Posts by JimmyPage
892 posts • joined Friday 5th March 2010 16:20 GMT
Washed off
fnarr fnarr
Remember what happened last time IP addresses were used to "identify" criminals ?
Operation Ore.
On a serious note ...
Where will the internet end ? YouTube just recently announced that every second 8 hours worth of content[1] is being uploaded.
There is more and more historic data coming online, plus the growing number of world citizens with access to the internet, busy generating content.
No matter how much storage you have, eventually something has to give
There's also the matter of the more that's out there, the less it's worth. A little like speeding points now. So many drivers have them most insurers ignore the first 3. In the future, it might be so common to have some indiscretion on the interwebs it means nothing.
This from a government that can't move on from IE6 ?
I really wouldn't worry about it, I really wouldn't.
Drifting slightly OT ....
Anyone catch this story about a man with no arms being denied entry to the UK as his biometrics (fingerprints) were not "of sufficient quality" ?
Smug alert ...
I did say you'd need a lot of cooking (and hence fuel ££££) ....
Also, don't forget
the Earth itself is pumping masses of heat out - without any solar radiation. And given the news last week that the Earths core is much hotter than previously thought ...
I wonder how much
BT, Virgin, et all would pay someone like (say) Microsoft to release a new games console that required a permanent internet connections to work.
Does this £1/day include energy costs ?
Because I image some of those ingredients will take a lot of cooking.
Three MPs to free MP3s
sorry - had to register my approval of such a succinct strapline
Why am I reminded of ...
transputers .....
reinventing the wheel ?
Whatever happened to that weird gizmo which was shown on Tomorrows World in the early 80s. It looked like a telephone handset, and you only needed 5 fingers to input data. It worked by combinations (2^5 gave 64 possibilities). It was aimed at people who were unaccustomed to typing (yes kids, in 1982 there was a subject called "typing" on the syllabus).
When I started using computers (ITT 2020 !) I could managed 60+ wpm, which would have won awards in school, if I had been a girl.
and there you have it.
Why nothing will be done.
A scary thought is how much Google have on public officials. How many emails pass through Google servers, how much dirt can an internal-to-Google search throw up ?
Imagine the power Google have to skew search results to sway public opinion ... search for "David Cameron" and you get pages of results detailing every negative story from the past 10 years. Search for "Ed Miliband" and you get pages of stories with him kissing babies and posing with puppies .....
"A functioning transparent system"
Did she mean transport ? In which case she's wrong.
Oh, and if she didn't, she's still wrong.
@Andy
Not on that phone, you can't :(
Anyway - why "disable" ? She doesn't want the bloody thing at all - especially as it sits there taking up precious storage space on the phone (*not* the SD card).
Sigh
never underestimate the banality of evil.
If history has shown us anything, it's that it's pathetically easy to get 80% of the public to willingly give up any and everything for some shiny - or the promise of some shiny.
Don't need to download dodgy apps
Wifes WildfireS came preloaded with a Facebook app, which you can't remove, nor stop running (she hasn't got a Facebook account).
When you try and access settings, it lists all the permissions it has "Access my call data", "Access my contacts" etc etc (pretty much all from what I can see) with no option to deselect them.
Surely T&Cs cover this ?
"An amendment to the law which would ban employers asking their minions to hand over Facebook or Twitter passwords has already been blocked"
anyone who *did* hand over their details would be breaching Facebook/Twitters T&Cs.
Anyone any idea what the UK position would be here, if a candidate declined to provide these details ?
very simple question
as time goes buy are you
a) more likely to buy Viacom stock, and less likely to buy Google stock
or
b) less likely to buy Viacom stock, and more likely to buy Google stock
I think the answer might be illuminating - if bleeding obvious.
Posted in British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Re: Amazon is more than e-books
It's nice that when searching for individual books, Amazon list secondhand copies available.
It's a shame it doesn't aggregate, so you can search for several books, and then see if there's a *single* secondhand source.
Posted in British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Once again, people miss the point ...
arguing over *which* eReader you like diverts attention from the facts.
1) Publishers often set eBook prices to be the same (or more) than the dead-tree version
2) We have to pay VAT on eBooks.
Why not put the same effort into addressing those as to a bunfight over Kindle/Nook/Kobo ?
Re: I'm confused...
Didn't they say you need a Google Wallet account linked to the glasses ? In which case it's trivial - simply have a complicated procedure for changing accounts, where you verify it's a gift.
Presumably the glasses won't work if they can't access a valid Wallet account.
Distress
there's nothing preventing a victim pursuing a claim in civil court. Talk Talk can hardly deny it. The only tricky thing might be to demonstrate that it happened. However, since you are only working on the balance of probabilities, I wonder if the court would accept it happened *unless* TalkTalk could disprove it ... would make for very interesting times ...
And the Windows Phone version
No mention of that ... anyone want to big up WP here ?
http://archive.org
Is that accepted evidence in court - particularly a criminal one ?
On a more serious note
if the UK gov does insist on "digital by default" then presumably web pages become primary sources of information. Has anyone developed a mechanism for keeping track of websites so that you can prove what version was displayed when ?
Otherwise, I can see pages with incorrect information being put up, that people act on, and when they have to defend themselves ("the government website said this...") they find the page has mysteriously changed.
Or are they not *that* serious about DBD ?
Re: water power
Indeed ... the recent excavations in London have demonstrated that the Romans management of water was not to be equalled until Victorian London.
If you like your history and engineering, there's a cracking Time Team special about an experiment to recreate an amazing piece of machinery found in London - unknown anywhere else in the Roman Empire. It was a conveyor belt of buckets powered by animals.
What kind of installation is needed?
The kind that costs £50
Starting to be excited about this ...
although not in a boys toys way.
Mrs JP has MS, and it's knackered her vision (optic neuritis) making it hard to see at a distance. It's not a lens issue, so specs don't help. If these gadgets can be used to project a TV picture so it's viewable as if it were a foot from the eye as opposed to the 6-8 feet in real space, it could be a godsend.
So bring it on.
Smile of the day ...
"The negotiations collapsed after 2e2's venture-capital backers Duke Street Capital held out for more."
Overweening greed ....
Re: News from NK
you read Korean ?
What does it mean for the end user ?
Better service.
Lower prices.
More choice.
Exciting innovations.
From HHGTTG
England no longer existed. He'd got that - somehow he'd got it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn't grasp it. He decided to start smaller again. New York has gone. No reaction. He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway. The dollar, he thought, had sunk for ever. Slight tremor there. Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock. McDonalds, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger.
He passed out.
Re: To be fair...
How do you measure ?
Go to Victoria embankment - see how many times it's been raised in the last 100 years. No because of rising sea levels, but the sinking south east ...
Wow - quicker than you can say "judgemental"
I couldn't quite see the bit in the OP where it said the new owners *knew* they had received stolen goods.
@AC 14:43
I wasn't saying there has been a slump of sales because *I* don't need a new PC. I was pointing out that if you extrapolate my situation, you can work out why PC sales are nosediving. All I was doing was using my personal situation to inform my professional view - with the appropriate level of caution.
There was a Samsung stand in my local shopping mall last week. Despite their being loads of phones, the few times I walked past it in a 2 hour period, the only things people were eyeballing were the tablets.
Hardly scientific, but it would cause me to want to know more before I invested in selling Samsung phones.
Why is there such a disconnect
between the industry, and the market ? It's painful to see, and certainly isn't great PR for capitalism and the free market.
PC sales have tanked, because nobody needs a new PC right now. I'm working on a 3 year laptop supplied by work. My wife and sons PCs are 4 year old boxes I put Win7 on. I see absolutely no need to upgrade. Possibly replace in the event of a failure, but even then, I have some older XP boxes in the loft that would probably do.
Now, Win2000 ran software that people (especially in business) needed to run. Therefore NT4->Win2000 was a big event.
XP ran software that Win2000 couldn't. So there was a push to that. The first crack in the dam occurred when Vista didn't really add anything to XP.
Win 7 came along at a lucky point in the cycle, and drove a few upgrades, but given I am working on a Win7->XP machine, it wasn't essential
So here we are today. Win8 just doesn't add anything people *need*.
It's like mobile phones ... in our household (we've not drunk the Apple kool-aid) we're all happy with 2+ year old phones.
ITYM
"Green" ?
And it's not so much a nugget, more of a splat.
Re: Moving away slighly
not really - T&Cs are subject to civil law, and can be struck out if unreasonable or unfair.
Anyway, RBS T&Cs only apply to RBS customers.
Moving away slighly
does anyone know how far the consequential losses claimed can go ? ISTR at the time there were stories of house purchases falling through, and businesses being forced into bankruptcy.
EU hosting makes no difference
People still don't get it. MS are a US company. MS have to abide by US law. US law (PATRIOT act) means that Uncle Sam can ask MS to cough up data from *anywhere* it controls it - and to hell with any other arrangements they may have promised. Uncle Sam can also require MS to shut down any server they control - again irrespective of location. MS admitted last year that wherever they hold data, it's available to the US government if requested.
Also, (or so our Information Security guys tell me) if this were to happen, any person whose data was snatched would have a case for suing the company that lost it.
Two reasons for being *very* careful where your cloudy data goes.
Did no one notice ...
the subtle shadow of the todger in the pictures ? Perhaps they should have used examples lit from the front, not side ....
Nothing to see here
don't forget encryption was also classified as "munitions" to control it's export.
Sadly, the under 40s
will think we're making it all up.
*If* you were lucky, you could get a phone in less than 2 months. And as for a *second* phone ....
One of my first paying jobs in electronics was (illegally) fitting extensions for neighbours - because in those days only GPO engineers could do that (phones were hardwired - no plugs and sockets) AND you only rented the handset.
Anyone remember party lines ?
Once again ...
a suspicion that those in power *really* don't "get it". It would be funny, if it didn't result in ludicrous laws, and the appalling waste of money sunk into IT schemes that could have easily delivered with a managed FOSS solution.
And to the commentard who suggested that new eBooks are the *same* price as the dead tree version ... I have seen many eBooks that are *more* expensive than the paper version.
Re: Is there a GOOD broadband provider?
Bad form to reply to oneself, but just to add about routers ....
VM supply a crippled rebadged router, which would be flattered with the epithet "pants". However (although I had to await a firmware upgrade for this) it can be put into "modem only" mode, which allows you to use your own preferred router.
Make sure you do use the VM supplied kit though - it's DOCSIS 3.0
Re: Is there a GOOD broadband provider?
I know it's less than fashionable, but for me, VM are tops. On their basic package, can download an hours HDTV prog in about 4 minutes, and never had an outage.
I've fallen victim to this scam
The caller identifies themselves, and then tells about a system called "government" which you have to pay into, and you can get the most fabulous prizes. They then threaten that if you don't pay them, they'll lock you up.
Despite me sending off over £15,000 last year, I haven't seen a bean.
Is there not a precedent ?
Going back to my childhood, it was not uncommon to know some people who just did not have a phone. And this was London, not some backwater.
Clearly, at some point, it was decided that the telephone would be the primary point of contact with the state.
I appreciate it's a little more complex to use the web, but that's where we are heading.
