Posts by Robert Carnegie 4545 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2009
presumably. I mean, if you had that budget and time, then you could probably do some highly reliable scanning of everyone's anything.
the problem is that it's equally available to be misused, as when apparently most members of the Democratic Party were put on the TSA no-fly list.
The story that I read about in a computer magazine once was about the open-plan department that had a large-print wall poster saying "This month's password for the accounts system is: Tsirac64" "because the buggers keep changing it".
That password in fact was constructed from the first six unique letters in this post - usually I take a newspaper - and two unique digits constructed from looking at my digital watch, and it isn't as long as the specification you described. And, as I need to log in to more and more different services, scrupulously using different passwrods, I am considering having them written down in a more outrageously conspicuous form than I have already. Maybe set as my PC's wallpaper?
"I've always thought that Google and the other search engines should require you to submit the pages instead of crawling them."
I think you sort of can do that if you want to. To get up-to-date stuff indexed.
robots.txt is more about keeping your dull stuff out of the index. Or stuff that Google may suspect of being illegitimate SEO work.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35291?hl=en appears to Google's standard advice on the question of "Do you need an SEO?"
They appear to claim, perhaps reasonably enough, that they don't want their product logo and other trademarks swiped.
It is commonly understood that you have to defend trademarks, your product's public identity, proactively and without a sense of humour, or else you lose them and anyone can make, for instance (or not), an office machine whose function is to "xerox".
And they have not really done much more than send a letter which explains this.
I'd advise them to take care though; they can prevent their trademarks being appropriated - but not parodied, mocked, insulted. Put me down too for wanting to see the boorish elderly school bully Jeremy Clarkson (for I imagine that many people have never heard of him, and think that a Jeremy must be a bit of a sissy) cast in the role of the company boss or Grand Theft Auton Himself. Or make the in-show computer game about commercially managing a cadre of prostitutes which is called Ride My Pimp.
Surely the purpose of RT was and is to be a cheaper "Windows" tablet that runs only the new "Windows Store" software where Microsoft gets 33 per cent of your software spending (and Microsoft Office). So you pay less first but more later when you install stuff. And old software doesn't run. And, yeah, people didn't fall for that - not yet, but Microsoft will try again.
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
Birds also generally don't fly that high - why would they, there's nothing up there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
is the plane that struck a flock of Canada Geese at 2818 feet over New York City and landed in the Hudson River. The "Aftermath" section of that article describes the genocide carried out against that race of evil migratory ground-avoiders. So, no, birds aren't tolerated.
Probably a single bird or a drone could be shot from the police helicopter, but then the people responsible wouldn't be caught.
By the way, here in Scotland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Glasgow_helicopter_crash
Helicopters crash a lot: in a city centre is particularly disagreeable. But, police vehicles crash a lot, too. If it wasn't that special vehicles are involved in the story then it wouldn't be presented as interesting. Like "Thunderbirds".
You're probably only going to recognise Sex Teddy in public if you own your own Sex Teddy. So I'm sceptical about the embarrassment.
The main things that I see wrong with it are that it doesn't exist yet and is a venture capital project, and that it probably doesn't really do anything technologically wonderful I mean, a Furby talks to you.
I misread "learn how to look contrite" - advice to the person involved in a scandal - as "learn how to cook", which was distracting, suggesting a return to public attention via guest appearances on daytime television or getting a book out for Christmas.
But what if you are already mainly famous for cooking?
Fan docks already exist, inasmuch as you can get a combination of a fan-cooled rest for your notebook computer with USB hub. But I don't know if you can get that in USB 3 yet. (Meanwhile, an article in free newspaper Metro explained that Android tablets are all too thin to have proper USB ports in but that this will be possible "soon" with "USB 4", which is an announcement that many of us may have missed.)
The benefit of an external fan device, even if it's powered from the PC's own USB, is that the PC's internal fans have less work to do, are activated less often, and don't wear out so fast. Would you rather try to replace a fan inside a notebook or tablet - or replace an external fan all-in-one accessory? I had (have?) a tablet, Samsung Q1, that evidently I used much more than the designer intended. After the fan burned out, I could only use the PC at all for any length of time by sitting it on an external fan board to keep it cooled.
The keyboard itself has space to rest the heel of each hand on. However, I assume the keyboard isn't included since it's casually plugged into a front USB port. It's just there for the photograph. No, I expect you have to buy your own. Anyway, this isn't a computer to write a novel on. I'm not sure what it -is- for. Isn't the PC supposed to be dead? And even if it isn't, why do you want to be able to look at bits of it while you work?
Also concerned about the electrical safety for the owner.
Flying car. http://dilbert.com/2014-05-24/
For a while, it looked like no one was going to make a Windows tablet with respectable processing power and memory - enough for speech recognition, which is power hungry but a necessity for input to a PC with no input deive, and which has been an option since XP and included standard since Vista.
Now, finally, there are some power tablets... and they run Windows 8. Goddamnit!
Can you install Windows 7 on a Microsoft Surface Pro?
According to novel [Stranger In A Strange Land] (1961), "grok" is a Martian word. According to dictionary.reference.com it means "to understand thoroughly and intuitively", but in the book it isn't quite translatable. A word typically can't be copyrighted - maybe a really, really long one in German - but it can be a trademark, or several trademarks at once.
In comparison, "UPS" represents a particular courier company (trademark, I assume) and "uninterruptible power supply" for your computer.
Anyway, I was sort of assuming that this entire post is a joke, but a joke that exists in Microsoft's documentation. An easter-egg, as they're called.
On the other hand, it could be both that and Microsoft's lawyers really taking control of the word "grok". So that the Groklaw web site, which appears to still exist as an apocalyptic snapshot of when it stopped updating, and of everything that was exposed up to then, can be takedowned. While the lawyers laugh at the joke.
Isn't there already a game called "Animal Crossing"?
In the current case (and also in Animal Crossing), I do not see why there is any particular programming difficulty in just letting any two players marry. It's just deliberately excluded.
Polyamory might be a bit more difficult to implement. I gather that this is also the case in real life. It's a lot harder for three or more people to get along in a relationship, than for two. But I've never been there myself, so don't take my word for it.
What they're talking about is that Facebook has an expletiveload of money and any silly lawsuit could get a piece of that just to get someone to go away. It's already been tried. I should sue Facebook, I had a face before they started their business. I also had books.
On the other other other hand... if I write a program today, it may have structural resemblance to a program I wrote last week, or last year. I don't go further back than that; there is stuff that evidently I've written in the past that I don't recognise at all. Except for structural similarities that I've been using all the time since.
But I'm sceptical that you'd memorise a significant amount of copyrightable code.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27034117 initially sounded to me like news from the 1960s or early 70s. I thought that Britain had left behind that sort of thing. Exceptionally, in dear old "Personal Computer World" magazine, you'd see little adverts for computer hardware from the Far East, where a modem or a circuit board was being basically cuddled by a charming young woman who may or may not have had any idea what it was for, no reason why women wouldn't understand technology, but if you know about electronics and static electricity then you don't hold certain items in a certain way. And I don't think even Amstrad sank to that.
And now all of our computers are made in the Far East and we have "lads' mags" that I hadn't really been paying attention to. And this, but this possibly isn't Britain's fault.
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html - (c) 1997 - offers a similar rule for prudent evil masterminds in those days: "99. Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size." And therefore couldn't be copied by enemies on a 3½ inch floppy disk, remember those? 1.44 MB capacity.
Having said that, do private and public key have to be of similar size? It could take way long to log in then.
I have no idea whether other advertising services run on iOS, but I'm not going to assume that you are saying correctly that they do, because, of course, such services would be in competition with Apple's own.
The last that I heard, even designing a better keyboard program isn't allowed, except perhaps to type text into the clipboard, to paste into another application. Or else not even that.
My impression of what "Sell Hack" does, or did, and how, is that it sends -your- LinkedIn personal details, when you use it, to its publishers. Then, users of Sell Hack can see the normally hidden details of other users of Sell Hack.
So, it's not magic, it's not -exactly- hacking in fact, but apparently it is still a breach of LinkedIn conditions, maybe, and it's gone away.
if you're fussy.
When I buy it, it is "paracetamol", and usually the acceptable supermarket brand. But a large proportion of Register readers only speak American, and the rest of us are surely smart enough to look it up, so I translated.
As for them putting this or other real drugs into "homeopathic" pills, that's only a theory - until now, apparently.
In any case, do not take more than one of these drugs together - they are the same stuff and it doesn't take a lot to make a deadly overdose, as your liver dies and rots inside you. I've also heard an argument that taking this stuff and caffeine could be a risk - including with tea or coffee - but that was based on a test tube trial. I suppose they can't very well do an experiment with people.
Of course they've put real medicine in their homeopathic slosh. It means that their stuff works. So you will get homeopathic headache cure with a proper does of acetaminophen in it, I bet. So everybody's happy, but it costs more than when it's called Tylenol. Still, if the customer's satisfied.
The story seems to be that they found Microsoft secret information (that Windows 8.1.1 is still making users cry?) by opening the Hotmail e-mail of the non-employee blogger that it was leaked TO.
To do this, presumably they went through every other Hotmail user's e-mail, as well.
In other news, using Linux is considered to be stealing from Microsoft. Anyone receiving e-mails that mention Linux will henceforth be billed for damages. Welcome to what always was a post-Snowden world, only now you know it. (Which is what post-Snowden really means.)
"Hello everyone
"a new approach is necessary to imagine the righteousness of Jesus with
brand-new innovations when evaluating God
Prior to the debate about God , you should also try http://www.wwwwwwwwww.www
;-)"
Well, I haven't looked at the actual site and I don't intend to, but, when did the Jesus business get overrun with new-approach innovation gobbledygook? Doesn't it already have its own?
Then again, this may be randomly generated text, and also may be a malware site, and actually makes Jesus cry.
Jeremy Brett was in that one on ITV3 the other week. I didn't recognise the red-headed victim, but Scottish actor Richard Wilson played the role of "The League", whose name I've also forgotten. And it was explicitly organised by Professor Moriarty, unlike anything in the canon except for "The Final Problem", which ought to be next week, I suppose. Richard Wilson wasn't Moriarty, he was very scared of Moriarty. That was for a bank vault full of gold. I don't think Moriarty would have approved the operation in 2014.
I don't see anyone pointing out on the question of compnaies making and operating coin processing machines that will have to be set for the new coin, that that is part of their bloody job. The currency is updated from time to time, partly because the metal in coins gets more valuable than the value of the coins, and coin detection machinery has to be updated to handle the new coins. Your digital home moneybox might not work, though.
I thought it was saying something else; if I find a distressed stranger wearing one of these bracelets, I touch it with MY phone and it contacts their relatives or a care agency. Then what? I dunno, they read my location, they phone me back, we discuss the ransom money...... (joking).
I think the spec sheet for the processor says that it's 64 bit capable and can address 4 GB RAM, but this tablet only has 2 GB. As far as I know, there was and is no point in installing 64-bit Windows unless you have at least 4 GB RAM: it won't do anything that the 32-bit version won't do. At least, not anything that you want to do on a personal computer or a tablet. So, if they can fit more RAM into this thing, then maybe 64-bit Windows is a reasonable option.
I mean: is there a more secure version of Flash Player for 64-bit?
I assume that SSD is built more robustly than USB memory, and also has higher performance. For instance, "wear levelling" logic extends the useable life of your memory.
Also, the cost of a larger installed storage option to the end-user is liable to be more than the difference in cost of two storage devices. System builders make a profit.
However, your prices for USB memory seem to me too-good-to-be-true. Maybe that's wholesale and you get a truckload of them. Or maybe they're fakes; it happens.
I'm kind of puzzled that no one seems to be offering non-binary unit sizes on SSD. I've got a tablet with 64 GB, I don't need 128 but I could have used 96. (Of course you don't actually get a power of two as the capacity. I don't know all the details of why.) Now I guess they don't need to sell a 96 GB unit, I could just fit a 64 GB and a 32 GB side by side - if there's room in my device - and format them as one if I want to. But usually there isn't room.
I think I don't currently have and in fact don't quite correctly remember two spam messages whose title struck me as amusing, but my brain insists that that was one of them. But it may not have been.
The other one was or wasn't "Do you want lager breasts?"
Is it OK to find "Attract men with large breasts" funny? I know they're around.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17270_100-unintentionally-hilarious-spam-subject-lines.html actually covers sender name as well as subject line.
I recently got one that said "We are (heir-hunting investigating company), did you have a relative with the same surname as you?" As of this year, as far as I know I do not - it is a good name though, isn't it?
I decided to pass it on to its e-mail hosting company (MyNet.com in, I dunno, Turkey or somewhere), the apparently genuine British heir-hunting agency, and the large Russian finance house with a London office, whose names were being abused - although it may happen all the time.
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/advancefee/inherit.asp is the scam, although my version only had point 1, and I think that page turned up in Google with the three words phrase that struck me as characteristically odd in the e-mail text, beginning with the word "standard". I thought it might be the actual name of a process and I was curious, but it seems only to appear here. Which is handy for looking it up.
I think I got an abbreviated one because then it isn't immediately clear that this is what it is. Unless you look it up to see if it's a well known spam.
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