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188 posts • joined Thursday 27th March 2008 12:38 GMT

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Re: uh-oh.. bad career move

Or the QA / peer reviewer that missed it...

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Re: HA!

Indeed, I got to work this morning and promptly poured coffee all over my phone - quick dash for paper towels and its all better.

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WTF?

Wait, what?

I presume the **** is fuck? If so, where exactly is the "inciting racial hatred" part?

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Re: There is a *fixed* JavaScript implementation available already...

By fixed, I assume you mean exactly the same, only with a different coding structure that makes reading it damn hard, and debugging near impossible? (Unless they have fixed the debugging since I last looked at it)

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Is it just me, or are these claims just a case of making some easy money?

Can't we just tell these people to sod off, grow a backbone, and move on?

Oh no, someone said I wrote something that I didn't, they paid me some money, so now I think Im entitled to even more money from someone else...ffs

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A question floating in my head, how one can steal public property?

If it is public property, then aren't you able to take it - as you are part of the public?

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Thing is

to develop for iPhone, you need to have a mac.

So not only do you have to get a developer licence thing, you also have to buy a mac (if you don't have one)

Android can be built on windows/mac/linux so theres an easier adoption right there.

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Yep, think we called it the 'American Dream'

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Problem being?

I wouldnt touch ebay with someone elses, so that won't be happening.

So where, pray tell, can I sell my old Apple goods and still get a decent price? (and by apple goods, I mean actual computers - not fondleslabs)

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"By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously covered only in University courses and be writing their own apps for smartphones." Assuming, of course, that we still have smartphones then - who knows what the next big thing will be in 5-10 years. Just seems that the Gov is grasping at IT related straws at the moment in a "look, look - we know about computers and stuff" panic. Whats wrong with learning the basics, creating spreadsheets, typing etc? You know, things that will be useful in almost all jobs? Those that have an interest in IT (like other subjects) will persue advanced stuff anyway.
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"They should be pulled before an anti-trust hearing and shafted by the US Congress" - why? Are they only bundling Google with the internet nowdays? Its their search engine, they can show what they like. Nobody, anywhere, is forcing you to use Google for your searching needs. If you feel that the results they are returning aren't relevant, then use another engine.
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Yea, now the annoying shites that don't understand the concept of headphones can bug me in surround instead...joy

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I'm missing something here...why do the emergency services have to wait 5 minutes for bands to clear? Aren't they operating on completely different bands?

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Ah but

just think, if they win, then all that money they end up with will mean they can build a super-fantastic fiber network...

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So someone printed something out, and someone else got fired for it?

How can you get fired because someone said that you said something!?

Couldnt he have just deleted it from his wall, then complained that the other person was setting him up?

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I was thinking the same thing.

All my Exchange and Gmail email comes through comes through in the default Mail app, I can't see any reason why you would need this?

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Stop

Ok..

and then what?

Is this article based around http://code.google.com/p/google-js-test/ or something else?

You didn't exactly make things clear now, did you?

Obv it's Friday, but still...a dash of clarity wouldnt go amiss

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Ah, so thats why Spotify asked me to give it permissions to Facebook. I just denied it and it still works fine.

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But

most of the post offices I have been to either shut early, have 1 person working at any one time, or are now closed.

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ffs

Ok, this is really getting stupid now.

Can't we just tell the US patent office that nobody else in the world is going to care until they stop handing out patents to every Tom, Dick and Harry (sorry, Tom, Richard and Harry)?

Really getting stupid now.

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Yes

because everything that is online about me is 100% acurate, and completly reflects what I have been doing in real life.

I take it that it will know the difference between John Smith and John Smith who both live in the same town?

Ah well, it'll keep HMRC happy.

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Wow

That is pretty awesome!

It almost doesn't look real ... hang on..... *puts on tin foil hat*

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I really don't undertand

How someone could be prosecuted for saying something they arent supposed to know.

If they say 'I heard it was X that did Y with Z' and it just happens that X did in fact do Y with Z, the person who said that isn't supposed to know, so therefore isnt breaking any laws?

How can you be in contempt of court for gossiping? You don't know any of the facts to be in contempt.

Surely the only person who could be prosecuted would be the person(s) that let the info intp the public domain - which I doubt they will find.

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I use Gadget Track

http://www.gadgettrak.com/ Think they have a windows version as well

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cookie lifetime

So, what happens if you already have a cookie from a site, that say expires 10 years from now?

Do sites have to delete the cookie if I visit again, then re-issue me one if I agree?

Just seems like another pointless law so someone somewhere can say that they understand this interweb thing.

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Fixed for you.

"Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said recently that Twitter was showing just how much of a mockery UK privacy laws are"

Fixed.

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PNS Plus account

and not a word in my inbox. Id figure paying to use the service would at least bump me up to getting an email when it all goes titsup! (Not that im saying non plus accounts shouldnt get updates as well!)

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To be fair

The PSN has been pretty crap for a while now, always kicks me out of games telling me im not signed in anymore, then other times just won't find the PSN at all.

Prob nothing to do with DDoS, just the pretty crap service they offer - but then you don't pay for it, so swings and roundabouts.

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The other ones

are pretty good as well - chewwy one is awesome!

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HTC Desire

My HTC Desire is starting to have problems with the back button, it's less than a year old, normal use, but its just not being recognised as much as it did. Perhaps thats the reason?

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"They've fixed petrol cars after breaking them, and re-tested them."

Yea, but this isn't a petrol car...It's probably a lot more complicated to just fix it up and go again - which is a valid point if you are wanting to buy one.

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errrr

You are a large enterprise, running IE9 beta?

Awesome...

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I just went with

"self worshiper"

(I know, supposed to wait till the 27th, but I'll have more interesting things to do then and I was bored last night)

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Dynamic

If the address was dynamic, then doenst it still 'belong' to the ISP?

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iphone/ipad have it

but you can't move the file between DB and KPX like you can on an Android

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re the post im replying to

Its probably more the fact that if you've spent 5 years tagging and sorting 4000 photos, then you're not really going to want to do it again because someone deleted it (albeit by accident)

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Unhappy

Does that mean

That the current free wifi from the Cloud that BT/O2 offer will disapear?

That would be a bit sucky, kind of useful when stuck at a station or pub (I know, the hardship)

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Black Helicopters

This is a title

So, if Im reading this right, there were a handful of people that were arrested only because their names were on a list? And the only way onto that list was to subscribe to it?

(Personally I'd be suprised if they hadn't caught any innocents, its not like everyone checks everything they click/download/put CC details into.)

They said there was no evidence that there was CC fraud, but what does that mean? The culprit didnt use the card anywhere else, so it looks like a 'normal' transaction?

Shirley if you are going to convict someone for somthing like this, then you have to prove that they did sign up to the list, not that there wasn't any CC fraud, no?

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FAIL

They still dont quite get the whole digital age, do they

So, how does this work when the software/applications are written outside of the US?

I don't see how this would actually make a difference?

If they tap FB and that, I doubt international criminals are using it.

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Happy

Amusing-ish

It's like the old school playground one school against another!

Although, I have a feeling that the little tykes at 4Chan will take it all a bit personally and probably end up doing more damage than the 'I can haz DDOS?' brigade.

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Hmmm

I agree with the Orange results, I switched to Orange from O2 and its terrible!

Still a lot better than 3 though!

I live in Maidenhead where they have a big old office 5 mins from my house, can I get any signal?

Can I heck. Left them after a week. Funny thing was, when I rang up to get the phone unlocked and they asked why I was leaving, I told them the signal was rubbish, but he lept on insisting that they had great coverage there...the fact that I had no signal most of the time didnt seem to convince him.

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What?!

Which MaccyDs does tomatoes in the burgers?! I only ever get ketchup.. :(

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Been using the beta(s)

And I have to say, its actually not bad. Im liking the Outlook app, already much better than that Entourage atrocity!

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Have you guys been slowly reading B3ta?

Its been a favoured link for a while...still scares all kinds of things out of me everytime I see it, I'll stick to my desk

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Happy

True, although

ECMAScript 5 is supposed to have getters/setters and read-only properties. The "strict-mode" setting is supposed to catch a lot of basic mistakes, stop global polluting, undefined vars etc.

Theres also a fair few libs out there, ExtJS, jQuery etc

Not *that* bad for a browser scripting language.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-262.pdf

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I noticed this earlier

and its damn annoying!

I was reading the results, whilst typing in some extra search words, and the damn thing started changing. Not helpful in the slightest!

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This is not the title you are looking for

"We believe it does not violate US law to collect payload data from networks that are configured to be openly accessible"

So, what if they havent been configured to do that, and that was how the router/AP comes as standard?

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Slightly OT

but is that a foam resistor at the bottom of that second picture?!

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WTF?

Wait...

did you just put ME above 98?! Did you ever use it?!

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A few years ago

I was in a Nike shop in London, at the time I had Bluetooth turned on on my phone - the buggers sent a mini advert thingy of Henry and something to do with trainers....pissed me right off!

Bluetooth has been disabled on all my phones since then.

I don't want anything on my phone I dont explicitly ask for.

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