Posts by Sam Liddicott

Unlike Apple

Steve Jobs want's sheep to buy his dream and do what he wants them to do with it.

The Google duo want us to buy their dream and do whatever we want to do with it.

The greater good?

"Via A2K, his Open Society Institute campaigns for the removal of economic liberties, and the destruction of markets, arguing that this is necessary for the greater good."

Maybe the greater people don't want his greater good

someone outside the company

outsourcing gives you someone to blame whose training you are not responsible for

It's a school...

It's the schools role to educate the children.

If they are not ready to be educated, or are disrupting the education of other children who are ready, then they should go back to their parents.

Some of the posters here seem to think that the schools role is parenting and that there must be "something" that can be done, never mind the cost to those who are there ready to learn.

School isn't the place to fix all parents failings, although (as a governor) I see sometimes how far they go to try and make up for it in some case.

Warranty?

Buy on your credit card - most credit card companies will cover you - check your terms and conditions though.

Some even give you a free 2 year warranty!

here's a plan

1. you give each client equal minimum share of the bandwidth

2. you let clients have equal share of un-used bandwidth (the share that other clients aren't using).

3. within their share, you prioritise latency sensitive traffic

That way my video conferencing can't oust someone else's emails.

"tc" with "htb" on linux can do this. I don't know if it can cope with the number of customers that ISP's have but I was working on site shaping solutions using this a few years ago and it works very well.

A standard configuration "mended" networks when 10x the bandwidth couldn't.

Doubling the bandwidth might halve the time a large email contends with voip - but it doesn't remove the contention.

Shaping lets voip packets jump to the front of the queue but doesn't actually increase the total time to send the email.

ouch

So now china owns the western economy (thanks to us spending their and them buying our bonds) they are now going to installing critical infrastructure for monitoring and control of citizens.

Patience truly pays off! And now our pensions are being raided to pay for it?

I used to think that you could never buy the world because whatever you gave in exchange for that last piece of the world you would then not-have.

But credit is clearly the way to buy the world - in the end people owe more than they have.

Welcome the new overlords.

criminal?

If this were a criminal offence then the police could improve their detection rate quite easily.

deocracy?

38 degrees are The Peoples Democratic Lobbyists - and it's the only many voters are able to get effective representation.

He should ask himself why his voters need to resort to a lobby group on order to be heard.

Why people like me have to pay so that 38 Degrees can get independent legal advice on the implications (intended or unintended) of the NHS reforms are. (While the government is sitting on their secret report into the same thing).

I strongly disagree with some things that 38 Degrees campaign for (like "don't build on the countryside" which as a consequence has every householder paying through the nose for scarce housing).

I am grateful that SOME group will explain in a relevant way what our elected representatives are getting up to, and help keep them in check.

I don't have a budget for secretaries like the MP's do, I depend on 38 Degrees to keep me informed; while I'm spending my time at community groups, school governors meetings and church and family responsibilities.

You can't read this...

You can't read this without feeling immense gratitude and humility - thanks guys! And thanks el reg for bringing this to us.

at last!

At last - this is the Nokia we all know and remember... and have long since abandoned. Get them patents in quick before somebody uses them.

who cut off google?

And who was it who cut off google from accessing facebook contacts? Facebook! And they want to build partnerships?

$660

They'll pay more than $660 just handling complaints.

no +

lack of + in search terms explains why google search results are awful these days.

What can I use instead of the + symbol to get decent results?

power boats and paint ball

Let's rent it out for power boats and paint ball guns. And paint grenades.

the fear list...

So the Germans are afraid of their history, the Americans are afraid of their present and the British are afraid of terrorists.

as I tell people...

if you provoke people until they hit you then you will have been hit...

doesn't matter that it's "not right" and "illegal", it will still have happened

can you?

But can you put android on it?

I want TPM for my linux

I want my linux boxes to use TPM, that way I know my system is secure as Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds intended it to be.

So I want the ability to insert my own root keys without first needing to boot windows.

No it's not

It's like denying entry to a restaurant because other guys who arrived on the same public transport don't meet the dress code.

Perhaps to blacklist innocent net users because their hosts are on the same netblock as other perpetrators is libel.

This sort of behaviour makes Spamhaus unreliable. How many Spamhaus users expect this sort of behaviour?

wot?

All the open office developers who didn't want to be with Oracle, left to form Libre Office.

The thing that distinguishes those still with Open Office is that they wanted to stay with Oracle.

Now Oracle don't want them... what distinguishes them? That they still don't want to join with Libre Office even though they were right?

scared of the shareholders

HP are scared of the shareholders - could it be true that HP could have installed android and then sold for $199 instead of $99 ?

We all know it flopped 'cos of webos

too efficient

This sort of thing happens with the drive for over-efficiency.

Sometimes having more rooms than you normally need can save many times the cost when the circumstance comes around.

mp3sparks?

So it's OK to buy my music from Russia then? Mp3sparks?

TPM

This is why linux needs TPM.

Correction; it's why people need TPM on their computers whatever OS they run.

half an hour?

Half an hours minimum wage to top-up an e-wallet?

That's crazy talk.