Posts by TeeCee 9435 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
I take it that requirement was written in to ensure Airwave was continued?
Even the ruddy 4G / LTE public networks don't use voice over it as, for some reason[1], a reliable method of fallback / fallforward between that and 3G or even 2G when moving in and out of high-speed coverage is conspicuous by its absence in the standards.
[1] "Chucked on the too-hard pile" looks favourite.
His mother spoke in court, saying that her son was "a good person who made a huge mistake."
Nice to see El Reg following a well-trodden journalistic path here and including the pointless and utterly predictable quote from the mother of the scumbag.
Just out of interest, has any scrote's mother ever stood up and said something like: "Well, he deserves everything he got as he's always been a piece of shit."?
There's nothing irrational about fear of a nuclear ramjet. It's even pointed out in that very book how seriously bloody dirty it is, to the extent of requiring a decent area either side of the flightpath to be devoid of anything anyone might give a shit about[1].
Cold air in front, exposed pile in the middle, very hot and seriously radioactive air out the back. Remember the Windscale fire? Very much the same thing, only without the filters on the exhaust......(!)
[1] Built by the British and launched from Australia. I think Arthur may have been having a bit of a dig at our antipodean cousins here.
I remember that.
Wouldn't have as much impact these days, people would just assume it was a known iPad problem.
The problem here is that you can easily spot the cuddly "inclusive" organistions. They spend all their time arguing about how to be more cuddly, whether or not "x" is inclusive or divisive, censuring their members / staff for some perceived insult or other and never actually get anything done.
You want things actually done? You need people who'll drive it through, riding roughshod over anyone or thing that gets in the way. Those "older white men"[1] are why we have an internet today, rather than the 2745th draft of the proposal to create one, containing five pages of technical content and several hundred on policies and procedures.
@the RFC authors. You are the problem, not the solution.
[1] I'll bet none of 'em have ever even considered the concept of giving a flying fuck about "inclusiveness" either.
This Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs)
And if you take all the capital letters you have there to the acronym, it neatly describes those designing this stuff.
Nothing to stop autonomous vehicles being entirely independent and unconnected, it's just that all those leading the pack here are seeing autonomous vehicles as a means to an end (loads of extra data about your habits and where you are to scarf) rather than an end in themselves.
Committee for the BS1363 plug formed in 1941. Introduced in 1947.
And that tells you absolutely everything you need to know about it. The product of six years of frenzied chair polishing by talentless tossers who couldn't get a job doing anything else.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that there was an entirely different committee working on the sockets......
Best along those lines I heard was a mate who got hired as a contractor by ${company}, who just so happened to have such a system.
The bloke who hired him was someone he knew well and had worked for before at ${other_company}.
After a month he was found to be in line for the "most accurate and prompt timesheets" award. The boss handed it over with the following comment, delivered sotto voce:
"I know you too well. You've got a fucking script written to stuff the timesheet database automatically on a Friday afternoon, haven't you?".
<Cheesy grin>
Anyone else shipping something to wield the banhammer on this shit would be deer in the headlights of Dell's lawyers calling foul play, as it'll b0rk their online update system (if I'm reading this right).
MS have probably already written the "fuck you" response to the lawsuit.....
Now MS have volunteered to take the flak, I expect the others to follow suit.
Nice theory, but this 'ere really good quality Sony cable will not charge the wife's crackberry, while a skinny, fourpenny fleabay job plugged into the same PSU will.
I think the Sony one's got a current limiter in it (there's a suspicious lump at each end prior to the connector, which I originally took to be those ferrite chunks sometimes seen on cables), something the el cheapo ones don't have.
Ah yes. Reminds me of just the other day. Stripped the central heating boiler down, cleaned everything, tested all the components and reassembled. Made no bloody difference at all.
I still haven't found out just who it was who turned the heating function off at the programmer, probably because whoever it is knows damned well that my finding out will dramatically shorten their life expectancy.....
....error prone, has wonky homebrew encryption, leaks voluminous metadata, steals the address book....
Can't help thinking that if you were a western intelligence agency and wished to build a honeypot to entrap daesh, you'd be pushed to do a better job.
"Secure" comms easily intercepted, tells you everything you need to know about those using it and snarfs everything it can get about their friends too. What's not to like?
Also, read what Zimmerman has to say on the subject of amateurs[1] doing crypto.......
[1] He found out the hard way that when you think you're so clever you can do a better job than an off-the-shelf solution, you're invariably wrong. As do all pros.
The flipside to that is how risibly simple it is to drive a coach and horses through the whole racket.
A classic example here was the way that David Cronenberg's "Crash"[1] was released here, pretty much the only place in the world where it came out uncut(!) They got a temporary certificate to show it at a film festival on the South Bank, on the grounds there was no time to certify it before the event. After the festival they submitted it for certification. The BBFC went apeshit at the sight of the thing and wanted to cut the living shit out of it to get it into an 18 cert. The promoters pointed out that, since it had already been screened uncut, this was a bit silly. The censors saw, er, sense[2] and we got the full version.
[1] Very good it is too. Cronenberg at his best and really disturbing.
[2] Oops. Sorry.
Hardly surprising.
I recall seeing recently some psych research reported, showing that kids see everything as "black or white". The ability to see things in shades of grey (e.g. the lesser of two evils, best result for the most people, etc) and reason through ethical dilemmas doesn't really mature until about age 25.
This is why child soldiers are so valuable, they don't think about who the enemy is, the rights and wrongs of shooting at them and whether the value of doing so outweighs the risk to themselves, only that they are "the enemy" and must be shot at regardless.
It's also why if you have full membership at 14 and "one member, one vote" you end up stuck with Jeremy Corbyn as leader....
Quirky printing was a feature on just about all printers until the first "winprinters"[1] turned up and WYSIWYG started doing what it says on the tin, rather then whatever the printer driver thought it ought to.
[1] Native GDI to page support. With the benefit of hindsight it seems bleedin' obvious that as a printer prints a load of dots and the O/S has just rendered what you want on screen as a load of dots, shoving the latter load of dots onto paper kicks the shit out of translating it all into printer language and having the printer translate it back into dots, both for accuracy and speed.
That's very similar in spec to the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 (a ZTE unit I believe and unexpectedly well built it is too) only nearly twice the price. Or, for a few more shekels, the OnePlus 2 gives you the absolutely phenomenal grunt of the Snapdragon 810 with its Adreno 430 GPU.
That's a hell of a rock and a hard place to be between when trying to eke out a living.
Cue downvotes from the assembled hordes of Wileyfox shills hereabouts.
Well most tech companies would expect their staff to connect remotely if they couldn't physically get to the office. Looks like this might not be a viable option for Telecity though as a prerequisite would be a reliable internet connection.
It's typical of French cars though. French manufacturers these days seem to have copied the cockpit dynamics of the Lamborghini Miura[1].
Not too long ago I evaluated a C5 as a fleet car. I adjusted the seat and wheel until I was perfectly placed. The seat was lovely too. Only problem was when it was set up like that I couldn't reach the gear lever. In order to actually change gear while driving without leaning forward each time, it was necessary to have my legs bent double under the dash.
[1] One of the world's most beautiful cars, but very obviously designed to be driven by a gibbon.
Septics. Bunch of arseholes.
Given the choice of (a) logical and realistic explanation or (b) convoluted conspiracy theory involving space gnomes and dirty tricks by the government, it's "b" every time.
You can't trust any story originating in the U S of A, especially since the term "journalist" got heavily downgraded to mean "any tosser with an axe to grind and his own computer".
Probably doesn't help that world+dog (including the bloody government FFS) has moved in their advertising from "go to xyz.com" to "search online for xyz".
If they're all now getting screwed by SEO[1] scumbaggery, they need to look in the mirror to see the problem.
[1] The dodgy sites will always have better search rankings than the vanilla ones, as gaming search engines is a more appealing career for scumbags than it is for others.
The problem here is that "multistakeholder" and "multilateral" actually mean the same thing. A massive committee of chair-polishing tossers arguing about trivial minutiae and never actually achieving anything. The only difference is whose arses get to polish the chairs.....like it makes any difference, both approaches spell decay via stagnation for the internet.
It's a bit like being offered the choice of being boiled in oil or immersed in acid.......
....social workers don't need to have children.....
That one's a bad example. If they had to, they might just understand what a complete crock of shit "social science"[1] is in this area. "An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory" has never been more true than it is here.
[1] In quotes, 'cos the word "science" is heavily misused in this context.
I liked the linked article "BBC iPlayer moves away from Flash and towards HTML5".
Presumably that's "moves" as in "glacier" or "continental drift".
FFS! The Android iPlayer installation still adds the BBC Media Player[1] to, er, play Flash......
[1] The only thing on Android which manages to utterly fuck up the concept of "full-screen".
non-compliant software
Yes, I can see that one being a really big, fat, hairy deal when the year 1900 rolls around again.
For older systems using 6-digit dates, I call that "expected behaviour"[1]. None of the test cases I saw for date handling around Y2K time had your idle curiosity as a consideration.
[1] Take two-digit year and divide by 4. Truncate the result to an integer and compare to the "full" result. If the same, it's a leap year. Known to screw up 1900 and 2100, but for the overwhelmingly vast majority of use cases this is not an issue. Even slightly. Important bit is it works for 2000, which is the only millennium late 20th-century software is ever going to see go past.
Trouble is, most execs use the Mayan Long Count calendar.
Ohshittheworldisgoingtoendifwedon'tfixthisnow, ohshittheworldisgoingtoendifwedon'tfixthisnow, ohshittheworldisgoingtoendifwedon'tfixthisnow, ohshittheworldisgoingtoendifwedon'tfixthisnow...........ah............it didn't after all.
Mostly correct, but the banking example you use nicely proves where the fuckup really is.
Having a "hard" expiry date is both unnecessary and daft. A warning window of several months (This one's getting on a bit, feel free to continue, but you might want to drop a line to the site's admins and remind them) before calling it as dead would be far more sensible.
The only difference between a valid cert and an expired one is usually the odd day. Does that affect it's security? No, it doesn't.
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