Posts by Evan Essence
146 posts • joined Monday 20th December 2010 11:18 GMT
Re: Maybe it's just me
We should follow South Korea. Government says to install 1Gbps fibre to all homes, and it gets done. Bish bosh.
But no, we dick about with ridiculous dodgy-sounding schemes like this.
Anti-virus?
The accountants wouldn't have looked at the "invoices" without prompting?
Aren't the firms using anti-virus software on their networks and PCs?
Theresa May
has the skillz.
Re: spuds
> £5 for two baking spuds
Eh? They're about £1.75 a kilo.
Posted in BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army
Re: How does this work?
Or, indeed, "Britons' ", as there's more than one of us.
@David D. Hagood
LOL!
Re: Is there a Doctor in this article?
Yes, if only Virgin Media had managed their Facebook and Twitter accounts in a better way, this fiasco would never have happened.
@Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
There are smaller energy companies with very good customer service and high standards generally. Not the cheapest, obviously, but not way out of line either. They're just a quick Internet search away.
Re: 4oD
> You need to install hal for it to work.
Yes, I know, but I'm not going to risk screwing up my machine just to watch 4oD.
4oD
Channel 4's Flash-based Digital Restrictions Management means I can't watch 4oD on Linux. Result? Meh, I hardly ever watch Channel 4 now. If there was something really good on, I could power up the PVR... but meh.
Octogenarians
Bunch of octogenarian fuckwits, not on the Internet, but in the pockets of big business.
Whispering dishes
@Gordon 10 - yep, there are whispering dishes at Jodrell Bank, too. Didn't try them out, though.
Postcode
Note they say the postcode for satnav users is SK11 9DW, which is different from their postal address. Check out the Directions PDF on their Web site.
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Wow
The terrier has yapped.
Re: Oh Yeah, DUMB IT DOWN !
a university level education is generally considered to be too advanced for a 11 year old
I kind of hoped you'd get that I wasn't suggesting teaching the subject at university level, any more than I'd suggest raising the standard of maths or biology to university level. There, I've spelled it out for you.
Re: Oh Yeah, DUMB IT DOWN !
A "proper language" for data structures is rather different from a "proper language" for algorithms, I suggest. Diagrams and pseudocode respectively are quite good, and a "proper" programming language alone would tend to obscure these subjects.
Baby/bathwater
From the article: Tech companies aside, other employees have pressed for more general digital literacy too, saying that employees needed better computer skills.
Great though it'll be, we hope, to introduce proper academic computer science, let's not forget the above point. For instance, I hope computer/network/information security will be discussed, starting at the level of how it's not a great idea to put sensitive data onto an unencrypted USB stick and then lose it on the train, and moving on to questioning why people think they need USB sticks at all, even encrypted ones. That kind of thing. And, presumably, employers will still need people who know how to drive a word processor or a spreadsheet application (not necessarily or automatically Microsoft products).
Re: Oh Yeah, DUMB IT DOWN !
Computer science is more than just coding, so let's not fall into that trap. It's data structures, algorithms, operating systems... you know, the kind of stuff Linus Torvalds did at university.
Re: >stick it to the yanquis
severing any such link deliberately, would be no doubt unlawful and probably in breach of several international treaties.
The Yanquis have no respect for international law when it works against them, so that wouldn't stop them.
Helium supply
What happens when the helium runs out, thanks to that bastion of the free market, the USA, dumping the world's supply at rock-bottom prices?
Re: When?
@AC 24th January 2013 20:56 GMT
Rediculously harsh sentence.
I ridicule your rediculous spelling.
Re: More information
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/ortiz-heymann-swartz-accountability-abuse
I read that, good article. The savage American "justice" system is politically-driven, in this case by Ortiz's political ambition.
And a good quote from Declan McCullagh, pointing out: "If Swartz had stolen a $100 hard drive with the JSTOR articles, it would have been a misdemeanor offense that would have yielded probation or community service."
Re: Prosecutor not to blame
The "justice" for which America is famed throughout the world.
Re: Does the author know anything about TCP/IP?
You just have port forwarding on both NAT devices.
The chances of Plusnet co-operating with customers in this way are non-existent.
Re: National only IP ranges
Great way to break the Internet. China and Iran will be very interested in your proposal.
Re: Does the author know anything about TCP/IP?
How's that going to work with Plusnet's proposed double NATing?
Double slap required
This was doubly insecure. Even though PHP allowed upward-leading filenames, the OS could have prevented this happening if the directory ownership and permissions were set right. But they evidently weren't.
Re: Graham Cluley...
Though he didn't make a song and dance about it.
Re: It's all about Opens and Clicks
I read plain text email by default, and only enable HTML and Javascript if the email is interesting and from a source I trust. Glad I do.
Spamgourmet
Others have mentioned throwaway addresses. I've happily used spamgourmet.com for years, and sometimes update the cutoff limit for an address, so it's not really a "throwaway" address: there's that flexibility. It's a bit geeky, but deliberately so to put off Joe Sixpack types: nothing to faze any Reg reader.
Re: Charities
I'm now reluctant to give to a charity I haven't given to before because of the problem of being plagued for years afterwards with dead-tree junk. This Christmas I made a donation to the Guardian's appeal (other appeals are available) to avoid this problem.
Re: Odd.....
Never seen one of those tick boxes.
Business as usual for HMG IT, then
How much did this cost?
Reporting errors??
I saw a mistake in the data for a bomb near me and looked for somewhere to report this. Nothing doing... what a pity.
Interoperability
The proposed regulation says “member states shall have the right to manage all naming, numbering, addressing and identification resources used for international telecommunications”
So we could have 193.1.0.0/16 (IE), 193.1.0.0/16 (FR), 193.1.0.0/16 (IN), 193.1.0.0/16 (MX), etc. Yeah, that'll work.
Kubuntu
There's no spyware in Kubuntu, as far as I'm aware, or in any other *buntu.
Re: Dear Mrs. May
APPLAUSE!
Re: Creep
Wasn't there a 'power' granted to local councils that allowed them to spy on people who they suspected of terrorist activity, only for them to immediately use it to monitor anyone suspected of anything (not cleaning up after their dog, applying to a school while not living in the catchment area, etc...)
Yup, it's RIPA you're thinking of. See also the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, used to freeze Icelandic assets during the financial meltdown in 2008.
Re: "Anybody who is against this bill"
What a repulsive and transparently self-interested harridan..
I'll be charitable and propose an alternative view: she's as thick as two short planks.
Re: Waste of money
Remember that a key part of conservatism is leaving us alone to get on with our lives
That's only when they're in opposition, I think. Much like Labour who, now they're in opposition, are making much the same noises as the Tories did about Labour's plans for a Ministry of Snooping. Plus ça change...
Posted in Why do Smart TV UIs suck?
Re: “Click here for additional assets”
“Click here for additional assets”, whatever that means. I know. You know
I don't, actually. Not that I have a smart TV, or want one, especially after reading the article, thanks! And I didn't know about the Panasonic EPG ads. Sheesh, I just hope I don't need a new TV for many years. My Sony Profeel was still going strong after 25 years before I junked it.
Re: How does it work..?
If they talk to each other I bet facebook could find out what you buy and the shopping site could find out who you are.
It's not only the IP address they could use. Browsers can be individually identified fairly well in most cases.
Browser Fingerprints Threaten Privacy (Computing Now)
Is Every Browser Unique? Results Fom The Panopticlick Experiment (EFF)
The sooner Adobe dies the better.
Posted in Word wonks insist GIFs are really JIFs
Re: Huh?
Jif to us is either a lemon juice in a squeezy bottle or a kitchen cleaner (although that now goes by the name of Cif)...
Is that pronounced Kif or Sif? :)
Re: *presumably* being digital the *transmitter* power efficiency is better
Yes, the way of the future is DAB+. Much better ECC (so no "burbling mud"), more efficient codec. DAB is yesterday's technology, so why does the government persist in trying to foist it on us?
Re: We may have to wall up the USA
Route around the damage. Use servers in Iceland or Hungary or somewhere and don't use .com/.net/.org domains.
Re: Meanwhile in practice...
I suppose they imagine they're saving money by outsourcing the clue.
