Posts by Gordon Stewart
40 posts • joined Monday 9th June 2008 11:02 GMT
Re: google it
I've seen plenty about South Korea... don't remember seeing anything relating to China
..."the encrypted and salted versions of passwords"
Let me fix that for you:
"...the hashed and salted versions of passwords"
"they are already dealing with a pandemic of gaming addicts..."
Reference please
Re: Guidance
I don't think it's difficult at all. I think the real reason for most suicide 'failures' is that they never realy intended to kill themselves in the first place; just a 'cry for help' or an attempt to get attention.
The first time the lawyers reached out..
Did you just use the term 'reached out'?
Arrrgh, my eyes!!!!!
Re: Now I really want to know...
Maybe something like 只 皮肤 伤口 (zhǐ pífū shāngkǒu)
"Several of the applications offer a "touch mode" button above the menu bar"
Why the f**k would anyone want to use b*stard Office apps with a bloody touchscreen?!
Pinyin
Just for completeness it's xuěbào in Pinyin (Hanyu Pinyin, that is), and 雪豹 in Simplified Chinese
You've never tried recruiting anyone from India then?
At least 90% of the CVs that land on my desk - from organisations like Capgemini and InfoSys - are utter lies.
You read a CV that appears to be a perfect candidate, with 7 years experience working on .NET projects, but upon interviewing it very quickly becomes apparent that they haven't got a clue.
Is this a verbatim press release or something? Just asking, because there seems to be no technical content here, just an advertisement for STEC....
Re: Who writes this crap?
A fair point about my tone... just getting rather exasperated with El Reg lately. It's supposed to be a tech site, but it seems more and more these days the articles read like they were written by Daily Hate hacks :(
Who writes this crap?
"SHA-1 hashing is not the securest form of encryption; sensitive information should really be salted, a much stronger form of security."
Salting is not an alternative to hashing, it's something you do as part of the hashing process.
Seriously, WTF has happened to El Reg?
Re: Deep-fried pizza, anyone?
Gah, I hail from the North, and can confirm these abominations exist, and can be found in many a chipper!
As if it needed confirming, I can confirm that they really are as vile as the sound. They are normally the '10 for a £1' out of Iceland variety, and taste of cardboard made soggy with ungodly quantities of grease.
CTR?
400,000 clicks from 10,000,000 ads makes for a click through rate of 4%.... that sounds highly unlikely.
40,000 sounds more plausible.
Posted in Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car
@Charles Manning
"This goes towards paying for road development/maintenance etc."
Yes... of course it does
Posted in Viewsonic PLED W500 portable projector
"costing half a ton"
I think you mean a "monkey" or "half a bag of sand" :)
ZTE Blade/Orange SanFran
With light-moderate usage, I routinely get 3 days out of my ZTE Blade/Orange SanFran, but on occasion I get 5 days out of it.
It's running the FLB Android 2.2 ROM.
"Precise" Geographic Coordinates?
Does it have a built-in GPS, or is it just using cell tower info (in which case, it's not really precise at all)?
Posted in Nokia X3 sliderphone
£130?
Nothing against 'simple' phones that don't try to pack the world into a handhelf devide - but £130 seems awfully expensive for this
Cost breakdown
Did the FOI response include a breakdown of the costs, or just the total amount?
It would be very interesting to see how they could possibly spend so much on this...
I don't get it
It *looks* like a DSLR, it's *priced* like an entry level DSLR...
... why would I want this instead of a DSLR?!
Posted in Iocell NetDisk
Streaming
"playback of HDTV content is jerky and certainly far from an enjoyable experience"
Eh? How does that work if the ethernet speeds are so good? Is this just a firmware issue that will be resolved later?
FUD...
Sounds like yet more 'red danger' FUD from the US government who have been putting out this kind of anti-Chinese stuff for a while now.
They used a host with an address in China? Yeah, cause they'd do that, wouldn't they?
Mefinks not.
@AC 17th June 2009 11:13 GMT
"Is there a route on which the taxes cost £20 to £30? Even one, let alone enough to justify the "usually" comment?"
Is there a route (within Europe) where the taxes cost less?!
The first one I checked, Aberdeen to Dublin, taxes are £30.16
Next up, Luton to Girona, taxes are £24.03
Next, Gatwick to Cork, taxes are £28.05
etc...
@ed 20
Actually, I've been on 10 flights in the past 3 weeks, and 12 before that this year! Last year, 43 flights!
Taxes tend to make up a large portion of any short flight, and with budget airlines they tend to be more than the fare itself - at least, that has been the case in my experience. Maybe I'm just flying to/from all the wrong places!
@Linbox
"Never paid more than £10.00 to fly anywhere" - sounds like bollocks to me. Taxes alone will usually amount to several times more than that.
Posted in Who snapped first?
@AC, Thursday 9th Apr 2009 22:58
Having big numbers on their uniforms certainly sounds like a good idea to me
Whether or not this policeman was responsible for Tomlinson's death, at the very _least_ he should lose his job and be up on an assault charge. At the time, Tomlinson clearly posed no threat to anyone. Whatever Tomlinson had been up to, shoving him over from behind like that is bang out of order - they're supposed to be police offers, not a bunch of bloody thugs!
I don't know about anyone else, but any time I see footage of riot police involved in a 'crowd control' situation in the news their response always seems sickeningly brutal. You tend to see some guy lying on the deck, covering his head while 1-3 policemen stand round him smashing him over the head with batons. You never hear of any convictions over that sort of thing.
I have a cousin in the MET, and an uncle that used to be in the MET. I've heard both talking of how much they enjoy riot duty because they "enjoy a good ruck". Both are racists too. Last time I expressed my distaste at such comments they just laughed.
If you have nothing to fear...
..yeah...
Posted in Asus Eee Linux-based Skype Videophone
A Good Start
This looks like it could eventually be quite a nice product... asuming that it sells well enough for Asus to come out with a 2nd generation version that addresses the shortcomings. £220 is also a bit steep, mefinks.
Posted in ID and Passport Service brings in ad men
Huh?
Utterly pointless - yet another disgraceful waste of public funds :o/
RSI?
RSI, anyone?
Surely your arms are aching in no time!
Posted in UK govt cuts web shoppers a break
Re: Wow. So what's the catch?
Well, there is no longer 2 USD to the pound... so it's not as appealing as it once was :(
@Killed himself?
Indeed. I don't think anyone really believes he killed himself...
Another...
I used to work with a guy called Austin Martin
@what if he's guilty
That's what evidence can be used for.
And I don't mean the kind extracted through torture. If someone starts hacking at my sack, I'll tell them the moon is made of cheese if that's what they want to hear...
The _real_ terrorists here are the bloody security services. If the horrors that this bloke had to endure don't constitute terrorism, then I don't know what does.
Maybe he is guilty. Maybe he is not. I don't know. What I do know, is that this is very very wrong, and is categorically not the way that a 'modern', 'democratic', 'civilised' country should be conducting itself.
Posted in Is Microsoft's Silverlight evil?
@Antony Riley
> If Mono actually worked (it does not, nor is it likely to in the near future...
Wha? I take it from this statement that you have never used Mono. I have... it works just fine.
Dollar = Pound
Of course, it this ever does come to the UK, they will simply change the $ for a £ - too expensive.
Tom Welsh
I gotta agree with you.
What could China _possibly_ have to gain from this?
There seems to be a lot of this nonsense being directed against China by the American press, politicians and agencies of late.
I can only imagine that there must be some political subtext, and the American public (and indeed the wider, western audience) are supposed to swallow this crap, just as they did the rubbish about Iraq having WMDs.
The unfortunate thing is that this stream of propaganda probably will have the desired effect of breeding (more) xenophobia and racism amongst many people :(
