Posts by Maharg

Re: Don't get too excited

The argument could be made that the level of attacks is much lower due to the intelligence services being able to do these things, I’m not making that argument, but it could be made, For example the number of road deaths as a % to drivers has gone down in the last 30 years, so everyone can stop wearing their seatbelts again, because it has been argued “laws requiring the wearing of seat belts are an infringement of individual liberty”, I’m not making that argument either, but it could be made.

Re: Just asked someone who did GCSE IT last year

Sorry to butt in here

I was under the impression that GCSE’s were for 15 year olds, and the idea is to show they have a ‘’basic” (no offence indented) competence in the subject, most people who do well in chosen GCSE’s (like computing) will go on to apply this ‘basic’ level to either further education in the subject, such as A Levels and then University, or go into apprenticeships or other roles in which they will learn more skills ‘on the job’, either way they will mostly end up in junior positions so again they can continue learning.

Do you think you could have had all the knowledge required to do the job you currently do when you were 15 years old? Keeping in mind you had only been able to write for around 10 years, let alone type, If so either you were exceptionally talented, or you might want to look for a new job.

As for “Dave” I guess he (or his speech writer) thinks coding is ‘modern’ because they were taught useful subjects like Latin and buggery avoidance at school.

Re: Pointless

Yep.

So currently if my card is lost or stolen I can ring my bank which gives me a one off code to enter into a cash machine and let me withdraw some money (after they verify who I am of course).

So what happens if my phone is lost or stolen? Will I be able to, I don’t know, have a bit of paper, or even plastic (as it would last longer) that this machine could scan in some way, and I could enter a code to make sure I can get money out?

Not that it matters, because as pointed out this kind of thing appeals to the type of people who want to use their phone to pay for everything, so why would they use their phone to withdraw money they won’t use?

On a side note I was in a petrol station last week, and there was quite a queue for one of the tills, and not the other, even though both had someone behind. Turns out they were having ‘connectivity issues’, one of the card readers was not working and the other was extremely slow and the 10 or so people waiting to pay by card or swipe their phone were taking an age to do it.

On the other hand I was able to walk up to the other till, past the queue, the girl behind it said “Sorry, the card machine is not working” I proceeded to produce a number of bank notes from my wallet to pay, to the amazement and shock of those around me, that I would be so silly to carry around cash to pay for things.

Just to rub it in I went back in a few seconds later and bought a bottle of water with the change, as someone tried for the 3rd time to enter their pin and have the guy stand on a stool and get signal.

A good read and very well written article, regarding the discussion while I agree the US Constitution was an important document, it must be remembered that it was mostly based on British law, for example the English Bill of Rights from 1689, it is also worth remembering that while the Constitution may have laid out the view on freedoms, rights and liberty, in practice for those Americans who were not of a certain skin colour it might as well not existed for around 150 years afterwards, The British abolished slavery a long time before the US, (1772 in England, 1799 in Great Britian,1807 Slave Trade Act stopping the trading of slaves, 1833 Abolishment Act freeing all slaves in the British Empire) and did not have a war over it, under British law no one has ever been denied rights due to the colour of their skin while in the US equal rights is still in living memory.

"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."

Magna Carta 1215

Re: SP

Just had a quick Google

1) Yep, manual anti-highjack device, not car alarm

2) “The Blaster was a liquefied petroleum gas flamethrower installed along the sides of the vehicle under the doors.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(flamethrower)

3) It was legal, but demand was low and the cost to high so it was discontinued.

Re: If only

My advice for the N8? Look after it and treat it well, love it, mine survived a lot but eventually died in a muddy festival related incident, I made the mistake of walking into a high street phone store and saying “I had an N8, it has died, I would like to get a new phone with a really great camera, to replace it.”

The person in the store said certainly, these are our best camera phones, so I chose one that was the same price as when I got my N8 all those years ago.

Nothing you can easily get on the market compares to the N8, I ended up with a Sony Xperia, and there is so much noise in anything other than bright sunlight it’s just horrible, (yes I have changed the settings, it just cant compare) the Samsung’s, HTC etc were not much better, and any that did have a half decent camera had a pathetic amount of memory with no removable SD slot.

For the first time in 3 years I have to carry a digital camera with me, instead of just the N8

Re: Here's the thing...

Yes its wrong.

But it happens, it always happens and it always will.

Personally I subscribe to the idea that killing people is wrong, but that doesn’t stop other people doing it, and I don’t want to be killed, therefore to stop them killing me, I want the biggest stick possible, because if I have a big stick, and everyone around me has a big stick, then I will not be killed.

Whats better than having a big stick? People who are trained to use sticks better than everyone else, and their sticks are even bigger and have laser sights and can defend us from the people that want to kill us…

Then people don’t get killed.

You just have to make sure the people with the big sticks are responsible enough to use them only as a last resort.

“All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing”

Re: "I could care less for the button itself"

Yank English?

We invented the language; the least they could do is use it.

Hahahaha

I doth my hat

Re: One thing about music when it hits you feel no pain…

Totally agree, on a good note (and just for bragging rights) I will be seeing both Nas and Public Enemy this summer, now that’s what I call hip hop

Re: Wow

You seem to have missed the point that the money thrown at/given to car manufactures and wall street is yet to be given back, and unlike that waste/investment these toys for rich tree huggers have made a return, and profit, quicker than expected, what kind of economics do you subscribe to where this is a bad thing?