Posts by TakeTheSkyRoad

Re: G+

Well Google want you to use Chrome, trust your documents, email and life to Google+ and use them for search too.

That is pretty much most of your online life... ALL your online life if the site you visit also use Google Ads since they can track/trace you there too.

So yes I'm in IT but sorry, I'm not going anywhere near personally. Not because I have any privacy issues (though privacy is nice) but because I don't want to give all that information away for free. What I'll do if/when they require a G+ account to search I'm not sure yet.

For the IT hardcore rather than trendy there's Diaspora which has excellent privacy but it's such an obscure/bizarre setup and frankly such a daft name that I've little chance of recruiting my friends/contacts to it.... shame really for the sake of a name !

In Civ 5 there's a Strategic View which gives you the map in old-school hex format.

http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=2938&c=36

I tend to use the 3D view most of the time but switch to Strategic when there's serious battles going on and I want to see exactly what's going on. It also makes the game playable on lower spec machines too like my W500 tablet PC :)

Re: And another word for...

Sorry but opening your statement with this :

"After downing a civilian airliner in the region years ago..."

Kinda means I have no faith in this :

"highly train professionals"

While I'm at it your point 2 has no relavance though you admit to it.

As for point 3 this isn't Starcraft ! Please see WW1 for an example of that number does not equal victory. I see your point with the missles but these really aren't needed, most US ships are armed with perfectly capable Gatling guns with ample range and smart enough targetting to sore a hit... more so if there are plenty of targets.

Re: VPNs to be banned in the UK.

If you and me setup a VPN with encrypted with a key we share then the ISP and the CSP don't have access to the unecypyted data. Only you and me.

There are apps free apps to setup private VPN's between friends already, often with gaming in mind.

I'm going to be generous then assume then that you mean a VPN provided by a CSP/ISP

Re: Things I need a CD drive for...

I think much of my thinking is based around having many USB Drives fail on me so I just don't trust them. Also they are not a complete solution at the moment so one day I will completely retire my optical drive but not yet.

Re: Might as well just bite the bullet.

Not so cozy..... once in Sweden the US will restart proceedings to extradite him to the States where he faces BIG deterrant style jail time.

It's why many people are cynical about the rape charges which should really be taken seriously.

As it stands it is highly convient for the US that the charges in Sweden put him in a country which will be happy to extradite him to the US.... it seems the UK turned them down (genuine suprise there !)

Tanget Alert

Wasn't MKV that game where someone thought it was a bright idea to have a helmet mounted gun ?

Re: No GoPro?

Well don't forget you've got to look good plunging down that mountain side and duct tape just doesn't look cool

Re: Xbox Live

You might have just sold me an xbox !

Re: Only us geeks care about OS versions

"The graph suggests Apple users DO upgrade their phones."

More likely their phones are mostly upgraded for them when they sync to itunes to update their music and photos. itunes will prompt, they'll blindly click through the options and hey preto they are upgraded !

Also Android users generally do not expect an upgrade... the general man in the street hear that iphones get upgraded but are perfectly accepting that every other phone out there stays with the software it was purchased with.

That's being the state of play since the early days and hasn't changed much. Especially since new software is something many manufacturers use to to flog us new phones.

Re: Unfriend them - agreed

"Also, you can share stuff with people even if they only have an email address."

That bit doesn't sound better.... sounds like someone "sharing" something with me from Google Plus via email spam. A win and a fail

Re: Some good names missed.

I still dabble with Star Wars Supremacy sometimes, runs fine on my windows 7 tablet pc though it needs the mouse really. Epic and insanely complicated strategy ? Yes please :)

Re: hmmmm

I'm not sure IRDA failed as a whole since it's still used in so many TVs but I guess you meant in terms of data transfer.

Taking the TV example a step further my PS3 remote is bluetooth and there is a definate lag on first use. I'm not sure if that lag outweights the benefit of not needing line of sight since I'm always sat in front of the TV when using the remote (Play TV).

I still wanting to point it at the TV anyway... havn't trained myself out of that yet !

Re: Ugly and wasteful form factor

Agreed.... looks like my n900 is too old to qualify but I recommend it !

Re: Oh for the old days...

"£50 for 2 years' gameplay is still very very cheap by any other standards of media."

I dispute this on the basis that if I buy a blu ray for 20 quid I can watch it until the disc falls apart and I think a 30 year life span is reasonable for those discs.

Of course if you're talking about games, say a mmorg then yes 50 quid for 2 years is good.... but this isn't.

For a more realistic comparision try Balders Gate, single player & co-op but still playable over 10 years later since it's not dependant on any back end servers.

Re: Question

Remember that this information will be logged and saved in advance.

So acess to call records & call content via a court order means that they will gain access to your records for as far back as the phone company have them (5 years ?). Also they could tap your phone to record your phone calls.

Now under this proposal they will log all the sites you visit, the content of all the emails you send and much more. They then have to get a court order to access that data but it would be already there on their equipment.

However it's not like there are 3rd parties involved (eg BT) so it would be trivial to lower the requirements. Putting this into the phone context everyone knows it's comparable to them recording all your phone calls (& text msgs) and then promising that they'll ask before listening to them.

I think the article said encrypted passwords..... reverseable ? maybe

Re: Turning off servers at 6:30?

Yeah, that one comment of this alone served to show to me he has no idea what he is talking about. Plus how many startups have employees finish by 6:30 ? Thought that the early days meant long hours and late nights... leading to a bonus paid in shares of course

Re: Not the first time.

Sorry but those analogies don't quite work because once the flat is searched the students get to return home. Well, the ones not being charged with anything that is.

Based on past cases in the news it seems extremely unlikely that the server will be returned.

All emails, websites and mailing lists will be gone unless there are backups.

So back to your analogie the students don't go back to their flat, they have to get a new flat. They might be able to replace some posessions via insurance but not everything, recent purchases not listed in insurance documents would be tough to claim for (no flat, no reciepts) and those assignments that were started recently so not on any backup would have to be redone. And there isn't 4 people affected, I think a number of around 300 was mentioned.

Re: They're called "Glades"

Not sure about Stross but "Glades" are mentioned in some Ken MacLeod novels.... The Star Fraction for example. However those are not transparent but fake it with an outer coating of nano scale cameras feeding the inner display... with processing in between of course.

Re: UK Dumping Ground

You are absolutely correct but the decison makers rarely think beyond say 4 years so I'm talking about short term political and financial benefit. If these people invested the money into development we could (in theory if not already) be using other countries "waste" to power our reactors.

Re: This is happening with the apps too

In this case they didn't have to... they used the app and in the ads facebook lists that you used it

Re: Mostly reasonable

However alot of new legislation is deterrant to be "tested in court" with is plain lazy in my mind. Write it right or leave it out !

Anyway I think it'll probably stay in and they'll see if it can "stick" with the first court case to try to use it. After all it's far easier to prove posession rather than intent and if I own "hacking tools" I must be a baddie. No regard for white hacks, professional penetration testers or maybe someone who wants to hack for fun with no plans to take it outside of their home network (white hacks have to start somewhere yes ?).

In MEP speak everyone who owns a crowbar must be a thief to lets do them for intent to break and enter.... idiots.... mini rant over :)

Re: More like 60 per hour.

Don't forget a long message could cover 5 parts so that's 5 text messages.

Also smart phones with real or virtual qwerty keyboards make it easy to use full words and cheap deals mean there no need anymore to shortern ur txts

Re: Prescription glasses wearer here

Cautiously.... yes it should work fine :)

Best to check out a demo unit though !