Posts by Fred Flintstone 3110 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2009
Quite correct - OS-X is already on over 2,000 security vulnerabilities - versus Microsoft's worst ever OS - XP - on about 600....Ditto Linux distributions - e.g. SUSE 10 - over 3,800 vulnerabilities. IOS has had over 400 security vulnerabilities to date. But all of these never really hit high market share percentages.
You know that the "k" behind the 600 has a meaning too, don't you?
I was merely attempting to point out that there is more going on here than simply "putting the pixels on the screen".
Apparently I was not successful in that respect.
I think you did OK, but it wasn't the question. The question was why this is STILL a problem. TIFF is not exactly a new format, and the whole handling framework of this format should have been stable many, many years ago. The absence of sanity in this respect (especially in the light of the vast amount of exploits that have taken place already) borders on criminal neglect IMHO.
Get a half decent knife sharpener (~£10) and forget about it.
Sorry, no. Those half-decent are actually rubbish, because you end up cutting with burrs rather than a honed edge. A standard steel is the best to keep the blade inline and in condition, provided you do it regularly and you use a knife of decent quality steel.
Mid 2010 MBP, now runs Maverick, zero issues with the upgrade other than that post upgrade, a lot of other updates followed (the whole of iWork, for starters, iMovie, iPhoto and some other stuff).
As for X11, as soon as you try and start anything that needs X11 (say, Wireshark), it will pop up a message with a link to the KB article where you can download XQuartz (70MB download). Install that and it all works.
10 days to think of an acronym for the operation
10 days to go through corporate services to get a meeting room
7 days tryign to get the meeting to show up on everyone's Outlook calender
1 days arguing about which pizza to order for the meeting
30secs to ask the network admin whodunnit
You must have the US equivalent of PRINCE2 certification :)
Switzerland looks to be the only country that takes personal privacy seriously with a well functioning government, but there must be others?
AFAIK, Canada makes a good choice as well. Their issue is not so much law as having the US next door.
When you start looking at the global picture and how cross judicial processes work it's actually not that hard to ensure due process is restored, even for a multinational. There is only one absolute requirement: do not have your HQ in the US, which is bad news for Silicon Valley.
Personally I'm more enamoured of the coin handling systems I've come across in the Netherlands. You just throw a handful of coins in it and it counts it quicker than any human could do it.
It makes it actually *fun* to be preceded by someone with a lot of small change, which is a game charger as far as I'm concerned, mainly because I have the patience of a hamster on acid when it comes to shopping.
Each sentence is written in a different European language using GCSE level skills. Each sentence is then translated in to Mandarin, the whole thing is then translated to Esperanto and then back in to English.
There is actually some fruit involved as well..
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. It's as if the people putting together spec on the project slept that class on what never to do.
Hmm, Computer Misuse Act? Malicious install of software without due authorisation?
Camera Stabilisation -
-.. is a misnomer as neither the camera nor the optical system is stabilised.
Yup - inaccurate wording there - you're right.
If there is motion, the photos could be messed up regardless of the motion chip captured data. 'Cos, motion chip just captures data, does not apply corrections!
Correct, but what I see here is a possible different approach which seems to align this heavy duty motion processing with the camera. To be honest, I can't see *that* much need for motion sensing otherwise, but that may just be a lack of imagination on my part :). What can happen here is basically a removal of mechanics for this insane quest for ever thinner phones - I would have preferred someone to use that space to give more battery power, but it appears Apple seems to think we all just move from charger to charger during the day.
Also you have not used a recent £150 (well, I am a Brit!) compact.. Takes really good pictures nowadays.. Welcome to the present! One can even get a optical image stabilizer with optical zoom if one looks for even the £80 compacts! Don't you come here badmouthing the compacts, you Villain!
:). I wouldn't. I've been a long time user of the Panasonix Lumix range besides my DSLR. I just don't think you can say "more expensive than" if you are talking about devices that just happen to share one single function, namely taking picture - that's comparing apples to oranges, if you pardon the pun..
>>Fingerprint sensor that looks like it might actually be useful (for unlock and app purchasing) - AND might actually work,
> Rather than pins, passwords, gestures, etc... which all DO actually work?
.. and which are forgotten, copied, written on sticky pads etc etc. Usual for and against arguments apply.
>>All-new 64bit SoC - pretty damn amazing in a PHONE, FFS
> - pretty damn demented in a PHONE, FFS
Matter of opinion, see next for a possible use of all that power. Personally, what I see happen here is exactly what happened when Psion went from 8 bit organisers to SIBO (16 bit organiser): deployment in an easy device before expanding the technology through the range. Is the iPad 64bit? If not, I know where this chip will show up next.
>>Separate motion co-pro means future accessories won't need to fire up the whole A7 to get their thing on, sounds innovative to me...
> Can't see much purpose in making the handset constantly aware of it's motion while it's dormant. Isn't that what wearable stuff is supposed to be about doing better anyway?
Not dormant, but not in need of A7 processing - it's a subsystem. Duh. Same reason you have a separate graphics card which kicks the crap out of your main processor when it comes to chewing on graphic calculations. One of the possible reasons for this is ..
>>Camera that will probably take better pics than your average $150 compact,
> A joke? Any $150 compact will wipe the floor with your $700 iShiny.
.. the camera stabilisation. The idea of taking a couple of images with motion data attached is new, because acquiring and processing that data takes power too - hey, hello, a subsystem suddenly makes sense. And not having moving parts like gyros means less mechanics, ergo less risk of mechanical failure.
Oh, and ever tried to make calls with a $150 compact? No? Funny that.. I'm Ok with sensible arguments, yours aren't.
well Apple already started with the letter "i" in front of anyname.
Well, at least there is prior art there...
How anyone in their right mind could trust a program that entirely relies on self certification of organisations that have everything to gain from being a tad casual with the rules is beyond me, especially after FISA, the USA PATRIOT Act and other fun ways to legalise government data theft.
In short, Safe Harbor isn't.
IMHO, it hasn't been safe from day 1 - it was nothing more than a marketing exercise.
There is a solution to losing the remote control :). Check out the dimensions.
Maybe removable batteries are not so great after all?
Actually, they're great from a culpability point of view. Notice how the almost immediate conclusion was that the battery wasn't an original one, and I would be surprised if the investigation is focused on proving it was a Samsung battery rather than proving it definitely was not.
In the case of closed phones it gets a lot harder as a manufacturer to walk away from such problem. So, great for the supplier, not so great for the consumer who actually has few means to verify authenticity but who gets to live with the problems if they are sold a replica and it causes problems.
Not sure how that one can be solved, to be honest. You'll only find out afterwards..
Oooooooh! I found another Wilt reader!
Funnily it reminds me of Tom Sharpe's "Wilt" series, especially the one with many different 'liberation' organisations taking people hostage in Wilt's house... ...ranging from the mad Baggish to an IRA imposter. Sharpe had his finger on the satirical pulse.
Oh God, yes. It would at least brought some entertainment. And it would explain the poor state of the condom, with that rosebush & all. Maybe we could get Julie to use a plaster? Sjeez, thanks for this one..
I must admit that I don't quite know how I managed to get through the first book of the Wilt series because it was paced slower than the subsequent ones, but boy oh boy oh boy, they were funny. I haven't actually read anyone since the late Tom Sharpe who could create such rib-aching disasters from a mix of originally innocuous and innocent circumstances and intent. And inspector Flint. Hahaha. Epic.
Thanks for the memories :)
Did you know that the spindles that you thread the carbon paper onto when you want to separate the sheets of carbon from the printout seemingly revolve at a million RPM, and can snap a wrist and throw a man across a room. And did you know if one of these spindles comes loose they can go with such velocity that they can break double glazing and smash into a leaving visitor.
You've already written half of the next BOFH :)
convert the thing to a laser-cutter
That is actually a rather interesting idea. Use the "pen down" as trigger, and take a far laser from Wicked Lasers and slow down motion to cope with the weight inertia. Hmmm. It may take a few months before I get round to this, but I may actually try this, thanks.
Haha, that throws me back a few years: the decision process to buy 80 or 132 column width, printer ribbons, tractor or roll feed, the screaming of dot matrix heads (and some fooling around to produce music), the works.
Ink tanks? LUXURY! (bring on the Yorkshire accent :) ).
I can't be THAT different! I've never had an inkjet printer break down on me
Ditto. Actually, I still have a HP Officejet Pro K550 - if it wasn't that the cartridges are now hard to get I'd still use it because it beats the living crap out of all the newer printers I have when it comes to speed. It has a full 500 sheet and it is *seriously* good at working its way through it (that's also why it weighs a tonne and needs a stable surface - anything with wheels goes on a journey when this thing gets going :) ).
However, I too am looking at colour laser. The only inkjet I may still buy is an A3 one. Unless I find an acceptable LED/laser version of that too which doesn't cost a fortune in supplies...
And pen plotters. They were amazing.
Still got one - very deliberately preserved.
I actually have to work out either where to get pens for mine or engineer my own with some creative 3D printing of holders for alternatives. I saw pen plotters become extinct because, let's be honest, running an A0 on an inkjet *is* a heck of a lot faster but WAY more boring. I managed to grab an A3 Roland with electrostatic paper hold off eBay before they were no longer available. It's a top of the line model and the thing has only done about 20 sheets in its life - I got lucky there.
The problem is, both the parallel and serial interface it relies on are becoming extinct too :(.
If all else fails I have recently started to wonder if the mechanism wouldn't make for 2 axis of a 3D printer. It certainly is precise enough...
Sometimes it is worth preserving things. Even if I just give it to a computer museum later.
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