Gavin Smith
Tempted to get the Gavin Smith novel - his stuffs the best from a new British author since since Richard "Altered Carbon" Morgan IMHO.
3872 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Yes its a pain but Apple post a clear help topic on how to avoid this and there are dozens of third party guides as the complainant notes. Basically you just de-register your mobe number with iMessage before fleeing the platform. Admittedly they could make it a lot easier to do so - an unsubscribe message or similar springs to mind but its merely an inconvienience - I fail to see how you can attach any financial significance to it in anywhere but America.
It annoyed me when I moved but how that translates in a lawsuit is beyond me.....
Most Financial Services firms would just declare the program to have "succeeded" or no longer relevant due to "Operational changes" or "Market Conditions" and then never mention it again in an act of collective corporate amnesia.
Either they have lowballed the costs, or they actually have a CIO with guts or the CIO's sucessor wants to stick the knife in....
A happy ex-BE sky user here. Tried to jump ship to virgin and after they were total cockwombles I ended up getting an ex-BE deal with sky. Jumped from DSL to fibre with a years free line rental - so had the added pleasure of telling BT to shove it tootoo all for cheaper than my old BE package excluding the BT charges. Their dedicated BE switching team up in Scotland somewhere did a brilliant job of swapping me over with nary an issue. Couldn't recommend them highly enough.
Why on earth has this got processors in it and running android? Shouldnt it be handing off the processing to a phone, and saving its power budget for the comms necessary?
In other news I've been able to control other humans rather than technology almost since birth. My ring can clear a room in seconds.
The news that Japan is creating a DARPA-clone can only mean a Mecha is only days away from being deployed on Tokyo's streets. I look forward to both my Office block and Apartment being smashed by our new metallic overlords.
Deploy <insert favourite manga here (no hentai please this is a family website)>.
Its not complicated. Just enforce the laws you already have.
Fine drivers using phones without a handsfree kit. Fine them hard for talking on a mobile, much much harder for Texting & facebooking. Take their license away for a second offence.
Anyone stopped with a phone on the dash within reach without a bluetooth headset or other handsfree kit should be asked to place the phone in thier glove box or pocket.
Surely there is a market for Nvidia or AMD to market something between a GPU and an ASIC? Possibly a FPGA tuned for Cryto currency algorithyms?
There must be something out there that whilst not quite having the time to market and efficiency
of an ASIC from a specialist vendor, is *just* general purpose enough to have some longer term lifespan?
This is all off the top of my head of course - feel free to tell me where Im wrong....
@JimC
You've missed the point somewhat. There are already access procedures and laws in place that cover this sort of thing - so your point is somewhat moot.
The story is about a narrow minded judge using a very broad interpretation of a USA-ian law to try to do an end run around international law and treaties propably in the interests of a TLA who has dirt on him.
Interesting to see downvotes but no rebuttals. Which leads me to assume the OP is broadly correct.
Probably big deals from a purist security standpoint but probably reasonally diminished risk once actual use cases are taken into account.
ie whats the monetisation/propaganda benefit for criminal gangs or individuals.
Does it meet the proportionality test for State Actors. ie could they gain similar results with another approach?
The fact that the Authors approach seems to have been theoretical in places also casts doubt on the level of alarm needed for this.
Also I think the Authors may have missed an opportunity for more alarmist headlines by suggesting that MH370 could have been p0wned by these vunerabilities.
For simple work it from the sofa tasks - I think Vari-Light IR dimmers are hard to beat as they work with any IR learning remote. John Lewis also sold them as their own brand.
Most of my house is set up with them. Living and Bedroom are controlled from a Harmony and an All-In-One remote respectively. The Harmony is great and its powerful enough to be bounced off 2 walls to reach the switch - the all in one is a one wall/Line of Sight gizmo.
Any of the modern androids with an IR port would also probably work.
In both cases I can control switches that I dont have ideal LOS to.
You get also get a Vari-light remote that can control up to 8 switches but its a bit more feeble and is LOS only.
Yet again Microsoft shoot themselves in the foot on pricing, steadfastly ignoring the fact I can get the Real MS office for a fraction of what this costs, either through the home use program, or the standard home edition or one of the other heavily discounted edition.
Ok it wont work on my tablet but thats not a useful device for doing MS office type work anyway.
Honestly Microsoft are so frightened of not being able to match the revenue streams from "legacy" products that their insane pricing strangles new products at birth.
Yes and no - they did start the pixel wars - but arguably they haven't encouraged them as much as the high end android manufacturers competing with each other. There have been 2 iphone retina displays resolutions and 1 ipad retina resolution. The android gang have pretty much brought out a changed resolution every year and within a year have had multiple retina class resolutions.
The rest of the OP's slightly odd post not withstanding - I think on this he has a point.
He gets what he was after all along - a proxy on the board.
For shame Ebay.
Far be it for me to say he will then use this seat on the board to cause more unrest, or get more visibility into Ebay's financial performance so he can exit at the most profitable time for himself and his cronies.
You'd also think that for his stoopid analyst salary he'd realise that the laptop line starts at $799 well below the $1000 band he's quoting.
Analyst - possibly the easiest most pointless job in the world? Make blindingly obvious predictions and get paid, make wildly unlikely predictions get paid. Its win-win!
Fair play to the guy for getting this prize, but Im not sure Spintronics meets the first prize criteria.
•Awarded to groundbreaking technological innovations that enhance the quality of people’s lives in a sustainable manner
Groundbreaking yes, but how precisely has it enhanced our quality of life in a sustainable manner?
I could see Flash meeting those criteria but not a slightly denser hard drive.
You and the rest of the commentards on here need to read the article more clearly.
It ONLY talks about the number of attempted Malleability attacks vs those that were sucessful. It says NOTHING about what proportion of Total transactions they were. So it could be 20% of a very small number or a very big number.
So in context its the same as saying 20% of attacks against an ATM are sucessful - it says nothing about the number of ATM transcations or the amount of cash involved.
Not that I want to be - but they went absolutely mental on recruitment last year, nearly everyone I knew who was looking to move went there, so this was always on the cards, so most of the stuff at Barclays is just cyclical. No comfort if you were one of the ones affected - best thing to do is respond in kind by moving to a someone else ASAP.
Do you really think they are comparable?
Comparing whats gone on in the Crimea to what happened in Iraq and Afganistan - I think I'd rather have Russia annex my country than America (and its allies) "rebuild" it.
At least me and thousands of others will be alive in a Russian prison than dead in a defacto civil war, or stripped and tortured for shits and giggles by rednecks in uniforms.
Although being in the UK we've more or less been informally annexed by the Leftpondians anyway.