Guy busted his kid's skull. Guy took weapons on base. Guy spent a year in the brig. Guy got dogs off Craigslist to shoot for target practice.
Guy was a major asshole with huge red flags over his head who should have been found and neutralized years ago. If only the Air Force had followed existing laws that would have prevented him from buying guns. But no, we need more gun control and backdoor encryption.
The phone? The fibbies knew there was a 48 hour timeout on the fingerprint thing. The fibbies knew without that they didn't stand a chance of getting into the phone (or they have a way in they don't want us to know about).
This is just the government narrative of "we have to have backdoor encryption cuz this dude".
I just don't get this shit. When I was a young'un, back in the 80's, I survived my first layoff. Why? Were we losing money? No, it was because Someone We'd Never Heard Of said we would grow 10% this year, and we only grew 9%. Bunch of fucking layabouts, lets fire 10% of those lazy ass fuckwits, none of them management, and promote 5% of them into management positions. That can only help, right?
It was in the 80s the MBA became a thing. It was also in the 80s that the Great Decline started.
That, and Facebook, are the 2 biggest memory hogs on my phone I wish I could delete because not only have I never used them, the odds of me ever using them approaches 0 as time moves toward infinity.
1) Get nekkid picture of someone
2) Load in photoshop
3) Do something so the image looks the same but has a different hash (change size by 1 pixel, change a couple pixels, etc)
4) Upload pic to Facebook
Just remembered, the video driver was embedded in the display. The baseband had it's own video driver. The fun part was eking out the best parts of all three. My job was to just ensure all 3 played together, not to make the display great.
Too much beer too early (damned Daylight Saving Time). Did you really tell me to connect a modern video controller to a 30 year old LCD? We won't mention LCDs weren't a thing in the 90s. Howzabout you connect your RS232 enabled media player to iTunes? Or that 3.5 inch parallel port backup tape deck you have laying around to your 8 GB laptop for backups?
fanboiz idiot - "the video driver plays a much more important part"... It's important, not necessarily much more tard. Go hook that much more important video driver to your lcd of the 90s that could change state about once per second in the cold.
Up until about 8 years ago my job was to get video drivers and displays working well together with various baseband chips. Did that for 4 years for a major phone maker. I kinda think I know what I'm talking about.
The display is what it is. The doohickey driving that display, now that's a different story. Typically you will get a doohickey that can drive several displays, along with some sample code of how to do stuff. The sample code is pretty basic, mostly showing off "this is our new feature, please buy lots of these please please please".
Of course Apple made the display look better. Not because of the display itself, but because of the doohickey that drives the display. The doohickey that was shipped with barely functional, um, functions.
Not saying the display can't be a differentiator, just saying the video driver plays a much more important part. After all, it's the video driver that enables/enhances the special features of the display.
Was a consultant in the 90s (Globalstar), then an employee in the '00s. Left in '08. Best company I ever consulted/worked for, by far. Few years back went sailing with a friend, who's friend's boyfriend left Texas Instruments for Qcom, relocating in the process. He didn't want to talk about his work, but said the move was his worst career move he'd ever made. Few months later, 3 couples on a sailboat. Me, my friend, owner of the sailboat and her BF, the ex-TI guy, and a guy I'd worked with in the 90s and some woman sailboat owner was trying to setup with Qcom 90s guy. Ken was his name.
I started talking to Ken about Qcom, he didn't want to talk about it. He was perfectly willing to talk about Qcom 20 years ago, but not life there now. Keep in mind this guy had been there for some 30 years, he was worth a few million, and was still working. He pretty much said that when Paul took over the culture changed overnight. The annual Christmas party, that used to be several shades past awesome? Cancelled. The summer picnics I took my 1 digit old grandkids to? cancelled. The dinners that came in at 7 PM when you were waiting for a chip to clear customs? Cancelled.
I ended up selling all my stock and cashing in my options around 7-8 years ago cuz I needed the money, but damn, that stock hasn't gone anywhere since then. Think I sold at 50 something, stock is now 62 something.
Had Uverse for years, they kept trying to charge me $140/month. Every fricken year I called them and said "Um, yeah, no bang for the buck here" and got my monthly bill down to under $100. This year? They jacked my rate to $160/month, called them a few weeks ago and the best they could offer was $140. Um, how about no. Actually, how about "fuck no, you greedy assholes".
Lost my cable TV 2 days ago, we'll see how it goes, but I'm looking into Kodi boxes and DVDs from the library. I miss the news, the Chargers went to LA last year so fuck them, this will be interesting.
What was really irritating? AT&T was sending flyers to my house advertising the same package I had at $160 for $50/month if I got directTV. But I don't have a south facing place to put an antenna, plus I like online multiplayer games where ping matters. Cox was advertising the same package for $80/month. I decided to bite the bullet and cut the cord instead of getting a new DVR/install.
Over the last 40 some odd years I've programmed in dozens of languages. Some I liked, some I was ambivalent about, some I didn't like. But the only language I learned to actually hate is Javascript. Talk about a steaming pile of shit.
And what is the legal limit for drone size? Seems to me this has to be a pretty damned heavy drone to be economically feasible, I'm guessing you need to at least refuel 2 other drones to be worthwhile, most of a drone's weight is batteries, so, a drone that weighs 3x the drones it's refueling?
Doesn't pencil out for me. Then again, Bezos could be looking ahead 10+ years when things will likely be a lot different.
The USAF has been refueling planes for decades now. Not exactly a new idea. Not sure how this patent gets approved, outside of patent approvers are government employees whose only concern is hitting pension age.
Haven't even been able to get an interview since then. I've played all the tricks like shaving off the first 20 years experience from your resume, whatever. But when it comes to "when did you get a college degree" you can't lie, cuz the college is going to give the real year.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying I interviewed and didn't get hired. I can't even get a fucking interview nowdays.
Didn't replace my tower when the PS gave up it's smoke, didn't use it much anymore. Had my last laptop 5 years. This one is 3 years old and still going strong.
The days of needing to upgrade everything every 2-3 years are long gone.
We have bureaucracies designed to fuck us over without regard to our civil rights, turning to bureaucracies designed to fuck us over financially, to "protect us".
Color me impressed. No, color me scared, cuz I see no way this is A Good Thing (TM) for me.
Fuck you. You get sued out of existence. Your CXX suite gets sued out of existence (that is, everything you have. Houses, 401ks, whatever). Your board of directors gets sued out of existence.
. Lets be honest. These hacks happen because Those In Charge can't be bothered with security. So, if their lack of attention can throw the rest of my life into the shitter, then their lives also go into the shitter.
*before* you tell someone you're going to fire them.
CSB. One morning some 20 years ago I was in the sysadmin's office talking to him when some guy popped his head in and said he couldn't log in. Sysadmin said "damn, that wasn't supposed to happen until next week".
Sure enough, next week there was a layoff and the guy who couldn't log in was one of the head reductees.
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Or my router? Nothing I can think of.
Guy busted his kid's skull. Guy took weapons on base. Guy spent a year in the brig. Guy got dogs off Craigslist to shoot for target practice.
Guy was a major asshole with huge red flags over his head who should have been found and neutralized years ago. If only the Air Force had followed existing laws that would have prevented him from buying guns. But no, we need more gun control and backdoor encryption.
The phone? The fibbies knew there was a 48 hour timeout on the fingerprint thing. The fibbies knew without that they didn't stand a chance of getting into the phone (or they have a way in they don't want us to know about).
This is just the government narrative of "we have to have backdoor encryption cuz this dude".
As a schoolkid in the 60s and 70s I remember every science class telling us if we didn't fix our ways there would be another ice age.
I just don't get this shit. When I was a young'un, back in the 80's, I survived my first layoff. Why? Were we losing money? No, it was because Someone We'd Never Heard Of said we would grow 10% this year, and we only grew 9%. Bunch of fucking layabouts, lets fire 10% of those lazy ass fuckwits, none of them management, and promote 5% of them into management positions. That can only help, right?
It was in the 80s the MBA became a thing. It was also in the 80s that the Great Decline started.
That, and Facebook, are the 2 biggest memory hogs on my phone I wish I could delete because not only have I never used them, the odds of me ever using them approaches 0 as time moves toward infinity.
1) Get nekkid picture of someone
2) Load in photoshop
3) Do something so the image looks the same but has a different hash (change size by 1 pixel, change a couple pixels, etc)
4) Upload pic to Facebook
Just remembered, the video driver was embedded in the display. The baseband had it's own video driver. The fun part was eking out the best parts of all three. My job was to just ensure all 3 played together, not to make the display great.
Too much beer too early (damned Daylight Saving Time). Did you really tell me to connect a modern video controller to a 30 year old LCD? We won't mention LCDs weren't a thing in the 90s. Howzabout you connect your RS232 enabled media player to iTunes? Or that 3.5 inch parallel port backup tape deck you have laying around to your 8 GB laptop for backups?
Fucking dumass
fanboiz idiot - "the video driver plays a much more important part"... It's important, not necessarily much more tard. Go hook that much more important video driver to your lcd of the 90s that could change state about once per second in the cold.
Up until about 8 years ago my job was to get video drivers and displays working well together with various baseband chips. Did that for 4 years for a major phone maker. I kinda think I know what I'm talking about.
The display is what it is. The doohickey driving that display, now that's a different story. Typically you will get a doohickey that can drive several displays, along with some sample code of how to do stuff. The sample code is pretty basic, mostly showing off "this is our new feature, please buy lots of these please please please".
Of course Apple made the display look better. Not because of the display itself, but because of the doohickey that drives the display. The doohickey that was shipped with barely functional, um, functions.
Not saying the display can't be a differentiator, just saying the video driver plays a much more important part. After all, it's the video driver that enables/enhances the special features of the display.
Was a consultant in the 90s (Globalstar), then an employee in the '00s. Left in '08. Best company I ever consulted/worked for, by far. Few years back went sailing with a friend, who's friend's boyfriend left Texas Instruments for Qcom, relocating in the process. He didn't want to talk about his work, but said the move was his worst career move he'd ever made. Few months later, 3 couples on a sailboat. Me, my friend, owner of the sailboat and her BF, the ex-TI guy, and a guy I'd worked with in the 90s and some woman sailboat owner was trying to setup with Qcom 90s guy. Ken was his name.
I started talking to Ken about Qcom, he didn't want to talk about it. He was perfectly willing to talk about Qcom 20 years ago, but not life there now. Keep in mind this guy had been there for some 30 years, he was worth a few million, and was still working. He pretty much said that when Paul took over the culture changed overnight. The annual Christmas party, that used to be several shades past awesome? Cancelled. The summer picnics I took my 1 digit old grandkids to? cancelled. The dinners that came in at 7 PM when you were waiting for a chip to clear customs? Cancelled.
I ended up selling all my stock and cashing in my options around 7-8 years ago cuz I needed the money, but damn, that stock hasn't gone anywhere since then. Think I sold at 50 something, stock is now 62 something.
Howzabout an electric car charging network across my apartment complex.
Had Uverse for years, they kept trying to charge me $140/month. Every fricken year I called them and said "Um, yeah, no bang for the buck here" and got my monthly bill down to under $100. This year? They jacked my rate to $160/month, called them a few weeks ago and the best they could offer was $140. Um, how about no. Actually, how about "fuck no, you greedy assholes".
Lost my cable TV 2 days ago, we'll see how it goes, but I'm looking into Kodi boxes and DVDs from the library. I miss the news, the Chargers went to LA last year so fuck them, this will be interesting.
What was really irritating? AT&T was sending flyers to my house advertising the same package I had at $160 for $50/month if I got directTV. But I don't have a south facing place to put an antenna, plus I like online multiplayer games where ping matters. Cox was advertising the same package for $80/month. I decided to bite the bullet and cut the cord instead of getting a new DVR/install.
Over the last 40 some odd years I've programmed in dozens of languages. Some I liked, some I was ambivalent about, some I didn't like. But the only language I learned to actually hate is Javascript. Talk about a steaming pile of shit.
this will be fun to watch.
Phone costs $1k. No headphone jack. No SDCC card. Phone is in Apple's walled garden. Cost to repair a fairly common failure is $259.
Remind me again why I would buy one of these things?
And what is the legal limit for drone size? Seems to me this has to be a pretty damned heavy drone to be economically feasible, I'm guessing you need to at least refuel 2 other drones to be worthwhile, most of a drone's weight is batteries, so, a drone that weighs 3x the drones it's refueling?
Doesn't pencil out for me. Then again, Bezos could be looking ahead 10+ years when things will likely be a lot different.
The USAF has been refueling planes for decades now. Not exactly a new idea. Not sure how this patent gets approved, outside of patent approvers are government employees whose only concern is hitting pension age.
A) Live in Arkansas?
B) Be 18 our younger?
Cuz I could sure use a grand right before the holidaze.
Haven't even been able to get an interview since then. I've played all the tricks like shaving off the first 20 years experience from your resume, whatever. But when it comes to "when did you get a college degree" you can't lie, cuz the college is going to give the real year.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying I interviewed and didn't get hired. I can't even get a fucking interview nowdays.
Headline kinda sez it all, even though it will never happen.
1-2 companies become memories because they got breached, Cxx's might give IT departments the resources they need to prevent breaches.
Didn't replace my tower when the PS gave up it's smoke, didn't use it much anymore. Had my last laptop 5 years. This one is 3 years old and still going strong.
The days of needing to upgrade everything every 2-3 years are long gone.
We have bureaucracies designed to fuck us over without regard to our civil rights, turning to bureaucracies designed to fuck us over financially, to "protect us".
Color me impressed. No, color me scared, cuz I see no way this is A Good Thing (TM) for me.
Fuck you. You get sued out of existence. Your CXX suite gets sued out of existence (that is, everything you have. Houses, 401ks, whatever). Your board of directors gets sued out of existence.
. Lets be honest. These hacks happen because Those In Charge can't be bothered with security. So, if their lack of attention can throw the rest of my life into the shitter, then their lives also go into the shitter.
*before* you tell someone you're going to fire them.
CSB. One morning some 20 years ago I was in the sysadmin's office talking to him when some guy popped his head in and said he couldn't log in. Sysadmin said "damn, that wasn't supposed to happen until next week".
Sure enough, next week there was a layoff and the guy who couldn't log in was one of the head reductees.
the folks in charge would be smart enough to put fake docs in places that could be hacked.
But I'm a realist. I look at the hope hand and and see a pile of smelly stuff. I look in the "smart folks" hand and see nothing.