Posts by TeeCee

Re: Which version of reality?

For that level of detail to matter at all you'd have to assume that the remainder of the plot bore more than a passing relationship to actual events.

Fat chance there then.

Re: Can you please avoid Palinisms?

Or "refutes"......

"Refudiates" sounds like some moron starting with the one, running out of processing capacity in their laughably tiny brain, having it slip a gear and finishing with the other.

@Charles Manning

Yes, you do have the details wrong.

"AFAIK, all they did was record SSIDs broadcast by the wireless routers and geotag them."

That was indeed what they (allegedly) set out to do. As it turned out, they were having a good old slurp of any traffic around at the same time and keeping a record of it. Google reckon this was down to a coding error (allegedly).

The road to hell would appear to be paved with good intentions. Who knew?

I suppose if we're going to persist with the ongoing analogy, this is where they note each house where the shower is running, try the door handle and if it's unlocked, nip upstairs and photograph whoever's in the shower. One of those pictures may be of your daughter......

@Someone Else

Don't worry about it.

If it helps any, go and have a fag.

Re: I'll have a go...

It's still a bloody Madras in the curry house down the road. I can vouch for the fact that it is indeed capable of converting anything it contaminates into a "hot zone" and the "fallout" can be terribly unpleasant.

Mmm. I know what I'm doing later now......

@Gene Cash

Oh dear, that's a bit of a showstopper.

Finding prior art to invalidate the patent from before the Stone Age could prove tricky........

Re: Hmmm

Not a problem, just put an armoured shell on it and add weapons for defence.

I'd call it a Defensively Adept Laptop Enhanced Kinect meself.......

Re: Don't be so negative

Actually in that case, more likely a pot-metal medal with a lustrous goldtone coating.....

Re: Evil Intel Icon

I think a "stating the bleedin' obvious" one has already been suggested. Same thing.

@HFoster

I haven't got the slightest Scooby what a "Kettle of fuckery" is or might look like, but it made me laugh so hard I upvoted this one anyway.

Right icon there.

Autonomous cars are obviously made for Linux as they don't need a functioning driver.

Re: Still,

Yay, go for the *really* low-hanging fruit why don't you?

They signed my brother. His impressive qualifications for a meteoric rise to obscurity were "being in the room when they needed someone for a band". Turns out to be all you need to end up playing keyboards[1] to a hundred and some odd thousand people in Manila as part of a world tour supporting Yet Another Artificial Band With A Bigger Advertising Budget Than Them.

[1] Ok, miming to a backing tape of someone else playing keyboards to be strictly accurate.

Re: @+++atho

That LG realised that it was an incredibly fucking dumb thing to do as they wouldn't stand a cat in hell's chance of winning a suit based on; "Wah, wah wah, their toy looks a bit like our toy."?

But they don't have an addiction to frivolous patents, a hard-on for sueing world+dog using same, a team of the most rapacious legal sharks in the business on the payroll, a total ethics bypass and $40bn in cash lying around spare to be spent on chucking daft lawsuits around.......

Re: honest gov

You should be able to get those, just say you're a chicken farmer.....

Re: I think

I believe that St Steve of Cupertino is on medical leave right now.

Actually, weren't the last round of "look 'n feel" lawsuits from Apple fired off when they were jobsless? Do they really not have *anyone* else in that company who can find their own arse without using Google Streetview?

Next week: Next iPhone to ship with 2.1 speaker system, badged as the "New Tone"....

Re: Viscount

Apparently this thing started in the bar round the corner.

Now I am sure that in London there are plenty of techie types meeting up in pubs to discuss new shit. The difference is that if one of them ever suggests that they might want to move the event to a hall with a stage, video screens, dweebs spouting sheer bollocks into mics and loads of nerds going "yeah, like that's so cooool" while high-fiving, the rest look at him like he's gone mad.

Re: Missed opportunity

Er, actually I don't think it's the water vapour in the exhaust that people are talking about when they carp on about emissions.....

Re: but

Spaceframe construction. The doors (and pretty much all the bodywork panelling) are decorative when it come to crash protection. Usually designed to come away in one piece too, rather than breaking up and chucking bent bits into the passenger cell.

It's infinitely better in a crash than a stressed monocoque with extra bits (like bars in the doors). Put it this way, if yer really "safe" production car gets five Euro-NCAP stars this thing would get about eight or so[1]. Of course, to measure that we'd need a scale that actually covered what *can* be done in terms of crash safety and the mass production car industry lobbyists would never allow that to happen.

[1] Or should. I suspect that in the wacky world of the safety nazis it would get marked down for not having enough airbags or something equally as irrelevant in a properly built vehicle.

Re: Blimee...

"I think MS should be made to force an update onto PCs which works like the browser choice app, but gives a choice of antivirus."

As the Afcore maware behind this botnet has been on the target list of the MS Malicious Software Removal Tool for a year now, presumably those infected have updates turned off anyway so your cunning plan would have absolutely no impact at all.

Besides, the Security Centre in XP and up already bitches continuously if you run without A/V (unless you deliberately disable it) and one of the things it does is advise on a choice of products. Much as you suggest really.

There is no excuse bar sheer user stupidity.

Re: F*** Amateur Radio.

So, zero respect and an irrelevance for the next few millenia at least then?