Posts by John Tserkezis 2242 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007
Does low power WiFi cost less (or will it cost less) per unit used than current bluetooth?
If I want high speed wireless comms that bluetooth can't do, I'll use WiFi as-is.
If I want connectivity that bluetooth can't do, I'll use WiFi as-is.
In other words, if it ain't cheaper, I'm not interested.
And I'm willing to hedge a bet that few others would be too.
"The data contained names, email addresses, websites, and unique user-identification numbers for 198,398 individuals. It was originally gathered by affiliated marketing companies using software offered by Digital Rivers subsidiary Direct Response Technologies and stored on password-protected servers."
So you're telling me, it was originally collated by one type of thief, just to be purloined by another type of thief.
"The breach came to light only after a 19-year-old New York man allegedly tried to sell the purloined data"
"The breach"?! What? No mention of the f%$king marketing companies that pinched it in the first place, or is obtaining money through less tasteful, albeit legal means make it alright?
After what's been happening here in Australia, GBP3.5 mil (AU$6.1m~) is chicken feed.
For some here, they won't get out of bed before less than a AU$10m or so package.
Though it would be fair to say they've been in the banking sector, where the banks are making money hand over fist, the the users are losing more than ever. Global economic crisis? Never heard of it. Unless they're using it as an excuse to market yet another fee.
The next one in charge will be earning their money. They're going to have to justify new fees as something that's costing the bank. No more blatant rip-offs like last time. Can't get away with that anymore. Let's see if the new one can break the last package record...
And no, no amount of whining about it makes a difference here either.
"If you're going to cheat on your parter using technology, make sure YOU understand the technology better than they can."
Apparently, she couldn't fathom that combining your bills, means evidence of your indescretion is going to be within easy view of your other half.
A piece of paper too complicated for you dear?
Sheeze, do I have to do everything myself? I've even resorted to downloading stuff OTHER than porn to make up for the world-wide shortfall.
Pretty much only thing left is downloading music from Justin Bieber, and I'll only do that as a last resort because I'm going to have to slash my wrists afterwards.
So come on, save my life and keep the imaginary statistics up!
Sproutes a few well chosen works that a few think sounds like a good idea.
Starts a political party.
Makes it an offence to say anything against said party.
Makes it an offence to start a party in opposition of above (the only one true party after all).
And the rest is history.
Hiel Senator Conroy.
"Each virgin gets AU$20,000, and 90 per cent of the winning bid"
'Round here, we call them prostitutes.
Also known as ho, hoebag, hoecake, lady of the night, whore, cocotte, harlot, trollop, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street, call girl, streetwalker, courtesan, trollop, strumpet... You get the idea.
If this were for men winning prizes to lose their cherries, (figuratively speaking) there would be rioting in the streets by the feminazis.
The fanbois can't be that smart. It took Apple till the iPhone OS v3 to finally get that in. But the fanbois had to jailbreak their phones to get it earlier.
Again, it took this long to work out they can't print from their brand new shiny apple tablets?
Printing from my ancient Treo 650 is possible out of the box, or if I want, there are apps that give me more capabilty. Yes, there's an app for that too!
Not for the beloved iPad though.
Watch me shed a tear. Wait for it, "it will come".
"Clubbing adult seals is legal in Canada but the clubbing of cubs (baby seals) is not."
So: Killing small cute furry creatures is out, everything else is fair game?
Makes sense I suppose. Where you have games that enable the killing of prostitues and police (along with the odd pedestrian that gets in the way) gains you no points, but that doesn't matter, the pure joy of doing so makes up for it.
Yep, that spells Apple in any language.
As mentioned before, if you have some newfangled SATA or SCSI driver that your choice of windows doesn't support, you are prompted to press F6 to load these drivers.
And it looks for them at drive A:
The only other way to work around it, is to use nLite or vLite to create a combination windows disk with the drivers already embedded.
Which may cause stress if you're in an organisation that requires new software to be assessed before being implemented into procedure. Not something you can cassually download from the net and try out see if it works.
Yet, to this day, Microsoft insists that you have two options:
The A: drive, or you can get nicked. Your choice.
I see the handful or so of large ISPs serving everything bar P2P traffic, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of itsy bitsy teeny weeny ISPs serving the rest.
All this will do is improve the pirate network resiliency. Take one tiny ISP down and you take out perhaps a few dozen users. Only hundreds of thousands to go. Whoo hoo!
I can't complain too much. I live in Australia where you usually have the luxury of choosing who will point fingers or not. The only thing we have to worry about is our to soon to be implemented Internet Filter, and heck we don't even have to get out of our chairs to work around that one.
Just not at the same time.
I have a couple of (now ex) bosses that are friends, and my current boss is also my friend.
Again, not at the same time. In the capacity of a boss, he's the boss, as a friend he's a friend.
And so far, for those who are no longer bosses, remain as friends.
Not all bosses (and employees/friends) can pull it off, but if you're clear on where the boundaries are, it can and does work.
That's not to say all my bosses were my friends.
No, like everyone else, I've had my fair share of c*nts...
"One is constantly dealing with formatting differences in documents from work (or elsewhere) loaded into Open Office"
Oh, I'm sorry, Microsoft doesn't do this?
Try dealing with Microsoft's very own Rich Text Format across different versions of Word.
No two versions look alike.
Had this problem with an RTF file created with an (at that time) unknown version of word. Ironically, with the absence of the "correct" version of Word, I had most luck with reproducing the correct formatting with OO and exporting to PDF format.
I mean, if microsoft can't get it right, what hope in hell does anyone else have?
> There's a legal way of doing it?
Sort of. Apparently, when changing countries, vehicle odometers are not checked with the relevant authorities in the country of origin.
So, when the vehicle is presented to the authorities at the new country, (with the freshly turned back odometer) they take it as gospel, and from then on is documented legally.
Of course, this is *technically* illegal. But, if you can't prove it - it didn't happen.
This smells like more PR work from Apple.
The application was submitted and then denied.
After the public furore, Apple gives Mark Fiore the "opportunity" to submit again.
Submit AGAIN? Oh I'm sorry, is Apple corp so bloody large they can't automatically pass through an application that failed the first time?
Or do they want it to be resubmitted, so it can go through a DIFFERENT Apple suitability test than it did before?
Either way, how can this possibly look good for Apple?
Shock and horror. Horror and shock.
Who would have thought that someone could be reading your mail on an unencrypted internet access channel without your knowledge?
But now that the government cannot do it without a warrant, we can rest assured that can never ever possibly happen.
"In 2008, researchers demonstrated that heart monitors were susceptible to wireless hacks that caused pacemakers to shut off or leak personal information"
I seriously doubt this would happen in Real Life - going on malware trends, it is no longer trendy to destroy anything with malware, it's much more likely they want money. So unless that "personal information" is going to lead to the user's wallets, it ain't gonna happen.
Why is it, that *any* gadget, add-on or accessory that is either built for, or even could possibly be used with an iPhone is automatically the first of it's kind?
And while I'm on it, why do marketing people think it's a good idea to use CAD drawings of their products?
If I see cad, I see vapourware.
Some years ago in a past job, my job was installing and testing the software another department wrote.
This was back early in the Win v3 days, and MSDOS apps (and MSDOS only setups) were still quite prevelant. The executable for this particular windows app had a DOS message along the lines of "this program will not run under MSDOS" or similar. Except it wasn't simlar, not even close.
I won't repeat here (truth be said I've forgotten the exact wording), but it made it quite clear the user running the executable lacked various forms of intelligence, and went just short of questioning the users' parentage for attempting to run this under DOS.
Our strict build controls meant the chance a user would see this would have been very slim, but not impossible, and certainly not something that would flair the reptuation of a multi-million (billion??) dollar company.
Told my boss, who appeared rather pissed off to say the least, who then went to the boss of the department writing the software. I have no idea how diplomatic he was about it, but the text string was changed promply, and we all in the workshop had a good laugh about it.
I'm guessing that software dept wasn't giggling at the time.
I've used a number of different browsers over the years, and none of them have been IE.
For XP, and two flavours of Win7, I have never configured IE.
I have never had to.
Occasionally I get rouge software that forces IE to start, I get the config dialogue, I dismiss it, I take note of this crappy shlock software that is hard coded to IE and never use it again.
There's plenty of alternatives, and I'm not going to have my choice dictated to me.
"You don't have to worry about DRM any longer"
Are you kidding? One application for each type of DRM?
I pick my apps for the features they offer, not on what DRM they support.
This is a huge thumbs up for illegal the P2P market, you can pretty much use your reader of choice and be done with it.
As per usual, there are many flavours of the 532h, mine comes standard with 160Gb worth of hard drive real estate, but it does indeed work with 2Gb ram. No idea what the review is on about, unless they used different motherboards as well.
Like the review model, mine does not come with Bluetooth or a 3G interface, however, 3G models are indeed available here in australia for an additional AU$70 or so. I presume bluetooth would come with that as well.
No biggie. I knobbled an internal bluetooth interface, as well as RS232 which I use on a semi-regular basis to configure routers and switches. This saves on the dongles and cables I have to carry, which is a huge help for me. And yes, if you're wondering, for me voiding my warranty is a sport.
Price however, is very different here. I bought mine for AU$349 (with the cashback offer), which is a lot less than the AU$495 or so (converted from 300 quid). That said, I understand the recommended retail here is around the $500 mark, which sort of makes sense, if it were not for the fact that many sell it much cheaper anyway.
But didn't they test WiMAX here in Australia on and off for some time, all tests resulting in some variation of "abysmal"?
Why are they still pushing it (even here)?
Flogging a dead horse comes to mind, but it appears lots of people think they can make some money out of all those dead horsies.
At the base of the Ghostery web site:
"2010 Ghostery, a part of The Better Advertising Project, Inc., 450 Lexington Avenue, c/o Warburg Pincus LLC, New York, NY 10017"
Then, at the "The Better Advertising Project" website, their motto is:
"We make advertising better. A lot better."
Make up your own mind...
I was getting spam from my carrier here, Optus. When I called, they said they can't stop the spam alone - the *ONLY* way to stop the spam, is to opt out of *ALL* messages from Optus, including service and warning and other informational messages.
So I did. That kept them quiet for a while, got a spattering of some odd one-off spam here and there, a few words threatening to move to another carrier, and nothing since.
And that's not to menion the third-party spam that I did NOT subscribe to, but you can't do anything about that other than call the company responsible and give them an earful. That is, if they actually exist past a recorded message...
Yep, one big fat middle finger to the users...
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