Exactly this!

Just over a month ago I bought a used Lenovo T14 laptop with 32GB of memory for £299 (~ $400), which is just about two thirds of what the RAM would cost on its own — and lesser specced laptops can be had for substantially less.

Apart from my desktop, which is three years old, my laptops are five or more years old, all in tip-top condition and working brilliantly with Linux — to be honest, buying the newest laptops for Linux can be somewhat problematic unless you buy the officially Linux-supported models from Framework, Dell or Lenovo, or buy from one of the dedicated Linux laptop companies like System76 or Purism.

I have used Linux on the desktop for more than 20 years now (and Linux itself for more than 30) and I have had difficult problems now and again that took time and effort to solve — so for school use I would suggest that the school go for a specific model, get it to work as intended before buying it it in bulk. There might actually be a good business case in making deals with local companies that change their computers every three years (one of the Windows taxes), either to get the company to sponsor the old laptops to the school or sell them for a nominal sum.

Of course they didn't have the camera on ... Honestly you should know that digital video cameras weren't invented then. Sigh!

I am just wondering, at what dB level this infrasound is produced and whether it can affect hearing.

And will people in the target zone end up asphyxiated?

I guess Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet may be a deliberate bacronym from SPQR in the historical meaning, Senatus Populusque Romanus,/i>.

Then again I may be wrong.

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There is apparently nothing about what Martin Vigo did that had an impact on the police investigation or anything about what the police investigation comprised. His investigation and the police bust were totally coincidental (as stated in the submission), whereas the headline implies a causation. There is really no good reason to involve the police investigation in this at all, although that is not the Slashdot editor's fault.

The article should rightfully have a headline along the lines of "Security expert investigates how stolen phones are prepared for resale" instead.

Hm, 36,000 terabyte hard drives — I wonder how many terabyte tape cassettes it would be equivalent to???

Same for me.

I have a family/friend mail server setup with proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC where I get reports back, reports I actually look at.

The strange thing is that the only fail-reports I get are either from servers that have been spammed, i.e. the messages they received did not pass SPF (nor DKIM), or from Microsoft-run servers (outlook.com, hotmail.com and other systems that use Exchange server). Never from Google or Yahoo or any other, non-MS server.

So, Microsoft get your house in order! Do a proper check of DKIM signatures, before you mangle the headers and do check the SPF records properly, even if DNS lookups take more than 20 milliseconds!

Interesting!

Extrapolation from one person ... That is not exactly the scientific way.

Of course there are some people that react to the vaccines and we all know you are not alone, but on the other hand, you are not by far a majority. You react to that vaccine, just like there are people that react to peanuts, nuts, milk, celeriac, mustard, egg, shrimps, penicillin, and so much else, even water. Should that stop the whole world from consuming such items?

Of course not!

I wonder...

I think they lost an opportunity for another ridiculous name for the ACT: AM for Every Real or Imagined Car Act, AMERICA

And it doesn't scare you to see how easily other people are swayed by even immensely bad fakes? Remember that most of the world does not think for themselves or check facts —, much less offending pictures and videos.

This scares me no end!

I appreciate your Star Trekkiesque enthusiasm that technology is used to better the world for all. Unfortunately, history has shown it betters the world for the few, relatively. If technology should be used to better the world for everyone, don't you think John Deere, Massey Ferguson and their ilk should start using their profits making tractors for farmers in the developing countries instead of making investors rich? I know this smacks of Socialism, but if we truly want technology to benefit everyone, we cannot just let it be for the rich.

And regarding robots fighting wars, how would that go? Wars are mostly won by how many people you kill or how much infrastructure you can demolish. Since there are no soldiers for robots to kill, if both warring factions use robots, what should they kill then? The answer is: You and me ⦠and all the other civilians. Especially those that haven't the means and wherewithal to flee to a more safe region Ââ" provided such a region can be found.

This scares me even more!

I agree that surveillance is not so much getting worse by AI, but the combining ubiquitous surveillance with AI to look for, say, criminals may lead to an increase in false arrests, especially in view of the possibilities of adversarial, AI generated deep fakes that may implicate anyone in anything. Let's not go there, please.

This is scary, but maybe not quite as much as the other factors.

I very much agree with the Agile approach and the scalability, which inherently adds to the robustness of the solution if scale-out (as in your example) is used — especially if the infrastructure supports true redundancy/fail-over and they are hosted in independent data centres (or hosting providers) so simple things like a data centre fall-out does not take everything down.

That they are considered more buggy is neither due to Agile nor to the microservice architecture but rather due to the implementation not applying other methodologies like test-driven development (TDD) or something equivalent.

Well-designed microservices are normally easy to test automatically as the open, well-defined APIs make it possible to test each service completely independently of any other service and without disrupting anything running. This also means that you can easily check that a microservice does not break backward compatibility when new features are added and that a refactoring works as it must pass the same (as-complete-as-possible) test suite as the service it replaces.

What could possibly be the problem here? I mean, the service providers would obviously use this opportunity to improve their service for the well-being of all — right?

I think it is more likely that they would start to offer super-high-speed connections, say 100 Gbps, at a reasonable price and when you buy it on their short-term, non-cancelable 48 months contract, you realise that the offered speed is only available when connecting to Netflix, Speedtest and servers in North Korea. The last one just so they can claim they cover ordinary internet connections, knowing that North Korea probably doesn't have anywhere available that can handle such speeds, apart from their secret services, perhaps.

Net neutrality is a good thing to have so you know that your internet provider does not stop you from fair and equitable access to anywhere in the internet.

I am crying dry tears for the shareholders now their profit is down to only $2.1 billion.