Posts by BobRocket

Nallaikkumaran, you are The Donald and I claim my $5

When I was a kid

My sister got a kitten, she put a collar with a bell on it, the cat wasn't happy but soon got used to the collar. It soon aquired an enameled badge (the car co had the same name) and an extra bell.

When the cat was 4 or 5, if you removed the collar the cat would attack you and grab its collar back, carrying it round in its mouth. Replacing the collar would be rewarded with loud purrs.

The cat had become institutionalised.

We had another cat, a collar wouldn't last a day.

Re: #wtf: Royal ORDNANCE survey of Mars ???!!!!

That new logo reminds me of the ink blot t-shirts referenced in the porn filter comments, I'm amazed they managed to slip it through.

Re: Uber etc. - same old - not my bag

Michael Wojcik, I entirely agree with you.

I don't/wouldn't use any of this stuff but I know loads of people who do/would.

They are quite prepared to pay good money for this kind of thing if it is done properly, they outnumber us by a million to one.

It's like the IoT, any sensible person wouldn't touch it with a bargepole but plenty of others are more than willing.

They are going to have it whether we like it or not, so surely we should at least give them the best that can be done.

John Brown (no body)

'The "problem" seems to be that pretty much every business is run purely to maximise profit and there's no "feel good factor" where a business is at least partly there to make the world a better place.'

If you want to maximise profit you have to satisfy your customers' demand, if you become lax then somebody else will do it and steal your lunch. (IBM don't make PCs any more)

All businesses make the world a better place, they raise customer expectations to above the level they can satisfy at which point another business steps up to the plate.

Re: Using the wrong fat here

The Paper Street Soap Company already has the market on street fat. (but nobody talks about that)

Re: The Tumbler SJW jibe is silly - Magic Money Tree

@DaveDaveDave

WTF is a magic money tree ?

If there is a logical explanation of this phenomenom then what does it have to do with semiticism pro/anti ?

If you put the disk back then the loss will never be discovered and the credit agency won't get paid to monitor another sack full of 'willing' user information.

(data that may/will be shared with associated companies to sell you more stuff)

Re: So the British government wants to help digital businesses???

Yes but they have just splurged 450m pounds and counting on this folly (£7 each), now they have to cover up the fact that match funding on AIM means that T1 investors can cash out at Gov expense and because of Angel funding tax breaks, not one minister will pay tax this year.

Government - not for you but paid for by you

Re: Almost possible to use grub password

If you negotiate the minefield in the drive

And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes

And if you make it past the shotguns in the hall,

Dial the combination, open the priesthole

And if Grubs in, It'll tell you what's behind the wall.

Re: It may be possible for an attacker to create a fake GSM base station

'So they can do what? Pay my parking for me?'

Well yes except they needn't pay the full fee, only enough of it to make you walk away from the meter, they keep the rest.

They could forward the receipt (for the underpaid amount) safe in the knowledge that nobody reads these things.

Later, when you get a parking ticket for overstaying the receipt will back the parking company up.

(the tinfoil hatted might suggest that parking company insiders are the MITM)

Re: Ferris Bueller! - it's shoulder bags

Bags don't have shoulders only long straps that go on the shoulders, short straps that are held in the hands or no straps that are clutched.

If you are referring to the person carrying the bag as an object then 'its shoulders' is correct although there are many who would suggest that a person is a special type of object in which case 'his/her shoulders' would be the preferred correct attribution.

More interesting is your subconcious gender stereotyping.

Re: DOH - @DropBear

I've had that with Element14/Farnell.

Add something else (a £300 dev board) to your order first, add a Zero, get to checkout and remove the dev board, the order for the Zero should go straight through.

Watch the postage though, I've bundled with other stuff in the past to make the postage free (again you have to fanny around but persistence pays off, it;s like they don't want my money)

Re: Account Fetish hurts online retailers - Re: Bricks and mortar...

'and will ask if they think you'll give it.'

Lots will ask (clubcard,nectar,match+more etc.) but they don't make it a condition of sale, if they did then they would get fake data the first (and last) time I shopped with them.

The increasing frequency of data breaches means the backlash against arbitrary data retension will happen on an increasing scale.

If you can prove the data you hold is secure then you have nothing to worry about.

The only secure way to hold the data is not to collect it in the first place.

You do not need individually identifiable data to be able to see that 30% of people who buy 2 tins or more of beans also buy 4 pack or larger bog rolls in the same basket.

The only reason you need to identify an individual shopper is so that you can target that particular shopper with dynamic pricing (ie. C1/B gets charged more than A/D, status pricing rather than surge pricing).

@ Mage - Re: Phoning it in

A 'Terrorist' is named as such by the State.

The objects of 'Terrorism' are to show the State as ineffectual in preventing such attacks to the General Public or to provoke an overreaction by the State in a security clampdown that alienates the General Public.

The first allows the State to be overthrown by the ballot box, the second by popular uprising. In both cases the 'Terrorist' organisation hopes to gain power in order to right wrongs that cannot be resolved in a more peaceful manner (in their view).

The General Public are not the target (although some collateral damage is inevitable), the 'Terrorists' need the General Public to overthrow the State for them as they cannot do it alone.

The crazies of ISIL are not 'Terrorists', they have no interest in overthrowing the State for political reasons, the Caliphate idea has been tacked on to try to give legitimacy to what is no more than a rapacious gang of thugs running riot, the murder/genocide of large swathes of population is to remove witnesses to their very unIslamic behaviour of rape and pillage.

The people carrying out these acts have been whipped into an orgy of destruction by others with their own agenda, it is The Screwfly Solution and it is emptying that part of the world.

Re: If it saves one life it will be worth it

I'm not in favour of always on sound and video nanny state smoke alarms but the purveyors of IOT devices are desperately looking for solutions to sell, if you can get your product mandated (like SRS) then you have a licence to print money.

T.May would be more than mildly moist if she thought she could get away with imposing this.

The last line is a paraphrase of two of Roger Waters lyrics.

Now then Tim

You should not lower yourself to the commentard level, entering this abyss, madness and bad faith lays

Good that you go out at the top, like I said above one encore would be nice (two would over egg).

It has been interesting to see your point of view mature over time (you probably don't see this yet) but it has been more interesting reading some of the well put points of the comentariat in response.

You will be sadly missed by the hardcore but we got over the loss of the moderatorix (which frankly was a much bigger loss)

A bigger brighter future awaits you, go forth and..do stuff.

Best Regards

Re: Seriously?

Microcontroller board (<$10) hanging behind the dashboard and a couple of LEDs from an old PC.

Wire the power to the ignition and replace the dash bulbs for airbags/ALB with the LEDS (pack them with tape to make them fit).

When the ignition is turned on the Uc boots, lights the LEDs for a few seconds and then goes into sleep mode.

Make sure the timings for the lights are different to reflect the POST of airbag/ALB.

(obviously I'm not suggesting that anybody should do this or that I might have witnessed it in the past, it is probably highly illegal)

Re: Limited Liability

this was true in the past but with todays technology I know where you work so I won't be placing bets with Coral or buying anything from Pharmacy2U (don't worry Andy, it's not personal, it's business)

Re: As I often say

No, it's because it was/is difficult to tell the difference between short pink pig and long white pig once it was/is reduced to cutlets.

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Did anyone win the DVLA Seat