Posts by Old Tom 226 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Mar 2009
"I have researched and had confirmed by a source at AT&T that they get info on app usage ..."
So you didn't read the bit where he said "We have others . . . where they get an upload once a day that will contain information about what applications you've been using."
"The problem is, that in the west a car is a status symbol..."
For a small minority maybe, but for me, my car is merely a practical device - it's no more a status symbol than my washing machine. I have a washing machine because it's crap for all sorts of reasons to have to go to the laundry; I have a car so I can go shopping, visit friends/relatives, go to the football, go on holiday, go to the tip, go to obscure places, take my family to the beach, get to work, etc., etc., etc.
i.e. not identity theft - the actual victim was the retailer. I rang the card issuer and probably signed a form, the card issuer charged the retailer. I think that's how it usually works*.
*Other than the time my company card credentials bought something from what sounded like an S&M retailer. The bank wasn't interested, and I don't think our accountant could be arsed to chase them up about it.
" "This is actually a really bizarre step from the Swedish court – he’s found guilty because he can’t defend himself,” Sunde told TorrentFreak. "
"can't defend himself" - you mean he's buggered off to evade the consequences of his actions; he dare not appear in court and account for himself / argue his case. Nothing bizarre at all, you can't expect the justice system to let you off because you abscond.
...they issue euros.
Like the fiver in your pocket is an IOU from the Bank of England, an Italian Euro is an IOU from the Italian state. If the Italian state defaults, then its IOUs won't be worth what they say they are; but an Italian Euro is interchangeable with a German Euro - so if I have an Italian Euro, I'll swap it for a German Euro, then I have an IOU from the Bundesbank. See what I did there? - the other Euro states then have to pay Italian debts.
Something like that, IANAE.
So I can't go <?php session_start(); ?> without asking first?
Therefore, I have to have a separate page with an 'accept cookies?' dialogue before I can send the visitor to the page they wanted. What if they type in the url of a page that uses sessions?
I see the ICO didn't do that, they created the session cookie anyway.
Just put the loose tea/leaves in the cup, pour on boiling water. Same applies to black/green/oolong/longjing*/whatever.
*with longjing, just add more water once drunk for a second brew
PS. Kudos to your cleaner, that's all amazingly clean, no hint of spilled sugar/water/milk/tea. Even the toaster is looking polished.
But Sony appear to be heavily involved in this - the Chief Technology Officer of Sony Pictures - Mitch Singer - is also President of the DECE.
R116- you may be right about Sonicstage, but that's history; if we're including history, don't forget Sony vs Universal over Betamax.
Dazzza - "one of the many reasons Sony pushed BD so much was because it was theirs" - err, yes. don't you think that's logical?
SCE, SOE, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music are a disparate bunch of companies owned (or half-owned) by Sony Corporation. (Q. Were SCE sites ever hacked - or was the intrusion through PSN?)
I'd be amazed if their sites were remotely similar. Surely SPE or SCA would have had an intrusion by now, especially the former as they're a content provider and all content should be free?
Has nobody attacked Sony Life or Sony Bank yet? Maybe the script kiddies have never heard of them.
If I want to repeat on a blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc something I've heard from a plausible source, then how do I find out whether there's an injunction against it? I'm not a journo or media type and the courts would have no reason to contact me when new injunctions are taken out.
Can I write to the court asking whether there's an injunction covering each particular snippet of information I may have?
Maybe it would be easier if they published a list?
If the Daily Mail report is right and the Attorney General has vowed to have McKinnon "held accountable for the crimes that he committed", then that would just not be acceptable in the UK.
Such a statement may even have made a trial in the UK impossible - you just can't make assertions like that. If that was said during a trial here, it would probably cause the case to collapse; the judge would order an acquittal and probably haul whoever said that into court for contempt.
Maybe you can prejudice trials like that in the US, but certainly not in the UK.
I'd love to see your figures on Orkney and Lewis.
Looking at figures for April '09 to March '10, the best utilisation I can find in Scotland are Thorfinn and Northfield in the Orkneys which exceed 40%, Burradale in Shetland approaches 50%, and Bruxiehill managed 50.41% in its first 2 months with its .8MW plant. The latter was the only site in the UK to exceed 50% over that period.
http://www.clowd.org.uk/Downloads/UK%20Renewable%20Energy%20Generation/2009/UK%20Renewable%20Generation%20Summary%20Compliance%20April%202009%20to%20March%202010.pdf
Patents should be about solutions, not ideas.
Anyway, H-W Technology have not come up with a great idea, they've merely stated both what was already happening and what was clear to a doughnut what was in the process of happening.
Oh, and please use proper words - so u (sic) Dont (sic) loof so daft ??
Low interest rates encourage more spending. More spending can lead to inflation. Raising interest rates leads to less spending. Less spending puts pressure on prices, leading to lower inflation.
Interest rates below inflation lead to raised spending through lower savings (might as well blow your rainy-day stash, it's falling in value) and higher personal debt (might as well borrow to buy, 'I'll pay back less in real terms later on').
Lower savings - bad - personal savings reduce demand for handouts later on.
Higher personal debt - bad - this is ultimately what took the banks down.
"But it's also worth pointing out that Flash is a ridiculously popular advertising technology."
Flash ads are the ones I don't see - I don't use AdBlock as I don't mind static banner ads or even animate gifs; I do use FlashBlock though as I do mind manic ads, especially ones that stream video.
Interestingly - since Sony bought out Bertelsmann's half-share in Sony BMG - Sony Music Entertainment doesn't go in for that kind of crap any more.
Anyway, for me, circumventing regional encoding is absolutely morally fine, but copying games is morally wrong and really does end up with game devs out of work.
Wikipedia tells me that an Australian Schooner is mostly 3/4 pint, but in some places it's 1/2 pint (or, historically less). If true, it would seem nonsensical to use that word to mean 2/3 pint. Especially when your classic convex sherry glass is already called a schooner.
Meanwhile, as it's already allowed to sell 1/3 pint measures of hearty ale, it seems sensible that you should be able to sell 2/3 pint in one glass. (Provided it's lined and you actually get the volume you pay for...)
P.S. I will never buy cold flavourless lager - whatever the size of the glass.
I remember going into the selling out shop with 2½ new pence just after VAT was introduced. The shopkeeper told me I could only have 4 ½p sweets for my money "the rest is the VAT". What a twat.
We were still reeling from the decimalisation hit (10 penny arrow bars for 5p vs. 12 for 1/-).
I had one of these calls last year, a few days after my mother-in-law. What if there was a simple method to report to my telco - 'that last call I received, [I think] it was a scam'.
These things could then be closed down within days (or hours). Yes, they'd keep popping up again and again, but it might make their life a little bit harder.
"6GW is quite a bit of juice. I would like to see the conventional plant putting that out..."
It's only 1.5 Draxes*. However, Drax almost certainly runs to capacity for most of the time, while this 6GW rated capacity installation will likely average between 1.5GW and 2GW (sometimes putting out 0GW).
*Actually, the Google part is 0 Draxes - this project is just cabling; the windmills & turbines are extra.
New HTC Wildfire, running through the setup process it made me set me up an @googlemail address. When I try to download an app, it *always* hangs at 'starting download'. App turns up some time later, sometimes just as I turn off 'airplane mode' the following morning.
After getting the described download problems I was quite shocked to find the issue was widespread and has been going on for a very long time. From PC added @gmail to my google account and told my phone about it. Made sod-all difference. Reading lots of the forums on the issue left me unconvinced that japes like resetting the phone or changing from googlemail to gmail (or vice-vers)r @googlemail makes any difference at all.
Shocking that Google have let this lie for two years,
Take a look at the area on Google maps; ask it to plan you a journey; don't forget to take your boat...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Capilla,+Spain&sll=36.597889,11.381836&sspn=18.100069,43.286133&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Capilla,+Badajoz,+Extremadura,+Spain&ll=38.842348,-5.092421&spn=0.017181,0.058622&t=h&z=15
"Thus, as David Cameron suggested earlier this year, it should be open to local councils such as those in the Greater Manchester area to ban cheap booze using a bye-law."
It's not the local councils, but the unelected Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) Health Commission that are proposing raising the price of reasonably priced booze in Greater Manchester.
Bastards.
"...when they decided that babies should have their own passport. With a photo. Valid for 5 years. For 70 quid. Wtf?"
Actually, it's 49 quid for 5 year children's passports.
What's your alternative - a list of children's names in your adult passport, and they just take your word for it that a child you're taking out of the country is one of yours?
You need separate ones anyway to get into many countries. e.g. USA
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