Posts by JimmyPage

Own goal for Amazon

one of Amazons selling points (for me) is the fact that a lot of things they sell have a body of genuine reviews behind them. It's not scientific, but looking at my looked at list and purchases, I'd wager that I've bought more because of good reviews than not bought because of bad reviews.

(Bearing in mind that sometimes it's not a "bad" review, just one which highlights a products particular suitability for a specific job. I may still buy *another* product from Amazon.)

If the words starts getting out that Amazon reviews are (or can be) stacked, then they will lose one of their key selling points for me - and my wife.

Be curious to see how Amazon proceed here. Up until now, they have hardly put a foot wrong (in my opinion) since 1997 when I started using them.

They should move to the UK

evidence rarely - if ever - gets thrown out, no matter how dishonestly it was obtained.

Whoa, whoa, whoa ....

What forensic computer security outfit would *ever* allow an examined drive to be in a position to execute code ? I would have thought even the keystone cops would have known that ?

The procedure AIUI is to get a bitwise *copy* of the target, and then perform all tests on that. You would never be able to boot off the drive anyway because that would change the contents.,

And you would never use a Windows machine either.

Something doesn't square up in this story .....

hang on

weren't wee told that things like this could "never" happen ?

Sigh ...

it's not todays government I fear.

It's tomorrows.

Clipper chip

'nuffr said

field, service

nuff said

Just occurred to me ...

What did GCHQ know that the Guardian didn't that prompted them to insist on such a newsworthy destruction.

What *else* have they been up to ?

Used, or "thought to have used"

isn't this circumventing due process ?

What does the constitution say about this ?

tablet sales will continue to decrease because of their longer-than-expected lifecycle.

really ?

Or is it because there's nothing new ?

There's nothing the market to best my 1920x1280 quad-core Android tablet (design nearly 2 years old). Certainly nothing to persuade me to part with £200.

Pah, lightweights

on a visit last year to the RAF Museum at Cosford, I saw a Nimrod parked outside awaiting preparation for exhibition.

Because it had been carried by road, they had folded the wings up, so you could see the avionics wiring. There were several bundles of what looked like *hundreds of wires) which passed into the wing from the fuselage.

All white (certainly from a distance).

All cut.

It broke my heart ... clearly a reminder that plane will never fly again -->

As an aside it was a hell of a sobering thought (as I mentioned to the Mrs) that someone, somewhere, once knew what every wire did.

Colour me uninterested ...

one of the upsides of a free-market economy is you don't *have* to engage if you don't want to.

My first thought on the article headline and subsequent content was "demand creation" ... Apple may have billions of these [canine] testicular timepieces in the wings. But hint at rationing, and you will guarantee the media frenzy (and associated upsales) of black-Friday style mania ensues.

I wonder if Apple are taking any steps to prevent speculative re-sales ? Presumably the iWatch will need to be connected to an iTunes account ? And only Apple will allow a change ?

Statute of limitations ...

there's a phrase regarding US law which goes something like "the statute of limitations cannot be considered active if the offender absents themselves from the jurisdiction"

In other words, nice try buster.

Surely the Swedish system would be the same. I can't believe they have a fugitives charter ....

Second chamber

should be formed from the runners up in each constituency. How about the top 200 runners up ?

No need for a second election - or indeed any of that pesky thinking UK voters hate so much. Added advantage instant balance (as you are now no longer ignoring the 49% of the people who didn't vote for you).

Bearing in mind the second chamber has less power than the HoC ....

What's your other hobby ?

playing LPs backwards ?

<brainstorming> Total blue-sky thinking

The nub of the problem seems to be that the second transactions happen "outside the jurisdiction", it becomes very difficult to administer any system to monitor the transaction ...

I'm idly wondering if there is a mechanism to lever the currency - sterling - such that transactions in sterling can be taxed. Wherever they happen in the world.

Not really sure *how*, but it's worth a sideline that until recently, OPEC insisted all oil was bought/sold in US dollars, which acted as a boost for the Federal Reserve.

(Side-sideline, the first country to unilaterally stop using USD was Iraq. Followed by Syria, North Korea, and Iran. Curious how these countries were very much Dubya's "axis of evil" .....)

</brainstorm>

Ah ... the dream ... the reality

So this fridge that "knows" how many beers are in it. Does it *really* know.

Or, (as I suspect) does need a slightly behind-the-scenes tweak of SOMEONE having to scan the beers in, and scan them out again ? In which case you'd be better off keeping your dumb fridge, and putting a whiteboard next to it. If you want it connected, you point a webcam at it.

Improved boot speed ?

How many times do you need to boot. Almost never, IME.

Am I missing something here ?

Twitter is a US owned, and based company. That means data it controls is the property of Uncle Sam wherever it is (like paying US tax). courtesy of the PATRIOT Act.

So building an EU data centre seems a little disingenuous - it won't solve the problem.

(Here's the story which sparked the fire)

If I were a layman

I'd say the concept of a "trusted" certification authority is bust. Which means SSL is bust.

Anyone care to correct me - as a layman.