>The other renter — a woman named Erin — said her host chose to report her for damages after she unplugged a device she found inside a Houston Airbnb.
Was it acutally a camera? There have been stories of paranoid guests tearing down smoke detectors thinking they were cameras. Not every electronic gadget in a home is spying on you (Alexa/Home/etc. excepted, of course).
How long until they combine this with their "anti-revenge porn" scheme? Where you'll have to upload a new nude picture every time you log in. They'll be sure to delete them, after the admins have verified the identity of the user ("yup, they got a mole in the right place"), and checked the ownership of the photos.
(FB - this is not a suggestion, btw).
This is the sort of thinking that comes from living too long inside a bubble - with double-thick, clue-proof walls.
I'm stuck in an open plan office, and there's plenty of dialog all right. Almost none of it about actual *work*. We have lots of Sales/Marketing/Communications types right next to the small developer group. And boy, do they talk. And talk. Loudly. And about every aspect of their personal lives that we really don't care about. The managers of those group work in a different state, and couldn't care less.
Noise cancelling headphones work great on repetitive sounds, like engine noise on a bus. But human voices (especially some of these people) cut right through. Most of the development colab happens on email/im/etc anyways, so we're almost always more productive working from home.
Sort of like those "For Your Consideration..." ads the movie studios run in trade magazines before the Academy Award voting. Granted the Ig Noble awards are much more prestigious, but this seems like an attempt at building early name recognition.
Besides, my luggage has short skis instead of wheels. Much better over a variety of challenging terrain.
We had an entire data center shut down this way. Facilities *insisted* that the BRB (Big Red Button) not have any sort of shroud or cover over it. Just in case someone couldn't figure out how to get to the button in a dire emergency.
So one day, they've got a clueless photographer taking pictures of the racks. He was backing up to frame the perfect framing and... we'll, you can guess the rest.
Now, the button has a shroud that you have to reach into to hit it, and non-essential personnel are banned from the rooms. Total cost of the outage (even with the geo-redundant systems kicking in) was over $1M.
Likewise. I'd been programming in BASIC/FORTRAN/ASM,etc for several years on PDP-11s and others, but the KIM-1 was the first one that was mine. Handwrapped a 44-pin backplane for some home-built expansion cards. That little thing really taught me the value of tight, efficient code.
Initial reports on the outage list calls from wired and wireless to local and toll-free numbers (and other carriers), while long-distance (is that a thing anymore??) was unaffected. Don't know if this impacted pure data connections yet - it seems not.
Likewise. Very easy for the family to use - even preschoolers can navigate to their videos - over and over again (note to self: need to "lose" those Dora episodes....:-) Add a HDHomerun tuner and tvheadend for OTA capture feeding into Plex. And lots of disk space.
They might be hard-sector floppies, like my Northstar uses. 10-sector, single-sided with physical holes around the hub. Those things were always more expensive and hard to find than the regular soft-sector ones.
Those entities are regulated, and generally must use certified measuring devices. And there's always a theoretical appeal to a state agency if there's a dispute.
Comcast has no oversight of their usage billing, and a financial incentive to cheat a bit.
Look at it this way - from Comcast's point of view, there's no problem. One account went over, another went under by the same amount. They averaged out, and there was balance in the Force (or at least their billing system).
There's a very nice telephone museum (with lots of working switch gear) in Seattle. And another little one in the (very) rural town of Cle Elum, WA. And probably lots more scattered around the country. I suspect that these smalls town are where the old Strowgers, crossbars, and crank phones retire to. Then the townsfolk build museums around them when they finally die:-)
You don't suppose that this app has a remote photo-capture feature, do you? Maybe a few other RAT functions? That might be a motive for requiring a (female) employee to have it with them, powered on 24/7...
Azure doesn't scale. The load placed on if by redirecting the domains was probably far less than the surge that a suddenly-popular web host might encounter, yet it failed miserably.
Microsoft might not have to pay any monetary damages for the havok they caused, but they might get a hit to their pocketbooks anyway.
People looking to move their operations to the "cloud" would do well to look at this performance, and consider what might happen to *their* traffic...
This is entirely correct. I fire up to 3" shells (licensed), and those things are *heavy* for their size. They'll go right through your little drone without slowing much if at all. And they won't burst early - that requires fusing, not contact. Low bursts are due to faulty internal fuses, not hitting something. Once the shell bursts, the debris is mostly paper and maybe little bits of clay material. Probably not going to bring down a drone big enough to carry a GoPro.
Now, if you're flying a Predator over my show, we might have an issue. But that's what 6" shells are for...:-)
Sigh. I still have my 1st edition copy, slightly worn. It took 4 of us in high school to type in sections of that Star Trek game (110 baud ASR-33, acoustic coupler). But then we played it until they banned the game due to excessive paper use:-) The advent of CRT terminals a few years later was greeted like the 2nd Coming...
The book itself was banned in a number of school computer centers (well, the few schools that *had* computers at the time). Including the one at SPC, where a certain kid named Gates learned BASIC (via dial-up). I got mine from the local DEC rep, who swore me to secrecy.
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>That sole defendant, CenturyLink, Inc., is a parent holding company that has no customers, provides no service...
Got that right.... as a former customer.
>Those wizards caught at the border will be turned into newts!
Won't work - they just get better eventually....
They certainly do know where their towels are...
>The other renter — a woman named Erin — said her host chose to report her for damages after she unplugged a device she found inside a Houston Airbnb.
Was it acutally a camera? There have been stories of paranoid guests tearing down smoke detectors thinking they were cameras. Not every electronic gadget in a home is spying on you (Alexa/Home/etc. excepted, of course).
How long until they combine this with their "anti-revenge porn" scheme? Where you'll have to upload a new nude picture every time you log in. They'll be sure to delete them, after the admins have verified the identity of the user ("yup, they got a mole in the right place"), and checked the ownership of the photos.
(FB - this is not a suggestion, btw).
This is the sort of thinking that comes from living too long inside a bubble - with double-thick, clue-proof walls.
It's not done until warp is ported to it...
I'm stuck in an open plan office, and there's plenty of dialog all right. Almost none of it about actual *work*. We have lots of Sales/Marketing/Communications types right next to the small developer group. And boy, do they talk. And talk. Loudly. And about every aspect of their personal lives that we really don't care about. The managers of those group work in a different state, and couldn't care less.
Noise cancelling headphones work great on repetitive sounds, like engine noise on a bus. But human voices (especially some of these people) cut right through. Most of the development colab happens on email/im/etc anyways, so we're almost always more productive working from home.
Sort of like those "For Your Consideration..." ads the movie studios run in trade magazines before the Academy Award voting. Granted the Ig Noble awards are much more prestigious, but this seems like an attempt at building early name recognition.
Besides, my luggage has short skis instead of wheels. Much better over a variety of challenging terrain.
We had an entire data center shut down this way. Facilities *insisted* that the BRB (Big Red Button) not have any sort of shroud or cover over it. Just in case someone couldn't figure out how to get to the button in a dire emergency.
So one day, they've got a clueless photographer taking pictures of the racks. He was backing up to frame the perfect framing and... we'll, you can guess the rest.
Now, the button has a shroud that you have to reach into to hit it, and non-essential personnel are banned from the rooms. Total cost of the outage (even with the geo-redundant systems kicking in) was over $1M.
Just another day in the life of IT.
Likewise. I'd been programming in BASIC/FORTRAN/ASM,etc for several years on PDP-11s and others, but the KIM-1 was the first one that was mine. Handwrapped a 44-pin backplane for some home-built expansion cards. That little thing really taught me the value of tight, efficient code.
I still have it in the garage.
Initial reports on the outage list calls from wired and wireless to local and toll-free numbers (and other carriers), while long-distance (is that a thing anymore??) was unaffected. Don't know if this impacted pure data connections yet - it seems not.
Probably a rogue backhoe...
Likewise. Very easy for the family to use - even preschoolers can navigate to their videos - over and over again (note to self: need to "lose" those Dora episodes.... :-) Add a HDHomerun tuner and tvheadend for OTA capture feeding into Plex. And lots of disk space.
They might be hard-sector floppies, like my Northstar uses. 10-sector, single-sided with physical holes around the hub. Those things were always more expensive and hard to find than the regular soft-sector ones.
So, you're saying that some organization had the drone under Control?
That would eventually lead to Kaos.
(sorry for the obscure TV references. too much time watching as a child).
Those entities are regulated, and generally must use certified measuring devices. And there's always a theoretical appeal to a state agency if there's a dispute.
Comcast has no oversight of their usage billing, and a financial incentive to cheat a bit.
Look at it this way - from Comcast's point of view, there's no problem. One account went over, another went under by the same amount. They averaged out, and there was balance in the Force (or at least their billing system).
Now go back to your TV and stop complaining!
There's a very nice telephone museum (with lots of working switch gear) in Seattle. And another little one in the (very) rural town of Cle Elum, WA. And probably lots more scattered around the country. I suspect that these smalls town are where the old Strowgers, crossbars, and crank phones retire to. Then the townsfolk build museums around them when they finally die :-)
You don't suppose that this app has a remote photo-capture feature, do you? Maybe a few other RAT functions? That might be a motive for requiring a (female) employee to have it with them, powered on 24/7...
Just a thought...
No kidding. This game gave me a tendency towards motion sickness while looking at fast moving FPS screens that persists to this day.
Will the VR headsets come with vacuum facemasks to keep the room clean???
My favorite research paper of the year:
"Quantification of Pizza Baking Properties of Different Cheeses, and Their Correlation with Cheese Functionality,"
Maybe next year.
Yeah, but the intakes on the scooper planes keep getting plugged up with scuba divers... :-)
They obviously have a plan....
Azure doesn't scale. The load placed on if by redirecting the domains was probably far less than the surge that a suddenly-popular web host might encounter, yet it failed miserably.
Microsoft might not have to pay any monetary damages for the havok they caused, but they might get a hit to their pocketbooks anyway.
People looking to move their operations to the "cloud" would do well to look at this performance, and consider what might happen to *their* traffic...
This is entirely correct. I fire up to 3" shells (licensed), and those things are *heavy* for their size. They'll go right through your little drone without slowing much if at all. And they won't burst early - that requires fusing, not contact. Low bursts are due to faulty internal fuses, not hitting something. Once the shell bursts, the debris is mostly paper and maybe little bits of clay material. Probably not going to bring down a drone big enough to carry a GoPro.
Now, if you're flying a Predator over my show, we might have an issue. But that's what 6" shells are for...:-)
Sigh. I still have my 1st edition copy, slightly worn. It took 4 of us in high school to type in sections of that Star Trek game (110 baud ASR-33, acoustic coupler). But then we played it until they banned the game due to excessive paper use :-) The advent of CRT terminals a few years later was greeted like the 2nd Coming...
The book itself was banned in a number of school computer centers (well, the few schools that *had* computers at the time). Including the one at SPC, where a certain kid named Gates learned BASIC (via dial-up). I got mine from the local DEC rep, who swore me to secrecy.
What if there were TWO octocopters, carrying the PS4 on an HDMI cable between them?
And what exactly is the airspeed velocity of an unladen octocopter?
Aren't PS4s migratory anyways?