Posts by Andy ORourke

I wondered that too

I recently arrived in Heathrow T5 and stood in the passport queue and I saw a lot of frequent traveller types (you know who you are, yes you with the "hand luggage" the size of a small shopping trolley!) going through what I thought at the time were the Iris scanners.

I thought "wow, that scanner is working really fast" espescially as the wife used the iris scanner in her business travels just last year and reported that is was, to use her exact words, "a steaming pile of shite"

The facial recognition software must be supplied by the same people who supply the DNA / fingerprint / facial recognition for CSI!

Refer you to the earlier El Reg Story

The lot includes 15 of his 18 published papers collected by Turing's friend, fellow Bletchley Park decoder Professor Max Newman.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/google_backs_turing_bid/

You're welcome

I did use the "Run all from my computer" Option

The program never asks for the "Disk" (mainly because it was a download), it just runs windows installer every time I try Outlook, Excel and Access.

You can even cancel the windows installer bit and get on with whatever you are wanting to do with no ill effects.

If it was something that simple then I'm pretty sure I'd have been able to fix it

Good Luck.......

Getting that approved at the Apple store :-)

You're assuming......

People read the article BEFORE they jumped in to comment that it was really bad that a single router could take down a substantial amount of an ISP's network and then go on to debate the 99.9 uptime guarantee figures :-)

Careful......

You sound like you know something about which you speak AND have considered the possibilities, you sure you are at the right forum :-)

Too True

I love that advert and VM's use of little numbers to hide the headlines!

I don't know how they can get away with using the word UNLIMITED and then applying a limit to it.

I mean I personally can deal with the "Up to", BT's line checker tells me the damp bit of string that connects me to my exchange "should" give me around 1 Mbps but I actually get 6 - 7 Mbps but there are a lot of people out there who see unlimited and think that's what they are going to get - Fools!

UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS 1

1Acceptable use policy: Acceptable use policy applies. Traffic Management operates from 4pm to 9pm and 10am to 3pm to ensure a consistent user experience.

UNLIMITED EVENING & WEEKEND CALLS 4

4Unlimited weekend calls to UK landlines: You will not be charged for the first hour of direct-dialled local and national geographic voice calls (numbers beginning 01, 02 or 03) made during the weekend period (all day Saturday and Sunday). Re-dial before 60 minutes to avoid call charges. For full details of call charges and connection fees, visit our calling costs page.

You missed something

Now it just seems to be "think of something really stupid", then "call it art" "Make shitloads of money from people with more cash than sense"

There, fixed that for you :-)

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You Sure?

"there is a little bit of gold in most things like cell phones, cameras, computers... but the cost of getting it back out at the end of it's useful life is more then it's worth"

What are Envirofone, Mazuma et al doing with the old phones people send in? I'm not too sure but I seem to remember hearing that the yield of recoverable gold in 1 ton of used cell phones was something like 50 times that in a ton of good Ore? (although this could just be complete Bollocks!)

iPhone 3Gs screen size

According to the default info on eBay is:

Phone Screen

Screen Size 35 Inch

However, the overall size might put you off:

Dimensions

Depth 48 Inch

Weight 47 gr

Crappy Orange Signal

Pop round to mine, I can get 1 bar reception if the phone is either in the middle of the coffee table or on the kitchen window ledge otherwise my house is an orange free zone!

Standards......

I for one would like to congratulate the author of this article on the correct use of the word "loose", far to many times we see it employed even on this site by the highly educated contributors when they were actually meaning "lose"

Laptop serial port?

Why not just buy a 10 quid USB to serial adapter and use whatever OS on whatever laptop you like?

Perhaps......

You should have used an apostrophe as well, just in case :-)

What is more shocking......

Is that the Adobe reader was not affected, I mean forget everything else, Adobe NOT affected!

These are words I didn't think would go together in an article about malicious PDF files :-)

Ha Ha Ha

I can't quite interpret whether they would charge me for the data or not.

Oh my, good one sir - You owe me a keyboard & monitor!

MONEY

"On a side note why are people not allowed to photo/film police because of wiretapping laws but google is permitted to go around the world and spy on everyone.

Just a question is all, aren't they wiretapping as much as some schmoe with a camera is?"

Consider Google's economic contribution in the countries it operates in (taxes, jobs etc) against Schmoe with a camera..................

Too true

it seems that a substantial amount of user do appear to have problems, however the news stories seem to imply that EVERY iPhone 4 is affected, out of my 4 colleagues, 3 family members I know only 1 phone has the issue and the user of this phone can hold two of the other phones in exaclty the same way without inducing the fault whereas the other two people can hold his phone and get the signal to drop out.

It is not every single iPhone, sure there are a lot of issues (with sales in the millions) it would be unusual to not have some issues with some phones but to my mind it appears to have been blown out of all proportion

Now it all makes sense.....

When my Son wanted a White iPhone on launch day the sales droid in Phones 4 U told him they weren't available because apple had held them back due to a software fault!

I thought "Yeah right, more likley Apple have held them back in order to create a second feeding frenzy when they release the white one"

Maybe that sales man was just being honest and not the complete fuckwit I thought he was :-)

You are correct

I mean, they can't continue to use Unlimited* (* = subject to some arbitrary limit in our "fair use policy") but neither can anyone afford to drop this word because all the remaining telco's will continue to offer "Unlimited" packages and therefore look to the casual shopper to provide better packages.

My favourite was my wife's Orange telephone contract:

Unlimited Text Messaging* (* Subject to a maximum of 3000) so why not just say 3000 texts per month, it's not like she is ever going to hit this limit, sorry maximum :-)

Read your own post!

"C'mon Apple, STOP BEING SO TIGHT, you make millions in profit."

You dont think they make millions in profit by giving stuff away for free do you?

The issue for left handers

Is that when receiving a phone call they generally hold the phone in the left hand and as they do the full signal drains bar by bar until there is no signal and the call is dropped. A bit of an issue there. 3 guys in our office on iPhone 4 only 1 suffers this issue (he's on Vodaphone, the others on O2)

+1

El Reg is an equal opportunity Piss Taker (Just that some get the piss taken more than others)

I would agree but.......

If the ISP's will continue to use phrases like UNLIMITED then putting up that little * to show what the limit actually is in VERY SMALL letters at the bottom of 13 pages of T&C's then people will keep expecting an UNLIMITED service, not saying it is right to expect an unlimted service since by definition there is always a limit on things but the ISP's have been taking the piss over this phrase for years!

Oh John, you're new here aren't you?

"Why is it people have to be so polarised and closed minded"

When the article is about Apple there are only two sides (the polarisation of which you despair)

You either HATE apple with a vengeance, thinking that everything they do is a personal attack on you, your descendents and the world at large

OR

You are a fanboi who will defend to the death the cult of Jobsianism

Bit like windows and Linux, don’t even go there :-)

Can I just say...........

Carlsberg don't do kebab vans, but if they did...........

Too right

I wonder if the printer "phones home" to say it hasn't been used much recently, best generate some SPAM get the ink useage up!

Ha, Ha, very funny!

This £160 Million will be swallowed up in operating costs and dividends to shareholders.

Virgin ARE NOT in the infrastructure business, they will NOT be laying fibre to new areas that were not deemed to be financially viable in the past, just because they have a little bit of extra cash (in relative terms, check out their level of debt!) doesnt mean they are going to throw it away installing fibre to unprofitable areas, sorry, it's nothing personal, just business.

Ah yes, but........

if you can retrospectivley patent something I might patent the patent system (assuming it isn't already patented!) just to see if it implodes the whole system!

Read your last line

"There are no ethical lines between a popular service promoting their other services."

OF COURSE THERE ARE, look Google is a search engine right? if you are looking for a new web browser then you will be pointed towards Chrome, if you are looking for a video of something you will be pointed towards You Tube, if you are looking for a map you will be pointed towards google maps.........

You see the point here don't you? The more products google "sell" then the more blurred your ethical line becomes since Google (the search engine) is pretty much the "defacto" search engine and Google WILL always push their products to you ABOVE the competition (even if Google's products are not the best or even most relevant)

Yeah, Right on

Check out all the knob ends that run accross the road, risking life and limb and sometimes children in prams because they cant be arsed to walk 20 metres to a perfectly serviceable crossing point. Yeah, arent we so much better than the rest of the world!

I think you are right

Any new series would be series 4 right, not 5? (Unless of course they are using the same versioning as Microsoft (couldnt resist a dig :-))

Not really

Take a look at the OS: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fprogrammeforgovernment.hmg.gov.uk%2F

Windows Server 2003 running MySQL