Posts by Jamie Jones
516 posts • joined Thursday 14th June 2007 21:06 GMT
Re: Republicans are about Campaign Cash from Big Business and the Rich
You presumably got downvoted by the stupid redneck tea-party idiots the republicans exploit - the very same people who would be far WORSE under a republican leadership
ARGGGH
If you are streaming, you ARE downloading
hm
Thanks stephen
p.s. when will el-reg allow us to msg contributors?
Posted in Sony sues PlayStation 3 'hackers'
@DrXym
If what you are saying is true, then fair enough, and you don't deserve the downvotes.
I can see how pirates would have a vested interest in cracking the systems, but then why publish it?
I think these people are simply the bedroom geeks who want an open system for experimenting and linux etc.
Posted in Sony sues PlayStation 3 'hackers'
Re: Wrong
Well, if that is the case it's those who rip and pirate games they should be going after not these guys.
If what they've done is really against the law, then you have a really bad law over there
funny
The only people I know in my age groups that use the internet and DON'T use facebook are saddo geeks with no social life, much, I expect like you Mr Coward.
My friends that do use facebook often use it to arrange social events and post photos of their partying
better privacy
Whilst I don't like the changes, I take issue with the statement that they will encourage people to share more personal info.
If anything, it's the other way around. The info that is being displayed was always visible to anyone who cared to click the persons 'info' link.
Now, if people are uncomfortable seeing their info visible, they can take steps to remove it.
exporting facebook data
It is easy to export your facebook data via the developers api
Facebook even has it's own backup service that lets you backup all your data as html files, img files, etc. in a zip file
Account (top right) -> Account settings -> Download your information
learn more
Posted in TalkTalk posts jolly six months
after leaving BT...
after unbundling and joining talk-talk, I went from 6Mbs to 16Mbs.
They still don't know how to sort out reverse-dns though: http://www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16829
doh
The spell checker is part of your browser, not the site. Presumably you have the US dictionary installed!
Posted in No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed
Re: Not much has improved since my day, then
Sounds the same experience I had in the late 80's
All universities said "no prior knowledge" required, and at one university, the person I went to see said it was actually better to have no prior qualifications.
Seeing as I had an A at O level, then got an A at A level, and a 1(distinction) at S level, I had no intention on doing a course with people with no knowledge, so I fell back to my second love, electronic engineering
I still went into the computer industry, and was employed on my knowledge rather than qualifications.
After a while we developed a "unix test" for future employees. It wasn't hard - any seasoned unix programmer / systems guy should have easily got 100%, but some of these so called experts were getting 20% or less
Posted in TalkTalk reveals faster broadband plans
Mr.
Yes, there are capacity problems, but at least they acknowledge it.
http://www.talktalkmembers.com/content/view/51/121/
Your exchange capacity upgrade date: http://www.talktalkmembers.com/content/view/109/149/
Posted in TalkTalk reveals faster broadband plans
Mr.
The RDNS issue is a right pain in the arse.
For those that don't know, read the whole sorry tale here: http://www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16829
Mr.
"If you live in the arse end of nowhere you shouldn't expect the same service as people living in the bright lights of civilisation."
Yet you townies expect the same service, at the same price for food, milk, and oh, yes, your water supply
by that argument.....
you'd cut of USA as most spam comes from there
Oh great!
It will be like typing on a ZX81 keyboard all over again.
yay(!)
Posted in Welsh hospitals to allow mobile use
"A mere 20 months after the English"
Whilst I agree that some things being devolved are a waste of money, it's your overall attitude which typifies why some of us are pleased to have devolution.
So, were the English too pig headed to "look over the wall" at Wales removing parking charges in Hospitals?
I seem to recall that England was over a year later coming up with that one, and they've dropped the idea now too
Mr.
.Facebook uses Akamai for the static files, such as photos, images, etc.
They don't use it for the main www site normally.
However, yesterday, during the outage, they changed the DNS entry for www.facebook.com to point to:
root@northway# host www.facebook.com.
www.facebook.com is an alias for sorry.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net.
sorry.ak.facebook.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1030.g.akamai.net.
a1030.g.akamai.net has address 92.122.127.27
a1030.g.akamai.net has address 92.122.127.33
As they said, they needed to stop all traffic to fix the problem, so temporarily diverting to their network of akamai servers seemed to be way they chose to do it
Re: It makes me cross
I'm with you. Some of the replies were so mind blowingly dumb that I first laughed, and then got angry at the ignorant arrogance of these people.
I don't mind people who aren't knowledgeable on a particular subject (there are MANY that I am clueless about), but I hate people who think they are knowledgeable when they aren't, or those that just lie and bullshit
Mr.
I await lots of the usual self-righteous comments, so I'll summarise them so you don't have to:
1) Who cares? It's only facebook.
2) Facebook is for saddos. No-one with a real life uses it.
3) Facebook is evil. They steal all your information and send it to advertisers
4) Anyone who uses facebook deserves all they get
5) Facebook is always going slow or breaking down.
Any I've missed?
Mr.
You've basically described the <embed> tag
get_iplayer
get_iplayer has been forked, and someone else is actively developing it. The forked version works just as well as the original used to
anon is right
for a while there were many search engines, but after a while, altavista became the google of its day.
no-one thought anything could ever overtake altavista
Posted in NatWest sets lawyers on student site
and that's bad how?
If you are too dull to be able to refuse something you know you can't pay back, then you don't deserve a bank account.
There was a story a few years back of an American woman who sued a bank claiming she got into so much debt because they gave her a high credit card limit
Bloody hell, the 'blame someone else' culture pisses me off.
Learn some self-responsibility people!
Posted in Wales joins supercomputer club
as he says. ^^^
I also don't mind the old sheep shagging jokes etc. but the tone of the anti-Welsh comments is disgusting
Re: good point but
Your town has fuck all to do with the broadband service. Does your town sell broadband on? Does it own the broadband infrastructure?
Posted in Treasury turns to Facebook for cut plans
Re: What? Are they kidding?
The point is, most of the population is already "dumbed down" and if using any social networking site helps get their attention, I'm all for it.
Mr
Why should us country folk subsidise the cost of providing our water to you city folk.
If you want fresh water, move closer to the reservoir.
I love the irony...
Of people who play WoW making pot shots at facebook users!
Thank-you!
I knew there'd be some post calling facebook users saddos.
Thanks for not disappointing me, moron!
Facebook is great for keeping up with real life friends, and organising nights out etc.
But I guess you need real friends to appreciate that.
Posted in Fans fall in to await iPhone 4 arrival
Exactly!
More idiots queueing to be the first!
I remember being this impatient.... As a kid on Christmas eve.
GROW UP FFS
Posted in Linux IRC server leaves backdoor open
close but no cigar
whilst I agree generally, you seem to have missed the fact that the trojaned source was on a LINUX download site
Posted in Linux IRC server leaves backdoor open
why are you laughing?
I'm not a linux fanboi, but this isn't an operating system security flaw - no more than it would be a windows flaw if someone downloaded a similiarly trojuned windows executable.
However, the danger to the OS is much less than it would be with windows, so you fail
Posted in Linux IRC server leaves backdoor open
Yay FreeBSD ports
The Freebsd ports infrastructure contains md5 and sha256 hashes for all ports..
If a FreeBSD user tried to install the trojuned version, it would have been picked up immediately.
Posted in Google infected by World Cup fever
@Citizen Kaned
You confuse those who play sports with the fat beer drinking morons who follow sport.
Fanatical idiots who dress in their teams colours, and cry if their team lose.
partly right...
There is the iframe option or the 'fbml' option.
In the second case, the facebook server calls your URL, retrieves the webpage, sanatises it, and serves the result to the user.
A thought on their process (ignoring the fact a throwaway mobile is cheap for serious fraudsters)
1) create app through legitimate account.
2) assign 'app privilege' to dodgy account.
3) remove app privilege from real account.
I wonder if they keep a 'paper trail' to avoid this situation?
No difference! Do any of you know how to hide your groups from the world?
Apart from a pretty little box and the default settings option, there really is no change.
It's the same seperate privacy options, just looking slightly different.
Did you know, your group affiliation is open to everyone?
Try and find the setting for that... Nope, it's not under privacy, it's under "application setttings" - search for group, and edit the settings there.
Group lists, an 'application' ?
huh?
Total fail. PR exercise only.
Um... So how come they are still on air?
Teletext Holidays, telextext rabbit etc.
What use is a fine if they allow them to still run the teletext services they want to?
Posted in Apple kills 'Get a Mac' ad campaign
thank-you!
and you have a point :-)
Incidently, you probably assumed my 'rig' runs Linux, but I'm a FreeBSD person myself!
Posted in Apple kills 'Get a Mac' ad campaign
They butchered the term
IBM was successful it getting the generic "PC" to mean IBM (and compatible) machine.
MS was successful in getting the generic 'windows' to mean MS windows.
Apple, through this campaign, have now got people assuming that 'PC' means "Computer running MS windows"
I own a PC, but there's nothing MS on it dammit!
yes
there is actually a link to delete (not just disable) a facebook account.
The account is deactivated, and you have 14 days to re-activate it, otherwise it's permanently deleted (so they say)
https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
More info here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
Posted in OFT won't block BBC's über set top box
yes
get_iplayer along with rtmpdump has never stopped working
FFS
"The incident eventually led to the woman at the centre of the case losing her job and requiring medical attention. She is seeking $600,000. ®"
The 'incident' that led to that was her bloody affair in the first place.
He could have found out many other ways - seeing them, a friend telling him.. Who would she have sued then?
Any $600,000 should go to the husband, FROM her. Evil bitch.
haha
oh dear... I'm showing my ignorance, sorry!
Posted in Adobe declares 'LOVE' for Apple
"We love all platforms"
So, why isn't flash available for mine then?
it's worse than 1984
in 1984 they were just watching .....
@M Gale
I understand what you were saying, but my post was FROM the point of view of the companies, not the developer!
no reason to give up...
they said the 'browser wars' was over, and whilst IE still has a huge market share, people can no longer ignore firefox
yes!!
I guess I didn't realise that that part of the story had been 'missed' - seems they only noticed the verizon part of the story.
