Posts by jonathanb

Re: Presumably

Even if I don't volunteer, people who have me in their address book do, and end up giving Facebook and Linked In their address book entry for me, which my include my phone number and street address.

Re: Begining of the end for the loss making divisions.

And say hello to a major expansion of the Windows Phone patent licensing division. Android and iOS both make them more money in patent royalties than their own operating system does.

I'm guessing he goes for the oriental look. They tend to age better than people from other parts of the world.

Re: price comparison sites

I expect it will be the same price on Amazon as before, but there will be the possibility of cheaper prices elsewhere.

It costs traders quite a bit to list stuff on Amazon, and that is reflected in the price, but it gives them a lot of exposure and extra business, so it is worth paying the money. However, they would like to be able to list the stuff on cheaper platforms as well, and pass on the savings to their customers. Now they will be able to do that.

Re: Tor prevents anyone from learning your location

I haven't paid a licence fee, but because my IP address is British, they are perfectly happy to deliver Bargain Hunt to my computer. There are plenty of people around the world who would be more than willing to pay £145.50 per year to watch Top Gear, but if they don't have a British IP address, then the BBC doesn't want their sort anywhere near their servers.

Re: Why are they being given chances?

Because the directly paid employees would spend all their time filling in forms, doing health and safety risk assessments, attending union meetings and co-ordinating their diversity targets rather than actually driving people between the prison and the court.

Re: Pretty much says it all

I realise it hasn't happened yet. I'm thinking about what could be possible.

I'm thinking that a business could publish a Skype ID alongside their phone number for the public to contact them. Some smaller ones already do, but it doesn't really scale to big, or even medium sized call centres with hunt groups and multiple people, possibly in different sites, answering calls simultaneously on the same number.

Re: what crime have they committed?

You can have a trade secret on something, or a patent, but not both. The whole point of a patent is that you give up secrecy in return for temporary legal protection.

Trade secrets give you some protection until someone leaks it out, or figures it out independently of the company. The person leaking it out will get into trouble for leaking it out, but after that, anyone else can publish and use it, because it is no longer a secret.

Re: How is 31.25 kbd fast enough?

500 notes per second is more than enough for anyone. No, seriously, it is.

Musicians measure the speed of music in beats per minute. The slowest you are likely to go is about 40 beats per minute. The fastest is somewhere just above 200 bpm.

If you have a tune being played at 210 bpm, that allows for 142 note changes per beat. I can't think of any tune that has that level of complexity, and if it did, the brain wouldn't be able to pick most of it up anyway.

Most of the time, 500 notes per minute would probably be enough.

Well usually these companies have a department that deals with regulatory compliance. They deal with all the court orders, DMCA takedown notices, and requests from law enforcement, which would include everything local sheriff departments all the way up to the NSA. Ebay gets a lot of requests for information from the tax authorities. I would imagine the others do to a lesser extent, certainly in respect of the stuff they sell in their app and media stores. Any money they receive from NSA or anyone else would be allocated to that department's budget.

Re: So ..

Who gets the benefit or suffers the disadvantage of any currency movement depends on the terms of the contract. If the contract is priced in Rupees, then the American customer benefits because it now costs less in Dollars. If the contract is priced in Dollars, then the Indian supplier benefits because they now get more Rupees. They would be able to price future contracts for a lower number of Dollars than previously making them more competitive.

Re: But.... but...

The NSA spies on the Brits, GCHQ spies on the Yanks. They exchange intelligence. What's sauce for the goose (etc).

Re: PAY UP!!!

As far as I'm aware, the only bank in the UK that lets you do international transfers online is HSBC.

I use Google for search, and Yahoo for some other things, like stock prices and its weather app.

Re: never fails to amaze

What's the population density like in Jamaica? In Scotland, draw a line from Ayr, up the west coast to Greenock, then along the Clyde and Forth rivers past Glasgow to Edinburgh, then up the East Coast to Inverness, and down the East Coast to Berwick. Most people live near that line, and the rest of the country is pretty much empty. If you live in a big town or city, then you will get telecommunications subject to the usual problems that afflict every communications provider in the world. Elsewhere, it isn't so easy.

As far as I can see in Jamaica, obviously lots of people live in Kingston, but the rest of the population seems to be more evenly spread out.

Re: And why aren't the Government using the law for these things?

Data isn't covered by the Theft Act, only physical goods, and electricity. If he had personally logged onto the NSA's computer systems and downloaded the stuff, they could possibly do him for unlawful abstraction of electricity under the theft act if he was in the UK at the time he did it, but there is no suggestion that he did that.

Re: Sad Kodak Moment

Their business plan is apparently to sell printer ink for less than the likes of HP.

Re: @jonathanb

There are plenty of people who distribute their material by Bittorrent. Bittorrent will only work if you upload as well as download. People understand that uploading to contribute to the swam is the quid-pro-pro for getting it free. It means the publisher can reach a lot more people with a much more modest internet connection than if they made it available via http or similar.

I would argue, and I'm sure the courts would agree, that by distributing your material via Bittorrent, you are giving permission for downloaders to also upload, and in fact, you are probably making it a condition of receiving the material that they contribute towards the uploading of it.

Re: Wait a minute

Yes, I assumed boyfriend or husband as well.

Re: lower limit?

13 is a bit old for that. They will probably be too big to fit up the chimney by then. However it will be very useful for anyone looking for a career in delivering newspapers and adverts for takeaway pizzas.

Re: Depressing.

I don't think it really matters where her hosting provider is. If she is living in the US, she has to comply with American laws.

Re: NFC does make more sense

It's really simple though. All you need to do is go to

http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/~/media/PDF/TicketsAndTrainTimes/TrainTimes/CurrentTimeTable/GW120502%20QR%20Poster%20V1.pdf

Print out the pdf

Install the Google Goggles App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.unveil

Or whatever the equivalent is for your phone's operating system

Carefully cut out the code for the time table you want, for example if you want to go to London, it is timetable number 7

Open Google Goggles, and scan the QR code, making sure your phone doesn't see any of the other codes before it gets to the one you want to scan

Tap on the link to open the website

Tap on on the link to download the pdf

Select which app you want to open it in, eg Adobe Reader

Scroll down the pdf until you find the train you want

What could be easier?

Well, maybe you could install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hafas.android.railteam

and tell it where you want to go. There are other apps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.em.pubtran.london is better if you are travelling within the London travel card area, but otherwise Railteam seems to be the best.

Re: Retail Win 8

If they sell it with a new iMac, then surely that is fine?

Re: Way cool

This is about people using Safari on their iDevices. They probably had no agreement with Google at all.

It means that for example you can pay a subscription to access "the cloud" hotspots, but most of the hotspots it gives you access to are free anyway.

Re: Could it be ....

In Excel you can have more than 256 columns and 65536 rows on your spreadsheet.

Accounting just want to tick off a list of fixed assets to say they have seen them.

Ask for a numbered list of the assets they want to audit, and put numbered stickers randomly on the kit to match the stuff they want to tick off on the list. If you want to really impress them, pick some very old stuff on the list and tell them it has been scrapped.

Re: Holy undergarments

YouTube accounts for something like 98% of all video on demand, and video on demand accounts for quite a bit of total internet traffic, so 40% isn't that surprising.

They are a boy-band who upset their fan base of teenage girls when wishing Laura Robson good luck at Wimbledon.

Re: Right...

Well of course. When websites ask for my address, I give them the address of the local rubbish dump, so they can send the junk mail directly to them rather than have me redirect it via the recycle bin outside. That's when I don't pick Afghanistan as it is the first country on the list. In any case, by the time the password arrived in the post, people will have forgotten why they wanted to visit the site.

Re: Lawyerbomb?

This is not an EUCD takedown notice. That would be issued to the hosting provider of the infringing content. They, however, are probably not based in the EU, and therefore won't respond to EUCD notices, or in the US where they would respond to DMCA notices, the US equivalent.

This is an order to ISPs to block access to websites using the same technology that is used to block access to child porn.