Posts by The Original Ash 617 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
I bought Modern Warfare 2 for the PC yesterday. Quite disappointing single player campaign... Was finished in a little over 5 hours. Far too linear.
Anyway, does that suggest a propensity to shooting up airports? Or is it blowing up airports as the Russians suggest? Or shooting up schools as the Americans suggest(ed after Columbine, Re: Doom).
I guess I should resign, seeing as I'm such a threat to the children at the schools I've worked in for six years.
Fail.
I, as an a private citizen, have the right to privacy. My private documents, my home, my possessions, should be safe from unwarranted inspection or seizure by anybody I do not wish to to do such.
Government bodies, as elected representatives of the people, have no right to privacy whatsoever *when performing the duties bestowed upon them*. They must demonstrate beyond any doubt that they are accurately, and to the best of their ability, performing the functions they are expected to, and they should be accountable to those who put them in that position via accountability through public inspection of the documentation of their work.
When they are private citizens, they have the same rights as any of us. When they are politicking, they should be transparent and open in their actions and words.
I hope that's cleared that up for you.
It was funny for about 5-10 seconds; The typical time these pseudo-racist rants of Clarkson's go on for. When Hammond and May both jumped in too with their own slurs, it just became uncomfortable. I expect, and enjoy, that kind of humour from Frankie Boyle, as that's his shtick; Offending people.
That 1 minute segment shouldn't have been aired. Not because it was in bad taste or offensive, but because it was rubbish.
"And BTW, can everyone who is ever tempted to post some smug and inane remark about backups every time they read about someone losing data, count to 10 and then go and do something more productive."
Flickr should definitely invest in a better backup solution, or more competent staff. Or both. Definitely the first one, though.
Kind of like sticking your head in the sand? I'm guessing you meant translucent...
I'd be more impressed with a faster reaction time; 0.5 seconds is much slower than the blink reflex, so they'll still be dazzled fast changes in brightness. No good having the glasses tinting *after* being exposed to bright light; It'll be even more difficult to see.
Not a chance in hell. They want to prove you can get 100Mb on the line by rolling it out to Bumpkintown, North Nowhere, so they can trump out figures stating 100Mb to the modem in marketing blurb. Once that's done, they can roll it out in the kit in London, have massive uptake, contention will cripple it, and everyone will STILL get 1/10th the advertised speed. Until 5pm, when it becomes 1/20th.
1. Download DBAN.
2. Boot servers holding data from DBAN disk. Select Write Zeros, single pass, and wipe.
3. Reboot DBAN disk, select Write Ones, single pass, and wipe.
4. Power off servers, remove HDDs, pay 20 college students £500 each to remove platters and chuck them in a woodchipper, £10k should cover the cost of the tools.
5. Send the IT hardware, with licensed OSs and some tech time, to lower-performing schools as free upgrades.
6.Give me £370,000 "consultancy fee.
There. I saved you £10k!
The wait between HL and HL2 was for a complete new engine, which then required new artwork, level design, testing, all of the other gubbins I have no idea about when it comes to creating a game engine. THEN it was the building of the game itself on top of that.
We already have Source, it's over half a decade old, HL2: E1 and E2 came out within 18 months of each other (June 2006 and Oct 2007). HL2: E3 has been over 3 years in the making.
Seriously. I've lost interest. I'll get the synopsis.
Samsung have a proven track record of "Release and Retire" for high-end handsets. They pump out new models quickly, forget old ones (by months, not years) which get no updates, and their support is notoriously horrid. The last Samsung phone I had was the Galaxy S, which I returned after 3 days. HTC Desire HD is now doing me just fine!
In a word, avoid.
The catch? It's the "Chocolate" version, which means it's brown.
Looking at the back of my HTC Desire HD right now, and comparing it to the publicity pictures in the review, I'd say "brown" is an exaggeration. If you can upgrade, do it. You simply cannot regret it.
Thanks for reminding me! Knew this from XDA-Dev forums, did it on my Desire. Just done it on my HD, and the difference is staggering!
Off-topic: Get 3G Watchdog from the market. Watching streaming video on that giant screen will chew up your data allowance, so it's proved invaluable for me! Set it per contract month to reset, will automatically disable data (using another app like APNdroid) when you hit the cap if you wish.
Not affiliated, just impressed.
I have GPS turned on all day, WiFi at home, and Friendstream and weather updating hourly, ebay / Aura (Eve Online app) every 5 minutes. Also have Lookout running constantly. I charge the phone overnight plugged into my PC, but if I forget I can get 2 days with the power-saving at 15%.
You must be doing something wrong, or your idea of use you "do not regard as heavy" must be completely different to mine. El Reg got 5 hours by playing video constantly!
I was under the impression that these 6 towns were getting local exchange upgrades to support Infinity, allowing for bigger pipes between there and the central exchanges. If they're leaving in the old backbone infrastructure, I'm not sure what these towns hope to achieve. The pipe at your tap may well be 10mm wider than anyone elses, but it'll dribble all the same if your neighbours are all filling their baths.
Be a man and slice your own bread, and slice it properly! I've only ever seen "Doorstep" slices on one loaf so far, and they were only around 1/2".
If I can still fit the thing in my mouth, the bread isn't sliced thickly enough! "Wafer thin" toasty rubbish is pointless.
By the way, typically the own-brand cheap bread fits the toaster just fine. Give it a go; You're burning it anyway.
Julian Assange: "Hey, I heard some women are making allegations of sexual assault. Would you like to talk to me?"
Swedish Prosecutor: "Hmmm no, actually. Thanks for calling."
---One month later---
Swedish Prosecutor: "Hello?"
US: "Hey there, America calling. That Julian Assange bloke is proving to be a bit of a nuisance with all of this 'airing of our laundry'. Could you get him back for that sex trial thing?"
SP: "What? Firstly, no, because we didn't think there was a case. Secondly, no, as he's not here any more."
US: "np kthxbai!"
InterPol: "Hello, InterPol."
US: "Hey, I hear that Julian Assange is wanted in Sweden for sex crimes, and he's fled to the UK!"
Interpol: "OMGWTF?! Get dat guy! SWEDEN YOU GET HIM BACK NAO!"
Sweden: "what is this I don't even"
US: "We got InterPol involved. HE'S A TERR'RIST!"
Sweden: "Ugh... FINE. UK send him back please. Sorry, US making us do it."
UK: "Ugh... FINE. £250k bail while we consider it.
JA: "FML."
Anonymous: "FOR THE LULZ!"
Check back next week for the next instalment of JA vs Totalitarian Regimes !
I think Glider should be allowed. It's useless for any end-game content, and levelling up is a chore after your 4th or 5th toon. I'd be more than happy to have a bot automate the "1, 2, 1, 2, loot, run, 1, 2, 1, 2, loot, run, 1, 2, 3 (heal) 1, 2, loot, run..." process of the first 30 or so levels while I watch a few episodes of House or Babylon 5.
If Glider could let you 8-man LK HC, then I'd say no, but if all you get are a few greens and a boat load of XP, I'm fine with it.
Alan Rushbridger, Editor of The Guardian
Simon Kelner, Editor of The Independent
Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC
Wait, they're not being indicted? I could have sworn I was reading the cables on the Guardian's website, and watching news broadcasts regarding the contents of them on BBC Breakfast.
Slash did a lot of GnR material at Download this year with his band (Myles Kennedy on vocals, Lemi making an appearance), and it was much more enjoyable than the travesties that Axl and his troupe vomited out a few years ago (barely, before leaving the stage an hour before he was due to finish, causing riots and fires in the campsites).
Down with Axl, Long live Slash!
You mention that 1/3g of antimatter reacting with matter would release the equivalent of a 15KTon of TNT explosion, the same as Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima. Total fissile material on that device was 65Kg.
For comparison, only 1.38% of the fissile material achieved fission, making it approx 900g.
So, it's roughly 2700x more energetic a reaction than fission!
"The speed of light" as people say is more accurately described as "the speed of light in a vacuum." it is possible to slow down and speed up light within any other material, as it will always be slower than the speed of light in a vacuum. These guys are adjusting material properties to do just that. Note that light will never move faster than "the speed of light in a vacuum" relative to a fixed observer.
WPA uses a 4-way handshake to generate and assign a Pairwise Transient Key which is derived from many sources of information, including the AP MAC address, but more importantly the client MAC. This is then cryptographically hashed. This essentially means that each client connected to the AP has its own key, and cannot be sidejacked.
However, I know from experience that Starbucks use open wifi APs, so this doesn't apply.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004
18 years is the age of consent for homosexual sexual activity, and for taking or appearing in sexually provocative images.
What qualifies as "sexually provocative" is left up to Daily Mail readers, by the state of things. Bearing in mind that people have married a fence, the Eiffel Tower, plus Rule 34, pretty much everything made after 1992 is illegal in this country.
Go figure.
You are a child until 18.
At 16, you may engage in consenting heterosexual sexual activity with another person over the age of 16.
At 18, you may engage in consenting homosexual sexual activity with another person over the age of 16. You may also take or pose in pictures of a sexual or lewd nature at this age, but not before.
Therefore, you may get down and dirty with your neighbour's 17 year old daughter, but you're a pervert on the sex offenders register if she "sexts" you a pic of her boobs, regardless of consent.
... but I'll say it again. You cannot prove you don't have a hidden volume, so the implication is that you always have one. When asked for the password for the hidden volume, you will say "I don't have one."
They will say "Prove it."
You will say "I don't have to."
They will say "We didn't find anything on your encrypted volume, so it must be in the hidden one."
You will say "I don't have one."
They will say "Prove it."
You will say "Oh."
They will say "Free room and board, 2 years."
Anyone up for contributing to a fund for prosecuting those involved? The Police decided previously that there was no case, so CPS never had the option of assessing the evidence (thereby preventing them from taking over and preventing retrial under Double Jeopardy regs). If EU say that it's illegal, we can bring that to ECJ and have them start proceedings against BT, Phorm, and the others involved.
I'm not having my tax money spent paying fines imposed upon a previous government I didn't vote for and a company which should have known better. They can look after themselves.
Yes they will. If the bootloader is in any way modified, they can tell just by loading it to recovery mode.
Damage which results in the phone not being able to power on at all (water, physical) wouldn't be a warranty covered issue anyway. You'd claim on insurance for that.
Revised:
We spoke to the accountants, and it appears that the stock level of Galaxy S phones, as well as other HTC manufactured smartphones, in our shops and online store is exactly the same as it was as soon as we stated that this update would invalidate your warranty. Please, please come buy our phones again. We're really sorry.
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