Posts by m0rt

Re: Signalling by light? Really?

The point is, you have a potential airgapping of your your ill gotton information. No trace other than the router payload.

At a certain level, this is useful. Especially for stealing Spectrum games.

Re: Blasted weather!

And funnier.

Completely agree with you. You know things are bad when the decisions made are not with the benefit of any of your customers.

IBMs only real contemporary asset right now is the brand. And that is being devalued with stunts like this.

Re: But...

My experience of Google voice:

Using voice to dial at home - can't get it to use speaker phone initially so have to pick it up anyway. So much for dialling when hands full/covered in oil etc.

Using voice to dial when bluetoothed to Supertooth Buddy in car. Dials and automatically puts it into speakerphone mode, not bluetooth headset.

Re: Associate

"Everything is awesome!"

Re: Tough part

This is what they train for.

Re: One wonders ...

...or indeed - would a faceless fish eat* a vegan?

*or dissolve, ingest, take over the mind of...whatever seems fitting for the faceless ones.**

** I, for one, welcome our faceless overlords...

@ happy AC Re: my 2 cents

"...and the stock and bonuses have made me very happy. "

What is this 'bonuses' you talk about? The stocks, I am well aware of. They used to chafe but now I have calluses on my wrists and neck.

Re: Probably got their own staff to install the back up generators

Bets on diesel in the generators being a couple of years old? The fact they are now having an issue with parts suggests that the sudden loss of power cause some great failures.

Today we shall mostely be Capitalising on the Capitulations of the PITA that is Crapita.

"I burnt 1546 calories, all I did was go upstairs to the loo"

"You do NOT want to go in THERE! Phew"

Re: What's the point of mp3?

^ this.

Interestingly, this month's Sound on Sound has an article about mastering for streaming. Decent production is decent production and that has a greater impact on the overall soundquality given a reasonable set of speakers or headphones and you aren't running through cables with the resistance values of hair and use a reasonable bitrate at 128kbps or above.

Re: There's 2 sides to stories

I don't care if he has been stopped 100 times.

He hasn't been charged as there is no evidence. This should be the right we all have under law, namely we can't be charged without evidence.

If he is guilty of something, so what? The law is the law, for both those that follow it and those who break it. There should be no distinction. However, it seems that perceptions are creating tiers of laws in the minds of people, these days. Law enforcers included.

MASTERING.

I know I can't tell the difference, but signal degrades every time you do anything with it, therefore you MASTER @ 24bit 96khz to ensure you don't lose any of it.

If you do not understand this concept, then you don't really stand from any position to lecture anyone on audio.

EDIT: I didn't specifically mention mastering before, I now realise, but I was talking from the standpoint of production. This is why 24bit and 96khz exist. If you tried to do this at any less, you would be working with a degraded signal and by the time you finished, the end result would be poorer. Think of it like working with a dirty lens. You wouldn't notice this in the picture, but if you continued taking a picture of the picture over X amount of times, you would see the difference the dirty lens made compared to a pristine lense.

I am not so sure.

I am very firmly coming around to believe that the current approach, which for now I will term a throwaway approach to both hardware and software, is not sensibly sustainable.

We tout 'Progress' for progresses sake. But stability, especially in something that has come be deeply rooted (snigger) in most of our lives and certainly on a day to day basis, should really be a core tenet of the design approach.

Maybe it is time to think about OS stability being more of a concern in consumer, and certainly in business and definitely medical, terms and not just in the terms of where they seem to really hold it in high regard: The Military.

Re: Why oh why

I, too, have bought from them. Sometimes, you know, you need it right away, and, well, they are there with their handy shops with parking and you walk in and you see the layout and it is too late. You keep walking to the section you need. And the worst thing? You can hear them. The sales people givein, *sob*, ADVICE. And you know you should intervene, and tell the customer to run. Don't listen to wofflings™ of evilness, but you don't. You just fix your eyes on the prize, and get the hell out of there, whilst casting furtive looks to ensure you aren't seen by anyone that knows you, (not fellows of the tech, for why would they be there too?).

But yeah. I would never order from them, that is just nuts.

Re: Maybe

You, Sir, I want to defend me in court...if I ever get caught.

Re: Oh crap

I wonder if this would be caught under GDPR...privacy impact assessments, anyone? :)

"This is my toilet roll spin rate - what do have on me? "

"In March, we provided a security update which provides additional protections against this potential attack. "

This is the phrase that really says it all. Fixing a security hole that should never have been there should not constitute and 'additional protection' so much as 'removal of vulnerability'.

Indeed, this kind of exploit smacks of a plant. Either Microsoft were coerced into deliberately introducing this for the NSA's pleasure, or the NSA had it inserted somehow. Yeah citation needed, but be honest, would you be surprised?

Re: webOS

WebOS was awesome. Was basically BBOS10 before BBOS 10.

I saw a TV box this morning with WEBOS printed on it. I felt sad.

Or new fakes...

Re: Meltdown Man

It was more a ref to 2000 A.D. Not JH per se. But kudos for the deep knowledge here!

Re: Bye bye Android

For tethering other devices. This is what I have been looking for also.

Re: Hyped up nonsense...

"Can anyone tell me why a keyboard is a necessity for an Android device?"

Entering lots of text.

You may be able to type lengthy paragraphs, with eloquence and style, on a phone touchscreen, but I for one find it laborious. I am not a die hard blackberry user. I left BB and went to android. My first smart phone was not a blackberry.

So these people exist. These people will buy the KeyOne. If it flops, then you can stand there and point and say a great big "See? SEE? I was right to ridicule it. "

It will be a good day for you.

Oh and...

"<sarcasm>Terrific"

I can just hear that in the voice of Ford Prefect from the Radio plays...

Re: Moby

"I'm not sure about the name Moby, why does my heart feel so bad?"

Honey, it may not be The Perfect Life, but at I am Feeling so Real about it.

Re: Really?

"but I suspect he is using alternate facts."

Sooo....lies, then?

@fatman

Very well aware of that - this is one good reason I say NO to systemd

Re: Known to El Reg readers as ...

Click here to link to the alternate reality

Re: Ah

Speaking of money laundering, I have an idea for footballer transfers. Instead of agents etc, we should create an auction style system. We could call it PlayBay and only take 1% of all auctions values.

Drunk Managers bidding for top players late on a Saturday night.

Re: train model?

"What's train model? Something to play with instead of doing their jobs?"

Re: A better idea

^^ W. T. F?