Posts by Iain Thomas 34 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2007
USB dongle for the 2nd screen. Says on the website. The data sheet mentions this is an optional extra. Which requires an extra licence too.
And the article seems to have missed the connection licence; only 1 year comes with the device.
The tricks seem to be present and correct...
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Remember DPA rules; whether information is "personal" or not can depend on what other information is in your possession.
For most people, these photos are not "personal" data as one has no other data with which it can be related to identify any individual.
For the DVLA and the parking lot, they posses the additional data to relate to an individual.
So while this parking lot have arguably failed to store personal data with adequate security, it's also arguable that someone republishing the very same photos is not dealing with personal data.
Fun, no?
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But where is it written that the heater supply connections have to be the same? If it's possible to arrange conductivity via either the launch bar or the rubber back-stop, that would seem half the solution...
Additionally, a common theme seems to be concern about shorting the lipo battery; some sort of over-current cutoff or post-launch cutoff would seem to address that concern.
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Regards, Iain.
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One wouldn't want a BBC subscription system as draconian as Sky+.
Stop paying for a channel pack, and not only do the live channels go, but so do any recordings you made from those channels in the past.
And if your system encounters a fault (dish moved/lnb fault/cabling fault/sufficiently heavy snow) that prevents live-tv, good luck watching any recordings from any channel.
Sky also charge on a per-receiver basis; if you want to watch another channel in another room, that's another tenner a month. Plus you are required to have a phone line, with all the boxes connected to that phone line.
It's also a requirement to use Sky-brand approved equipment to receive their service.
I dare say there may be scope for improvement, and the behaviour of TVL is arguably repugnant (even when it's their fault, the letters threatening court arrived before the letter advising that a technical error had occurred which stopped the debit card payment going through so they'd revoked the licence they posted earlier).
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Regards, Iain.
70% for the crash-prone LG? On paper it seems like a good, capable machine, but methinks manufacturers need to be penalised more, much more, for delivering such unreliable kit. Would point to DS/MIT, who appear to have taken a "ship something reliable, add extra features later once the software is tested stable" approach.
My Onkyo amp can overlay a menu via HDMI, complete with translucency. Suggests there's a HDCP-sanctioned method of doing this, and I fear any judge would want an explanation of why NeTV apparently has devised this method for the purpose of avoiding the HDCP licensing fees/requirements...
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Someone try plugging one of them "monster quality" cables into, say, their V+ box, and comment on the quality. Into the side HDMI input of their telly.
Without using adaptors to get the connectors to fit. Or sawing the plastic down.
Remember, ensuring cables meet the HDMI specs is a condition of the licence to use the HDMI trademark. The chunky connectors, on the other hand...
Regards, Iain.
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Have any of these vertical search engines ever done anything worthwhile? Most of the time they just seem to present a variation of results that Google has already presented that just leads to user frustration and research going around in circles.
They seem to thrive on drawing traffic by claiming relevant content, only to present a page "no results for <whatever>".
Frankly, some of the time, I think some of their webmasters do not deserve oxygen.
Regards, Iain.
Remember, the HTC Monet. Sold as the Virgin Lobster TV.
Ignore the "no channels found, would you like to retune" on launching the TV/Radio app, and hit Radio Guide.
Yes, the TV side was a bit of a massive flop, and it doesn't make a particularly great phone (200MHz TI processor w/ 64MB RAM is positively anorexic these days for a smartphone).
But mine was quite happily receiving 6Music on Monday, as I walked into work.
As long as I avoid the underpass...
OK, so if the ISP is recording all communication over the Internet, how prey-tell, do they expect to tell who was sending any given communication? They planning on banning NAT or sommat? Mandatory webcams so they can see who was sat at the keyboard?
Same problem faced by them dubious copyright lawyers; no evidence as to who.
Perhaps they need to introduce something akin to S172 RTA... Can just see it now...
"On 1at April 2011, at 12:34:35.6789, a IP packet from 192.168.1.1 to 666.666.666.666 was sent over an Internet connection, of which you appear to be the registered keeper...Please identify the individual who caused this packet to be sent else we'll prosecute and you'll get a huge fine..."...
:-(
Iain.
One alternate possibility that perhaps this kid took the pic themselves, sent it to their schoolmates, and a couple forwards later, the school ended up with a copy.
Then someone claimed "automated monitoring" as everyone by now should know about how embarrassing pictures/videos tend to get forwarded around...
Just a thought... Maybe taking dodgy pics of himself, and e-mailing to his classmates is the "inappropriate behaviour" they're talking about!
Sounds like they're just accessing data that's available via ACPI. Linux tools (like cat /proc/acpi/battery/*/info) have been able to do this for a while now. It would seem a fair guess that a number of these issues are just the ACPI code returning bogus data. Because there's no point fixing it because windows doesn't use it... Well, it does now, and affected people might do well to check for BIOS updates for their machines, and see if any of the changes mention battery statistics...
Then again, they could be right; rechargeable batteries fail gradually, and humans seem to be quite excellent at not noticing gradual changes. This particular attribute does not bode well for battery powered electric cars which will, one day, have just not quite enough power left to get one all the way home...
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> The problem for Stallman is that while free browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome
Why don't I think Stallman would describe IE or Opera as free?
> - warn the user about the presence of "non-trivial" Javascript code - such as a banner ad
Do they? Without plugins? Never noticed...
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When doing the Seagate warranty thing, towards the end, they ask where you want to ship the drive. The default is them abroad (could well be the Netherlands). But in the list there's a remailer option (in Coventry I think).
Moral? Read the question carefully.
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Regards, Iain.
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