Posts by Velv

So it can maliciously fill disk space with multiples of MB. That's bad.

Now take it one step further - maliciously fill disk space with multiples of child porn. Suddenly such vulnerabilities take on a whole new danger level.

Who has their iPod Touch that close to their face? Clearly she wasn't holding it right.

Apple Store Receipt

The Apple Store system sounds fantastic.

Walk in, pick it up, scan it, generate a receipt, walk out the door and show the receipt to security - all from a jailbroken app that shows receipts on the screen.

Now I understand why Apple is keeping money in the bank - its to cover the losses just walking out the shop door.

Adobe products all came with a fix built in years ago - its called UNINSTALL

P O W E R ! ! ! ! !

<---<<< and why haven't they had Paris on Top Gear yet

$64k of kit stolen - that's a lot of kit to carry. Somehow "a hooded man armed with three rocks" just doesn't quite cut it.

Even allowing for Apples inflated prices your talking 20 laptops minimum. Not exactly going to be spotted running down he street with that lot in your arms, are you!

I'd been looking at flying toys for a while, so when one came up in the HMV sale at half price I took the plunge.

I've never attempted being a peeping tom, but I'm guessing you need to stay pretty quiet. Quiet is N O T something that can be said for drones. Even with double glazing I suspect you'd notice the buzzing noise at the window (unless it was being masked by a buzzing noise in the room).

I'm just waiting for the outrage when Playmobil bring together the figures from different sets into a Village People set :)

Everyone: Y M C A !

Jesus promised to rid us of evil.

Odin promised to rid us of Ice Giants.

Now I don't know about you, but I haven't seen many Ice Giants around these days.

Shares in my company are worth £1,000,000 each (or so I think). Funny, I can't seem to find anyone willing to buy any.

So they were hoping for $20 each - yeah, well, you'll get what the market is willing to pay. That is the value of each share. If Southeastern think the shares are undervalued they should be buying more, not moaning that they aren't being offered enough for what they've got..

Head >>> Bury >>> Sand

Keep beating the drum - Business Continuity Planning

It's more likely a data centre owner will go bankrupt than have a plane fall on the building, therefore the plans should already be in place (if not in motion) to get out of 2e2 (or any other data centre, building, POD, tent).

So you're sitting back smug because you don't use 2e2? Suggest you get out your BCP and your list of suppliers and you see what your contingency is if you lose any one of them.

Science v Religion

So occasionally a few trick cyclists gather some data and draw conclusions which may or may not be stretching the truth.

At least they don't claim to represent God and have every single one of their conclusions based on a wild leap of faith in something totally unprovable.

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If you have good 2e2 staff on site you should be looking at options to in-source them immediately. Don't go rushing off to the competition hoping the good staff will be TUPE'd into your new supplier, take the good staff on yourself.

Outsourcing is about accountancy manipulation to allocate costs. Having your own staff is about delivering good agile cost effective service to the business when it needs it.

Shareholders should be calling for a vote of no confidence in the board of directors as the board is clearly being take for a ride by its lawyers.

"yes, Mr Boardmember, we'll charge you millions to patent it and trademark it and then charge you more to vigorously defend your rights no matter how much it costs you"

Excuse my ignorance but why not...

Nationalise all the airwaves.

Set up a "National Grid" to operate the core infrastructure

The Grid can sell wholesale chunks to Service Providers

This is the ways is once worked - you didn't have a contract with Cellnet or Vodafone, but with an SP. Perhaps you have two or three grid owners so the SPs can force competition in their market as well.

Ultimately all the SPs bidding for spectrum only puts up costs, which will be passed on to consumers, so how can that be in the best interests of the people. "But its raising £3Bn for the country" - hmm, since the public are paying it, that would be TAX then.

So perhaps EU law needs to be enhanced such that an advert or offer of any kind of additional warranty or support includes a table of what's already included. You see plenty of these when it suits companies to promote the Pro version or similar.

I'm not really suggesting this is a good idea, but perhaps some Apple marketing bod might have lunch with an Apple legal bod and suggest they can head off these lawsuits and market enhanced support at the same time. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen at Apple. "We don't mix with the underlings"

Stop selling different types of Licence

You have a TV. You need a licence. Full stop. You "only have a B&W TV" - tough - you're receiving the same content, so you should pay the same as everyone else. If you choose to watch in B&W that is up to you.

Back in the days when TVs were expensive, and colour doubly so, it was a valid excuse to have a B&W TV. Nowadays there is no difference - you either have a TV, or you don't. I seriously doubt many of the 13,000 remain on a B&W TV because they can't afford to replace it - I'd be fairly confident they have chosen not to replace it (or are cheating).

Family Friendly

I've always loved the law in this country and how its applied (sarcasm).

While technically there may be under 18s in the pub, the reality is that the vast majority of patrons will be over 18, so why do they publicise it as "family friendly" (I have no problem with them filtering, just how they express it).

It's like the cigarette machines in the pubs that have signs that say "You must be over 16 to use this machine".

(rant over)

NFC labels as part of the label of a clothes garment.

NFC reader on the opening of the washing machine.

Washing machine chooses appropriate cycle based on the clothes loaded.

Job done !!!