I unlocked the bootloader on my Motorola (you just go onto their website and they will give you a code), and now every time I turn it on I get a message saying that because the bootloader is unlocked, my warranty is void. So in this case is the manufacturer lying to me?
Not that I'm bothered, it wasn't an expensive phone, and I doubt anything that goes wrong with it would fall under the warranty either, even if it hadn't run out already.
At least this is one more bit of uk media that sin't run by Rupert Murdoch.
Yes, this is one of the few times when Comcast is actually preferable to the alternative.
We don't need to spend money, we can get our teeth fixed on the NHS. It's you yanks who need to pay to get them fixed because US dental health is no better than the UK.
Mate, I've seen some Fox news and I can tell you that by international standards your "US Leftist media" is being pretty polite.
It took me a few minutes to be sure that it wasn't a piss-take on a statical news show. The amount of distortion would be flat out illegal in a lot of countries I think (as shown when they do have news from outside the US, and get it so hilariously wrong)
I'm afraid to say it's reality's well known liberal bias, raising it's head again.
"Nations keep logs of all networked computer use from every ISP for some time"
And they do that by recording the MAC address, which can be easily spoofed.
There's no way of restricting access to a network that can't be bypassed, other than by making the network so restricted as to be entirely useless. For an example, look at gaming consoles, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony try to limit network access to only approved (un-rooted) devices, that can only run approved software. Have they succeeded? Nope.
Oh, and before you say that a government would have better luck than a technology company, have a look around at large government IT projects. How many of them actually work?
"Most time when you build a tunnel for a subway all you get out of it is a big hole."
Not so much, most times when you dig a tunnel you get archaeology (as well as a hole). Eg, London, Amsterdam, Mexico City. LA etc..
It's almost harder to find a metro/subway/underground tunnel that didn't find interesting archaeology, provided that archaeologists were allowed in.
Compare and contrast to the British ship, SS City of Cairo, which was torpedoed in 1942, carrying silver coins, rather than gold.
It wasn't salvaged until three years ago (and contrary to the implication in the report, it's still being salvaged), and about $50 million has been recovered. Mind you, the City Of Cairo was about ten times deeper than this Russian ship.
Of course, that's just half the story; once you've raised the metal from the seabed, you then have to find a way to ship it to a port where it's not just going to be confiscated. In some cases companies will stash their finds back on the sea floor at a known location until they're ready to load up and sail it back to a home port. (In this case the silver was taken to Her Majesty's Receiver of Wreck in Southampton.)
Personally the side of my thumb knuckle rests on the 'back button', and the side tip of my thumb rests on the 'forward button', so I don't need to shift my grip at all to use either button. (Although on the vertical mouse I use, I often rest my thumb a little lower than the buttons)
"But as I recall if you removed a disk without unmounting it first it was easily corrupted and unusable"
Not sure who told you that, but no, unless it was trying to write as you ejected it, it was fine. Even if you did corrupt a disk, the rest of it was still readable, only the file that it had been trying to write would be damaged.
Windows isn't running any code on the USB drive, it's just trying to mount the file system (OSX does the same, some Linux distros do too). The problem is that it's possible to crash the file-system driver and crash the whole computer.
UK healthcare is "free at the point of treatment", but you're right, we do pay for it through our taxes. That said, we pay approximately half the amount that the USA does, per capita.
Of course, if you don't pay taxes, eg you're a small child, or a pensioner, or a student, or unemployed, you still get the exact same standard of healthcare in the UK. People who are self employed are also covered of course, without them having to arrange private health insurance.
I'm not sure how a country where millions of people don't have access to healthcare can call themselves 'civilised' with a straight face.
With a standard ad-blocker (others are mentioning adblock plus, but I prefer ublock) you can block all ads on Youtube, unless they're actually part of the video.
No ads before videos, no ads afterwards, no audio ads, no video ads, no banners. None.
I'm assuming it's a FREEDOM! thing, because here in the UK we don't have any laws like that, and you can just order whatever contact lenses you want.
FREEDOM! in this case being the freedom of companies to get laws passed to help their business, which I've always assume is what the yanks mean by "land of the free".
You can also type the name of commonly used documents and load them straight up.
Really handy if, for example, you have a spreadsheet that you need to update every few days. I could open LibreCalc, and go to it's recent documents list, or I can just type the first few letters of it's name and hit 'enter'
"Beer Engines which are pumps and getting rare even in the UK from my understanding"
Fortunately you've been misinformed, most pubs have at least one or two ales on tap*, and new beer engines are manufactured and sold.
* A choice of beer, a lager or a cider is the bare minimum for a self respecting pub
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Not that I'm bothered, it wasn't an expensive phone, and I doubt anything that goes wrong with it would fall under the warranty either, even if it hadn't run out already.
The Internet Archive's HQ is in an old church, and they keep (some of) their servers in the main room (eg).
At least this is one more bit of uk media that sin't run by Rupert Murdoch.
Yes, this is one of the few times when Comcast is actually preferable to the alternative.
We don't need to spend money, we can get our teeth fixed on the NHS. It's you yanks who need to pay to get them fixed because US dental health is no better than the UK.
It took me a few minutes to be sure that it wasn't a piss-take on a statical news show. The amount of distortion would be flat out illegal in a lot of countries I think (as shown when they do have news from outside the US, and get it so hilariously wrong)
I'm afraid to say it's reality's well known liberal bias, raising it's head again.
And they do that by recording the MAC address, which can be easily spoofed.
There's no way of restricting access to a network that can't be bypassed, other than by making the network so restricted as to be entirely useless. For an example, look at gaming consoles, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony try to limit network access to only approved (un-rooted) devices, that can only run approved software. Have they succeeded? Nope.
Oh, and before you say that a government would have better luck than a technology company, have a look around at large government IT projects. How many of them actually work?
More likely the OP is a troll, or someone from whatever we're calling the generation younger than millennials (Gen Z?).
It's almost harder to find a metro/subway/underground tunnel that didn't find interesting archaeology, provided that archaeologists were allowed in.
Just hope that your new subway project doesn't run into an old plague pit.
Compare and contrast to the British ship, SS City of Cairo, which was torpedoed in 1942, carrying silver coins, rather than gold.
It wasn't salvaged until three years ago (and contrary to the implication in the report, it's still being salvaged), and about $50 million has been recovered. Mind you, the City Of Cairo was about ten times deeper than this Russian ship.
Of course, that's just half the story; once you've raised the metal from the seabed, you then have to find a way to ship it to a port where it's not just going to be confiscated. In some cases companies will stash their finds back on the sea floor at a known location until they're ready to load up and sail it back to a home port. (In this case the silver was taken to Her Majesty's Receiver of Wreck in Southampton.)
Personally the side of my thumb knuckle rests on the 'back button', and the side tip of my thumb rests on the 'forward button', so I don't need to shift my grip at all to use either button. (Although on the vertical mouse I use, I often rest my thumb a little lower than the buttons)
Not sure who told you that, but no, unless it was trying to write as you ejected it, it was fine. Even if you did corrupt a disk, the rest of it was still readable, only the file that it had been trying to write would be damaged.
Windows isn't running any code on the USB drive, it's just trying to mount the file system (OSX does the same, some Linux distros do too). The problem is that it's possible to crash the file-system driver and crash the whole computer.
Mint automounts USB drives, although Mint is very much a desktop/ease-of-use focused distro.
Of course, if you don't pay taxes, eg you're a small child, or a pensioner, or a student, or unemployed, you still get the exact same standard of healthcare in the UK. People who are self employed are also covered of course, without them having to arrange private health insurance.
I'm not sure how a country where millions of people don't have access to healthcare can call themselves 'civilised' with a straight face.
With a standard ad-blocker (others are mentioning adblock plus, but I prefer ublock) you can block all ads on Youtube, unless they're actually part of the video.
No ads before videos, no ads afterwards, no audio ads, no video ads, no banners. None.
There's actually detectable changes in the brain of cabbies who've trained for The Knowledge.
Yes, but this income is being given to poor people, not the rich.
I'd heard that was a P.T. Barnum quote, but apparently not. Let's just say that it's a trump quote now.
I'm assuming it's a FREEDOM! thing, because here in the UK we don't have any laws like that, and you can just order whatever contact lenses you want.
FREEDOM! in this case being the freedom of companies to get laws passed to help their business, which I've always assume is what the yanks mean by "land of the free".
"it would make casual fakes much more difficult."
As difficult as overlaying the face of an actress onto a porn video perhaps?
Really handy if, for example, you have a spreadsheet that you need to update every few days. I could open LibreCalc, and go to it's recent documents list, or I can just type the first few letters of it's name and hit 'enter'
My go-to earworm replacer is Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds theme.
All together now! "The chances of anything coming from Mars..."
Many BIOS(/EFI) have an option to delay the harddrive spin up, so they don't all demand spin-up power from the PSU at the same time.
And now you have two problems...
Fortunately you've been misinformed, most pubs have at least one or two ales on tap*, and new beer engines are manufactured and sold.
* A choice of beer, a lager or a cider is the bare minimum for a self respecting pub