* Posts by P. Lee

5267 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2007

Google Chromecast: Here's why it's the most important smart TV tech ever

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Paris Hilton

>I'm going to sound old-fashioned here but if you're not going to actually watch the video why bother putting it on?

I have to agree, but that's exactly what my wife does. Runs up the video on Mythtv and sits there with her phone playing word games, listening to the video.

I don't get it... or maybe I'm to dumb to keep track of things if I can't see what's going on.

Royston cops' ANPR 'ring of steel' BREAKS LAW, snarls watchdog

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Devil

> Who's to say they aren't storing the photographs as well?

Of course we don't store them. We keep them for one day and then they are deleted. We do, however use iscsi storage at the end of a link which happens to run through GCHQ.

ARM servers to gain boost from ARM, Oracle Java partnership

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Oracle has to be there

It would be a bit embarrassing to have Dalvik on all those ARM systems, wouldn't it?

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

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How is it different to phone-network filters?

Scale. I think most people still see a phone system as something you shouldn't really regard as being general internet access. The allowances are lower and filtering is therefore possible.

The issue isn't really porn. The issue is building infrastructure capable of taking such a keen interest in your traffic. The cries of "police state" are not for filtering particular things but for building application proxies which pull apart everything you do online, examine it and then reassemble the request, injecting or removing arbitrary data and then making the request on your behalf. This is less like policing the top shelf at wh smiths and more like opening all your mail to check for and possibly modify mail orders.

For the tiny IWF KP list, people can see the reasoning and there is an assumption that the technical burden is low. Filtering the massive amount of pron online is assumed to be a massive undertaking involving huge costs. At that point, people begin to ask if the money isn't better used elsewhere; failures in the system become more apparent and motives for such a system are increasingly called into question.

I see no reason to legitimise PRISM by dressing it up a child protection.

Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE

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Re: Are you telling me...

Apple, when they were spawned, were brilliant.

The Apple ][ had 7 expansion slots - more than most PC's have today.

Apple ][ series was a really fun machine. The original Mackintosh and Lisa where awe-inspiring for those raised on 8-bit home machines and 16-bit DOS PC's.

It's the lockdown that has come since which is annoying. If I were Samsung, I'd be pouring money into the FLOSS apps which can substitute for bits of itunes and do that well on OSX. Make sure Mac users don't feel the need to default to iphone and ipads.

Maybe they could do something clever, like putting out a cheap thunderbolt disk system with their software on it. Use that to get their brand in front of cashed up Mac users.

Virtualisation extremist? Put down that cable and step away slowly

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Re: There was technology max maximise hardware usage before virtualisation

"nice" is about as good as it gets. I see no particular reason why an OS scheduler shouldn't allow resource scheduling in the same way a network bandwidth management device works.

Except... proper Unix involves expensive hardware and the OS cost is usually nominal.

MS, on the other hand has an enormous financial incentive not to give these sorts of features. Why would it want you to stop buying multiple copies of its OS to run on the same machine?

It also appears that hardware has outstripped the OS's ability to manage it or an application's ability to be tuned. Ever seen multiple VM's on the same host doing the same thing?

I'd like to see a security manifest for server applications which is updated by the OS. The application requires read-access to /lib, $APP/bin, r/w to $APP/data, HTTPS(TCP-443) access to www.callhome.com via configured proxy (proxyIP) and TCP-1521 to $DBServer. That could also be fed into a firewall rules processor to make that easier and could allow the OS to stomp on "buffer-overflow -> let's access other stuff" problems. It wouldn't work for all apps, but it would be a start.

Malware-flingers do it back-to-front : scaM snaps, spans Macs

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Angel

Re: but Macs don't get viruses

> How can this be?! Saint Steve of Jobs, preserve us!

Actually he has.

I think by default, "only install from Apple's app store" is switched on. No amount of clicking will install random stuff from the internet while that's ticked.

I couldn't install (VLC I think it was) until I had gone to "preferences" and set it to "install from anywhere," installed the software. Then I set it back to "app store" only.

Acer silences Thunderbolt

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Re: Backups

>far too pricey to be mainstream.

And herein lies the problem.

Vendors are far too intent on segmenting the market and extracting maximum revenue from cashed-up mac users. The *devices* are too expensive, forget the cables. a dual-disk sata external box should be case+price of sata 2-port card.+ a bit for thunderbolt - but with the electronics in the cable, the box should be cheap. Marking up the box by $240 isn't on.

I don't understand why laptop manufacturers don't do a full external PCIe dock, so I can hook up my quad i7 to a proper graphics card and monitor. I don't know if you can tie multiple thunderbolt ports together - a straight external PCIe would be fine. 20+ external pcie lanes seems like a a massive winner to me. Most people don't need more than integrated graphics on the move, but a high-end i7 might be more useful if I can use the system for gaming too. i7 and rubbish graphics is such a disappointment.

Why I'm sick of the new 'digital divide' between SMEs and the big boys

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I'm always curious about the desktop / server division. Does anyone have any stats on performance and failure rates for desktops in server duty? I often wonder if it isn't better to plan for failure with with some dynamic DNS and an LTM, and then skimp on the server-class hardware where the usage is low and the main thing is to have the facility, not to have massive performance.

With a decent disk subsystem, is there a great deal of difference between a hex-core i7 and a quad-core xeon? More to the point, is the benefit enough to warrant the additional cost? Does anyone have stats on how often ECC RAM saves the day? How many SMB apps need that much reliability?

That leads me on to being skeptical about VDI. More expensive hypervisors, double-licensing for desktops, and more expensive server hardware and disk hardware. Does no-one ever have a use case for piling up those old core2's in the corner and load-balancing desktop sessions across them? Has no-one done a script which sends WOL requests when the desktop farm begins to fill up and shuts machines down when they aren't used?

I work firmly in the Enterprise space, but I'm constantly confronted cost weirdness. Is a proxy really with Bluecoat's prices; Checkpoint have VPN failover... but why not just use two VPNs as they are stateless? Stop threats at the network edge... with the same AV you have to have on your desktop!

Few things dismay me more than seeing all those laptops in the office with tiny screens. Get a really cheap laptop a user can keep at home and hook up some desktops with decent screens - cheaper and more far more productive, far longer life-cycles as kit isn't being lugged to and fro.

Thoughts?

Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X

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Re: Shuttleworth

The problem with linux on the desktop is not the UI or display system, its the market share.

Linux is seen to win easily when there are large numbers. Large numbers mean enterprise deployments.... enterprise means dealing with MS controlled lockin apps - Visio and Outlook. Visio doesn't even show up on Mac's, never mind Linux.

Rather than sinking billions into his own distro, messing with Mir and Gnome3, Shuttleworth would be better off improving Kivio and Evolution. Yes, we want a nicely integrated lync replacement.

STEVE BALLMER KILLS WINDOWS

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Happy

Re: That old not-really Petronius quote comes to mind

Here, have an upvote for being snarky about commentards.

Oh, Ms Morrissette, where art thou?

Samsung Galaxy S3 explodes, turns young woman into 'burnt pig'

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Trollface

BOFH FAIL

Should have gone with Halon.

Apple: Ta for blowing £££s on apps, fanbois. Now we've set them FREE

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Re: Eh?

> Now that app is free, has it's value somehow diminished to the buyer?!?!?

Most apps have no intrinsic value.

Having said that, when I see a big sale, I think, "so, you were ripping people off when it cost x3 as much? I dislike you already!"

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Facepalm

Re: BOGOF!

Supermarkets sell consumables, apps have a longer term usage. BOGOF on cereal packets just mean you buy more, because they keep and you have a use for more than one of them.

Oh no! Did I just suggest expiring apps?

Run for your (private) lives! Facebook's creepy Graph Search is upon us

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>When you use emotionally charged terms to describe people, you lose the ability to judge the situation rationally.

That assumes a particular timescale. Perhaps the situation has already been judged and the emotional term is the judgment rendered.

This is not the same as reporting on a trial. The accusation is clearly against a totally hypothetical predator. Neither a particular plaintiff, evidence, nor motive is required in this context, as it is an example of something else - the potential for misuse of search capabilities.

US public hate Snowden - but sexpot spy Anna Chapman LOVES him

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Re: @ John Smith 19 - The main reason

Watch that "J/K."

In the US, that can get you 8 years in jail.

And that is why Snowden is quite right to run. There is a complete common-sense failure in the West.

When governments take great pains to defeat their own laws (PRISM, GITMO), why would you trust them to do the right thing? Indeed, why would the Iraqis or the Afgans or North Africans trust them? Even if governments are staying within the letter of the law, defeating the clear purpose of the law makes you untrustworthy.

When you dispense with morality and stick only to the law, there's no internal logic left in sticking to the law. There is only power and the quest for power.

Neitzsche would be proud.

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Paris Hilton

Re: Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Did you know that if you ask someone to make up a number, they will nearly always put a "7" in it?

UK.gov to drive stake through heart of big IT outsourcing deals

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Childcatcher

Re: £4m -> £45k. Impressive. Now let's see that with a *big* system.

>I'm talking £100m minimum

But what if the problem not the op/capex cost for things which are used, but rather, wastage?

Surely the point of the cloud is to do all your pre-prod work with on-demand and then scale out at capacity testing / staging time. Could it be that lots of kit ends up under-used / never used. In my experience, not knowing what you are doing leads to massive over spec'ing, so maybe pooling resources for all .gov.uk projects until they are almost prod-ready does lead to savings.

Certainly you have to plan for scaling, but maybe many projects are killed before birth and the savings come from never buying the pram and the car seat.

Brit server maker Avantek puts its back into ARM servers

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Re: Only 32-bit, WTF?

ARM is a low power cpu. It isn't really in the market for running large databases on a single chip. x86 does that (better).

ARM is cheap, low power and scales horizontally. If your problem space doesn't fit that, its probably not the right solution for you.

Rest your head against a train window, hear VOICES in your SKULL

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Trollface

Re: A Business Opportunity

> Excellent. This morning I have filed a patent application for the AdFree vibration-damping travel pillow. It'll make millions.

Hmm, I wonder where would be a good place to advertise such an invention?

AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite

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Facepalm

> Is it really wise to trust something like a spreadsheet to AMD graphics

Don't worry, most spreadsheets are project plans, contact lists and form templates. Very few calculations going on.

P. Lee

Re: OK, what does this mean in practice...

I would guess that this is in preparation for mobile/thin devices. Some APU optimisations perhaps?

For mobile, offloading ops to the number-crunching bit of the APU is likely to be a gain. It also cuts into intel's value proposition advantage in single-thread performance if low power APUs are perfectly capable.

1) Build a thin client,

2) note that it runs linux apps really well locally too.

3)...

4) Profit!

Facebook restricts ads running next to dodgy posts

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Mushroom

Re: Facebook is providing a meeting place for paedophiles

And how does it compare with the Dragon track I hear on the radio, "are you old enough for love?"

Put it to music and its all ok?

Idaho patriots tool up to battle Jihad with pork bullets

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Re: So much for respecting the religious beliefs of other people.

I>Faith is a non-starter for anyone capable of thinking for themselves.

s your disrespect for those whose beliefs don't coincide with yours deliberately ironic or something else?

It is pride, thinking more of yourself than others, which is at the root of nearly every conflict.

That problem is endemic to humanity and is demonstrably not confined to those with a belief in the supernatural. At least some religion outlines a better way, seeks to mitigate pride and offers some hope. Atheism demands nothing and offers nothing, usually resulting in hedonism and/or nihilism.

In a world without purpose or meaningful destiny, everything is irrational because there is no reason for chance. All is vanity.

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Devil

re: multifaith centre

They would need to add an NSA office and a bank...

P. Lee
Trollface

Re: Square bullets

Just showing up is usually enough to defeat the french. Firing ammo is generally not required.

Microsoft partners seriously underwhelmed by Windows 8.1

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Its just the next version

Corporates wouldn't upgrade again if it was the best UI ever - its just too expensive to do that process so soon after W7. It was never going to save the new computer market because it hasn't died, its just matured. MS doesn't want another XP - wildly successful to the point where people don't re-purchase, which is the reason for the "no license transfer between machines" bid. Without Apple's hardware model (which is now tying itself to Flash life-spans) it needs a way to piggyback revenue on someone-else's recurring sales.

For my money, there are two issues:

1) the mental context switch between desktop and metro is jarring. I want to run an additional app, but I don't go through a small widget in the corner to get to it, I press a button and all my existing work disappears and is replaced by other stuff, most of which is eye-catchingly moving but not what I want. I'm removed from my current work-flow.

2) Its obviously designed for touchscreen. Whenever I see it on a desktop, I think, "that that's the wrong interface for this device." Its obviously wrong, even if you can live with it and its functionally usable, the fact that its obviously designed for something else makes it more irritating than it needs to be. Metro should have been an option on the taskbar. A bit of xml config for the desktop would have made it all a bit dynamic and workable.

EU sets ball rolling on ominous telly spectrum review

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Re: Stop moving the TV signal

Indeed. We need to get over the lie that companies pay for the spectrum. All that money represents work that people do. Its always the people's effort which pays for such things.

That feeds through into advertising costs which feed through into product costs. We all pay.

Especially with things that are intrinsically zero-cost, such as spectrum, it should be allocated based on benefit to the people, not converted into a stealth tax.

Report: Android malware up 614% as smartphone scams go industrial

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Re: I blame Google

The author made the point that Google Play is ok. Its installing software from elsewhere that is a problem. Its the same problem on all phones, but Google are more inclined to allow you to do as you like.

For me, Google has two advantages - sync'ed email & contacts for desktop, mobile and web; and "download & save" for media. I can point it at port 80 on my home desktop/server and pull down a new ebook or mp3 without going to the study, connecting a USB cable, waiting for itunes to start (and sync), closing down iphoto. Searching for the downloaded file (assuming its been added to itunes) adding it to the sync list, click sync, wait for it to rummage through its database of stuff to do... Its just too hard and too slow.

I could also run up IMAP against a sync directory and sync to email, but that's just getting silly ;)

Maybe its just the old iphone I'm using, but my old work-provided galaxy S was far superior.

Mint 15 freshens Ubuntu's bad bits

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Facepalm

Re: Alternative to Windows?

Using NTFS on linux as something other than as a convenience while migrating?

You're doing it wrong.

The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype

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Re: used to play Quake and UT all night?

>And in fact being genuinely scared whilst playing it?

Doom + Aliens mod. =:o

Windows 8 hype has hurt PC makers and distributors - Gartner

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> your basic £250 PC/laptop/whateverbook is now powerful enough to do everything 99% of users want,

I saw around 30 ex-lease core2 desktops go for around $19-$24AUD at auction the other night.

Its getting to the point where buying a complete second-hand system is cheaper than replacing a power supply or a new case.

My next upgrades will provide x5 graphics performance and x6 cpu performance from my current setup and will still be second-hand kit.

I notice a move to core-hobbled software licensing - perhaps an acknowledgement that generic servers offer enough grunt to service major enterprises in a single box - dual boxes are mostly for DR, not capacity. I suspect this is hurting AMD in the server market.

Time to dust off that i7-3960k and put together some enterprise water-cooling :)

Microsoft: Someone gave us shot in the ARM by swallowing Surface tabs

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Re: How it came to be

More like:

MS calls ARM

MS: Want to buy some Surface RT?

ARM: (After laughing for several minutes) That's the best joke I heard today!

MS: No Seriously, we think you should buy a bunch

ARM: What makes you think we want that junk?

MS : Sure hate to send out that press announcement saying we are dropping ARM and going Intel only You can have them real cheap

ARM: But people know you aren't serious about ARM anyway - you're just doing it to try to stop iOS and Android becoming entrenched in the workplace.

MS: Go, on... we'll give you 500 for $1 each!

ARM: Well we do need some new door-stops... Its a deal!

Tech giants' offshore cash-stashing is only ever a delaying tactic

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Re: And this is where the complexity comes in..

> Estate taxes, on the other hand, what's the argument against them? That it would remove the incentive to be born into a rich family?

No, simply that people with excess wealth will sell up and move it abroad. Perhaps they will take out large joint mortgages with vast sums of life insurance. My family paid 93% last time around thanks to the Labour government before Thatcher. All the work the parents had done to help their children was taken by the government and given to strangers. The impact is that we are now all far more tax aware. Sure, the government "got their bit" out of senile old lady without the presence of mind to plan well, but it was a one-off. It will never happen again. Inter-generational tax planning is now firmly on the family agenda. If nothing else, you leave your income in the company for the next generation to extract as required. Its all taxed as normal, but at income rates, not death duty rates.

I think you'll find that money is more mobile than legal jurisdictions. Also, corporates tend to have work facilities which are abusable. For example, Mr Gates could easily suggest arrange a business meeting in Monte Carlo just when the Grand Prix is on. Oh and I think the use of the corporate jet is appropriate.

2012: second costliest year for weather and climate-related disasters

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Headmaster

Re: Inflation?

The issue is how the paper is used. What conclusions do the people who write the headlines want us to draw?

It could be something as simple as using bad news to sell papers - shock value.

It could be to measure to cost to the insurance industry (assuming some link between damage and cost).

It could be to note some change in short-term climate (an increase in disaster frequency) but that isn't related to the cost.

It could be to note an increase in the intensity of disasters (faster winds, higher/more waves) but that isn't necessarily related to cost either.

It could be to point out dumb decisions (rebuilt bigger more expensive homes with the last lot of insurance money in the same flood-prone area).

It could be to show the loss of resources - crops damaged etc. In which case acreage destroyed would be a better indicator.

The point is that money is generally a pretty rubbish indicator of what is going on and when it is used, it is probably a good idea to be suspicious of the motives (of the reporter, if not the researcher) behind it and read the paper in detail to see what is really being measured.

I certainly get the impression that lots of research is designed to be misused in order to keep the funding flowing. Politicians don't care whether they are accurately understanding and acting on scientific research, all they care about is that they can create a usable soundbite package which news publishers can easily use and which furthers their own interests.

Tesla unveils battery-swapping tech for fast car charging

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Does the Government really want to help the environment?

Pop in some tram wires above the roads in the city and let electric cars use them for free.

If you start in London, someone from the City should be fully charged by the time they hit the M4...

Michael Dell: 'Cash in your shares, we are in a mess'

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Paris Hilton

Re: Shakiness of Dell

The Shakiness of Dell just pushes the value of the shares down and makes more money for Mr Dell when the upturn comes.

Or did I misunderstand the "give me your shares for less" pitch?

PC makers REALLY need Windows 8.1 to walk on water - but guess what?

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Unhappy

PC makers don't need a new OS

They need new/better hardware features.

An always-on disk/media server built into a desktop for example. Modular cases with external PCIe links. Aggregated GigE links for PXE booting.

The problem is that the big companies are focused on supply-chain integration and tax efficiencies, not products.

My guess is that IP law is preventing competition as all innovation will be subject to years of lawsuits, even if it is new and exciting. Add to that the fact that manufacturers have thin margins and are thus dependent on continuing to please the big customers and you effectively kill your next generation of startups - anything not spun off from and protected by an existing company.

Economic downturns (mostly caused by dodgy and irresponsible finance) don't help either.

Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!

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Re: if it aint broke....

> A well understood, rock solid, stable industrial control system...

Indeed. Few people think of upgrading the control system for their washing machine, why would you risk an "upgrade" (are you going to get more features added to your nuclear reaction?) when there is so much to lose?

NSA whistleblower to tech firms, Obama: 'Grow a pair!'

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Re: 15 minutes...

This is not about the man. My understanding is that spying on Americans is the job of the FBI (a slightly more transparent and accountable organisation) and not allowed for the NSA.

The story is about the NSA ignoring or working around this restriction to the point where the intent of the prohibition is completely undermined. The prohibition is to limit government intrusion.

It would be like Google routing all data in loop through Canada so that the US government can read everything as it crosses the borders.

Its one thing to know something happens. Its quite another to have evidence which names names.

REVEALED: The gizmo leaker Snowden used to smuggle out NSA files

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Re: “Systems administrators.." "..low level, typically have the highest access to systems and data"

The easiest way is to encrypt all media file systems. The USB file system is then useless when plugged into a different computer. That's easier to do than squeeze glue into all the usb ports.

The key logger is probably not helpful. It wold be easy to cut and paste text from other sources into something which is executed by an interpreter - e.g. a perl script to open two network ports on the local machine and then pass data between them and out to a file.

I have to agree with earlier posts - files with secret things should not be decryptable by admins with access to those file systems.

Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7

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Facepalm

> So the guy sold the project ... then went screaming that his project wasn't free anymore

> So you think the Oracle bought a company pushing GPL'ed code and then have a right to complain about forks?

Oracle know exactly what they were doing. They destroyed the product underneath the MySQL name to reduce the profile of a well-known free product which was in competition (in a small way) with their profit-making system.

Oracle stripped down the core functionality that you would expect in a db and put the functionality into a separate non-GPL product, rendering the core product free but useless.

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Happy

Re: PostgreSQL

> It lacked the most fundamental database capabilities, and the real important stuff like RI.

It depends what you want it for. Perhaps RI isn't important because its used as a content cache. There are some places where speed and low resource requirements are more important than accuracy. UDP, JPG and MPEG4 don't fail as protocols because they are lossy.

Just don't use it for your finance database!

MPs demand UK rates revamp after Google's 'extraordinary tax mismatch'

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FAIL

Re: Double standards

What gets me is that the HMRC is quite open about its own double standards.

"Employment law and tax law are not related." Employee A is deemed to be working for Company B when it comes to Employee A's tax, but not when it comes to Company B's tax or employment benefit obligations.

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

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Windows

Re: Huh?

> What's this, zombie rush? SCO went down years ago, how the hell can this lawsuit even happen?

Like zombies, corporations and intellectual property are (legal) fiction. Just like in films, they can always come back, a little more mutilated and even more scary.

Review: Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock

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Re: Thunderbolt be a solution...

It wasn't really intended to be used to attach a single external disk, like USB; it is a cable to allow you to use an Apple screen as a docking station. Plugging in one or two 2.5" 5400RPM disks isn't really what a 10G link is for - use the USB3 on the MBA for that.

True, Apple should not have removed the 1G ethernet but mostly Wireless N is fine and ac is arriving. That just leaves multiple screens. My main issue is that I'd have liked to be able to plug multiple dp screens into an MBA. Its a major flaw as far as I'm concerned. Multiple 27" screens don't always fit on the desk and Apple's 27" screens are a little pricey- its a deal breaker as far as I'm concerned.

Apple: iOS7 dayglo Barbie makeover is UNFINISHED - report

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Re: pre-release software may not be final version

> Apple normally pay great heed to the old adage "Never explain, never apologise".

They've just forgotten to, "never let anyone see what you're doing until its done."

Surprise! Intel smartphone trounces ARM in power trials

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Wrong measurement?

We already know atom beats arm when it comes to work/watt. The issue is watts/idle.

Actually, it isn't even that - price makes a big difference, as does controlling your own corporate destiny. If everyone does ARM, everyone has a chance to tweak things for competitive advantage or a different market slant. If everyone takes a single model CPU, things get very boring very quickly.

What do you mean WHY is Sony PS4 so pricey in Oz?

P. Lee

Re: "they probably won't have a real debate about selling more at the correct price"

I'm not sure that you can say its logical to suggest that there is "no correct price" and then suggest that selling at the same price everywhere is "unfair" to poor people.

The point is that companies have to operate within the law. It would be quite easy to fix the problem. You just make companies honour transferable warranties on kit bought anywhere and don't give governmental protection to official vendor channels.

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FAIL

Re: Not just Australia

The warranty issue is a major red-herring.

Seriously, how many consoles fail in the second year?

If it were a lot, the manufacturers would deserve a good beating. My Core2 has lasted for years with a very hot graphics card inside in a room which hits 38C regularly in summer. If consoles, which normally sit under the telly in the most temperature-controlled room of the house can't last that long then there is something wrong with QC.

I simply don't believe it.