Posts by Graham Marsden
4081 posts • joined Friday 19th January 2007 17:59 GMT
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"An automatic cryptographic-erase occurs...
"...if an unexpected host attempts to access the HDDs or if a defined number of authentication failures occurs. In other words the key access information is deleted rendering the data contents inaccessible junk."
So how's that going to affect cases where the Police abuse anti-terrorist legislation and say "Give us your password or we put you in jail for two years"?
"Certainly officer, the password is XN157s88s9b08g9xyh!adf*TH&7"
"That didn't work"
"Maybe you mis-typed it, try again."
"It still didn't work"
"Oh, sorry, that should have be capital X, small n at the start, try it now"
"Ah, right, now it's doing something..."
Re: From the movies
Well, yes.
Yesterday's Science Fiction is tomorrow's science fact...
Re: Three simple bits of information:
@Santa from Exeter
1) I am aware that BMI is nonsense, but I'm not talking about BMI, so please take that particular red herring and waft it somewhere else.
2) By doing nothing more than the same exercise I was doing previously, but watching my calorie intake, I dropped my weight by 13kg which seems a positive result from my POV.
@Omgwtfbbqtime
My diet (ie what I eat) could probably be described as "carb heavy" (for instance I get through at least two if not three loaves of wholemeal bread a week!) yet, along with my weight, my HbA1c has dropped from 7.3% (the reason I decided to lose weight in the first place) to 5.5% simply by keeping my calorie intake down to sensible levels.
My problem now is that I've got so used to eating less, I've actually got to get back into the habit of eating more so my weight doesn't drop further!!
Posted in Chinese go online to protest censorship
"will stop people posting what they are not willing to associate with their real names."
Perhaps you are not aware of Mao's "Hundred Flowers" campaign which invited people to speak out against the Communist Regime, ostensibly to encourage debate and to improve the country.
Of course what subsequently happened is that those who did speak out were rounded up and sent to "Re-education Camps" (ie Prison Labour Camps where many of them were subject to torture or even died)
PS and is MrXavia *your* real name??
"Sony has been unashamedly cynical"
But at least honest...
@Old Tom Re: 'expiration'
Expiration: [...] 5. The coming to an end; termination, close. 1562 - Shorter OED.
Three simple bits of information:
1) Find your Basal Metabolic Rate here: http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ and then multiply that number by your activity level to find how many calories your body actually needs per day.
2) Keep a food diary, ie every time you eat or drink something you write down the calorie content.
3) Remember that a pound (just under half a kilogramme) of fat is 3,500 calories, so if you eat 250 calories a day fewer than your body needs, in a fortnight you'll lose a pound and if you also do 250 calories of exercise a day as well, you'll lose a pound a week.
Simple and no surgery or faddy diets required.
"to paraphrase Hobbes"
I don't recall a stuffed tiger ever saying that...
Well...
... that pretty much wraps it up for Tattooine...
Re: As it should be
Over-reacting much?!
Re: Idiots all.
Why? Because they have a relationship which differs from what you consider "normal"??
"how to properly handle software-related patents"
Simple answer: Don't allow them.
Problem solved.
Re: And
But just think... now these people have been arrested and convicted the FBI can interrogate them about all the Terrrerists they've been funding with their ill-gotten gains!!!
Song and Dance Numbers...?
The Big Bang Theory did this one already!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJV3UqsycKs
"Such moves have given Al Jazeera a spotty reputation among Americans..."
.... who believe that "Freedom of Expression" means "Freedom to say only the things that we agree with..."
Posted in Exploding stars drive Galactic geysers
Where is...
... Beowulf Shaeffer when you need him?
"It was not immediately clear, however...
"...whether the training dispensed under the new program will be purely defensive in nature."
What do *you* think?!
"Sure it's only defensive, suuurrree. Any offensive training is just so they can write attacks to give other people training, no other reason at all, honest..."
"it's easier to break into the CIA"
Or NASA...
I can do you a very good price...
... on a second hand space shuttle, only one owner...
Fortunately I own my own domain, so any time I register with a company like Fred Bloggs and co. I put my e-mail address down as fred.bloggs.co.uk@mydomain which means that I can always tell where someone got my e-mail address from and then create a custom filter to file their stuff straight into the junk mail folder :-)
Re: Really?????
Yeah, but heels don't work in isolation.
The University of Portsmouth could have researched the negative sex-appeal involved in poor choices of clothing, make-up or the lack of intelligence by going down Guildhall Walk or South Parade on a Friday night...!
Obligatory XKCD cartoon...
http://xkcd.com/386/
Re: Paranoia strikes again
Well, yes.
Anything that challenges the power base of an entrenched minority who know that they can only remain in charge by making sure the peasants are kept under control is a threat which must be dealt with.
And the same goes in China...
So let's see...
"Under New York State’s Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP) law, convicted sex offenders must register all of their e-mail addresses, screen names, and other Internet identifiers with the state. That information is then made available to certain websites so they can purge potential predators from their online worlds"
Right, so that's *potential* predators even though "According to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, New York State has more than 34,000 registered sex offenders: 13,260 are level 1 registered offenders (lowest risk of repeat offense); 12,342 are level 2 registered offenders (moderate risk of repeat offense); 8,596 are level 3 registered sex offenders (high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists)."
That's about 40% who are lowest risk and only 25% who are "high risk" and "a threat to public safety", but rather than educate people ("Parents often do not realize that gaming consoles have these capabilities, or that parental controls exist for these systems") far better to consider anyone (even those who have only been convicted of taking a piss in public or teens who have had consensual but underage sex) should be thought of as a potential child molestor and banned from playing online games!
'the message is probably "important" '
To quote the BS that American TV presenters come out with when the commercials are due: "This comment continues after these important messages..."
Bullshit, *I* decide what is important, not Facebook!
"We don't see why you wouldn't want to [let advisors track you]...
"...After all, if you've got nothing to hide..." they added, socco voce...
Re: Herbertsmithite (named after its discoverer)
Not forgetting the mineral that was discovered near the town of Cummington...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite
No Boom today...
... Boom tomorrow. There's always a Boom tomorrow
- Susan Ivanova
Once again...
... it's time for this clip of Adam Savage who went through a body scanner with two 12" industrial razorblades on him....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4
How many people...
... have been killed by a video game...?
Moon Dive?
Doesn't have the same ring to it (or effect) as "Sun Dive"!
Re: Interference vs. Distraction
Ok, I don't work in the industry, but a thought that comes to mind is to load a plane with *every* damn piece of electronic equipment they can think of that someone might carry and put sensors around to detect and record all the possible frequencies which they might kick out.
Then "play back" that recording in a test plane using signal generators, starting off with it stationary and see if there's *any* result. If not, then try a low speed taxi test, then high speed taxi test etc until eventually you carry out a simulated landing approach at eg 5000 feet such that if anything goes wrong you've still got time to switch the recording off and re-establish control.
If, after all that, you still get no result, try it with other planes. If still no result, I'd think you've got safety certification.
Re: Its a fair bet its off to pick up whatever North Korea launched yesterday
And then land in a secret base hidden in an extinct volcano...?
@auburnman Re: One tiny little country
"As I understand it you always have the right to not have photos of you published"
No, you do *not* have the right not to have photos of you published. You can only object to a photograph if, once published, it is defamatory and the publisher cannot provide a reasonable defence for why it doesn't defame you.
Re: Prior Art, with rounded corners too!
But what about one third of the Adidas Logo?
http://www.hdwallpapersarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/adidas-logo.jpg
@jake - "What's wrong with rotary dial telephones?"
Please press 1 for the answer to your question...
@AC "as long as there is a market for the images...
"... new abuse will continue to create new images."
Nonsense.
These images were being created by perpetrators long before they had any possible "market" for them and even if we could shut down every possible method of distributing them now, the creation of new images and, much more importantly, the abuse would still be happening.
The images do not cause abuse, it is the abuse which causes the images and *that* is the problem that we really need to deal with.
Of course when a whole new category of "abusive images" is suddenly created as happened when the Blair Regime decided to redefine "child pornography" as images of anyone under 18 instead of anyone under 16 (the legal age of consent in the UK!), it doesn't help matters in the slightest...
Bingo!
Sorry, was just checking the number of song/ band references in the piece... ;-)
Ouya?
Isn't that the sound that Billy Bunter made when he was caned...?
Re: Yes but
Try looking at the "Bloody Code" from the 17th Century where all sorts of crimes (such as stealing property worth more than 12 pence) attracted the death penalty because that would "act as a deterrent".
Obviously this sentencing strategy worked so well so we still use it today...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - George Satayana
IIRC the UK Police know where something over 97% of all convicted sex offenders live, so if a related crime happens anywhere near them they know there will be a knock on the door.
In the USA where they have Megan's Law, I believe around 30% of convicted sex offencers have absconded or failed to register a change of address with the appropriate authorities because this law does not even give them the *chance* of trying to rebuild their lives.
Facebook vigilantism benefits nobody.
Re: For a moment
No worries, mate, she'll be alright...
Down here we have Ken's Fried Chicken which makes me even less inclined to sample its wares than the KFC near the gym I go to.
Oh and that KFC wafts the smell of grease and fat through the air, presumably to make people think "Gosh, I'm hungry, I could really do with some Chicken Marinated With Salt, Sodium Phosphate, and Monosodium Glutamate. Seasoned With: Maltodextrin, Salt, Bleached Wheat Flour, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil, Monosodium Glutamate, Spice, Palm Oil, Natural Flavor, Garlic Powder, Soy Sauce (Soybean, Wheat, Salt), Chicken Fat, Chicken Broth, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Extractives of Turmeric, Dehydrated Carrot, Onion Powder, and Not More Than 2% Each of Calcium Silicate and Silicon Dioxide Added As Anticaking Agents"!
Re: This is a handy service for all sections of the community to use!
A paper ball gag is going to end up in a soggy mess very quickly!
And bulldog clips are so tacky, too...
You should buy a decent rubber ball gag and set of nipple clamps from a supplier of affordable leather products which would be much more suitable and effective :-)
The press have had their chance...
I am in no way in favour of legislation that removes freedom of expression, but there need to be some way of enforcing the attendant *responsibility* that comes along with it, especially in the big media.
We've seen too many examples of the press printing blatant falsehoods and unsubstantiated stories and then, when they're called in front of their tame lapdog, the PCC (run by newspaper editors for newspaper editors) they say "it's just a difference of editorial opinion" and the PCC says "Right ho, no problem, see you down the pub for a few beers later".
We need a truly independent regulator to replace the PCC which has the teeth to force papers to behave or face fines and even imprisonment to stop them ruining innocent people's lives in a cavalier manner simply so they can sell more copy.
Re: Why?
@Geoff332
"Either that, or it's against their self-interest to understand the difference and they are deliberately mis-representing the issue."
Which do you think it is?!
What about...
... the Difference Engine from Gibson and Sterling's book of the same name?
A self-aware *mechanical* computer!
Re: Hitchhiker Guide to The Galaxy
@RodB
Unfortunately your memory is failing:
Slartibartfast: I was most upset to hear of its destruction.
Arthur: *You* were upset?
Slartibartfast: Five minutes later and it wouldn't have mattered so much. Shocking cock up. The mice were furious.
Arthur: Mice?
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Didn't I make 100 posts in a year?
@Will Godfrey
I always remember ?&FE4E=&7F
It would freeze the computer by setting all the interrupts and the only thing to do then was hit Break (which would do a power-on memory wipe) or switch off and back on again. Either would wipe the memory but it was so much more elegant that *FX 200,3 :-)
Re: Waterboarding? Suicide missions?
Hell, why bother with waterboarding, suicide missions or firing squads? Why don't you just burn him at the stake and be done with it!!!
