Posts by auburnman

In Retail terms that's an incredibly strong password. In my student days with a job at the local [Office Supplies Chain - name Redacted] the manager's password was 1. The deputy manager's was 2.

Re: Guns won't work, so let's look at alternatives...

I have wildly optimistic visions of someone strapping heli blades and an automatic lid to a dustbin and swallowing the Amazon drone in flight, like a low budget re-enactment of You Only Live Twice.

Re: I'm not mono-browed....

"We live in a large village 5 miles from Harrogate and 7 miles from Leeds and when BT was questioned as to their progress in bringing a minimum of 2MB to us they replied that it was cheaper to take the Government penalties."

Josco, you could probably write to your MP and mention this if you could prove that's BT's position. They might be able to embarrass them into doing their job, or up the penalties so doing nothing is no longer the cheaper option.

Re: Clever Nanny!

"Given how many Aged Parents don't understand technology and leave passwords and crap to the kids, I really do wonder how it will work."

Indeed. I seem to remember mum and dad leaving it to me to sort back when we had dialup, although I think I was probably a little older than a kid, more a "horrible mannered acne ridden little shit" at the time.

"Ah, yes, I assume it'll be making me *rent* the same game that I've already purchased..."

I think we did this to ourselves when we showed how hungrily we would eat up PS1 classics on the store and repurchase the HD remasters of the PS2 greats.

"If you're doing anything else you are by definition distracted."

True. We are fortunate however to live in a society where the police need evidence to charge you with an offence, and until using a mobile while driving was explicitly in the books as a no no, people got away with it unless they were caught having a whoopsie with another car or the kerb etc.

Re: Slightly off topic...

Awesome. Ironically we're just getting to the stage where the shops opposite would have been glad of the free heat.

Re: Satellites not likely affected

"Oh no!! Magnetic compasses will no longer work!"

Surely the needle will just point South (or South-ish) after the flip?

Re: "One of the sites spreading the exploit"

It could constitute slander if they were mistaken in blaming a site, and it might play into attackers hands by tipping them off that the game is up on site X and that it is time to ready some new sites for malware flinging.

Re: I wonder if you can fake it out

Rock your right hand up and down as is custom during the 1-2-3, then drop it and throw your move with your left.

Re: Imagine getting across the Pacific at Mach 6?

You could reconstruct that sensation by letting a lorry drive over you.

Re: @ auburnman: It Could Be Worse Than That

"Russia is very wary, if not actually scared, of China."

So you're saying if China asked for him, he'd be stuffed in a bag and shipped over priority delivery?

Re: "loss-making postal service"?

Which diktat is that? I thought it was being sold off because the Tories are sexually aroused by privatisation.

Re: Self-driving cars are never going to take off

"On top of that, 1% of the entire population every year are killed on the roads (730k in the UK, apparently), with a significant proportion i'm sure where the wrong person (or robot) gets the blame."

That 730K is the figure for killed OR injured. If 2000 people were dying every day on the roads there'd be uproar. Mind you, the very fact that the figure of 730K works out to 2K/day makes me wonder if the 'official estimate' was pulled out of someone's arse.

Re: A can of worms..

The best Hoover I ever had was a thirty quid Dyson Cyclone technology knockoff from Electrolux. You'd forget to empty it as it never seemed to lose suction.

Re: OK, so that's the fictional deity out of the picture

One step at a time...

Re: Seems about right...

Obviously those surveyed 'forgot' to mention their web use at work...

Re: Geography Lesson

Not when part of the discussion is if this is another rumour / hoax. Hoax > Email Scam.

Re: Digital signature conundrum

Or perhaps get a dozen, twenty or even a hundred legit watermarks from hacking, social engineering and or volunteers, then liberally paste ALL the watermarks into the pirate copy. Call it the " I am Spartacus" defence. How would the industry prosecute if they can't pin it down to one person?

Re: Nothing will make airships viable.

But perhaps one day with all the new Metamaterials becoming available to us we could have a viable lightweight vacuum chamber. Fingers crossed.