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Droid: Origin 1950s shortening of android.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/droid

I recall reading somewhere, the reason the Arab world turned away from science was when a particular Caliph came to power and gave the order to destroy any material that wasn't mentioned in the Quran.

That's an interesting read. I recall reading about some airline communication system that used to freeze when a 32 bit counter in Windows overflowed. Would the way windows implements timer interrupts have anything to do with this.

What does the back-end run on?

Whatever happened to the distributed in distributed systems?

Just how difficult is it for text typed up on my computer to appear on your computer.

No one in their right mind uses a spreadsheet for data analysis. It just too easy to make mistakes. As in that World Bank accountant who entered '25' under the impression he was entering a percentage (0.25). The spreadsheet duly carried the calculation which was off by a factor of a hundred. Not only that, as the size of the dataset grows, so does the time necessary to complete the calculations. Sometimes the whole weekend, as I recall reading somewhere.

> If you don't regularly test your failover, chances are it will not kick in when the primary fails ..

What happens if the failover fails as well?

‘Upgraded Version of Tokyo Stock Exchange's "arrowhead" Trading System’

https://archive.is/kkuxu

@acqq: "On August 24, 2015, a 21-year-old British hacker named TriCk stepped out of .."

That story, and that's what it is, has to be put in the form of a bad movie, considering the intellectual level of the target audience.

Really Hackernews, do you have to repost this neocon BS on a respectable technology forum.

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/isis-iraq-war-islamic-st...

@megous: “.. Shenkman was sent a 180 page evidence bundle from the prosecution on the morning of his testimony ..”

No doubt this bundle was deposited in the hallway and came without an envelope, with all the pages out of order, tied up with string and certain vital files missing.

Long ago when I used to do maintenence on video consoles and pin-ball machines. The pin-ball machine was built with a standard desktop motherboard with additional circuits for the display and sound. If you wetted you finger and ran it along the tracks on the PCB, the audio circuit emitted strange avant garde sounding music. I figure it was the machine equivalent of a DMT trip :]

OH WOW: self-transforming fractal machine elves ;]

@systemvoltage: “I often wonder what if we decide to build a completely new, well thought out computing system (including network) that is totally separate from any legacy system and 100% backwards incompatible.”

Good idea, and then run legacy apps under an emulator. Each instance created and destroyed after use. That way there will be virtually no chance of malware propagating through the system.

> I think when commodity PCs became wide spread Amstrad ran out of corners to cut to get an edge and became uncompetitive.

It was when Amstrad dropped their own OS in favour of DOS that they became just another commodity PC maker. Actually first Amstrad moved to DR-DOS then MS-DOS to avoid potential compatability issues. Which I'm sure Microsoft would have eventually discovered.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011207/PX_9...

“At the sight, it is only distinguished by the screen printing of the case, where the «64» is replaced by a «72»”

I recall reading somewhere that, to give an artificial boost to the home grown market. The French introduce a law to ban the import of personal computers with less then 72kb of ram. The British got round this law by adding a small pcb to the main board, that did nothing at all. Unless it was the Spanish, funny what you mis-remember.

‘The personal data of millions of South Africans, "stolen" in one of SA's biggest data breaches earlier this year, has been discovered on the internet, despite assurances that the information had been recovered.’

Technically speaking, how do you go about recovering data stored on any amount of copies?

“Are the social sciences merely dressed up pseudoscience?”

https://www.quora.com/Are-the-social-sciences-merely-dressed...

“The point is that it takes some time to get all of these things running again after a reboot.”

I too would like my desktop restored to its last setting on reboot.

> back then we used to call it slashdotting, what do we call it now?

That was back when slashdot was a real tech site.

“How to change Direction for Hebrew/English”

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/166141/how-to-change...

The obvious solution is for Jatan to have his correspondents install a local copy of LibreOffice. There's even a Windows version.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

“I’m a science writer who uses Linux because it just functions better for me than Windows or macOS and because I’m an open source enthusiast. Given my profession, I have to frequently collaborate with people on other operating systems who almost always use either Microsoft Office or Google Docs.”

“After three years of trying, I can tell you that LibreOffice just doesn’t cut it. Either me or the other person will lose some formatting in the documents at some point. And as a document travels from one computer to another, things quickly become a mess.”

@sumtechguy: “Former WincCE 2.x/3.x dev here. I had to work in this platform for a few years due the hardware my company wanted to ship. MS really could have owned that market”

WincCE, WinCE, you cannot be serious. WinCE was produced as a response to the ‘Palm Pilot’. WinCE ran on a “Palm PC”, not to be confused with the “Palm Pilot”. Palm sued and Microsoft renamed it to "Palm-sized PC" or the ‘Palm PC’. MS really could have owned the market with the TRON real-time operating. Microsoft did joint the TRON consortium and then lobbied to have it excluded from the North American market.

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-settles-palm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/microsoftjoinst-engineforum....

@ocdtrekkie: “Pretty sure the user is wrong about what caused this dialog. It was the recent Firefox update.”

Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;]

We don't have any privacy, we gave it away in exchange for the promise of safety:

“.. the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillence coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? ..”

“.. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now High Chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent ..”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKnjxT5HRJQ

Why the problem with C++, it was designed by a committee.

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> .. as a person stands next to or beneath the panel, the body heat radiates towards the chilled panels to create a cooling sensation ..

I'm not sure that is an accurate description of the physics. Maybe the air next to the panel is cooler, accounting for the cooling sensation.

> INJX_Pure .. runs a self-crafted HTTP server web interface for its purpose ..

Don't run your ATM under Windows and connected to the Internet. I recall reading an instructional manual that required the visit of two technicians, that installed and configured a black-box that required the entry of two unique codes to be activated. Communication to the back-end being done on private leased-lines. Then they upgraded the ATMs to Windows running over the Internet :o ..

> Essentially, students lucky enough to be in private education were more likely to see their grades go up / stay the same, compared to students receiving free education seeing grades going down.

Students in “private” schools get a better quality of education than those receiving “free” education. And it isn't free, we pay for it through taxation. And over here the “private” schools are called “public”. While the public schools are called comprehensive.

“There have been two key pieces of information used to produce estimated grades: how students have been ranked in ability and how well their school or college has performed in exams in recent years.”

“there was no direct connection between an individual's prior achievement and their predicted grade.”

Who wrote this algorithm and can we see it?

“Why does it take your operating system 10 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute to boot up? Why does your word processor freeze when you save a document on the cloud? Why does your web browser take 3, 4, 10 seconds to load a web page?”

Bloat !!!