Re: Why?
"As you're" is a close approximation to my pronunciation, but as our American friends get anxious around the letter 'U' maybe this helps explain things?
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Out of interest, downvoter, how many places can you get to on a tank of fuel in a chopper from any location you care to name in NZ? Lovely country and all that, just not in the heart of things, especially in what are very versatile but rather fuel-intensive vehicles optimised for short range.
He needs to sell out to the Cheezburger Network for monetization and stuff.
OK, well clearly he shouldn't - that would be hideous, but I do wonder how occasional T-Shirts, posters and maybe now book advances (still very low even for bestsellers) make living wage money. The fact that the strips are not surrounded with ads, deep linking is encouraged, etc., makes you wonder why other sites (*cough* reg *cough*) surround themselves with flash ads and stuff.
If they're the mine detectors I think you're talking about, some shit in Somerset bodged together bits of golf gadgets BUT the MOD were not among his customers. IIRC, they were mostly in countries where witchcraft/magic still has a public consciousness (and buyers were happy to take a kickback, quite possibly).
That man is a first class shit, though, and should spend the rest of his life in a small cell with Andrew Wakefield. Get Mbeki in there too, for his AIDS denialist business which killed appx 300,000++ people.
Are they actually a monopoly? Is there anything to stop TalkTalk from digging their own holes and laying their own fibres? I seem to remember Birmingham Cable had a whole (fibre?) network of ducts etc for instance. Or is that the expensive and inconvenient bit nobody wants to do and is hoping to get for free?
That's why I haven't pledged (because this is right up my street and I'd be in sharpish), I'm not convinced the budget is complete. Either this is the first round and will be followed by more and more begging letters, or it'll fold - either way it feels disingenuous to not lay out the whole plan upfront
Pretty sure the customisation is only to cosmetic bits, not the core phone. Maybe like a customised back or similar, and for £20 they can quite happily refit the original back. In fact my MotoG came with a *spare* back as a deal sweetener. Of course I've never used it, but they must cost a few pennies.
How the encryption works isn't the hardest part of decrypting anything, it's the guessing of the key. 3DEC, RSA, etc you can see the cogs, how the machine works, but how it's initialised turns meaning into gibberish.
If the baddies have any idea what they are doing (and they have the money to pay good people), they will use RSA, 3DEC or other proven standard over hand-rolled cryptography which is weak by comparison. For instance ROT-13 appears marginally secure (it was secure enough for Adobe for a while), so would reencrypting a ROT-13 make it more secure? 2ROT-13 is back to cleartext! This is why you don't roll your own encryption!
AIUI, SMS are free to receive, even overseas, on most/all UK/EU networks, so cost is not a real objection. And seeing as three and other networks are currently rolling out in-package calls for more and more roaming countries, that gets less of a deal.
You installed RealPlayer last night? Is this posted through some strange time wormhole? I haven't installed RealPlayer since...must be pre-2006 as that's my oldest still-working box, and it's never had it.
Do you mind me asking, genuinely, what for? Can VLC not play the .rm files you need?
Whoosh!
(Look at the other Steve Bong articles, lord Bong of #BusinessModel and ask that guff - you'll see he's a compound character of every cretin in Hoxton and as such will spout with absolute authority utter bollocks. He doesn't even get the name of The Register right, there are clues ask over the shop, this is deliberate)
Well done to him. Simple works.
As for the population rant above - the birth rates in the West were considerably higher when infant mortality was also considerably higher. When your kids are more likely to live than die, you don't have so many because you don't need to. The best way to reduce the third world birth rate is actually to reduce infant mortality.
Newspapers - funnily enough the one with least political slant and celebrity tittle-tattle is the FT, and it's probably the best of the British papers. I recommend starting with the Weekend edition, it has a fantastic arts section and very good mag with real articles and no filler 'look at these dresses' articles. Best thing is the paper doesn't condescend nor does it try to show off/elitist snobbery, has good world outward-looking view, and the journalism is good.
Seriously, give it a proper try if you're sick of the rest of the press.