Posts by theModge
25 posts • joined Thursday 3rd November 2011 18:00 GMT
Correct Horse Battery Staple
Obey the rules set out by xkcd for passwords (to wit: use as long a phrase as possible, but don't use random characters) and you'll also get round this problem. IF the website \ program will allow it of course...
http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/ can help with this
An ISO 3103 expert perhaps?
All standards experts should be well paid....
give me a £1 Million
and I'll write you something that goes though a database and sends a text message to everyone in there. For that money you even get a text box to enter your choice of text message....
Come on. great example of the governments intended use of SMB's for more projects. I could even absorb the cost of sending a couple of million messages for that....
2 Year Elec Eng Project
Anyone doing anything in the electrical engineering block at Birmingham Uni should have an advantage here: the 2nd year project is to build a line following robot, which are then raced. Ours was based on a PIC16F84, which should tell you something about how long ago I was at uni. Clever people did stuff with camera's and visual processing (which didn't work for most of them, and sure as hell wasn't run on a PIC16F84) efficient engineering types used arrays of light sensors.
Re: Wrong application of technology.
That's always been my feeling on the bes use for electric power.
That and local light delivery. Milk floats of old, couriers of new.
Re: HELL YES!!!!
That was my first reaction to it.
Well, writers life + 75 years for music seems insanely long, we could probably stand to relax that a fair bit. We then need to ignore any further suggestions relating to giving away "Current" IP rights, be they TV, Radio, or software.
Re: As with all American presidents...
what d'ya free?
I see a need for a lot of crates labelled "Not Julian at all"
Smuggle them out one at a time, with great care. After the 23rd crate full of rats the police should be bored enough to quit searching them. Plus they can use the first couple to kick up a massive legal fuss and prevent them searching any more....
Re: FBI sends request
Having that the little lot installed just proves you work in IT, not that you're up to no good
(any more than, say, the BOFH is anyway....)
Re: Isn't it time we got weekend deliveries?
This would be an example of a rare thing indeed: capitalism working!
Re: Runaway jury? (@asdf)
That is the key problem with juries as it is democracy: I've met the general public and I don't want them deciding swat!
The counter argument of course is neatly provided by the way Juries stopped being prepared to convict people for sheep rustling in England in the 19th century: it carried the death penalty and thus even if people were clearly guilty juries tended to let them off, which resulted in a change of the law.
Posted in iPhone 5 to be skinniest Apple yet SHOCK
Why is everyone competing to make the thinnest phone possible?
Would it not perhaps make more sense to make the one with the best battery life? Or Signal?
No?
Too easy?
Still everyone will know you've got lots of money when you sit and play with it, which I suppose is the key point.
Posted in Cockfighting Reg hack cursed with cancer
Re: Oh god
Yes, however he is in Spain, which I feel keeps him fairly safe from the English \ American nutters who make up the bulk of the problem.
Also People for the Eating of Tasty Animals need to feature on future posters!
Re: war crimes....
Not war crimes.
His side one. It's a known fact that only the loosing side commits war crimes....
Posted in Trekkie pays £45,000 for rusty shuttle
Re: This is my Grandfather's Axe...
To be, the long, verbatim Pratchett quote is worth of a like on it's own.
Can I be the first to congratulate him?
No, Probably not, but he is none the less right on the money.
Re: @shooting at 1am anyway?
That my friend is probably because they shouldn't be hunting what ever it is they're after. Also lamping for rabits is harder in the daylight...
Re: "the country should “request” that US authorities return clones taken offshore."
How admissible would data they can't legally have been in a us court though?
Posted in Aga cooks up phone-controlled 'iOven'
As you say RURAL chattering classes
I see a flaw right there: where in the country side do you get signal? Spent last week hiking, including staying in b&b's with aga's but no signal....
Re: Misconceived idea of Lewis' work
"Can you explain that phrase? What's "Christian metal"?"
Bloody awful. Try "puddle of Mud" for an example.
Schoolboy prank.
Would seem more likely than malware here. Particularly with it being April the 1st and there being good odds that the priest wouldn't know what to do with power point if it he spent 6 hours being bored to tears by it.
Still, if that's what it was, I approve.
Posted in PayPal slaps down Dr Who ‘charity book’
Re: when will people learn
Tis true, I run a business that offers both as a means of payment and the labyrinthine mucking around to get a merchant account is as nothing compared to getting paypal to work for us. We need to use them because we sell in part via ebay and in any case buyers like it, but getting them to allow us to take more than £2k a year with them is a process that started before Christmas and has yet to finish!
You have to assume that they'd have some sort of fuel level sensor, however being as that it's maintained by Sgt Duffer's mate, who was drunk at the time, it's perfectly possible it was broken...
It's never been anywhere near the books.
I've read a fair number of the books, and what they are mostly is "of there time", i.e. misogynistic, racist and reliant on central characters (inc. bond) being mind bending dumb. Also no gadgets in the books. There'll still fun to read, but we're talking out of date Chris Ryan here, rather than high art.
So. Drifting away from the books is holy an improvement.
