Posts by David Knapman

Because we all know that it's fundamentally impossible for two people of the same gender to fall in love?

Is "we can confirm that service returned to normal at 23.35 hrs yesterday" code for "everyone stopped even trying to use our service"?

Lets be honest here - they'd probably have set them to last even longer but no-one's taking the Y10K problem seriously yet.

Given Sasha's track record

Should we expect a website critical of facebooks handling of these sorts of cases to appear shortly?

All well and good

But until the Microsoft vs DOJ case about their Dublin data centre is resolved, it means diddly squat.

Just so I'm sure

Just want to check I'm reading this right. The whole line of reasoning is:

If the public knew the truth about Company X, it could harm Company X's commercial interests, therefore the public should not know about this.

Danger

The most dangerous object to be making use of whilst driving is the car itself.

So they ought to ban the use of cars whilst driving, and the problem will be solved.

And so...

And, so, we see, that the lesson **has** been learnt from Edward Snowden:

The laws also impose increased penalties for leaking information. A new offence would be created that offers five years in prison for disclosing special intelligence operations, rising to ten years should the disclosure “endanger the health or safety of any person or prejudice the effective conduct of a special intelligence operation”

Maybe not the lesson we wanted our governments to learn...

What's really depressing is that, due to how these stats are collected, we know that these are all machines with access to the internet.

Gaps?

Would those be the same gaps that companies have been spotting for years? That as soon as a company establishes that there is a worthwhile market in such a gap, BT decides it's actually going to rollout into the same area.

I'm not sure it counts as brute force

When it takes less than a minute. Maybe it could be described as "delicate force"

He Misspoke

The modern way of using computers is "consumption", not coding. Thou shalt not dare do anything but consume.

Of course

All that the guide itself has to say for Earth is "Harmless" (later updated to "Mostly Harmless")

Doesn't this also forget that trademark rights are limited to particular fields?

I.e. Microsoft don't own a trademark on "Windows", they own a trademark on "Windows" in the field of operating systems (and possibly some other fields, I'm not going to go and chase up their registrations)

Whereas this centralised clearing house seems to grant a trademark holder in one field the ability (possibly) to prevent a legitimate trademark owner for the same name in a different field from registering their domains.

I'm hoping that this is jargon

"Segment your users by ... stickiness..."

Or else they have some form of data collection (WebCams?) that I've not noticed before.

Gaius Hammond, who noted: "Unfortunately my camera lens isn't wide enough to include the other half."

What does Gaius's missus have to do with this?

Solent seems to have moved

Last I checked, it was a little closer to Portsmouth than Plymouth

Who edited this?

"following a ruling that it infringed a key design patent - D’889" - no, the ruling in June was that there was a strong *liklihood* that it would be found, by a Jury, to infringe that patent.

It was the fact that a jury has now *not* found it to be so that leads to the ban being lifted.

Who edited this?

The 3 sentences:

The Encriyoko Trojan uses components written in Go, a compiled language developed by the search giant. It first emerged from the Chocolate Factory in 2009. Once installed on a Microsoft Windows PC, the Trojan attempts

Make it sound like the *trojan* was authored by Google.

Eight?

"The eight countries where the iPhone 5 will go on sale first are: the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore"

I'm sure there's a special way of counting that makes that work, but I'm not sure what it is...

Because all developers are equal

"It also seems odd that Microsoft puts so much energy into IDE design rather than, for example, implementing more of C++11 in Visual C++." - yes, because I want someone who's good at IDE design to be implementing complex, close to the metal C++ features.

Not all developers (or designers, etc) are good at the same range of tasks.

I'm not sure what you're doing there - but you've got excess ingredients for your bacon buttie. The bread should be moistened purely by the meat juices - butter has no place here.

Those annoying sync cables?

You mean the ones that provide power to the other device?

No fair switching the units!

You could at least report that they won £0bn, like the other figures.

The real juice

So far as I can see, the best part of B&Ns response is where they point out that one of the patents ('233) was essentially rejected in another form, because of prior art ('552 Cassorla patent), but they failed to bring that prior art to the Patent Offices attention whilst working to get '233 approved.

If only

there was somewhere you could post a question, asking people to speculate on what benefits and privileges that a high point score might provide...

Impressive

"Intel was very clear that there are no flaws in the Sandy Bridge chip designs themselves"

Surely they should only be able to say that there are no known flaws. If they've actually proved that there are no flaws in the design, I'm seriously impressed.

I just tried www.netscape.com

And I can't find anywhere to download Netscape Navigator...

It has asked companies that produce copyrighted material to contribute to a consultation

Is it planning to ask consumers too, or are we going to have the usual one-sided consultation process?

Re: It's not the first

@Mark - it is the first *Leeds* High Occupancy lane in the UK. I'm almost certain.

3 out of 8

People who've commented seem unable to follow a simple story which a) States that there'll be a rare shower on the 1st September, and b) States that an annual shower will be worth watching on Sunday.

How difficult is it?