Posts by MrXavia

Re: Okay... this is just plain stupid...

I see it more along the lines of, if the information is published so a human can read it, there is no reason an automated tool shouldn't be able to do the same.

Re: No to licensing!

I agree, flying over private gardens is pretty stupid, you can easily hit the building if your not in LOS

My son has a drone, its fairly big, but mostly plastic so light, I make him keep it in the garden.. my drone is bigger, but still I keep it over my property, and not too high, I am scared of it hitting my roof (or head) if I fly high and it falls!

The UK is moving towards this, at least China has reasons for its policies, to preserve the country, a revolution would be so devastating that the whole world would feel it for decades.

If I was in charge of cyber security, I would run mostly Linux but ensure that it looked like XP, especially when journos are visiting....

Re: '34 years of development - Windows 10 is the result'

@Shadmeister

I guess that is what happens when I don't proof read!

But my instinctive no 3 is limited legacy windows application support.

@DropBear I think I didn't have enough coffee today!

"Fly from Manchester, Birmingham, or Edinburgh to a professionally run airport like Frankfurt or Amsterdam and connect to a professionally run airline like Lufthansa, KLM, or other international alliance.

In most cases it's cheaper and it's always less stressful."

So you suggest adding in another 2 hour drive, atleast 2 hours layover, plus extra time in the air and the larger risk of missing bags vs flying direct from heathrow is a good idea?

Plus you have the horrid tiny planes when flying to Europe, last time I flew via a European airline because it was cheaper, the long haul part was fine, the layover and short haul was hell....

Re: You say that now

"People expect their profiles to be private, that should extend to after death "

Why can't they give us death options?

Make it law that there must be multiple choices for what happens after your death.

In life I am extremely private, when I am dead, well.. I am dead so privacy for me is no longer an issue, you can trawl through my photos, read all my messages, and I don't care!

give people the choice, and the default should be that the heir has full access to the account contents, although I agree with a memorial mode for social accounts like facebook the private contents should be available to the heir unless the person chose to not share it, and then only if that person was over 16.

"the airlines state, that devices with Lithium batteries should never be checked"

I know I don't want to be on an aircraft full of lithium batteires in the hold...

The average case would probably have a laptop, a camera, some alcohol (who doesn't buy spirits abroard?)

All you need is a short, you get a small fire, the alcohol is the perfect accelerant, causing a bigger fire, spreads to the other cases, causing a bigger fire....

yep...

Re: thoughts on future regulation of encryption

It won't work, simply because if the government can do it, so can a hacker..

Online banking, online shopping, chat programs, everything we have online needs strong encryption.

If they outlaw encryption, I will seriously have to consider moving to another country, I doubt I would be able to continue my work without strong encryption,

I expect the whole IT sector would collapse without strong encryption, and everything that depends on IT will also collapse...

So ban encryption = destroy the economy

Yep Agreed

Nudity should not be a taboo!

I think that would be a bloody brilliant idea!

Its easier to hold a phone portrait to take video, and you focus on your main subject, but recording extra 'sides' would be great!, even better would be if the video format captured it all by default, but on playback the player could alter the ratio ;-)

Yup,

New Drones, helicopters and a STOL Eurofighter is what is needed for our carriers!

Not a buggy, multi-role STOVL that costs a fortune...

Re: Bah!

"Except that the Goreans aren't just fantasising or role-playing. They believe, or claim to believe, that all women are by nature submissive."

By that logic you can include many religions into the same bucket, yet you cannot fire someone for their religion....

And religions certainly don't keep their beliefs private..

Re: I'm a bit like Withnail

Observational studies can be very informative, but you are right, it is hard to be sure the cause and effect.. more data is clearly needed to eliminate other possible causes

Netflix once said they would never offer downloads, now they do..

Who knows, maybe at one point, Netflix will offer DRM Free downloads, atleast of their own content?

Since their entire business model seems to be based on regular new content to keep subscribers, and the fact that their content is already ripped as soon as its released, allowing DRM free downloads would not be detrimental to their business and would not increase piracy..

They just need to limit the downloads to the top tier, I would hapilly upgrade for the convenience this would add!

Re: So now large, fragile batteries must go in the hold

When I travel out of Shanghai airport, my bag is screened as I am checking in, the run it through a scanner at the back and IF they see something suspicious they call you over to unlock your bag, if everything is Ok then nothing happens...

Brilliant system, I've been stopped because a small handheld camera tripod looked like a cluster of 3 batteries, and another time because I left a single small li-ion camera battery in the case!

No batteries are allowed in the hold!

So to me this ban make no sense!

Re: math is hard

How many women have you met working in IT?

Without a sample size, we can't judge if that is a low or high ratio...

Of course they would, they already do pay plenty... I am sure if Netflix allowed downloads without DRM, they would have just as many subscribers...

I would probably download everything they had I liked, but I'd continue to pay because of new content!

Now I am sure there would still be piracy, but if you tagged the downloads somehow, you can sue the up-loader easier....

But really if you can get DRM-free content for a small fee/month, why would you bother with torrenting, where your probably paying for a VPN for that anyway?

Re: We are living through the end of private motoring ...

"Why have your own car?"

Same could be said about the fact you can hire a car dropped at your door or call a taxi....

But hire cars smell, they are usually cheap nasty cars at bottom specs, and they are not as convenient.

same can be said for taxis with the addition they cost a lot...

I doubt driver-less cars will solve these problems.

If you want to drive in something that is nice, you have to own it, or pay a small fortune to hire it.....

I'll be happy to join you, now is your shed big enough for an intergalactic ARK?

Yes don't forget the wife, Dr Strangelove had a good idea about repopulation of the species....

Re: CCTV is fine

Agreed, IMHO as long as you point your cameras where you have permission to record, then your fine...

So for me that is only my property and a tiny bit of the road visible through my drive entrance.

I try to keep footage for a month, as I know others who have been asked by police for their recordings when a neighbour was robbed...

Point a camera so it can record in someone else's private property without permission, then that is off!

(although Surely asking them to adjust the camera is the first step? often it would be done without malice)

EDIT:

I've always thought public CCTV is a great way to reduce crime, as long as its only used for that purpose, needs extreme controls to ensure privacy as well as prevent crime.

Re: What do we want...

In addition to more room, I would love faster security

To me that means more automation, everyone going through a T-Ray scanner, and enough security people on hand to process everyone without queuing!..

Re: Military-industrial 101

"Some of us Europeans still build out own fighter aircraft too (Sweden and France)"

Dont forget the Eurofighter, the worlds most advanced combat aircraft, BAE systems has a big chunk of that! (so Us brits still build fighters!)

Re: Invention of iPhone

"Those were the days, by the way, when phones were for making calls but all that was about to change."

I remember having a motorola A920 way back in 2003/2004 maybe, and on that I made video calls, went online, had a touch interface, ran 'apps', watched videos.... in fact I could do everything the iPhone could do and more... BUT it was clunky and the screen was not large... the iPhone was a nice step forward in many ways but also a step back in functionality

Re: Wired connection

Quiet! Don't let them know we have other ways of getting online... most politicians can't remember a time without Wireless... Not because their young, but because it seems a requirement of being a politician is ignorance of the world...

Not that worried about the always listening part myself in terms of being hacked....

Since a mobile phone/laptop could easily be hijacked and used for the same purpose

I would like any digital assistant to be based on my own servers though, prefably at home, behind a firewall....

I wonder how many would choose a sex bot over a real living human bean

Especially if it had a decent AI to talk with....

Re: Privacy?

There is no expectation of privacy in public places..... so unless someone walks onto your property and starts taking photos to upload, then you have no reason to complain... but they do need a way to allow property owners to mark a geo-fence to block any images taken on their property.....

Re: Fuel for thought.

De-Orbiting anything seems foolish.... all that raw material ripe for building with...

I like the idea of a space cleaner, collecting old rubbish, taking it to an orbital factory to be reduced down to its raw materials.... Power isn't a problem if you have enough solar panels...

Re: Card not present?

CVV? How could anyone not ask for this? I can't think of any site I buy from that doesn't ask for this..