Real or not
The press don't need pesky facts to report on aynthing these days, 'some bloke down the pub told me' seems to be enough these days, well that or Wikipdeia!
Posts by Adam Salisbury
344 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Dec 2008
Assange denies 'sexual assault' allegations
ECJ ruling puts VAT on salary sacrifice schemes
Shuttleworth spears Natty Narwhal for Ubuntu 11.04
Beeb deploys ISS as unit of measurement
Thursday 19th August 2010 12:05 GMT
Nope
SV = Sheep Velocity (natch)
ISSV = ISS velocity (27,733.8km/h)
SV / 0.2571 = 3.88
27,733,8 * 3.88 = 107,607.144
SV = 107,607.44km/h
Or 1 SV = 3.88 ISSV
Depending how hard you kicked the sheep from the airlock, once released into a vacuum it'd accelerate to just over 1SV (you'd need to measure the force of your kick in Newtons (?) and convert to either km/h or fraction of an SV to get an accurate speed)
One in five workers still clinging to IE6
Thursday 19th August 2010 10:52 GMT 
End of Life
Microsoft should do the right thing for the wider IT commmunity and announce that IE6 will go end-of-life thus forcing all these lazy companies to actually invest in upgrading. "We've got legacy crap that we can't port over" is a frankly pathetic excuse now, there have been 2 more versions released since then and anyone still sittting on their hands should be taken outside and administered some intensive physical education.
It's like saying we won't put locks on our building because we'd need new door handles
Woman sues to force exposure of YouTube bullies
People have no bloody idea about saving energy
Wednesday 18th August 2010 20:39 GMT
No it's not
The heat isn't wasted if you can turn your central heating down as a result! And besides those enrgy saving bulbs only last half the life of ordinary ones so you need to manufacture twice as many, therefore factor in environmental/carbon cost of raw materials, toxic checmicals, cost to make, cost to transport, hell even the cost of me going out and buying more and the cost of recycling the old ones.
Wednesday 18th August 2010 16:02 GMT
Whoa!
No-one said nuclear power is cheaper/more expensive than wind or tidal but lets just consider a) the massive carbon cost of building and putting up windmills that only generate a few % of even the UKs needs, you'd have to cover every inch of hte US with windfarms and you wouldn't come close to powering more than a few states, if that. b) You've still gotta have backup generation for those non-windy days and c) Tidal won't do nation-scale power generation on it's own either.
Nuclear is simply the least dirty fossil fuel, but it's one that'll allow us to hit our emissions targets without a shortfall while renewables are refined and proven or disproven.
Wednesday 18th August 2010 16:00 GMT
That's the point though
If a cash-fat quango (commissioned by our Goverment) relieving us of taxes are spouting utter crap than who DO you listen to????
Is it he man with all the windmills, or the hemp shirt, Al Gore, Honda Pious owners? Anyone who considers themselves green should get the facts straight or they'll all just be ignored, y'know like the Government ;-)
Wednesday 18th August 2010 16:00 GMT
Well said
"Turning off unused devices which consume electricity has to be worth the 'bother' no matter how small the saving and you are lazy and ignorant if you leave lights on for no reason"
At the end of the day no matter what you're opinion there's no excuse for lazy wastefulness, the above comment sums it up perfectly.
Wednesday 18th August 2010 15:58 GMT
3 Watt Kettle
Thats either the most efficient kettle ever made or you must wait an awfully long time for tea! Bearing in mind a kettle draws around 14amps of current when boiling (they're right alongside laser printers and CRTs on the list of "shit you don't plug into a UPS unit") I'm just a wee bit skeptical.
Wednesday 18th August 2010 15:58 GMT
FAIL!
You sir, haven't factored in manufacturing costs, the emissions released by power generation to charge the damn thing, the carbon cost of power delivery, power stations, the slave labour eviscerating the land to mine for batteries, building aforementioned batteries etc etc etc.
Leccy cars are for now, more for people trying to advertise their green credentials than anything else, until we suss out more efficient battery manufacturing processes and develop cheap, wholesale *actually* clean power then their benefit over their petrol brethen is neglible while the technology is still in it's infancy.
Just like the UKs car scrappage scheme (which was honestly all about being green and not propping up another ailing victim of "The Downturn"), it's cost more carbon than it's saving.
Why anyone in the green camp can't just provide us all with real, accurate information and not stupid comparisons between line-drying and washing machine power consumption baggars belief. It's also why the green backlash keeps gaining momentum......they all talk shite!
Shopping mall mulls Supreme Court bid to back no-speaking ban
Booze makes you clever, having none makes you stupid
Wednesday 18th August 2010 10:58 GMT
Moderation, moderation, moderation
I'm pretty sure they're not condoning vodka on you're cornflakes but moderate consumption of wine (especially red) has long been associated with positive health benefits.
Of course if you like pounding said liver with Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters then the cranial benefits may indeed be outweighed by an acute alcohol-induced death!
< Beer: To grease my brain boss...honest!
Retailer serves up Monty Python 'waffer thin' mints
Spurs soothsayer predicts Young Boys thrashing on Twitter
Survey scammers exploit Facebook dislike lure
Can replication replace backup?
Monday 16th August 2010 10:52 GMT
None without problems
In our organisation we've no data replication at all, yes, that's right, none whatsoever. It's not a lack of understanding of the technology, an institutionalised love of tape or anything like that, it's really quite simple. Bandwidth. We've got nowhere near enough bandwidth for anything other than AD replication between DCs, we'd wind up saturating our site link trying to replicate domain, file, SQL and CRM data on a regular basis so we don't.
Being a small outfit we're only now starting to really scrutinise our BC/DR capability and it'll be interesting to see how our cash-strapped management choose to remedy these shortcomings or whether they'll rule that cost of better systems, deduplication-capapble backup software or a bigger site link outweigh the perceived risks.
That said, we're now having to restructure the conventional backup systems as the sheer volume of data pushes backup job finish time later into the morning. I'd tend to agree with most here who correctly say the replication and backup will, for the time being at least, work in tandem but the evolution of CDP is definitely one to watch as I dont' why we shouldn't be able to unify the technologies. Afterall continuos and instantaneous backup is one of the holy grails of IT.
15K Wikileaks docs 'potentially more explosive,' US frets
Friday 13th August 2010 09:57 GMT
Point? Missed!
You don't understand, even *IF* Wikileaks release anything that endangers our troops/assets/informants out there (and doesn't that sound like the exact kind of FUD you'd expect to hear to try and rally people against the whistleblowers?) it still won't have been their fault.
Any deaths that *MAY* occur as a result of the leak will still be the fault of the US/UK governments who lied their way to war. If our governements were honest and open there'd be no need for Wikileaks to even exist
Documents show CAA fears over powerline networks
Thursday 12th August 2010 09:16 GMT
Who sits on Ofcom's board then?
Because I'll put money on it being somone from either BT or whoever's manufacturing their jerry built PLN gear (can you say Huawei?). And expecting the problem to magically dissapear; well what's the point of Ofcom regulating anything if that's their attitude to new technology.
If it's causing significant interence now what about when it's densly deployed near hospitals and the like? I'm all for PLN inprinciple, but if it's not ready for prime time, outlaw all the kit and sue the shite out of whoever's flooding the market with rubbish they can't be bothered to test first.
/rant
Police told terror ads too terrifying offensive
Independent bigs up the 'Wanky Balls festival'
Tuesday 10th August 2010 14:20 GMT 
I am fulminating so violently I cannot muster a title
It's vexing to say the least, to see decades of repeating to users not to trust the interwebs ever is having absolutely no effect whatsoever!!
The only thing more worrying point about this story is that it shows how the newspapers and the rest of mainstream media are just as unreliable as Wikipedia.
Whom can one trust now half the media is owned by Murdoch and other half have been proven to be idiots, liars or both??
/rant.
Apple iPhone app patent claim 'doesn't feel right'
Cracking software retrieves iPhone 4 passwords
Friday 6th August 2010 09:34 GMT
Strong, complex passwords...
From the average smartphone luser, yeah right! How many even changed if from the default password do you think? And how many have a 14 digit-or-greater password as it's got to be that long before it takes any longer than a patient all nighter with a creaky old laptop (it's fun working with pen testers) to break.
IIRC Apple's device "security" has been described as worse than useless and as they get as big a MS this will start to hurt them.
Ballmer's 'lost generation' note finds resonance
Want to use WD diagnostics? Buy Windows
Dixons aims high, medium and low with own-brand blizzard
Solar plasma aurora storm to hit Earth tomorrow today!
Wednesday 4th August 2010 10:07 GMT
He only said it arrives today
There's still plenty of time for the reanimation of the deceased, mass blinding and carniverous plant attacks (and possibly the formation of some new breed of superhero). Maybe you won't be out until lunch but at least that means you've got enough time to use the old "solar flares" excuse with the next customer/luser!
iPads for hospitals: is this a good idea?
Emmerdale shoves jam rags in innocent kiddies' faces
Cutbacks strip speed cameras from Blighty's roads
Monday 26th July 2010 21:37 GMT
Sadly....
While I do find him funny, he's the kind of twunt you need speed cameras for. A few mph over the limit to maintain the flow of traffic is an invetitability of driving these days but that ageing berk needs to keep his idiocy on the track not bragging about hitting 180 on the open road where he can kill people (coz he's NOT that good a driver either).
It's people like him who gave the Gov the excuse to put these up in the first place (the irony of it slays me!)...
/Rant
3D films fall flat
Monday 26th July 2010 16:26 GMT
Exactly
When it costs almost as much as to see the film once as it does but the thing on DVD (and we're very nearly there) there's no point in going in the frist place. Ever since the writers strike all we've seen out of holiday is mass resurrection of old franchises, tepid remakes and now the 3D fad.
Not only is it a massive rip-off but it's just an attempt as making revenue lost from churing out mediocre films
LAPD questions Google Apps security credentials
UK.gov sacks lead e-Borders contractor
Facebook tops half-billion users, wants your innermost thoughts
Thursday 22nd July 2010 09:55 GMT
The Pedant Within
Whether those 400,000 hours of web twattery are happening in or outside of work is irrelevant, it is still 400,000 hours of lost/wasted productivity (read: life) of many a Facebooker!
I often wonder how much Farmville a Facebooker would have to play to consider it worth wasting all the time on!
Cops taser Somerset chap's nether regions
Wednesday 21st July 2010 11:39 GMT
The real question here...
.The real question here is why didn't Plod check PNC/ANPR/whatever system, and if he did, why was the information about the insurance wrong?
Had the most basic of checks been made the guy wouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
I will however, defend the cop pulling the tazer if the man got out of his car upon stopping, he's lucky he didn't do that in the states or they probably would have shot him there and then, afterall who can say the guy wasn't getting out of the car to attack Plod?
Phonemakers cry foul on Steve Jobs 'We're all alike' attack
Mobile broadband: not up to the job?
Wednesday 14th July 2010 15:44 GMT
Telcos accept your responsibility FFS
Lay in your own bed, eat your own dog food and so forth! Just like domestic broadband the ISPs have far oversold services and now they're feeling the cruinch, while they could've been doing the right thing an using their enormous profits to upgrade their infrastructure they've propbably squandered it on themselves.
This is the fault of the telcos and ISPs alone and they should foot the bill, period.
Apple quietly extends first-gen Time Capsule warranty
Abu Hamza ruling clarifies McKinnon case
Tuesday 13th July 2010 17:58 GMT
Ergo...
If I leave my front door unlocked you get to rob me and not receive punishment? Doesn't matter that the treaty's one sided, he confessed to a crime and is not beyond punishment, personally I'm waiting for the medical evidence that describes the severity of his condition. I know a few asperger's sufferers and they all know the difference between right and wrong, what do you think a long and protracted extradition battle is doing for his metnal wellbeing?
Blighty's stealth robojet rolls out a year late
Apple support-drone scripts leaked
Wednesday 30th June 2010 19:04 GMT
Here, here
I tried this for laugh on my SE Satio (quiet day in the office!) and only with much patience manged to drop 2 bars maximum and losing 2 bars while 'obscuring' the antenna is understandable, dropping signal altogether is a sign of a rushed release of an unfinished product after a leak that undermined a meticulously planned marketing offensive.
Simples, as the painfully annoying meerkat would say...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
