Posts by John Tserkezis

Re: Fill up yer memory

"Fill up yer memory"

That's hardly a practical idea now is it?

Re: Detectors?

"In German an accumulator (recharbable battery) is not a battery"

I know it can have a number of meanings, the customs declarations are multi-lingual to guard against the "you didn't tell me" crowd.

"because they didn't believe candy and fruit are food..."

It appears that raw, undried and unrefrigerated meats are in that category as well. As long as you store it in your suitcase, it's not food.

Just for the record, for anyone who's planning on coming to Australia, YES, WE HAVE FOOD HERE - YOU DON'T HAVE TO BRING YOUR OWN. Sheeze.

Re: Idiots

"so it will lose twice as much energy to the surrounding air. It follows that a low-powered kettle uses more energy than a high-powered one. No doubt the more scientifically literate will be able to tell me if I'm right or wrong."

You're right, but total consumption is not their concern. It's that you're using bucketloads of it at the same time every morning, same as everyone else, at the same time. THAT'S their concern.

Re: equips tinfoil hat

"Microsoft doesn't need to pay Symantec to break Windows. Symantec can do that all by themselves."

So can Microsoft, for that matter.

Re: No wonder ..

"No wonder mobile phone companies are so keen to have FB installed by default - burn those MBs, baby."

We have some (mobile) networks here in australia, that offer facebook, twitter and other "social" sites as unmetered data on their plans. Presumably to attract the gen Yer's.

I bet they're looking at their own T&C's desperately trying to get out of this one.

Re: I'm not sure if I can trust their numbers...

"Did I sleep through math class?"

Voodoo mathamatics. I had first seen it when a past employer asked me to look over an earlier prospective employee who was asked some basic opamp with divider maths during the interview stage (everyone was asked the same questions).

He had the right answer and showed working, but the boss had no idea what technique this guy used to get there. I couldn't work it out either, so suggested voodoo mathamatics.

You get there in the end, but no-one knows what black magic they used inbetween. You know, like gigahertz range radio theory, except applied for school grade maths.

Re: Could many of these hacks have been prevented with 2-step authentication?

"Could many of these hacks have been prevented with 2-step authentication?"

Could many of those not had been hacked if the owners picked a password that was actually WORTHY of being called a password, AND not stored on a cloud accout where you can brute force it without the owner realising?

Nope, that's too hard, it's easier if you start a scare campaign on tracking down the "criminal" who hacked it in the first place.

Re: Why is Win 8 and Win 8.1 seperated?

"It seems bizarre that you would separate those two versions"

It tells a story you may be missing. Around half the users of 8.x, have no idea, no clue, and no inclination to upgrade anything, to learn that 8.1 is actually better. Even I know this, and I hate 8.x.

And, it's only just *this last surveyed month* that 8.0 and 8.1 combined have overtaken XP. Which tells us, users would rather stick to XP, than risk what something higher would do to their productivity. I have a mechanic associate who uses an old XP laptop to program ECUs as part of his job, and when questioned, he said he'll have to upgrade sometime, but not right now. Because right now, he has work to do, and simply does not have the time to fuck around and learn something new.

He would be a prime candidate for 7, but 8? Are you kidding me?

"You do realize that the iOS interface specification was on the first set of 10-Commandments tablets"

I thought he brought forth 15 commandments in the form of three tablets, and dropped the first one. I'm pretty sure that "Thou shalt not create a farting app" was on that first tablet.

Re: Another 'could be' law?

"You're the police, it either IS or ISN'T."

They're exercising the "make it up as we go along" laws. You know, the ones that they enact when things aren't going their way...

Re: Sounds like a petrol station special

"My relatively old S3 wouldn't even charge while doing satnav duties until I bought a chunky 2A car adapter."

You're doing wrong. I've been using <shameful sell here> Oziexplorer for nearly 15 years over a variety of laptops (including a PIII and an Atom), several WinCE devices, and three different Android phones. Although it offers an "online" map display, I've only ever used offline, and all still get used regularly on battery.

Bottom line is, if your phone gets hot, or you need a charger at all to get any reasonable charge life out of the battery, then you paid too much for your satnav application. If it was free, you especially paid too much for it. I'm sure there are other apps that do a suitable job, just not any of the ones mentioned here it seems.

Re: Ok I'll bite....

"Soooo what should we be using... If not Skype?!"

I ask exactly the same thing of the "don't ever use Skype" crowd, especially when the user asks, "will all my friends on Skype still be able to talk to me when I use XYZ?" "No?" "Not an option."

For good or bad, Skype has momentum, and the "don't ever use Skype" proponents never think of that.

"I assume that that when the cables went to manufacturing HP used a company that was used to making 230 volt cables so they used a wire that was suitable for that forgetting that 115 volts cables require heaver wire - Something that HP QC should have picked up very quickly."

Sometimes you don't pick it up. We've seen many IEC mains cables supplied with much less copper than is required, even though they're marked (fakely) as 10amp capable along with all the other auth stamps.

Using it with the supplied USB external drive or whatever won't matter much, but being IEC cables, they're really easy to "repurpose" to somewhere else that DOES drink the juice.

I'm guessing the chinese built HP cables have had the same thing happen to them.

Re: "Now you can deliver highly engaging ads ..."

"that privacy option in iOS that limits ad tracking."

You mean like "do not track"? Fat lot of difference that made.

Re: it'll all end in tears

"The simulation's "self-awareness" level is a tricky one to get through."

No problem, the cheat codes are available on the holographic interweb.

Re: Criminalize AFACT

"No idea what the state of the paly is now, after several re-writes of the copyright act."

It's been fixed. Now everyone is guilty by default.

Re: @Mint Sauce

"That is because they know that the one they just sold you is crap."

Funny you should say that. I steered away from one high quality part that would have cost $50 + delivery, to go for a $32 box of 100 cheap chinese nasties.

If I replace one every 3 months broken or not (and it'll last at least that long), the box will probably outlive me.

Re: Anybody know if the SLAs for Azure include chargebacks for loss of business?

"That is a downtime of 365.25*24*0.001 = 8 hours 46 minutes per annum."

This reminds us of two important factors:

1/ Nothing is infallible.

2/ Everything is more fallible than the marketing garb makes you might think it is.