Posts by Velv

Re: Slap me silly...

Well, duh!

Which assumes you can get to Airplane mode quickly enough after it crashes and before it crashes again.

Unless you permanently live in airplane mode, which kinda defeats the point of a phone or smart CONNECTED device.

I hope everyone is aware that Apple have hard coded wifi networks that their devices will automatically connect to when in range, for example when in an Apple Store, and this has also been expanded to Bluetooth to further refine your store journey. (Look up iBeacon if you don't believe me)

Re: Refuted?

There is the infamous Airplane Engineering logbook that does the rounds...

Pilot: "evidence of excessive oil seepage on #3 prop"

Maintenance: "evidence removed"

Re: Really?

Don't care WHAT the picture is, they are (to me) a pain in the arse.

Please El Reg, introduce something to turn the images off. We've all consented to your cookies, there must be something smart you can do to remove the images for those readers who don't want them. It's meant to be responsive after all...

Re: Seperation alert tags

10 out of 10 for the concept.

But given most server rooms have restrictions on the use of mobile phones and other radio transmitters, I'm going to suggest these will be useless in many IT scenarios.

Occam's razor, a bit of string, or the slightly more sophisticated retractable keyring (http://www.amazon.co.uk/BLACK-RECOIL-RETRACTABLE-CHAIN-RING/dp/B00569W0EO)

Re: "Facebook’s opt-out system for advertising...

"Illegal terms are unenforceable..."

Not only that, but terms which may strictly be legal but are unfair are also unenforceable, although the test of unfair is subjective and would more than likely need to go through a court (oh wait, this case is...)

Re: Sounds like a script for a "die hard" movie...

I was just wondering if Hans and Simon have any other brothers who might be a bit upset by their family losses...

Re: An appointment to buy a watch !

The first thing you learn when you retail quality and high value products is that nobody is unworthy. You treat all comers well from the outset, and those not worthy will soon leave of their own accord. True customers will stay and buy.

And remember, just because someone might not be able to afford it today doesn't mean they won't be able to afford it tomorrow, and you want them to come back. And not like the shop scene from Pretty Woman.

Re: The punishment

@Graham Marsden

Well you don't tend to get repeat offenders...

Re: And they have a ludicrous mandatory weak password policy too

... and at best the password is stored with reversible encryption. When you phone the call centre they ask for your password, and I've received it in emails and written letters from Virgin.

As I say, at best, reversible encryption. It might not even be encrypted at all.

Re: Melodifestivalen

That makes more sense.

I was going to get all shouty about there only being 1.5million votes across Europe and why was this expensive shit still being shown.

Re: hmmm...

I've got the original Pebble, more because I'm a curious geek more than anything else.

I spend a lot of time in a suit and the phone lives in the inside jacket pocket if not actually in use. I found it all to ease to miss alerts, calls, messages and notifications as the phone would be silenced and just vibrate. Now my wrist vibrates no matter where the phone is. I'll continue wearing some form of alerting watch from now on.

(And no, I don't spend time phoning myself just to make my wrist vibrate. Honest)

Don't know why you put the joke alert icon, that's exactly what HMRC do.

It goes even further. HMRC know, for example, exactly how many meals each type of restaurant can get out of a chicken. Posh French might get two meals per chicken, Italian might get four, Indian six and Chinese eight. They also know (and feed back to trading standards) when a restaurant deviates from the model and is selling more meals than they buy chickens, thus implying the local cat population is at risk.

As always, it's just a model, but it proves that if you're attempting anything out of the ordinary you're going to stand out. Got to buy the boxes to match the sales. So if your local purveyor of genuine Italian pizza is regularly taking unused boxes to the recycling, they probably are genuine Italian of Sicilian extraction.

Re: The Government Gateway is good tech

Not trying to defend it as I think it was doomed from the start, but I think you've missed what the scheme is about.

The Government has essentially outsourced the validation of your documents when you apply for a Government ID.

The third parties provide the initial matching of who you claim to be to your passport, driving licence, bank account, voters roll, etc and allow you to create a government verified ID. That ID is then used to access the Government services by authentication within the Government services, not back through the verifying party. So Experian et al only see your first ever logon.

The theory is that Experian, Banks, etc have already physically checked who you are, so why should the government set up another office doing exactly the same thing - just rely on those other organisations. Having previously spent several weeks working with Experian to tie together my credit report (and I've only lived in two properties in the last 20 years) my confidence that any of the third parties will help reduce fraud is somewhere between slim and fuck all.

Re: Uber arrogance again

Even if European Law is interpreted as a right to create a service, it will be WITHIN the existing laws and regulations of the member state.

Would Uber expect to be able to set up a service providing children to paedophiles under the same European right, as that's what their statement implies!

There's a limit to how much you can pay in one transaction to an unverified contact (i.e. Someone you've not set up to pay through other channels)

There's a limit to how many unverified payments you can make in one day.

There's a limit to how much you can transfer in one day.

If someone takes you to a hotel and renders you unconscious I think you've got more important "assets" they're going to be after.

86.8% of statistics are made up on the spot (Vic Reeves)

Re: Won't They Be Pissed...

I think you'll find Abbott has very little say in the matter. There's 11 member countries of the SKA Organisation

Re: COUNTRY.sucks

How dare you mock the sacred.

flyingspaghettimonster.sucks

Clearly it is the spaghetti that gets sucked

Re: UV blue

Most "blue" flowers photgraph as purple or violet (or at least they did on good old film). I believe it's down to attracting insects which have a different visible light range to humans.

Lithospermum was one of the few that looked the same to the human eye in real ire as on film.

Re: Abuse of market power?

Abuse of market power is usually regulated by the government.

Given the political pressures being brought it is highly likely the government had a hand in "asking" PayPal to drop some customers.

No conflict of interest there then...

Re: Overtly sexualising women

The Diet Coke ads always puzzled me.

Is it really the blatant sexist sell to women of the hunky guy stripping off?

Or is it much subtler. Is it trying to sell Diet Coke to men, since let's face it ALL the women in the Diet Coke ads are pretty foxy, so which straight guy wouldn't aspire to be the workman/lift operator/lawnmower man.

Mines the one with the spray stains...

Re: MIcorosft contributing security fixes to Samba

I don't fully support googles 90 day limit, but I understand there needs to be a limit otherwise some vendors will just prevaricate until the end of time.

Perhaps Google needs to enhance its rules - give the vendor 90 days to announce a patch release (with the detail redacted), and the release must occur within the following 30 days (which should catch most vendors scheduled release cycles). Rushing out patches is as dangerous as delaying them longer than necessary.

Re: Not smart.

@'TSeng

RTFA, detailed instructions were linked

Or go search Mythbusters, they did it in their garage