Posts by katrinab

Re: I can actually believe they could be using windows.

Well image the drive first, then use the windows software on the image.

Re: Nor a good solution

Apple Pay maybe isn't supported in that many shops, but it is certainly a lot more than the number of shops that take Bitcoin. I'm told that Bitcoin-accepting shops exist, but I've never seen one. Even blockchain conferences want real money rather than Bitcoin.

"Crypto can deal with some of those in theory, and you would be doing it with your own wallet rather than an untrustworthy speculation system."

Crypto is an untrustworthy speculation system.

"Better than the Venezuelan Bolivar" isn't much of a selling point, and I'm not even sure it is true. Imagine if you had signed a rental contract denominated in Bitcoin. A few years back, 40BTC per month might have sounded pretty reasonable. When I first heard about Bitcoin, that would have been about $600. At the peak, it would have been a little under $800,000. If that was the real economy with that level of deflation, the situation would be way way worse than Venezuela.

The fact that central bankers sometimes do a bad job doesn't mean that you get rid of them altogether and replace them with a very rudimentary formula that doesn't take into consideration the size of the economy. You are replacing a small chance of failure with guaranteed failure.

Re: Who is the target market?

The target market is artists who want to draw pictures on a 28" screen. The alternative is a 12.9" iPad pro.

It is a very niche market, but I suppose it probably does exist.

Re: Maximum Password length

Even if they hash a load of 3 letter fragments of passwords, that means a total 830,584 combinations per fragment if you use every character you can type on a keyboard which will not take long at all to brute force. 3 character passwords are not at all secure.

You've obviously never read Mumsnet. Think 4Chan but with prosecco instead of beer.

Re: Yay landfill!

Does anyone still use them? Phones have been able to do the job just as well for about 10 years now.

Re: We could replace him with a Raspberry Pi...

You could replace him with a Raspberry Pie. That would be more intelligent as well.

Re: The men have been banned from directly or indirectly becoming involved

Or even Scotland (if the company was registered in another part of the UK, another part of the UK if it was registered in Scotland). You don't have to go that far

Re: Missing the point

In Windows 8, DNT was set by default, and it asked you if you wanted to unset it, which did make it GDPR compliant. I’m not sure about Windows 10.

Re: "regular" people wouldn't be able to do it, and if they did, it didn't really matter.

If pædos don’t exist, you don’t need this watch. If they do exist, you don’t want this watch.

adobe.com/photoshop is a thing that exists.

Re: So predictable !

Sure, we could give Seaborne Freight a contract to operate a flying unicorn service between Dundalk and Newry.

Re: So how much for the vicitm ?

It funds the criminal injuries compensation board. You can in some circumstances claim money from them.

Re: Plus you get to use the O365 apps on tablets/ phones.

Access isn't available on the phone.

I use Excel to update my expense claim sheet on the go. Is that serious work? I think so.

By the way, you don't need an O359 subscription to use Office Mobile. you get one or two extra features if you have a subscription, but I've never needed to use those features, whatever they are.

Re: Remote Desktop Protocol you say ?

The risk is when use the Remote Desktop client to connect to a computer, that computer could infect you.

I only use it to connect to my own computers, or to work computers. So that would only become a risk if one of them were infected.

If you were offering technical support to members of the public, and you used Remote Assistance to connect to their computers in order to carry out the support tasks, then this would be more of a risk. I don't think this is something that happens to any great extent. TeamViewer is much more popular for that scenario.

Re: just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial

There aren't 1,000 terrorists in the country to catch. At a guess it would be somewhere in the order of 50.

Re: Amazon is your friend

There is no sales tax on books. Also, EU red tape requires companies to include taxes in their quoted prices.

Re: a second *binding* referendum and cancel the madness that is Brexit.

England is closer to mainland France than Corsica is, and Corsica is in the Schengen zone.

Right now, if I want to take the train to Paris, I have to go through one ticket barrier and two passport barriers. If we were in Schengen, then I would only have to go through the ticket barrier, and it would be the same as boarding any other train at St Pancras.

Re: Tip of the Iceberg

That's a different symbol.

In the Conformité Européenne mark, the C is a semi-circle, and if you complete the circle, it touches the edge of the E, whereas with the China Export mark, the circle reaches the middle of the E.

Re: Google

In 2001, we were all sniggering at people who had lost money in half-baked dot.com schemes.

Now, we are all sniggering at people who have lost money in half-baked initial coin offerings.

Re: Calling Watson!

If it continues to lose £105m per year, then eventually those pockets will become empty.

Re: paper records

Paper rot is something that happens though.

Re: Just imagine

I think ARM could actually be a bigger threat than Intel. In terms of units shiped, they are already way ahead, but a Snapdragon is now competitive with Intel on software compiled natively for the platform, and Apple’s chips are a bit faster. We coukd see Apple switch to ARM for MacBook Airs, then roll it out to thecrest of the range. Windows computers could follow, there’s already a few of them available.

Also, if you are designing an ARM chip that doesn’t neen to fit in a phone, it coukd be a lot faster.