atomicbocks
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- Comment on Bumper sticker old enough to vote 4 weeks ago:
I remember the Northern Sun catalog. I got a Coexist sticker from them for my first car around the same time.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad somebody else caught this, it always irritated me and Enterprise when they insisted that it was a gravity generator and not just plating.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however 5 weeks ago:
I hate to break it to you but XP-7 only existed the way it did because Microsoft was under an injunction preventing them from bundling services with the OS. They actually intended to have Microsoft accounts (then called .Net Passports) tied to activation in XP.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 5 weeks ago:
It’s the opposite for me. I live in a place that gets fairly humid during different times of the year so cassettes don’t often make it If they were left in a car or a garage or something similar. Whereas most of the CDs that survived my teenage years still work.
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 5 weeks ago:
There was a similar incident where they found a sailor on one US Navy ship had their own Starlink terminal because they were broadcasting an SSID. At the end of the day, you can’t fix stupid.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
Seriously, stop being a troll. I’m done with this conversation. Not one time have I used the word violation.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
Believe it or not I pay attention to usernames. I was talking about the link you just posted that mentions the liability assumed by the signers of the BAA.
Maybe read it again? My job requires me to be HIPAA and FERPA certified, I am confident in my interpretation of the situation.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
The answer to your question is in the article you posted… did you even read it?
Have a great day, I’m done talking in circles.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
What?!? The entire purpose of HIPAA is to put liability on misuse of data. At this point, I have no fucking clue what your point is.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
No I can’t cite something that doesn’t exist. I literally just said there isn’t one… so I am not sure what your point is.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
I am a software developer who does custom EMR software specifically because the places I work for can’t use the cloud. But okay I will try…
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
There is no certification process in place for using a cloud to store HIPAA data. It even says that on the page that you linked. Legally, any organization that used this service would be opening themselves to further liability under HIPAA.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
This is because DevOps is the updated version of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. You have always been able to self host it because that used to be the only option.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 5 weeks ago:
They do that because there are some things that you can’t put in the cloud, like HIPAA protected data. It’s absolutely a rip off, but that was their solution.
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 1 month ago:
My laptop has 2 hard drives… it just goes up from there.
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 1 month ago:
I have that vibe, I recently had to move… now I am complaining a little. It never seems like that much until you have to pack it all.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 month ago:
IIRC the person most responsible for Liquid Glass now works at Meta.
- Comment on Sex appeal 1 month ago:
There is a reason Entertainment Weekly’s abbreviation is ‘ew’.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
IIRC the original Shuttle design called for an ejection mechanism around the entire cockpit. During STS-1 and I believe STS-2, which was also Colombia, there were extra emergency mechanisms present, but I don’t think the seats themselves ejected through the roof like a fighter pilot’s would. For the most part though these were useless as they could not be used above 30,000 feet or something like that so it could only be used during the first minute or two of the flight.
Several of the safety mechanisms and other things that were going to be part of the original design that had not already been scrapped for weight (like jet engines for powered decent) were scrapped for weight when the DOD stepped in and offered NASA extra money for the Shuttle if the Shuttle could hit very specific, higher and less fuel efficient, orbits. This came from an offhand comment that Jimmy Carter made, and then had to make good on the threats and implications of.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Fun fact: Columbia, pictured with the white tank, was the heaviest shuttle and was not modified to have the airlock necessary to dock with the ISS because the performance losses compared to the other shuttles made it difficult to use for ISS operations.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 1 month ago:
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 1 month ago:
To me this just feels like the next step of ‘shipping a game before it’s finished’.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 month ago:
Idiocracy is about what happens after the current time when smarter more level headed people are trying to put the pieces back together. We are in the prequel era, things are going to get worse before they get better.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 month ago:
Though this does vary by locale, in most places legally it’s only permanent if you have to leave it there when you move.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 month ago:
For a permanent installation, yes, just like a large solar installation. But I can go down to Lowe’s and get a gas generator capable of similar output as the balcony solar and it won’t require any permits.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 month ago:
No it isn’t. The same thing happens with the kind of gas generators you can get from your local hardware store all the time.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 month ago:
Obviously. I was just pointing out that it isn’t an issue unique to solar.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 month ago:
The same thing that currently happens when somebody does that with a gas generator? Linepersons get zapped… people get sued… etc…
There isn’t any data transmission over the wires…
That’s very wrong. Not only can you extend Ethernet in your own home using your power outlets, the power companies have been reading meters this way for decades.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 month ago:
As a penis haver who has been falsely accused of sexual assault, it’s far more common than you think.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 month ago:
This feature debuted on the Moto Atrix in 2011. There was even a version of Ubuntu that could use the feature.