Posts by Tom 38

Re: When did Britain lose its way?

Here in Britland, we've had to deal with proper terrorism for years, and everyone has dealt with it with rational perspective.

Back then we were tough and dealt with things - we didn't have the Matt Bryant / Daily Mail paranoia that we have now.

Lets go back a sec and look. The majority of terrorism that we've encountered in the UK was due to The Troubles, and the government response to that was.... to give military intelligence to the "good" Protestant terrorists so they could go kill the "bad" Catholic terrorists (and deal drugs and run criminal enterprises).

Re: re : James 51

You appear to have confused the need for vehicular traffic when turning to give way to pedestrians WHO HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO CROSS THE ROAD they are turning into. There is otherwise no overriding priority for pedestrians on the road. They are road users like any other and are expected and required to abide to rules that apply to them.

You need to actually read the highway code as it relates to pedestrians, Mr AC.

The number of things which pedestrians have to obey are marked with the word MUST bolded and in capitals - hey, its just like an RFC. There are only 4 rules which pedestrians must obey, the others are simply advice on how best to use the road:

Motorways. Pedestrians MUST NOT be on motorways or slip roads except in an emergency

Moving vehicles. You MUST NOT get onto or hold onto a moving vehicle.

You MUST NOT loiter on any type of crossing.

Railway level crossings. You MUST NOT cross or pass a stop line when the red lights show,

I'd say 3TB has already been the sweet spot for at least a year.

Nah, Dongguan Shinyang is GONE! Completely last months news.

However, Foshan Shinyang, Huizhou Shinyang, Shunde Shinyang and Zhuhai Shinyang are just getting ready to start their production lines..

Cmon, you know how this works by now. It's white only for now, but the blue will be "coming soon" and will be in vvvveeeeery short supply.

Re: hmmm

Look, it's basically religion at this point. You believe that something exists, for which no proof can be shown for its existence, but in order for you to be convinced that it does not exist, you must be shown evidence of its non-existence.

You can get sweary and downvote me, but the only thing you aren't doing is convincing me of your position with your fallacious arguments.

Even taking the low end of the billable, it's still over £9k per 1U server per year.

Re: Poor Bug Fixing

There is a school of thought that suggests the 'big....mass' actually contains a lot of information about the problem being modelled by software.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Consider the source... Joel makes a lot of money by spreading FUD about OSS and selling closed source alternatives.

Re: I would laugh at this if it weren't so sad

The U.S. has between 15 and 40 million people here illegally.

Some might consider that any of you west of the Appalachians are also there illegally.

Re: Further to Andrew Jones 2 post

I thought it works like this:

It uses aircrack to discover the network the chromecast is currently using.

It broadcasts bad packets in order to disrupt the chromecast's wifi connection.

When this happens, the chromecast will accept new connections, as it thinks it needs to be configured.

When this happens, the pi-rickroll box sets up a new network and instructs the chromecast that it is the new controller.

Once it has control, it sends content to the chromecast.

How small?

Re: Sorry about this..

We're out of cake!

Re: I like mass surveillance

Which group is the minority and which group is the majority depends on whether the audience is register readers or genpop.

Re: Mad

However much of an arse he is, his rights and fears shouldn't be subjugated to the comfort of the state.

What a load of bollocks. You cannot ignore the law because of "fears". All that does is say that your personal inclination is more important than our laws.

<p>Sweden seems to have done nothing to allay those fears. They could interview him in London, or issue an assurance that he wouldn't be extradited after being interviewed in Sweden.</p>

He has been given those assurances, he "fears" that they are not being forthright and will extradite him anyway, despite it being against Swedish and EU law, so he is ignoring our laws.

And you're still apologizing and justifying his behaviour and actions..

On the spectrum, Gauntlet came on 2 tapes, once you finished tape 1 side a, tape 1 side b, tape 2 side a, tape 2 side b it would instruct you to insert tape 1 side a, and you start again from the beginning, but with a few more beasties!

Infinite play :)

No, their paper is not on execution speed of languages, it is on choosing the best language for a macro-economic model, and yet they chose to measure a metric that is irrelevant for choosing the best language for a model, and admit as much in their conclusion.

A "scientific" paper presumably has a hypothesis, an experiment that tests that hypothesis, and conclusions that can be derived from the empirical results of the test. To be valid science, the test must be valid in order to draw conclusions, and the purpose of being a scientist is to devise valid tests.

In order to determine if your test and conclusions are correct, you release the information to your peers, who examine your work to see if they can determine logical inconsistencies from your experiment method or your conclusions, which would invalidate your conclusions.

By critically examining their paper for these logical inconsistencies you can determine that their experiment did not produce valid test results, since they only measured execution time, which TFA explains is not worth measuring.

Science. It works bitches.

Re: Horror Stories with these machines!!

When I bought my house, I assembled my funds in an "Instant Access" savings account at HSBC. At some point, I needed to transfer £25k to my solicitor:

Log on online, go through security, add solicitor's client account as payee, but I can't pay them more than £500.

wtf

Website says to try phone banking.

Ring up phone banking, go through security twice (automated, and then in person), re-supply solicitors account details, finally "Steve" tells me I can't do it over the phone, I have to go in to branch.

wtf

Walk to nearest branch, queue up for counter.

Get to front of queue - "This is business customers. You want the counter around the corner that isn't signed at all"

wtf

Queue up again. Get to the front of the queue - "You can't do withdrawals here, you need to make an appointment to talk to an advisor"

wtf

Go to the front of bank, there is a man with a clipboard. He can give me an appointment in 1 hours time to do a withdrawal, it will cost me £40.

WTF

At this point I enter meltdown and had a fit of pique and threatened to close my "instant access" savings account on the spot, walk across the road with £25k in cash and deposit it with my solicitors bank directly. This got action, they do not like having to physically give you your money..

I would move my current account, but they are all similarly cretinous these days.

Re: Get a grip

Most people who are planning or have committed really serious crimes are extremely paranoid and will naturally limit or disguise their communications.

Citation.

Most of the people who get caught via these means will be minor criminals - such as the person who gets drunk and emails or posts a racial or homophobic rant, or small-time drug dealer/users

Citation.

and it really doesn't need special laws to get access to that information.

It currently does, so what do you think changes in the future?

Re: Groundbreaking

"This [Vantablack] is not a groundbreaking thing," sniffed professor George Stylios at the school of textiles and design at Heriot-Watt university to the Graun. "It's a progression of a group of scientists who didn't ask me to play

FTFY

Re: Money isn't everything,

Only the autistic think a free market will solve all of life's problems.

Obviously, when people think thoughts politically different to your own, they must have a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Re: Struck by "comparatively flimsy"

Playing Devil's Advocate, there is some issue to be taken with the alleged offence. The police helicopter was only endangered after it began following the quad-copter, (wild speculation follows) tracking it by observing it from above. The quad-copter operators, unaware of the police helicopter following above them, raised altitude, which alarmed the police operators and they took avoiding action.

No, because this isn't about GCHQ intercepts, which apparently are all legal (dubious: discuss), but instead about ordinary plod being able to request warrants to request the same sort of data from ISPs.

Re: Not the apology I'm looking for

Yep, "whoops, too bad" is about the worst apology you can give.

A couple of days ago a company I've bought e-cigs from decided that the best way to market their crap to me was to give Twitter my email address and full name, so that Twitter can invite me to register and subsequently follow my retailer... it took multiple email exchanges before they figured out that I was upset that they had spaffed my personal details to a 3rd party, not that they sent me a marketing email every 2 days.

Their subsequent "apology" was along the lines of "Well, we've done it now, can't really take it back". Fortunately, they are a UK subsidiary of a US company, I only dealt with the UK company, so I'm seeing how toothless the ICO actually is in dealing with idiots like this. Accidental data losses are one thing, this was wilful.

Re: Asking for a court order

50,000 people might fill in a web form, 50,000 people won't instruct a solicitor.

There are two reasons why it will take so long:

a) The comet isn't sitting still - it is also going very fast.

b) Generally when you approach an object you want to land on, it is advisable to be going significantly less than 30000 MPH or parking dings may occur.

Re: Here come the lawsuits.

Parliament is sovereign because it is equal with the monarch, and I have no problem with secret squirrels listening in to her phone calls either.