Posts by John Tserkezis 2242 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007
After failing abysmally on legal grounds to stop him, they've resorted to "teaching him a lesson" by EVERY legal means possible...
Yep, it's happend. I think of the US government as a lower form of life than that Australian Government.
Now that's saying something!
A quick look on eBay for the pentalobe drivers shows much.
One seller in California is flogging them off for around $8. And $80 shipping to Australia.
My arse. This rings alarm bells. California indeed. Cupertino I bet.
Thankfully, another seller in Hong Kong is doing them for $10 and free shipping.
I'm Australian, and speak the dialect known as "wog".
To me, it does indeed sound like "fuck", more so, I can't make out how it could sound like "bark" like it supposedly is. I'm guessing it's the dropped, shortened or supressed "B"s that bring it closer to "fuck". That said, I'm usually ok in deciphering english accents, more so here because the words leading up to it had an english accent.
And yet, I still can't bring myself to admitting it sounds like "bark".
I guess this is why you should never call your car "Pajero".
When you're selling to a worldwide market, accents DO make a difference...
Now excuse me while I got to the shops and see if it's available here... :-)
"...but if Windows Phone 7 doesn't win the hearts and minds of the smartphone-buying world..."
It was released by far later than any of the other competors, it rides on the back of WM6 WM5 and earlier that crash on a semi-regular basis, the "removable" memory card can't actually be used as a removable memory card because they're tied to the device, and best of all no cut and paste.
You're asking *IF*? I'd be surprised if it DOES take off. Because let's face it, without some seriously drastic changes, it won't have any more appeal than right now. And by that stage, you're going to have an entirely different product. Good luck to them with their wPad.
I'm looking for work again, and after reading this, I thought how would this theory apply with badly rendered fonts on my resume?
It would be nice to speculate the reader is going to remember mine better than any of the others, but having read resumes myself, the most likely outcome is that it's going to piss people off in a major way, as well as looking non-professional. And then get promptly binned.
I call bullshit on this one.
"Vodafone has since stated that the misuse of login credentials probably came either from a dealer or from an employee."
No shit Sherlock.
I'm still a bit confused about the article's author's sarcasm on the use of web portals being new.
They're not. Being compromised like this isn't new either.
That's why it's a fail for Vodaphone, they should have known that simply trusting your employees to not hand out piss weak credentials is a dead loss. That's why everyone else has moved on to more secure methods. Sheeze.
Julian is a very naught boy. He's been making the government look bad.
The best that said government could do to spank him, is get him on sex without a condom, where the women invovled took two years to realise that what they originally meant by "consensual" was actually "rape". It's an easy mistake to make. After all, they can be bought just like anyone else.
Now said goverment is going after a politician who says Julian is a hero, and the goverment are a buch of twats. Let's face it, if you tweet it, it's public. Too bad the goverment needs court intervention to get that.
Of this, I have to say the media coverage has done two truly wonderful things:
1/ All this hoo-haa has made people aware of what Wikileaks does, where they may not have even heard about it before.
2/ They've helped the govermenment make themselves look like the twats they are.
Never thought I'd hear myself say it. The media rocks. :-)
I mean they're selling porn on the back of Coca Cola.
Unlike the irony of F%$#ing Disney Corporation, that sues websites selling authentic Disney licenced merchandise, for using Disney images on their website alongside the products directly supplied by Disney in the first place.
Unless you want to pay extra of course.
It's the FCC that has put dictates on Net Neutrality (or lack thereof).
Google has nothing other to do with that, than just comply with their legals. Just like everyone else.
As far as openness goes, "Google develops the OS behind closed doors, open sourcing the code only after its available on handsets"
Compared to most of the others, that *IS* "open".
They never claimed it was entirely Open Source, which has another set of guidelines.
Let's face it, anyone smarter than a box of hammers isn't going to watch TV on a 1.5 inch screen, and the only ones that doing it for free, are courtesy of M&D finance (Mum & Dad).
It's only sensible that it get used for data instead.
Considering web "standards" are created by "what everyone is doing anyway", Microsoft seems to want to formalise the process instead of "just' doing things, and having everyone whine about it later.
I still can't see the difference, other than if you don't like the new Microsoft-invented "standards" because they're crap, this time you have no recourse because they're "standards" now.
Actually, I can see the difference:
Before, you whined how microsoft did their own thing (behind everyone's back).
Now, you whine how microsoft is doing their own thing (in front of everyone).
Yep, that's *completely* different.
Official fault reports never get past the first phone call.
You need to be brain dead, clueless and whine like a pussy on twitter before anything gets done.
Same goes for any carrier around the world.
Whether or not you _already_ are brain dead, clueless and whine like a pussy on twitter on a regular basis is largely irrelevant.
"Did I correctly read that this woman picked a company purely because they were at the top of Google, without doing any further research?"
Yep, customers are idiots. This is pretty much the philosophy used for scammers selling wrist bands that give you super powers and such.
The idiot customers go no further than the primary site that promises the earth, without actually learning everyone else hates their guts for good reason.
A fool and their money are soon parted... As the saying goes.
Don't get me wrong, I like IPv6, a lot, but the "we'll run out of IPv4 any minute now" mantra has been going since the late 90's or so. The *reason* we haven't changed over, has nothing to do with running out:
This doesn't haven anything to do about address space, or that every device in our house will be internet addressable, or the development and use of NAT tables, it's about the money and to hell with everything else.
We're going to run out, and it's going to *stay* that way, till someone works out how the hogs that own lots of address space get to keep their share of the money without making new address space cheap (because that will "devaluate" exising space, and single-handedly prevent any new owners from IP space because it costs so much. Can anyone say real-estate agent?).
Or work out a way to instantly make existing address space worth nothing. (so there's no reason NOT to decomission IPv4)
Good luck with either of those.
Like I was entitiled to piss off my remaining 1.5 year APC (Australian Personal Computer) magazine subscription because they drifted from being PC(wintel)-centric, to iApple-centric.
Heck, even their online (downloadable) magazine subscription is dedicated ONLY to the iPad.
I might be biased. My next smartphone is definately going to be some flavour of Android.
Why try to convert iTunes whatever to whatever else?
Back when I had an iPod, I used iTunes (Windows) to configure it to appear as a normal drive, then completely removed the crapware suite it installed.
From what I've read, iTunes Mac is halfway ok compared to the windows abortion, but either way, ANYTHING else is superior to iTunes anything.
Mind you, "anything" else (and I've tried a few) wasn't fun to deal with, varying from just plain OK to downright painful, but either way, it was better than iTunes which was completely friggin useless.
With half a brain and careful manipulation of ID3 tags, transfers worked out quite well.
Both ways too, none of this never extracting from the iPod ever again bullshit.
And just so this isn't an anti-apple thing, Windows media player is up to version 12, and still a complete abortion. What is it with media player/managers? Can no-one get it right?
"Coulson resigned over the Goodman affair, only to land on his feet as communications director for David Cameron."
They leave a trail of destruction everywhere they go. But never where they are at that time.
Kinda like they wait a while, shit in their own backyard, then leave it for someone else to clean up the mess. All the while being pristine clean themselves.
Let's hope Karma catches up.
I've always been pro-Adobe reader, even if it was bloated.
But since 9.x, it's beyond a joke. Even by my jokey standards.
And I haven't even started on Adobe DLM. What the hell were they thinking?
Google it, not one freaking bloody good word about it.
Thanks Adobe, for making my choice that much easier by stopping me from getting it in the first place.
And no, I don't use FoxIt. Tried it, vomited, and kept looking.
We a have a great deal of absolutely nothing inbetween whatever you could call something.
Only the larger/more frequented roads inbetween "something" are covered with GSM, and chunks of those aren't covered with 3G.
Telstra (one of our carriers) claims the most coverage with NextG (a specific flavour of not-quite-standard-off-the-shelf-3G) that only they offer.
So if you want coverage, and do not want to be tied into one carrier, your only choice is GSM.
So much for moving forward.
"They don't like it. The REALLY don't like it. I've seen people get escorted out for nothing more..."
That's why they're getting demographic suitables to take the photographs rather than the marketoides who want the data in the first place, and to remain risk-free.
This way, Marketoids get their data without getting blamed for anything, and the demographics suitables are either paid, or get kicked out (or more), in other words, they accept all the risk.
Who's doing the dirty work for whom?
And more importantly, which demographic is stupid enough to fall for this sort of crap?
'Nuff said.
"Guardian offers a helpful public service: a "Who's suing who in the mobile business" flow chart"
Intersting view as to who the real trolls are. Not entirely what I was expecting.
Would be interesting to see how long it takes everyone to work out this is counterproductive for everyone.
The "He who dies with the most money, wins" philosphy needs to be stamped out. One jerk wins and leaves a trail of destruction behind him. Remember by this stage the consumers who have lost out will NOT forget, and will end up trusting future companies less.
You're left with no-one wanting to step foot onto the market because the think they won't last, and the few that ARE left over monopolise the market.
Welcome to the darker ages. And you can thank the trolls for that.
If you're lucky enough to be rolling out new hardware, it's likely the PC vendor is going to supply Win7 64bit drivers too.
However, if you're upgrading the OS on existing hardware, good luck with that. And don't bet that Microsoft will "magically" have those drivers too - you REALLY need to do some homework first.
Let alone card and peripherals without 64bit support. Again, good luck with that.
All the hardware I have at home, and what I use at work are all 64bit capable, but I'm still running 32bit simply for this reason. Till the vendors pull their thumbs out and start writing drivers for the 64 OS we're ALL going to be running in the near future, I'm staying where I am thanks.
They've finally realised that bombarding users with ads for products that enlarge their various appendages really doesn't sell after all.
Instead, they're offering menial entertainment, pointless services, or useless data at some cost, and THAT makes money because the user perceves SOMETHING rather than penis enlargment pills more uselful, and worth paying some money for it.
Holy crap Batman. Who could have possibly realised this was the way to do things??
</Sarcasm>
If there were no changes to the bits the now out-of-date addon takes advange of, you can cheat in a couple of different ways.
There are a couple of add-ons that work around the version limitation automagically for you, or, if you want to hack the addon yourself, rename the .xpi file to .zip, extract the "install.rdf" file and text edit to a higher version than what it is aleady set to.
Test to see if it works and away you go!
"Therefore this is not particularly impressive and the MPAA website was not defaced at all."
If you think you can do better, then shut your trap and just do it.
Or, if you're in the paytard camp, be happy you're paying double price on your now no longer pirated media. Oh, I'm sorry, did you think that prices would come DOWN once piracy was eliminated?
"Determining the limits of pain during robot-human impacts this way will allow the design of robot motions that cannot exceed these limits,"
So their reasoning is, people are still going to get beaten, just not to death anymore.
Then again, this is coming from the same mob who created the killer robots in the first place...
Till that minor issue is addressed, I welcome our new shiny-assed overlords.
"I'd be ashamed to write anything like that. Is that how much you care about other people?"
Not true, and in fact I'll bet you have no shame at all.
You're the type of person who would show up front row centre at an anti-globalisation rally to yell the loudest, and during your lunch hour (yes, protesters have rights too) you'd be seen with a McDonalds burger in one hand and an a mobile phone in the other.
If you REALLY wanted to do something about this, would have gotten your fat whiny arse the fuck over there and actually done something about it, or, you can vote with your wallet and never purchase anything, and I mean ANYTHING from China or Taiwan. And while you're on that theme, you can throw out and replace EVERYTHING you currently own that has been made in China or Taiwan.
Good luck with that, you're going to need it.
...they used lots of indian humans to do the job.
And if I recall correctly, they were pretty pissed once they realised they weren't going to get paid for it.
So, congratulations to all the Google beta testers. You're not going to get paid for it.
Calling someone and abusing them is considered harrassment and/or stalking.
The other way around is considered legal, because any caller that gets abused themselves has the good sense not to call again, thus, the caller has full control over their own abuse.
Some telemarketers don't learn though.
Most have the good sense to not call back, but the ones that do, get both barrels.
I had one overseas telemarketer call me back *three* times telling me I can't do that.
And yet I did. :-)
"Tablets are going to be a lot bigger than everyone realizes."
They died in the 90's for good reason. And they were full-blown PCs too, not the knobbled low-end toy processor you find in PDAs and such which are severly limited in functionality they're trying to tell you is the next big thing today.
It took them two hours to realise an entire truck was missing in an environment where the keys are obviously easily accessible?
And this obviously makes it an inside job? A casual passer-by could have done it.
I know it *was* an inside job, but the point is, with that lax security, what were they expecting?
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