Posts by CD001

Liar...

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I've never heard such nonsense before.

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Yes you have, the ISPs have been crying the same story for months if not years :)

Aawwww

You were doing so well until the closing paragraph too... you sounded like a mild-form of Tory bigot - and then you went and blew it.

Yes and no...

I DON'T have a static IP address - but it hasn't changed in probably 8 months (I have some stuff online that can only be accessed via whitelisted IP addresses).

Although my PS3, Desktop, partner's laptop and the like all connect through the same router - ergo all have the same IP address as far as the Internet is concerned, it wouldn't take a great deal of effort to uniquely track any machine on the network based on information the browser "leaks" through the HTTP headers - hell, you can almost uniquely identify machines based on the UserAgent alone.

If my IP address doesn't change very often and there are only a handful of devices on my home network, uniquely tracking any machine on that network wouldn't be challenging irrespective as to whether I'm running the browser in porn mode or not.

Let's be honest - this improvement in IE9 is basically just selective porn mode - it _is_ an improvement... just not an enormous one (compared to almost any other browser going).

Yeeeeeeee-es

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client-side stuff is better programmed in a real language.

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So I suggest we do away with browsers entirely and have a compiled application for every website - great idea.

... hang on - isn't that just an app store?

btw - .NET isn't a language - it's a framework compatible with many languages... in some ways it's a bit like ye olde Common Gateway Interface. Viewed from a certain angle you could say it's a bastard lovechild spawned by Microsoft when they discovered the WWW (OK, that was the god-awfulness of ASP first).

- please, can we ban Microsoft advocates from posting on articles relating to the web? They obviously don't understand it.

Acronym

The acronyms are usually recursive so it would be:

JINOJ - JINOJ Is Not Oracle's Java

In all honesty...

If you liked GT4 you'll like GT5 ... just maybe not enough to splash out for a PS3 and the game.

Don't get me wrong, GT5 is a great driving game - but so was GT4 (and 2 and 1 - never owned 3 for some reason) - if you're a fan of the series and already own a PS3, buy it. If you don't own a PS3 this is probably not enough reason alone to get one - it's not without its pimples.

Still, there are plenty of other reasons to get a PS3 - BluRay player, ability to stream videos from a media centre PC, online film rentals, iPlayer on your TV (not an issue with Virgin Media admittedly) and plenty of other good games.

Even...

Even if you were having a discussion with Hermann Göring?

Of course you _may_ need a time machine first...

You sir,

... can have the gold star for best frog/PC related pun - ever.

The problem with consoles

The problem with consoles is that - unless they have a very long production run - the company making them (Sony, Nintendo, MS ... ) actually LOSES money on every console they sell. The idea being that they give you the crack pipe for free, it's up to you to buy the crack at the prices they dictate - they make the money on the games.

I suspect that's why console games are generally £10 more expensive than their PC equivalents; PC gamers have paid for the hardware to begin with; my PS3 cost me some £400 when I bought it - my PC cost me closer to £2000.

Hmmm

You mean like ProFTP on Ubuntu then?

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=F03531B7-7956-4F8B-B916-E416CA73D5CE%40amd.co.at&forum_name=proftp-devel

Ummm...

Is that the odds that the person patting you down might be gay OR that they might be gay AND find you attractive?

Put it this way - I'm straight but Ann Widdecombe doesn't "do it" for me I'm afraid.

Umm...

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there's no way that you're going to be able to do everything with a web browser.

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I think Google begs to differ.

And...

And the government would blow £millions on a Public Health and Safety Campaign about the dangers of pressurised gas cannisters eventually making it illegal to dispose of empty deodorant cans in with the rest of the household rubbish... we'd have to take them to specialised disposal facilities (built by contractors who're chummy with certain MPs for hugely inflated sums of money) where they could be disposed of safely by men in armoured HazMat suits.

There would doubtless be quangos, websites and entire IT projects dedicated to the campaign - all of which the government would pay well over the odds for and none of which would actually work.

... depressing, isn't it?

Ummm...

I could be that the pellets were half-frozen, no?

Hmmm

Much as this comment annoys the crap out of me ... I can't fault it :)

While

While that may be true in the strictest sense - I suspect Google can get out of it because the processing is entirely automated. By the time the email has even arrived on the Google servers, for them to process, it has already passed through who-knows how many nodes on the internet at large - all of which have "processed" that email.

Of course "processing" it might not involve anything, merely forwarding the packets along but just about every email service, and potentially even ISPs, scan the packets to look for spam/viruses and the sender of that email has no contract with any of those third parties (apart from their own ISP and email provider) - so the sender of said email cannot realistically expect complete privacy on any unencrypted email communication they make.

Sort of...

The countries Ireland is "competing" with in this instance are EMEA countries so you can keep Israel in the list but yeah, drop Singapore, India and China... though you'd need to factor in the emerging economies in the former eastern bloc countries.

Then again - those are the same countries that every OTHER country in the EMEA is competing with so... *shrugs*

What difference does that make?

Really? IF IE9 is as standards compliant as it promises to be WHAT difference does it make if it doesn't run on any other OS? See - if it's standards compliant every other OS can use a DIFFERENT web browser and achieve the same results!

... that's kinda the point.

By Chrome-like they are, I believe, merely referring to the UI... perhaps inadvertently an adherence to standards.

Hmmm

I'm not blind in either eye - BUT one is slightly "stronger" than the other ... maybe that explains why I see a sort of "ghosting" where I can still make out (faintly) the second image when I watch 3D films in the cinema...

So - 3D TV - no thanky.

It's Black Metal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_metal

Close enough.

Satanic imagery is part of the deal - hell there might even be some genuine Satanists into BM - though I've never met one.

Except

Charge too much and the Government will just pass a law making it illegal to charge for 'costs incurred whilst helping the authorities with their enquiries'.

It's the government - you can't actually win - all you can do is vote them out and get a whole different set of ill thought out draconian legislation and bureaucracy from the next lot who'll eventually be more repressive than the previous lot ... who you'll then vote back in.

With each successive government your liberties are slowly eroded in the name of safety. Two steps towards totalitarianism, one step back.

Speaking...

Speaking to the chap who hosts our web server at work not that long ago we came to the conclusion that the bottlenecks are moving as people's download speed increases... away from their neighbourhood pipes towards the servers themselves.

It doesn't take many people with a 50Mbs connection all downloading from the same site at the same time to effectively flood the site - so, of course, none of them will receive 50Mbs because the site can't serve it at that speed to all of them.

At the moment, I'd argue, there's not much point in a 50Mbs connection unless you're downloading large files in the wee small hours of the morning when your neighbourhood is quiet AND the server is quiet... tricky if you're downloading a large file from somewhere halfway across the world of course.

You can...

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do what *nix does and make the user move their hand away from the mouse and enter a password for a privileged user in order to proceed.

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You can do that as well - set up an admin account with a password but don't use it. Log in on a limited privileges account and whenever UAC requires admin rights you need to enter the admin password... much like *nix.

The only real problem is, again, legacy apps that'll make you enter the admin password every time you boot them up (it's not much of a faff if you're only having to enter the password when there's a software install/upgrade).

You only get the UAC prompt with an "OK" click-box if you're already logged in as an admin; it's a bit like running as a pseudo-admin really since you'll still need to grant access to programs via the UAC prompt on a per-instance basis.

Unlike previous incarnations of Windows - it seems that with Win7 (much like *nix and OSX) the user really is the weakest link - and boy are there some weak links using Windows ;)

wtfmuch?!?

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These are supposedly 'educated' students surely they would have achieved a much better effect on the government if they had put pen to paper and written to their MP?

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Really? Like BT/Phorm you mean?

If you want anything to change you CANNOT work within the system - from the American War of Independence, to Ghandi, to Martin Luther King ... writing polite letters to the powers that be does not, and never has, achieved anything.

The closest you can get within the system is voting the buggers out (pithy political comment courtesy of Starship Troopers):

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

That's the charm of democracy - it gives people the illusion of choice while only letting them play with loaded dice. Sometimes playing within the rules only gives you the choice of death by crocodile or death by piranha - if you want to live you need to break the rules.

Oooh...

Lightweight, fast and reliable - thanks for the heads up, I'll have to give one or the other a go...

... or is that not what you meant?

Upvoted but...

I thoroughly agree with the sentiment - semantic HTML (or the semantic web) is an ideal... but it can still be borked by Google's algorithms should Google desire it; they control the algorithms after all.

if(preg_match('/bing/', $sContent) && preg_match('/good|great|better than Google/', $sContent)) {

$iPageRankScore -= 100000000;

}

As soon...

As soon as I read the article I thought, "How many replies down will the first 'it just works' post be?" - I was almost expecting it to be #1 - not far off at #3 I suppose.

*sighs*

Our odds of survival are declining rapidly...

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Really? In what way?

Our odds of survival, long term, have always been effectively zero (try looking at the number of species that are extinct compared to those that are currently alive). How is climate change any worse? Look at the Permian extinction event... we've got a lot of work to do to top that puppy still.

Besides - there's still best part of 3 billion years worth of theoretically habitable planet here before the sun wipes it out. There's time for life to recover even if we do manage to nerf the planet on a Siberian Traps scale.

No - I'm not American - I just don't really see what the fuss is about.