* Posts by HMB

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Virgin Media only puts limited limits on its Unlimited service

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Re: What a bunch...

I'm glad you pointed them out. I did notice that they're around 20% more expensive, but I'm glad to see they're doing a 12 month term instead of defaulting to BT's 18 months.

However, Zen or not, I'm pretty sure that it's all just BT wholesale to the ISP.

All I'm trying to say is that if BT has had their grubby mits on it I'm sure it's not a shining beacon of unsullied light.

EC: NSA slurps scare you? Europe's clouds are open for business

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Re: Hahaha, Oh wait, they're serious.

@Graham Marsden, @AC

Firstly I'd like to thank you both for your replies. It very much confirms my suspicions of why what I said has proven unpopular.

I think there's always a question of who watches the watchers. I don't really believe that transparency and spying go hand in hand, though I think the gist of what has been said is admirable. If the government did tell us about thwarted plots though:

A) Would you believe them?

B) Is open sourcing failed terrorist plots really a good idea?

Getting back to whether security agencies thwart plots and do us all good...

I don't seek to prove this to anyone here. I would have thought that a lot of people would have come to this conclusion from their own thinking. Do we really think that a mass of smart, intelligent people get up to go to work in the morning just to undermine our freedom and privacy? I don't believe that. If you don't think they offer us some protection and do some good, what do you actually think they do and what do you think motivates these people?

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Re: Hahaha, Oh wait, they're serious.

Since no one who down voted cared to share their wisdom or perspective with me so far I'm going to be forced to conclude that it was my degree of sympathy with the security services that got me in trouble with the 'Rage Against the Machine' brigade.

I'm not afraid of opposing views to my own you know, you can speak up. Come on, try and enlighten me ;)

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Hahaha, Oh wait, they're serious.

If the computers are outside America, then there'll be less data slurping. *snigger*

Maybe now is a good time to suggest The Menwith Hill Ballooning Experience with Mark Thomas.

Since I'm poking fun, I might as well take the time to say for the sake of balance (and I do believe it) that a lot of people are working hard to keep us safe and have almost certainly averted some major disasters. It's churlish not to be thankful to them for that.

It's difficult to resolve top secret citizen surveillance against the principles of democracy though, and the massive potential powers any government could have over it's citizens if this sort of thing went wrong.

It's a tricky one.

'Donkey-tugging' EU data protection law backed by MEPs

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Concerned

I worry this will be just as splendidly well thought through as the EU enforcing annoying pop ups about accepting cookies that did nothing but waste end users time.

Who wants to replace them all with Monkey's on typewriters?

Send dosh (insecurely) via email, Jack Dorsey's Square tells punters

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Re: Social Engineering

>You don't really need to go that far.

I'll grant you that, although I was trying to illustrate as well that you don't need to be registered with Square for this service for it decrease the security of others.

These two statements don't mix well:

"Email can be faked. Be careful and don't trust email if in doubt."

"You can now safely send and receive money via email."

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Social Engineering

Let's not forget the social engineering risk.

Bob's heard of cash via email, so he knows it's real and not necessarily a scam. Why, Alice got some cash via Square yesterday and was telling Bob all about it. Come to think of it, Bob's antics almost always involve Alice, funny that, Bob wondered.

So anyhow, Bob sees this email from Triangle that he's got new funds but needs to run SecureTriangleRegistration.exe in order to secure the transfer to keep his money safe. Bob, believing what he wants to believe and buoyed by Alice getting cash yesterday, runs the attachment.

Oh nos!! :( Bob's computer has been pwned.

Ofcom flogs ex-military 4G spectrum, but ONLY the iPhone 5 can use it

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All Good

I think this is good news dressed up as chaos. I'm very happy that this spectrum is being made available.

Phone releases don't usually mean spectrum authorities releasing spectrum. Spectrum authorities releasing spectrum however, do usually mean phones released that can use it.

I can go with TDD, but I want my fat upload. I want to be able to stream HD video from my phone to someone else, because why not?

I wonder at full duplex, full load usage, what the efficiency of TDD is in relation to FDD.

Price rises and power cuts by 2016? Thank the EU's energy policy

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Re: Cloud cuckoo land thinking...

> Nuclear power - great (i'm massively in favour), but how much? Those championing nuclear as a solution clearly don't have much handle on the total costs - renewable subsidies have nothing on decommissioning costs.

Just to make that clear (it's been said above but buried in a larger reply.

Nuclear decommissioning costs are minimal because new plants have the decommissioning cost paid up front gathering interest. Considering a 40 to 60 year period of operation, the amount up front doesn't have to be much even with low interest rates.

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Re: It's great having ideals......... But we can't afford eat, heat or have a bath.

It's not a problem with ideologies. It's a problem with competence and having the backbone to do the right thing and that's a profound issue running across the entire political spectrum.

It makes me so angry that something so basic as power generation is in danger. It's not the 1970s anymore. The economy can't afford the loss of basic infrastructure. Business doesn't run on pen and paper like it used to, it's mostly run on computers and networks.

I'd like to see our civil servants held to account for any extreme dereliction of duty. I think that actual black outs on the power grid would amount to that as well.

Leaping SpaceX GRASSHOPPER ROCKET jumps 2,500ft, lands safely

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@Brewster's AG

An up vote wasn't enough. I was properly laughing out loud, cheers for the XKCD, very appropriate.

Control panel backdoor found in D-Link home routers

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If I Was a Security Agency

I would have ensured a back door existed in an incredibly common driver binary for DD-WRT and received endless amusement watching people installing it to escape the other firmware I nobbled some time ago.

Is your router secure?

We'll see.

MS Word deserves DEATH says Brit SciFi author Charles Stross

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Monopolies

Monopolies, bad for everyone but the owners of the aforementioned.

Of course eventually they loose the plot so badly that a smaller, more flexible upstart will challenge them, but luckily this problem is being fixed by patent libraries so large than any attempt to infringe on an established market will lead to immediate financial ruin.

Whatever happened to a good old honest free market economy powered by ideas, innovation and meritocracy? (With social safeguards of course)

Murdoch calls for world+dog to 'expose' Google

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Android

It's because he's got an Android phone, clearly. He's gotten all into the fancy (and rather pretty) Ice Cream Sandwich user interface restyle, then been upset by the music app now being white and orange.

It's a move as popular as the one to drop decades old national road colour schemes and turn all roads in Google maps either white or a shade of orange. Yay!

Google - Making software we all love, then destroying it slowly with annoying updates.

Brazil's anti-NSA prez urged to SNATCH keys to the internet from America

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Re: Well...

The good news for those in favour of internationalisation of the Internet's authority is that it doesn't require the US to relinquish control.

You see when you look bottom up, from a country's ISP subscriber, you can easily implement a system that takes control. This works for DNS and IP routing (or can be made to). The only area that would take more time to take control over would be secure certificates and authorities (covering control over HTTPS for example).

Brace yourselves, telcos: Ofcom triples cost of 2G spectrum holdings

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Re: 2G shutdown

Sorry Lee, but I'm calling BS on your assertions, but with very good reason.

I'd like to say firstly that I'm sure you're correct about older smart meters and GPS trackers. I don't have an issue with that.

> And every phone falls back to 2G for a reason - it's the most ubiquitous, most kitted-out, and most easily received cell signal in the whole of the country

My phone along with a few million other people don't fall back to 2G. That's because I'm with three for my mobile service. I find the reception on a 3G only provider to be great and perhaps a little better than my previous provider of Vodafone. I live in a rural location and get great HSPA speeds. The skies haven't fallen in, the world hasn't ended and my separation from 2G hasn't caused me any battery life issues, strokes or respiratory failures.

So no. We don't need 2G anymore on networks that are ready to switch.

WikiLeaker-in-chief Assange refuses to meet Benedict Cumberbatch

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Re: Cumberbatch as Kahn

KHAAN!!...............................

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I was really looking forward to this film, but I've just read a couple of online reviews. Looks like despite a very promising premise and some great talent it's fallen flat.

My understanding at present is that wikileaks has hosted genuine evidence of appalling events, perhaps even bad enough to be called atrocities, but that Assange really is a piece of work.

If my understanding is correct I feel like this could have been such an interesting, complex blend of right and wrong, something really good, gritty and human. It sounds from reviews though like he really has just been turned into a cartoon bad guy with just a couple of token gestures towards balance.

Can anyone recommend any other films to watch for this weekend?

Hollywood: How do we secure high-def 4K content? Easy. Just BRAND the pirates

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Send annoying colleagues to prison

> They're not stupid, and they will find a way to make sure it's not them that gets brought to book.

Yeah, alternatively the movie industry is pressing for a brand new tool for the ethically loose to send their enemies to prison.

Competition tight for that job promotion? Successfully copy a colleagues version of the latest 4K movie, stick it on a torrent site and watch the cops take them away. Job Bingo!

Sending someone to prison for the detection of their movie watermarking on the net? Did someone who wasn't a raging alcoholic really think that was a good idea?

> So, you mean copyright infringers? That's a different legal context and an entirely different thing.

Couldn't agree more. Calling IP infringement theft is just weasel wording. It doesn't take much thought to realise that actual theft requires you to deprive the aggrieved party of their item. I believe IP infringement can be harmful to new music, but it can also be beneficial. I've bought music from hearing it on shared youtube links before. The best of which was me buying directly from the artist via their website. Principally there needs to be balance, as in all things in life.

If your fans really enjoy your work and respect you as an artist, they will support you.n At least I like to think that. :)

Ofcom sets out next DECADE of spectrum policy: Use it or lose it

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Re: a Decade?

I'm all for a thoughtful assessment of the varying pros and cons of different sections of spectrum, but what's all this nonsense about companies and WiFi?

When spectrum costs money, companies only buy it if it's profitable. It's only profitable if people want the services the operator plans for it. The end result is that spectrum goes to the end user that wants a service according to the free market economy approach. It's not always a perfect fit, WiFi shows us that, but it's still a good model that works for things like Mobile Phones. I will accept that sometimes the spectrum is granted for too long, but that's a spectrum allocation error, not one of business. I also accept that companies should use it or loose it too.

I'm shocked and disturbed that you're so against the proliferation of WiFi. I don't think you could have got it more back to front. We've never been able to do more with radio, never had it more capable, never had it smarter, never had so much damn bandwidth and you're attacking the principle enabling technology!?

The reason WiFi is dominating the band is because so many people want it. Nothing could be more democratic and fair.

British support for fracking largely unmoved by knowledge of downsides

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Re: Fear and Piracy

Can I suggest a range of sentences instead of just 15 years? I believe my ideas will be more cost effective.

1) People campaigning against fracking, persistently asserting falsehoods after having been warned (they would be given chance to back up their claims) would be forced to pay 3x more for their energy bills, this would subsidise lower bills for everyone else. This would persist for at least 5 years.

2) People who are vehemently against a particular power source should put their money where their mouth was and be forced to source their electricity only from sources they approve of. When renewable power couldn't provide for these people (assuming at least some would be dead against gas, coal and nuclear), they would be cut off until renewables returned. It's harsh, but they'd be allowed to change their mind about other sources of power but would have to do so on a big public stage in a town centre. This would be filmed and put on youtube.

3) People who buy a Prius for environmental reasons would be taken away for re-education about the global supply chain for battery technology and it's ecological impact.

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Re: Ultimate cop out here...

EddieD,

1) Some sort of climate change does appear to be occurring, man made or not, even if we're just talking global weirding.

2) If you efficiently burn natural gas instead of coal you release a lot less carbon.

3) Some of the most effective solutions to the problem (e.g. progressive regreening of land appeared on TED, nuclear power, fire safe wooden skyscrapers) get little to no time in the public consciousness and some are even fought by radical environmentalists. The point here is that I wouldn't worry about your domestic energy consumption amidst deforestation and the construction industries emissions.

4) The cost of reducing carbon emissions is so immense that people like Bjørn Lomborg have argued that spending the same money elsewhere may bring a much greater benefit to humanity. When you see this argument in full it's rather hard to argue against.

5) One way or another, we'll be OK. It might take hard work and a lot of people who care about doing the right thing, but I'm sure we'll solve problems along the way.

Exciting MIT droplet discovery could turbocharge power plants, airships and more

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Re: Your article goes on a bit

It's wonderful news.

What made you suggest they condense it? Did you drop off while reading it? :P

'Stupid old white people' revenge porn ban won't work, insists selfie-peddler

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Agreed

Is it just me or does he sound like a guy on a Grand Theft Auto radio station?

Wireless charging snakes' wedding of tangled alliances gets WORSE

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Re: Standards

Wireless charging isn't equivalent to wired charging, so I don't see the logic there.

With wireless charging, you're selling a couple of seconds to several seconds (depending on how organised you are with your charging cables) a day. It's not much, but I'd buy into it at the right price for the right advantage. QI chargers that require exact positioning don't do it for me at the moment, but I'm looking forward to the future.

Microsoft Surface 2 fondleslabs finally get off ground with airline order

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Temptation Vs Apathy (Side order of spectacle)

For Delta it all seems like a good deal, but for Microsoft?

I've already got an HP Touchpad that runs Android that I barely use. Though it would be tempting to use Windows 8 in an environment (touchscreen) that it was actually designed to work in. Ahhh who am I kidding, I wont use it, it's hardly like I can run the iPlayer radio app on it.

Maybe what I need is the Surface X Pro (where X is whatever number). It's got some exciting specs and the idea of being able to run all that PC software on it is quite tantalising. I'll just wait a bit longer for one with a decent sized screen and perhaps an integrated keyboard. If only I could get my hands on one of those now. Though with those added extras it certainly would have to be more expensive than a Surface X Pro.

Google: Thanks for the billions in revenue, UK. Here are your taxes, that's ... £11m

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Re: Simplify the rules - it's the only way.

You can't make tax simple and easy, it would put a lot of accountants out of work. Nobody would want that.

Poor accountants :(

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Re: Says it all? (moneyweek)

Meh....

"How to make it, how to keep it, how to spend it." - 4 Week Free Trial!

Alarm Bells

On the upside, I've got a special hydrophobic, oleophilic, hypoallergenic cream that will make your skin seem like a baby's! (It'll give you nappy rash) I source it from genetically engineered, wild, organically farmed, hand reared serpents.

EU move to standardise phone chargers is bad news for Apple

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Re: Standardised connector

> What we'll end up with is something with all the appeal and elegance of a SCART connector.

It's all well and good being facetious about it, but you could quite legitimately attack the poor implementations of Micro USB instead. I've had to replace the Micro USB port on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus already because it failed.

The notion of one connector to rule them all for charging is kind of nice in one sense, but it must be acknowledged that this move could harm innovation in the future.

I've never bought an Apple product, but I recognise that they may quite legitimately have simply tried to improve on Micro USB.

Including a microchip in the lightning charging cable to prevent cheap cables being made though, that just makes them assholes. Would it really be so hard for Apple to sell reasonably priced charging cables from the get go?

Broadcom fries up '5G' Wi-Fi chips to chuck in your connected car

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Please Don't Encourage Them

The fastest 802.11ac equipment released so far that I can see operates with real throughput of ~340 Mbps:

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/asus-rt-ac66u-802/4505-3319_7-35406080-2.html

This is on 1.3 Gb/s equipment.

This is 26% of 'suggested bandwidth'.

My 802.11n 300 Mbps link manages to achieve around 95 Mbps of real throughput and I know that's very high and around 32% of 'suggested bandwidth'.

My old 802.11g kit managed around 24 Mbps out of 54 Mbps of 'suggested bandwidth'.,that's 44%.

With every new wireless release the amount of bandwidth we actually get compared to the big numbers happily splashed all over the boxes gets less and less. I'm tired of this dishonest way of selling wireless. I think they should have to put actual numbers of ideal conditions performance on the box instead.

Thorium and inefficient solar power? That's good enough for me

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Re: Commercial fusion may not be as far away as you think

I'd be delighted to see Lockheed Martin succeed at this, of course, but it does sound a little too good to be true.

Time to test the new waterproofing feature of iOS 7 I think. :)

Apple: Now that you've updated to iOS 7... YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK

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Why is anyone surprised?

From the very beginning Apple have been a company that doesn't shy away of laying down the law when it wants to. It's not unusual for it to adopt the "My Way or the Highway" attitude. I think this approach is both good and bad.

If you're an iPhone user/licensee that wants to go back to the older iOS, I implore you... go throw on a nice cardigan and maybe a suit jacket, go get yourself a Latte from Starbucks, sit down, take a sip and then look deep in your heart and ask yourself: "Who am I to dilute Apple's brand image?".

Blighty's great digital radio switchover targets missed AGAIN

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Oh Dear

Expensive receiver + Bad Coverage + MP2 sound compressed to 128 Kbps when you're lucky.

Vs

Free software + Existing device (Smartphone) + Mobile Network Coverage (with added caching) + Huge Listening Choice + High Quality Sound.

As time moves on, the environment that DAB has to compete in gets harsher and harsher. I don't think DAB is going to have a happy ending.

I have unlimited data and use Spotify and iPlayer Radio, even in the car. It works very well and the sound quality is very good. I don't think I'll ever be interested in buying a DAB radio again (I did look into it around 5 years ago but dismissed it due to SQ and coverage issues).

Lighting bods blind designophiles with LED-powered lounge lamps

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Re: Designers

Gorgeous, futuristic and inspiring lights are being created and all you have to say is that it's going to get dusty?

As for dust with the likes of the table, I imagine you'd clean it in the same way that you'd clean... a table. Exactly how is that not practical?

Axe falls: Virgin Media plans to kill 600 management jobs

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Re: I expect to be greeting them soon - DITTO!

@Ledswinger

I think you've for the large part made an interesting and reasonably well structured counter argument that I found interesting and compelling....

But...

What this is about is an obscenely rich Yank billionaire taking it private and reasoning that yes, it will fuck customer service, but what the hell, he needs the £30m quid these people are collectively paid more than they do.

That just ruined it all for me! Do you really think he's going to do anything to harm the business after he just bought it for £15 Bn?! He isn't going to be a billionaire for very long if he buys up businesses for that much then ruins them over a measly £30 Mill. Isn't it just possible he knows how to improve VM? Give the guy a chance. He's been in the industry for a long time.

Rotten Apple iOS 7 fury: Glitchy audio or is today's music really that bad?

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Re: The proof is in the....

Wow, what a thread. Someone let me know when the children have been put to bed and maybe the adults can chat about it without making funny faces at each other and saying they smell.

IETF floats plan to PRISM-proof the Internet

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Re: Obvious next step

That's funny, because I saw the obvious next step as this:

Unknown zero day compromises target's IP stack -> All your security measures are belong to US. ;)

Fancy a new iPhone 5C or 5S? READ THIS or you may not get 4G data

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Re: Really? Super-Greek numbering prefixes?

While it was sort of vaguely guessable, I googled 'trideca' just to be sure and it turns out the phones will be released with testosterone body building bands for the US.

Strange, but it must be true :P

Startup claims 1W wireless charging at 10 metres

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I do get it. Phase alignment of an array of transmitters. I'm sure it will work as stated with one exception. While I'm sure it's highly improbable that a second point of phase alignment will occur, highly improbable happening with sufficient frequency means it's certain to happen.

Even if you don't believe it yourself. What happens when the wireless charger is on and the phone is in your pocket?

When tissue is already at core body temperature, it doesn't take much extra heating to cook it.

New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'

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No, you can tell it apart because the Lumia 620, while a highly functional and well made phone <charliebrookervoice>has been blighted by an infestation of monochromatic f**king squares.</charliebrookervoice>

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Re: The price of last year's iPhone is eye watering

Did you say Everything Everywhere? I couldn't tell what you were saying properly. What's that? No. Sorry. You're breaking up.*

* Other networks that drop calls are also available.

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Re: A finger of fudge

Hmmmm... yes.

I can just imagine that shifty fella at the market offering you an iPhone plus activation finger.

No, I think that might frighten off the casual hot phone buyer.

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Just to point out, every year an iPhone comes out the older ones go at lower cost. Do you really think an aluminium case swapped for a plastic one is going to change things for the better this year?

Ready to bin your USB cables yet? Wireless USB hops on WiGig bandwagon

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Product looking for a Problem

I'm looking forward to wireless USB replacing my bluetooth wireless keyboard, wireless mouse and wireless games controller. I'm so excited about it I'm going to print a letter off with my wifi connected wireless printer.

So that would be flash drives left then. So flash drives... will the software that controls secure access to wireless flash drives be more or less difficult to use than plugging in a wired USB flash drive.

Oh dear. This might be a problem.

(I do love the technology, I just wonder about the economics)

Biz bods STILL don't patch hacker's delight Java and Flash

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Regarding the Title

>Biz bods STILL don't patch hacker's delight Java and Flash

>I said a patch Flash, or hacks unlatch, snatch data to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

Has there been some sort of serious outbreak of a poetry related disease or contagion at The Register HQ? If so have the authorities been alerted?

If biological weapons have been used I do hope France doesn't invade.

Seagate parades spinning skinny model to oust flash from fondleslabs... almost

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Local Storage vs Cloud

Surely the point of these tablets is to deliver media from the cloud? Now we can pay again for TV series that we've watched on TV, bought on DVD and bought again on bluray ;) OK, that was facetious. I love my iPlayer and 4od on my tablet.

Sure, there are us geeks too. We have media servers and apps like VLC.

Is a portable device really sensible as a media hub? Do I want to pay more for a tablet and copy lots of video files to it slowly over WiFi or USB2?

In a word, as far as I'm concerned, no.

Putting a load of storage into a tablet (unless it's free) seems rather redundant and silly to me. I don't want to pay for it in terms of money or decreased reliability.

Smartwatch news: Sleek-but-vaporous timepiece promised by... NISSAN?

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Re: Is it a watch or a handcuff?

I couldn't agree more, I was just thinking that it will look nice next to the smart watch I get with my future espresso maker that will allow me to tell when the coffee is ready when I'm in the kitchen, but looking at my wrist instead of the damn coffee machine.

Ofcom set to fatten up London's White Space TV spectrum

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Re: This will end in tears

> It's not and this is vandalism against the Broadcast spectrum which is supposed to be protected.

This notion that a specific region of the EM spectrum is sacrosanct to broadcasting TV is an outmoded idea born out of a legacy situation from before computers existed.

The spectrum is there for the best benefit of society. In the middle of the 20th century, fair enough, perhaps TV was the best use we could have of it. In the future an increasingly data intensive wireless society is going to need a lot more bandwidth. I know 4G will do us for now, but there's only so much MIMO you can squeeze into a handset economically and the next wave of bandwidth hikes are going to need to come from more frequency bandwidth.

The spectrum should be used where it can do most good, not according to an old, outdated doctrine.

I'm not suggesting leaving people out in the cold but we need to be taking baby steps to be moving on. I already use the iPlayer radio app in my car more than I use my radio. The transition has already started and I like it. (I get to listen to Radio 4 comedy and science stuff when it suits me, rather than being forced to listen to the archers because that's just what's on.)

> People won't ignore the Database

This is going to be non-optional and baked into the firmware and quite frankly if you can hack that there's nothing from stopping you from messing around with software radio regardless.

> The Database can be accurate enoungh

Don't you think radio experts with knowledge of transmitters, powers and topographical maps can figure out the relative strengths of signal? Really?? Funny, because my mobile network knows it's coverage on a map and does quite well.

> That people won't add Yagi or high power

Fair concern.

> That it won't destroy reception for some people in "local" blackspots having to use further off transmitters.

Well if that local blackspot receives from further off transmitters successfully it would be on the more distant transmitter map, so what's your problem?

> People WILL NOT know what is causing pixellation or freezing nor know who to complain to.

Completely agree with you here, if there's a problem.

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Well I'd suggest last mile broadband links in rural communities, but apparently London isn't a rural community and is already well serviced for broadband.

If we do get white space being used for broadband links, can we please use LTE? At least that actually produces 90 Mbps actual throughput. I'm worried if the WiFi people get their grubby mits on it they'll devise a new standard that runs at 5 Terabits per second at the PHY but only produces real throughputs of 24 Mbps with consumer kit :P

OK, forget the 3D telly fiasco: 4K is gonna blow you away - say tech giants

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Moving Image Difference

Going back to a bit on what the reg has already said, but with a slightly different angle...

When a shot in a film moves, the shot exposure gets smeared over time, this is motion blur. When the camera is in motion are we really going to be able to discern a difference between 1080p and 4K?

I think 4K needs 50 fps progressive as a minimum requirement.

Such a shame about the lack of interest in High Dynamic Range tech, but I expect that will come when the technology is ready to offer it economically. HDR tech would solve a lot of the OLED "colours look too intense" problems while allowing the display to show intense colours when they should be there (e.g. a red Neon sign in a movie).

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