Posts by XMAN 124 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2009
I imagine that eventually the mosquitos will adapt or grow comfortable with the light wall and no longer fear walking or flying through it.
Spend the 1m on mosquito nets and erect them around whole villages in Africa.
Smart doesn't necessarily mean better.
I like that Gates is continuing to share some of his wealth to help the world :)
You didn't need to create this advertisement movie - you already showed us how to handle bulk data. We should just email our email databases out to 3000+ people and then write a jokey post about it as if it's no big deal and not actually email those affected, who might miss the story.
It's all about speed. Instead of having to download a media heavy 500kb page that's meant for a desktop with a proper resolution, your Kindle Fire will tell Amazon what page it wants and Amazons powerful cloud network will collect that page and then compress it down to a more manageable size for your mobile device. This saves you bandwidth and CPU processing, speeding up and generally improving your browsing experience.
I wouldn't be comfortable putting all my traffic through their servers but I can certainly see the benefits. Disabling it for HTTPS would be a start.
If the Navy are willing to turn it off after a few fishermen complain?
What other country would limit their military operations because of complaints from fishermen?
Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's fair for fishermen to lose out, I know how tight the margins are for most one-man traller boats. But surely the safety of the country comes before the profit of a small number of fishermen?
I always thought that If I was going to get a tablet, it would be an ipad. The prices aren't that different (for a decent tablet) so might as well go with the masses and get guaranteed new software regularly.
But now, with Apple making such a big deal other this, I'm actually really intrigued to check out the Samsung. They make some pretty decent Blueray boxes (not so great Freesat boxes it seems, lets hope software updates come soon for those).
Considering practically every slab looks the same, why are Apple getting so worked up over this one? It must be pretty feckin decent to have them this worked up!
Some idiot commented on the video that this is only harming the insurance companies. What a load of nonsense.
Firstly, an increase in claims will cause a small increase to everyones insurance premiums. As we all know, nearly all forms of insurance provide a discount based on you having no claims. If you claim on your insurance this year, you can bet that your renewal price is going to be much higher.
Aside from your renewal costs going up, insurance premiums in general will increase as the level of claims increase, so it will also affect other businesses.
Many insurance companies will exclude glass cover (ie. windows) after 3 or 4 claims. That may sound like a lot of claims but that's not per year, that's overall. If you have a business in a busy high street (especially anywhere near a drinking establishment) then you'll know it's not uncommon to have your business' windows damaged.
Aside from insurance costs, because of this damage, a lot of businesses will be closed for a certain amount of time. That means staff won't get paid and the store will lose money. It also means that I can't walk down the road and buy a fucking scart cable (I don't want one, but you get the idea).
So please, don't be so naive to believe that the only people being harmed are insurance companies.
They're authorised and given permission by Apple to sell their products under certain circumstances and their products come direct from Apple. So it's not like it's just some random guy who's writing 'APLE' on a bunch of dell laptops and trying to flog them.
Trying to deceive people into thinking it's a legit Apple store is probably against the conditions of being an Apple reseller.
So yeah, I emailed Apple after being unable to return a faulty ipod under the same conditions as a regular Apple store (there were fees involved and a very limited time allowance). If resellers deceive people into thinking they're official Apple stores then Apple should seriously consider revoking the permission they granted to the reseller.
I actually emailed Apple to complain about a shop in the Philippines because it's branded and styled exactly the same as a legit Apple shop but is only an authorised reseller. They have their own rules on returns/replacements which are much more restrictive than Apples' official shops.
Stick enjoy.coke on a sign and people will think nothing of it. Stick coke.com on the same poster and people might visit.
I guess there are ways around this, like using www.enjoy.coke (looks so odd) or "visit enjoy.coke to find out more" but it's still gonna look a bit odd.
So they're certainly not gonna wipe .com or .co.uk off the map.
This will be interesting to watch play out.
I have to say though, If I was VISA/Mastercard, I'd probably have done the same thing. There's still ongoing legal issues over the information that Wikileaks is releasing. Why even risk getting yourself mixed up in that?
It's just good business sense to pull away from Wikileaks.
I can understand why the guy is annoyed at the DVLA trying to take his plate away. He bought it fair and square.
But at the end of the day, if the DVLA have the power to revoke a plate then it doesn't seem like he's got any choice but to accept a refund, drive on different plates and if he really thinks he has a case, take it through the courts.
I've seen too many domain names hijacked by GoDaddy because of spam/abuse/fraud complaints. It doesn't seem to matter whether the complaints are actually genuine. There's many many many forum posts about how to screw over a competitor if their domain was purchased through GoDaddy. A few well crafted emails and GoDaddy will simply take it away from the owner.
So basically, I'm hoping they do sell and the new owners clean up that shambles of an operation. Then maybe people will come back to GoDaddy.
Lets hope that this doesn't set a precedent that the US can access peoples computers to remove something that *they* consider bad.
Oh yeah these guys have this terrible software installed called BitTorrent. We contacted 25 million users and 59 replied. So we went ahead and removed the software from 25 million machines.
I had just signed up and started using Dropbox. I didn't know anything about this. Now I'm worried about whether I should continue using it or not.
For a company that's handling millions of peoples files, how could they allow such a huge security problem to slip through?
For those saying "encrypt your files before uploading to dropbox" - that's easy to say but slightly impractical and difficult to actually do.
You can tell they're an American company. They do whatever they want, even when they know its wrong or illegal and then just wait for the small fine/slap on the wrist.
The penalties given to Google are nothing compared to their earnings so they openly ignore rules and laws.
And now they're trying to set a new standard. Just like before. Oh no, we're not breaking copyright laws because we're giving you a way to block us (robots.txt). And now, oh but you can stop us by doing xyz.
How about I start robbing peoples homes and then my excuse can be - "But if you put a sign by your doorbell that says 'thieves/404', I wont rob you'. Works for Google, should work for me, right?
I'm not a fan of AIR but I do like what Adobe have done here.
Some companies would have scrapped it and that would have been the end of it. At least Adobe are trying to pass it off to others in the open source community who might do a better job of it.
I know that they're just trying to get their product on as much hardware as possible, but still, good idea :)
The yanks have been going nuts hijacking domains. They basically poison the root DNS servers (apparently the sole property of the united states of assholes to do whatever they want with) so the domain is effectively knocked offline worldwide.
As someone else quite rightly said, the yanks need to fuck right off. They're pretty much doing a hitler and slowly taking over the world, by force. But everyones just sitting back and watching it happen.
Those that rose up and thought against hitler were called heroes. Those that rise up and fight against America are called terrorists. Interesting.
They want to extradite a fucking kid for linking to copyright material? get the fuck out of here.
But If I, as a consumer, can buy a usb wifi dongle for 4 quid then surely someone buying them in bulk for whatever they're making could get them even cheaper? The licensing is already sorted by the seller of the wifi adapter, right? Or is that not the case? Would additional licensing by required?
You'd think that after the first incident, they'd have got in the habit of at least using password protection.
The newer versions of Excel (for example) encrypts a password protected file and currently the only (public) way to get to the info is by brute forcing the password. I'm talking about password locking the file, not a sheet (which is still insecure).
Why do MS insist on making the interface "simpler" to use with each release. Everything gets larger, with more of the UI eating up screen real estate and you have to jump through more hoops to multitask.
Apple Lion is going the route of iOS
Windows 8 is going the route to iOS
NOTE TO OPERATING SYSTEM DEVELOPERS: I DONT WANT iOS ON MY LAPTOP OR DESKTOP!
Not sure why people are bashing Skype so hard. I'm a big fan. I've never had any problems with it on Mac and it's still working despite this suposed glitch that some of you are experiencing.
@Skype encryption cracked: Same thing goes for most VOIP networks. Just that Skype is singled out because they're so popular.
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