Posts by BristolBachelor 2200 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2009
"Using your logic, based on my sample size of 1, all posters to this forum are stupid."
Since I'm sure that you do not have access to the person you replied to, the 1 person you could test was yourself? Is your post an admission to the world? Is that why it was AC?
Where is the "sticks out tongue and blows a raspberry" icon? Nurse is it time for my meds?
Colin: "At least we're better than the Bristol plod who, according to the headlines: "Jo police turn to Facebook". "
There are probably a good deal of younger people who don't buy newspapers and don't watch much TV (there's nothing on these days!). A lot of them will use FaceFriends*, and maybe a small percentage of these leave the house occasionally, so may have seen something?
I would think it means that Bristol Police are keeping up with technology, unlike "File, what's a file?"
*FaceFriends was brought to you by the IT Crowd, and was a most excellent episode :)
I saw the headline and thought great, a nice TV like the 10" Sony LED one, but big enough to watch.
So this is an LED TV, like my Sony LCD TV is a Plasma TV because the light at the back comes from a gas plasma tube?
What will the marketers do when actual, real LED TVs become mainstream? Advertise them as REAL LED (not fake LED like we were selling last year)?
Neil, I am assuming then that 3 years ago your NAS also had 8TB of capacity, and that 3 years before that, it also had 8TB of capacity?
If not, what makes you think that your NAS will only need 8TB of capacity in 3 years time? If you need 8TB now, the chances are you shoot thousands of RAW photos, digital videos and/or have a movie collection on it. If you have any of these, then you will probably need more capacity in 3 years, no?
I could similarly say that my first notebook only had a 20MB drive; so surely all notebook drives could be flash now?
The article says Windows XP, Vista, 7 and OSX, but doesn't say anything else. Does that mean that it is only compatible with these? Does it not work with Win CE(or WinCE based media players)? What about *ix? Does it need to use special software, or does it just use SMB, and it is actually compatible with lots of stuff, and this is just a list from WD?
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I take it that these figures are only for the executions carried out on USA home soil then?
They don't include the thousands executed world-wide in their own countries because the USA found them guilty of being foreign? (Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan and who knows where else)
That was the case in older cars, but now the trend is that all the ECUs "talk" over the bus, and have to agree that they are all in the correct car; i.e. all the ECUs have to "match". You cannot just change one easily. Think about the number of ECUs (engine, gearbox, dashboard, radio, aircon, electric steering...)
Of course you can guarantee that if the proper garages can change an ECU that has "failed", then the crooks will be able to do it sometime!
There is a statement about how much data is on laptops, desktops, portable HDs, etc. How is that going to stop when you move the data from your own server room to the cloud? It won't, so the same security will apply.
As for moving your servers to someone elses datacentre, we know the costs of Gb fibres from the servers to the users routers. How much is Gb connection to the cloud? We survive at the moment with somthing like 512Mb to the web. How do we replace 10x 1Gb fibres with 512Mb and still be able to work? Especially for the CAD stations which just close if they loose the connection to the database which stores every single element of the design?
If all you have is email and a few files, or a simple transaction based DB, then OK, but if you do serious work, I think no.
In what way is it an iphone 4 copy?
Because it's flat?
It has a screen on one side?
It has a bezel?
The screen is touch sensitive?
It's black?
I'm lost. To me it looks like every other touch-screen phone for the last 2 years (except the iphone 4, which has a big crack in the glass back)
Maybe if you are doing something very intensive like gaming (maybe also using the HDMI out), then one core runs the OS library routines for helping with rendering / coding video, while the other core allows you to still tell the phone what you want to do; like shoot the zombie running at me?
I'll get me coat; it's the one with the 10 year old phone in the pocket
Already have this technology. It's a Timex Datalink 150, from mid 90's. Just hold it near your computer screen, and click "download" in MS Schedule, Outlook or the special Timex program.
Hey presto your phone numbers and important times/dates (meetings, birthdays, etc.) are downloaded to your watch using near-field communications (optically from the monitor to watch at 1200 baud)
Also includes changable alarm beeps, and one single application (you can write your own or download ones written for the Motorola^H^H^H^H^H Freescale 6805 processor)
It still works very well, although it's now on it's 3rd or 4th battery. Also I need to use a real CRT monitor to program it, but that's OK because the video playback monitor on the PC is CRT :)
The problem is that the jailbreak detection is written into the firmware for the iPod. After that firmware is released and installed, the jailbreaker jailbreaks their iPod. How do the firmware coders know what to look for to detect the jailbreak?
In the case where an ajilbroken iPod then gets a firmware update, then maybe the new firmware will have been written to know what to look for, but then what stops the jailbreaker from running a new piece of code that changes that?
As for new firmware turning a jailbroken iPod into a brick, I don't know about the US, but in the UK ISTR that there are specific laws that make it illegal to do that. Perhaps thay may be able to disable access to the iTunes store, but then that would only force the jailbreaker further from Apple's control!
1. Visa makes no money at all when you use cash. When you use NFC, they can charge a handling fee...
2. Someone has to count all that cash and take it to the bank before someone else turns up with a cucumber in a carrier bag and asks for it instead.
3. The coins keep wearing holes in the pockets of my jeans.
4. Someone might use fake cash, and the shopkeeper will be out of pocket. NFC could never be used fraudulently.
Of course cards with contacts solve all these problems too!
There was something in the press recently about a gang that raised a lot of money by making very small (maybe < $0.50?) transactions to various credit cards. Most people didn't bother to contest the charge because it's too much hastle, hence they got away with it for a long time.
Now imagine that your credit card bill lists every transaction you make for a bus ticket or newspaper, at several transactions for a few pence every day. Probably very few people would even spot what you have done, let alone complain...
I seem to remember demonstrations of reading contactless cards from a greater distance by using a much higher powered reader that could energise the card from further away?
All you need to do is transmit enough welly at the thing, which is trivial, and have a very sensitive receiver (which is harder, but where money is concerned, do-able).
It seems to me though that the problem is the same old one. The card gives up the magic number that is the 16 digit account number, and that same number can make unlimited transactions! Why is it that the rest of the world has moved on to one-time transaction codes and salted hashes / public-private keys, but the people who "look after" our money for us are still doing it the stone-aged way?
(Joke)
My ISP has just devised an excellent idea to improve cash-flow. We will have auctions for popular categories of websites. Only the top 3 biders in each category will be able to serve pages to our users.
For example, after Amazon, Borders and WHSmith have won the top 3 places, no other on-line bookstores will be available to our users. To ensure that everything is fair, the auctions will be re-run every month, and you only get to place one bid, and cannot see what your competitors have bid. The extra money will prove a nice windfall to our shareholders, and as CEO I will get a bigger yacht.
We have checked with Meredith Baker, and what we are going to do is perfectly acceptable. Get used to it.
"...the UK allowed convicted Lockerbie bomber, Ali Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, an early release from prison to return to Libya."
This is correct.
Another country would have invaded Scotland as an obvious axis of evil, and added it to the collection of other invaded countries. The government would have been changed, and new laws imposed to bring about democracy. (The first new laws would be copyright laws written by RIAA et al.)
People using a mobile phone are using the license of the company that their phone is connected to.
Wi-Fi is "license exepmt" which means that there is a general license to use the 2.4GHz band, as long as certain conditions are met (Max ERP, bandwidth used, out of band levels, etc.)
Walkie-talkies are either "license exempt" as Wi-Fi above, or use the license of the company that provides infristructure (as mobiles above), or the operator has their own license, or they are dodgy nasty ones that mean that you are breaking the law.
Now take your foot out of your mouth, and put in your hands to prevent typing any more nonsense.
¡Camarero! ¿Donde esta mi cerbeza?
But if your NAS has RAID to protect against a drive failure, which is what you get in WHS (but not by RAID), then you can't just stick the dive in a Linux box and get something off it.
With WHS, every disk has full files, and the format is NTFS. Take any drive adn stick it in almost anything and you can read the files off it!
for "technical reasons" WTF??
So how many possible telephone numbers are there, and how many internet addresses? DNS works to say where to route an address, why not use the same system for telephone numbers? You shouldn't have to route a number by only looking at the first few digits any more, you should be able to route the whole thing. Just have a single directory for number vs. routing location!
"consumers think Blu-ray did offer greater picture quality than DVD"
Isn't that because the aforementioned British Video Association helps push the notion that "Blu-ray offers greater picture quality than DVD"? (Plus companies wanting to sell new bluray players, HD TVs and more expensive DVDs but in blue cases?
So they tell people Blue ray is better, and then quote research that says people think Bluray is better. All that means is that marketing works (and maybe people are gullable)
Same here; tried an own label instead of Epson ink cartridge, and the printer had to go in the bin. Even after 100s of cleaning cycles, replacing all the carts with cleaning fluid carts, trying cleaning the head directly (using everything available in the cleanroom at work), etc.
At that point I decided that I didn't want photo quality printing at home, and bought a color laser. It just works (tm), the only maintenance is to load the paper tray every so often.
Thing is using Epson carts in an Epson printer, if it goes wrong I talk to Epson. If I use Tesco carts and it goes wrong, who can I talk to?
@AC @amehaye
Probably because the article says that the code in question seems to respond to user input and runs with KERNEL priviledges. This is a bit like the first internet worm that was so bad because everyone ran the finger deamon with root priviledges, so the worm automatically had root priviledge.
To be slightly fair to the programmers, you loose a lot of processor cycles switching between different privilage modes, part of the reason that the graphics system also moved (unless Intel has changed that).
In a perfect world, the only thing that would run with kernel privileges is the code that needs them to look after everything else; task handling. Everything else should really just run with a lower priority so it cannot crap over everything.
Hasn't anyone learned from the mess that is USB?
So the cables can only be called "high speed cable". Presumably, when they increase the link speed again, the new cables will be called "Full-speed cable", and then the next time "Ultra-speed cable" and then no-one on earth will remember if a "high-speed cable" will work with HDMI 2.5 because they cannot remember the order of the speed grades, or what HDMI x.y needs what.
Someone has already done a load of "research" on the landing habbits of buttered toast. I think that it might have even been covered by the ignoble awards (or the reg!). The research was flawed* though, and the results were wrong.
*Perhaps they used "it tastes like butter" (but doesn't fall like butter).
OK now I'm starting to believe what the misses says about remembering everything I read!
IANAL but I had experience of this from some IP legal cases...
Sending by Fax (but to the RIGHT number!) is secure, because you have a direct contract with the company that provides your telephone service. This means that the information you send remains confidential.
Using email on the other hand (even to the right individual) traverses any path through the internet to reach it's destination. You only have a contract with your ISP, and therefore the contents of the email are effectively "published" and "public". You have to use strong encryption and then argue that the use of that means that the information was not "published" and made "public."
A similar agreement works when you send things by courier too, however numerous people will tell you how easy it is for them to loose CDs :)
However, nothing is fool-proof, you just need to employ a more stupid fool.
Yeah, lots of companies funnel their income through Ireland to declare it there and pay the lower tax in Ireland. The tax is pretty much the only thing that Ireland sees. The employment is all over Europe. The money is spent all over Europe.
The companies don't want to pay more so they say don't raise it, but if Ireland raises it a bit, they will still pay it. If Ireland raises it a whole lot, then maybe they will funnel their money elsewhere, but that is better than bankrupt.
On a side note, why is it that if I did it, it would be called tax evasion or money laundering, and I would be branded a terrorist?
...that they would make the back out of glass. After all, there is no display and nothing that you need transparency for, but yet it makes the thing look awful when cracked (Just ask the guy at work with a new iPohne!) The stainless back on my iPod has taken a real beating, but a few scratches and dents aside is fine.
As for using the battery cells as the case; the outside of the cells is a pouch. In the business it's known as a coffee pack (it is exactly like the pack your ground coffee comes in). Inside the pouch are very thin layers of aluminium, copper, carbon and insulation. Very easy to pierce the insulation even without piercing the outside. Can you say iPad inferno?
I have to agree with the original post and RTS. But, from what I have seen of the US patent system, patent application ≡ patent granted. It seems that it is the courts job to decide if a patent should have been granted or not.
If this is not the case, I really have to see some of the patents that were rejected (although obviosuly not with any coffee near a keyboard!)
The only benefit I can see from not using a network's SIM is that you could have 2 (or more) virtual sims in a phone to allow it to register on more than 1 network / tarrif at a time.
In theory, this leads to more consumer choice. Tell me again why we should expect this benefit from Apple.
(Before you think I'm a MS fanboy, I have a iPod Touch and I love it, but it only does what Apple wants it to, and always will.)
They could cover up all the windows to stop drivers being distracted by those large bill boards that are put up next to roads, just to distract them to buy something. This will also stop people being distracted by attractive ladies/men.
To prevent passengers from distracting the driver, all cars must have only 1 seat.
To stop drunks getting into cars and driving, the doors must be welded shut. All drink-driving will stop overnight.
All similarly good ideas (or are they?)
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