Posts by Steve Davies 3 7143 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
But does your average punter know that? Probably not.
Does the average punter even know about the Pixel? Your guess is as good as mine.
Go into CPW [1] and what do you see? Almost wall to wall Samsung.
So what make of phone will the average punter leave with? Samsung.
[1] despite me telling the CPW droid several times that there is no EE 3G let alone 4G available at my home he still tried to flog me a Galaxy 7 on EE on a 2 year contract. no sale.
I guess all the Judiciary live in 10th floor apartments. Bit difficult to get a pole up that high yet a drone will easily snoop on the Judges and their bedroom antics.
There is a world of difference between a long zoom even on a cherry picker than a drone that can get up close and personal on the targets.
Drones are the new tool of the voyeur, PI and blackmailer. It does not discrimianate.
With drones there really is nowhere to hide from prying eyes into your private business. This might not be illegal but activities that are best kept private and strictly between the parties concerned.
in all those class action lawsuits in the USA?
No? Oh wait, it would put hundred of thousands of shyster lawyers out of a job.
I don't see this going very far. My guess is that in the US, laws will be passed making this illegal. After all, aren't most politicians (Trump excluded) Lawyers? Letting their bretherin lose their jobs would not go down well with the level of contributions to their re-election campaigns and to hell with its accuracy.
That's what it is all about. They have to keep their 90%+ margin on software and services going.
Wall St will expect it. They won't want their Darling IT stock to fall even $1.
HP has already stated that its prices are going up. Dell will follow suit.
If you are going to buy IT kit do it today. not tomorrow, next week or next month because if you doe delay it will cost more, a lot more. I expect 20+% price hikes to be the norm.
All those who want to go abroad on their Hols next year will in for a rude shock with the surcharges.
Petrol is already starting to go up.
Anything we import will become more expensive.
All because of the weakness of the GBP since 23rd June 2016. Coincidental?
You choose, just like you choose to vote leave.
lots and lots of totally insecure IoT tat will be bought. The problem we saw last week will be the first of many bigger attacks.
May I humbly suggest that all readers and commentards of this esteemed forum take it upon themselves to give guidance to their familes so that they don't buy the wrong sort of IoT tat.
Don't for apply a suitable dose of arse kicking when the get pawned by the malware because the don't follow your advice.
Or even go beyond that and get your nearest and dearest to not buy the TAT in the first place.
IMHO, the sooner the Class Action suits against the importers of knowingly insecure IoT tat are started the better but that won't happen before we lose the internet for days at a time.
I'm sure the DDOS generators are gearing up for the times of peak use and or times when say the IRS or HMRC are getting most traffic from people filing their tax returns, an attack would be big news.
Try getting round the £100 fine for late filing with 'sorry, the DDOS attack stopped me from filing my return'.
Perhaps then and only then will governments and the rest take notice and start to realise how serious this is.
Trump is akin to the dregs that you get in a cask of 'live' beer when all the good stuff has been consumed.
Hillary is akin to those cheap bottles of German wine that were later found to contain Anti-freeze.
Both will leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
Off for a pint of Harvey's best.
Stuff the routers/firewalls supplied by the ISP's.
Make your own Firewall box that sits between the ISP router and your network devices. Then you can control everything and these crap devices can't get out and create links to the mothership.
Also make them on a separate subnet to your printers and computers and you know, good stuff.
None of these devices will get on my network even though I already have my own Firewall made from a fanless NUK.
We need to make the stores and online tat shops like Amazon and Ebay stop selling this crap. Only then might we get somewhere before it is too late.
Getting the politicians to act before we loose a country from the internet for say a week will be impossible I'm sad to say but we the more informed amongst us can do our bit and make sure that we are not part of the problem.
So...
1) make up a story about company X and their product
2) Get into bed with an financial company
3) spread the story as the financial company shorts the stock
4) Repeat until stock is worthless and financial company has made a packet
5) By the stock for a few pennies on the dollar using the profits from shorting
6) Declare that the story was all lies but by then it is too late.
So this way of destroying a business is perfectly legal then?
Way to go USA.
As the problem is on or close to the permanent way (the railway track) and dozens of trains pass the point every day then all sorts of Health and Safety issues come into play.
Only BT staff who are properly qualified and safety trained will be allowed to fix the problem.
The passing of trains may also delay work from time to time.
BT will be liable for compensation but they'll get it from Network Rail. BT didn't cause the problem (for a change)
Fixing it is going to be a pig.
Very well said Sir. Have one on me.
It would take a US President with a lot of balls to send in 'their boys' to aid another NATO country.
Congress and the Senate would have a lot to say and would probably try to stop it in its tracks.
If Trump became CIC and does what he says he would do there would be NO US forces in Europe to help out. Sending 'Their Boys' 3000miles is a lot harder polotically than 30 or even 300 miles.
The best route from their base in Russia for the Med is down the denmark straits and into the Atlantic. Much like the route that the Bismark took in WW2. To deliberarely divert and travel through one of the most congested waters in the world is nothing more than a show of strength.
They (The Russians) regularly send over Bombers to test our defenses. This is just the same from their Navy.
When we had a Navy (i.e before Suez) we did exactly the same thing countless times.
As the Russians show their force by sending their only Aircraft Carrier (and that one more than us) down the Engligh Channel in a show of force.
Diplomacy is a stange game and one where we have been involved with the Russians for centuries.
One of the hardest things to learn in 'the great game' is to know when to keep silent, something, Mr Fallon should learn pronto.
IBM is reporting that deploying Mac's is cheaper in the long run than PC's with Windows.
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/20/ibm-macs-less-expensive-than-pcs/
Things don't bode well for that darling of Wall St, Microsoft.
Never mind, the new Surface that is due to be announced will arrive with cavalry tunes and save the day.
Wall St will lap it up and downgrade APPL to junk just because they can.
the ratio of what functionality you actually use out of the total functionality of the device gets less and less.
I'm undecided if this is down to
1) More and more useless bells and whistles being added because the product needed an update
or
2) You find out what suits your use case and can't be half arsed to learn to use anything else (or the manual is written in Chinenglish that even the autours would find difficult). If you do try anything new you soon drop it because your memory is so full the new things you have to do can't find space to be retained.
or a comination of 1) and 2)
The same goes for MS Orifice. All this latest whizz bang must have bells and whistles is totally irrelevant to 90%+ of users yet still more crap is added with every release.
We are also more commonly know as
Grumpy Old Men
Well, most of us are men but women and trans people are welcome to join.
The important bit is the 'Grumpy'.
how do you qualify as a member?
Test 1.
Any random telephone surveys get a response of F*** O** or worse.
That's it, you are a member.
Further tests are available to get to the Rick Wakeman level of grumpiness.
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Seeing the Dell XPS advert last night at least gives you an alternative
but they are still banging on about
'I couldn't do that on my mac'.
I wonder just how many Surface Pro users were Macbook users and how they are getting on with their 'so superior' devices.
Then we will see what MS is coming up with next for the SP4 is a few days followed by the new Macs two daya later.
Who will win the battle of the holidays?
According to Donald himself, he will probably visit his pal Putin before being sworn in a CIC.
In other words, he will be getting his orders from his boss on how to run the USA perhaps I sould have put 'ruin' instead of 'run' you choose.
If it isn't to get orders then why ould meeting Putin take precident over learning how to be El Presidente?
means Idiots or Twats for connecting this crap kit up to the internet. These people honestly deserve all tha pain they get. The sad thing is that their ignorance and idiocy will affect countless thousands of others.
If I could, I'd ban all of it until each and every device could be certified as un-hackable which means probable never.
I do know one thing and that NO, repeat NO IoT device will ever be connected up in my home.
I wish more people would take the same stance.
see Icon for what I'd like to do to the IoT makets and the script kiddies who hack it.
Strange that the Jar of Marmite I have in my larder says
Made in Belgium
Apart from that, the price of Petrol will rise quite a bit. I recon £1.25/ltr. The Pound has taken a big hit against the USD (from $1.45/£ to around $1.23/£) in recent months.
Add the recent decision by OPEC to cut production and we are going to get well and truly stuffed.
The only (small) bright spark is that North Sea Oil becomes a bit more profitable which will please the SNP a lot more than Westminster.
IMHO, it will get a lot worse before it gets better (in 3-5 years) unless Herr Tusk sitcks his oar in where it is not wanted and makes sure that there is a huge tarriff on all UK Exports to the EU just because we had the temerity to reject the EU experiment and to deter other nations from quitting.
And for our American Readers, the Ford Transit is what you call a Panel Van but has a strong Chassis.
Generally, the goto vehicle for commercial users in many parts of the world.
The Chassis is also used for all sorts of other vehicles such as
- Mini Busses
- Cement Mixers
- Builders Tip up vehicles and general behicles
- Car recovery transporters
- Ambulances
- etc, etc, etc.
Oh, and one was modified to run the Nevada Desert Classic this year to compete in the 150mph class.
I spent a summer working at the old Transit Plant in Southampton many years ago, UK. Production moved to Turkey a few years ago (from memory).
you use the Apple Mail App? Shame on you. It is well known to be a can of worms.
There are plenty of other Email clients out there that work a whole lot better.
For my use case, it is Thunderbird (V 38.2.0 at the moment but has not been upgraded for over a year).
I don't think I have ever opened the MacOS email app in 8 years of using Mac's.
Re Firefox
I tend to agree if you use the latest versions. I use the LTS release and don't get any Fan activity due to Firefox.
Now Photoshop-CS... that is another thing entirely. Just starting it up is guaranteed to start the fans yet the last pre Cloud/subscription version does not. Go figure.
Shhhhh. Don't shout too loud or MS will swoop in and do EEE on the nifty bit of software. They'd do the EEE in a few minutes and 'poof' it will be gone and consigned to history.
There is no sign that MS is even listening to us Windows 10 refusniks. I've given up and ditched (or will by Monday) all my Windows systems.
MS still has a lot to learn about clustering.
VMS Clustering came out in 1983. I was at the 'Bubble' in the woods near Marlborough, MA when the Cluster kit was being RFI Tested. I was testing a VAX 11/730 at the time.
The sofware allowed rolling software upgraded. Later releases allowed mixed hardware Architectures to be in the same cluster. Wonderful design and it really worked (after VMS 5.0)
Amazon will know what make/model you drive so will be able to generate endless,
"We thought you might like to drive this super expensive car instead of your rustbucket..." ads.
or
"Now is the time to trade in that heap of yours before it falls apart. May we suggest these alternatives?"
or
"We see that you have not paid off your car loan yet. We can offer great deals on re-financing..."
Google won't be far behind with their AI.
Hololens meant to be used in Private
So?
For the Youffffff of today, nothing is private. It all has to be shared on Facebork etc.
This way Hololens wearers can look like dicks to the world.
THe question remains though, will this be enough to kill it stone dead.
Perhaps the inevitable, 'Please wait while your system installs important (to Microsoft) updates' messages will do the job without any outside help.
It was not only RT-11 could support custom hardware.
I wrote many device drivers to allow custom hardware to work with RSX11-D/M/S/M-Plus when I worked at DEC.
The problem child was RSTS/E but that was a time sharing system which is not ideal in any shape or form for running real time programmes.
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