Posts by JetSetJim

Re: 64 years old, $390K retirement package

Not a bad payoff, but he seemed to have been doing quite well in his job before he was shoved out the door.

I am curious as to why it might matter whether he was actively and continuously looking for work after being sacked. Should the compensation for wrongful termination be influenced by that?

Re: Bird brain ?

Perhaps not as efficient as the dragonfly. Only 16 neurons for that.

Re: Daimler?

If Nok's patent is a SEP, then they would have filed it in as many countries as humanly possible - especially China considering both the scale of manufacturing and consumer market size there.

Re: Hitt's hit

Shouldn't apple's lawyers have prepared him better? All the high powered legal dramas I've seen on telly have witnesses put through grueling mock cross examinations. Even accounting for TV dramatisation, surely that's a sensible thing to do with so much at stake.

Re: Defaulting to penalty charges

In Oxford you get given a set amount of "guest passes" annually, and you can buy more if you need to.

Re: Need for testing

No idea about <INV> tags - but frantic googling around found similar issues with having an AVG plugin installed (I didn't) and disabling graphics accelleration both producing similar effects (at least from text descriptions).

As to this instance actuallly being about INV tags, unless their initial patch inserted it into every single email both in POP3 emails in local PST files and in IMAP emails still on a Google server (which didn't present and unsupported tags when viewed in a web interface), and then their backout stripped them all out again. If such things were inserted, it was by the client software, not the mail server

Much as I appreciate the value you ascribe to me, if Cell Broadcast doesn't get received by every phone that's switched on inside coverage, then there's a fundamental flaw in either the network configuration, or the s/w implementation of the feature, or some numpty hasn't turned it on properly on the infrastructure.

Or, they weren't testing it in the area I was - it's tied to individual bits of the network and the hierarchy underneath. So perhaps they just prodded a single 4G MME (or even 3G RNC) to initiate this?

Re: Not on your nelly mate

> And please - the medical research line is just that - a line. No truth in it.

Indeed, Ben Goldacre heads up a team in Oxford that mines hospital records with an anonymous trawler engine which (allegedly):

a) doesn't transfer any information outside of where it's held

b) doesn't produce patient-identifiable information

c) does valuable research

Re: Another fine mess...

Happened for SWMBO's laptop yesterday evening. Fixed overnight and ok this morning. Had contacted the MS Helldesk and they said hundreds had been contacting them regarding this. Was also picked up by my corporate IT dept, but I didn't see any impact on that machine.

At lesat the email text was still viewable - select email reading pane, CTRL+A, then copy/paste into editor of choice to view. Not easy, but at least made it more manageable.

The Helldesk suggestion was to use Outlook OWA, which was no use as it doesn't read local PST files

Re: Galaxy S8 User

Interesting project, I was almost optimistic for my handset. Go to the web page, drop down the Samsung list for supported devices... no S7 :(

As my S7 is getting rather long in the tooth (3rd battery now slowly dying, case well and truly cracked) am wondering what phone to get next. I think I'll probably give Samsung a miss.

Re: Awesome

Well, you can actually make a lead balloon that properly floats :)

A hot air balloon is about 2,000m^3 and weighs around O(100kg) (ballpark numbers), so making one that would work is probably fine. Getting it there and deploying it might be another problem.

Equally, what should they do with the balloon during high winds (even if at 1% density)? Do you need to be able to reliably and repeatably deflate & reinflate it? Will it accumulate dust blown onto it (adding weight)?

Re: Use traditional security insurance as a model?

> You and your insurer agree a set number of practices that you are required to follow to ensure that you are secure, and to mitigate any attack that might get through

At the moment this is called the Security & Fraud Awareness mandatory eLearning courses that I've been doing every year for the last many years.

Not much has changed over the years - if you get something unsolicited, leave it alone. If you must be curious, hover the links to find out where they actually go. But still not all users have a clue. I remember a boss coming to me saying he thinks summat was wrong with his laptop. Turned out he had been "randomly selected to win an iPod" and had to open a Word doc to fill in a claim form. The filename was "EntryForm.doc .exe".

Needless to say I popped the LAN cable while switching it off and told him to call in IT, but he was a relatively clued up guy in tech, so would have thought he'd be a bit more careful.

Re: 11 stone..

How hard would it be to add load sensors in the undercarriage of the plane, too?

Re: I'm pissed off...

> It's one of the first things I load on any new computer.

I see your VLC and raise you:

Notepad --> Notepad++

Paint --> Paint.Net

Re: 4G?

> Then Motorola Networks were bought by Nokia Networks who had no interest in WiMax

WiMax died in Moto at least a couple of years before Nokia Siemens Networks bought the bits that did it and chucked then on the scrap heap.