Posts by John Smith 19

Re: So instead of "We'll do you proud."

Bottom line.

ISP bought by "big 5" --> Turns to s**t.

" Firearms Education and Safety Council "?

Is that not the organisation that one of Aaron Eckhart's friends in "Thank you for smoking" works for?

Re: Contact lens made of glass aren't very comfortable

"Nor can they be worn 24x7 like extended wear contacts made of plastic since they don't allow enough oxygen to the cornea."

All true.

But all irrelevant.

Perhaps you should read the article first.

Re: @Psyx

"Clan with a big 'C', or a little one?"

If you mean the Boyz n Hoodz,* popular in some part of the Southern states that would be with a K.

I meant nothing more sinister than a large extended family, possibly living in the same (large) house.

*With apologies to John Singleton.

Re: So much for science as a rational undertaking...

"They are as prone to making decisions based on ego, pride, prejudice and vanity as the rest of us are...."

Yes science is also done by human beings.

Non scientists thinking it isn't doesn't make it so.

"They never had senior management or shareholders, it was just a small operation with under 150 clients (most lifetime) and less than $1k/month in actual recurring income. They only had a total of 3 hosting servers, one of which (the biggest) was used just for the lifetime clients. It never got off the ground enough and was never something that was intended to be a scam. There just wasn't enough recurring income/profit to pay for the expenses."

Ever wondered why people hire accountants?

A competent accountant could have told them it was not going to work (or at least not on the scale of their operation or the fact most of the customers had that deal) before it got that far and they might still be in business.

Lifetime support + recurring costs (which may rise) --> perpetual motion machine.

Re: A simple antenna ring/coil around the rim of the contact

"You won't get useful amounts of energy from the cosmic microwave background,"

True.

The background microwave "noise" provided by the fog of mobile phone towers in most parts of the developed world should be quite adequate for a little NFC system.

The definition of "remote" reading in this context is likely to be <1m

But the tech to make it flexible enough to go on a contact lens is staggering.

Of course for those HUD contact lenses some people will have to learn to put contacts in in the first place.

Which looks a bit nasty to me.

Re: Has potential but too expensive

"EPS is negative, forward P/E >100, Price/Book >30, PEG >10 so, to be kind, it's overpriced regardless of what they sold last quarter. Both Apple and Ford are more stable investments with better financials and both currently pay dividends.

For the Tesla touters who would like to point out that Tesla is up 625% over the last 5 years, kindly note that Apple isn't far behind at 550% and Ford tops both at 635%."

Nice summation.

BTW is Ford on it's 2nd or 3rd US government bailout because they can't manage to make enough cars that USians want to own at prices they want to pay.

I forget.

Re: "it needed to be sufficiently innocuous for in-flight use"

"Nah. The highly skilled and extremely motivated folks at the TSA are all fully aware that *any* bomb has curly wires leading to the explosives and a red LED count-down display."

I think you've just given me an idea for my next screen saver.

Naturally all it does when it hits zero is to re cycle back to whatever it was set to.

@NightFox

"But this isn't really aimed at the typical Reg reader is it? This might be "noddy" stuff, but if all my friends and relatives actually understood and followed it I'd have a lot less of my life wasted cleaning up their infected laptops and explaining why they keep getting all these rude emails and need to cancel their credit card"

Correct.

I like the fact it does not require a)Squillions of £ of advertising and b) Several new laws and a Statutory Instrument (the Dark Lords favorite device) to implement.

People see the Mission Impossible antics but 99%of the time it's the simple (stupid) stuff that's not done that f**ks most people up.

AC@10:49

"Ultimately it's not that big a deal if the PC's are never allowed on the internet (and restricted environments generally are not), and the multiple layers of firewalls are all configured properly."

Wasn't the "multiple layers of firewalls" not being configured properly that let McKinnon into the DoD?

And that was an organisation that make annoying people it's business.

Re: Far too expensive

"Jedidiah, I am in the whitebox building business. The market share for highpower, upgradable computers is almost non-existent. The desktops people still do buy are smaller off-the-shelf units that they basically use to obsess over their Facebook & Twitter accounts and maybe do a little web browsing and email. Laptops outsell desktops and have for several years. People buy laptops from me just to sit them on a table and never move them just because they take up less space. "

One small point.

I'm a touch typist.

Most laptops have pretty rubbish keyboards for what I do.

And they always will have.