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Posts by ratfox
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Prudish Indian censors cut James Bond Spectre snogging scenes
VirusTotal invites Apple fans to play in updated Mac malware sandpit
Google extends search tendrils to cover data in apps
Apple's Faulty Powers moment: iPad Pro slabs 'temporarily bricked' during recharge
UN fight for internet control lined up in Brazil
Decoding Microsoft: Cloud, Azure and dodging the PC death spiral
Re: What PC death spiral?
"yes a mac is a PC"
Depends on what definition you use, innit? "PC" has been sufficiently attached to Microsoft that it allowed the "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" campaign. One way or another, Macs aren't bringing a lot of money to Microsoft.
The x86 powering back ends are nice, but Microsoft revenue still has taken quite a hit these past years.
The Internet Association backs FCC's muni broadband push
Re: Fixtures
I'd add that the oligopoly between US providers is especially chummy. There's lots of oligopolies and even duopolies which see vigorous competition, but somehow this just isn't happening here. To the point that the CEO of Comcast stated they should be allowed to form a monopoly with TWC, since they were already not competing anyway…
Drug-smuggling granny's vagina holds Kinder surprise
Microsoft capitulates, announces German data centres
UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill
Re: Vincent Cerf was right.....
Agreeing with Vint Cerf.
On a side note, it is the anonymity of the web which caused the apparition of trolls and flame wars. Those old enough will remember how articles of the late nineties reported with nothing less than astonishment the way that otherwise normal and polite people would insult and demean each other on newsgroups, due to this fancy new anonymity allowed by the web.
I'm not entirely sure whether that was a blessing or a curse, but the fact trolls still exist does seem to indicate we are still more anonymous on the web than we were before it existed.
Cops gain access to phone location data
Freebooting: How Facebook's 8 billion views could be a mirage
LG picks up US smartphone crumbs, gains on Apple and Samsung
Judge bins Apple Store end-of-shift shakedown lawsuit
Cloud will kill tech sales jobs
Trident test-shot startles West Coast Americans
Gods' own broadband: Loon option for DEITY
Drones are dropping drugs into prisons and the US govt just doesn't know what to do
Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond
UK cyber-spy law takes Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance – and sets them in stone
Man hires 'court hacker' on Craigslist ... who turned out to be a cop
Spanish town trumpets 'Clitoris Festival' thanks to Google snafu
Google snaps Dutch woman completely taking the piss
Google, SAP continue love-in with a patent-share agreement
'Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption' – Baroness Shields
Oracle: Fight for the right to be third to Amazon's AWS
Keeping old customers is easier than convincing them again.
Oracle has a lot of customers in production apps is that they have few other places to go, and migrating is painful. I'd go as far to say that a lot of customers would want to leave, if only they could.
If it comes to developing new solutions in the cloud, however, Oracle has no such user base. And I feel that a lot of their customers are weary to tie themselves again to the big O.
Taking advantage of your monopoly is a dangerous game.
'iOS 9 ate my mobile broadband plan'
Google can't hide behind Alphabet, EU competition commish warns
Don't hold your breath
The previous attempt to fix the issue took too long for the antitrust commissioner to see it to end before he had to step down from his job. And that was the fast track.
It's mind-boggling that this can take so long, but I guess each side is allowed months to prepare their retort. Even when the retort amounts to "Your momma".
US broadband giants face 'deceptive speed' probe in New York
Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster
Court to Wikimedia: Your NSA spying evidence is inadmissable, so you can't prove NSA spying
You own the software, Feds tell Apple: you can unlock it
Sales down, profit up, 1,000 bods chopped: Your one-minute guide to Planet Microsoft
Google stock buy-back: You'll groan when you realize where that $5,099,019,513.59 figure came from
Re: Stock is way up after results.
The news failed to turn heads on Wall Street one way or the other. Google stock was up by a modest 1.43 per cent at the end of the day, trading at $651.79 per share.
Erm. That happened before they released the results. The stock was up 10% after hours to $720, which I believe is an all-time high.
Some like it hot ... very hot: How to use heat to your advantage in your data center
Google's YouTube Red deal: Sign, or we'll make you disappear
Re: Subs service...for YouTube?
The current YouTube is staying as before, kids are going to keep watching. What is new is a paying ad-free service with a few more features.
Though I read in TechCrunch that Disney has refused the new terms, so there's that. Disney might still leave their videos on YouTube without monetizing them (no ads shown), otherwise they will disappear.
Temperature of Hell drops a few degrees – Microsoft emits SSH-for-Windows source code
Your one-minute guide to IBM's financial future – or just imagine a skier tumbling down a slope
Re: Unless the management stops behaving like a bunch of accountants
IBM has a long history of hiring intelligent people, and I'm sure some of them are staying until retirement. But in the current job market, what intelligent person would take a job at IBM, when much more friendly work environments are available?
Weight, what? The perfect kilogram is nearly in Planck's grasp
Re: Kelvin?
Wasn't Celsius originally based on 0C being the boiling point of water and 100C being the freezing point.
1) No, that's the reverse.
2) The boiling temperature and to a lesser extent the freezing temperature of water depend on the pressure, so that was a little bit imprecise. Celsius are now defined by the triple point of water, which determines both a precise pressure and temperature. The definition is now roughly: "absolute zero is 273.15 °C = 0 K, and at the pressure of the triple point of water, the temperature of the triple point of water is 0.01 °C = 273.16 K". The 0.01 value was chosen because that was the approximate value under the previous definition, and they didn't want to change all existing thermometers.
Re: Kelvin?
The unit of a kelvin is based on a degree centigrade which is based on the melting point of a couple of metals (don't remember which) because ice/water/steam is a bit too variable.
Sorry, that's incorrect. The Kelvin is defined as being 0 at absolute zero, and 273.16 at the triple point of water. That's the current official definition, which they are planning to change:
Google publishes crypto mandate for Android 6.0
What power does this have?
What happens if Sony or Amazon make a phone and load it with Android software that doesn't encrypt the phone by default, or not at all?
Google has the power to kick people out of their Open Handset Alliance if they make incompatible devices, and that's how they stopped Acer from selling a phone with Aliyun OS. Would this work the same?
…What happens to Huawei if China makes it illegal to sell phones that are encrypted by default?
Ireland moves to scrap 1 and 2 cent coins
Re: How does this work?
Extending from this, what happens if something is 0.95 euros, and the person purchasing only has 0.90 in 'sliver' and three 2c coins? Who will lose out on 1c?
For the moment, shoppers are allowed to ask for exact change. In this case, if the customer insists, the store has to find a 1c coin to give back the change, and if they can't I imagine that they will just accept the customer only paying 0.94 euros.
However, this change is caused by the fact that nobody cares about such amounts. I remember a study showing that the psychological value most people give to 1c coins is actually negative, meaning that they are more trouble than they are worth.
Makes sense
Switzerland's smallest used coin has been 5 cent of a Franc (more or less equal to 5 Euro cent) for 30 years, and even those feel like a waste of time to keep around in your wallet.
Strangely, Wikipedia claims the 1 cent coin was still struck until 2006, even though item prices have been rounded to 5 cents practically everywhere since the eighties.
Switzerland also seems to have the most valuable coin in circulation: 5 Swiss francs, a bit more than £3.
Get ready to register your drones in the US – or else
Job alert: Is this the toughest sysadmin role on Earth? And are you badass enough to do it?
New Nexus 5X, 6P smarties: Google draws a line in the sand
Re: QI and unlocked phon
Almost no phone requires unlocking for taking pictures. The assumption is that people want to take the picture now now now before little Johnny stops making that funny face, and unlocking goes in the way.
QR codes (that's what you mean, right?) are not decoded by the standard camera app; you just end up with a picture of a QR code and the phone does nothing with it. You need to use a different app for taking pictures of QR codes and having the phone follow the link.
Minicab-hailing app Uber is lawful – UK High Court
Re: some would say the taxi meter is the device that tells you the cost of the journey
The taximeter is the device that measures the charge. From taxi- and -meter, meaning charge and measure. Originally, a "taxi" was an abbreviation of taximeter cab, as in "a cab with a device that measures the charge".