Posts by Deebster
27 posts • joined Tuesday 30th September 2008 10:58 GMT
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/">Madagascar</a> reference?
Re: honeynet?
Just the single honeypot, if the article's to be believed...
Re: SMS code = good. Google Authenticator app = better.
I keep some backup codes in my wallet so I don't need to have a functioning phone at all.
Re: My Two Cents on A Browser Language
> Compile stuff directly into machine code
Which instruction set?
Or do you mean distribute the source and compile on-demand (which is pretty much what modern JavaScript engines do)?
Re: Issues
It doesn't work anywhere.
You need to be using your network because the hack requires you to override the DNS entry that Siri calls.
Re: This Musk guy
Elon Musk was born and raised in South Africa.
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
*Animated* GIFs
MNGs haven't really taken off so this crappy format is still all over the place.
Observe: https://plus.google.com/s/%23gif
The bank note or the celebrity?
Posted in XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
Re: And next week...
TiVo are flexing their patent muscles: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/22/tivo_patent_spat_over_dvr/
Re: Inquiring minds...
Lazy research ahead:
According to Wikipedia, there have been at least <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity#Studies">31 experiments</a>; a systematic review concluded:
"The symptoms described by 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity' sufferers can be severe and are sometimes disabling. However, it has proved difficult to show under blind conditions that exposure to electromagnetic fields can trigger these symptoms. This suggests that 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity' is unrelated to the presence of electromagnetic fields, although more research into this phenomenon is required."
But bogomips and flip-flop gates are real things
BogoMIPS are Linus Torvald's fairly vague speed measure used in the Linux kernel for when time-based delays are too long.
And Flip-flop Gates: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/boolean4.htm.
The time line is definitely one of the best, although I was really tickled by "NMAP requires root access in order to allow B-trees" for some reason.
If anyone's wondering if that's the Joe Cornish from The Adam and Joe Show:
It is.
Re: Ploughshare?
Reminds me of the US plan to use nukes for construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare
If you can
I'm anosmic; if there's no-one around the only way I have to test milk is to taste it.
I, for one, welcome our new cyber-packaged underlings.
@AC 101
Are you talking about Firefox or Chrome?
@literally
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Re: BTDTBTTS
I didn't, but hitting this page comments and searching for BTDTGTTS didn't help either
Posted in Syndicate
Sod the reboot
I clicked into this thinking it was from the Antique Code Show series.
How about it?
A. Barth?
Great name!
Posted in Beeb measures Blighty in doormats
UK billion = 10**9 for almost 40 years
The BBC article points out that the UK definition of billion has matched the US one since 1974.
I too prefer a billion to be defined as a million to the power of two, but do keep up
"I could care less"
Pet peeve noted
"hygiene" != "sleep hygiene"
'putting their mental health and "hygiene" at risk' should be 'putting their mental health and sleep hygiene at risk.'
This report is not claiming that us coders are smelly (in this study, at least); it's saying that we have bad habits like using computers before bed and having erratic bed times.
Posted in WD adds e-ink screens to external HDDs
Strange it's taken this long...
I had a Lexar usb stick with an e-ink capacity status display years ago
@Martin Lyne
"Reverse-placebo effect"
Nocebo effect, surely?
Posted in TfL considers life without Oyster
@ A J Stiles
Paying to pee isn't a new idea - why do you think it's called "spending a penny"?
Posted in Postman Pat goes postal
Postman Pat HQ just looks like a toy
So this is starting just in time for Christmas lists?
re: tie to IP
But be aware of proxying ISPs like AOL that will make a user use several IPs, giving false positives in your logs, and users getting chucked out.
