Posts by Oliver Mayes

Re: "asserted a copyright claim"

A video showing someone how to steal copyrighted content for free is a viable target for a takedown request.

Re: Danger to people?

No, there's no danger at all. The planet's magnetosphere deflects most of the CME around the planet. Even the ISS is still inside that protective barrier so at most they'll see a slight increase in solar radiation.

Those of us on the ground or at the relatively piddling height of 40,000 feet won't see any difference at all, unless you happen to look up and see the pretty colours as the atmosphere gets all excited about it.

@dogged

I once caught myself coveting the ankles of my neighbours ox. What do I do now?

Re: 8am and still no o2 connection since yesterday afternoon

Hardly any BBC reporting? It was the second most read article on their mobile site when I checked last night.

That's how I found out about the problem, I assumed it was just my handset playing up until I saw their article.

Re: meh

VPN wont' help here as they're trying to stop the content being published in the first place, not just block access to it.

Re: Simple fix?

Except if they do that they're actively interrupting the intended communications of the affected PCs. While now they're effectively invisible proxies, the second they start actively changing where the users get sent the companies who have to spend money on fixing the problem can start pointing fingers at the FBI for disrupting their businesses. Given the general technical knowledge of your average judge, trying to explain what's happening would be a losing battle for the feds.

Re: Eh?

Or perhaps the mobile app had some debug code left in it that wasn't supposed to run on their live servers?

One rogue DROP statement can cause havoc if they don't have proper backups and DR policies.

Re: So hate me why don't you

I've got the double pack too. The first (only?) film is one of my all-time favourites.

Watched the sequel once, nodded solemnly, put it back in it's place and haven't watched it since.

Re: all for a retail price of $300 (£191).

Ah, well you see there are difficulties bringing a product to market in a foreign territory and the distribution channels are far more expensive. Not to mention sales tax, import duty, window tax, backhanders etc. So it makes sound fiscal sense to simplify the process by charging the same numeric value in every country and only varying the currency symbol. Except in regions where the difference between the USD and the local currency would result in a loss for the manufacturer.

Re: Phones & Cameras

She states on her blog that it isn't a phone, she was taking a small camera in with her specifically to take these photos for her reports.

Re: Radiation, the new terrorist paedophiles.

The Sun were already reporting on radioactive paedophiles long before this:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2276130/Radioactive-paedophile-on-the-run.html

@Steven R

Made in France?

Re: Advice for his legal team

Ah but you're making the classic mistake of expecting the law to apply in the same way to a politician and a prole. If a politician breaks the law it's simply because they mis-interpreted the law. If a prole breaks the same law it's because they're a criminal.

Re: "..monitoring all of the web sites registered in the city,"

Really? A Government that doesn't understand how technology works? How preposterous!

Re: Can't fault their stance

The same can be said for Microsoft, or Linux, or any popular brand. Say anything bad about them and expect the foaming-at-the-mouth weirdos to yell at you.

Re: If its wrong most of the time...

Marketing overrides maths.

I read the same thing, I've also heard that several competitors are offering the games at a big discount for anyone who pre-ordered at Game and didn't get their copy.

Re: Really??

" I don't know what crappy spec machine you must be trying to run it on?!?"

Dual core CPU @ 2.6GHz, 4 GB RAM, recent nvidia card (1024MB, can't remember the model), Creative 5.1 sound card. All latest drivers.

Video stutters, random coloured pixels flicker across the screen, menus and buttons flicker then disappear leaving artifacts behind.

None of these problems manifest in Windows on the same PC. Just Ubuntu.

Re: 7 hours

Perhaps the camera wasn't within his reach while he was airborne. Might have needed to land and get into the camera to get the card out.

Re: Public sector

The accountant who questioned it.

I thought it was fake too, mine had a spelling error in it.

So that was actually a genuine email? Damn, that makes 5 times in the last 18 months that a website has lost my details. I only found out about the last time after someone tried to charge a hotel room in Paris to my credit card.

Re: Can I...

@Voland's right hand

Except that the fact that he waited 15 years to enforce the patent shows that this is purely a money grab. If he had a genuine claim then he should have made that claim back when someone else produced a touchscreen device. Apple is just the big money target.

"Do any Reggies here have the 3G tool? And if so, have you performed some destructive testing on it, possibly whilst bored or drunk? Any observations? : D"

I have one on my desk, I wasn't aware of its construction method but have always been intrigued by it. Although it's just a little bit of metal I couldn't find any injection seam or evidence of cutting so I was baffled as to how it was made without lots of effort being put into finishing.

As for it's properties, it's pretty rigid and resistant to flexing or mild bending. I haven't gone the whole destructive testing route yet because it seems wrong somehow to damage a nice shiny things, I'll wait until I've had more to drink.

Re: Fixed.

"I was going to say It's like watching a runner fall at the first hurdle, but it's probably more like watching a runner false start, run over to the official and shoot themselves in the foot with the starting pistol."

...and then attempt to sue the official for not stopping him from doing that.

Re: Lets be realistic shall we.

"The Police have enough to do catching criminals than worry about which porn sites you visit."

Except that they don't, they're so obsessed with arrest figures that the majority of police work these days seems to be focussed on parking fines and minor speed offences. The police stopped caring about actual crime when they realised that it looks far more impressive to 'catch' people illegally downloading music form the internet.

Re: Down with this sort of thing

Careful now

Re: WHY!?

@southern

"So send it to your work address and have them take receipt of it and set your downloads to run at night instead of daytime. It really is not that difficult to overcome your two main objections."

My employer won't allow us to have things shipped here, why should they pay for the reception staff to sign for and store my property for me until I collect it?

And downloading overnight would require me to leave my console or pc on overnight which is a waste of power. I put everything to sleep at night, the noise of my PC fans alone would keep me up all night.

@wild bill

"My house has this amazing device installed called a letter box. Google it, I think it's going to be the next big thing."

Yes, and I love receiving those "While you were out" cards when I get home every day. Almost as much as I love having to go collect my ever-so-slightly-thicker-than-the-average-letterbox parcel from the post office depot that closes every day at 7:30 am.

Agreed, it they're actually doing that then there's no excuse other than wanting to wring as much money out of their customers as possible without spending any on developing more games.

Re: false security theatre

Don't forget the guy who had a picture of a cartoon gun on his t-shirt. That was just as dangerous as a real one.

Re: Too many stores

Telford is the same, 2 Game stores within 2 minutes walk with a HMV about halfway between them, and a GameStation 2 doors down from one of the Games. Apparently both of our Games are closing leaving only the GameStation.