone want to use a 'messenger app' at all?

"a) Security (ability to use deniable, authenticated, end-to-end encryption with forward secrecy)"

And SMS doesn't provide all of those?

Without everything going to a) free to sell by FB (read the EULA sometime, will you?) and b) to NSA, directly.

No, there is absolutely _no_ security in anything related to Zuckenberg-mafia. None at all: Everything you do or send, is sold to anyone who bothers to ask and has money.

Re: @ (untitled)

"How about automated algorithms that automatically tax all vehicles based on use, to the penny/km/mile?"

We already have that, it's called fuel tax. And at least here in Europe it's not a penny but several pennies per km, related directly to fuel consumption.

It also has the benefit of not having to track every car, all the time: Freedom of movement.

Tracked movement isn't free, it's a prison sentence.

Re: is blame to be placed purely on MS?

"...but auto updates are necessary to protect us from the internet nasties."

The law of numbers: Few unpatched machines are always better than _all the rest_ broken. And it's not a question about if, but when that will happen.

Regardless of the necessity the choise taken now is even worse. And those aren't even excluding choises as we already know from windows 7 or 8.

Re: I doubt they'll see a revenue increase

"that these laws become quite overbearing and fascist when they can just be applied to all and sundry."

You are missing the point of these laws: They exist solely for enforcing fascism: Everyone is a terrorist if the powers that be say so. And the laws are written to support that, on purpose.

I find it correct then to label _literally anything_ as 'terrorism' as the laws make that kind of interpretetation not only possible, but totally legal and fitting into legal definition.

It is not an accident or 'poor decision' that anything can and will be 'terrorism', by law.

A point of view shared with some other commenters too. Unless they change the law, almost everything _is_ terrorism, by legal definition.

Just because terrorism laws let the authorities do anything they want, legally, and the suspect has no rights at all. That's why these laws exist and that's why they are used every day.

Fascist authorities wanted fascism written into law and they got it. Label is irrelevant at this point: Fascism is here as much as it was in Germany in early 30s.

"It's not too far removed from the old(er) US model on the CDMA(?) networks, where they didn't have SIMs and handsets were locked to a carrier. Great for carriers, crap for consumers."

This is a good point and reminds us again how some people _forget everything_ they've learned from the past as soon as something new and shiny is presented.

Soft-SIM is basically hard carrier lock which can't be removed. Ever. Want to change operator? Buy a new phone _and pay the old operator_ while doing so.

That's the way it's planned.

Re: Great article, for 1-2 years ago!

"... and WHY that might fail in the future."

This is an easy one: There's nothing extraordinary offered for the high price.

Every feature iphone now has, including slick UI, will be incorporated in a $100 model and even brand following has its limits: $600 phone won't sell if it doesn't have anything the 1/6 priced phone has.

Not imagination either, that's exactly what happened to Nokia when they started to re-release old stuff in different package again, again and again: Nothing actually new but premium prices led to falling sales globally.

Management problem, all the way, basically. And Apple is obviously in similar limbo now: CEO can't decide and/or has no visions of what next.

Apple without visionaries is quite dead, internally. With their pile of cash they may run a long time as company, but that's only a shell. Just like Nokia did, almost 10 years, until Elop butchered it.

Re: Which PC's don't have TPM

"given that's the only thing they *actually* do"

So you have a whole TPM chip and you _know_ what it *actually* does, despite half of the functions being officially not documented and who knows how many functions totally secret, the NSA segment?

Nice idea, borders to being gullible.

Re: If car manufacturers were to do the same...

"But the idea that any change in a computer desktop paradigm is automatically bad seems a little extreme."

Yes. But we are not talking about "any change", we are talking about totally new paradigm, like changing the car controls to ones taken directly from a submarine: Not many of those would make any sense to a car driver. Let's see:

"Depth" ... WTF is this? "Speed" .. OK, I know this ... "Direction: 330" ... WTF?... "Flaps: 33" ... "WTF?"

And this, this is the issue here: Throwing every familiar element there was, away, and replacing those with _no elements at all_. You basically have some tiles and no (visible) controls at all.

UI with swipes is quite absurd on a PC when you have mouse and keyboard and huge amount of screen space. Add injury to insult when you try to swish your hand around 24" touch screen whole day.