Posts by Danny 14

Re: Oversimplification

What would have happened if he was correct though? And he couldn't cancel the climb request? Or the avionics crashed? Hence the need to do this on the ground.

Re: Ireland / Éire

Fisheries would blossom without the EU quots.

Re: Support your local farmer

Never heard of kiva. Just put a loan out now. Respect.

I don't think people are down, it is as you say - too expensive, there are much better options. Plus they depreciate heavily so pointless buying one new.

Re: "...simply called Watch..."

apple grease more palms though, Microsoft was pretty late to the palm greasing table, they relied on bullying instead.

Re: Just a thought...

Don't cross the streams.

Re: Cloud? @dogged

32gb is a bit tight for windows though. After office a serif suite our school image is 20gb (after patching, office sp2 add 2gb)

Re: Surprising the guard was doing its job..

I remember the first day in one job, the security was showing me about and one door he said was particularly stiff and needed a good shove. I scanned my card, it beeped and wouldnt open so I gave it a good push with my shoulder which summarily splintered the door handle mechanism and opened. I hadn't noticed the red light after the beep....

Re: Seeing it tomorrow...

Our local independent in Annan turn a blind eye to BYO. As a result they get more bums on seats.

Re: I will consider

Yup similar with my sg2. 1gb ram might hamper this, my sg2 has 1gb and runs more than happily on kitkat but a flashed lollipop didnt fare too well (laggier) so I went back. Seems the requirement for android has crept up a fair bit.

10 muppets surely. Medium sized muppets, not the large ones mind.

Re: say again?

Sellafield have turnstiles that only operate in one direction (large ones that can admit wheelchairs). Most of the operation inside is basically "one way".

Re: Well dang...

another note, if you have an 840 (not evo) then update the firmware and run diskfresh, that cured the slow reads for me. When all this furore hit I tested mine and was shocked by the 50Mbs read troughs. After a flash and a refresh things were back up to 300 and have stayed that way a few months later (no real troughs either).

I suppose that is all the evo fix does - flash the firmware and read/rewrite the data.

Re: is £150 really a bargain

for a second monitor or non gaming screen then I use a TV. Got a 32" one from Asda on black Friday (cant remember how much, was about £90). The panel is a lot better than I though it would be and is ideal for a streaming screen (and doubles as a second TV if I rotate the screen around - PC lives in the dining room).

Outside of sales there are lots of sub £140 24" Tvs about and not all of them no-name panels.

Re: Why is this still an issue?

some people are just good though. I used to run GTFO TF2 servers and we had plenty of hack reports on certain players, thing is, we also used to run LAN events and those players turned up - they really were that good. What was funnier was a time we got an admin call for someone who was at the LAN event....

Re: Oh wow, John 172

don't you pay a subscription on consoles to multiplayer? How quaint.

Re: Human nature

I can override air bags in my car. Putting a child seat in would injure the child if the airbag went off.

Re: The GOP has started already

I'm a fairly out of the box thinker. Ive even had my morning coffee and cheese on toast. I still don't understand the elephant and donkey thing.

Re: Telling quote

exactly, "they" have store.com and most phones/tablets/brains have a .com button so they don't feel they need to pay silly money for store.food or store.clothes

Re: these are the stupid ones...

yeah, they were using the drone as a diversionary tactic.

Re: 1000 out of 3500?

If the generator power doesn't switch then you are at the mercy of UPS priorities. Which ones can shutdown nicely and which ones wont. Which SANS will spin up again afterwards and which drives decide to stick. Nothing beats 1000 machines loading your switches (with that failing fan that was scheduled to be replaced in the next window) simultaneously to just overheat enough to cutout.

Then of course your nodes decide to run updates because they have just powercycled.

Re: You seem to be the one who doesn't know any economics

publically traded companies "worth" is based on the price of its shares. Most shared are set on a price based on an expected future performance. In a parallel to big oil, some mining companies have had shares decline not due to lack of demand or lack of reserves but because the countries that have the existing mines and reserves are looking to "go green" etc. The future of those mining companies looks bleaker as it will cost more to operate; workers safety, local pollution, swathes of land disappearing etc will all have to be taken into account and paid for - it wont be viable to dig in some countries.

Re: Still fair compared to other countries...

he probably saved them more than 40k in identity theft by forcing them to shore up their defences. Other companies tend to offer BOUNTIES to point out issues like this. He didn't sell the passwords on, they "caught" him because he tried to tell them.

Re: Looks stupid from an enterprise perspective...

At least there is an option to legally install a windows OS on an apple device. The converse isn't strictly true.

Re: I don't get it

I thought Toshiba demonstrated one of these years ago? Yup, the "dynario", you can buy one in japan.

Re: Live by the Escrow die by the Escrow

Good idea, why don't you suggest darknet regulation to OFCOM?

Re: Can't think of a title

The footage reminded me of playing kick off 2 on the amiga.

Re: Have you had a closer look at that 'landfill' recently?

My Samsung galaxy s2 is still running, that has a 1.2ghz dual core and 1gb ram so apart from the better quality screen it is pretty much landfill specs. I suspect the extra RAM is the only thing keeping it relevant. I think jellybean was the last official update to the phone, and whilst it can be argued that the S2 is a 3 year old phone I can also be argued that it is only a 3 year old phone and quite capable. KitKat runs fine on my phone (praise be to XDA) and apart from a couple of battery changes it is running strong.

Re: A simple solution?

"who exactly is harmed by digitally copying something that is not even offered to them commercially"

The point is not that people can copy something and not bother paying, the point is people want to copy *and pay someone* for doing so. You cannot legally purchase digital products from certain countries which is odd.

Another argument is price gouging. Companies want to sell products globally sometimes (not just within the EU), some countries wont pay £20 for an item but they will pay £5 so that is what is charged in over-there-land. However, the same digital item is sold for £20 in over-here-land. There is a trade selling digital keys from over-there-land that work in over-here-land with a smaller markup say £6 per sale. Globalcorp doesn't like this lost £15 so will clamp down heavily on it. That being said, they still got £5 and avoided a lost sale. I imagine a similar mindset is in the EU as there are wildly different prices for some products in some countries - tax cannot be an issue as most of the major euro denomination companies will pay tax in the lowest taxation country (probably lux), currency fluctuation is moot as it is all euro so the remaining factor is price gouging; they want to charge more in UK than say Greece.

well someone on ebay manages to sell the same item for the same price but free PnP so it is possible.

Re: Uber is a pirate company.

I doubt he feels the law doesn't apply to him, I suspect he thinks he has found a loophole. Taxi giants grease lots of palms and uber isn't greasing anyones palm.

If Uber is banned then there are plenty of "car share" schemes that could also be banned at the same time, whilst the two are obviously different it will come down to courts.

Re: Am I the only one...

It would also be interesting to see what it does in a no-win situation such as black ice or white van man side swiping you. I bet an audi/bmw driver will find some way to confuse the sensors by sitting up your arse flashing lights.