Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: 1080p drone for 50,000 pounds each?

The consumer Drone will probably have a very hackable connection between the ground and the UAV. One would hope that the POD version uses something more akin to military spec (frequency hopping maybe?) radio to connect the operater and the UAV.

After all once these things become common I'm pretty sure that the crims will go out on a job equipped with 'drone' scanners and disabling tech.

Requirements for US Political Office

The only one seems to be that you are a Lawyer and as such totally divorced from the real world.

How many senators/congress critters are not lawyers or don't have a degree in Law?

1) go to Law School

2) Join top law firm

or

2) Become and ADA

3) Become partner in Law Firm or get elected DA

4) Run for political office (even if you are a complete idiot as most are)

4a) Get lots of $$$$$$ from vested interests to fund your election campaign

5) get elected and start paying back the people who paid for you to get into office.

Rinse and repeat 4) & 5) until they carry you out in a box.

Re: Doesn't work

Just uninstall Windows 10. You now know from first hand experience just one of the reasons why people here don't want anything to do with W10.

There are other options you know.

As has been said, spoofing your browser can get most sites that need it to display the content in HTML5 rater then in Flash. Just watch out if you do do that on W10 as Microsoft seems to have started overwriting your user settings with updates.

{Posted from a Windows 10 and Flash free environment}

Re: If anyone knows of any recommended method

Personally speanking Kodak paper for inkjets is pure crap. Never been able to get it calibrated on my Epsom 2100.

Yet, I used Kodak paper in the darkroom for years and was a great fan of Ektachrome film.

Re: Another reason...

I've said to people for years "never piss off your IT people - they WILL make your life hell".

There fixed it for you.

Re: 50 years later than German towns

They had it on the A4 between Taplow and Slough back in the 1970's,

Great idea.

Now we get lights with shorter and shorter green times. The ones on the A281 near Dunsfold are stupid. only green long enough for 4 cars to get through. no wonder more and more drivers just ignore them anyway.

Re: Apparently it is fixed

go on try it, I dare you....

Shareholders

What about the financial institutions who invest in companies like GSK on behalf of your pension fund?

Lower returns on income (dividends) and capital(share price) means a lower pension for everyone.

AFAIK, the main shareholders are the pension funds. Many of which are Union run. Thay are hardly Tory now are they?

Re: Microsoft are keeping quiet

But.... it is all new and shiny-shiny so they'll keep on the MS gravy train.

Na-na-na-na-na-na can't hear you.

Only Violin?

What about the many other 'hot-stuff storage' that seem to get a mention/plug here almost every week?

can't leave them out can we eh?

Re: A few notes ....

If the Uk Retail banking is close to being 3rd world status then what world does the US Banking system live in?

5th World?

Getting a payment between a bank in AZ and a bank in MA took (last year) five working days.

It even took three days to get payments between accounts with the same bank but in different states.

You don't even want to think about the time it takes to get a check (us spellling) cleared. No wonder business are very loathe to handle out of state checks.

No one expects users to RTFM

it is 2016 not 1996.

I documented a complex system build and got some pretty inexperienced people to test it out. After updating the docs I sent them off to the people at the target site.

After the umpteenth email reply saying, 'did you follow the documentation?' which was ignored, I had to get on a plane, spend 23hrs in Cattle Class getting to the other side of the planet in order to do a 2day installation and then spend 26 hours getting home(connections sucked). 24hours later I went on holiday. I needed most of the time to recover from that trip.

All because they couldn't read the effing manual.

No, I could not have done it remotely. The systems aren't connected to the internet nor will they ever be so.

Re: Produced in 2016

In the meantime, all the parking machines get blocked up with the new coins giving the users the excuse not to pay the truly outrageous fees that many conncils use these days.

and in other news

Businesses in the high st report an upturn in trade that coindsides with the problems with the parking machines.

Cause and effect?

Re: teething

IMO, it is just in time for the next Version of the Silicon with 32 cores.

Gotta keep you drooling about upgrades haven't they?

Re: Built in incapacity?

OK, if you haven't used the disk in a while it might take a minute or two to spin up, but you can spend that time waiting for Windows to recognise that something has been plugged in.

It seems to me that with every 'security' patch Windows gets less and less inclined to recognise USB drives when plugged in.

I've even had it ask me if I want to Format the drive. The strange thing is that the drive had been used on that very system less than 10 minutes beforehand. Yes, It was unmounted cleanly.

Re: $22bn

Agreed.

I have never clicked on an Ad that was shown to me. I never will.

So why do I have to put up with the crap the ad slingers think I need to see?

I don't. That's why I run an ad blocker.

I also never watch ads on TV.

I will never eat a Big Mac/Kfc/Burger King. etc etc etc

I just wish that there was some way that I could just opt out of all advertising. Life would be a lot nicer.

Re: Why can't IBM finish them?

SCO has NO assets apart from the promise of this case reaping billions and billions in damages.

It has long past the time for IBM to get the assets of this moribund company.

IMHO, it is time to go after the Officers of the company but even that might be too late.

Perhaps the might still be wanting IBM to say, here take this {few million} and go away and don't ever come back but IBM is being a stubborn beast as they know that have done no wrong here.

Re: Jumped the shark

So where do you rate the 'Kin'?

Re: And now this is the worst

so in your view, every iPhone is hackable?

This was an iPhone 5c and running iOS 8.

Both of these are significatly behind the times when it comes to current Apple Hardware and Software.

To your statement should read

iPhone 5C's running IOS8 can be hacked.

We wait for someone to do the same hack on IOS9 running on an 6S.

Then every apple user would have something to worry about.

Re: Vote with your wallet

A very large percentage of the correspondents who have posted here are saying that they are done with Microsoft.

As I said in a previous post, I made the decision to not spend even a bent penny more on MS products.

That was 6 months ago. I see no reason to reverse it.

Many of us are indeed voting with our wallets.

When MS brings in a PAYG licensing scheme (my guess is next year) the trickle of users moving away from MS will become a flood.

After 40+ years in IT, most of it writing Software I really can't see anything attractive on the MS Product set that would bring me back.

Re: Ditch it already

Just twist a few Arms at BAE and get an updated Harrier back into production. Avionics from the Typhoon would make the thing a lot simpler.

Cancel the F-35. It was always a lemon.

Ok, so I'm biased as I worked on the Harrier at Hawkers many years ago.

Re: I don't see any point to this

contactless cards can have their details slurped. They are know to be insecure.

This is the reason my only contactless card in an Oyster card (unregistered).

The fact that you don't need to carry the card (contactless or not) with you for Apple/Google Pay to work is an advantage. Now only if I had a smart phone capable of using this tech.

My nokia 6310 will just do its job of being a phone.

Re: Or join the 21st century.....

Agile?

Fragile more like.

It is not the panacea that people like to make out. It can work for some things but for others? Forget it.

more like 'Close to the Edge' than 'The Yes Album'.