Posts by TeeCee

Re: TeeCee

Don't shoot the messenger, sue Google!

Re: Shirly we need a pluto rant by now

Ooooooohhhhhh no it isn't......

Re: Shome mishtake surely?

Yes, we want to know. What is this magic liquid that you pour over code and it highlights all the flaws for you?

Sounds like a great timesaver to me.

Re: The taxman

It doesn't matter. You decompress them, removing the creases, before using them anyway.

Gosh, there must be some sad SOBs around to downvote a deliberate troll that good. Have a compensating upvote for making me smile.

Re: Dodged one

Would've been awkward when Japanese fleet showed up.

I don't recall it being awkward for the Japanese fleet last time it showed up there.....

Re: Gosh. Someone gets it. Finaly

That's just dandy, assuming that you can afford to purchase and run two cars and have the space to park them.

The problem with "short trips around the city" is that this usually means that "home" is within said city and the end result is more arsehats with two cars parked on street, as if that were not enough of a problem already. The plug-in hybrid wins again.

Re: Pfft

Didn't a Boeing test pilot do that with a 747 once and get a massive bollocking for it?

Re: There is only one thing...

Er, three bacon sarnies?

That's two things then.....

Re: Human Telescopes?

Who do you think installed the gravitational lenses in the first place?

Re: This will suck

I had the pleasure of trying Airplay last weekend. A friend had an iPod and a high-end (B&O) Airplay enabled speaker system. A few minutes of squirreling later and I had Airplay capability on my Android device.

Streams from both the iPod and the Droid were repeatedly cut out by other WiFi activity in the area, a problem I have never seen with DLNA streaming from my device which is something I do fairly regularly. Devices tested were within a couple of feet of the speaker system at the time.

I suppose they had to do something different to make it "novel" and "innovative", but I'm not sure that inserting pregnant pauses in your music stream is a killer feature.

I guess that those claiming that DLNA sucks compared to Airplay have just never actually compared the two in anger.....

Re: Workaround?

Do let me know when you find an alternative that never has an exploitable vuln.

Re: A poor excuse

A BIT OF A HASSLE??!!!!???

At the labour rates those bastards charge it's a sight more than that! They're quite capable of coming up with enough excuses to rip you off already, without your giving them ideas.

What they need to do is fix the ruddy thing so you can't program a key to the car without the security code (i.e. fix the sodding great bug allowing this to happen).

Re: Yabba Dabba Doo on the loose...

You're right, it's ludicrous.

This is the electronic equivalent of remembering what the grafitti used to say on that recently cleaned wall. Presumably your memory of that violates someone's privacy in the minds of the arsehats here. The only reason for knicker-knotting is the monumental waste of judicial time in issuing subpoenas to access an archive of public domain information.

Re: Glad M$ stepped up?

So you didn't read the article at all then?

The nasties were installed at build time. You could do that with any O/S. Absolutely no vulnerabilities at all are required, just the admin / root / fanboi password and physical access which the system builder, by definition, has.

You muppet. Crawl back into your nice, comfy MS h4ting hole and pull it in after you.

Re: SDR

"...a software defined Ariel..."

I suppose this would have to be done with SOAP........

It's worse than that.

1, 2, 3 and 4 are different numbers. Like the man said, many of 'em are just counters. As it would appear that the secret is in guessing what the next "unpredictable number" will be, guess what it is for the provided example?

Hint: Those that built this have it as the result of 2+2......

A relative works in IT for HMRC.

I was recounting the tale of working in an IT department where, every year, the lead analyst would sit with a radio and earpiece listening to the Budget. We had the VAT rate hardcoded throughout our Jurassic zoo of code. Eventually the year came when the Chancellor announced a change from 15 to 17.5% and all hell broke loose.

He pointed out that pretty much everything the Chancellor says while stood on his hind legs affects them. I queried this, pointing out that at least they got advance warning. Turned out it's not so, the politicians are so terrified of leaks that HMRCs IT lads also used to sit glued to the radio for the budget speech. The march of technology has improved their lot........they get their specifications off the BBCs online news feed these days.

Re: Tea Debate

I have to admit to being rather partial to Green Earl Grey tea, but that's irrelevant.

To go with a bacon sarnie, any half-decent English tea blend, brewed to a strength where it tarnishes stainless steel on contact. Then chuck in milk until it's tea-coloured. Sugar optional.