Posts by KitD
73 posts • joined Wednesday 6th January 2010 10:03 GMT
Here's one to try:
"Hey Watson! Does computer always say no?"
*silence*
OTOH
Missing from the article is that while some Redditors were wrongly accusing an innocent man, others were scouring photos from the incident and provided the FBI with far better photo evidence than they had from CCTV.
Can of worms
I suspect you're going to find dodgy dealings in the backgrounds of most root CAs. Taking a stand with this one looks a bit dogmatic.
Scintilla
Yes, it's also in NotePad++ which, like Sublime, inherits it from Scintilla which underlies both of them.
Posted in Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant
Is this really Torvalds' position?
He sounds a bit different here:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-windows-8-uefi-and-fedora/11187
In brief, the Linux world is too disjointed to coordinate their negotiations with vendors. Fedora took a highly ethical approach and decided not to go it alone because of their power in comparison to other distros. So the result is that the MS approach was not only the most cost effective, but also apparently accepted (albeit reluctantly) by Torvalds.
Has he changed his tune?
Re: They should call the system Sherlock...
They've already had HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System)
LOL
I went to an interview with a manager who didn't show up. I was given the usual test by a couple of the techies and went away. Later I got asked back for a second interview. Again he wasn't there so I gave up and said 'No thanks'.
The firm arranged corporate entertainment freebies. Hmm ...
Nice, but ...
"The new Mega encrypts and decrypts your data transparently in your browser, on the fly"
That should stop folks up/downloading full-length films then. The sequel will be out by the time it's finished.
Re: Unfortunately,
> Technically you also have the right to shout 'fire' without any evidence of a conflagration being present
This neatly demonstrates the utter pointlessness of 'rights' without 'responsibilities'. To defend and demand the right to shout 'Fire' unnecessarily is to turn ones rights into such a weak and vapid abstraction that it is an insult to those who fight for the right to speak out against REAL oppression.
Really, why demand the right to offend for no other reason than 'because I can'?
Posted in Python slithers up Amazon's Beanstalk
Re: Agree with P_0 about PHP
Actually, PHP has its origins in Perl, being originally some Perl scripts to preprocess HTML before serving.
I think PHP is one of those technologies that is being asked to do far more than it was originally designed to do. It was the first server-side language to use HTML templates which IMHO deserves some credit, but the original language was designed to do not much more than that. Now people want to write full-blown enterprise apps in it :rollseyes:
Elite v grassroots
Talent ID for the elite programs and encouraging grassroots sport are really 2 completely unrelated topics. If we are to maintain a healthy position in the medal table, then we must continue the elite talent spotting that is only starting to bring rewards.
Independently, if sport is considered worthwhile, then we need input for all sports at the grassroots. I agree with the poster saying that there should be opportunities for kids to try many sports at school. This requires more funding for local clubs because schools cannot provide the specialist knowledge and equipment needed over many sports. The other change I would like to see is schools not being allowed to make demands on a pupil's time between say 4 - 6pm, freeing them up for other activities.
However the one change that is almost impossible to engineer is the one that values the activities of kids' on the sports field (or any other worthwhile pastime) far above than those of pointless celebs on TV. Then we might actually get people off the sofa and doing something valuable.
Just one thing ...
I hope they're doing the street-cleaning thing AFTER the handing-out-the-leaflets thing.
Re: Nein, Nein, Nein!!
> Correlation in the measurement of a shared state does, however, not need information transmission.
What about correlation in a change of state over a distance? Alice & Bob's cards don't change state together once allocated. AIUI entangled photons can.
Posted in Ten... freeware gems for new PCs
Good stuff
7zip, OO and Avast were the first things I put on a new Win PC recently. Not heard of Bvckup, must try it.
Don't like VLC on windows. Too flaky
For editors, I'd recommend PSPad over Notepad++ any day. It is particularly good at handling large files. I work with log files a lot, some Gb in size and it can handle them with no problems. Also lots of search&replace functionality, syntax highlighting, FTP access, macros, diff, block highlighting, etc. Well worth the money (!!)
Re: Breakthrough? @JP19
Who said the small panels were fixed? This paragraph:
"Perhaps more important than the successful models of such 3D mounts the team has tested, is the analytical software developed that can model different 3D configurations in a wide variety of latitudes, seasons, and weather conditions."
suggests they can be manoeuvred into more efficient positions as the conditions require. OK, agreed, this has been done before in solar farms. Nevertheless, the improvements over the basic fixed panels used on residential rooftops seem possible.
Short termism
The short-termism shown by management and accountants only reflects the pressure from shareholders demanding year-by-year dividends and EPS growth. Were the owners of a company to think beyond the next 4 quarters and invest for such, they'd find themselves in a much better position in their home markets.
"When I examined the page, ..."
I'm in the wrong job
Question ..
So how do I, the customer, know that the thing reading my card and the app on the phone are genuine PayPal Here apps? It would be a doddle for a scammer to create identical stuff with all the PayPal styling. I might as well just hand them my card details and PIN and save them the bother.
Re: What about wind power?
No need. It is propelled by its vertical motion with the waves (no motors at all) and the solar panels are plenty powerful enough for the electronics.
OTP
Because then it's not really OTP which should rely purely on pre-agreed PIN generation, normally time-based, with no per-transaction interaction.
I think the target of these scams is eg PayPal who send PINs via SMS to the account holder's mobile as extra security over and above the usual userid/password, so they're not really talking about OTP either.
I bank online with HSBC and they have separate physical OTP generator keycards which are immune from these sort of scams (but have other limitations).
Re: Protection?
The logos and anthem are part of the branding of the service which is considered (rightly or wrongly) an asset that adds value (credibility, gravitas, etc) to the service.
A provider who illegally applies branding to a service which isn't their own may be in breach of copyright because they use the legal owner's branding to add that value to their alternative service.
Posted in Ten... e-cars and hybrids
Re: What about the real cost?
The Economy7 tariff was always sold as being better because it kept the power stations running at an even pace throughout the night. If a massive demand for night-time charging of EVs develops, it makes sense for overnight tariffs to become the norm. This would encourage greater EV usage and make for more efficient use of the power stations.
"Oh, and if that's what rocks Carl's boat then congratulations to him."
Carl knows his boats:
http://www.carldouglas.co.uk/index-m.html
@Vic
I disagree.
1. A pardon says 'We forgive you' (not possible if he was guilty under law at the time).
2. An apology asks for someone else's forgiveness (approriate at any time).
In fact, an apology is more telling in this case because it acknowledges that the whole nation is in his (posthumous) debt because of the despicable way he was treated.
Posted in Kia Rio 1.1 CRDi EcoDynamics
Headlight bulbs
How easy is it to change headlight bulbs? I've ****ing had it with modern cars that require you to dismantle the front grill / remove the battery + supports / flay the back of your hand just to put in a new ****ing headlight bulb !!!
This article has more detail:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9223396/IBM_smashes_Moore_s_Law_cuts_bit_size_to_12_atoms
Apparently, room temperature will take about 150 atoms, compared with about 1 million currently. So it is still a worthwhile breakthrough.
A blessing in disguise?
It's a dreadful site to use. I have never been able to complete the simplest task without problems. And that's using one of the very small number of supported browsers.
If it forces them to rethink the whole thing, it would be worth it.
Posted in Five... friendly, free Android apps
NetCounter
Can't believe you missed the opportunity:
"Nice one, Cyril!"
@pig
Aha, "Income Tax". Not mentioned in your first post. Fair enough, as you were ...
Wait ...
25% of the annual tax revenue of the UK government comes from the top 1%'s personal taxation ?!
Source pls.
@Brian+wife
Absolutely true. I was without a TV for about 3 years and I NEVER missed it, nor was I EVER so productive with my time. Mind you, reading the newspapers, I had absolutely no idea who all the slebs were that seemed to fill every column inch.
Posted in Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012?
Brace yourself ...
http://osjs.0o.no/
or
http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/
It's platforms all the way down !
Posted in Eclipse Xtends Java
Project Lombok
Sounds a bit like Project Lombok
http://projectlombok.org/features/index.html
which runs as an AST transformer. Source code looks different but the AST navigator shows plain vanilla Java structure underneath.
The Great GC in the Sky is running in the background ?
Posted in ISPs end PM's web smut block dream
Honestly ....
> So, how was it supposed to work?
Details, details, dear boy. You can't expect our esteemed leaders to have to worry themselves over mere technicalities ...
Software is only part of enterprise IT
For all the complaints about the size and expense of enterprise software, the fact is that for global organisations, the cost of the software is still a very small % of the overall cost of running the system as a whole across geographies, esp. when integrated with multiple backends from the org's latest M&A activity. The associated tasks and concerns of running a system in a data center greatly outweigh in complexity the software itself, and cuts across many more functions & teams (HR, legal, finance, etc). And the loss of business in the event of failure has greater implications in terms of goodwill and credibility for a large household name than a small start-up whose absence is unlikely to be missed. This is why big globals are willing to pay millions to the likes of IBM, SAP, Oracle to ensure their systems don't go down. In the general scheme of things, that cost is worth it.
Not iOS ...
But there's Android coming v soon
http://www.infogenra.com/touchdroid-android-os-coming-soon-on-the-hp-touchpad.html
Good job ...
... they renamed it the Typhoon then.
What's the decimal point?
"hundreds of microwatts" sounds SO much better than "a few milliwatts"
Posted in LulzSec disavows alleged Census hack
nope
Would you say "you and me are stupider than people" ?
OTOH...
In the 21C, there is little real value in an index that has to be perused by human eye/fingers. Machine searching & indexing changes the range of potential (ab)uses of "private" information such that misuse can be done by a hacker in a few minutes and affect millions of people. Unthinkable in the days of phone books.
Posted in VMware gets Go-ing with Shavlik buy
Almost...
The modern usage of "troll" derives from sea angling, where it means dragging a hook slowly through the water (unlike "trawling" which uses a net) . So Go trolls the network looking for bites from any hypervisors out there.
Interesting ...
(well, mildly) that the men were all For and the women were all Against.
Make of that what you will.
Posted in One basket only? Proceed to self service
Tailored experience
There was a lot of talk a couple of years ago about how virtual worlds like Second Life would take off as the shopping arcades of the future. So if you wanted the fawning assistant able to answer any question you could think of, you could still do it online (in principle). I'm not holding my breath, but there may be ways in which the online experience could be tailored to the amount you are willing to fork out.
LLVM
No LLVM at the back-end? I would have thought that would be a better way to go. There is a PHP front-end for it here:
http://pecl.php.net/package/llvm.
@Colin Tree
Seeing as you can run your own OpenID provider behind your router, it shouldn't take much to move it onto the router itself.
You're probably right
I just found it difficult to tell what his original objection was about. I suspect it was the "old fart" reference.
Oh, and your summary was spot on. Thanks.
Quite
Doesn't that prove the point though of the benefit of libraries/frameworks that abstract over the nitty-gritty? (which I think is what you were arguing against. I'm not too sure. It's difficult to tell)
Bingo
Sorry you didn't understand my post. I had hoped the terms I was using would be familiar to those who have tried to do this stuff for real.
But your final remark is true, up to the point that any framework or library is intended to make things easier for the user. So I'm not sure you can prove anything by it.
BTW, there is a "Reply to Post" button.
