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But are you comfortably numb?
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You are only coming through in waves
TTFN - Kent
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All our rage is directed at subjects we aren't allowed to flame about here anymore.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Site archive of Cit0day.in has now leaked on two hacking forums after the service shut down in September. Who hacks the hackers?
Qui furatus fuerit ex fures?
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Highly sensitive tax returns, contracts and bank statements were among 75,000 "deleted" files recovered by cybersecurity researchers as part of an Abertay University investigation into the risks of selling used USB drives over the internet. People sell USB sticks? I thought they were just meant to accumulate in drawers/boxes?
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Magnetars, a type of neutron star, can produce the previously enigmatic bursts. The calls are coming from inside the galaxy!
(Yeah, stolen from their URL. Sue me.)
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The new part is a content-creation tool, not a gaming accelerator. "These are the people who saw an overcrowded marketplace and said, ‘Me too!'"
"Xe Max doesn't always accelerate gaming workloads at all" <- uh? Oh well, I guess they're not really targeting the gaming market for these. It's such a small market after all {/sarcasm}
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Intel releases a completely pointless part:
Quote: the Xe Max is only slated to appear in systems that feature Tiger Lake processors, whose Iris Xe integrated GPUs already handily outperform the Nvidia MX 350
If Intel is true-to-form, they will release a crappy driver and never update it again.
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Thanks - I thought I was missing something there.
TTFN - Kent
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Look on the bright side; they aren't wasting time on silly 5nm and 7nm technology.
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The data analysts firm NetMarketShare revealed that Windows 10 has seen another uptake in users and it went up to 64.04% from 61.26% last month. Linux (multiple distros) went from 1.14% to 1.65% and Ubuntu now holds a market share of 0.51% It's probably the most popular, just not the most used
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And still almost 1% Windows XP...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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And it is remarkable than even this rump 0.87% of XP users still outnumbers Ubuntu users.
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MS: Die! Die! Why won't you die?
W7: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh...
W7: Beneath this mask there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It's the last one without OEM spyware.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Computers may not have feelings, but humans do. Test managers often have to address team conflicts and other personal issues that get in the way of bug fixing. Lie down on the couch and tell me about your bugs
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From article: Quote: engineers knew the Shuttles were doomed but were too afraid to say anything to management
This is a bald faced lie. The Thiokol engineers were extremely concerned about the O-Ring and said exactly that to management. This was communicated to NASA, which got upset. A subsequent call without engineers was held and the engineers ignored. This was the fault of management, not the engineers.
Edit: In my experience, most engineering failures are due to management deliberately and knowingly ignoring the engineers (designers and just about everyone.) When I read of data breaches, I all but guarantee that IT repeatedly sent emails which were ignored.
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Researchers at the University of Texas discovered they could determine what Zoom participants are typing in private side chats during Zoom meetings. It seems I type :shrug: a lot
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Have they done an analysis of, um, other body parts?
Quote: In a controlled setting, with specific chairs, keyboards and webcam, Jadiwala said he achieved an accuracy rate of 75 percent. However, in uncontrolled environments, accuracy dropped to only one out of every five words being correctly identified.
In other words, it doesn't actually work, but it made a headline!
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We haven't been able to talk to Voyager 2 since before the pandemic. It added, "And I'm not coming back until you sort things out."
It's respecting physical distancing
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Without being snarky, was "hello" actually sent back? What was?
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I'm assuming just an ACK:
Quote: On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March. The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) radio antenna used to talk to it has been offline for repairs and upgrades. Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the "call" and executed the commands without issue.
TTFN - Kent
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Same thing happened to me when I put the trickle charger on my winter car and after a few hours turned the key.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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It is interesting that the age of the probe is roughly the age of retro hardware that is currently popular (mostly in emulation).
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Many organisations still haven't applied security patches issued years ago, putting them at risk from common cyber attacks. But they're collector's items - they're still in the original package!
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