dingaling

What a marvellously ironic name for someone dealing with a recalcitrant robot.

> but why should PDFs have encryption built-in to the file format?

Because very few 'end user' people know how to use en/decryption. So it's much easier to send them a familiar file and say 'enter this password' than to have them searching the web to work out which arguments to pass to openssl. In a command line? What's that?

I received an AES-encrypted file recently but neither gnupg nor openssl could determine what mode and keysettings the sender had used, so it was just a useless lump of data. Very secure though...

The only hindrance for him was that Ford still held an automotive category trademark for Model E, hence Tesla had to go with Model 3.

Because if a device can't connect, it will often have logic to try to find other routes e.g. open WiFi nets

It would be tricky to implement, but a network tarpit that responds on TCP as if outgoing packets are being accepted and routed might be useful.

> It's not 100% perfect, but it helps reduce scams.

We don't know that, as it's not even live yet.

In fact it might even open a whole new market for 'unlock scammers' who do the initial groundwork and then sell their vulnerable mark to the next scammer.

"And we stopped. IMHO, that ranks right up there with the Montreal Protocol ..."

We stopped because the major nuclear powers had accumulated sufficient data to enable high-fidelity computer modelling of future warheads.

It wasn't just, or perhaps even wholly, driven by environmental empathy, it was an attempt at was pulling the ladder up behind the the major powers. There are eight non-signatories and seventeen non-ratifiers of the treaty, the majority of whom already being proliferation risks.

Your stats are also arbitrary, there have been sixteen nuclear tests since the Treaty opened for signature in _1996_. Setting the cutoff to 1998 deliberately excludes Indian and Pakistani tests.

People are trading the future of personal computing just so they can run a banking app and justify it with "but I want my phone to be locked down for security." Not even sleepwalking into corporate-controlled-computing, but actively promoting it.

10, 15 years from now the ability to run your own code will be a distant memory unless you constantly subscribe to an annual Developer Account with BigCorp. Oh no, you've coded something that violates the ToS; account terminated.

> Check out a book

Not many of those left in my local libraries. They downsized to popular fiction and a rack of magazines to introduce more sofas and space for charity cake stalls. And "mindful colouring-in" if you're around for the 4.5 days of the week that they're open.

Libraries threw away the one thing that made them unique, curated knowledge, in order to compete with Starbucks as a "third space".

> Will not apply if updates are blocked

This will not arrive through Android updates but through Google Play Services.

You can try to block Play Services using DNS trickery, but it's like whackamole. The only way to be guaranteed safe from this update is to run a ROM without Google services installed.

> So as long as it's reimbursed they might be fine.

Say you found a debit card on the ground, reset the PIN by using the owner's credentials that you found online, and used it to make purchases until the bank froze the card.

Would that be a 'human malfunction' resovable by repaying?

The problem is we cannot distinguish cause from effect.

Maybe people are watching porn because they can't get the real deal?

Many marriages succumb to 'dead bedrooms' and many young people feel that they cannot compete in the modern dating game, which is essentially Top Trumps for Humans.

No, he bought it because he was contractually obliged to do so even after he tried to wriggle out of it.

I mean this isn't even ancient history, it only happened in 2022. He sent three termination notifications before it was determined that he had no grounds to refuse to buy.

" It's unusable in almost every situation on the road"

Yet it's a useful, comparable, measure for acceleration and is frequently exercised on track. If you had an AMG and haven't taken it for at least one track day then I question why you bought it. Image?

Maybe 30-70 would be more useful for determining overtaking capability, but that would require everyone in the motoring industry to agree to change at the same time.