Posts by Ole Juul

@David W.

I'm not entirely convinced about your defence of our Western democracies, but I strongly endorse your last paragraph:

If you're worried about it, great. Go do something about it. Get off your sorry, hopeless ass and use whatever freedom you HAVE got to try to prevent the -rest- of it from going away. Sniveling about how it's infinitely bad everywhere belies either complete ignorance, or is an excuse to do nothing about something important.

Indeed, insight and motivation is what it will take to change the world. Those that only have one of those, or perhaps neither, are the ones that will bring us down.

Re: Harder to ignite...

Thanks for putting us straight. I can't believe the earlier comments making statements about diesel that are completely wrong. In fact I wonder why somebody who obviously doesn't work with the stuff would venture a comment. Embarrassing, really.

Re: Can I be the first

Highly politicised topics can indeed be tiresome, so let's also add Facebook to the list.

... oh wait.

Registration

Perhaps you were joking, or it didn't register that "The Register" was referring to "the Register of Copyrights".

Re: 186 miles?

The one major issue is that you can't have multiple drivers sharing one of these cars for 24 hours a day without charging between shifts - but I don't know how big an issue that will be.

I don't know London taxi economics, but in this part of the world the cost of a vehicle, particularly because of huge licence fees, makes it untenable to not operate a taxi on a 24 hour basis. Owners just cannot afford to have cars sitting idle. This does sound like an economic disaster unless these vehicles are cheap and licensing fees are minimal or adjusted accordingly.

Point of failure?

My dog chewed through the integrated cable between the PSU and the laptop. In this case, the point of failure was easy to identify and straightforward to repair.

The dog was the obvious point of failure. Not sure about the repair.

Re: Are you for real?

Not sure if serious . . .

It's serious. Trust me.

Re: "... more hardware"

I'm not sure about furniture, but if they start making vacuum cleaners I'd buy one.

Re: Distributed networks...

They need to work on the names. They sound like social diseases.

And Facebook doesn't?

Re: why does this island have a web page

Would you prefer a Facebook page with bryophytes bragging about the success of their colony and insulting low income lichens?

Re: Which part of 'facial technology' ....

Distance between eyes = 0 will probably trigger some default action.

Re: Globalisation

Once things are obvious enough that you can hit politicians over the head with them, things change.

Actually, a while after that. Politicians have thick skulls.

Open Office is so shot thru with bugs . . .

With all due respect, you must be doing something wrong.

excuses

Banking I understand, but I'm not in the habit of getting my water or power off the internet. There is no reason for these utilities to not operate securely and out of physical reach of foreign countries. One has to wonder why these things would be exposed, or even if they really are.

Re: Has there been a paradigm shift and nobody told me?

But it stinks from a discoverability perspective.

This is not a game.

How exactly is a novice user supposed to know that his video editor is called "kdenlive", his music player is called "amarok", or his PDF viewer is called "acrobat"?

You tell him.

Re: All bits are equal

Unfortunately that's the bit that AT&T doesn't understand.

Re: tru dat

what is to stop you signing up with another ISP or buying a prepay mobile dongle/router?

Or using dialup from an ISP in another country. OK, not so good for file-sharing, but an under-the-radar internet connection nevertheless.

I agree, lots of things are offensive to somebody.

The core of the group's position is that free speech has gone too far when videos like this are acceptable.

They are not necessarily acceptable, and whether they are or not is not the point. The thing is that with the internet you have to actively say that you want to watch something by clicking on it. The viewer is in control. If someone can't resist, then that's their own problem.

Re: @TechSurfer

Though your comment also shows that you never bothered to click an article to read its contents. Because then the paywall shows up.

I certainly did click on several articles. No paywall shows up for me. Here is the first article. The second one too has no paywall. Perhaps there is a browser variation.

Re: Must sell by 2014?

"RBS will commence a new process of disposal . . ."

Perhaps eBay, or a new episode of Storage Wars. We'll see.

Re: Not _that_ important

You're talking about historical fact. This auction was intended to appeal to a less educated crowd.

Re: So everything is going to be stored in thin air is it ?

Simple. After you virtualize the hardware, you do it again, but through an anonymous proxy so it can't be traced back to the hardware.

Re: Proving yet again that the inmates are running the asylum

stupidity is contagious

KISS: keep it stupid simple

@Spotswood

In fact that is probably the reason most people watch it - to be offended. I was actually planning to take the opposite approach from you. I'm not going to watch it . . . twice.

@wowfood

a good reason for these idiots to actually check their results.

They claim that a computer does a better job. That of course sounds crazy to anyone - except someone who doesn't want to have to go to the trouble of doing actual work.