Posts by Velv

WAY TO GO!

Not only has Snowden got the US government after him but he's now highly desirable to the Chinese government, someone a little less renowned than the US Government for playing by the rules (and that's a relative statement!!!)

He's clearly not tried that hard to shift it, there several potential users of such a name.

I'll take it off his hands.

Scaremongering by journalists and spin doctors.

PCI, DPA, FCA, PRA, SEC, etc will NOT be issuing fines to companies who have demonstrated a good approach to securing their estate.

Mainstream and Extended (aka FREE) support will end April 2014. Microsoft have published the prices for Special Support, and therefore ALL users have the OPTION to maintain a supported estate (although they might not have the budget).

Yes, get rid of XP as soon as you can. But you are more likely to be fined for fucking up a rushed rollout than doing a rollout in a controlled manner.

No sane person would choose from birth to believe in a deity.

Belief in Religion is an indoctrination by parents (or guardians) in their belief system. It is training the mind of children not to challenge or question their life or their surroundings.

Don't believe me - try setting up your own new religion as an adult. At best you'll be ridiculed (David Ike). At worst you'll be locked up (in the slightly free world) or executed (in the not so free world).

Define "Better"

"Better" when considering the listener is a subjective term. While at a technical level the format has "better" sample rates and frequency ranges that does not necessarily relate to a better listening experience.

I've conducted a number of blind trials with friends in Richer Sounds. Everyone could here a difference between MP3 and CD through the same amp and speakers. There was however a debate about which was better.

But as always. fools and their money are soon parted...

FAIL

Watermarking is great - you can find the source of the pirate stream or copy.

Which assumes the pirate has been stupid enough to obtain the source using a traceable identity.

Wouldn't it be wonderfully blissful if the attackers breached Adobe through a published flaw in an Adobe product.

At least I know my details haven't been stolen from Adobe's servers. I've always got my Adobe products from BitTorrent (JOKE!, I wouldn't touch Adobe products with a barge pole)

Further evidence that El Reg was subject to the higher end of scale of corporate entertainment from Violin (see comments on Manky Quadragon)

America was not shut down properly.

Would you like to start America in safe mode with free health care and no guns? (Recommended)

So it loses a second a millennium... if you're counting a linear reference time difference.

If you want to know the local time it loses or gains a second almost every year depending on the addition or subtraction of a leap second.

10 out of 10 for technological innovation and miniaturisation.

Minus several thousand for practicality and usefulness.

I love the comments above. I love the comments Merkins are making about their lords and masters. I love the irony that the article is about the snooping of published information on open forums and Merkins are commenting on the article denouncing the practise... which will immediately be schlurpped into the NSA database and tagged to the offending Merkin.

And don't for one minute think Anonymous Coward affords any protection from the NSA!

Interesting to see what happens for companies and ISPs that white label gmail. Virgin Media is one. I need to go back and read the T&Cs to find out what they said...

Comes back to "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold". (Except if you're paying your ISP, you are the customer)

Go watch the film "Fail Safe". Both of them. The original is good, the remake is awesome with an excellent cast.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235376/

Simple answer:

Open your favourite drawing application (MSPaint or other)

Create a new image 1136 pixels by 640 pixels.

Use the fill tool to make it one colour (sorry, color). Pick a sensible mute dull tone.

Save. Save to iDevice

Make this your background.

95% of Americans are idiots. And most of the non-idiots can trace their direct lineage to Scotland or Ireland.

And 86.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot (Vic Reeves)

The strange thing about radio waves is that they are detectable.

It's a well documented fact that Russian spies around the world knew they were being followed not by breaking the encrypted transmissions but simple by observing that transmissions were taking place.

If these chips have the capability then it isn't switched on, or the airwaves would be full of interference.

And it they really have created a "zero-power-consumption" chip then they've broken the laws of physics, and I doubt Intel would be selling normal chips with hidden processors if they could make powerless chips for everyone.

Never has the old saying "you get what you pay for" been more true.

The cost to produce adequate results is dropping, and quality is rising, but if you really want to capture the best quality of image you need to invest in good quality imaging equipment.

I know it's been tried before, but why do the vendors continue to try and keep their messaging and only theirs. Customers do not go for one platform purely because of the messaging client (well, the vast majority don't, maybe a few teenage kids).

Make an interoperability standard so that iMessage can talk to BBM can talk to WhatsApp can talk to Windows Messenger and then an fall back to SMS.

They aren't asking how many bullets were fired. They aren't asking how many tank shells were fired. They aren't asking where the ground vehicles drove and when. They aren't asking where the planes flew, what they spied, and what they attacked. In all these cases the "point of impact" is remote from the firer

So why are they asking for detailed information about remote controlled aircraft?

If British troops are being sent to war by the elected government of the day then they should be equipped with the best tools for the job. If the use of remote controlled aircraft places our troops in the safest position then that's the tool that should be used. The real debate is should our troops have been sent to war.