I became a Microsoft Insider, you know to beta test Win10, but just couldn't agree to their ToS. I know if your also a Microsoft Insider you've read the ToS; I just couldn't allow MS to access my mic, webcam or just browse my system whenever they wanted; I only went as far as downloading it.
Feh, the meat packing regulations supposedly inspired by Sinclair were created at the behest of the meat packing industry to reassure the overseas market. Actually protecting anyone wasn't the goal.
Are you familiar with Sugar? It cost twice as much to import it to the USA than any other place and this has been since the 1700's It's one reason were killing ourself with corn syrup. - came across that when it was mentioned now we can get Sugar from Cuba.
We can't afford it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... and I'm one of those that seek out Mexican Coca-Cola in ethnic groceries because they prefer the taste compared to Coca-Cola in the U.S. which is made with HFCS.
AC has no idea what hes talking about. this is a normal function of the electrical system. it worked as intended, there is no scare here.
A transformer blew, they do do that.
There were at least two other power supplies to feed the system, one being commercial, and in reality a non event. Being a nuke plant any thing out of the ordinary must be reported and scrutinized; as quoted "These events happen occasionally. They are not unheard of and the plant responded as designed," in this case the auto sprinkler system took care of it.
Wanna bet what the people working at the plant did? My guess is whenever they could went to look at it, no cares at all just curiosity.
If it's power was being utilized at the time, it was switched so fast the computers never knew; well maybe a stretch (but they are on UPS systems).
As a general rule for Nuclear plants there are three systems for each function, one goes down another takes it's place, another goes down which is providing the same function it's time for concern (dependent only upon it's function). Fukushima used the fourth option (firetrucks).
On the opposite scale I had a friend who had CD's created to make him a better him, he was using it for salesmanship. You hooked up similar wiring as shown by the article to your head then went to sleep, he ended up giving it to me, which I've never used but come across it every now and again (or I might of tossed em out with the other old and useless CD's).
Snake oil, that's going to be very profitable to Microsoft.
I was installing security systems at the time, and we serviced all of the local schools. I was there during the purge of Apple from the school system. Rooms just for the storage of out going Apple equipment (computers, printers, other peripherals) lots of rooms. Every school was the same.
Some schools were giving a single Win95 and a modem a try (not a router) to get outside access and having a heck of a go of it. Running a 6 line BBS I could of been of some use, but regulations prevented it. - interesting time.
VNC server built in to the the chipset, pulls from frame buffer of intel gfx card. Also can upload the contents of your ram over the network or 3g if you have it. Cannot be permanently disabled (can always be remotely re-enabled).
Remotely is bad but can be blocked. I like the option of viewing my Ram (or an unchanging snapshot). As an old Amiga user it can be used for the previously undo-able things, be it grab music, videos, or grabbing a key used for a program, once you become familiar with it, it's very handy.
Yes. I agree completely. Fuck Asus. I bought the Transformer Prime from them, with the shitty ass wifi and GPS reception. The only thing they would do for it was give us some crappy ass GPS dongle to attach to the damn thing. Thankfully Amazon stepped up and honored people's requests for a refund due to it being essentially defective and the manufacturer refusing to help.
My Mom purchased a laptop Aspire_V5-571-6499 (Windows OS) it won't work for her, after the refund date she tried to, she was stuck with it so gave it to me. Trying to make the battery to last longer some things weren't give the power they needed, one being the WiFi, even changing the power settings the WiFi is worthless, it worked on 1 of 3 routers I have and not reliably. My son now has it and not really all that computer literate so he'll never know (it has a land line).
ASUS is garbage now. It's a shame, because I used to always buy ASUS motherboards back in the 90s for their quality.
Not sure if you talking about a motherboard (computer) or tablet. But I've always bought ASUS (one EVGA and the last). Have a P6X58D, first batch of i7's and it's rock solid still. Have a ASUS Z97 (Sabertooth) kicking around if I find the time or need I'll install it, but this one is working just fine.
Nah. Your typical user doesn't give a shit as long as they can make phone calls and open Facebook.
Samsung S5, after switching to 5.0 I have to recharge twice a day. The usage shows the OS taking all the power. A lot of times I've found it's turned itself off as it's out of power.
Long time ago Risk Digest had an article where the latest and greatest air craft carrier failed left drifting in the water when the operating system (NT) had a divide by zero error.
Doing a global search the best I could come across was this one article.
The article describes an incident where, apparently, a test of the US Navy's new Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) failed because it unexpectedly went in reverse, destroying 'important equipment' and delaying the program by several months. The failure has been blamed on a software problem.
Given that such a device only has two possible ways to move - forwards or backwards - one wonders just how it happened. However, I'm sure that it is far more complicated than I realise.
What is most risky is the attitude of EMALS programme chief Captain Randy Mahr who says, "The things that are delaying me right now are software integration issues, which can be fine-tuned after the equipment is installed in the ship."
I think most RISKS readers will agree that on-board ship will be the worst place to finish the software. (However it will be the best place in order to claim to your paymasters that the project is complete and operational - bar a minor software glitch that may not happen again. And even if it does, it may not kill or injure anyone as long as we remember to tell everyone to stand well away from the back of the machine as well as the front.)"
a lot had to be removed due to "junk charters" ------
Back in January/. had an article: that "just 9% of Google+'s 2.2 billion users actively post public content. "We've got a grand spanking total of 24 profiles out of 7,875 whose 2015 post activity isn't YouTube comments but Google+ posts." http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I've avoided Google +, even got it removed from my account, at which point when I log into Google now I'm given the choice of which one of two accounts to log in with, both mine, both old, so one with Google +, one without. I only log into Google to post videos to Youtube then log off, POPing my Gmail, to my computer.
I have a 4 second video nobody likes, and the comments threating, yet it's seen 500K views - the demographics one gets with that kind of activity is amazing, and justifies logging in only when one must, and logging off as soon as possible.
While there are high levels of mercury there, it isn't at a level that is particular unsafe and not the reason they've yet to open it. Various other tombs had been devastated by half-ass archeology attempts several decades ago, and the Chinese don't want to mess up something so important. They've been working on some more minor tombs in the area and want to make sure that one is done right.
I agree. While the levels of Mercury are very high, they do want to do this one right and in no hurry.
You'd know him from the Terracotta warriors uncovered. The Burial site is close to being a wonder of the world and it's known where it's at. They won't dig there due to the high levels of Mercury measured at the site, a vast simulated area of water was created using Mercury in the tomb (as claimed by legends). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
All of the early civilizations of pre-Columbian America used Cinnabar (a source of Mercury) in their rituals and almost always at burial sites due to it's red color.
At the least a selling point to investors, No mention of the TPM chip. I bought my motherboards due to their lack of a TPM chip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... (it's Hardware, it's a damn chip).
Now it's almost certain your new motherboard has a TPM chip installed. It's bloody overkill, the difference (I see) between PlayReady and the TPM chips are the availability and path the keys take.
To Quote Wikipedia: "Almost any encryption-enabled application can, in theory, make use of a TPM, including: digital rights management protection and enforcement of software licenses. prevention of cheating in online games.
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Everything after Win2K was Ballmer, including both Windows Me and Windows XP.
Win7 isn't that bad, fairly good in fact. I had to install it to play Battlefield 3 (Game), but Win2K was/is my favorite Windows OS.
I became a Microsoft Insider, you know to beta test Win10, but just couldn't agree to their ToS. I know if your also a Microsoft Insider you've read the ToS; I just couldn't allow MS to access my mic, webcam or just browse my system whenever they wanted; I only went as far as downloading it.
17 years for System Software 1.0 to OS X, and 14 years of OS X. Not quite there yet.
And that's how the PC and Microsoft won the computer wars (Amiga here), Backwards compatibility.
Surface area to volume ratio found to affect rate of dissolution, details at 11.
I read the article hoping it was beyond High School basics. But nope, I wouldn't want my name on it.
Wonder who paid for this "research", as it would of been cheaper to of just read Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Feh, the meat packing regulations supposedly inspired by Sinclair were created at the behest of the meat packing industry to reassure the overseas market. Actually protecting anyone wasn't the goal.
Are you familiar with Sugar? It cost twice as much to import it to the USA than any other place and this has been since the 1700's
It's one reason were killing ourself with corn syrup. - came across that when it was mentioned now we can get Sugar from Cuba.
We can't afford it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... and I'm one of those that seek out Mexican Coca-Cola in ethnic groceries because they prefer the taste compared to Coca-Cola in the U.S. which is made with HFCS.
This being the best they could come up with, but then I don't know of all the off the wall requirements there.
Thank you /. for supporting the luddite agenda
Quite true.
AC has no idea what hes talking about. this is a normal function of the electrical system. it worked as intended, there is no scare here.
A transformer blew, they do do that.
There were at least two other power supplies to feed the system, one being commercial, and in reality a non event. Being a nuke plant any thing out of the ordinary must be reported and scrutinized; as quoted "These events happen occasionally. They are not unheard of and the plant responded as designed," in this case the auto sprinkler system took care of it.
Wanna bet what the people working at the plant did? My guess is whenever they could went to look at it, no cares at all just curiosity.
If it's power was being utilized at the time, it was switched so fast the computers never knew; well maybe a stretch (but they are on UPS systems).
As a general rule for Nuclear plants there are three systems for each function, one goes down another takes it's place, another goes down which is providing the same function it's time for concern (dependent only upon it's function). Fukushima used the fourth option (firetrucks).
On the opposite scale I had a friend who had CD's created to make him a better him, he was using it for salesmanship. You hooked up similar wiring as shown by the article to your head then went to sleep, he ended up giving it to me, which I've never used but come across it every now and again (or I might of tossed em out with the other old and useless CD's).
Snake oil, that's going to be very profitable to Microsoft.
I was installing security systems at the time, and we serviced all of the local schools. I was there during the purge of Apple from the school system. Rooms just for the storage of out going Apple equipment (computers, printers, other peripherals) lots of rooms. Every school was the same.
Some schools were giving a single Win95 and a modem a try (not a router) to get outside access and having a heck of a go of it. Running a 6 line BBS I could of been of some use, but regulations prevented it. - interesting time.
But all of the game producers would have to be on board for it to work efficiently. Which comes down to salesmanship and it's licenses cost.
Beer, or cola as the case may be.
Any smaller you have a large phone, larger a laptop, but this ASUS could change my mind; looks nice. If only it weren't a windows OS.
Intel comes with botnet: Intel AMT/Vpro/VT.
VNC server built in to the the chipset, pulls from frame buffer of intel gfx card. Also can upload the contents of your ram over the network or 3g if you have it. Cannot be permanently disabled (can always be remotely re-enabled).
Remotely is bad but can be blocked. I like the option of viewing my Ram (or an unchanging snapshot). As an old Amiga user it can be used for the previously undo-able things, be it grab music, videos, or grabbing a key used for a program, once you become familiar with it, it's very handy.
Yes. I agree completely. Fuck Asus. I bought the Transformer Prime from them, with the shitty ass wifi and GPS reception. The only thing they would do for it was give us some crappy ass GPS dongle to attach to the damn thing. Thankfully Amazon stepped up and honored people's requests for a refund due to it being essentially defective and the manufacturer refusing to help.
My Mom purchased a laptop Aspire_V5-571-6499 (Windows OS) it won't work for her, after the refund date she tried to, she was stuck with it so gave it to me. Trying to make the battery to last longer some things weren't give the power they needed, one being the WiFi, even changing the power settings the WiFi is worthless, it worked on 1 of 3 routers I have and not reliably. My son now has it and not really all that computer literate so he'll never know (it has a land line).
ASUS is garbage now. It's a shame, because I used to always buy ASUS motherboards back in the 90s for their quality.
Not sure if you talking about a motherboard (computer) or tablet. But I've always bought ASUS (one EVGA and the last). Have a P6X58D, first batch of i7's and it's rock solid still. Have a ASUS Z97 (Sabertooth) kicking around if I find the time or need I'll install it, but this one is working just fine.
Stick the subject line into a search machine and look at all of the pictures of single atoms.
I remember many many years ago of the atoms at the end of a pin.
A link to images https://www.google.com/search?...
My first impression of a coffee machine being sold at Walmart (Keurig) that only took specialized coffee pods and no others.
And I read the box, think of all those who didn't, and just grabbed a handy coffee machine as the price wasn't bad.
Nah. Your typical user doesn't give a shit as long as they can make phone calls and open Facebook.
Samsung S5, after switching to 5.0 I have to recharge twice a day. The usage shows the OS taking all the power. A lot of times I've found it's turned itself off as it's out of power.
it was just a grab http://gizmodo.com/5943266/thi... while they call it a waste of time it sure meets the needs of small devices
Long time ago Risk Digest had an article where the latest and greatest air craft carrier failed left drifting in the water when the operating system (NT) had a divide by zero error.
Doing a global search the best I could come across was this one article.
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/12/emals_backfire/)
The article describes an incident where, apparently, a test of the US Navy's
new Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) failed because it
unexpectedly went in reverse, destroying 'important equipment' and delaying
the program by several months. The failure has been blamed on a software
problem.
Given that such a device only has two possible ways to move - forwards or
backwards - one wonders just how it happened. However, I'm sure that it is
far more complicated than I realise.
What is most risky is the attitude of EMALS programme chief Captain Randy
Mahr who says, "The things that are delaying me right now are software
integration issues, which can be fine-tuned after the equipment is installed
in the ship."
I think most RISKS readers will agree that on-board ship will be the worst
place to finish the software. (However it will be the best place in order to
claim to your paymasters that the project is complete and operational - bar
a minor software glitch that may not happen again. And even if it does, it
may not kill or injure anyone as long as we remember to tell everyone to
stand well away from the back of the machine as well as the front.)"
a lot had to be removed due to "junk charters"
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So little subject space.
Back in January /. had an article: that "just 9% of Google+'s 2.2 billion users actively post public content. "We've got a grand spanking total of 24 profiles out of 7,875 whose 2015 post activity isn't YouTube comments but Google+ posts." http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I've avoided Google +, even got it removed from my account, at which point when I log into Google now I'm given the choice of which one of two accounts to log in with, both mine, both old, so one with Google +, one without. I only log into Google to post videos to Youtube then log off, POPing my Gmail, to my computer.
I have a 4 second video nobody likes, and the comments threating, yet it's seen 500K views - the demographics one gets with that kind of activity is amazing, and justifies logging in only when one must, and logging off as soon as possible.
While there are high levels of mercury there, it isn't at a level that is particular unsafe and not the reason they've yet to open it. Various other tombs had been devastated by half-ass archeology attempts several decades ago, and the Chinese don't want to mess up something so important. They've been working on some more minor tombs in the area and want to make sure that one is done right.
I agree. While the levels of Mercury are very high, they do want to do this one right and in no hurry.
You'd know him from the Terracotta warriors uncovered. The Burial site is close to being a wonder of the world and it's known where it's at. They won't dig there due to the high levels of Mercury measured at the site, a vast simulated area of water was created using Mercury in the tomb (as claimed by legends). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
All of the early civilizations of pre-Columbian America used Cinnabar (a source of Mercury) in their rituals and almost always at burial sites due to it's red color.
At the least a selling point to investors, No mention of the TPM chip. I bought my motherboards due to their lack of a TPM chip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... (it's Hardware, it's a damn chip).
Now it's almost certain your new motherboard has a TPM chip installed. It's bloody overkill, the difference (I see) between PlayReady and the TPM chips are the availability and path the keys take.
To Quote Wikipedia:
"Almost any encryption-enabled application can, in theory, make use of a TPM, including:
digital rights management
protection and enforcement of software licenses.
prevention of cheating in online games.