* Posts by nsld

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70 London 999 calls lost due to clock-change IT glitch

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@ Vic

"> it would have to include an accurate local time as well as running to UTC

Nonsense.

If you know UTC and you know which timezone you are in, you can derive localtime precisely."

I quoted your first part as it includes the bit you claim is nonsense and then you proceed to say exactly the same thing.

UTC provides the baseline, local time is derived from that and recorded accordingly to allow for time changes.

For evidential purposes you cannot derive a time after the fact it needs to be logged at the time of the event so a call record in summer time would show UTC at X and local at X + 1

and thats why, with the current approach they have if they lose an hour and the time of the call is not accurately recorded then a suspect could argue/show they where not at the scene at the time of the call should the log be produced in evidence.

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Re: Re: bad programming

Problem with the 999 system is it provides evidential material for criminal prosecutions so it would have to include an accurate local time as well as running to UTC otherwise you could have a situation of a crime being reported before it happens.

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FAIL

bad programming

System needs two time stamps, UTC and then local time. UTC remains unchanged, local time follows the local time.

That way the system doesnt dump an hours calls on a time change becuase its driven from the UTC variable

Microsoft licensing hike sparks UK piracy, bankruptcy fears

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WTF?

Why do people do this to themselves

I opened a new office recently and simply put Open Office on the machines, none of my new hires are struggling with it.

The only items we are stuck with are Outlook as the US parent company uses it and insists we do but everything else was down to my budget and I spent nothing.

UK cops cuff suspect after RnBXclusive takedown

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Black Helicopters

farcical

The message from SOCA was hysterical.

10 years in prison for downloading from a site? I thought the criminal aspect was to download then distribute which is a little different from simply downloading.

And we wonder why society is the way it is when our police service becomes another civil enforcement service for industry.

New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all

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Terminator

You could hear

the eco mentalists spitting out there soya milk latte's when this news broke.

Greenpeace releases 'Cool IT' rankings

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Coat

@northern Fop

Or he should burn some tyres and fridges, eat some whale sushi and chill out, maybe he doesnt know what he's missing......

Chinese company demands $38m, 'apology' from Apple

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FAIL

@sean

Would you work for that level of pay?

When a DNS outage isn't an outrage

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Paris Hilton

Too much info can be dangerous

One lesson we learned as a company was that over communicating to customers during a DDOS attack helped the attackers vary the attack vectors as they followed our updates to see what we where doing.

The problem with public facing social media is that it is public facing as opposed to just client facing so every bugger gets to watch you go down in flames, screaming all the way.

And when asked for a fix time I reach for the arse of the magic elephant and pluck one out of there, its not the same as Paul the octopus but its predictions arent too bad.

Climategate ruling: FOIA requests cover backup servers too

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Facepalm

Its been one of those days....

But it means if I get an FOI request for stuff about scientists I can deny it exists....

Either that or I am turning Dutch, yesch that must be it.

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bloody phone

It seems if your flavour is acceptable to the government then you can get away with this kind of behaviour with impunity.

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Mushroom

can some tell me

How someone can deliberately conspire to undermine a law in this country and firstly, still have a job, and secondly not be in prison?

As someone else said, any scientish who refuses to share data with people who may criticise it is a fraud and not a scientist.

This smacks of the same rubbish that the Jill Dando institute for made up research did on the infamous DNA paper. It seems if your flavour

Use iBooks Author, only Apple can ever publish the result

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Paris Hilton

you sure?

The wording in the article seems to say that if you generate something from the software you can only sell it through apple, this reads as an exclusivity and that you cannot publish the same material on other sites/stores for sale so it looks like they are claiming a sole distribution right.

As a sidenote you can create .doc and .docx files in other packages apart from MSword

Paris, she is a sucker as well

Weeting cops cuff 17th phone-hacking suspect

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More than 1 would be a start, it does appear to be the investigation into the payment of police officers for information is aimed more at the payer than the recipient.

I would expect some early retirements of senior officers before any real arrests happen

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Black Helicopters

a distinct lack

of plod being arrested in this investigation.

iOS 5's iMessage chops carrier SMS routing traffic

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well

that would be the location tracking, non anonymous data collection and those are just the ones they have been caught doing.

Dont assume this is something unique to Apple, all the major players in the ad world do this including Google and Microsoft

If you genuinely believe they have provided this service altruistically thats great but I have yet to find a company that hands over data centre space and processing power from the goodness of its heart, have you?

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Terminator

and how secure is this?

SMS sent via apples servers smacks of ad data collection and other privacy issues and given apples track record in this type of thing in the past I would put money on it.

After all, they have to use those lovely, shiny, huge new data centres for something.

Spanish firemen grapple naked stairs sex Brit

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Thumb Up

Shades of Conan

When he launched the witch into the fire after giving her a good seeing to, I guess its more environmentally sensitive to lob them over a balcony these days rather than toss them in the inglenook.

Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why

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Terminator

back in 2001/2

I was in Greece visiting the ex missus family and with the olympic development and every bank on every corner offering credit cards/mortgages to all and sundry I joked the Greeks would lend themselves into oblivion.

And lo and behold it came to pass, all those ninja loans and borrowing for the Olympics plus joining the euro really did kill the Greek economy.

Its time for the Greeks to call Ocean Finance and consolidate into one affordable repayment

Groupon will replace 1 in 10 sales staff to ensure growth

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Mushroom

Growth?

If he wants to grow he needs to keep the existing lemmings happy otherwise he will simply churn.

Given the approach to merchants Groupon has its little wonder they dont focus on trying to keep them past the first daily business shafting they give them.

Anyone remember boo.com?

Union enraged by secret driverless Tube plan

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Mushroom

Title should be Luddite moans about progress

A move to automation and an increase in platform and customer service staff would be very welcome on the underground, especially in the later evenings when the inebriated are in full effect.

Bob Crow knows if he loses the drivers he loses almost all his power as without the meatsacks at the wheel he cant shut the service down as easily.

Samsung, Google whip out Android 4.0 Nexus

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curvy

Nice curves top and bottom, lets hope they have patented the design!

Apple iPhone 4S

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Facepalm

@tony

£500 unlocked versus a 24 month contract often with a buy in, I would suspect your paying upwards of £700 for the phone on contract versus an unlocked one.

Contracts never make for cheaper phones!

Biker gang plunders Covent Garden Apple Store

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Paris Hilton

Not wanting to point out the blindingly obvious

But iPads and other jobsian wizadry have been knows as fondleslabs since the first iPhone way back in the dawn of time when St Steve came forth and invented the smartphone (probably).

If you want deferrential journalism the Reg is not going to float your iBoat.

Paris, nuff said .....

Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

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FAIL

The complaint seems to be based on the fact that the Atlas is referenced as a source of information, all they need to do is remove the references as its unlikely they use the code from an Astrology program.

'iPhone 4 to be free' when new iPhones ship

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Mushroom

@ Annhilator

""ram and a processor that are almost the same" - erm, you mean doubled in terms of capacity and performance? Rush Apple to the burns unit, you've really got them there..."

They may have doubled in capacity over the last iThingy but they are only just catching up with the S2 in terms of processor and memory, the same with the camera and many other features.

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FAIL

oooh an 8 mega pixel camera......

Just like the one on my Samsung Galaxy S2.

And some ram and a processor that are almost the same.

They have almost caught up with these "innovations"

Big Apple fake Apple stores agree to rat out suppliers

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Terminator

not baffling at all

Thats why Apple are so profitable, if they paid true market value so everyone made a living then to keep the margin your iShiny would be even more expensive.

No different to dairy farming in the UK really.

BT Tower becomes giant lightsabre tonight

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Mushroom

They need to re edit star wars

so that jar jar binks gets the good news from a light sabre within 5 seconds of his first appearance or has his head bitten off by a wookie.

Twitter contests ad company's 'tweets' trademark

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Facepalm

isnt tweet descriptive and also in common use?

Which must make it harder to trademark?

After all, whats to stop someone starting "farter" and each message is a "fart"

Would probably be more appropriate given the stuff you see on twitter.

Ofcom begins crackdown on auto-renew telco contracts

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They arent legally enforceable anyway

As they rely on implied consent rather than direct consent (if you dont tell us we will renew you anyway) they are very difficult to enforce, the key problem being that if you argue BT and the rest of them will hold your line to ransom.

Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany

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Facepalm

Me to

Got the S2 when it came out as her indoors has the S1 and I prefered that to the Jobsian offering.

Same goes with the Samsung tab, its clearly better than the Apple product for them to be putting so much energy into litigation so will be getting one of those as well.

Probably not the result Apple wanted

Parliament has no time for 100,000+ signature e-petitions

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Facepalm

So the difficult debates wont happen

But I am sure anything that is easy and makes the ConDem group look good will be fitted into the hectic schedule

Does Cameron dare ditch poor-bashing green energy?

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Facepalm

Total bollocks

Fuel poverty is happening as part of overall poverty levels, everything costs more and fuel is just one thing, remove all the "green" costs and fuel would be much cheaper, wholesale prices are not as bad as you think. As an example we are paying for petrol now with oil at around $112 per Barrel for Brent Crude what we paid when Oil was at $200 per barrel.

2) thats when we start burning trees!

3) Actually no, my late mother had a solar energy business in the 1970's and even accounting for inflation its no cheaper now than it was then and that was before the requirement for mass produced panels which drive commodity prices higher etc etc

4) Wind isnt deliverable hence why its not controlled by the markets, what will become interesting is mass storage of the power made to allow for the lulls when the wind isnt blowing.

Gov removes 'general appeal' rights for accused freetards

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Big Brother

Had to be removed for one simple reason

As the ACS law case that did go to court showed, the use of IP addresses as evidence is unreliable, and as the lynchpin of this corporate love fest is IP addresses it was essential to remove the any other grounds appeal.

What this will do is give solid evidential status to something which in isolation is nothing more than an indicator otherwise the appeal grounds that the IP has been spoofed would become a de facto get out of jail card.

Apple's ex-cop and the case of the lost iPhone 5

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Facepalm

Pr stunt gone wrong

Apple leave phone in bar hoping for a repeat of last time, instead nothing happens and panic ensues that iphone 5 will be on the next flight to samsung hq rather than gracing articles for salivating fanbois.

Nice touch with the deportation threats as well, cute the release of the iCasualracism in an apple store near you soon.

Apple ejects FT app from iTunes

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Facepalm

No great surprise

I said when this was announced that a move away from itunes was coming as content providers dont have 30% to give to Apple in a restrictive price marketplace.

Apple needs app's and needs brand name association and as it starts to lose brands it will start to hurt. The FT may not be a major brand loss for Apple but as the rest of the brands used by the apple marketplace start to move in the same way it will hit harder.

I have seen many of my customers bin app development due to this and start to work on web apps, more and more will start to appear and brands wont wait to be booted from Itunes they will simply leave.

Brit men descend from mammoth hunters, not farmers

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Coat

That explains

The mammoth hunting that used to go on in the student union at ten to two in the morning

Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

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Coat

Branstons house?

You could smell the burning pickle from many miles away.

Apple wins (another) Samsung Android injunction in EU

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Mushroom

wtf

I specifically bought the s1 and the s2 becuase they did all the things an iPhone cannot or will not.

Faster, smoother, unrestricted and way way better than the Apple product.

The problem here is progress, if this was motor cars then Ford would be wanting us all in Model T's

Apple is seriously worried that the hardware they sell is now way behind the other suppliers and with an OS that evolves as rapidly as Android ones do with so many different branches to choose from its little wonder they are scared.

Look at the WebOS experiment, a £100 tablet flew off the shelves and that has shown that people want tablets but dont want to pay Apple prices, lets see Samsung do similar with the new Galaxy Tab and then both sides can burn money in the retail wars instead (to the benefit of the consumer)

Misco reaps harvest of rage in Twitter Touchpad debacle

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FAIL

not the only shysters on the hill

Currys claim to be in stock for in store collection but no stores anywhere have them,

Tesco price matching! at £429 to Argos, stock levels magically 0 even with the inflated costs

Argos out of stock etc etc

Did any of these companies actually have any stock to start with? It was reported HP had a clogged channel of many hundreds of thousands of these items and whoosh, in minutes they had gone across the UK.

Given the number of alternatives being offered by the sites that lure people in I wonder if some regulator shouldnt be taking an interest in these sharp practices, after all, pretending to have an item at a price when you dont isnt legal.

Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader

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Pint

I did predict

Way back when Apple introduced the 30% on subscriptions and locking to in app only purchases that the web app market will grow.

Greed has got the better of Mr Jobs on this one, in the early days he needed apps to support the eco system but as soon as the rape and pillage started they have upped sticks and moved to web apps.

What this also means is cross platform development is easier as well so its a win for app suppliers and a win for content distributors.

It also means that the itunes store can now be circumvented for all purchases including music and it wont be long before music store web apps appear to compete.

Facebook flashplodder to appeal against 4-yr cooler stint

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Facepalm

It's a shame

We only get proper sentences when it's a knee jerk reaction.

Less than a month ago a group of chav scum with long history of crime get a referral order for raiding sheds, nicking bikes and arson. We couldn't even get a curfew on them and they laughed there way home yet throw in a riot and nick a doughnut and you get 6 months.

Temporary knee jerk justice will only highlight other sentences for the joke they are.

HTC hurls more patent spew on Apple

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Facepalm

The portable computer one

Appears to be held by BT PLC so how is Apple suing over an infringement of a patent that appears to belong to another company?

Yet another example that Apple appear to invent much less than they really claim to.

Samsung plops out waterproof smartphone

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Coat

@swisstoni

"I think 3.7 inches is plenty big enough."

What does your missus think?

LinkedIn U-turns to appease peeved users

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Mushroom

notwithstanding

That a major change to terms and conditions needs to be communicated direct and if I am not mistaken default opt in is not allowed for any service provided in the EU.

Linkedin used to be a professional site, now its just spam loaded junk.

Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU

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FAIL

@sean

Aside from the fact your a committed fanboi do you actually read and believe what you post?

If we take your logic to its obvious conclusion then no one but Nokia should be making mobile phones.

I have laptops predating mac books therefore Apple shouldnt be allowed to make laptops!

Have you actually used the Samsung products? If so you would know they make the Apple units look clunky, the S2 is way better than the iPhone and the Galaxy Tab is an all round better product than the iPad.

Dont get me wrong, the Apple products are not bad products in there own right, but they have been left behind in terms of the capabilities that the hardware now provides.

They have innovated, and worked to produce something way better thats how progress works. In your apple utopia only one company would be allowed to provide manna to the masses and no one else would be able to.

In terms of the packaging a black box with a logo on it is hardly unique is it, Orange have been doing that for years perhaps they should sue Apple?

What these lawsuits really show is that Apple is seriously concerned about the co operative strength of Android and the ability for multiple competitors to enter the market with solid hardware and a functional OS and ecosystem to rival Apples.

LOHAN team buried under ballockets

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Coat

I think

if your going to go with the triple orb launcher it should be named "Eccentrica Galumbits"

That is all

Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot

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Coat

perhaps

James Bond taking a dump?

DOH! Housing contractor loses unencrypted stick down the pub

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Mushroom

who was the contractor

Its all very well naming and shaming the housing authorities but which numbnuts contractor lost the stick in the pub.

Regardless of the policy of the housing association (or lack of) how dumb is the contractor for not encrypting it him or herself?

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