I enjoy these little progress reports on the technology that will no doubt hunt down and kill me some day.
Posts by J__M__M
245 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jun 2012
MIT boffins cry havoc and let slip the ROBOT CHEETAHS of Whoa
Apple's big bang: iPhone 6, ANOTHER iPhone 6 Plus and WATCH OUT
Heavy VPN users are probably pirates, says BBC
If you think 3D printing is just firing blanks, just you wait
Jony Ive: Apple iWatch will SCREW UP Switzerland's economy
Apple Fanbois (and girls) already lining up for NEW iPHONE
BAT-GOBBLING urban SPIDER QUEENS swell to ENORMOUS SIZE
Tech patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures to lose a fifth of its trolls
Cryptolocker flogged on YouTube
Microsoft fixes all those shaky GoPro vids nobody wants to watch
New twist in China Apple hardware ban riddle: THE TRUTH at last?
US 911 service needs emergency upgrade and some basic security against scumbags
Monday 11th August 2014 13:23 GMT
Re: "financially more viable to arrest everyone and let half of them go"
transport their unit to the origin of the call to find the dipwad that made the call ...
Or is that too intelligent ?
No, not really... since they wouldn't have a clue where to look and even if they did, it's probably going to be just slightly out of their jurisdiction.
America's hot and cold spots for broadband revealed in new map
China rips Apple out of govt IT mail-order catalogue – report
Remember when Google+ outed everyone by their real names? Now Google's sorry
No need to worry: US blows $174m on new Cray to simulate nukes
Say goodbye to the noughties: Yesterday’s hi-fi biz is BUSTED, bro
Saturday 12th July 2014 03:22 GMT
Is this a joke? There is something new in the universe?
What do they say about a flawed premise? Ripping up pappy’s hi-fi handbook (or his pappy’s hi-fi handbook) doesn't change what was in them.
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General Electric calls this new idea Home Music Distribution System. It works like this:
Each of the consoles has a tiny FM transmitter built into it. Your regular household wiring carries it's signal. The portable speaker above is your receiver. Simply plug it into any standard outlet. You'll enjoy radio or phonograph music-- directly from the console-- in amy room you choose. - from LIFE Magazine March 9 1963
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This is not an article in Popular Science, it's print ad in in LIFE Magazine from over 50 years ago. Mutli room via power line networking was available from your local G-E dealer's "Accent on Value" Audio Products Department while JFK was in office.
It probably wasn't new then, either. So yes, a joke. There is nothing new in the universe.
Amazon's not-actually-3D Fire: Bezos' cash register in YOUR pocket
Thursday 19th June 2014 07:32 GMT
Re: Comfortable?
I agree.... whiplash cases will skyrocket from people just trying to unlock their phones. What were once simple tasks will now be absolutely exhausting for all but the most diehard Metallica and/or Megadeth fans. They should forget the free year of Prime and just include one of these ASIN: B002204ZG6
So how much does the average human arm weigh, anyhow?
AT&T: 'twas conniving contractors who nicked your info
How to strip pesky copyright watermarks from photos ... says a FACEBOOK photo bod
Bad PUPPY: Undead Windows XP deposits fresh scamware on lawn
Tuesday 15th April 2014 19:44 GMT
Re: Job Security
"High time they got a taste of what it's been like for the rest of us who've had to retrain into new technologies to stay employable then" "No sympathy what-so-bleedin-ever for them"
Oh, so you must be one of those CFO CEO MCSE CCNA's, since you obviously both request AND approve your own IT budget. Make it rain!
Seriously, shut up.
Tuesday 15th April 2014 19:33 GMT
Re: Business as usual
What, they EOL'ed XP????? I didn't notice or chose to ignore all the promo!!!! So how's the weather in that little stupid-proof vacuum-sealed bubble world you live in? Sunny and warm, I'm sure.
"Chances are a fair (and increasing) chunk of those still running XP are more likely to be clueless about IT and security, given the fact they've not noticed or chosen to ignore all the promo about it going EoL recently!"
Audio fans, prepare yourself for the Second Coming ... of Blu-ray
Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon's brutal scale in annual letter
Friday 11th April 2014 20:03 GMT
Are you sure it's Amazon
First, you can hardly fault Amazon for the sales tax bit, because to say they resisted the change would be a huge understatement. It hurt them just as much as it hurt you, I'm sure. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we can thank the state of California for that one.
Beyond that, are you sure it's Amazon that changed? You said they used to be a good choice for the price-aware consumer, but go on to describe issues the price-aware consumer would tend to avoid (being price-ware and all).
It sounds to me like somewhere along the line you went from price-aware consumer to just plain old consumer. Not that I blame you...
Friday 11th April 2014 19:11 GMT
Re: I wonder if all those warehouse people think about this in middle of August?
> That is an extremely odd policy. Why would a company want to lose its most >loyal and experienced workers?
They don't. Why would the most loyal and experienced workers take the deal? If they are, they don't. And if they do, they aren't. It's like the polar opposite of a unionized environment. Unlike this reply, I think it's brilliant.
Elon Musk slams New Jersey governor over Tesla direct sales ban
Windows XP market share GROWS AGAIN, outstrips Win 8.1 surge
How NOT to evaluate hard disk reliability: Backblaze vs world+dog
Mosquitoes, Comets and Vampires: The de Havilland Museum
Monday 23rd December 2013 05:29 GMT
Re: The Mossie
Did he ever mention any buried Spits? Talk about a lovely story...
" Perhaps not so good in some other theatres though; my grandfather, who was a photographer with an RAF recon unit in Burma, had a lovely story about two Mossies arriving there, only to be eaten by the local insects before they could be suitably housed... "
Monday 23rd December 2013 04:47 GMT
Re: The Mossie
"I have a sneaking sympathy for Goering, despite everything; he was about the only Nazi who wasn't totally unsympathetic, and he did know his aeroplanes"
Goering? Sympathetic? To whom? The dude's top priority besides his regular morphine fix was looting and plundering on a continental scale.
Rommel, maybe. Hermann Goering, no way in hell.
Tube be or not tube be: Apple’s CYLINDRICAL Mac Pro is out tomorrow
Unlocking CryptoLocker: How infosec bods hunt the fiends behind it
Tuesday 17th December 2013 09:08 GMT
Re: Sensible to Suggest Ways of Blocking The Spread?
"revert a file to a previous version, a functionality that this beast can't alter"
Say what? Please explain, because this is exactly the part that is keeping me awake at night... like right now, for instance. Seriously, how hard do you think it will be to delay the "pay up or you're fuct" message for, say, 31 days? Not hard at all is how hard, and it also wouldn't be hard to make the file selection process a little more intelligent than the file extension shotgun method they're using now.
The next iteration of this thing will have scrambled files working their way though 30 days of snapshots like a hot knife through buttah.
A whopping one in four Apple fanbois uses OBSOLETE TECH
BlackBerry rejected Justin Bieber as brand ambassador
Sunday 8th December 2013 02:40 GMT
Re: I wouldn't
"Listen genius, it's not about what you think, it's about what the customer thinks..."
" And we still realise where that money is coming from: the customer."
Well I guess it doesn't always take one to know one, because in this case the customer is 10 years from their own contract, so the customer is actually the customer's Mom & Dad. And Justin Beaver makes Dad want to puke.
But thanks for keeping all us dummies afloat, Mr. Sales Guy
eBay chairman: 'Don't make payback a bitch for Anonymous hackers'
Thursday 5th December 2013 23:42 GMT
He needs to get with the program.
So this guy thinks these agitators shouldn't spend more time in the pen than, say, rapists and killers? Even though they messed with HIS stuff?
That's crazy talk.
Sincerely,
Visa, Sony, DOJ, Citibank, MIT, MPAA, & Federal "I'm a God Hear Me Roar" Prosecutors everywhere
On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns
Drone expert: Amazon's hypetastic delivery scheme a pie in the sky
Microsoft holds nose, shoves Windows into Android, iOS boxes
MacBook Air fanbois! Your flash drive may be a data-nuking TIME BOMB
Sunday 20th October 2013 03:18 GMT
Re: Not possible.
Andy, we're all far too busy getting ready for the Y2K bug to worry about building our own desktops right now.
"Are we talking desktops? I sure as hell hope you didn't pay Dell or anyone else to build them for you. Unless your business has no one with the bare minimum of IT knowledge required to build your own, more powerful and reliable systems at a savings of $400+ per device."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
