Posts by Qumefox

Re: Workarounds?

The main function of non-work related VPN's used to access company networks is to circumvent geofencing and somewhat obfuscate your own IP (though additional steps are still required to fully be anonymous)

Anyone expecting any more than that and believing the marketing that it's "more secure" is deluding themselves.

Re: That's still not cheap

Yep. at that price point you're getting into the range of midrange gaming laptops or higher end business class laptops

Re: Fuck all the off M$

Linux is going to be a non-option for the target demographic the ad infested version of office will be aimed at.

Anyone actually capable of making linux work for them isn't going to be shackled to M$ anyway.

Re: "These are "services" that bring in roughly $5 for every $1 spent."

This one is the most scary as it's going lead to a drastic increase in weather related fatalities. At a time when that is already on the rise due to climate change... Which is something else this administration is actively trying to sweep under the rug. Likely because people knowing we're screwing up the planet is detrimental to the fossil fuel industry's stock prices.

Re: It does have a finite life

The ISS's modules indeed have a finite life. However people seem to forget that it's..well.. modular. It comes apart. So the life of ISS itself could be infinite. There is absolutely nothing stopping anyone, at least from a technological standpoint, from building and launching new modules to replace aging ones. Hell they're already in the middle of replacing all the solar panels. The only thing that could kill the ISS is if no one had any use for it anymore.

Re: Proxima Centauri is a glimpse of our own future

I think it's moot considering that the most likely outcome is that humanity makes the planet unable to sustain life within the next 250 years. Much less a billion.

Re: Proctorio is trash

"If you try to open the code inspector while the extension is active, proctorio will uninstall itself immediately."

The more people describe the 'functionality' of this software, the more it sounds like malware.

Re: re: re: .... astronomers

The only advantage terrestrial telescopes have is size. That's literally it. In every other aspect, something located outside of the atmosphere is going to work better due to not having to deal with that pesky atmosphere distorting everything, or the planet spinning and the thing you want to look at dropping below the horizon. Or not even being visible from the hemisphere the telescope is located in in the first place.

Re: This is why they should be banned.

If I see Gordon Ramsay charging at me with a knife in a parking lot, i'm damn well going to shoot him.

Re: The man who seeks Summerfield Browne for advice has a bunch of fools...

I have this strange urge to slap a stack of papers now.

Re: $5,999

There's also the matter than you can build a far better spec'd machine for half the price, including a monitor. All you have to give up is the Apple logo.

Re: I'd have to disagree...

When i'm forced back into the office, I need to find one that's so loud, it's able to drown out the people trying to pile pointless office social crap on me.

It depends on where the breach happened. If it was on subway's end, yes, it's their responsibility. However if it happened on the end of whatever marketing firm this is, then it's the marketing firm's problem.

Re: Which appstores?

The great firewall doesn't have to be 100% effective at blocking things. Just monitoring network traffic is enough since the use of private encryption is banned in China. So basically if someone in China owns a device and there's data flowing in and out of it in any fashion that the CCP can't decrypt and monitor, then that alone is enough for people to have a significant chance of 'disappearing'. so that makes Tor and the likes moot.

Re: Getting out of the inferno

The problem with that is that Google essentially controls the game at this point. If someone creates a browser that starts impacting their revenue stream, they'll just simply leverage their market share and basically change the rules to favor themselves and there's little that can be done to stop them.

About the only thing that would prevent it is if google ended up getting carved up so the ad business was a completely unrelated and separate entity from the browser business. But I don't ever see that happening even if they do actually get brought up on monopoly charges.

Re: Not so free after all

There are more variables in that analogy that make it not very fitting. While it's true CC companies will do everything they can to fleece their customers for as much as they're worth, they're also very risk adverse as well for the most part. If you're barely making minimums and are constantly up against your credit limit, they're actually going to be less inclined to expand the credit limit because generally people in that situation have few assets to go after if they end up defaulting, which becomes more likely if limits are raised and minimums payments get even higher. The only times i've gotten my credit limit upped without me requesting it, it has occurred after I carried a balance for a while, then suddenly paid it all off and kept it paid off for more than a month.

Re: Who cares?

the issue is occulus are pretty much the only ones in the market that have a decent standalone HMD that doesn't require a PC.

If you want PC based VR. yeah, little reason to go with them though. just get a HP reverb G2 when they start hitting shelves in a week or so.

I have no interest in upgrading from my 2070 super for the foreseeable future. And while i'm not a super hardcore gamer, I do game some, and so long as the framerates of the stuff I do play stays above 60fps, I see no huge need to throw money at the latest and greatest there is.

Re: Conspiracy theories are dead...

Never heard anyone claim he was responsible for it's origins. He is however responsible for several hundred thousand people dying due his mismanagement of it once it did make it to the US.

Re: Vapour Ware

Yeah. How inept are their engineers that they can't cobble together a battery pack, motor and motor controller and make this thing move under it's own power? Hell I probably could have managed it for a few thousand dollars at most. Sure it wouldn't have been fast, had much range, or likely held together for more than a few miles, but it would have still been a damn sight better than just shoving it down a hill.

Re: the difference between an engineer and sn installer.

it's called a mouse when it's a standalone object, be it living or mechanical, that is used to pull the cord/wire/whatever through an enclosed space. We used to use compressed air to blow a "mouse"(not an actual live mouse) with a pull attached through conduit.

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

first the good guys start fighting using drones.. then the bad guys start fighting using drones. It'll get to the point where the only actual casualties in conflicts will be just be innocent bystanders.

And if you believe the propaganda that comes out of the PRC, you've demonstrated your inability to think rationally as well.

The Chinese government has their fingers in pretty much every company that it allows to operate there. Those that don't allow that, don't stay operating in China for long. So it's not exactly unwise to be weary of possible data collection by them.

I have no love of the POTUS or his knee-jerk protectionism policies. However, I can assure you that none of the chinese made IOT devices (mostly cameras) I own are given unfettered access to the internet. and that was MY policy even before the current idiot in chief came in to office. Because I have yet to find many that don't attempt to phone home for some reason, even when they have zero need to.

I picked up Satisfactory from steam and didn't have to install the epic launcher or even make an account. That's only needed if you intend to use multiplayer with someone not on steam. But if you're solo, or only playing with other steam users, the steam version doesn't require the EGS launcher or even have an account with them.

Re: Shooting themselves in the foot to save their hand

You can still buy perpetual licenses for adobe products. Adobe just doesn't make that very well known, or very easy, and there's pretty much zero way to do it 'online' since they'd rather rent it to you indefinitely instead. Plus the perpetual licenses are as stupidly expensive as ever as well.

Re: This sounds useful

Probably not until goverments stop being able to be controlled by corporations. So. Basically never.

Telco's don't want to do this either, because they make money off all those spoofed robocalls. So stopping spoofing means you would actually be able to block the actual spammers, which means less connected calls, which means less revenue for the telco..

Re: Great, so NSA slurping back in Snowden's day was illegal

All governments have always been a "Do as I say, not as I do" arrangement. This will never change.

Re: Double check everything

"Ugh. The United States is now officially a shithole country."

Hate to tell you, but it has been for a while. This isn't a recent development.

Though I would argue that it's hardly confined to the United States. There are very very few nations that haven't been guilty of oppressing someone else over ethnicity, religion, etc. China's current oppression of the uighurs is a good example.

The US is just in the spotlight so much now because the man-baby running the joint throws a tantrum every time it starts shifting somewhere else so he can keep all eyes on him.

The real truth is that humanity just sucks.

Re: Oddly Enough...

It could be an option. There are propeller designs that are pretty damn quiet. They just also sacrifice a good bit of efficiency as well. Which, on your average quadcopter, or even a Cessna, isn't worth it since being quiet isn't really a huge consideration hence you never see them used. For a military application, their use becomes more worth the drawbacks.

Re: "...offers 10GB of long-term storage space for people's personal photos and videos"

It's kind of sad that after all these decades, it's hard to beat tape as a long term storage method. It's also sad that high capacity tape drives cost an arm and a leg as well...

Re: Why not clean routers, webcams, 'Smart locks', etc.

I don't even bother with that. The only IoT devices I have on my network, half a dozen cheap chinese IP cameras, are physically segregated on their own LAN with no internet connectivity whatsoever because them phoning home is guaranteed. So literally all they are allowed to communicate with is an interface on the zoneminder server which doesn't route packets, and nothing else, because that's all that's on that physical network.

Re: I've just uploaded my music collection to...

My biggest question is will the app go away? I don't use their streaming services etc, but I do use the play app to play local content off my phone because it's a convenient app that's already on the phone that will do it.

Re: Outsourcing

It's fine to do for troubleshooting. The issue stems from people treating it like the solution when it fixes things, rather than fixing the actual problem.

The firing wasn't what caused the price to drop, it was the announcement of 7nm getting pushed back. I work in financial services, and the firing has barely gotten a mention outside of tech circles.