anonymousisme

New Mexico was having massive flooding just a few weeks ago, but maybe not localized to Albuquerque.

Should also include the political/policy problems related to processors preventing transactions for "unpopular" product/service providers.

All of those electronic locks are garbage. Last year I bought a safe with a S&G mechanical spin-dial lock. Those are GSA approved. S&G also has electronic spin-dial locks, but they do not seem to be available as an option on consumer/commercial safes.

There are plenty of other contemporaneous sources all saying the same thing. Similar to the now dis-proven Russia-gate hoax, the DNC are the ones pushing the narrative that the leak was a Russian operation. The analysis of the time stamps on the DNC files has proven that they were not copied over a network, but copied locally.

Why does the article repeat this known-to-be-false assertion about Wikileaks?

"But WikiLeaks had also shown, quite recently, a willingness to be a mouthpiece for foreign intelligence services: in 2016, the site had released e-mails from the Democratic National Committee which had been stolen by hackers working on behalf of the Kremlin."

The DNC leak was an inside job and not a result of a "hack".

https://nypost.com/2017/08/15/new-report-claims-dnc-hack-was...

For those who don't know, here's some background on Dantzig:

"During his first year as a doctoral student at the University of California-Berkeley, Dantzig arrived late to the class of Jerzy Neyman, one of the great founders of modern statistics. On the blackboard were two problems that Dantzig assumed to be homework.

"A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework—the problems seemed harder to do than usual," Dantzig once recalled. It turned out the conundrums, which Dantzig solved, were two famous unsolved problems in statistics."

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/may25/dantzigobit-052505...

I've done this and it makes a big difference, but I still get a lot of junk from local businesses. Either those businesses are not part of the DMA, or they are ignoring the opt-out list. I'm not sure what to do about it.

This is a terrific example of the game of "telephone", but achieves the result through multiple language translations instead of multiple phrase interpretations in the same language.

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

Agree. Creating corporate sovereignty for insurance companies just re-enforces government interference in a free economy. As a result of the interference, health providers have continuously raised their prices far beyond what anybody would pay in a free market. If nobody had insurance, what do you suppose would happen to health care costs? Answer: They would adjust to what the market will bear.

Ruckus is not bad, but not great either. I've got a ICX 7150-C12P that worked fine until the PoE power supply failed just a few months out of warranty. I'm glad that I did not pay them for the "license" to use the SFP ports (which every other manufacturer just enables by default).

I do like their WAPs. I've got a couple of RS510 WAPs that do a great job, but initially they had some noticeable performance problems for almost a year until fixed by a firmware update.

I had a legitimate call from my credit union last month. They were following up on a problem I had reported with their on-line bill pay system. Toward the beginning of the call, they wanted to verify that it was me and they asked me to provide them with the 2FA code they had just texted to me. I declined and told them that this is what scammers do. They agreed with me and encouraged me to call them back at the number on my ATM card.

I thought it was really unprofessional of them to operate this way.

Ten years ago I went back to school and finished my BS. All of the instructors required us to run our work through a plagiarism checker and certify that it was our original work when turned in. The plagiarism checker was part of a suite of tools that included a grammar checker, and some instructors used the grammar checker themselves when grading student work.

I always viewed the grammar checker as a crutch and only used it when required, but some students I worked with on team projects were obsessed with getting no warnings from the grammar check. There were a few ESL students that produced almost unintelligible work that had passed grammar check, and they argued with me when I tried to help them.

My best experience was when one instructor ran my work through the grammar check and then sent me the graded paper (A) which included his long critique of the changes the grammar checker had recommended.

The film packs included the (flat) battery, and the (non-rechargeable) battery always had plenty of charge left after the film pack ran out. I salvaged those batteries and used them in many electronic projects.

Heh. I used Netcom and they did not outright ban slirp, but they did have a script running that would renice (lower the priority) of user processes once they reached a certain total cpu time (two minutes). I discovered this feature shortly after they implemented it because my slirp network performance went down. Note that I am referring to cpu time and not run time. Most processes spend most of their time waiting for something, so accumulating two minutes of cpu time under slirp usually took several hours.

My solution was to write a program (I called checkcpu) that would spawn a process (slirp) and periodically check its total cpu usage. When it hit the threshold (110 seconds), it would spawn a child and suspend the parent (seamlessly passing the current run state to the child). It worked great and they either never noticed what I was doing, or they did not care. Over time, the number of suspended parent processes would rise, but it never became a problem.

Back in the day (nearly 30 years ago) people would run a user-mode stack to obtain Internet connectivity via a (dial-up) Unix shell account. The program was "slirp" which was named after SLIP/CSLIP, but then upgraded to support PPP once that became a thing.

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

What the studies say is; "they can substantially reduce crashes that result in serious injury or death." That is not the same as a reduction in the total number of accidents. The number of accidents may actually be higher in a roundabout, but the severity is lower and they are more survivable.

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/

I live in an area with roundabouts. The frequency of collisions actually seems higher because people do not know the rules and do not yield before entering the roundabout.

Ghidra has been publicly available for less than half the time of IDA/HexRays, but it has really caught up fast.

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22676...

I know this will likely get modded down, but how is this report any more credible than all the others (for other places) that say exactly the same thing? How credible are any of these reports, if they all conflict with one another?

Citation: https://youtu.be/YUV8U3yBJ6U

Is that Elon Musk in the photo?

The ferries are still running.

Such companies may actually be in violation federal regulations. US Title 16 CFR § 700.7 covers this: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/700.7

So the manufacturer must honor the promised warranty, but they certainly have the option to offer an extended warranty at no charge provided that the consumer registers with them.

If states are complying to federal standards for ID, then it is effectively a federal ID.

"It's largely because there is no "National ID" system in the US (due to political reasons). That makes it hard for companies to track people, and the SSN is the only number that people consistently have."

"Real ID" is now a thing. It's a "National ID". https://www.dhs.gov/real-id

Love the clacky keyboards. Right now I'm typing on a Unicomp "New M" https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M

They are manufactured by the same company that made the original for IBM (in Tennessee, USA).

The Reatta was a two-seater, while the Riviera was a four-seater.

Just when you think they're harmless, you learn about this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224879785_The_moth_...

I heard stories about these from some of my unfortunate co-workers who went to Kourou for Ariane launch campaigns.

The Dell N1100 is a nice switch, but a relatively new product (<3 years old). Also, the article mentions how noisy the cooling fans can be in "enterprise" grade switches, but they are quite loud in the N series too (at least in the case of the N3048). Early this year, I got contacted by DellEMC via a voicemail message, which I initially thought was spam or phishing because they should have used the email associated with my DellEMC support account. It turned out that the voicemail was legit, and the message was that I needed to update the firmware in all of our switches (including N1100) before 7/27/2021, or they would all stop working(!) It turns out that the feature license management system had a root certificate that was due to expire, and all licensed features would cease to function if the switches were not upgraded. I spent about a day on the phone with them upgrading our switches, and (almost) everything turned out okay in the end.

Below is my survey response to their support feedback request:

1) The products should not have a built-in time-bomb that causes them to stop working after only a few years.

2) Dell should have informed us of this issue by email. Instead they left a very "phishing" like voicemail on a manager's phone. (Not the phone of the registered point-of-contract for the cluster.) Perhaps this was done to avoid leaving evidence of #1 above?

3) I spent over an hour on hold when I returned the call, and was then disconnected. After trying again (to an extension other than the one given in the message), I reached somebody who confirmed the issue. I spent another four hours on the phone resolving it.

4) Shortly after all of the above, I discovered a new issue that severely impacted the cluster. The n3048 switch would no longer auto-negotiate a 100Mbps Ethernet link. Our network watchdog device (iBoot) was continuously cycling the power on our Internet Ingress (ONT+ASA).

5) I spent even more time troubleshooting and resolving this issue (by locking the iBoot port to 100Mbps instead of leaving it on Auto).

6) I did not waste any more of my time by reporting this issue. The technician I worked with to upgrade these switches assured me that the firmware releases we used were "stable".

You're mostly right. I believe DNS has support for VoIP "phone numbers." https://www.onsip.com/voip-resources/voip-fundamentals/dns-s...

What would be different is that an individual or organization running a OpenNIC DNS would not necessarily be subject to a court order from Germany.

There's not much that can be done when governments fiddle with the root DNS servers, but methods could be developed to retain historical records, and revert to them in the event of censorship.