Posts by BristolBachelor

The buck stops here

"Hackett promised the ICO he would make sure encryption was used on all mobile and portable devices, that ..."

...he would personally pay a huge fine from his own wages ??

After all, his huge wages are because of the responsibility he has, and in this he has failed. 30 years ago it may have been excusable that he didn't know about the risks of data loss, but after so many articles even in the normal press, there is no excuse.

People that are in these positions of responsibility, earning top money should personally pay for the mistakes in management made below them. In this way, they will have a better incentive to do their job properly. (carrot AND stick)

That would certainly hinder Torrenters.

Yeah, like CSS on DVDs has hindered torrenters.

Like the DRM on cable TV has stopped people watching without paying.

Like the DRM on BlueRay has hindered torrenters.

Like the scrambling on Sky stopped people watching without paying.

You want to send someone the encrypted feed. You want to give them a box that decrypts it. You want to let them see it decrypted. B U T You think it will stay encrypted? W T F !!!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Pull the other one.

Better idea

Uninstall shockwave & flash from all websites.

Uninstall shockwave & flash from all computers.

Live in peace and harmony :)

Fails at first hurdle - being a monitor

Apart from the comments about the number of vertical pixels, the quality of the displayed picture is very important.

Looking at the photographs, you may only be able to see what is displayed on half of the monitor, because the other half looks like a mirror - AGAIN!!!

And I haven't tried this one, but I've seen it's brother. In Excel (hardly a program requiring a large colour gamet!), the same colour box placed at the top and bottom of a diagram on page actually looked like it used two adjacent colours in the Excel colour choice, instead of the same colour!

Fingerprints will only add to the woes. People know around here that they may loose their fingers if they make contact with my screen :)

Black holes?

But the question is:

Did the floor buldge, or did it remain flat in a space-time continuum that buldged?

<coat> the ski jacket </coat>

Blue-ray playback

It's maybe a bit harsh to lay the blame for this at Microsoft's door (except that they are in bed with the film industry on this).

BlueRay has a built-in technology to prevent you from actually seeing the film. If it was a good film, you might even remember some of it, and that would be a violation of the film industries desires.

You get all sorts of trouble in WinXP, Vista etc., and also with normal stand-alone players and TVs. Just putting a Blue-Ray disc in a Blue-Ray player, connected to a HD display does not get you what you want, unless the moon is in the correct alignment and a butterfly flaps it's wings 100m away!

However I can suggest using Slysoft which will allow you to not only watch the film, but at lower CPU load and with less likelyhood of jitter.

UK E-commerce law?

"Inserting the phrase "Dalai Lama" into the site search engine will turn up plenty of links to films and other material in respect of a charatcer deemed separatist and dangerous by the Chinese government."

How is this different to the UK (or USA?) Anyone can be claimed to be linked to 'terrorism' (Icelandic banks, photographers, tall person in Chatham?) and their webpages forced off the net.

However the term 'terrorist' in the west now seems to encompass anyone with views differing from the controlling party.

Decoding CSS is illegal?

So if decoding CSS is illegal under the DMCA, why are there no injunctions against the sale of DVD players? I think that they should ban the sale of all DVD players and watch DVD sales drop through the floor. Perhaps the sale of DVDs should also be made illegal, because they are an incitement to break the law (because decoding the CSS to watch it seems to be illegal under the DMCA).

The fact that the CSS **HAS** to be decoded to get to the content which you are legally entitled to (in other words to watch it), means that IMHO there has been some nimble footwork with the DMCA. My DVD player constantly decodes the CSS and then stores a copy in a buffer (it's how I manage to watch it).

When this is then sent over HDMI, the decoded CSS can then be re-encrypted so that the HDMI signal is safe from prying eyes. How is this different to what Real was doing?

While I'm not keen on REAL's software (because it tends to be bloaty and decide to take over my entire PC and become the default player / downloader for all file types) I think on the surface, this is unfair to them.

iPhone vulnerable?

I don't believe it. The commentards here told me so. The iPhone is only vulnerable if you have uncrippled it (for example to use bluetooth or run a different music app).

Forcing users to only run apps from Apple's store makes the phone invincible.

Tape / Video / Internet is killing music

Yawn - Heard it all before.

"Home taping is killing music"

"Video killed the radio star" (like how I fitted that in? no - I'll get me coat)

"Video is killing movies"

"Internet is killing music"

To be honest, the heydays of music have passed because you know what, the kids have more to do now. They don't sit in their bedrooms listening to 7" all day anymore; they spend thier hours killing people in drive-by shootings on their PS3/Xbox, or taming ponies on their Wii.

I have to ask; how much poorer would society REALLY be if there were no record conglomerates, nobody recorded music for the masses, and maybe even if there were no more films? Yeah, I can see why this is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than the energy crisis, global warming, people being afraid of what a group of kids will do to them if they ask them to stop smashing up a car, research into diseases that kill thousands...

(for the record, I'm not a freetard, just a free thinker)

A solution to make them happy?

Just tell them that had the deal not gone through, the company would have folded. Give them the money they would've got for their stock at the time, and tell them to FK off.

I remember the deal at the time (it was called project YT internally), and was quite important. It also helped out some of the work that was done for MOD and RAF projects.

The thing with doing business with other countries / cultures is that you have to respect their ways. If you don't want to, then you can't do business with them. (unless you actually invade Eqypt/Afganistan/Iraq/... and insert your own puppet government to get their oil)

Sale of goods act?

Not fit for the purpose for which it was bought....

He aoviously has something to hide

Otherwise he'd have nothing to fear about using his ID card to travel in Europe?

Cost of polution

I've got a simple question for you, but it is not simple for me to work out.

The article says about the "cost of polution" and puts a currency value to it. What this value is, and how it is worked out is beyond the article, and I'm OK with that, but for there to be any cost, someone must have worked out where that cost needs to be spent to offset the polution (e.g. the cost to plant enough trees to counter the 1 tonne of CO2).

The "tax the poluter the cost of the polution" idea will only work if that tax is paid to whoever the cost is imposed on (e.g. tree planter). If the tax is just used to boost governments spending on CCTV or ministry of love databases, IT WILL NOT WORK.

If you take money to pay for the polution, it must be used to pay for the polution.

Who do I write to with my suggestion?

Fail for another reason

It will be like the tamagochi phase*1 and asbo certificates*2.

There will be competitions to get the highest score. The iPhone crowd will drink more.

*1 How fast can you kill a tamagochi?

*2 How many Asbo certificates can you get?

*3 If I don't spell tamagochi right, it's because I don't care (now where's my cerbeza?)

20Mp cameras and 1G pixel displays...

To be honest what will be the point of a 20MP sensor in a camera? If the phone is not the size of a real house brick, the pixels on the sensor would be so small that the noise would be higher than the image, and the resolution of the lens would be 10x less than the resolution of the sensor.

Apple fanbois look away now though:

So no use in an apple phone, since it could process pixels from a camera equivalent to 20 times the resolution of the lens used, and could proces pixels equivalent to about 50 iPhone displays!!

No UPnP = FAIL

Hello Logitech are you listening?

Everyone else has realised that UPnP has grown up. Even MS has realised that they need to support the standard rather than go their own way, and my Sony TV as well.

OK so Apple haven't, but after 5 seconds on the app store you can have a free UPnP player on the iPod touch too.

If I bought this it would almost be the only gadget I have that doesn't play media from my NAS. Sure I could plug my iPod into it, but then I might as well just use some powered speakers.

FAIL

Actual picture quality

I can't receive it, but am interested: Will the quality be able to match analogue TV?

Normal freeview is compressed so much that all I can see is a mosaic of pixels 1/2" square when there is fast action or scene change on the screen on any channel that isn't BBC1.

*1 Sorry, don't know what 1/2" is in std. reg. units.

*2 Yes, this is with full signal stength and no errors.

What the fsck ??

To look at an on-screen representation of a piece of paper, you now need an over-bloated slow program with holes the size of the US budget defecit?

I vote to ditch PDF and replace it with "e-paper". The files will be small because they only contain enough to render what would've been on the paper. The program to render will be small because all it does is display the static content contained in the "e-paper" files.

Hell the files could even use a standard description language, like postscript...

It's freezing outside, I'll get me coat

STOP !!!!

The bank robbers have made it out of the bank.

There is just one un-armed policeman out on the street and they have a clear run to the getaway car, but one of the robbers decides to shoot the copper anyway. The other sees and shouts:

"STOP!"

The screen goes blank.

A windows icon apears in the middle of the screen.

Natal had decided that you didn´t want to watch the film anymore.

What DLNA things does it do?

Unfortunately DLNA is a spec with so many options, it doesn't mean anything!

Can this device be controlled from another device (e.g. using the media app on my iPod to select a video file on my DLNA server and get this thing to play it).

How well does it work as a network controlled player? How well does it work as a server?

For you "Bah humbug it doesn't have WiFi" people - you can plug the Iomega WiFi USB dongle into it for WiFi. (Although unless you sit it within 2cm of your WiFi access point, I'm not sure you could guarantee the throughput for HD video - you might as well use wires!!)

more REASONABLE encounters with police

There is a class comment that I would like to copy:

"This will make I think for more polite encounters with police knowing that you're being taped," Fort Smith prosecutor Daniel Shue told KFSM.

Only mine would be:

"This will make I think for more REASONABLE encounters with police knowing that THEY're being taped"

Of course not in England, because we all know that using a camera means you are a terrorist, especially if you are tall and in Chatham, or worse still being shot in the head for it on the tube...

@ml100

"If the same event took place in England the officer would be in jail for murder yet Americans think shooting a man is just fine."

Can I just say:

London underground, Brazilian, Morocan looking eyes, Jumping over barriers wearing a bulky coat in summer whilest also ambling slowly, picking up a paper then politely waiting minding your own business while dressed the same as everyone else.

So that's where all my RSS went

Google (uk) is the only way I can access some things from work (Spain) (including Reg headlines!)

I wasn't happy this morning to find all my news had been deleted; thanks Google!!

As for how the page looks... For god's sake.

Tell you what Google: first change your 'search' engine so that it only returns pages that have what I searched for. Then worry about what it looks like.

And also...

Can they also ban all those companies that just register thousands of domain names as parking spaces. E.G. If Fairchild semiconductor only registers fairchildsemi.com and not fairchild-semi.com, I want a DNS error for fairchild-semi.com, not some spam.