* Posts by h3

1064 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Dec 2011

Microsoft introduces warning on child abuse image searches

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Re: It's the least they can do

I saw a police one like that. All I was thinking is I am fairly sure something could get through that lock. (Angle Grinder / Thermite / pneumatic drill bet there is a chemical that will as well).

I have no interest in stealing bikes but especially when it is the Police who many people trust I don't like them spreading disinformation which they do all the time.

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Re: What next?

Don't see the difference between them and the womens ones like Cosmopolitan. (At least the covers anyway).

Zynga ABANDONS ALL HOPE of opening US gambling operation

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Just not worth it when you can get something great for £2 that is only a few years old.

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Freemium anything is not worth it when it comes to games.

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Re: The gold standard for free to play games is Team Fortress 2

DOTA 2 has only just come out of beta and that is free to play as well.

Pay to win or In game advertising are not acceptable to me. (Didn't mind the Brands in the Original Crazy Taxi).

(Don't buy any game with DLC until I can buy the complete thing. Or anything that uses 3rd party DRM there is enough games that I haven't played that I should never need to change my position on this).

Chromecast: We get our SWEATY PAWS on Google's tiny telly pipe

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Re: Roku for $49

Sky are selling one of the Roku LT's with the sky firmware on it at the moment for £9.99 (To do with NowTV).

Not much to gamble with the hope that it can be hacked.

London Mayor shows off GIANT BLUE COCK in busy square

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I quite like Boris Johnson much more than Cameron anyway. (I hope he becomes the next leader of the Conservative party).

Google Chromecast: Here's why it's the most important smart TV tech ever

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Re: It's just a really bad equivalent of AirPlay / DLNA; what's the big deal?

I agree I don't want use the web for anything apart from finding information. Ideally on a computer. (Or a phone / tablet if I am not at home).

The DNLA in my TV (Panasonic Viera - DNLA stack is made by Access is as good as anything I have seen even on my computer or XBMC).

I like the way Media Center Extenders work as well. (Other than Codec Support).

Or like a Windows Projector works.

Or the Intel Wireless technology that you can use with their medfield devices.

Using the Web for stuff is never going to work as well as using something with a UI designed for the specific device.

I think I prefer how the Nexus Q was to this.

If it is not locked down then I might get one. (Need to get my Rasberry Pi back now it has wayland should be more pleasant to use as an xterminal).

I try and use as little Google stuff as possible everything seems to be set up like facebook these days. (Open an app and it reenables tons of stuff that I purposefully disabled. Maps and Youtube being good examples).

Google's new Chromecast spills its simplistic guts

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I would prefer it if it could use the already existing wired connection to my TV.

Prefer it if it didn't involve a web browser though. (Think Windows Network Projector or just another X display - hardware is good enough to support it).

Apple crushes all competition in US Brand of the Year survey

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I bet they are still below AMEX in customer satisfaction surveys.

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But Apple is an Irish company. (At least the reg said they were recently).

If OS X had focus follows mouse I might be able to put up with it. (Don't like the way it pollutes everything with .DS_STORE files though).

New in Android 4.3: At last we get a grip on privacy-invading crApps

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Re: close, but...

There was a patch for Cyanogen mod that did exactly that but they wouldn't add it. (That is something I certainly want).

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Re: Google Switch

That is comparing the latest Linux kernel with all versions of Windows.

Should be comparing 2012 server core with a decent version of Linux. (RHEL6 or whatever).

Amazon's profit-eating machine revs into overdrive

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Re: what's the 50th biggest river in the States ?

For now. It will change and by being first and the biggest when it comes to their cloud stuff it will make them a fortune.

They have produced something totally new (Kindle / AWS) more than once and made it into something worth having that everyone else has tried to copy. (Same as Apple to a point although Apple generally just refined something someone else had tried already).

Compare to Microsoft who's only real success of a new product (Xbox) cost them an absolute fortune.

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Be hard to complain about them not paying enough tax when they are not profitable.

I suspect they are spending significant amounts of money and could be profitable if it was in their interests to be.

I think they do the right thing. (Only tech company that chooses to screw over anyone other than the customer which is to be commended.)

They also don't only think about the short term but they are not being totally stupid about it. (Like the 360 and PS3 were).

They could contribute something to Xen but other than that I am not too bothered. (They annoy me far less than places like Currys / Dixons / PC World etc etc).

Fanbois smash iPhone 5s much sooner than iPhone 3s ... but WHY?

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Re: Destroyed to upgrade?

I think the best thing I ever did when it comes to smartphones was get a cheap Lumia 800.

(Prior to that I had various Android's but never used them for calling due to such awful battery life. Along with an old 6230i).

It does everything I use (Offline or Online Satnav / Calls / Texts / email (Exchange Activesync which is great. Probably less great if you are a small business and have to pay for the thing directly though).

Good that I stopped wasting time looking for Apps that I never actually use but think at the time I want them.

And if I go out and come back hammered and forget to charge my phone it has enough charge for the next day if necessary.

Most importantly it is still like new ages later.

I just consider it reasonable build quality. (Same as the IBM made Thinkpad's used to be). Not form over functionality. Don't see why men would ever go for that tradeoff.

Ubuntu boss: I want to make a Linux hybrid mobe SO GIVE ME $32m

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Re: "People committing $830 (£532) get a free phone"

It is being abused by big business who don't need it.

Standard practice was you invest you get a share of the profit. (Especially for something like this that is very high risk). 50% of it to the company 50% to the people providing the capital.

The new way is like the banks take none of the risk but all the profits.

WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters

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Re: not very secure by the government

Scandinavia (But not Sweden which is a female supremacist state).

Japan or Hong Kong is good.

Surface RT: A plan worthy of the South Park Underpants Gnomes

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Re: various problems

Not sure.

Companies seem to have this viewpoint that because something works for one company then it will work for them. (When looking at it in any sane way you can see that there is one company that can do that for a specific reason).

I think ipad's would have sold even if the apps were totally incompatible because it is Apple.

EA can do loads of stuff other companies cannot get away with because of the situation they have with the sports rights.

Sky can do stuff in TV other people cannot because of its position.

Microsoft has that sort of power in some markets but not in others but they don't seem to realise that.

PORNAGEDDON: Sexy bloggrs stung by Tumblr smut smackdown

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Re: LOL

All British people are like like that myself included. The women usually are ugly or prostitutes (Only with different costs - liars or upfront about what they are) so that is not far off either. There is quite a few female supremacists as well (feminists)

Microsoft admits it's '18 months behind' with Windows 8 slabs

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How is RT more enterprise ready when it cannot join a domain or have any of its useful apps used for business purposes ?

Flogging mobe ads over summer? Come to us, pleads Facebook

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Is there any devices that support facebook mobile ad's that actually have a screen that you can read reasonably in the sun ?

We'll stop Johnny Foreigner gobbling our biznovation - UK gov

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If the small business can only get capital from overseas investors then that is what they will do at the moment it seems they have little choice.

CIOs bombarded with hybrid cloud surveys

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private clouds just seems to me as not worth it at least for traditional applications that are reasonably understood as is. The main benefit of the big clouds is they have so many geographical dispersed datacentres and it is on demand only pay for what you use. All you get is another layer of abstraction to manage and the same cost as you would just running normal servers and it is all still changing and probably not very well understood other than by the people at Amazon / Google / Azure. Might work if you employ someone working on the software and programming but I cannot imagine they would be cheap.

PM writes ISPs' web filter ads for them - and it must say 'default on'

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Even on so called filtered mobile internet you can use opera mini or I suppose opera normal with turbo set up like mini or ucweb. Slightly less featured but it works.

From Russia with no love: Prez Putin dubs Ed Snowden 'unwanted gift'

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Be interesting if Snowden gets asylum then Assange dumps the rest from the Ecuadorian embassy.

Graphical front ends for PowerShell? Here's a couple for you

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Powershell is great they should force that down the shoulder of admins. It is worth it and it is so much easier to use the older alternatives (vbscript and accessing com objects).

Unlike the situation with the start menu for regular users people who are being paid to manage stuff should be forced to do it in an efficient manner. (Otherwise they won't).

Amazon button leaked user traffic

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Re: Why do people install these things?

The Oracle Java updater installing the Ask toolbar is worse at least this you need to manually install. (Even more annoying is it doesn't even try to install the toolbar on server based os's).

Analyst: Tests showing Intel smartphones beating ARM were rigged

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Re: It is all about efficiency

So why can the San Diego last 3 days. (And it is pretty thin it doesn't have a particularly big battery). But other than the Razr Max with a much bigger battery. Nothing else can.

(And Intel is not even trying).

I don't particularly like Intel (I have a Xeon E3 because they seemed to be very cheap / fast / not gimped and I want ECC / vt-d) but from experiences with the San Diego and every arm phone I have had it is just more usable. (Can go away for a weekend without having to worry about charging which no one else seems to manage).

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Re: Power efficiency

Or you have a compiler that uses SSE properly. (Or someone who can write it properly by hand).

It doesn't matter about the raw performance if the code it is running is better.

Try running the C version of something in imlib2 on arm or intel SSE version is fast as hell. (So probably would the arm version if it was done optimally using NEON or whatever but the fact is it as far as I know doesn't exist).

The San Diego gets 3 days battery life. I have not seen any arm phone get that. (Suppose the Motorola with the huge battery might).

I would like to see a haswell based phone. (Most power efficient part / big battery built with icc it would kill anything arm has.)

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Re: ARM and GCC

Realview is arm's superior compiler (Think it has got a new name). Thing is Google is not willing to put the work in to get Android using it.

Intel's compiler is great (As long as you don't use the code on AMD without being very careful dunno whether they were forced to stop that or not).

I compared an Orange San Diego that I have lying around (the Xolo debranded rom / root / no other changes) on ICS to my brothers Tegra 4 One X (Running Jelly Bean 4.1) and there was no real noticeable difference that we could find. (Even though some of the apps are using the arm -> intel emulation. But the San Diego battery lasts for 3 days.

This is a single core really old tech atom that intel is using.

gcc is designed to support as many architectures as possible any compiler just supporting one made by the people who design the processor is always going to be better. (Or it always has been xlc / sunpro they almost universally have been better whenever I have tested them. There is the odd time when it performs the same when the code is nearly all inline asm and then a few that use specific quirks of gcc that are not worth building at all with anything else or if you do then it will be exactly the same once you fix the syntax)

That benchmark is completely useless anyway it doesn't test anything worthwhile at all. (There is ways to increase the score that make the device work much worse but people do it anyway - same with that stupid sdcard read ahead thing that people do).

Caterpillar B15: The Android smartphone for the building site

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Re: Performance

The cost savings shouldn't make it a sensible thing to do on a phone costing more than £50 no excuse. Put up the price accordingly if necessary.

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Re: But did you damage

Is it the one with the 9000W Meridian hi fi ? If it is then you should have it. Meridian hi fi stuff sounds divine.

Snowden leak: Microsoft added Outlook.com backdoor for Feds

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Re: You mean, above and beyond

Stuff goes into Linux without it necessarily being very well understood by anyone other than the people who submit it. (The original XFS for example).

Not that many people even know how to use selinux properly.

Maybe the NSA submitted it without any flaw but as complicated as it is knowing that in the real world most of the time it won't be configured properly.

There is binary blobs in the kernel who knows what are in them.

I wonder if the 9 billion for Skype was just paid for by the US government.

Microsoft waves goodbye to Small Business Server

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Re: What's wrong with WS2012E

It doesn't include Exchange or loads of other stuff.

The SBS config is pretty much totally undocumented which is good if you know how it works and people are paying you to deal with it but a nightmare otherwise.

I really like 2012 Essentials as well.

Cannot imagine it being cheaper to pay a contractor than to use the Microsoft Stuff like intune / hosted exchange (With someone where it is legal to do so).

Most really small business would be better off with home server 2011 and Libreoffice so I can see why Microsoft got rid of that.

(I would be happier dealing with UNIX email for 20000 people than exchange for 20 on SBS).

There is loads of things that can happen with SBS where I would just have to restore from backup.

If there are any other reasons than just don't want to pay for licenses for Exchange and Windows Server I don't know them.

I think Microsoft is wanting to stop the money going to people on consulting services and get that money paid to them. (Same sort of thing that happens to other companies who partner with Microsoft - other than Citrix for some reason). Microsoft are ok whilst yours and their interests align reasonably. (They wanted rid of Netware in small businesses which is probably how all this started now they are basically gone then they have no use for people like the poster of the article).

Outlook son of Hotmail goes titsup for many in the US and UK

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It works better than gmail most of the time. (At least it supports exchange activesync. Gmail was fairly equivalent before they deliberately gimped it both the web interface and apps for gmail are a waste of time for me. In a literal sense as they seem to go by the reading is hard and people cannot do it mentality).

The web interface to outlook.com is so much better. (Right click works with what you need on it).

Android sig vuln exploit SEEN IN THE WILD

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I hope they update the Xoom GED 4.1.2.

Universities teach us a thing or two about BYOD

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Re: Swings and roundabouts...

The proper X11rdp server works quite well now - clipboard sharing works - fast as a normal rdp session (Not the one that just uses Xvnc that is easy to package). It is a bit annoying to build but it works quite well. (If my job required it then I think I could get something up and running quite reasonably it was much easier before it started using Xorg with autotools. imake is easier to deal with for something like this).

Barnes & Noble chief walks as Nook ereader stumbles

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I wouldn't expect any customer service for a £29 device unless it was faulty.

Singaporean 'net rules rile giants

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Read William Gibson's none fiction work on Singapore.

From what I know it is fairly close to what it is actually like.

(My Cousin works there quite a bit. I knew someone at university whose father was British who because of that got out of conscription which other people have to do).

If you are high up in the corporations I think it is quite good to be there. (There really is two sets of rules).

Apple: Ta for blowing £££s on apps, fanbois. Now we've set them FREE

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To use Traktor properly do you not need some external hardware to make it work well ?

Looks like you need to use either Traktor Audio 6 and 10 interfaces via Apple’s Camera Connection Kit.

Or live with using it in mono. (And the cheapest hardware device is £200 so a £10 app is nothing on top of that).

The Three Amigos offer sanctuary to cornered NSA leaker Snowden

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Re: Cynical moi?

How do you know the Kremlin just doesn't want the full unencrypted files ? (And a reason that allows him to stay with much less diplomatic fallout.)

US public hate Snowden - but sexpot spy Anna Chapman LOVES him

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Re: Dear Mr Snowden

Anna Chapman is definitely not stupid. If he did marry her he would be able to do what the hell he liked and then Kremlin wouldn't do anything about it.

It is the obvious thing to do. (You can never truly know but it is fair to say she truly hates (In a way that people who are not driven never really do) both America and Britain.(Britain for getting rid of her British Passport)).

Russia is the safest place for him still.

15 MILLION dodgy login attempts spaffed all over Nintendo loyalists

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If choosing a decent password is enough then I am far less bothered than if the system is exploited and everything is lost regardless. Depends how many machines they were using as well.

3-2-1... BOOM: Russian rocket launches, explodes into TOXIC FIREBALL

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Makes that plastic factory fire in England look like nothing.

Spending watchdog SAVAGES rural broadband push

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Re: Do they call them watchdogs?

National Grid was done properly. So was the initial BT Network.

Over time doing something in a shabby manner ends up costing more. (Compare our motorways to Germany's Autobahn's). Look at California's broken electricity grid. (That same thing will happen to us might take a while but private companies won't invest properly). We had a great rail and tram network before it was all removed.

Sometimes it is worth having something done properly private companies don't do things properly when it comes to infrastructure.

Samsung isn't alone: HTC profits take a huge dive

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If HTC want to sell to me they should get rid of the Sense UI. The hardware seems quite nice and reasonably well built.

EU crackdown will see tougher sentences for stupid cyber-badhats

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The problem is companies not being professional in how they deal with personal data but there is a lack of anything of any substance aimed at them.

Credit card donations to WikiLeaks restored as Mastercard breaks ranks

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Paypal is pretty criminal in itself.

Ebay is full of counterfeit stuff.

They let stuff like 150 in one Neo Geo bootlegs on it and fake DS carts. (All those ones in the little plastic boxes are blatantly fake.)

They try and act like they have a moral viewpoint but they don't give a damn about it. (Same as Google with those fake online pharmacies.)

Patriot hacker 'The Jester' attacks nations offering Snowden help

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This guy has done loads of stuff.

Be interesting if he was caught to see how the rules apply.

He is still a vandal and not doing anything in the public interest but I get the impression he will get a much lighter sentence than Snowden should it go that way.

(I think you can basically do anything you like if it is in the best interests of America (Or you can find someone important enough to convince people of that).