Posts by Whitter

768 is retrograde.

By 800: and about time too.

We'll see if the rest is any good in time I guess.

Please no!

Not yet more domains to pay for the same name!

Granted it gives an easier time to get a name, but its an illusionary benefit. How much use is <blah>.scot when somebody else has <blah>.co.uk and <blah>.com? Your taget audience will never find you.

Its more mobney for the same old rope: no thanks!

As I recall, perhaps poorly, the loophole as been (almost un-noticably) reduced rather than closed?

Only opens on maximum extent?

Utterly useless if true.

Pops out after it's moved a few inches (for that tight spot in the car park) is what you want.

Repeat till fade.

I've seen this gravey train running for years and years now. 30 months from now there will be no announcement that the project will be wound up, ideally with another similar one. And on it goes again.

About time too.

And so begins the end of iTunes media-app revenue model.

Bar room Lawyers assemble!

Would this not be a blatant breach of European law then?

Volentary tracking devices.

Methinks the location information may be interesting too:

What phones were in the area <blah> between <blah> and <blah>?

Find groups (particularly those present at more than one previous trouble zone).

See if any of thse groups start reassembling.

Send in the police before the riot.

Safe browsing

I used to run Chrome for security reasons.

Now I won't.

Well done chaps.

An unlevel playing field true, but that's life.

When you are trying to break into an established market, particularly one that is so dominated by one player, you have to be both better and cheeper. If you can't do both, then pack up and go home.

(Ignoring the niche markets of super cheep/low-spec or super high-spec/expensive).

What you don't know (about what you think of me) can't harm me.

I guess the PI's report won't be made available at the next selection meeting then?

What is at obvious fault?

Seems the judge has ruled based on *their* opinion of potential harm. That's not ruling on a point of law itself. So from this can we conclude:

Judge: A definite arse.

Law: Maybe an arse.

Hardware vs. software

If the can just stop the OS and application software from bloating so that they can take advantage of the reduction in component size, rather than just level pegging...

The elephant in the room.

Public data hacking: serious, but not earth shattering.

Police corruption: urgent.

The overt lack of police investigation of complaints prior to the current shirt-storm is the most important thing: whether those payments resulted in blackmail or "friendly" help from the rozzer, any police officer who took money or aided other officers who did, need jail time.

The cuicible.

A clear monopoly situation: if it isn't blocked, then the Competition Commission and their like should admit to their pointlessness and go the way of the dodo.

Corperate chuggers.

Bah humbug! Over-corperate, with eyewatering senior management costs.

I avoid Oxfam shops these days, prefering local charity shops that have a clear focus and low overheads. Each to their own though.

http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2009/11/cost-of-aid-admin.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/04/oxfam-shops-booksellers

The controversial law was established as an anti-terrorism tool.

Was that meant to read "The controversial law was established as an industrial espionage tool"?

Population group bias?

One wonders if they'll all turn out to have Aspergers: not as an excuse, but as an honest personal characteristic that biases somebody into to getting active with this sort of milarkie. Perhaps there'll be enough arrests to see, probably not.

Colour blind

I don't understand: OK, so they got Lisa Simpson's colouring wrong, but other than that... ;)

Bite the hand that feeds...

Odd that the local paper choose to publish this given that in many cases, it is the press that are the recipients of information "leaked" from "secure" databases.

Tin foil to the rescue!

You mean that all this time our lizard overlords have been able to communicate with our biscuits, or more worryingly, vice versa? No wonder the world is in the mess it is.

Essex

Is the Essex arrest the gov response then, or just a coincidence? They do happen after all.

I think I changed it...

But to what, I have no idea.

Any very infrequenctly used password/number is effectively forgotton in most "secure" systems, (including phone banking for example), so unless you have a screen lock-out on the same PIN, or have managed to recall what scrap of paper it was written on and where said bit of paper can be found and didn't clear it out at some point in the last few years, this might be your chance to get back in...!

Who'll say it first?

One agency to rule them all,

One agency to find them,

One agency to bring them all,

And in the darkness bind them.

The elephant-in-the-room.

I love my pen-brick.

Erm...

DAB misses again.

It's a kitchen radio: an AM/FM radio will do, doesn't run the batteries flat in 30 mins when hiked out to the garden and costs about £15.

Spam account farms

Alas, you can't beat the sweatshops of the world, and people are supposed to beat your "hard for computer" tests (though in truth, sometimes I take a few goes myself at some of the mangled text tests these days!).

If only people didn't follow spam email / links and the market would dry up and die...

http://xkcd.com/810/

Matthew 24:36

That is all.

Querie

Aren't misisters meant to be banned from going straight from public office to business in the same sector?

Just one vote?

Haven't you heard of AV?

I didn't vote for my fav book, but rather the one I thought would best adapt to film.

Seems I went the same way as everyone else then!

Red line

If they can't guarentee backup, they have no viable business.

No DDoS occurred

From their website:

The Newsnet Scotland website has resumed almost normal function and the cause of the service disruption yesterday has been located. We have been able to decipher that it was not a D DOS attack as previously thought. The matter is that an adjustment to a module created in essence a shortcut which caused a high volume of cyclic activity in the server. The hosting service provider had no alternative but to shut down the site.

In an attempt to resolve the problem quickly and respond to a high volume of enquiries regarding service disruption we sought advice from external advisors and understood the feedback information as confirming an attack. You will be pleased to know that we have put procedures in place to ensure that such a problem does not occur again.

We regret the inconvenience caused to our readers by not being able to access our site and we would also like to thank our readers for the ongoing support seen through the numerous comments and constructive criticism on our outage article. We stand by our hosting provider's decision to remove the site from view till the problem was resolved.

We regret alarming our readers and would like to reassure you the team remains committed to bringing you new fresh news content every day. Newsnet Scotland will continue to report and publish our perspective on Scottish politics and current affairs.

In what world is the following even fractionally true?

"... in an attempt to make it easier for Apple-product users to post problems, discuss solutions..."

@Al Taylor

Hardly "bash against fish tank", more "slowy immerse in water - much slower than meaningful - and it went kaputt". Simple fail.

Pac man still rocks

No cartridge slot at the back?

Bah humbug!

Info about what you know and when you knew it, not just about what is obvious.

There's a bunch of potentially damaging stuff he might know that isn't in the patent itslef. For example, it is a legal requirement to reveal to the patent office all prior art you know of that may be relevant to your application. If the company deliberately withheld potentially damaging info, then they broke the law. Like having seen snow tyres before.

Strange however that a court might grant an injunction who's sole purpose would be to cover up illegality, so it's probably something else...

It's not the free thing that matters: it's the (lack of) compitition.

I'd believe your argument if it wasn't for eBay: they take cash from both sides of any transaction, plus their PayPal dividends, and yet they still plaster ads all over the place: get every cent possible is the target, permitted by their effective monopoly in small p2p sales. From their T&Cs: "Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, efficient, and personalised experience" Ah yes, personalised ads. Just like google, just like facebaook, except this time with your money too.

So yes, free sites must have some revenue stream else they'll not be their for very long, but don't imagine non-free is a cure for the ills of google / facebook et al. Viable alternatives who are prepared not to play the same game are required for that.

Shocking political stupidity

The change points out that the chancellor is aware of a shocking tax loophole / blatent uncompetitive system in place. The near-irrelevant tweak highlights that he actually doesn't want to close it. He'd have been better to keep schtum rather than this half-arsed affair.

Data protection act, principle #5

"Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes."

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guide/information_standards/principle_5.aspx

I think you'll find data deletion is a matter of legal requirement, not just piffle-paffle.

Cost above function

£160? Is there no decrement for insane pricing on those percentage ratings?

Excused by faint denigration

It's not a "gaff" - it should be a criminal offense.

Shoddy excuse

A 3rd party breach is still their responisbility.

A simpler means to "learn from our mistakes"

I think they (should have) meant: "To stop this from happening, it is vital that organisations sack those responsible".