is anyone reminded of the creepy feeling in Marathon Man where he is "rescued", driven round the block and asked some questions, and then returned to his captors; it turns out that it was all part of a plan?
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fwupd has a repository to handle firmware updates for laptops, mothgerboards, gadgets like usb dongles for a wireless mouse, basically everything that has firmware.
It requires collaboration from the maker of the hardware/software.
It's secure as can be through cryptographic keys etc.
It means you don't have to boot Windows because your gadget's firmware's newly fixed security hole/bug is only installable with the vendor-supported Windows application.
Nothing scary, keep your hat on. Fwupd comes from the Gnome side of the fence but because it's properly designed, KDE people can integrate it too.
Can anyone who works in that industry or knows the details for certain educate us: do mastercard's (amex, visa,...) records include details of WHAT was bought or just what i see on my credit card receipt (i.e. amount, date, store ID)
Bidirectional is neat and all but it's going to add significant cost and weight to the car and you only gain marginally in tight city traffic where reversing the car may be difficult and having that "crab mode" could help a bit.
If he wasn't self employed, he should have payed a higher rate of NI (for all you non-UK people: in the UK, income tax is split in a weird way into 2 pieces: i) income tax and ii) Natonal Insurance (NI). NI is not payed by pensioners, and a lower rate applies to the self-employed).
I wonder if he's due a tax bill.
IBM (actually its corporate predecessors) probably called it that when they had Hollerith's machine sorting census punch cards. Must have seemed a marvel of technology then, and it was.
One fairly useless activity (mining cryptocurrency, value to humanity in general==null, though can generate cash for an individual) displacing an even more useless one (SETI, value to humanity in general==null)
bring on the DNA-reader PAM module so I can log into my laptop by licking instead of swiping my finger. on second thoughts, maybe not a good idea because everyone can get a spit sample and log into my linux...
Not in the UK. Dominos pizzas are about the most expensive of the take away and delivery pizza companies. Their pizzas are stupid prices.
yes but only if you exclude the few places that make actual decent pizza, as opposed to the grease-soaked takeaway rubbish "pizza" you get at Domino, their imitators, or your typical ethnically-diverse takeaway that covers all the bases by offering kebaba and fried chicken as well as fish&chips, pizza, and curries.
yes i agree it works great... i wouldn't call it an ordeal, but it does mean hours of downtime. I tend to do that while I'm sleeping but for a production server it might not be OK. recent upgrades have run through completely unattended for me.
I help my father-in-law out by maintaining his Ubuntu box, that loads/installs upgrades in the running system, which means there is little downtime, but it does need more babysitting, because (even on a "pure" install with no external repositories, handcrafted config changes etc) there is the occasional halt in the upgrade process when dpkg wants to ask a question about replacing a file. That's annoying because I kick off the upgrade, come back the next morning and find it has processed 15% and then waited all night for me to type "Y".
the problem is that automatic number plate recognition systems aren't null-safe: you could crash the whole system by de-referencing a null pointer and the world would go under because, you know, Terrorists!
years ago we heard HPE (or was it still HP then) talked about betting the farm on "the machine" all full of its new memristor tech, cheap, fast, persistent, practical, egg-laying wolly milk pig kind of chips.
Now it's "DIMMs with a little battery stuck on" to handle the "persistency". Hope that's just for the demo.
Once their algorithm can parse video content, Google's AI will goof off all day everyday watching Youtube videos and never do anything productive any more.
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But so do the precious entitled white middle class kids of anti-vaxx parents who also want a free ride on herd immunity.
I'd have thunk you'd be liable to grow moobs from US beef, what with all the hormones in it.
Can I just look it up on Facebook now?
just guessing here to be honest
no wonder they got s(c)hafted witrh a name like this...
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Thanks for this. It is _the only_ insightful comment here so far.
At last. The Diamond age.
It requires collaboration from the maker of the hardware/software.
It's secure as can be through cryptographic keys etc.
It means you don't have to boot Windows because your gadget's firmware's newly fixed security hole/bug is only installable with the vendor-supported Windows application.
Nothing scary, keep your hat on. Fwupd comes from the Gnome side of the fence but because it's properly designed, KDE people can integrate it too.
thanks
...back in about 2001 when I worked with that.
Bidirectional is neat and all but it's going to add significant cost and weight to the car and you only gain marginally in tight city traffic where reversing the car may be difficult and having that "crab mode" could help a bit.
If he wasn't self employed, he should have payed a higher rate of NI (for all you non-UK people: in the UK, income tax is split in a weird way into 2 pieces: i) income tax and ii) Natonal Insurance (NI). NI is not payed by pensioners, and a lower rate applies to the self-employed). I wonder if he's due a tax bill.
I, for one, welcome our new fully-automated robotic curtain-twitching overlords.
IBM (actually its corporate predecessors) probably called it that when they had Hollerith's machine sorting census punch cards. Must have seemed a marvel of technology then, and it was.
I was thinking, why don't Apple just buy the whole DRC?
One fairly useless activity (mining cryptocurrency, value to humanity in general==null, though can generate cash for an individual) displacing an even more useless one (SETI, value to humanity in general==null)
bring on the DNA-reader PAM module so I can log into my laptop by licking instead of swiping my finger. on second thoughts, maybe not a good idea because everyone can get a spit sample and log into my linux...
or you could just edit the wikipedia article and delete all the difficult words
Oi! That Ariana Grande concert was in Manchester. Nothing will unite Mancs like the claim that "that filthy London" has better terrorists than us.
Not in the UK. Dominos pizzas are about the most expensive of the take away and delivery pizza companies. Their pizzas are stupid prices.
yes but only if you exclude the few places that make actual decent pizza, as opposed to the grease-soaked takeaway rubbish "pizza" you get at Domino, their imitators, or your typical ethnically-diverse takeaway that covers all the bases by offering kebaba and fried chicken as well as fish&chips, pizza, and curries.
yes i agree it works great... i wouldn't call it an ordeal, but it does mean hours of downtime. I tend to do that while I'm sleeping but for a production server it might not be OK. recent upgrades have run through completely unattended for me. I help my father-in-law out by maintaining his Ubuntu box, that loads/installs upgrades in the running system, which means there is little downtime, but it does need more babysitting, because (even on a "pure" install with no external repositories, handcrafted config changes etc) there is the occasional halt in the upgrade process when dpkg wants to ask a question about replacing a file. That's annoying because I kick off the upgrade, come back the next morning and find it has processed 15% and then waited all night for me to type "Y".
the problem is that automatic number plate recognition systems aren't null-safe: you could crash the whole system by de-referencing a null pointer and the world would go under because, you know, Terrorists!
Now it's "DIMMs with a little battery stuck on" to handle the "persistency". Hope that's just for the demo.
Once their algorithm can parse video content, Google's AI will goof off all day everyday watching Youtube videos and never do anything productive any more.