That bit isn't the problem

We have mysupermarket.co.uk, which lets you compare prices at Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Ocada, and send the shopping trolley to the cheapest supermarket.

The problem is that you just can't predict what I am going to buy from looking at the movement of stuff in my fridge. How does it know that I'm running down stocks because I'm going on holiday next week. How does it know I have a party next week and need to order up lots of stuff, and that I don't need to re-order that stuff again for a while. How does it know that when a particular thing runs out, I want to replace it with something different, because I buy different things depending on my mood and get bored of eating the same thing every day.

I would have to stand in the kitchen and tap all this information into my fridge so it could make the appropriate purchasing decisions, and it would be much easier just to do it myself.

It has already

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868

Teenager arrested on suspicion of hacking

On Monday, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) took its website offline after it was attacked by Lulz Security hackers.

Doesn't specifically link the two but ...

I can explain

Session cookies, for example to remember what you have placed in a shopping basket, are allowed.

If you want to store data across browser sessions, you have to ask, otherwise, when someone visits your site again, it will be like it is the first time they have ever done so. Not fatal from a user experience point of view.

No you can't

You can't do that, because everyone else in the network will have recorded your coins as being spent. If you were able to do this, you could spend the coins legitimately and restore a back-up to spend them again.

I'm not so sure

A lot of the "get rich quick" schemes out there are based on the idea that you can licence or copy some content from somewhere, publish it and make lots of money. I don't want to dignify any of them with links, but google "cash on demand" to get an idea. The money isn't actually made on the Kindle Store, but by the people who sell them the kits to put the junk up there, and having paid typically in the region of $5000 - $10000 for the kit, they would quite happily pay another $10 listing fee.

Re: religion

Religion can require you to do pretty much whatever you want it to do. Even if they do get an Iman to say that a Burqua isn't required Islam, they would just say that their particular branch of Islam is different and does require a Burqua.

As I understand it, what the Koran does say is that women should dress modestly. So going out in only a 2cm long mini-skirt, a bra and a pair of heels clearly isn't allowed, but exactly where you draw the line is open to interpretation.

I do see the problem

The problem is that you have to wade through loads of rubbish to find the decent stuff. One of the things we pay the publisher and the book store for is to do that for us.

It is true that we don't need to read it. We don't need to get our books from the Kindle Store, but if lots of people take that option, it isn't good news for Amazon, so it is better to let them know what we perceive the problem to be.

Re: Brains

Magistrates find 90% of defendants guilty vs 66% of Juries. Most people try to argue for a jury trial for that reason.

Does anyone care

Provided they have the padlock on the screen and no error messages, does anyone actually look at the SSL certificate? I know I generally don't. Certainly if it is for my own internal exchange server which I know is legit anyway, I'm just looking for something to save me the hassle of installing self-signed certificates in every browser I use.

Re: bank deposits

"Money" is a liability on a bank's balance sheet, so for that reason it is not in their interest to create it. The asset is the loans they hand out to people, and they are only assets to the extent they can have it paid back to them.

The likes of Maddof and Stanford created money in the way you describe, and look what happened to them.

Yes really

Yes, financial regulation sometimes fails, but that doesn't mean you fix the problem by having no regulation at all. The regulations are there for a good reason, and most of the time they do work.

What you should do

Is find the cheapest price elsewhere, then ask them to do their price match + 10% of the difference. You would have then got it for £19.90.

My example was a Firewire hard drive that cost £130 at Best Buy, and £100 at the Currys PC World across the road, so I got it for £97. Currys do the same thing should pricing work out the other way round, but you do have to find a store within 30 miles of a Best Buy.

Re: about time too

They already do.

Re: eh?

They get the details direct from ebay. They have an Ebay unit that has been doing this for a few years now. They don't need to scrape the public site.

Re: Report Fail

The vulnerability lies with the application written in php, not with the operating system itself. If you have a web application that is programmed to allow remote access to the system, it will allow remote access to the system no matter how secure the operating system, web server, database server etc is.

Similarly if you configure the system so the root or administrator account has no password, or the password is something obvious like "administrator", "root", "password", or the name of the company, and allow remote desktop or ssh access to the system, then people are likely to log in and do things.

Re: Actually

So that means there is a good chance someone will set up a large botnet to tip the network in their favour, and they could use lots of virtual machines to boost the numbers if needed.

... but as two wrongs do make a right here

He could have been limited liability if he wanted to, but he wasn't. So he is personally liable.

Correct answer, wrong reasons.

Re: Barter is taxable

Indeed it is

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/managing/special-situations/samples.htm#4

That's not the main problem

His main problem is that his client did not own the copyright to the works he alleged were infringed, which means he has no more right to seek damages for their infringement than I do.

Re Yep

Solicitors can now be limited companies. The law changed about 5 years ago. However, ACS:Law was not. It was a sole trader, so he is liable for every penny.

Re: Maths

There is a good chance that he has a substantial mortgage on his £700k house. According to the land registry, he paid £710k for it on 11th May 2007.

There was for me

I had to agree to one on my MacBook. My PC is currently saying no update available, so I can't comment on that until the update is fully rolled out.

Re: Who might have guessed it

Anyone looking at the length of time between the launch of BBC Colour and ITV Digital might have expected the new technology to last a similar length of time.

Re: Re: iMessage

How would this work when sending a message to an iPod Touch? or will it not worK?

Re: Google

Google aren't in Ireland for the 21% VAT rate, which is one of the highest in the EU, they are there for the 12.5% Corporation Tax rate which is considerably lower than most.

One rate for the whole state

Each state should set a single sales tax rate which applies to the whole state. Then you only have about 51[*] different rates to deal with.

[*] The extra one I have in mind is Washington DC. You might add the likes of Puerto Rico to that list as well.

In some cases, yes

For a single person in my area

JSA - £67.50 per week (£3510 per year)

Council Tax Benefit for a band A property with single person discount (£750 per year)

Housing Benefit £150 per week (£7800)

Total benefits £12060. To take home that, you would need to earn £14261.24 plus the cost of getting to work plus the value of any healthcare benefits. That is at least £7.31 per hour for a 7.5 hour day, a bit more than the minimum wage.

A single mother with three children (all amounts £ per week, £ per year)

Job Seeker's Allowance 67.50, 3510

Child tax credit 157.22, 8175.44

Housing Benefit (3 bed house) 207.69, 10799.88

Council Tax Benefit (band D property, single person discount) 21.73, 1129.96

(plus child benefit which you get whether you work or not so not relevant)

Total relevant benefits £23,615.28 per year, plus health care benefits, free school meals and various other education related benefits.

To take home that, you would need to earn at least £31254.29 per year, which is quite a bit above the median wage, and considerably higher than minimum wage.

I wouldn't be so relaxed

Intel may be competing effectively against Via (are they still around?) and the CPU bit of AMD, but they are being squeezed on both sides, by ARM in the low energy sector, with more and more fondleslabs replacing netbooks, and possibly ARM chips moving into the laptop and small server sector; and by Nvidia and the ex ATI bit of AMD in the high performance sector. Intel don't really have an answer to this.

But how useful is it

ClamAV scans for Windows Viruses. I used to scan the incoming emails on my linux machine with ClamAV as part of my spam filtering routine, because at that time about 90% of incoming mail was viruses, and although they didn't harm my computer in any way it was still annoying to have to look through them to find the real mail. These days there aren't enough viruses in my mail to justify a separate virus scan and my spam filter deals with phishing scams etc.

Re: How ironic

The Amazon App Store sells Android Apps.

Re

If you get a virus simply by visiting a website, opening an email, or even, in the past, just connecting to the internet, that's Microsoft's fault.

If you get a trojan by purchasing it off some banner ad, installing it, and approving it at the UAC prompt, that is your fault.

Not that easy

If you need an admin password to install it, then it puts things in places other than the application folder.

Re: Why applaud it?

Because it is about time that that vile disgusting waste by-product from the production of beer was banned.