Posts by Andrew Moore

Eh???

A policeman who doesn't abuse his position to go after people who have done wrong to him personally???

And then have those same people fall down the station stairs 'by accident' a couple of times.

So...

Are we taking about attaching wallabies to cattle? A sort of 'Macropine/Bovine Centipede' type thing...

hmmmmm....

Jude doesn't sound like a girls name.

Anyway, good luck in wherever you end up Sarah.,

Another reason to buy any mobile but iPhone...

The ability to make and receive phone calls- and once the call is taken, the ability to finish your call when you decide, not when the POS decides the (strong for every other phone) signal is too weak.

Same with the WiFi. I was out with 3 iPhone owners and had no problem hooking to 1 of the 11 available Wifi hotspots my Vivaz picked up. The iPhones could not even find 1.

£85,000 eh?

I have one of these in my desk drawer at work...

But the downside is...

Once you've given away the keys, can you really complain once your data is hacked and mined? At least when you host your data locally you have full control over access and control. Once you give that away, the best you can hope for is than the cloud solution provider you choose will pay up on massive data breaches. Though they probably won't because they'll have that covered in their EULAs

Liam forgot to mention...

that previous Cixen included such luminaries as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchet.

My kids wouldn't use Facebook...

...it'd cut into their Club Penguin/PanFu time.

Is there...

...a black line?

My tuppence worth...

If it is true that this is just black propaganda then it's incredibly inept (so yes, it's very feasible that it's a CIA op). Given the source of the information, none of the fundies are going to buy into it, even if it is true.

What they should have done:

1. Have a low level official drop the story on a semi-respectable blogger (preferably non-US)

2. Wait for the story to go viral with all the ensuing 'what are the US military not telling us!!!' hysteria.

3. Drop a copy of an official looking inventory of said stash on Wikileaks.

In other news...

Harold and his missus Corrine did not make the Sunday Times Rich List this year- a major fall in grace considering that they were supposed billionaires 2 years ago.

Remember

"There is an old, and well trusted, IT adage that one should never, ever, underestimate the stupidity of the user."

plus, these are Apple users too...

hmmmm....

Quantify "0.07%". While it looks a small number it could be quite significant if we knew what value the percentage was of.

Food for thought...

Last time I stored a large amount of coordinates, I applied an algorithm to them to change each set by a random (but re calculable) amount- This was in order to stop people nicking the data but at the same time make those that did want to pinch it believe that it was stored unencrypted. I never thought of injecting false data (Las Vegas)- I must add that to the next version.

Dammit

First the Brigadier and now Sarah Jane. My nine year old daughter was in floods of tears when she heard the news this morning- I must admit to tearing up a little myself.

Wasn't this already done recently?

Only it was called 'Outcasts'

The irony is delicous....

"The domain peta.org appears to be currently registered with Go Daddy"

As the saying goes...

...you can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.

Hello,

I have a green piece of paper here that I have valued at $10 million but I'm happy to sell it to you for $5 million. Do we have a deal?

Anyway, with everyone else jumping on the 'deal of the day' bandwagon (O2, Vodafone and now Facebook) it will only be a matter of time before that market is glutted.

Why wasn't this fixed in the last update?

4.3 was only released last week.

Apparently...

...the Japanese Homeland Security have raised the threat level from Mothra to Rodan.

Interesting....

It looks like Japan's largest non-Godzilla-related disaster could actually create Godzilla!