Posts by Blue eyed boy

Should the title have been

Windows as a *chargeable* service?

". . . and contain an iSIS security feature..."

First steps towards getting RFID into all our currency to stop the VAT-dodging cash-only deals?

"waving away offers of assistance every 15 seconds"

What branch was that? I'm lucky if I get noticed by a member of staff within 15 minutes. Everybody seems to be on a mission from one part of the shop to another.

"Instruments of torture"

Is this their Final Solution to the problem?

Who gets to . . .

(a) know that a particular person has opted in for porn?

(b) define what is porn and what isn't?

I am a naturist, and naturists as a group are worried about censorship, in case our perfectly normal, natural and healthy way of life, to which several websites are devoted, will be swept up into some all-embracing "porn" classification on the basis of frequent references on the same page to "kids" and "nudity".

Have they finally fixed

the KNode drag/drop bug?

@ Change an input and “you get a different end of the universe.

The current uncertainty bounds straddle the bang/whimper boundary.

brand name the same as the device

Was the box delivered by UPS?

"filled with adverts (muted)"

The day will surely come when the extra control bit (that I'm certain is there) in the HD signal gets put to use. It's the "mute disable" bit.

Now we know

why the observed FTL neutrinos were ascribed to a timing bug or other mundane cause. THEY wanted this discovery for themselves, THEY couldn't hush it up any longer so THEY played it down.

Does anybody know

if the KNode (newsgroup reader) drag/drop bug has finally been fixed? I've been unable to upgrade beyond V11.1 because of this critical (to me) flaw.

As communiques in Dutch

> include the exploit script in the body of messages, pose as communiques in Dutch

Java is double Dutch to me so I can see there wouldn't be that much difference.

Try this one

Dasu shelara vedum sematus viod em ugur'udate si. Uma seda lit soel em sofa, mo danome ____________ dos mu gom gumat si. Udil sea tolasha soel sha shalus abem valumat em davada sha dos vam.

Thus opens a favourite novel, at least it does when translated into my childhood fantasy language Hallon. There is a website explaining about the language, the spooks will have access to some more vocabulary from emails I have exchanged with friends, and so would be able to make a fragmentary translation, enough to identify the text and so identify the English word corresponding to the missing word in the text, which is required to be filled in as the password.

Therein lies the problem. For the word in question has never been written down or emailed.to anybody so there is nothing to guide the spooks - or the hackers - to what the translation may be.

I suppose the question needs to be asked

Suppose the price of coffee in Brazil or whatever had moved the other way and this budding e-billionaire had made a £50K PROFIT in a couple of clicks. What would we be thining then? Would they be so anxious to find a loophole then? Certainly the taxman would be interested in him.

It's all a fake

"In order to give the mosaic a rectangular aspect, some small parts of the edges of the mosaic and sky were filled in with parts of an image acquired earlier as part of a 360-degree panorama from the same location."

It's a fake. We never went to Mars at all. That pic was taken in the Mojave Desert somewhere.

The right order of magnitude anyway

give or take a few quid.

IMHO it should never have been otherwise. Go for it!

Here's another brilliant idea that Ofcom might like to play with. That time spent on hold, in a company's queueing and holding system, or being passed from department to department, is charged to the *company* not to the caller. Naturally this too will apply to landlines and mobiles alike.

Could there have been one of these in the dim and distant past?

I see this great wodge of iron, magnesium, sulphur, silicon and oxygen, condensing back upon itself to form a sphere approx 8000 miles diameter, with enough long-lived radioactives (U238, Th232, K40) in its core to keep it hot for a few gigayears afterwards - apart from a solid crust partially covered with liquid hydrogen oxide.

In fact, could such a body support life?

Can we have

Stephen Hawking on another value note?

Enigma was a cipher not a code btw.

This is starting to sound like

the sort of dead-letter drop you read of in spy fiction. I trust that the "thief" did leave the council employee with the (rest of the) agreed sum in used £20 notes.

Or is that too outlandish an explanation?

I would prefer to see

... broadband prices on the down.

> We'll also be lowering the price of your broadband package in April to match the price of our 50Mb Broadband XXL packages.

And other packages in proportion? No chance. Vermin Media's policy (iunherited from NTL) of screwing their bottom-rate customers with the biggest price increases (or the absence of drops, or in one case with NTL, an increase when the top rate dropped), still applies.

I would prefer to see

nimble new prices.